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Though I have 5 armies im collecting for 40k...I typically will buy a new kit, look at it, then put it in a giant box until im ready to build it. I never like to build things unless I can devote the time to paint it entirely. I have found if you build everything and then paint, its sort of discouraging and you lose focus. By keeping things unassembled it allows you to think about the colors you want to use, adding conversions, how to base the models, etc etc while you are painting a current project. Not that this matters too much, but it also keeps resale value relatively high....incase you decide you want to transition or change to another army midway through your project. I actually did that with Eldar jetbikes...instead of opening them, I kept them sealed while I was working on other projects,,,then eventually just decided I didnt need them in the army. I ALWAYS advocate, especially with new players, to build and paint 1 sqd at a time. I have played against far too many 'plastic' armies that players have rushed to assemble and get on the field just to play....if you do that, your missing a huge aspect of what makes 40k great.

WoC
56 warriors
5 knights
3 Skullcrushers
Hellcannon crew
10 chosen

Demons
Skulltaker
6 bloodcrushers

Space marines
6 bikes one of these I'm converting to a captain
3 ml devs
5 sternguard
Chaplain with magnetized weapons and jump pack
Plasma cannon, flamer and plasma gun marines

Most of this stuff is primed and basecoated and the bases are all finished and waiting. I've a game of 40k on Thursday and I'm trying to get the bikes, chaplain and sternguard ready to try out then.

18 warriors, just primed
10 warriors to bring my other 2 units to 20, almost done
2 Tzeentch sorcerers with familiar, one Khorne lord, one BSB from another brand, and a Chaos lord from another brand.
and 20 Chaos knights


Not pictured, 10 mounted marauders waiting to be assembled.

 Element206 wrote:
Though I have 5 armies im collecting for 40k...I typically will buy a new kit, look at it, then put it in a giant box until im ready to build it. I never like to build things unless I can devote the time to paint it entirely. I have found if you build everything and then paint, its sort of discouraging and you lose focus. By keeping things unassembled it allows you to think about the colors you want to use, adding conversions, how to base the models, etc etc while you are painting a current project. Not that this matters too much, but it also keeps resale value relatively high....incase you decide you want to transition or change to another army midway through your project. I actually did that with Eldar jetbikes...instead of opening them, I kept them sealed while I was working on other projects,,,then eventually just decided I didnt need them in the army. I ALWAYS advocate, especially with new players, to build and paint 1 sqd at a time. I have played against far too many 'plastic' armies that players have rushed to assemble and get on the field just to play....if you do that, your missing a huge aspect of what makes 40k great.

This may be in the wrong place to say it, but I totally agree with the above quote... especially the last line. The painting actually makes 40K a great hobby and is certainly a HUGE part of the hobby, besides gaming of course.

I once maxed out about 10k of credit cards on Warhammer and Warhammer 40k. At my height, I had 8 40k armies and at least 2-3 fantasy armies. I have about 2000-2500 points in Imperial Fists(5 models are primed and based yellow, everything else upainted, mostly unassembled). I have more Dreadnaughts than you can field. I once found a Landraider that I forgot I had.

I'm always finding models that I forgot about, I'm just waiting to find an entire army I forgot about.

I always like these "what's not painted" threads as it reminds me that I'm not alone in my piles of unpainted lead (and some plastic).

I don't have a count, but I'm probably looking at about
300-500 unpainted figures
20 Unpainted Vehicles

It's my best guess that half of wargamers who have been gaming for more than a few years probably have as much or more unpainted as painted.

Sons of Horus: (There are more units on order for this army as well)

15 MKIV Troops (Basecoated)
4 Justaerin Terminators
9 MKIV Assault Troops
2 Scimitar Jetbikes
Storm Eagle Gunship
Warhound Titan

Dark Angels:

15 Deathwing Terminators
6x Deathwing Knights
Deathwing Apothecary
Deathwing Champion
Landraider Crusader

Necrons:
Ghost Ark
6x Tomb Blades
48x Warriors
4x Immortals
Catacomb Command Barge
3x Destroyers
C'Tan Shard of the Nightbringer
Triarch Stalker
12x Canoptek Scarabs
1x Monolith
Vargard Obyron
Nemessor Zandrek
3x Canoptek Wraiths
5x Deathmarks

Death Korps of Krieg: (Just ordered)

20x Grenadiers
40x Troops
4x Leman Russ (2x Vanquisher, 1x Demolisher, 1x Executioner)
2x Vendetta
2x Lascannon Heavy Teams
2x Autocannon Heavy Teams
Commissar

Space Wolves: (Calling this Beards and Bolters)
10x Grey Hunters
30x "Squats" (got a killer deal on Warpath Forgefathers)
1x "Squats" HQ (Forgefather Huscarl)

Hrm....let's see.

