How big is your pile of unpainted models?

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**oadie**

Definitely over 6. I've barely put a dent in either of my armies and one of them is orks, so "unit" means a hell of a lot more painting than a tac squad. Then again, my marines have a decent number of vehicles, even if the troop count is way lower...

**Ziggy Stardust**

Ive just rounded around 8000 points of ether unpainted models or WIP. Hooray!
Painting is a punishment. That's my opinion.

**ceorron**

Just 2 units at the moment. A squad of converted deathkopters & 10 marines. Though i have just gone and bought a load of Lizardmen so they are to be added to the unpainted pile soon.

**gil gerard**

I usualy don't buy new figures till I have finished whatever I am currently working on; I find that if I don't do it that way, stuff rarely gets finished.

**iker**

Tons of minis to paint...
Space Marines, Orks & Tau assembled or even in the box yet.
Some Dark Elves half painted.
Plus WFB Goblins, Undeath, Beastmen and Skavens...

I saw them, I liked, I bought and I promised to paint... then I saw other increadibly awsome unit and the cycle start... Till now. I'n not going to buy anything until everything is painted... or 50% at least... but they are so nice...

**Farseer Faenyin**

After a painting binge last week to get ready for an Apoc game this Wed, I'm down to 3-4 units that are unpainted. Still have one Fire Prism to churn out, two War Walkers and my Dire Avenger squad. So close...then I can post up a picture of my 6500 points of Eldar. Kind of excited to do that. :-)

**DarkAngelsRK**

I have 16 unpainted models, but I voted 20+ because it's close enough.

**brickhouse**

I have a unit of three warriors that are unprimed and unpainted along with a HT and a few straggling gaunts. Slowly gettin through it though.

For me the urge to buy is often much more overwheliming than the urge to paint

**Trasvi**

Wait, are we talking 'units' or 'models'?

I have about 3000pts of unpainted Tau (5x12 fire warriors, 3 hammerheads, 4 devilfish, 12 crisis suits, 3 broadsides, 4 piranhas, 15 stealth suits, 4 sniper teams), 1000pts of unpainted Kroot, some WHFB Chaos (12 Warriors, 5 knights, and about 6 different heroes/lords) some WHFB High Elves (8 silver helms, 15 swordmasters).

Not counting the models I just buy off ebay because they're cheap, even though I have no real use for them - got 20 metal DE corsairs and 20 HE Shadow Warriors for $2, a display set of LOTR Fellowship (complete with resin display base) for $10, a Balrog, some Juan Diaz daemonettes and seekers....

:( damn 'work' and 'study'

**duncana**

My pile of unpainted stuff is far bigger than it should be but for the past year or so I have been painting more than I am buying so I think that is a positive trend.

**Flashman**

About 20 plus boxes of random stuff. I would have a lot more were it not for recent ebay activity.

**LEEQAEX**

Well ntohing is every fully completed its a state of mind. I get all my stuff up to at least a decent standard and then keep gonig back to the madding highlights washes ect. I have about 5 or 6 units am always worknig on lol .Them being at a decent level means I can game with them and then still work on them afterwards.

**Forgotmytea**

I'm part-way through painting my Wood Elves (5 units and 2 characters left), and also working on my Necromunda Enforcers (3 left to paint, 8 to touch up/add detail, 1 Repressor left to paint). My Dark Elves have been shelved too long, sadly, since in my immediate gaming group Fantasy is very much second fiddle to 40k. So, I've still got most of 2000pts of Dark Elves to do one day. It's really finding time in between going to work, looking for a different job, and talking to my long-distance girlfriend. I try to prioritize - at the moment I'm writing and running a Necromunda campaign, so of course the Enforcers are paramount =)

**Reecius**

I have armies worth of stuff still on the sprue. It is ridiculous.

**Xca|iber**

I paint slowly.

**LunaHound**

Sometimes seeing all the unpainted armies isnt exactly an encouraging sight. If anything it intimidates me to NOT bother picking up the brush -_-

**Slarg232**

All of my units are painted, but since I have recently switched paint schemes, They are mostly the wrong color.

