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what? you can paint them?! omg! But seriously, I'm about 25% painted. I only game with one to two friends, and one is an amazing modeler (hyperviper) and the other is as lazy as me when it comes to painting(gizmodious).

I have almost 50 models of Warriors of Chaos to paint up.

Shoulda just bought them piecemeal, seeing the hordes of grey all ways makes me think that there is no damn way I could finish them.

It would be easier to count unpainted models than units, since most of my miniatures are character models and not part of any unit. But I have about 15 unpainted units, and about 500 unpainted models.

Many of the models will never be painted, often because I bought them for some specific reason then turned out to not need them -- like I bought X monster for a D&D game I was going to run, then didn't get it painted in time, and now have no incentive to ever get it painted.

Ever since I started playing Warhammer though I have been collecting models far, far faster than I can paint them.

I remember this poll from months ago. How did it even pop up a second time?

Interesting.

I blame Insaniak.

I've got about 14 or 15 units of varying sizes, and mostly Orks (run a foot-slogging army). I do have some various Marine figures thrown into the mix, mostly to plus up existing units (1 to 2 figures). And I'm not counting my CSM stuff; only about 4 squads, but I'm nowhere near ready to do anything with them.

Emmm

2 battle for maccagre (?) boxes
1 tyranid battleforce
1 orc battleforce
1 empire army box
1 carnifex boxed
1 trigon boxed
1 fire prism
1 undead scorpion boxed
1 boxed goblin hero
A 3k HE army

and misc.

Nice to see I'm not the only one who owns a horde of unpainted minis :-p

Oh dear - been collecting for over 20 years and looking at the various threads here I'd guess most others would take a month or two to complete what I've completed Although there's been many re-paints and breaks in between, honest.
Good job I have a spare room I guess

Eldar and CSM armies waited to be painted... this isn't even all of them.

nothing without base colors, 40+ that need highlights n such.

Easily over 50 unpainted units, I am an impulse buyer and can never leave a gw store without something new.

Some 4-8 units/vehicles, although most of them (all except for 3) are on hold until new rules are released (these are not for GW game systems).

Wow i thought I was horrible om painting minis but after reading through some of these post I'm proud to say that I'm not that deep in the painting hole!!! Thanks for that self esteem boost!!

Now that that's said and done I have an Ork Stompa, 3 ork bikes, a deffkopta, two nobs and a hammerhead to paint.

I have 1 Necron Destroyer unpainted. However, I have a ton of unassembled models in boxes somewhere. Mostly Ork Boyz and Guardsmen. I just can't be bothered to go and get paint from somewhere and paint them.

Lets see..... i still have my entire Nid army to paint, and a 10 man squad of Space Mariens.

At least I am not the only 1039.

I have one unit left to paint I paint like this:
1. Paint what you have
2.If there is nothing to paint assemble a box set.
3. Never, ever , multitask.
However, I will buy more soon (foot based army)
In the end i will have 108 models and i so far painted 33.

I get excited over new projects easily so I have a lot of unfinished models laying around. Thankfully I'm down to owning only 2 armies for fantasy now and I'm trying to get rid of my last 40K army cause I don't play with them. Hopefully some day in the future I'll actually have a fully painted army.

my whfb orcs (150 models )need to be painted but other than all the other stuff is done except a few squads.


so about 4/5ths of my stuff is done.

Ive got a good 30 - 35 unpainted minis that still need their bolters drilled out to and half are loyalist marines the other is chaos marines my entire army has been packed up so I'm starting anew the chaos are a side project

Well over between my two armies... more like 150. I hate painting. I love the converting and assemply part, but hate painting. It doesn't help any that I've changed my Tau color scheme 3 times since I started painting the army either.

Ths is an interesting topic as painting is what got me into this and i find myself now in a crossover point between painting and gaming!

I have generally been a 'paint what you have before buying new new stuff' kinda guy.

But as Im learning the game and now im seeing how my old painting and units are either illegal game wise or dont make sense strategy wise. This has lead me to a rethink not only in painting philosphy (ie markings and schemes) but the impulse buyer in me is emerging as some people ahve mentioend above.
Its a real struggle - its actually funny!

Anyway Im trying to settle into a new balance whereby I never have more than 2 units to paint before buying something new - I just feel naked on the battlefield otherwise ad I refuse for my army to become content over style as this wont reflect the reason I originally got into this amazing hobby!

I do admit though Im already planning my second army in my head when my first is probably only half way done!

I worked it out back when i used to play, and i had about 5K points of CSM, and had painted about 1K. Since then ive bought more models and havent painted many.
The only army i have that is near to completion is my 1K Blood Angels army (and that still needs a HQ and some death company models), I also have 1.5K of vampire counts that is completely unpainted.

I have painted:
1 Chaos Space Marine
1 Tau Crisis Battlesuit Commander
A small handful of lizardmen Saurus

I have not painted:
3k+ Points of Chaos Space Marines
2k+ Points of Tau
2.5K+ Points of Lizardmen
1.5k Points of Warriors of Chaos


Yeah...

I have only 5 tau tanks left and most are primed / base coated. The flying bases are also done so they are ready to roll.

I then have all of my Salamanders Marines from Ireland most of which are painted (badly from about 8 years ago!) and then some new ones.

In that respect there's 25 marines plus 3 HQs (2 need converting), 2 dreads built and a Razorback to make/paint. I need to get another razorback AND then some more mech stuff. Still its the next project.

yeah i got 550 models unpainted my brother has 450

i have like only 5 some models to paint after i went through this rush to get my green tide army painted in time for a tournament. believe it or not but it IS possible to paint a 150 model army in less than a month and still have it look good.

really it depends on the size of your cupord......

No surprise that the majority of answers are from people that could start a retail shop in their living room. So many miniatures, so little time...

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:No surprise that the majority of answers are from people that could start a retail shop in their living room. So many miniatures, so little time...

It's a hobby when you have a few you need to paint. It's a passion when you paint and model every night. It's an obsession when you dream about it, but don't really get around to painting them but rather assemble them but postpone various stages of building or painting, thinking more about the coolness of them and how cool it would be to be a mushroom but facing the reality you'd be able to more realistically pull off a guardsman or inquisitor. Not that I would, of course.... Since I'm clearly not obsessed, but this is a site for the obsessed, yesssss? Case and point, proven.

Thought for the Day: A small wallet is easily spent on plastic soldiers. --From Lord Kaesar II's Sayings I Just Made Up