To answer my own question, I put Serious Collector, although I\'m on the lower end of that--somewhere in the $1,500-2,000 range, I would guess. But the \"problem\" is that is all within the last eight months, most within the last three...
My \"story\" is that I bought a few minis, mainly Grenadier and Ral Partha, back in the 80s but never learned to paint...I was (and am) a D&D player so I bought them mainly for that. Between the mid-80s and last year I might have bought 2 or 3 figures, if that (I can think of only one, for a D&D game about six years ago).
Last summer I decided to get a 4th edition game going so I bought a few Reaper minis to at least give the players something to use when they fought dice and other monster stand-ins on the dungeon tiles. But I started getting into it and dropped about $500 on Reaper over the second half of the year.
Then I discovered Rackham and it has been ugly ever since. I\'ve probably spent over $1,000 since the New Year. Thankfully the end is in sight: In a moment of nerdspiration I made an Excel sheet with every Confrontation item and then rated them 1-5, with 5 being \"must have\", 4 being \"really want\", 3 being \"want\", 2 being \"only if cheap\" and 1 being \"no thanks.\" I\'ve bought almost all the 5s and 4s and am more than halfway through the 3s...I\'ve still got a few hundred bucks-worth more to buy, but pretty soon the wallet deluge will slow.
The good/bad thing is that I haven\'t discovered anything I like nearly as much as Confrontation; there are figures here and there, but my spending post-Confrontation will be much less, so I will probably be safely within the bounds of Serious Collector for some time (unless another Confrontation comes along).
