With the exception of cyborgs like paradigm, all of us have half finished jobs on our desks or in storage, missing heads/arms/base colours, always judging us.

Here is your opportunity to kick them square in their metaphorical little plastic nads.

No proofs, no restrictions, no voting, no deadlines.

"But kb, that's stupid, you're detailing what is commonly referred to as a blog"

WRONG douchecanoe, that isn't what this is at all. It's a support group that aims to murder grey plastic, and to free all of us from the CRUSHING WEIGHT OF UNPAINTED EXPECTATION.

"But kb, without voting how can I measure my edong against others?"

There isn't voting, but there is scoring. The scoring is done by the submitter of the painted work. It is needlessly complicated, as demonstrated here;

Is it now finished: 0/1
Has it been waiting forever: 0/1
Are you happy with it: 0/1
Overall: 0/3

You're not competing against anyone but yourself.

So find some poor plastic in your collection somewhere, ideally something that has been waiting a while, and let's git 'er done(tm)

kb_lock wrote:
With the exception of cyborgs like paradigm

Oh, I have plenty of unfinished projects, I just tend to ignore them and buy/paint new shiny stuff! Terrible of me, to be honest. At some point in the next couple of months, though, I do intend to get around to stripping and starting over on a whole load of stuff, which is something I've been meaning to do for ages.

While I don't have much in the way of uncompleted stuff actually with me at the moment (the advantages of university, the Pile of Shame is several hundred miles away! ) I will definitely commit to grabbing some long-in-need-of-painting stuff next time I'm home and throwing them in here, in the mean time, take an exalt for the great idea and I'll be sure to chip in with plenty of encouragement for everyone who gets on board with this!

I just like making fun of faster and more talented painters than me

I just need to choose which of my billion half finished projects to do first

Here's one!



Is it unfinished: 1/1
Will it be unfinished forever: 1/1
Is this model uninspiring: 10/1

Willneverfinishometer: 12/3

On the bright side, I did get to try Army Painter Dragon Red Primer.

See that paint on his chest? That's 2 coats of zandri dust, practically unthinned. Just runs off the AP Dragon Red.

"douchecanoe" ??!!!!!!!! fanfethingtastic!! Thanks for making me laugh and coffee snort onto the computer!!!! I have a load of stuff unstarted/unfinished/etc awaiting me when I get back and I just bought more stuff - DOh!!!!!

'douchecanoe' .......hehehehe - still laughing! nice one KB

I have had Sonia Criid sitting on my desk, glaring reproachfully, at about 60% completion for 10 months...

Old RT Luitenant:


He’s been sitting waiting for paint literally for decades. And I’m using “Literally” literally, not in the modern slang for “very/extremely” He’s even been primed for most of that. He has painted on “Smelly Primer” from GW, which has been out of production for a few iterations of GW’s paint line. But now he’s a WIP. I have done a bit more since this picture, and should go and put down some more once I’m done posting.

I’ll make up some points once I’m done. I just wanted to post something to support the concept of getting old crap off the back of the workbench. Lord knows I’ve got plenty of that. One of my favorite pastimes when I take a new picture of my workspace is to find all the stuff that’s not been touched in the interviewing time.

 Talys wrote:
Here's one!

Spoiler:

Is it unfinished: 1/1
Will it be unfinished forever: 1/1
Is this model uninspiring: 10/1

Willneverfinishometer: 12/3

On the bright side, I did get to try Army Painter Dragon Red Primer.

See that paint on his chest? That's 2 coats of zandri dust, practically unthinned. Just runs off the AP Dragon Red.

You know we expect a Talys-Quality paintjob on that by the end of the week now?

That was the best intro for a "competition" ever. I may just join!

Nevelon wrote:Old RT Luitenant:

Yes, exactly what I'm talking about. Imagine how happy the lil feller will be.

You know we expect a Talys-Quality paintjob on that by the end of the week now?

This forum software is terrible. Para, he has 8 hours to prove more cyborg than you!

Wolf wrote:That was the best intro for a "competition" ever. I may just join!

Nice, welcome.

Trevor is my obvious model at the moment, but i think first off will be my escape from goblin town set. It is what brought me back in like 3 years ago, and is unfinished. It is probably half done, i just really hate painting brown.

Haha, an awesome idea and may help me kill some unpainted/partially painted stuff I have had sitting around forever...

 Januine wrote:
"douchecanoe" ??!!!!!!!! fanfethingtastic!! Thanks for making me laugh and coffee snort onto the computer!!!! I have a load of stuff unstarted/unfinished/etc awaiting me when I get back and I just bought more stuff - DOh!!!!!

'douchecanoe' .......hehehehe - still laughing! nice one KB

I wonder if 'Douchecanoe' is a commonwealth thing? Because I've known about and used this phrase forever, but online I often find people have never heard it. I actually thought it was a Canadian thing (something about us and our relationship with the great north and the woods/rivers), but evidently not.