Necrons
I've got a bunch of Wraiths that are half painted at best.
2 Doomsday Arks, one is primed/basecoated, the other is not.
A Doom Scythe, and two Command Barges that are basecoated.
2 Triarch Stalkers that are assembled (poorly).

Orks
40 Boyz that are mostly done, as well as 20 more that are NIB
25 Nobz and 30 Lootaz that are in various stages of priming and assembly
2 AoBR Warbosses that are primed
3 Trukks and 2 Battlewagons, some of which are assembled
6 Deffkoptas that are primed
3 Ork Warbikers, NOS

Marines
3 sets of Dark Vengeance that are sitting somewhere between assembled and painted
2 Ravenwing Battleforces in the same straights
3 boxes of Black Knights that are mostly put together
2 boxes of Deathwing Terminators, NIB
An old metal Dreadnought that is primed
And an old metal Librarian that is assembled.

Malifaux
Ramos with a coterie of arachnids + Steamborg Executioner
A Rail Golem whose leg has fallen off
An assembled Lazarus
Dreamer and Lord Chompy Bits
2 Stitched Togethers
Copellius
3 Daydreams

It's considerably less daunting having viewed the responses of some others here!

I think i don't have that much (compared to some others here )

Blood Angels:
2 tac squad
1 dev squad
1 assault squad
some sargaents
tenish death company models
sanguinary guard
1 sanguinary priest
2 rhinos (i needs to be built first)
1 baal pred
1 dread
last years GD model
Sanguinor
Lemartes
Mephiston (missing his sword arm :/)
need to repaint a terminator squad
10 metal sternguards need stripping and repaint (can't get the old paint off with anything i tried :/)

also i got the chaplain from the new starter set

Nids:
6 warriors
3 zoantrropes
16 genestealers
20 hormagaunts
45 termagaunts
1 tervigon
1 hive tyrrant
1 biovore

Grey Knights:
need to finish the little shields on 8 terminators
1 Land raider

Lizardmen
19 temple guard
1 Lord Kroak
15 skink
~70 Saurus
1 skink priest
8 Cold One cavalry
1 stegadon
1 salamander

On second tought, i got a lot to do

I have an entire chaos demon army to paint, I'm afraid to count the models. One squad at a time!

I am not even going to list it. I have 18,000+ points of Eldar, of which maybe 2000 points is painted or nearly painted by me, plus some more painted by other people.

I have about 10,000 points of marines, and not even 1000 points ready for the table.

Maybe 3000 points of Orks, and nothing finished at all.

I have a mixture of painted and unpainted DnD models, and quite a lot of WFB Chaos Champions. Mind you, I bought them to own rather than to game with.

Two boxes of Dark Vengeance, the SM half of Black Reach, SM Battleforce, SM Drop Pod Assault Box, Sniper Scouts, Sergeant Telion, Chaos Marine Battleforce, Warpsmith, Warp Talons and a box of Bloodletters.

Got around twenty marines primed, 20 cultists and the Helbrute primed... only things I have (mostly) done are my two Dreadnoughts.

LAWLZ

16 years and counting...

 Smacks wrote:

Spoiler:

16 years and counting...

Ugh,
2nd edition plastic gretchin. The best argument ever for dipping.

Would be cool to see a few hundred of them painted on the table at once though.

Excluding my really old stuff (took a break for a few years just coming back in to it this last year or so)

Painted

1 x DKOK command squad
stub and melta gunner

half painted

1 x grenadier centaur
1 x leman russ
1 x stormsword
1 x mach vulcan
1 x DKOK infantry squad

unpainted
3 x heavy weapons teams
5 x squads

and have just started to collect DE so i will be adding to the collection.

I have about 4000pts each of ogres and eldar with some of each unpainted:

Golgfag Maneater
Firebelly
4 Mournfangs
Ironblaster

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Wave Serpent
3 War Walkers
10 Storm Guardians
Autarch
Turret to turn Fire Prism into Night Spinner

Not too bad when I think about it!
Although I am considering Tau or Necrons now....

Hmm and I thought mine was kinda bad, but seems like my situation is great!

Here's the list.

Imperial Guard
- 8 Infantry Squads
- 2 Autocannon heavy weapon teams
- 3 mortar crews
- 30 conscripts
- 1 chimera

I've painted approximately 50% of my guard. Guard is my number 1 project at the moment.

Here's the second list.

Space Marines
- 1 Tac squad
- 5 terminators
- 1 captain
- 25 scouts
- 2 land speeder storms with their crews

I just ordered scouts and land speeders to that project. I got a "flow moment" and created this SM army theme. Based on movie Black Hawk Down. Hope I get those figures right and they look awesome.

