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I got back into the hobby with AoS, and since then, I have about 200 painted minis and 33 unpainted/partially painted. I've felt like my unpainted pile has grown too much so I'm getting these guys done before getting anything new.

 Polonius wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Do my Reaper Bones I and II Kickstarter minis count? You get the box all at once and it's a lot of stuff!

Whenever I'm asked this question, I count anything I pledged as an add-on, but not the basic box. My thought being, I bought the box as a resource for future games, not for a specific purpose.

Good rationalization!

With that in mind, I have exactly....

Fire Alarm! Have to go!

I have no idea how many unpainted miniatures I have but I do know that since I started my painting blog 7 years ago I have painted over 1500 miniatures.

Despite that I still have a painting backlog that might last me until I retire.

1 baneblade.
1 FW battle tile.
Some Ork boys.
3k worth of Crons.

I'm not counting. I know it's over a thousand...

 JamesY wrote:
I'm not counting. I know it's over a thousand...

ditto - well over.........

Oh god here we go...I assume primer doesn't count?


Imperial Guard
6 Leman Russes of various make and model
5 Chimeras
1 Valkyrie/Vendetta
1 Baneblade
1 Basilisk
1 Wyvern
40 ish sci fi troopers (using the Anvil Industries Council and Republic standins for Guardsmen)
3 Assault Mechs
6 Exo mechs
3 of the Republic mechs

Blood Angels
30-40 tacticals (sergeants, heavy and special weapons included)
2 Rhinos
2 Razorbacks
Astorath, Dante, Mephiston, Sanguinary Priest, Karlaen, Metal Jump pack Chaplain, Librarian
2 Baal Predators

Grey Knights
40 ish metal terminators (Grand master metal models included)
70-80 Power Armored dudes (seriously it's insane, the trade that scored me these guys was so in my favor it was painful)
Draigo
Crowe
Libby
2 Rhinos
2 Razorbacks
1 Land Raider
2 Dreadknights

30k
B@C kit (no FW gubbinz yet)

Firestorm Armada
Dindrenzi Patrol fleet
3 Destroyers

15mm WWII
Mid/Late War English and Americans (probably 100+ infantry and 15-25 vehicles)

28mm Ancients
Warlord Games Roman Legion Starter Army (I absolutely LOVE Warlord stuff, this kit is AMAZING)

God...that's remarkably depressing, and to think...I've got probably 30 or 40 more unassembled/boxed up vehicles/guys that I still need to BUILD.

To actually answer the question...probably 500-ish models?

Edit: Jesus I forgot AoS and my wife's Dark Elves...*runs screaming into the night*

 Mr Morden wrote:

 JamesY wrote:
I'm not counting. I know it's over a thousand...

ditto - well over.........

It's gotten to the point now where I'm actually a bit ashamed of myself. This picture is about a third to a half of the unpainted pile (I'm 6'2", for reference)

And now I don't feel silly for aiming to purchase an entire 6mm nid army i one go, likely leaving its painting for a good month or more down the line.

Good to know that on the scale of wargame mini collectors, I'm on the "sane" side.

Assuming all grey, primer only, or unbuilt models. Partial painted models that meet a 3 color
Orks
Dakkajet
2 Battlewagons
A box of boyz on sprue
SAG Big Mek
2 boxes of Gretchen
5 scratch built lobbas

Tau
10 Firewarriors on sprue
1 Ethereal
2 Crisis Suits
2 Piranhas
2 Devilfish
25 Kroot
1 Riptide on Sprue (I feel my soul bleed owning one of these..... abominations)

Grey Knights/Inq
4 MEQs on sprue
5 Interceptors
5 Purifiers
Land Raider
Chimera

Space Wolves
10 to 20 MEQs
5 Thunder Wolves
2 Drop Pods
5 Little wolves

Spess Mahreens
25 MEQs on sprue
5 Cata Terminators
2 Calth HQs

200-300

Around 100 chaos from AoS/WHFB.
Around 100 other WHFB.
Around 50 Necromunda/40k.

8 Stands of Ork infantry for Epic

20 BA British infantry which I have been meaning to paint for 2 years.

15 Warzone Capitol I bought at the weekend

30 Panzer grenadiers, 1 Pz IV and 3 Hannomags that I also bought at the weekend.

That's about it. I do have a boxful of Epic Marines (probably 2-3 companies worth) but as they came as a job lot with the stuff I actually used for my Epic marines I don't really count them.

I no longer buy anything that I won't paint and I have set goals to get stuff painted. I expect to have everything above painted, aside from the British infantry, by the end of the summer (the Infantry will probably all be done by the end of June).

I'm fairly proud of myself, at the beginning of this year I had considerabily more to paint (for example, I did my entire 'Nid army, starting in October, about a 3,000 pt force). Some of it is miniatures that were bought up to nearly 30 years ago, and they've either been incomplete to bare, and in one case, still on sprue.