**Scott-S6**

I have eight vehicles primed and in need of paint to finish my IG army (I buy whole armies at a time usually)

**TheDiffidentOne**

Normally, I try really hard to have everything that I use painted to some degree. However, I just bought another Space Wolves' battleforce, and I built it for use in an apoc game, but have not gotten around to painting it yet. I have that to paint, all 3 units worth.

**warriors of mayhem**

This year for 'ard boyz i really wanted my army to be painted so i managed to finish all but three thousand sons. so my chaos army is almost completely done and my blood angels just need the sanguinary and death company done, and the new special chars but they won't get touched until i can master the non metal, metal look.

**Samus_aran115**

good luck with that warriors of mayhem. I tried that non-metallic paint scheme with some thousand sons, it took way too long and required too many paints to look good...It looks sexy as shell tho...

**Schmapdi**

I have
2x AOBR Ork sets +misc boyz

3 Assault Marines + AOBR captain (yay almost done with SM!)

Ogre Battallion + extra bulls & belchers + Tyrant +Ninja Maneater +Butcher +Hunter +trappers +extra gnoblars (my project for the rest of the year, and likely then some)

A few misc Inquistion models + a handful of various orcs and dwarfs - maybe 10 of these total, and in no hurry on them.

35+ night goblins + a few spiders (that need to be converted to Night Goblin spider riders).

*Le sigh*

On the plus side - I've done pretty good this year on my "no new stuff until I get loads of this stuff painted* pledge. I've only bought a handful of minis that were steals or rareish on ebay.

**ultramarinelord**

I have about three and a half SM scouts left to paint.

**QuietOrkmi**

I still need to paint my army... and for some reason I just keep buying more models to not paint... come to think of it... I just bought an unpainted Tau army...

It is like I have some sort of special spin off of the black rage... the grey lethargy... Whenever I see my unpainted models, on a roll of a number... I remember how fun playing 40k is...

**children of filth**

I only have 4 or 5 unpainted units, primed and ready to paint, i've begun work on 2 of them. Of my many armies, they're all i have left to paint.

**Durzod**

I've got quite a bit to paint:
1 High Elf army (about 2000 pts.
About 100 goblins and about 20 boarboyz
1 Cygor and about 20 assorted Gors and Ungors
2000 pts pf Blood Angels
About 1500 pts of Elfdar
1 Passel Confrontation minis (don't know where I'm gonna use them)
About 40 Warmachine minis
3 Bns 15mm French Marines (1813)
A couple Bns of 1813 Prussian infantry and a dragoon Rgt (15mm)
A bunch of French artillerists (15mm)
I don't know how many miscellaneous minis are lurking in dark corners.
But considering what I have that is painted I'm not complaining. Hey, you can't die with unpainted lead.

**Mathais**

i have over 3000 pts of eldar unpainted :( and even more LOTR stuff :( :( :(

**mrwhoop**

I found a bunch of marines for the cheap and now have a company of unpainted marines bar 2 tac squads.

And a Nid starter army for half so another 70 models

Then the 3 squads or so IG to finish up.

Now granted, I don't need any more Salamander marines as I have 7 tac, 2 assault, 2, dev, and 2 scout squads. All primed and waiting. And waiting

So here's a trick I do, I bag'em into smaller sizes like 10-15. That way one bag on my workspace seems easy and the extra number gets a few more done when I do paint the basic colors. I keep the little details like squad number or other idiosyncriosies for last so that I can line them up and make a headcount. Works so far.

**Monster Rain**

I've got somewhere around 10 Units yet to paint... The vast majority of my units are painted though.

I don't love painting, but I prefer playing with painted models so I force myself to do it. I'd give them maybe a 5 on a scale of 1-10 as far as skill goes, but they look good on the table. Just don't look too closely!

**lord_blackfang**

Yeah, I'm firmly in the "entire closets filled with sprue" category.