Bot War - the war wages on (clearing the backlog)

I have started the process of cataloguing all of my bots. Using a very sophisticated system of a spreadsheet, a heavy duty supermarket bag, and 2 cardboard boxes.  The bag has all of the individual bot packs in, I take one out, log it on the spreadsheet, and then if it is metal it goes in one box, resin the other.

The spreadsheet is used to define the following attributes of a bot:

• Name
• Faction
• Material (Metal/Resin)
• Traders Galaxy state (Current/Legacy/Promo)
• Subfaction/Notes

After doing this for a while the data starts to look something like this…

One problem I have found is that I can’t remember all of the bots names, and as I have a large number of legacy miniatures which have either been fully discontinued or updated with newer versions.  Quite a few were purchased from the Traders Galaxy site directly so don’t have any merchandising stickers on with the contents, or they simply have “Promo” on the label so I’m having to dig through old Facebook posts and my archive of stat cards to try and determine who the Bot may be.

The other problem I have is the sorting I have done. Whilst I split them into 2 boxes to have metal in one and resin in the other for protection, I should have actually split between Current/Legacy status.  I’d rather paint all current models first and get them to the table, then work through the legacy pile in slow time.  So I need to go back and resort the pikes I’ve done so far. Any I can’t identify will then also go into the Legacy box. Promos will go into the Current box.

I may also add a column to the spreadsheet to identify how keen I am to paint it, because there are definitely some bots I want to get done first. So I may look to add a priority to the entries to help sort this.

** Data Update…. January 17th 2022