At any rate....I've got some *really* old Eldar Guardians I should paint at some point. Or the Fellowship of the Ring models. but...but..my Orks...my Marines...my Elves...my Dwarfs...sigh

It may well be a Canadian thing, douches nor canoes are popular here.

I also have many Canadian friends, so it might have rubbed off, eh?

This a nice idea, problem is I have soooo many neglected models, I'm not sure what to choose!

Damn my butterfly tendenc...ooo, shiny!

I've got several models in the WIP category, including some Chaos Chosen, a Nephilim Jetfighter, a squad of Ravenwing bikes, a Tau Piranha, and more. If I can figure out something reasonable for me to do at the same time as I do my Stormsurge for the other comp, I'll definitely be in.

I sent you my worst offender.
And Jan has my second worst.

I'm freeeeee.

Nah I've never painted the first miniature I ever bought.

Jadenim wrote:This a nice idea, problem is I have soooo many neglected models, I'm not sure what to choose!

Damn my butterfly tendenc...ooo, shiny!

I, too, suffer from Attention Deficit DisooHEY LETS GO BUY SOME MORE SHINY STUFF

ZergSmasher wrote:I've got several models in the WIP category, including some Chaos Chosen, a Nephilim Jetfighter, a squad of Ravenwing bikes, a Tau Piranha, and more. If I can figure out something reasonable for me to do at the same time as I do my Stormsurge for the other comp, I'll definitely be in.

NICE, do the Chosen, I have some half finished ones in my box that need to be done - I got so tired of doing the gold, BUT THEYRE CLOSE!

Buttery Commissar wrote:I sent you my worst offender.
And Jan has my second worst.

I'm freeeeee.

Nah I've never painted the first miniature I ever bought.

Yeah well Trevor is in his death throes now - his tail is bloody wobbly again for some reason, but his wings and face are greenstuffed pretty well now - brush priming tonight (hopefully), unless the GS isn't cured, then I will work on his wings more (or dig out the chosen)

As penance for offloading Trevor (you bastard) you should definitely have to paint your first mini.

Can't. I swore I'd paint it with my Dad, and he's always been too busy.
I've only had it 16 years, there's time yet.

..

This is perfect timing as i have just been trying to finish off a model that has been 90% complete for so long it is now OOP!



So hopefully this will be the inspiration i need to git 'er done ! (although its more of an 'im than an 'er )

 Paradigm wrote:

You know we expect a Talys-Quality paintjob on that by the end of the week now?

LOL. I think that dragon has sat there since Reaper came out with the model

kb_lock wrote:

ZergSmasher wrote:I've got several models in the WIP category, including some Chaos Chosen, a Nephilim Jetfighter, a squad of Ravenwing bikes, a Tau Piranha, and more. If I can figure out something reasonable for me to do at the same time as I do my Stormsurge for the other comp, I'll definitely be in.

NICE, do the Chosen, I have some half finished ones in my box that need to be done - I got so tired of doing the gold, BUT THEYRE CLOSE!

I should let you know that the Chosen in question are NOT the cool DV ones, but rather some that I put together using the regular Chaos Space Marines box (the leader is one of the DV ones however, with a conversion on his bolter to make it a combi-plasma). I originally was doing them for one of Para's comps as a retinue for Cypher. I finished Cypher, but not these guys. Here's the last WIP of them that I took, the only thing I've added since I took this pic is the guy in the back got his metallics done to match the others, and all of the plasma coils got a basecoat of Mephiston Red.

Is it now finished: 0/1
Has it been waiting forever: 0/1
Are you happy with it: 0/1
Overall: 0/3


... Yes, I too am a plastic crack hoarder :( Although I claim the dubious distinction of starting with metal err crack doesn't really work. Anyway, so, I will look through my horribly burgeoning beautiful collection and find the worst offender.

I suspect it will be one of the metals minis I have had since I was . And no, I'm not saying how long ago that was. And gentlemen aren't supposed to ask a lady her age ^_^ let's just say it has a Ral Partha imprint. Sigh.

 Guildenstern wrote:
Is it now finished: 0/1
Has it been waiting forever: 0/1
Are you happy with it: 0/1
Overall: 0/3


... Yes, I too am a plastic crack hoarder :( Although I claim the dubious distinction of starting with metal err crack doesn't really work. Anyway, so, I will look through my horribly burgeoning beautiful collection and find the worst offender.

I suspect it will be one of the metals minis I have had since I was . And no, I'm not saying how long ago that was. And gentlemen aren't supposed to ask a lady her age ^_^ let's just say it has a Ral Partha imprint. Sigh.

Makes me want to go to the shoebox of shame and get something that’s actually lead.


