It's fitting I'm writing this on the last day of Fall-In! Despite not attending, I can safely say I know I'm officially a convention GM for miniature games due to the time spent with figure touch-up and full refurbishment this fall.
My indoctrination to historical wargaming was the mid to late 90's. There's definitely a nostalgia filter, but I do remember more 15-25mm Napoleonics games, and vast flotillas of sailing vessels taking up large swaths of the convention floor. With hundreds (thousands) of nicely painted figures, I do not want to imagine to post-convention maintenance after a full weekend of multiple sessions of set-up, breakdown, and the unwashed masses handling them 4-6 hours at a time.
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General gnome storage isn't exactly the same as a Fabergé egg. There's casualties all around, and a 10 or 11pm clean-up with a beverage or two doesn't make the most organized clean-up.
But these poor figures take a beating, no matter what.
I have been touching up and rebasing other figures as I come upon them, but in the last year I've worked on 239 of my already painted figures, and probably 200 have been gnomes. Not much is major, but sharp points for hats and elbows are usually the first to go. This means the well-loved and heavily populated Swiss and German need a bit more love. The Sikhs have seen less wear and tear, with their rounder turban... but let's be honest, in another five years, none of them will have bayonets attached to their rifles.
I will say that we ran a bunch of Fistful of Lead scenarios at Historicon this year, and the smaller unit skirmish situation allowed for considerably less wear and tear. I also hit most of my recent Star Wars and Gnome Wars projects with a double shiny dose of sealant, which may have contributed to their survival.
With my short hiatus from running stuff at HMGS conventions, the gnomes are organized and safely stowed away.
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