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Hey everyone.

Today I assembled my troops. More specifically my 10k+ points of Red Scorpions, more than 90% of which is unpainted or not fully built.










So that's a full battle company, with just under half the 1st company of veterans, and assorted transports and vehicles. I have at least a single Predator and Vindicator (if not squads of three) and a couple of Rhinos to add too.

I'm pretty embarassed about the state of play to be honest (especially as I have 3 other armies on the go, lol) but I'm glad I took this photo. The army as a whole looks great, and is pretty impressive in person. It's actually inspried me to crack on and get it finished. (It also helps that I've promised myself a Thunderhawk when it's all done)

I mean, it looks good now - how amazing would it look with everything at tabletop standard?

So, anyone else have an embarassing collection? Sometimes it's good to talk about it.

The first step is admitting you have a problem. Heh.

Well I have the DV marines, 2.5K of BT, probably around 7K of imperial guard, tons of fantasy stuff, and a few kickstarter loads.

I have like 8 painted models plus 2 painted Valkyries (except they have no weapons).

I am too embarrassed to take a pic, plus its all in boxes in the closet and hard to get to it all. But I am making progress! 5 models almost done that I started yesterday.

3000 points of guard, minus one guardsman, and I want them as painted as possible in time for Tau. :(

At most, ~1/3 of my built 40k models (perhaps 4-5k points, in total, split between Orks and SM, plus a few odd figures I can cobble together from bits) are painted. I also have another 1k or so still on the sprue. I also have the start of 3 (Mantic) fantasy armies on sprue, for another 2-4K (not too familiar with WFB point values and they're mostly core troops). I've painted a single model out of my two Infinity starter boxes. I'm almost done with the dwarf contingent from DKH: Dead Rising (accounts for ~1/4 of the models). I have a dozen one-off models for display/RPG purposes, one of which is 80% finished. I also have scratchbuilds and terrain pieces in varying stages of completion, but none ready for paint. If I put everything in GW point terms, I'd estimate 7-8k to go, being mildly conservative.

Not nearly as daunting as some folks' "as-of-yet-naked" collections, but weighing how long I've been at this against how much I've accomplished, I could still be working a decade from now, having never bought another model. At least I won't run out of potential things to do...

Well lets see.....

Full box of IFP to put together pin and paint.
Full box of Celena and her Nyss Hunters to put together and paint.
1x Spriggan to paint
1x Devastator to paint
Full unit of WidowMakers
1 x Widow Maker Marksman Solo
1x Unit of Kayazy Eliminators
Full Unit of Kayazy Assassins and UA
pIrusk needs to be put together and painted
Full Unit of Mechanics
Fenris needs to be painted (him, horse, and dismount)
Valachev needs to put together and painted...
2x ManHunters to paint

And all that's on the back burner cuz I have a commission to finish putting together and painting for a 35pt Cygnar force......

IG:
2 Vendetta
1 Leman Russ
2 FW Medusa
1 Manticore Missle Launcher
2 Hydra Tanks
2 Hydra Artillery
1 Bane Blade (mostly done)
5 Chimeras
300 Lasgun Guardsmen
2 Commissars
2 Company Commanders
24 Melta Gunners
40 Stormtroopers
36 Plasma Gunners
9 Psyker
1 Primaris Psyker
10 Sergeants

Daemons:
1 GUO
8 Plaguedrones
2 Blight Drones
40 Plaguebearers
1 Herald of Nurgle

CSM/Deathguard Legion
140 Nugle Terminators
60 Plaguemarines
1 Rhino
2 Vindicators
1 Landraider
2 Drop Pods
10 Deathshroud Terminators
1 Predator
1 Lord on a Bike
1 Sorcerer on a Bike
8 Nurgle Bikers
1 FW Nurgle Sorcerer
10 Legion Destroyers

OK heres the list

Dust
Full Dust Tactics box set (old one)
German Heavy Walker
German Zombies
Allied Heavy Troopers

40K
10x Blood Claws
20x Grey Hunters
60x Vostroyan
20x Valhalla Ice Warriors
10x Storm Troopers
2x Leman Russ Battle Tanks
10x Ork Boyz
3x Ork Bikes
60x Grots

Warhammer Fantasy (all still in the shrink wrap)
Chaos Lord on Manticore
Hell Riders of Slaanesh
Hellcannon
Sigvald

lets see,,bout 40+ terminators,2 warhound titans,5kinght titans,,3 reavers, 7 LRs,and a handfull of guard and sisters models

12.000 pts of SM
5.000 pts of Orks
3.000 pts of CSM
2.500 pts DE
3.000 pts Tau
3.000 pts Nids
2.500 pts Ogres
2.500 pts Dwarfs
2.500 pts O&G
Necron Megaforce
bunch of superheavies
Super Dungeon Explore
DW Russian fleet, FA Dindrenzi fleet
100ish Necromunda figs
15.000 pts of Battlefleet Gothic
Epic Orks

I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

200+ catachan guardsmen, including 30 mortar teams, 50+ eldar, 18 eldar jetbikes, 150+ Black Templars, 96 mutants and cultists, 34 plague marines, 100+ random chaos, 80+ high elves, 70+ black orcs, 40+ boyz, 12 Cryx warjacks, 5 Chimeras, 2 Land raiders, 30+ Sisters of battle, 30 Inquisitorial Alcolytes, 130 Night Goblins, 80 Genestealers and some other stuff. Almost 1000 infantry models and a few dozen tanks.... I'm ashamed

Hmm. I've got...