Kids these days with their “safe” alloys and new fangled plastics. Sometime you just need to work in a medium that requires safe handling hazard procedures. If you wonder why I’m a bit crazy, it might have something to do with files and mold lines...

(don’t lick the minis kids!)

oh gawd, thanks for making me look!
*falls back into denial* ill finish them... ill finish them all!

I re-painted Sonia's sword today. It doesn't actually help progress her any further, but it felt like a win.

Crud.

I have three projects sitting at my paint station right now. A Psyker who just needs his staff done and some stitching on his cloak. The final touches on my Imperial Knight, like piping, some Mechanicus cogs and wiring, and then the Skulz Ultramarine Standard Bearer who just needs his base and standard painted - but the standard is enormous and I want to get it right. :(

How about this.

Of all the outstanding projects you have, post them here and number them.

Someone else will roll D6 and post the result;

https://www.random.org/dice/?num=1

Or not, or whatever, blimey.

I'll start though;

1. Land Speeder Storm
2. Chaos Chosen
3. Goblin King
4. EfGT Goblins
5. 54mm Deathwatch
6. Ork Nob

Whatever is picked will get finished and replaced with something else from the stack.

NB: anything of mine will get done AFTER Trevor, and this bloody flyrant. Both of which should be at 80% this evening.

Edited knight out for my ork - also, if I finish all 6, I am buying something.

If you think the number of project we have can be summed up by a d6 roll, you are deranged!

The act of even constructing such a list would require legions of archeologist-scribes to unearth the depths of my workroom. Even when the countless rare treasures they dredge from the deeps are hit with the harsh light of the modern age, the work will just begin! What are these lost artifacts from time of yore? What name shall be entered on the ledgers?

Such an inventory is beyond the powers of man. To even contemplate such an undertaking is a dance with madness.

 Nevelon wrote:
If you think the number of project we have can be summed up by a d6 roll, you are deranged!

The act of even constructing such a list would require legions of archeologist-scribes to unearth the depths of my workroom. Even when the countless rare treasures they dredge from the deeps are hit with the harsh light of the modern age, the work will just begin! What are these lost artifacts from time of yore? What name shall be entered on the ledgers?

Such an inventory is beyond the powers of man. To even contemplate such an undertaking is a dance with madness.

This. So much this.

Exalted by the way Nevelon!

Ahahahaha, here is most of what I remembered from my "outstanding" list

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/659995.page#8332264

Pick 6 of what you have, or post 11 and we can roll 2xD6

 Nevelon wrote:
If you think the number of project we have can be summed up by a d6 roll, you are deranged!

The act of even constructing such a list would require legions of archeologist-scribes to unearth the depths of my workroom. Even when the countless rare treasures they dredge from the deeps are hit with the harsh light of the modern age, the work will just begin! What are these lost artifacts from time of yore? What name shall be entered on the ledgers?

Such an inventory is beyond the powers of man. To even contemplate such an undertaking is a dance with madness.

Same

Honestly, I think it would take me longer to inventory my models than it would to simply paint them. Or, worse, I would finally finish the accounting of the minis, and my Bones III kickstarter would come lol


@ kb_lock what's funny about your suggestion is that I do sometimes take a handful - only a handful mind you! - and roll a d20 lol

kb_lock wrote:
How about this.

Of all the outstanding projects you have, post them here and number them.

Someone else will roll D6 and post the result;

https://www.random.org/dice/?num=1

Or not, or whatever, blimey.

Okay, I'll bite.

I used the link you provided and got a 6 for you, kb. Guess that means you start with the Ork Nob.

My list:
1. Chaos Chosen
2. Nephilim Jetfighter
3. Bloodletters of Khorne
4. Tau Piranha
5. Ezekiel
6. DV Ravenwing Bike Squad

Literally the thing I was hoping for. I rolled for you and got a 4

My Baneblade. Once a proud machine who served the Emperor for maybe three battles before dying every time. Now stands dusty, broken, chipped, cannonless and with poor weathering. A nice camo job (Done by a friend who's awesome at tank camo) but overall a lame paint job on my part. It must be repainted/repaired and refurbished as a mighty Hellhammer!

Is it now unfinished: 1/1
Has it been waiting forever: 0/1 (Two years is probably peanuts compared to what other guys have )
Are you happy with it: 0/1

kb_lock wrote:
Literally the thing I was hoping for. I rolled for you and got a 4

Guess I'm doing yet more Tau stuff then. It may not be real soon, as this Stormsurge is taking a lot of effort right now, but I'll see what I can do!

 ZergSmasher wrote:

kb_lock wrote:
Literally the thing I was hoping for. I rolled for you and got a 4

Guess I'm doing yet more Tau stuff then. It may not be real soon, as this Stormsurge is taking a lot of effort right now, but I'll see what I can do!

Dice uber alles.

I'll bust my ass to get the ork done so you can roll me again as payback if you like.

