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In general, I don't have such boxes. But sometimes painting takes rather long. However, I play only with painted models.

Yes, I do have some sealed kits.

- I have a Fantasy Lizardmen dinosaur thing which I plan on converting into a Squiggoth.
- I have a Space Marine Rhino which will eventually become a Big Mek Junka.
- I have numerous Necron Lords.
- Necron LychGuard
- Necron Flayed Ones

- a still sealed box of Ork Nobz
- citadel woods
- and a not sealed but complete Ork Trukk

And that's not to mention the lots of orks to be assembled and painted and most of an Imperial Sector to assemble.

I keep telling myself no more until I've built what I have, but then something else comes along. With Tyranids & Orks due out I'm bound to buy something new. And I have a planned trip to Warhammer World, and I'll probably buy an Ork Full Trakk.

Nope, no unsealed boxes. I plan my purchases quite carefully - If there's something I have no interest in or inmediate need of, I just don't buy it. Besides, I always take a peek inside the box just to check everything's in order and think of builds and conversion options. And as I love getting my fingers sticky with superglue, my models don't remain unbuilt for long.

What I do have is an immense pile of unfinished terrain projects, though.

I been picking up lots last 6 month on discount, got about 1600$ in 40k waiting to be opened. the discount was amazing so hard to pass up. Sorta depressing to look at tho :0

Unboxed? Nope... Unless you count the SG squad I bought and only took the gravgun/combi grav bits out.

Unpainted though? Guilty on this one. I've still got a good sized detachment that needs to be painted. Even worse, i still need to base a lot (70%) of my current list. (Which you would think is the easiest to do after painting them haha).

Nope.

Absolutely none of my boxes are unopened.

Every single one has been raided for bits at one point or another, even if I haven't actually built everything I bought...

Everything I buy gets built rather fast, lord knows my hobby room bears witness of this.....

I only buy for a specific army list, now.

 wuestenfux wrote:
In general, I don't have such boxes. But sometimes painting takes rather long. However, I play only with painted models.

my situation exactly, and i'm planning on keeping it so.

Nope, the first thing I do when get home is say feth to the world and begin to put my models together.

Painting them however, now that can take years.

Usually I'm pretty good. But... Back in the day of Ard boys, I bought 50 plastic gargoyles... Then I realizes I couldn't go! So, they sit there. 20 painted, 10 assembled.. The rest boxed.

I'm saving all mine for when they become currency.

Tons. It became especially apparent to me when I put it all in a Kanban board and saw just exactly how in the hole I was.

However, this is helping me dig my way out of that hole...

 wolfmaster1234 wrote:
Nah, when i get a set the rest of life is put on hold for i can't resist opening it a soon as possible.

That's me, usually take the plastic off in the car before heading home if it's an in store purchase. Mail orders get some air around them over dinner that night. Can't look at something new and not open it!

I have stuff still in it's box since 2010, when I really got into painting and modelling. Find something cheap, pick it up, another cheap thing, pick it up and so it continued until I promised that I would buy no more after getting the new Eldar. My goal is to paint (to paint well mind you!) a three year backlog of stuff before buying anything else.

Still have some guard on sprues that I was going to get forgeworld parts for if that counts. Also, I've had a heavy weapons team in box for months now. Just waiting for what I want it to be, to become apparent.

I have a ton. It's embarrassing.

I have a handful of CSM models that are still sealed, even more that are NOS. But in my defense, I decided (with the help of my gf yelling at me) to stick to my GKs and IG. My buddy is supposed to buy all my chaos stuff but I haven't seen him lately. Part of me wants to hold on to them and just get a few more things to round it out as a smaller army, but knowing how I am, it wouldn't stay like that for long lol.

I play space marines, so if I were to have more things to unbox, I'd probably open them to loot the extra Bitz, even if I would rather finish older stuff first.

Can't lie--got a couple Assault Bikes upstairs in a closet, totally untouched.

Only one. Eldar bonesinger, not sure if I can do it justice so there it sits, happily sealed up.

But I want to paint it so badly.

Guilty as charged. I just bought a Bisilisk, even though I still have a IG battle Force box, and 2 squad boxes still to assemble.

Literally dozens of them!

I have a 10,000 point CSM army totally unbuilt apart from a few bits I bought off eBay, at least 3k of my Eldar are still in boxes, three razorbacks, a storm brick and two dreadknights for my GK, amongst others! Probably 15k unbuilt all told. Simply have not had time to build them and do them justice. I don't rush things!

I think this is the normal state of affairs for a large fraction of hobbyists. I personally am assembling a new army, and I bought most of it in one fell swoop. As I have a job, no, most of it has not been assembled yet.

Armies worth of them. I've had an Elysian force sat around for quite a few years, I have several squads of Krieg still sat in bags. I've got a few thousand points of Chaos WFB sat in boxes, along with the start of a small (2000 points or so) Empire army I've not touched, as well as about 2,000 points of Eldar still in box.

 Still Standing wrote:
Armies worth of them. I've had an Elysian force sat around for quite a few years, I have several squads of Krieg still sat in bags. I've got a few thousand points of Chaos WFB sat in boxes, along with the start of a small (2000 points or so) Empire army I've not touched, as well as about 2,000 points of Eldar still in box.

You could always send me the DKoK and Elysians Seriously I don't think I could get a forgeworld item and not assemble the damn thing

Very little. Normally boxes get opened up and drooled over. I think the only stuff I still have sealed is a pair of jet bike boxes. But I bought 3, and got derailed off my eldar project before I got to the other two. The plan was to replace the torsos with guardians, but that came to be a PITA, so kept getting pushed back until the marines released.

Although now that I think about it, I do have a box full of old random blisters from when one of my former FLGS went out of business. Mostly junk from odd companies and dead games, but I've pulled some useful stuff out of it.

- Skaven Screaming Bell
- Pegasus Hobbies Church (small)

i have about 1600pts of 40k Orks .. most of which are still sealed in the box ... picked them up while i could get them for a good price ... and will slowly get them assembled and painted.
also have about 900ish pts of space wolves that are not even assembled yet. again picked them up when the price was good.

About 15% if my stuff is unboxed. I try to get most of my stuff able to be used ASAP.
Of the rest, ~25% is assembled and ready for gaming, often magnetised.
Another 30% is painted and ready to go.
So, roughly 30% is in bits and scattered around the place waiting to be assembled.