Save minis for later, or enjoy them now?
How long does a mini have to ripen in your collection before you tackle it?
Days? Months? Years?… Decades?
I definitely still have a bunch of minis from the 80s and 90s that aren’t quiiiiiite ready yet. There’s some delayed gratification issues at play.
I also read/heard about a theory that the longer you own something that you’re saving for a special occasion, and the more times that you decide to not use it, that you become increasingly less likely to use it because it has already been passed over. Each opportunity to use it has to be incrementally more special. So it escalates into a pile of unpainted miniatures. Or something like that.
My fairly recent shift in hobby priorities has been a positive experience. I don’t regret assembling anything. And I’ve even started painting some of it, including ALL OF SILVER TOWER!!!!!! I’ll try post some nice photos if I get a chance to take some nice photos.
So I say: Dive in! Don’t let that stuff sit around forever. I think it’s more sad to leave something unstarted than unfinished. And even better to be finished and enjoyed, than never out of a box.