1 Leman Russ.
2 Crisis suits. (All tau are in a bath of simple green bar 3 of fire warriors)
20 Fire warriors.
16 Kroot.
6 Gun Drones.
A pile of homemade terrain which is slowly getting larger and larger.

3 Canoptek Spyders
3 Scythes
10 Canoptek Scarabs
3 Canoptek Wraiths
3 Crypteks (one a conversion for Despairtek)

2 Hive Tyrants
2 Hive Guard
2 Zoanthropes
50 Termagants
2 Biovores
2 Tervigons

The sight of them all in my cupboard is so daunting, it makes me even less likely to start. Funny... when I have 1 box of things I do them pretty quickly, but when there's a massive pile, doing even 1 box takes so much longer.

I've got a bunch of terminators to convert and paint, something like 20 starter set marines, 6 bikes, and a bunch of already converted termies not shown in the picture (see the link in my sig for them)

2 wolf guard squads (power and terminator armour), 10 each of death company and tac marines, 5 sanguinary guard, a dreadnought, and a few Eldar and infinity models. Next to some of the other things here, it doesn't seem too bad.

I think I have about 1500 odd miniatures waiting to be painted...

Just sold off a ton thank god.

35 termagants, 25 hormagaunts, 15 genestealers, 2 biovores, 1 tyrant guard, 1 magnetized flying hive tyrant, 1 mawloc, 1 imperial bastion, 1 converted red terror, 2 tervigons, 2 ripper swarms, 20 gargoyles, and 2 broodlords.

I think that's it.

Let's see...

4 Mandrakes
5 DE Warriors
3 Wyches
10-ish Catachans
* 12 Chaos Warriors
* 10 Chaos Space Marines
* 9 Plaguebearers

Things with a star next to them will probably never get painted...

There not very red :3

My fantasy army in various states of paint and assembly. To give you an idea, some of those older models you see were bought new, not Ebay purchases. (Making some of them more than fifteen years old I think.) Still unpainted



My older 40K army. It's mostly painted except for the middle section, but I have since bought nearly an entirely new army that isn't even assembled yet.


And my totally disorganized work station. It's so messy right now I can't even get to it to paint!


So yeah...those are my embarrassing pics....

I took stock of what I am working on. I spent my weekend priming and painting my WoC.

40K:
IG
2 vendettas

Salamanders
2 tactical squads
2 rhinos
6 members of a command squad

Space wolves
3 rhinos (base coat only after this afternoon)
1 razorback
8 grey hunters 2 terminators
2 land raiders

WHFB
VC
~60 zombies
~60 skeletons
20 ghouls
10 wolves
30 grave guard
5 vampires (vlad, Isabella,Konrad, wings, other female vampire)
2 necromancers
2 corpse carts

WoC
1 chariot
6 knights
5 horsemen
1 chimera
32 marauders
4 hounds (primed)

Lizards (all primed in army builder blue)
60 lizard men
40 skink
20 temple guard
16 cavalry
2 stegadons
1 slaan
3 skink priests

Hordes
Skorne
6 PGBH
10 swordsman
2 savages
1 will breaker
1 nihilators
1 venator
Molik Karn
Tiberion
1 Titan
pMakeda
1/2 painted Rasheth
6 cetrati
6 arcurai
1 gator man
1 taskmaster

Actually, not a lot; I have scores of unpainted minis, but a lot of them are just sitting in boxes collecting dust and I don't really like painting just for the hell of it, and I'm not really good enough (or patient enough) to paint display pieces, so I generally only paint (and buy) what I intend to use in games, and I paint extremely slowly. So right now I've got:

Warmachine:
pDenny
pSkarre
1 Deathripper
75% of another Deathripper (got some base colors on it)
1 Defiler
1 Slayer
3 Soul Hunters
1 Necrotech
1 Scrap Thrall
1 Darragh Wrathe (Both mounted and on foot)
pStryker
2 Hunters
1 Charger
1 Lancer
1 Ironclad
1 Journeyman Warcaster

Dystopian Wars:
The entire Prussian Starter fleet, which is:
1 Battleship
3 Cruisers
9 Frigates
2 Bombers
10 Tiny Flyer tokens.