I've got 3 Thunderwolves, can I use them?

You can use whatever you want matey, there are pretty much no hard and fast rules - just paint some thing

So a thread for everyone to paint things we haven't painted? I like it.

I'll get some "faux-proof" pictures up later today, but the short hand version of what I need to just get done ("done" as in "no primer is showing!") with is:

40 Death Guard bolter marines
30 Death Guard Terminators
7 Death Guard Dreadnoughts

And sooo much more :(

I guess I'll jump on the D6 band wagon for what I'll take care of tonight:

1: 10 Marines
2: Last of My Auxillia (10 models + Baneblade highlights)
3: 5 Terminators
4: 15 Marines
5: 10 Terminators
6: 21 Thousand Sons Marines

I had the camera out, and was down in my workroom. SO I snapped a quick pic of the back of my bench. The place things go to be forgotten. The exact things this thread is supposed to be about.
Not to be confused with this:

My “active” primed pile. Although there are some things that have been loitering there for a few years.

But these guys:


I know there is some primed stuff in the boxes in the background, but I’m ignoring them for now. If I run out of things to post for Flashback Friday, I might open up some of those boxes.

1 - Every year on my goals, I include “finishing off stuff I’m painting for a friend’s SoB army” He hasn’t played in a year or two, so there is no rush here. On the left you see some arcoflagelents and the kurganova sisters.
2 - Another of my annual goals is to paint all the spare bits I have. I do a lot of magnetizing, but often only the primary configuration gets paint. Also is that jumbled mess is some terrain bits from the 3rd ed starter box.
3 - There is a Sister if Sigmar I painted the face of as a demo for a friend. He normal does cars, and wanted to branch out into dioramas, needed a tutorial. She needs to be finished.
(The fire dragon was a color demo, needs to be striped and re-primed. He’s got friends in the active pile)
4 - Some skeletons lurking in the back. Been years since I played WHFB (stopped just a little into 6th ed) and I already have piles of the guys. Still, they wait with the patience of the dead.
5 - Chaos Marauders. Bought the box back in 6th, but put them together when I received the 8th ed rulebook as a gift. I’ve got more that I need to build with flails. And by that I mean take plastic flail heads and put them on old metal models that should have had them (but were stolen for another project)
6 - The little lady in front is a named character from a pathfinder adventure path (Council of Thieves) we finished a while ago. She belong to another friend and I should start her one of these days.

Once I finish my Lt. I’ll start one of these as my next background project. At least one of the minis for the squads/piles.

D6? Okay!

1: Finish Contemptor arms
2: 3 Thunderwolves
3: 4 Fenrisian Wolves
4: Rune Priest
5: 4 (?) Grey Hunters
6: Finish 4 Long Fangs

You good people should be rolling for each other, I don't want the responsibility of being dice master, it's simply too much power for one man to weild.

Brennon, may I roll for you? And someone please roll for me!

 Matthew wrote:
And someone please roll for me!

5. Sounds Grey and Huntery to me.

Some of us might need a D20 roll! D & D players might also have a D4 lying around for me .

I have an old school blood angel looking guy, 2nd ed, Dante? Tycho? idk,

Grand Theogenist Volkmar, old school one, no war-altar thingy.

Brettonian Man at Arms one of the classic metal ones.

That Dark Elf plastic Sorceress.

The first two are a couple of 99p ebay purchases, the third i've owned since '98 and the Dark Elf was for a compo back when that run of plastic WHFB characters came out.

 Matthew wrote:
Brennon, may I roll for you? And someone please roll for me!

yes please, I really can't decide what I wanna do first


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 Perkustin wrote:
Some of us might need a D20 roll! D & D players might also have a D4 lying around for me .

I have an old school blood angel looking guy, 2nd ed, Dante? Tycho? idk,

Grand Theogenist Volkmar, old school one, no war-altar thingy.

Brettonian Man at Arms one of the classic metal ones.

That Dark Elf plastic Sorceress.

The first two are a couple of 99p ebay purchases, the third i've owned since '98 and the Dark Elf was for a compo back when that run of plastic WHFB characters came out.

3, get on that man-at-arms

Brennon! I rolled a 4, so 15 Marines?

I need this.

Take it, it is yours.

not gonna bother listing, cuz I dunno if a d100 would work even but you inspired me, kb_lock, to go ahead and do a kinda inventory. Maybe I can keep a record of progress etc in my blog thing and see some actual reduction in boxes

Guildy's blog linkage

A d100 you say?

https://www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm

I just rolled it, and literally got a 1

Based on your list, that is the manufactorum

kb_lock wrote:
A d100 you say?

https://www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm

I just rolled it, and literally got a 1

Based on your list, that is the manufactorum

OMFG that is SOOOOOO my luck! I almost always roll low lol

ah well we need more terrain desperately anyway ^^

Alright I'll get a list of shtuff together tomorrow which may or may not include enough lizzies and bits for a mord warband...

