Fighting the Pile of Shame 2021

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**Tyranid Horde**

Painted 5 chainrasps for that Nighthaunt army lingering in my pile of shame. Pretty speedy job but that means they'll be out of the way quicker!

**LunarSol**

Finished my Squigs last night.... so many squigs....

Anyway, going back to take care of the last of the Relic Knights stuff from my backlog since I don't have anything hugely pressing at the moment. After that I'm hoping to clear out a few Malifaux updates.

May is going to hit hard. Most of the games I play have some major releases I've been waiting on.

**LunarSol**

Relic Knights is done! All of it!

I've got a bit of MonPoc to paint and a few Malifaux figures to finish. Also finally got a Knight Models order that I need to focus on and a pair of Redemptors I want to add to my Watch.

The big pain is coming soon though. Dragons are finally coming to ASoIaF, there's some new Warmachine stuff I need to update and I've got friends itching to get me to try out both Warcaster and Twisted. Hoping to finish up a bunch of stuff before the inevitable backslide.

**Easy E**

Good progress Lunar!

I have been assembling minis like crazy to prepare for painting.

50 more Romans assembled and 20 Vikings assembled with 30 more in the Queue.

**Tyranid Horde**

Completed 17 minis this week, all Nighthaunt so were fast to blast through. Add 10 bladegheist revenants to the list though as I cannot control myself.

**The Newman**

Got 33 Hormagaunts finished off today.

**LunarSol**

Caught back up with MonPoc and finished my Oblivion crew for Malifaux while also getting a couple Guild new releases finished. Also ordered Twisted which almost offsets those gains but... still positive overall.

I've got the Knight Models Green and Yellow Lanterns on the table right now, and the Redemptors magnetized and primed. Hoping to get those done before some new Batman/Riddler releases and Twisted arrive. Making new arrivals a priority has really helped keep the backlog from growing. Turns out the stuff on the shame pile was sitting there because I didn't want it QUITE as badly as I thought.

**tneva82**

Finished up another 25 horrors putting painted model　total to 237 this month vs 225 bought. So now pile reduced this year by 80 models total.

Next month try to avoid buying models entirely but also pace of painting reduces. This pace was mind breaking　

**Illumini**

237 painted in a month? Lots of epic stuff then?

**tneva82**

No. Aos models. Mind you 65 had main colours mostly done last month. Those were stormcast. Then 40 blood reavers, 18 ogre gluttons, 20 gnoblars, 30 pink horrors, 30 brimstoee horrors, 25 or so blue horrors. Have exalt list as this year i keep exact list of bought and painted models

**Illumini**

That is impressive!

Lists are a great tool. I´ve started cataloging my own collection including the state of painting / building, both as a tool for working down the pile, and for insurance reasons.

**tneva82**

I can tell you from personal experience you don't want to paint that many in a month

I did accomplish it but this month been "paint paint paint paint". Get home, sit to painting table, paint for hours, sleep." Repeat. Day after day after day.

Drove myself into corner with vowing to paint minimum of same amount I buy each month and then landing on 2 big 2nd hand deal

Whoops.

May I will take it more easy. Read some books maybe(just got half a dozen novels by who is fast becoming one of my favourite japanese authors). Goal is to get the 2k seraphons(that's 9 models) and work on lumineth. Anything beyond that is a plus.

**Polonius**

Not too much of an update, I've got a ton of elves almost done, but I wanted to share some pictures of what I have completed so far this year.

Tau:

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Ultramarines Primaris:

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And not technically part of the pile of shame because it was bought this year, an Imperial Assault Core set:

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So far in 2020 I've painted 72 backlog Marines, three backlog Tau, a newly bought Imperial assault, and 30 newly bought elf archers. Unfortunately that leaves about 130 elf models (many in progress) that were bought this year, along with ~60 IG praetorians, a venerable dreadnought, and two impulsors, all bought this year.

So, so far actually in the red for the year

**Eldarain**

Still holding strong in the no purchasing commitment. After the 30 Elves adventure I just pledged a Skarsnik model for April ( we have a once per 6 month season small hero exception)

So running tally since Jan 2020 157 painted, 2 purchased.

**Easy E**

A lot of Romans done.....

