What do you do with your collection?

What do you do with your collection?
Do you ever play with your animals?
Do you pet them?  
I spend some time starring at them quite every day

Interesting topic!  

Photograph, dust, display, dust, stare, dust, and dust some more! Oh, and definitely add to it!

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Interesting topic!  

Photograph, dust, display, dust, stare, dust, and dust some more! :lol:Oh, and definitely add to it!

    Yes... What else ?    

Kikimalou wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Interesting topic!  

Photograph, dust, display, dust, stare, dust, and dust some more! :lol:Oh, and definitely add to it!

    Yes... What else ?    

Dust!

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Interesting topic!  

Photograph, dust, display, dust, stare, dust, and dust some more! :lol:Oh, and definitely add to it!

    Yes... What else ?    

Dust!

Indeed...   Maybe we are Dust collectors  

We need to find a new name for our forum

A lot of comparising, if they have parts of reused molds   

I spend a lot of time wondering why I'm so intrested in plastic animals. 

And then making a wildly out of control zoo to fit it all into  

Oh  also dust and stare.

Kikimalou wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Interesting topic!  

Photograph, dust, display, dust, stare, dust, and dust some more! :lol:Oh, and definitely add to it!

    Yes... What else ?    

Dust!

Indeed...   Maybe we are Dust collectors  

We need to find a new name for our forum

StaubSammler-Forum

I look at them quite often (obviously) that's how I know what I do and don't have. My family are baffled that I know exactly what I have already without having to think about it, but most of my collection I have had my entire life so it kinda comes with the territory... Anyway, I add to it, dust it often, make comparisons between figures, maybe take some pics once in a while, and just enjoy them.

I have them everywhere ! No empty surface here !!! They are an important part of my life, - I also dream about them   

And DUST !  
I live next to a dirt-road, where some people think it is ok to drive 200 km per hour, - and digging dogs, a wood stove...  
But people who smoke, are sent outdoors !!!!! 

Adore, stare, make photo sessions, adore some more. No dust, because they're behind glass  

In fact the little plastic figurines can be considered art, and i think that's how I look at them. i see them as if they were a beautiful painting or sculpture(as they are sculptures made by artists  )

Photographing for my blog, dustiong, staring at them, and being proud of them!   

Carola wrote:

Adore, stare, make photo sessions, adore some more. No dust, because they're behind glass  

I have about 1/3 of mine behind glass... If only I could get them all behind glass that would be a lot less dust!

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Interesting topic!  

Photograph, dust, display, dust, stare, dust, and dust some more! :lol:Oh, and definitely add to it!

    Yes... What else ?    

Dust!

Indeed...   Maybe we are Dust collectors  

We need to find a new name for our forum

StaubSammler-Forum

Or like my girlfriend say " Staubfänger "     that means dust catcher  

staring in my shelves and on my newcomers and than more i hunt for more    

widukind wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Interesting topic!  

Photograph, dust, display, dust, stare, dust, and dust some more! :lol:Oh, and definitely add to it!

    Yes... What else ?    

Dust!

Indeed...   Maybe we are Dust collectors  

We need to find a new name for our forum

StaubSammler-Forum

Or like my girlfriend say " Staubfänger "     that means dust catcher  

 

widukind wrote:

staring in my shelves and on my newcomers and than more i hunt for more    

   

Showing my collection proudly to everyone who wants to see them, photographing them (even take some outside to get nice photos) and collecting more and more XD (Dusting, hmm, not that much actually.)

Most of my time spent with my miniatures is time spent hacking them apart or otherwise modifying them. I do stare, too, but more in scrutiny than adoration. This tends to lead to spotting flaws, then setting out to better them, usually by resculpting.

I do also stand in quiet mourning in the display room. They're mostly images of sad stuff, after all, my models. A kind of record of what's happening out there, or a teeny monument to it. Sort of an assembly of headstones, not to be too morose.

Every once in a while, my little sister wants to play with them, so we get them down and sort them, then set them up in a toy barn my dad made. Then they have wars. (Herbivores always win) Sometimes I just sit and stare at them.

whenever im online, one figure accompanies me at the desk.

I love to photograph them,  but sometimes I get relly picky and scrutinize them for flaws in paint  

That's an issue that im seeing therapy for

I organize it, reorganize it, write lists for every category of animal and count them to see if the lists fits in with the numbers.
I make small displays on the top of my aquarium, the only place i have, where I can make displays.
Theese displays are changed nearly every time I have to do some work in the aquarium, and always when I have got some new figures.
I look at them, study them and compare them with pictures of the real animals. I also like to photo them, and show them to everyone who are interested.
I have to store my collection in shoeboxes, so dusting is not a problem, but I really wish I had some shelves to put my figures into. Perhaps I have to throw out some old books  
When I am sitting with my computer I always have one or two figures with me. Today it is the two Schleich lambs that will be retired 2014. I like them very much, perhaps better than the new ones. I look forward to see and hold the new lambs in my hands, and all the other Schleich news too.

That's a real passion!

AlopexLagopus wrote:

That's a real passion!

  I was retired 3 years ago, and don't have to run away to a job any more. I started collecting seriously about that time. I don't like sitting in a rocking chair knitting or making embroidery. So I have plenty of time, (but not plenty of money), and collecting animals give me a lot of pleasure.   It keeps my brain young.        

I like to re-organise the display cabinets now and then - I love getting a new model - photographing the figurines outside is something I probably like doing the most - I do sometimes stare at my models, but not always in fondness, sometimes I think "I have way too many figurines"