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My Eldar are all painted

Admittedly I have more painted turrets than chassis for my tanks but thats due to being lazy and id never play unpainted ones

Depends on the army really. I have had fully painted lists and then after a new codex or GHB/CA I have had a not fully painted lists.

Now I am just waiting for the new GHB/CA to see what I need to focus on painting. Fun times ahead.

When it comes to trying out lists I'll field grey stuff. My groups locally are not going to be hardcore enforcers on the 10vp rule(except in tourneys) and if they did I wouldn't care; I'd still enjoy the game.

Right now all 3 of my armies are 100% painted and based.

Once the new Necron stuff comes in, it'll probably take a bit to get them done, though I don't anticipate playing many games during this time.

I dont know, itd depend on the army I'm fielding.

I've got multiple armies & the entire range from 100% - unpainted.
Hell. Even some of the 100% painted forces don't count if your concerned with bases as I dont paint clear flight stands.

 p5freak wrote:

Aelyn wrote:

 p5freak wrote:
Battle ready means base, shade, technical or contrast, technical. If you drybrush, not battle ready, if you edge highlight, not battle ready, if you base and shade, but dont use technical, not battle ready. If you use layer, not battle ready.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/05/21/introducing-battle-readygw-homepage-post-1fw-homepage-post-1/

All my models are painted, but no model is painted battle ready.

Incorrect.

Battle Ready models have their main areas coloured and an <sic> simple finish on their bases.

The painting methods shown give examples of how you would attain battle-ready status; at no point does it imply these methods are intended to be exhaustive.

For my armies, generally around 25-50% of my models are done, but my AoS Gloomspite are closer to 75% done. I tend to dip in and out of projects and a lot of my painting time is spent on D&D models rather than my 40K / AoS forces, so it really depends a lot on motivation and what I'm focusing on.

As other have said, WC articles arent rules. We have to wait what the rules say about battle ready painted. But i doubt they will say anything about it.

Then why did you start off by saying what Battle Ready meant and linking to a WC article?

You were the one to bring up Battle Ready in the context of the WC article, so for you to now tell me that the WC article doesn't count is pure intellectual dishonesty. I was simply pointing out that the article you linked to didn't say what you claimed it said.

Aelyn wrote:

Then why did you start off by saying what Battle Ready meant and linking to a WC article?

You were the one to bring up Battle Ready in the context of the WC article, so for you to now tell me that the WC article doesn't count is pure intellectual dishonesty. I was simply pointing out that the article you linked to didn't say what you claimed it said.

There are TFGs who would enforce this rule pedantically - not because they think it's right, but because they revel in being an donkey-cave. It's just someone you wouldn't play - with or without this rule.

I'm constantly adding models and have a diminishing backload of unpainted models that stretches back as far as 30 years.

Still, I can easily field a 100% painted army, no problem.

If I were to field unfinished models, this is probably the worst you would see from me:

25% of what I own, but that's new stuff I'm working on. My old 2000pts list was all battle ready.

 Daedalus81 wrote:

Aelyn wrote:

Then why did you start off by saying what Battle Ready meant and linking to a WC article?

You were the one to bring up Battle Ready in the context of the WC article, so for you to now tell me that the WC article doesn't count is pure intellectual dishonesty. I was simply pointing out that the article you linked to didn't say what you claimed it said.

There are TFGs who would enforce this rule pedantically - not because they think it's right, but because they revel in being an donkey-cave. It's just someone you wouldn't play - with or without this rule.

Personally I think it's essentially a wash between that and how big of a donkey cave you'd have to be to enforce the rule.

Most of my army is unpainted, and the part that is painted is so because my friends enjoy playing against painted armies. While I don't hate painting I don't really enjoy it either and between studying, working and other social obligations I don't feel like spending my spare time on painting most of the time. Having said that by GW standards my army will never be battle ready because for some dumb reason the base also needs to be done and I prefer mine black for aesthetic reasons.

Since the start of 8th Edition I play with mostly painted models. Don't remember why I decided that, but I kept that the whole edition. Unfortunately I still haven't found the time to paint my Terminators, so despite them getting a buff from 7th to 8th I actually played them less
Looking back it's definitely helpful to make you paint more, as you usually don't want to run the same list twice therefore things have to be added

Roughly half my usual DA force, I'd guess. Lots of unfinished bases, and black primer, or missing base coats. Eldar are worse- 95% primed, at best. I'm a slow painter.

It's interesting how even the vote results are currently outside of the 0% category. When I started the poll my assumption was that the result would be some kind of bell curve with the center around 25-50%. I was obviously pretty wrong in this assumption.

It depends on how much of a stickler you're being but around half.

My Marines are at around 90%, with bases ranging from simple Goblin Green to flocked to electrostatic grass to mini diorama base. They are 2 different colour schemes that I'm condensing into one. What's not battle ready is the jump pack guys with no shoulder pads or jump packs and then a my commander with no head and a box of Tac Marines that I recently stripped and disassembled. My Scouts and my Veterans are still in boxes so they don't count but I can field ~1750 points of First Born.

My IG I've started painting again. So 10%? My plastic Cadians, metal and plastic Storm Troopers and metal Catachan are BR. Currently my Praetorians are not based nor are my metal Cadians but meet the colour requirement. My Arbites are half painted, my plastic Catachan are being stripped. My metal Vostroyans meet the "3 colours" but aren't based or even finished. Their jackets, guns, boots, pants, busbys and faces are done but their armour coats, which are a large portion, are bare.

