What Collections do you Have?

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My collection started with models soldiers, when I was a youngster. Carting around an army that is, at the same time, heavy and delicate not to mention needing constant paint repair, proved to be a dampener on my enthusiasm! Luckily I discovered board games and while no less time consuming to set up and needing careful handling provide hours of thoughtful contest. With distances ranging from a small field to most of our galaxy and a time scale from ancient to far future. The top left photo shows about half my collection, I really need to catalogue them all. Most games are boxed, but some came inside specialists magazine and others in zip-loc bags. The lower left shows two of the boxed games, the Siege of Jerusalem (70AD), in which the Roman player must break through the walls and take the city, while the Jewish player must hold out. Gettysburg is one of my favourite games, with different tactical options for the players from North and South. Top right shows a game map, board mounted. If you think you could show Napoleon a thing or two, this game gives you the chance. You get the resources of the French Emperor and march your own path through European history. Finally, a paper map of the far future. In the pink centre of the map is our solar system with the map stretchering out 39 light years and just to make it interesting, with space being three dimensional it also extends upwards and down some forty light years. In this game you can have two units apparently in same space, but tens of light years apart. An excellent work out for the old brain box. Any other interesting collections out there?