I can’t technically call this guy done yet, as I need to wait till spring to prime and paint his backpack (which like an idiot I forgot to do). I’ll base him then as well. But he’s moving off the workbench for now, so that’s a win.

Someone chuck me a d6, I have a list in my last post.

Nevelon, you got a 5! Sounds like Marauders!

Also, yu can paint the backpack without priming (unless it's metal/resin) as long as you seal it afterwards... YMMV

 Matthew wrote:
Nevelon, you got a 5! Sounds like Marauders!

Also, yu can paint the backpack without priming (unless it's metal/resin) as long as you seal it afterwards... YMMV

OK, a few more axes for the horde then.

I don’t seal my minis. Bad habit, I know. I’m just careful with them. So I do need to wait to prime.

Also, Grey Hunters! I've got 4 needing finishing touches and 10 unpainted ones. Yikes!

 Nevelon wrote:


I don’t seal my minis. Bad habit, I know. I’m just careful with them. So I do need to wait to prime.

Is it plastic or metal? If it's plastic, just put down a coat of black to act as a basecoat, that should be enough (it's all I do on my own stuff). If metal, is it worth getting a brush-on primer? Depends on how much other stuff you'll want to prime before Spring, I guess.

 Paradigm wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:


I don’t seal my minis. Bad habit, I know. I’m just careful with them. So I do need to wait to prime.

Is it plastic or metal? If it's plastic, just put down a coat of black to act as a basecoat, that should be enough (it's all I do on my own stuff). If metal, is it worth getting a brush-on primer? Depends on how much other stuff you'll want to prime before Spring, I guess.

It’s plastic, but I’m in no rush. I did have to go dig and find it though; it was hiding.

In other news, I just put down the first base layer of flesh tone on a marauder. Progress!

Not based but more or less finished, that was alot of fun! Thanks! Tell you what this little compo has caused me to sort out the interesting little models worth keeping from the broken junk that needs chucked out.




1. Chaos Knight
2. Volkmar again
3. Dark Elf Lady
4. Ancient Space Ork model, the type in the green plastic.
5. Tomb King 'Hero' choice, Tomb Prince(?) (Actually needs a little TLC before painting as he's been through the wars)
6. Lucretia Belladonna

 Matthew wrote:
Brennon! I rolled a 4, so 15 Marines?

15 marines done to the point of moving on! (not finished, but a solid base of Zandri dust, once my entire army is at this point minimum, I'll move onto the next step )

Roll again, if someone would

1: 15 marines (MK III this time )
2: 5 Terminators (Thousand Sons)
3: 10 Solar Auxillia
4: 5 Terminators (Death Guard)
5: 10 Terminators (Death Guard)
6: 3 Dreadnoughts

I posted this in the Flashback Friday thread, but it’s applicable to this thread as well. Seeing that this thread got me motivated to poke around the dusty depths of my workbench.

Along the back of my workbench there are boxes. Old, forgotten, dusty boxes full of abandoned projects and shattered dreams. Plus lead. Let’s take a peak inside:



5th ed Bretonians,
siege gear
Some grenadear lead
squats
WE dryads
Dogs of War
Old chaos warriors.

TGIF everyone!

Brennonjw: I rolled a 3 for you. Solar Auxillia time!

I don't actually have any half-done miniatures instead I have a lot of completely unstarted miniatures as I assemble one model/squad at a time. Currently I'm in the middle of painting 1k points from my Tyranid boxes that have been accumulating between 2008-2014.

Nevelon, on 2d6 the first number at or above 7 was 7 (unsurprisingly as iirc its the average). Any chance someone could do mine (list of 6 in my post above)?

Was feeling really hyped up but now it's waning :(.

 Perkustin wrote:
Nevelon, on 2d6 the first number at or above 7 was 7 (unsurprisingly as iirc its the average). Any chance someone could do mine (list of 6 in my post above)?

Was feeling really hyped up but now it's waning :(.

I’m still working on my marauder, one project at a time!

I rolled a 2 for you.

Volkmar is nearly done, I am quite happy with him. Feel free to roll another from my list, 2's will need to be re-rolled.

Here's three Grey Hunters, and I am not going to bed before they're finished. Mostly bases and highlights. If I do finish them I have a few more. I'm thinking, what if I add stuff to my D6 list all the time? Because I can't decide what to paint.


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Two down, one to go!

Grey Hunters ready! Updating my D6 list, please roll for me


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Wow that's a bad photo.