Still, I've got a daunting list:

Marine: 60 tac marines, 1 devastator squad, 3 centurions, 40 not-assault marines, 15 terminators, 15 scouts, 3 bikes

Imperial Guard: 5 sentinels, 90 not-imperial trenchcoat guardsmen, 2 heavy weapons, 4 roughriders, 3 commisars

Eldar: 20 guardians, 10 striking scorpions, 5 swooping hawks, 5 banshees, 5 fire dragons, 10 dire avengers, 3 warlocks, 2 warwalkers, 2 wraithlords

Orks: 20 boyz, 10 nobs, 5 stormboyz, 5 flash gitz, 5 tankbustas, deff dread, 3 killa kans, 3 choppas, ork boss, ork mechanic, orc plane (unassembled)

Adeptus Mechanicus: Onager, Warstrider, 10 Sicaran Rangers, 5 Skitarri Dunestriders

Tau: 3 pathfinders, 20 drones, 2 kroot hounds
Tyranid: miscellanous magnetized weapons

American WWII: 30 infantry, Halftrack, greyhound

German WWII: 30 infantry, Jagpanzer, Panzer IV

Cygnar: 10 trenchers, 5 gun mages, Lancer

Circle of Oroboros: warcaster, 2 wolf troops, 2 death dogs

Khador: whole beginner box set

WHFB Elves: 30 spearmen, 10 light calv, 5 silver helms, 20 archers, general on griffon, war wizard

WHFB Skaven: all Isle of Blood components

Vampire Counts: not-Necromancer, shields for not-black guard

Starship Troopers: 20 arachnids, 20 mobile infantry, 3 skyhoppers, chickenwalker

AVP: all models (one alien partially painted)

Terminator: Genesis: all models

Battletech: 30 assorted mechs

D&D Chainmail: ~100 figures (not likely to ever get done, due to the advent of plastic miniatures)

Robotech Tactics: ....

Lord of the Rings: 3 starter boxed sets from the original trilogy, still on the sprue.

 Chute82 wrote:
I plead the 5th

I plead the 3rd.

But but, in the time it would take to count my unpainted minis, I could have better spent that time buying more to not paint!

It's far easier to count the 10 gallon tubs they occupy. So, uhh, like 5 full of blisters/boxes. One day I'll get through that Rackahm Confrontation I bought at 90% off though, I swear!

3 Rhinos, still in box.

Waiting for my FW order to arrive with the Legion doors before I do anything....

1,258 figures worth 40,500 points. 75% painted, worth 30,500 points, painted to at least a table top standard. 120 figures unassembled ... mostly the contents of the boxed sets: Overkill, Execution Force, etc.

15 Scouts that are primed. 10 Tacs and a Drop Pod still in the box in plastic.

some where in my WIP thread is a picture of my boxes of stuff

not including an ork starter box, another BaC and three KS that haven't yet arrived

I'm not counting individual models that's too much like craziness

Lol! You know I've never sat down and actually counted everything. It usually just goes into "the Pile" until I can get around to it.

If I include my two Bones Kickstarters....probably over 1000 minis easy.

Ah...

One... two... three... many... too many...

Let's just say LOTS.

I'm in the several Hundreds. Probably 4-5 hundred or so. Maybe I'll go count, but it would be a long, disheartenening job with many boxes to go through.

My only consolations are that my painted miniatures outnumber my unpainted minis and none of my unpainted minis will see the table until they are painted.

I have FOUR unpainted models.

All for my Infinity.

A Nomad Hellcat, a Haqqislam Janissary, a PanO CSU and an Aleph Acmon character figure.

The rest of my stuff is painted - because in order for me to use it on the table, it must be painted (I don't field unpainted models).
I did have some unpainted 40k stuff, but I got rid of it because I was never going to use it.

12 Space Hulk terminators,
14 Space Hulk genestealers,
1 Space Hulk broodlord,

10 Imperial Guards veterans,
2 chimera (one unbuilt)
1 leman russ,
some cadians,

6 vanguards veterans,
7 sternguards veteran being painted,
1 stormraven,
3 drop pods,

1 inquisitor,
2 death cult assasins,
1 acolyte.

1 BaC is coming.

How do you manage to get HUNDREDS of models unpainted ?^^
How many minis do you buy each year ?!

After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man may number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tounges...

Revelation 7:9

That's pretty much my collection of unpainted stuff.

I have 4 models that are unprimed at the moment. Everything else is painted or at least primed

I started collecting in 1987. Some of those are still waiting. The good news is I can retire in 4 years so I can finally finish that wood elf army that started it all.

I would guess somewhere around 2-6000 figures in various states. I would estimate I have painted at least that many over the years also.

The best part about these threads is that it makes my lead pile look like a mole hill compared to some of the mountains you guys have.

I won't count each miniature, but I will take a picture:



The largest chunk is a bunch of 15mm Germans, originally for Flames of War, but now detached and kept around because the scale and period is so versatile.

Up front and to the right is a Command Unit from All Quiet on the Martian Front. It's the last unpainted piece I have. Once that's done, the lot will probably go up for sale.

Behind it are two Guild Ball Miniatures; Hemlocke and Captain/Veteran Rage.

Still on the front and on the left are two DBA armies - Early Imperial Romans and Ancient British.

Behind them are two units of Normans for SAGA, and twelve old west gunslingers.

Behind those are two small forces for Muskets & Tomhawks; French and British.

On the back row and to the left is a human Blood Bowl team, formed from a couple of old 3rd edition plastic sets.

And on the right of the back row is the starter set for Strange Aeons, along with some kickstarter bonuses.

Not shown is the unpainted Kings of War stuff I have. That lot has been packed up, as I've kind of lost interest in the game. So it'll either be brought back out at a later date, or more likely, sold.

my pile is quite big, only have like 30 things painted to my current standard though have like 70 zombies that i cbaa repainting.

My trouble is something gets my interest i buy a bunch of stuff, then something else gets my interest.

Though it does feel good when i do manage to finish a model

I use my rights