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Do you belong to the category of people who cant keep their hands to themselves when a new army is released (or new models for an existing army) and you go buy it but real life doesnt permit you to unbox, assemple and paint your new miniatures? I am one of these people. Especially since I buy from discounted stores with up to 30% off (usually around 20% though) I have acquired quite a few packages by the mail that I havent even had the time to unbox, as I usually make a vow of painting the stuff I have before unboxing more. Plus unboxing is always a nice feeling, so I want to reward myself in the future when my painting projects have progressed and I can open some more. So yeah...buying from discounted stores has the side effect that you accumulate more due to impulse buys than you originally think you would ever collect in terms of miniatures, and I'll wager that they actually contribute to you spending more money in total to the hobby than if your only option were to buy from GW direct. Believe it or not, I now own 6 armies and only 3 of them are unboxed and painted for the most part and the boxes have been accumulating since 2011.

Are you like me?

*raises hand*

I have some Necron boxed I bought when I was planning to expand my army that were never open. I have 2 dark eldar ones I was planning to use for a project and paint for fun, and a dire avengers one I got when they were still 10 dire avengers.

I really regret all of them.

Sadly yes. Ranging all the way from that cool IC I want to lead an army up to tanks I haven't unboxed yet. You get this cool idea for an army project and collect stuff for it, then don't actually feel like starting it today.

Isn't this basically the "paint it all before buying more" thread? Yes, I have heaps to assemble and paint. Much of it still sealed. Buying in bulk when it's highly discounted is my excuse ; p

I've got a bunch of Metal Tyranid blister packs that I acquired cheap off of a friend of a friend (bargain, only paid about 40% of the retail value for a massive shipment of 'Nids) that have only been opened because I needed to steal the 40mm round bases out of them. I'll paint those Lictors eventually, honest...

I also have 2 Pyrovores sealed in packaging. Painted the other one because I quite like the model (his name is Percy). Percy has never seen a table...

About 8 of them. Of things I don't even need! I thought it'd be funny to buy a 4th vindi for example. Why? God knows. Or getting scammed on ebay when you buy a painted model only to get the unassambled unpainted model in a box, thats happened twice to me. I don't mind assembling... i just hate painting. I even find excuses not to paint, such as washing the dishes, doing the windows, quick unrequired asda shop etc...

i've 12 x forgeworld thallax to open up :(

Half of a three year old tyranid battle force hasn't even been touched yet. Half of a two year old Skaven battle force hasn't had any work on it at all. Still trying to find time to work on a watchtower.

They've been unboxed but barely assembled

Yup. And I boxed 'em all up, took 'em to the FLGS, and said "I'm not going to be able to ever assemble or paint these guys. How much will you give me for them?"

Yeah, I took a huge hit- about 50% MSRP, and it was all store credit, but I got tired of staring at it on the shelf. I could have made more on eBay or somewhere else. It needed to disappear. There it was, sitting on my hobby shelf, and I thought there is no way I'm going to make the army I want with everything else I have sitting on that shelf. It had already been sitting there almost a year.

I have soooooo much stuff NIB... I have upwards of 200 kroot minis, 2 devilfish, 6 crisis suits, 3 broadsides, 20 pathfinders, 9 piranhas, a 2500 point dark eldar army, and thats just some of the more recent acquisitions off the top of my head (and doesn't include most of my 300 points of warmachine, nor my 3 factions of malifaux)

Haven't opened my DKoK that I received yesterday...

I still have two sealed boxes of Gaunts from when you got 8 of each to a box.

I've done a very good job of not buying more then I can paint. And I admit that I can paint pretty quickly to get things to a table top standard.

I have one dark vengeance Chapter Master that isn't painted, and then some war machine minis that I recently acquired. Although I do have some repairs on my Tau that i'm putting off..

I have 2 boxes of pathfinders and Asterion Moloc i need to put together.