Then, the third project is my dwarf battalion, but it will take few months until I get to paint those.

Some of you guys definatly have a fair chunk more than I left to do
Lets see... I've got;

Full Ravenwing Battalion box (half built)
Landraider crusader (unbuilt)
Landspeeder Vengeance (built, bare plastic)
Predator Tank with magnetised weapons (built, bare plastic)
Belial (bare resin)
Deathwing Command Squad (unbuilt)
Ravenwing Command Squad (primed)

About 50 ork boyz
10 Nobz
Warboss
5 Loota's
5 burnas
3 Deffkoptas

20 chaos cultists
5 Chosen
Chaos Lord
hellbrute

20 skaven plague monks
few warpfire thrower teams
poison wind globadiers
rat ogres
pack of giant rats

Colonel Shaeffers Last Chancers (stripped)

small box of dnd figures from the 80's, maybe 40-50 figures all bare metal.

Wow, when i see people post what they have to paint left on this topic i feel like one of the lucky ones, but then again i still have more than a handful to paint.

lets see...
20 cultists
6 chosen
3 terminators
3 raptors
7 bloodletters

and finish up...
a terminator,
and a rhino

 wolfmerc wrote:
Wow, when i see people post what they have to paint left on this topic i feel like one of the lucky ones, but then again i still have more than a handful to paint.

lets see...
20 cultists
6 chosen
3 terminators
3 raptors
7 bloodletters

and finish up...
a terminator,
and a rhino

Your list will be longer with time. Trust me

it's not even worth the time to add everything up...

Even with my main Doom Eagles 2nd Co. project, it's too disheartening.

And stripping/repainting all my High Elves (plus everything I've added that's not even built)...

And a two-headed Cadian/Valhallan mega force...

And some late additions to my World Eaters...

And I dropped $300+ on the Bones Kickstarter that should be here soonish...

And...

And...

My army expanded recently... And hoping to add a Valk soon. I need to get a good chunk of it to a presentable state in time to go to the battle bunker in Memphis in mid april. Not pictured are my daemons I run with them that need some finishing. I need a bigger shelf...

I am fortunately able to say that my army, though small, has just one model to be painted! I have been back over old ones to update them too so rather chuffed!

Good luck everybody!

I have my entire Chaos Daemons army to paint bar one cavalry model (I painted my Seeker Alluress), and they are all assembled, apart from my mounted Herald of Slaanesh.

Why? Because every single model (apart from most of the Diaz Seekers) is (or needs to finish being) converted. :\ I decided to convert everybody first to get an idea of the whole look for the army, since it's a counts-as for a different Chaos god...

On the bright side, it's only 1500points, or was in 5th edition anyway. Who knows how many extra models I'll need to convert and paint to get it up to that level again in 6th.

Oh, and I bought 99% of my Diaz models brand new.

...At least one model is painted?

Right now, 3 TH/SS termies, 3 dv bikes, dv chaplain.

Don't have much money for more, but in the future i want a rifle dread, TFC, 2nd Storm Talon, and 5 more TH/SS and regular terminators.

Currently what I have to do:

10x Tactical Marines
10x Terminators (5x Normal, 5x assault)
1x Space Marine Captain
2x Dreadnought.
1x Land Raider Crusader
1x Vindicator
5x Scouts with Snipers
5x Assault Marines
1x Predator

20x Ork Boyz
5x Ork Nobz
1x Ork Warboss
3x Deffkoptas.
1x Bomma

36x Imperial Guard troops
3x Heavy Weapons teams
1x Sentinel
2x Chimera
1x Valkyrie
1x Leman Russ
1x Baneblade

Putting an order in for 1x box of hormagaunts, 1x box termagaunts, 1x Trygon, A Stormtalon, SM command squad, SM commander, Drop Pod and Razorback.

REMAINING: (I'll post a -DONE- list later)

3 Raiders
1 Ravager
45 Wyches
25 Kabalites
Urien
Archon
4 Converted Beastmasters (Hellions)
3 Talos
3 Reavers
5 New Scourges
Note: I got super lucky and got all the above for $100 with all remaining sprue stuff.

Converted Baron
Real Beastmaster model
7 Khymerae
2 Clawed Fiends (1 other similar size model)
5 Old Scourges

9 Spiders (1 Exarch)
4 Hawks (1 Exarch)
10 Guardians
5 Wraithguard
12 Pathfinders (will never do this since Eldar Rangers currently are WAY overcosted in points)
1 Dark Reaper
Autarch (1/2 done but sux balz)