And that's it. I've got a bunch of Space Marines, Skaven, Dark Eldar, Eldar, Chaos Space Marines, some Necrons, Lizardmen, Bretonnians, a Delaque Gang, a Skaven Gang, a Mercenary Gang, some CAVs, some 100 Kingdoms Freak Show, and a Dravani crew for Rezolution, none of which will ever see a paintbrush because I'm not going to use any of them. I'm probably just going to end up eBaying them at some point.

40 k, done. I haven't bought anything new GW for awhile, so, everything is done. 3,000 IG, with 1000 points of GK allies. Also, 2500 of orks. Yes, six mobs of boys/nobs (29/1).

Malifaux. McCabe ad his box. They are 75% done.

Infinity. 16 haqisam. Primed and washed. Just started this game and starting to learn the echanics.

Hordes. Skorne starter still in the box.

Not a lot. Shoud be done with Malifaux and half of infinity this week.

Currently waiting to be painted?

Dark Angels:
20 Terminators
1 Nephilim
20 Tactical Marines
1 Land Raider
1 Rhino
5 Special Characters
1 Command Squad
Aegis DL

Imperial Guard:
Over 100 Steel Legionnaires
4 Chimeras
3 Sentinels
1 Hellhound
1 Leman Russ BT
1 Leman Russ Demo
2 Commissars

Dwarf Fantasy Army:
Several thousand points worth. A truckload.

Protectorate of Menoth WM/H:
1 Exemplar Errants + UA
1 Errant senny
1 Vanquisher
2 Reckoners
1 Holy Zealots + UA
1 pFeora
1 eTestament
2 Repenters
1 iKreoss
1 Covenant
1 Nicia
2 Vassals
1 Vilmon + Paladin
1 Exemplar Bastions
1 Exemplar Cinerators
1 Gorman
1 Rhupert
1 Blessing of Vengeance
1 Deliverers min unit

Still on the way from Kickstarter:

Reaper Bones rewards from Vampire level (200+ minis)
An entire angelic human fantasy army from Mantic's KS. About 120+ models.

Wow....first of all, good to know I am in common company here...

Lets see:

Tau:
Devilfish: 1
Skyray: 1
Tx42 - 1
Heavy gun drones: 6
Kroot: 16
Krootox: 4
XV9: 3
Remora: 2
Completed: 6000 points.

Nids:
Spore pod: 2
Raveners; 9
Tervigon: 1
Trygon: 1
Carnifex: 2
Gants: 30
Stealers: 20
Hormagants: 30
Scythed Hierodule: 1
Barbed Hierdule: 2
Warriors: 9 (wont bother).
Completely done: 6500 points.

Crons:
Monoliths: 2
Ctan: 1
Spiders: 1
Immortals: 20
Lychguard: 10
Tomb blades: 24 (old converted destroyers ).
Heavy destroyers: 6
scrabs: 10
Ghost Arks: 5
Command/Ann barge: 3
Triarch Stalker: 3
Night scythes: 5
Tomb Stalker: 1
Pylon: 1
Wriaths: 4 (old style).
Completed: 1500

Marines:
A lot. a whole lot. 6000+ points.
Or more.

The shame.

Oh, and TONS of Battlefleet gothic minis - about 50% base coated, the other 50% in boxes.

davethepak wrote:
Wow....first of all, good to know I am in common company here...

Every time I see one of these threads pop up, it's like a parade of shame.

Kinda like an AA meeting:

"Hi, I'm C. Isaac, and I own way too many minis."

"Hi, Isaac!"

Currently in the queue:
1. Dark Vengeance set
2. Space Hulk set
3. Colossals/Battle Engines for Cryx, Trollbloods, and Everblight
4. Confrontation Ophidian army - I've got every model Rackham ever made, except the mail order Apostate
5. Chaos Space Marine battleforce
6. Chaos Space Marine Slaughterer, Impaler, and Decimator Engine

And a whole lot more things jammed into those plastic 50+ L containers - and I got 8 of those.

Small wonder my wife is somewhat annoyed at me for continuously buying new stuff.

11k of orks, which, due to this ongoing problem of unpaintedness, I am selling slowly and surely on ebay!!! The funds will go, one box at a time, to my new army. I will only be allowed to buy a new box when the previous box is painted!!!

Almost nothing on here is fully painted... although the only thing some of these models need is highlights and bases done. I can count the amount of finished models on my fingers and toes, and thats including characters and HQ's... And now Im starting a new army of World Eaters.

I have so much hidden away in boxes it's scary, still working on my Dark Vengeance set which I've added to with various kits, got all of the Escape from Goblin Town to do, as well as a ~1500 tyranid army that is about 20% done. Oh and Dreadfleet...

My main focus this year is to try and clear some of my backlog to justify buying more! Although that took a turn today as I just bought a sealed copy of Space Hulk on eBay. Oh dear.

Anyone else trying to paint faster instead of taking too long over each model in a unit?

I have like 3k of High Elves, about 3k of DA, 2k of Eldar and about 5k of half painted and unpainted GK... =(. I love painting too, but a 1 year old and a 3 year old can put a damper on that sort of activity.