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2021/04/on-painting-table-early-republican.html

**LunarSol**

Green and Yellow Lanterns done! Working on the Redemptors now, after that I'll probably work on the Twisted stuff depending on when it arrives. Otherwise I'm likely to try and finish up the last of Guild Ball.

**Llamahead**

April was a good month for painting with 42 done however with the Black Knight and Bladegheist Mortal Realms as well as some kits I wanted to get from North Star due to the Nickstarter well....104 in and the Nickstarter didn't arrive until May.....

**The Newman**

Knocked out three Bladeguard this morning, but I had to add two Tervigons, a Tyrannofex, and four Ripper Swarms to the pile.

**Commodus Leitdorf**

Managed to paint 21 models this over April. 10 more models in various stages of completion are on my pile at the moment. Hope to get them done so I can focus on picking a project and just working to get it done.

**Eldarain**

For the first time since I began my self imposed purchasing freeze I am wavering pretty badly. I really want that new Be'Lakor. His first model was what originally had me start a Chaos army.

I haven't caved yet (silver lining to GW's production issues?)

I think I'll set myself a challenge. I can't buy him until the list I want to have him lead is built and painted.

**LunarSol**

Finished up my Redemptors. Painting Twisted next. Neither has really been on the pile, but getting it done helps me get back to it. Likely to get a bit of Warmachine stuff I'll need to focus on soon though. Not expecting to really work on the backlog much for the next couple of months. Lots of exciting new releases.

**LunarSol**

Finally painted the rest of the Endless Spells from Maligned Sorcery. Probably never do anything with them and not my best work, but it was good airbrush practice.

Knee deep in the May releases now though. Might be working on them through June.

**Kid_Kyoto**

31 more meat shields on the way.

**Illumini**

The bases look very promising. Where did you get the brick walls?

**Easy E**

I finished another 10 Roman/Ancient Skirmishers. Only 40 more Romans to go....

**Rygnan**

Rygnan wrote:
Putting things up by game I feel is easiest for me, so that's what I'll do

Legion- main game at the moment, I'm almost fully painted (just a handful of terrain pieces to do). Few things on the way but they're low model count boxes I can paint in a night or 2 with enough effort put in
Malifaux- I have a couple of crews in some stage of completion, but its all easily achievable over the next couple months and the painted:unpainted ratio is still well in the clear
AoS/Warcry- Warcry starter set terrain and wild beasts are all unpainted but assembled, and I have a few bits and pieces for my Skaven army to paint but the bulk of the work is done
Infinity- I'm in the process of buying a new army, but I just finished fully painting my old one and the new one is only 15 models so I can get through it quickly enough
Blood Bowl- 1 painted team, 1 unpainted. The unpainted one is on my desk now being painted, so give it a week or so and it'll all be done
LotR- I have 3 painted armies that can all be run separately, but my big Easterling/Mordor alliance is still all but abandoned for now. Once I get through a few of the smaller projects I plan on knocking them out as quickly as I can but that's not any time soon

Update, Infinity and Blood Bowl still aren't finished (but they are started) and I've picked up a ton of extra Malifaux stuff so that's not going so well either. Picked up Monsterpocalypse too which is about half done, so overall I'm not really making huge progress in the pile of shame but I'm only adding to it when I'm clearing things which is somewhat acceptable

**The Newman**

Finished my Termagaunts this morning and my Hormagaunts a week or two back. Still plugging away but defeating the Pile of Shame 2021 is looking less and less likely.

**Illumini**

Got two great deals on middlehammer minis this week, so added about 100 metal sisters of battle and some vehicles, plus a similar amount of middlehammer dwarves to the pile.

Will probably part the armies up and resell portions, as both are intended as supporting cast to another army, so I don´t need that many.

**Stormonu**

Got my admech onager done recently, and to celebrate I bought some admech sulfarhounds - which I've at least primed!

Also, to my own surprise I'd pulled out my Robotech minis and have been assembling and priming them. There's another studio now doing resin minis and I picked up some armored & super valkaries that inspired working on all this.

As an aside, I also managed to paint up some modern soldiers and a bradley I had acquired on the side. Now I just need a game to find use for them in!

**Shadowbrand**

Pushed out a unit of Reivers, and just started my indominus box, as well as painted a Terminator Captain, all in the span of 8 hours yesterday.