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most of my SW army is unpainted. but only 4ish squads of eldar

In have 4 units for my space wolves, and my mates 2k tau army.

lotz...
I play orks, and I dont have 100 hrs a week for 20 years to paint them all.

Hmm. I have nearly everything to finish painting. All my normal CSM are basecoated, half are trimmed, three are finished.
My Plague Marines need to be finished but I need to get another pot of paint before I can do that.
My bloodletters only have one painted(Only have nine, when I opened the box I was missing a piece so I decided to convert it into other things like my Possessed Khorne Lord)
All but two of my Lords are finished and painted.
I still have to finish one obliterator and start painting the other two.
Only one raptor is painted fully, one is basecoated and the other three are untouched.
My defiler is just about done, still need to finish its weapons, my Las pred is nearly finished, my rhino is painted fully and my greater daemon is almost finished.
Oh, I still need to finish my Zerkers, have them base coated and trimmed in red, just need to add detail and make them my own.
I have to trim and finish my chosen and strip/repaint one that my ex did to look like Iron Warriors just to piss me off.

I really limit myself to buying until i know for sure I can complete a paint job on the models I have already

ditto have decided more unpainted models is not a good idea

iirc there are:
1 Battalion box of Wood Elves.
mostly assembled some primed,
+ 4 wardancers part painted

1 set of Dwarves and Gobbos from Skull Pass
all primed and various stages of paint applied

1 set of SM's to convert to SW's unstarted
1 set of SW termies unbuilt
1 set of Grey Wolves/Blood Claws built but maybe will make true scale? who knows?

Various outstanding vehicle conversions
couple of Avatars of War minis unstarted
Anima Tactics figures in various stages of completion too many
LoTR figures - too many unopened
Sundry scratch build and terrain projects pending
ie virtually bugger all finished

add to this the stash of scale models and unfinished kits - is not good

must try harder

upside is things are going to be tougher next year but at least won'thave to be spending cash on hobbies for a while!

I got an entire 2000 Point Space Wolf Army to paint, A huge Troll army to paint for Hoards, Some Jacks for Warmachine, about 1500 in Lizardmen that has not even been primed yet.
500 Points in Dwarfs, and about 2500 Points of Orks to paint including going back to everything I ever painted and making it painted better!

I got way to many unpainted models...about 5 armies worth of 'em.

I have way too much stuff unpainted. I keep telling myself that I can't buy more until I paint what I have...

Doesn't always work.

I have a High Elf Dragon Mage, still in a sealed box I bought during the original release.

I've got quite a few units of SMs, Eldar, CSM and Tyranids sitting around that I bought but never got around to painting. However, if I consider the mountains of Orcs and Goblins, Empire and High Elves I bought back in the late 90s and early 2000s (including 80-some Black Orcs), I can definitely claim 20+ unpainted units. Of course many of these are pretty old models.
This is why I haven't bought anything new in several months and am trying to focus on knocking out some of what I already have.

Loads...

Hilarious that with the exception of the one blip, the results are a slant / steady increase to the higher amounts, rather than a parabolic curve . I think it is probably partly due to people's common impression of "I have so much to paint!" rather than everyone actually having well over 50 units waiting to be painted.

Still, I'm in a similar boat... I would probably have chosen the second highest option (it seems the poll ended, or I already voted sometime in the past, as I can see the results).

I just had a depressing thought: for all the time I spend painting and enjoying the time away from drama I only have a single model that I consider 'finished'. I think I've done maybe 7 models to completion in a year and a half... o_O I tend to get stuck after they look decent at a distance, then fly off to something else. Oh yea, and none of those finished models I can even use due to either being someone elses or an Ultramarine (unless you like a smurf captain leading a dark angels force)

Hear ye, hear ye: no more purchases until my current models are 100% finished!
Model count to go: 126

Murphy is totally going to stab me in the back and get a DA dex released with shiny new gibblies before I'm done.

Funnily enough i had a big sort out at new year.

Currently 120 resin vehicles to paint and around 2500 figures.

I have two 10 man devastator squads, one tac squad, one assault combat squad and one rhino/razorback to do for my marines. I finished up my attack bike today. I have bits for a half a dozen or so more marine models

For my 'Nids I have a tervigon conversion to do, I have the CH kit and the Carnifex already off the sprue and just needs to be prepped. I have a horde of gaunts (IDK how many) that are primed (I have a few that painted in my various 'Nid test colors) and I have 4 Ymgarl Genestealers that are primed as well with 4 still in the pipe, they've been prepped now they just need to be assembled. And I have a a small amount of gaunts that need to be put together still too.

So I don't have a huge amount, but I have enough to keep me busy for a while.

I keep having to tell myself to finish what I have before I start more or buy more.

Of course compared to what I have completed changes the whole dynamic and I it makes what I have unfinished look like a lot more.

I have 60 Imperial Guard infantry to paint.
This is anywhere from 2-6 units on the table.

I'll be getting out of 40k when 6th ed rolls around, so I don't know if I can be bothered finishing the army off, even though I have been working on it for the last 12 years.

some of you have wallets to big for your eyes... how can you have so many models unpainted and still go out and buy more?! All i have to do is one box of lootas and one warbike squad (the lootas were given to me as a gift )

About 2k of Marines, and 2k of Tau still to paint

I have 11k of marines waiting to be painted and another 350 elves waiting.

It didn't used to be so bad but I have recently stripped the paitn off of most of my minis to give them an upgrade...

If I painted every day for a year I'd besuprised if I got all of them done .... but I love it!

I can buy them faster than I can paint them. I have 2 armys that are not even primed. Its bad but I have been working to catch up. I tend to change a color, or key uniform changing decision halfway through and have to repaint painted models.

I have probably 40 forge world models unpainted at the moment. When I left GW I spent my last months salary on models and they did weight back then so I have probably ten boxes each 4 ft by 4 ft by 4 ft, all unmade! there probably isn't enough time left in my life to assemble and paint them all!! Any one beat that yet?

This is actually worse than others, I think, because my primary focus is on Dark Heresy and other RPGs, so I tend not to buy boxes of minis/units but, instead, single characters....

... and though I have over 200 painted minis, I have an equal amount of unpainted just waiting for me to get a round tuit, and am buying more minis every month.

My summer painting project:

1000 pts of 15th Scots Division for Flames of War

Demo Armies for Flames of War (8 Cromwells, 3 Stuarts, 8 Panzer IV H's)

Malifaux Viktoria Crew

25 pts worth of Cygnar

My pile of unpainted models is almost as big as my pile of unassembled models.

I have run out of stuff to paint. when i can ill be getting myself a hammerhead.

^ Awesome!

Unpainted number is on the left in the location slot. Lots to do, lots to do. at a squad a week it should take me... 34 weeks to complete. See ya next year!

A drawer full of asorted models that i have never got arround to painting. Not manny whole units just models that i cant fit into army lists. About 50-60 models in total.

Does this include collector's ed/OOP?

Or just generic marines, etc?

I don't know what to say.

I've probably got that many units just buying the box set releases.

But, just some examples...

I've managed to amass a 40k ork army just by adding my gorkamorka boxes and 2nd edition orks, plus all my LOTR 'evil' armies, that most.

Mostly from the grand Epic sale, I've got an ork army and some 400 epic marine army (from 2 box sets, plus the marine box set).

Then there's battlefleet gothic stuff that I've never gotten round to doing (and finding an opponent to play against).

I think it mostly comes down to being a packrat and not having thrown out anything from when I started the game when I was 12...