1: Finish Contemptor (base/arms)
2: 3 Thunderwolves
3: 4 Fenrisian Wolves
4: Rune Priest
5: Armour plates and misc stuff for Imperial Knight
6: Finish 4 Long Fangs

They look great, I always preferred the Wolves in that dark grey and red. My own are very similar. Not got a D6 handy at the moment (a failure, I know! )

I promise I'll fix my lightbox tomorrow and take some better pictures. And Paradigm, I do expect you to have a dice cube on you at all times!


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But wow, it felt great to actually finish something. I think I spent what, 3 hours today painting? Worth it.

Matthew wrote:Grey Hunters ready! Updating my D6 list, please roll for me


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Wow that's a bad photo.

1: Finish Contemptor (base/arms)
2: 3 Thunderwolves
3: 4 Fenrisian Wolves
4: Rune Priest
5: Armour plates and misc stuff for Imperial Knight
6: Finish 4 Long Fangs

I rolled a 1, finish that contemptor!

Paradigm wrote:They look great, I always preferred the Wolves in that dark grey and red. My own are very similar. Not got a D6 handy at the moment (a failure, I know! )

https://www.random.org/dice/?num=1

I actually want to change my entry. Reading the thread on the new AOBR rerelease made me dig out the miniatures. After four years of neglect I actually want to paint the AOBR set. Orks and all. I have most of it and it'd be cool painting some Orks just 'cause.

Heh...

There was a "list of shame" post about a year or...three back, where I actually bothered to take a full inventory (yeah, it was madness indeed).

Since then, I have actually done a good job getting stuff done, even have inventories, plan stuff, out, keep track of stuff I get done.

now, mind you....I don't usually get my plan done...but hey, its a start.

Besides the multitudes of models in boxes/bags and half assembled minis, there clearly are some that are truly...neglected.

Either I lost interest, or plans changed or I just found some aspect a challenge to complete - and thus, the lonely languish even more.

Besides the "active" list of 15 or so minis I am slowly working on, here is a short list of my orphans..

1 - A broken necron nightbringer
I love crons...I played them back in the OLD codex, long before crons were cool.
He is damaged, missing parts, broken base, and never finished painted...yeah, poor guy...even if the rules are garbage, he was once loved.
Had him since ...2010.

2 - A mostly painted bastion
Well, its ....sort of painted....well, maybe just base coated for like....3 years?

3 - Basing for a tigershark.
Yeah, a fully painted tau tigershark - I got burned out, and never finished his base.

4 - Basing for a tyranid harradin
Another big forgeworld toy - the model has been done since....2012?
Yeah, never finished the base. Tired of bad tyranid rules for years, have just not finished him.
(I don't call a model "done' until the scenic basing is done).

5 - A complete bane blade in....sort of parts. Sort of.
Yeah, I will get to him....um...someday. Been in box since 2011.

Ok, now, this does not include about 5000 points of necrons only base coated since 2010, or some other kits even older than that, or even my list of 10,000 points of various minis in boxes, bags or spures.

I will scrounge up a pic of the nightbringer (if I can find him) and rate the poor guy.

Add one more to your list of neglect so we can roll a die for you

Guess what I did? I cut my thumb, and it hurts a lot! I can't paint! YAY!

 Matthew wrote:
Guess what I did? I cut my thumb, and it hurts a lot! I can't paint! YAY!

nonsense - put a drop of superglue on it and get back to painting!!!

 Januine wrote:

 Matthew wrote:
Guess what I did? I cut my thumb, and it hurts a lot! I can't paint! YAY!

nonsense - put a drop of superglue on it and get back to painting!!!

I'm sure thats safe...

totally is!!!!

 LeCacty wrote:

 Januine wrote:

 Matthew wrote:
Guess what I did? I cut my thumb, and it hurts a lot! I can't paint! YAY!

nonsense - put a drop of superglue on it and get back to painting!!!

I'm sure thats safe...

Lol...

That's actually one of its uses... a quote from the super glue wiki...

Research has demonstrated the use of cyanoacrylate in wound closure as being safer and more functional than traditional suturing (stitches).[10] The adhesive has demonstrated superior performance in the time required to close a wound, incidence of infection (suture canals through the skin's epidermal, dermal, and subcutaneous fat layers introduce extra routes of contamination),[10] and final cosmetic appearance.[11][12]

davethepak wrote:

 LeCacty wrote:

 Januine wrote:

 Matthew wrote:
Guess what I did? I cut my thumb, and it hurts a lot! I can't paint! YAY!

nonsense - put a drop of superglue on it and get back to painting!!!

I'm sure thats safe...

Lol...

That's actually one of its uses... a quote from the super glue wiki...

Research has demonstrated the use of cyanoacrylate in wound closure as being safer and more functional than traditional suturing (stitches).[10] The adhesive has demonstrated superior performance in the time required to close a wound, incidence of infection (suture canals through the skin's epidermal, dermal, and subcutaneous fat layers introduce extra routes of contamination),[10] and final cosmetic appearance.[11][12]

Not to derail this thread even further, but if CA glue is so wonderful for wound closure, how come doctors don't use it instead of stitches?