I at least have gotten to the unboxing phase, but I have a mountain of unboxed sprues sitting on my desk. 2 pathfinder squads, box of kroot, think there might be a box of fire warriors in there too. I got the big impressive battlesuits done though (by done I mean assembled...still have no idea how I'm going to paint anything larger than a basic infantry model).

 Sir Arun wrote:
Do you belong to the category of people who cant keep their hands to themselves when a new army is released (or new models for an existing army) and you go buy it but real life doesnt permit you to unbox, assemple and paint your new miniatures? I am one of these people. Especially since I buy from discounted stores with up to 30% off (usually around 20% though) I have acquired quite a few packages by the mail that I havent even had the time to unbox, as I usually make a vow of painting the stuff I have before unboxing more. Plus unboxing is always a nice feeling, so I want to reward myself in the future when my painting projects have progressed and I can open some more. So yeah...buying from discounted stores has the side effect that you accumulate more due to impulse buys than you originally think you would ever collect in terms of miniatures, and I'll wager that they actually contribute to you spending more money in total to the hobby than if your only option were to buy from GW direct. Believe it or not, I now own 6 armies and only 3 of them are unboxed and painted for the most part and the boxes have been accumulating since 2011.

Are you like me?

I always buy the figs I want when I have the cash available. That means I start to collect quite a pile of "to be built" kits. Then I slowly work my way through them. Usually by the time I get through them my mind has sorted out the next batch of projects and I start the process again. What I found that helped to clear out years of backlog was the lengthy recovery process from a serious illness I had. Over a couple years I got my entire backlog built and out of boxes and even added even more kits into the process as well. Think I built 8 or 9 full armies in that time frame and sold a lot of them off.

Skriker

I have a Leman Russ sitting in my cupboard. I'll pull it out when I've painted my other two, or when the manufactorum demands its construction So far I've never needed three Leman Russ tanks....

Nope, they are all in baggies now

Nah, when i get a set the rest of life is put on hold for i can't resist opening it a soon as possible.

 wolfmaster1234 wrote:
Nah, when i get a set the rest of life is put on hold for i can't resist opening it a soon as possible.

Exactly.

I have a bunch of Imperial Guard stuff I have not touched from back when they first released the plastic Cadian Models, Mind you I have started to put together the Infantry squads. I also got a bunch of Marine stuff too but I gave that to a buddy of mine so he could build a ultramarine force but he has not touched them either.

I am a horder when it comes to this stuff I really do not know why probably because I think to my self I will eventually get to it

I just sold a friend the drop pod I'd had for 5 years the other day. I've got stuff going back to 2009 still in boxes, and models going back to 2006 or 7 still unpainted.

Nope not one... Only because the two armies worth of untouched models were shipped NoS

A bunch of terrain, basically the whole sector imperialis collection. Though I'm choosing not to build them as they're easier to transport unassembled and I still don't have a real house to settle down in.

I've got tons of fantasy stuff I bought a few years ago (and last week) in boxes/blisters. Plus a few thousand points of necrons in boxes. Almost have all my Templar built out of boxes (goal 1)...

I'm pretty bad for buying and putting to the side...

2 leman russes in boxes and shrink wrap from 04
2 skyray boxes from 06
1 riptide
1 sun/razor shark

I have work to do

Still sealed, wrapped in plastic? No.

Still on sprues, unassembled?

>.>

...yes.

I have a single box unopened: the aquila strongpoint. Do I have a metric butt-ton of models needing to be painted? Absolutely. I worked it out, and I have enough models that if I paint a moderate amount every day, it will take over a year to complete.

I have 2x tau broadsides and a squad of DKoK that need to be assembled...... been sitting around for a while.

I also have 3 boxes of reaver jetbikes and 3 boxes of hellions. I was planning on starting dark eldar a while ago, but then chaos got an update, then tau got an update, then DKoK got updated point costs, and the heresy stuff looks awesome....... looks like I'll be selling the dark eldar lol.

The only thing that is not fully assembled is a Wraithknight. It is in pieces (partially assembled) and I need to get off my uhh...bum and paint it.