These days, it’s 100% painted and based, or it’s not on the table.

Some caveats.

When I was rebooting my Eldar around 6th, some units did hit the table without paint as I didn’t have enough finished models to field an army at the common point values. This was mostly in an escalation league, so a little more forgivable.

Up until about the same time, I did not base. When a model was finished, I went over the base with a coat of black to neaten it up and remove any slop. Clean and tidy, but not technically “based” There was a bit of a transition period after I started basing before I finished the backlog of models.

I also hold my Ultramarines to a WYSWYG standard. I don’t for my Eldar (but try where I can)

I find that holding myself to a play it painted standard helps motivate me to get stuff across the workbench. Units with great rules? Need to be painted before they can hit the battlefield! it’s the only reason my 3rd drop pod ever got finished. And even then, it took all summer. Wanted it for a drop heavy list, buy LOATH building/painting those damn things.

These are my rules for my armies. I don’t hold others to them. I’ll not say more on that, as that’s the other thread...

I'm a slow painter, so by the time I finish painting anything GW has normally deleted the rules for it or nerfed it into unplayability.

Well I only play fully painted models. Just my policy.

I've got over 10,000 points of Eldar painted. But, if there is a unit I want to use and it is not painted, I paint it. It's a personal policy I put in place for myself to paint items for play to mitigate impulse purchases ending up with a closet full of stuff not being used.

However, I learned 40K from historical gamers in the 80s in which one did not even dare to put out an unpainted mini. That was simply the standars.

All of it. If it's not painted, it's not in my army.

I have paint on most of my models, but they ain't battle ready. I don't really enjoy painting, so I focus on the part of the hobby I do enjoy.

I have armies that are all painted, some that are mostly painted and some that aren't painted at all. It is the nature of having been in this game/hobby for over 20 years.

about half but thats mostly because I've not finished basing my army.

I have about 3000 points of IG painted to a decent standard, a couple of Knights to fill in if I go higher in points too.

I do play with unpainted models, although always primed at least. I tend to pick painted over unpainted more often than not which is why my Vanquisher and Destroyer Tank Hunter still get table time in almost every game, despite being utterly useless.

If I want to try something out though or can't wait to get a new model on the table whether it's finished or not I'll put it out there.

I've started an escalation thing with my brother too where we both picked a new army and we can only field what's painted.

We've both been in the hobby for decades and have thousands of points of our armies painted, but you can clearly see what eras different units were painted in. Naturally we improved a lot over the years, and in recent years have really started to get skilled at it.

Starting new armies like we are is giving us a chance to start from scratch and paint up a whole army to the same standard.

That's not to say there's no nostalgia in putting a unit on the table that I painted close to 20 years ago, and a satisfaction in placing one I painted in the last year next to it so I can see how far I've gone. Sadly it's still the same kit... Give us new IG kits GW!

When I was younger, I had a gray horde because warhammer was all about the gaming. Now, I only play painted models and my main focus in the hobby is the painting side.

I've got a 100% painted army, but that's mainly because I needed *something* to do during this lockdown.

Thankfully I'll carry on with the painting, if it wasn't for the lockdown I'd be playing grey hordes.

100% painted here, largely because a little over a decade ago when I rejoined all this wonderful insanity I started a warhammer O&G horde, its still not fully painted, it got overwhelming - so now I don't use unpainted models as a way of putting a bit (only a bit mind) of a brake on new additions.

with 9th I may need to paint a bit more stuff to help re-shape factions, I can live with that.

Also play a lot of historical gaming where the question just never really comes up, you just play with painted models, and accept that some others will be painted to a basic standard but generally as good as what people can do in the time they have.

actually looking forwards to this, in part because I have a sideline in painting models for others at the local club (mostly rank & file type stuff to a decent standard and let others paint hero types to a higher one)

actual quality varies, e.g. my Napoleonic stuff is generally a dark base then a highlight and a further highlight, looks good, takes ages - American Civil War was base coat, wash and a light drybrush, much faster, not quite as good but effective. Marines are three paints for each colour, same as the Napoleonics and look decent - easy to do as well they are marines - base colour, block in a lighter one and then edge highlight and done.

Death Guard get a bit more work for the more organic bits, Orks are similar for the skin and cloth tones

I will however quite happily play against unpainted as long as the player is fun to play against, hold yourself to a higher standard etc.

I only play with fully painted and based WYSIWYG models, but that's my personal restriction.

I don't mind playing other people's unpainted minis (but i do prefer a fully painted battle). Everyone has different interests and hobby time; I can understand that.

I find i enjoy painting/modeling as much or more than gameplay. So I never find painting to be a chore.

I have a fully painted 2000+ point Eldar army, plus lots of other painted Eldar which don't quite fit the theme of that army but are fine, and even more second hand Eldar which are painted, but not to a standard I am happy with

My marines, on the other hand, are mostly half-painted. I seem to have a problem finishing painting marines!.

I don’t like painting and am not going to bankrupt myself paying someone to do it for me. I’ve had one tank painted for me and that’s all, anything else I have that’s painted was bought from someone else who already had it painted.

If I ever settle on a list I find fun to play, maybe I’ll change my policy but for now I play it grey.

0%.

I don't use models until they're completely finished.

I've been collecting for multiple decades and have about 30,000 points total from various armies fully painted up to choose from, so it's not really that big a hardship to wait to use a new shiny.