Trauma doctors do, the reason why not is generally sterilisation - there is no medical superglue.

Take medical oxygen - what is the difference between that and industrial oxygen? The difference is that the bottle is emptied and sterilised before being refilled.

kb_lock wrote:
Trauma doctors do, the reason why not is generally sterilisation

Correct

there is no medical superglue.

Incorrect. Emergency Departments in the U.S. use this product often: http://www.ethicon.com/healthcare-professionals/products/wound-closure/skin-adhesives/dermabond-advanced-topical-skin-adhesive

but regular super glue is almost identical, active ingredient being cyanoacrylate, without the $200 price tag and all the medical buzzwords like "microbial barrier" and "plasticizers"

Source: worked in an E.R. for two years and I stabbed myself with a hobby knife one week ago and had to super glue my thumb back together (to keep this discussion relevant) worked fine, with rinsing and antibiotic, the super glue did a fine job of preventing infection and closing the wound.

Man I wish we had that stuff, we we're allowed to use it on "customers" - this was like 15 years ago or more now though. We also weren't allowed to say people were dead, which lead to an almost humorous interaction while delivering a patient in two pieces - we were advised that we were not, in fact, doctors, and that our very much alive patient merely had "conditions not compatible with life" (he'd been decapitated).

What a great idea! I feel slightly more competent now though, as I have nowhere near as many unpainted models as I thought. Still, it'll be nice to have some motivation to get them done!

Righto, I've gone through and painted everything that I had marked on my list (basecoated, at least) now onto phase 2 of the plan:

1) 10 Solar Auxilia/Vostroyans
2) Finish 5 30k Thousand Sons terminators
3) Metal Work on 20 30k Thousand Sons Marines
4) 20 white Bolters for 30k Thousand Sons
5) 5 Assault Marines
6) 5 Heavy Support Marines

I should hopefully be able to get pics soon, the batteries in my Camera died a few days ago :(

Yey vostroyans!

If I was in the Dark Angels inner circle, I'd probably hold the title of "Master of the Unfinished" Count me in for this...

After digging out the Ork side of my AOBR set I have to say that I had some weird conversion ideas. Restoring these guys is going to be a little tricky.

Do you think I can paint 800 points in 2 months? Because I'm planning on buying Get Started Space Wolves but I want to have finished painting...

 Matthew wrote:
Do you think I can paint 800 points in 2 months? Because I'm planning on buying Get Started Space Wolves but I want to have finished painting...

Easy, that's just 100 points a week! Even if it's all Grey Hunters, that's less than a mini a day. A HQ or Dread or a couple of Thunderwolves and that's you done for a week!

Get to it, lad!

Yes.

So I need to finish all my stuff before the 4th of April, which is when I'll have unlimited access to a FLGS and painting for hours every day.

The list of unpainted things:

13 Grey Hunters
1 Contemptor
4 Fenrisian Wolves
1 Land Speeder
5 Long Fangs
7 Characters
3 TWC

So about 1300 points, give or take. I have, upon posting this, 47 days to finish. 1300 divided by 47 is 27. 27 points a day, 189 a week! Let's do this!

Quick question, is the dice thing mandatory? I've written a mord list and a tournament's coming up and I'd really like to get em done for that.

 LeCacty wrote:
Quick question, is the dice thing mandatory? I've written a mord list and a tournament's coming up and I'd really like to get em done for that.

(Just my take on it, IMHO, YMMV, etc.)

I think as long as stuff is moving, the hows and whys are not an issue.

The die helps some of us. If we could decide what we wanted to be painting, it wouldn’t be sitting there for over two decades!

Dice aren't necessary if you know what you want to paint, they're simply a crutch for indecisive among us

kb_lock wrote:
Dice aren't necessary if you know what you want to paint, they're simply a crutch for indecisive among us

1-3 Take offense
4-6 Let it slide

<Rattle rattle>

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Rolls for charisma

3

GO feth YOURSELF


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Hrrrng THAT DIDN'T COUNT, REROLLING

18

Sorry mate, I meant no offense

Roll for agility

Nat 20!

Run the feth away.

Roll for pizza! Sausage pineapple.

...and that’s enough silliness for now. Just to prove I’m still working on old projects:

Done his silvers since I took that pic. Getting there...

...and done!


Might not be the best thing to cross my paintbench, but he’s off to the shelf now.

Someone chuck me a d6 and keep painting everyone!

Good job dude!

I got my ork finished last night so I'll reset my options and get someone to roll for me again

M-m-m-m-mordheim!!!



Sorry for the quality, I'll get better pics on finished models.

The guy on the right will be the Skink Priest and the lefty is a Brave w/ Shield and Javelin

Ayy!

Okay someone roll a D6!

1: Finish Grey Hunters 1
2: 3 Thunderwolves
3: 4 Fenrisian Wolves
4: Rune Priest
5: Armour plates and misc stuff for Imperial Knight
6: Finish 4 Long Fangs

Matthew wrote:

Ayy!

Okay someone roll a D6!

1: Finish Grey Hunters 1
2: 3 Thunderwolves
3: 4 Fenrisian Wolves
4: Rune Priest
5: Armour plates and misc stuff for Imperial Knight
6: Finish 4 Long Fangs

Good job!

Just rolled you a 4

kb_lock wrote:
1. Land Speeder Storm
2. Chaos Chosen
3. Goblin King
4. EfGT Goblins
5. Ultra tac squad
6. Drop pod.

Someone roll for me, here is the ork nob

I thought there was a thread somewhere about minis bought off ebay that were just blobs of paint. I can't find it, so I'm posting these here. I have discovered the secret of stripping plastic minis so I'm stripping almost an entire space marine army.
These are the most freaky looking ones:

Count Blobula and The Incredible Blob.

Wow... just wow! Those are just.... Nope, I cannot put together a sentence about them!

What miracle are you using to get the paint off those?

While you're here corpuschain, read my PM

I am using biostrip 20. I finally found out how to do it properly and my advice is DO NOT leave them to soak in it. Put one in for about 1 or 2 minutes, give it a scrub to get the top latyers off, then put it back in again to get the next layer off. Repeat until it looks like new!

Here's the Incredible Blob, looking more like a space marine. Not totally finished, but almost there.

Just realised I'm on vacation and almost 2 weeks behind schedule. Darn it!

I'm bad at painting. Please forgive me but I'll have to limit myself to basecoats. I still have a month left to finish everything though...

No sweat, bro. I'm supposed to be doing a Piranha for this thing, but I've barely touched it.

I'll forgive you if you roll for me

kb_lock wrote:
1. Land Speeder Storm
2. Chaos Chosen
3. Goblin King
4. EfGT Goblins
5. Ultra tac squad
6. Drop pod.

Rolled a 2! Gobbo king!

That'd be a 3 totsausage, or is that what you rolled?

*titsausage and I thought the gobbo was a 2. I did roll a 2 though so Chosen!

My sincerest apologies titsausage, for some reason auto correct made it far worse.

Chosen it is, I'll post pre shots tonight

Okay, Rune Priest done, pics coming soon.

1: Basecoat/finish Grey Hunters 1
2: 3 Thunderwolves
3: 4 Fenrisian Wolves
4: Basecoat Grey Hunters 2
5: Land Speeder
6: Finish 4 Long Fangs

Rolled you a 3 for the fenrisian wolves mate

Aw yeah, let's do some fur!

 LeCacty wrote:
*titsausage and I thought the gobbo was a 2. I did roll a 2 though so Chosen!

The chosen. May do the helbrute in the background too, idk

Here's where I'm at so far with the Tau Piranha:

I haven't had much time for painting lately, and I've been busy with work and other RL stuff so when I have had the time, I haven't had the energy. Once I get going good I can probably knock this vehicle out quickly.

I finished a few wolves, just need some basing!



And some TWC being painted!



I have 2 weeks to finish my Wolves. Currently I have a Land Speeder, a Rune Priest, the TWC, 5 Long Fangs, and 10 Grey Hunters. Wish me luck!

Also, I'll probably finish the TWC and Fenrisians today, so roll for me!

1: Grey Hunters 1
2: Re-roll I guess? Nothing left to paint!
3: Re-roll?
4: Grey Hunters 2
5: Land Speeder
6: Long Fangs

Rolled you a 1 matey

I am working on these chosen, but I can see why I stopped. Surprisingly intricate and annoying!

Bringing a little life back into this thread seeing as I have too much stuff to do and I keep building new complicated things.

Completing these two pieces are my current goals;

The base for my Vostroyan Valkyrie:



And a DKOK diorama that has been brewing for years

That dio looks awesome so far. Great composition.

Beautiful! Now I really want to use my Land Speeder Storm for a base...

 Matthew wrote:
Beautiful! Now I really want to use my Land Speeder Storm for a base...

Absolutely do it, I was lucky with the Chimera, a friend had a destroyed one that I managed to cut up and make useful.

It can definitely make for interesting basing styles, especially on really big bases where you have lots of dead space and can have verticality like the Flyer base.

I got quite a bit done during this break.
All marker light drone formation
A Valkyrie
Thuddguns, but I dont like them,I didnt convert them right.
and khan.
Tried to do my Gravity Cannons, but I failed and they got sent to the buring inferno(the stripping bath)
and finally I got my imperial priest done.

Matt, I have been getting through these chaos things, so slow though. Intricate doesn't begin to cover it.

Hellbrute is at least fully assembled now!