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I've been taking inventory again, and counting unpainting minis really does not feel good. Especially when you find stuff you have no intention of ever painting. Watching the number decease as you move them from the painted spreadsheet to the painted spreadsheet feels good though.

I started this year in December to avoid splitting a project in half. So I've got a months headstart on painting. This Year's project is my Arabs covering the early infantry armies to the later horse archers slaves. Big project, maybe I'll even have enough to field a Mortem et Gloriam army. Not sure what I'll do once they're done.

So far I've painted:
24 Archers
16 Javelinmen
4 Slingers
10 Camel Archers
6 Camel Lancers
26 Medium/Light Cavalry
120 Spearmen

Total: 206, 264 left

I've bought 66 more Arabs to fill in some missing units (Included above). I also bought 199 Normans and Greek Hoplites, with the excuses I'll need them someday and inflation.

Total: 265

Still in the negative so far. I should catch up soon as I've gone all in on contrast slapchop speedpainting. I was going to say I don't see myself buying any more miniatures this year, but that is a lie. One of my games is doing a new edition kickstarter soon, GW might do new Tyranids, and it looks like my club might try to get me to buy into Song of Fire and Ice like they did last year with Oathmark.

Picked up some new MCP stuff over the weekend and finished it before it could hit the pile. Back to working on some Battletech and then I just might actually work on some terrain.

Painting this year has been slow, but I have gotten in more gaming.

Got inspired and finished up my Battletech along with some Legion bounty hunters. I've got a couple of big models left on the pile, but its mostly clear until I get slammed with 3 big batches of models coming my way.

Good to see photos in this thread!

That desert basing is looking lovely!

I finished a Knight Abominant this evening, that took a long damn time.

In the meantime I added a Roadhog, Gunboar, and Razorback crew. I wasn't going to buy anymore Farrow, but PP announced they're retiring all the Mk III models and well...

Ug! Another one of these!

HH2.0 - Dark Angels
1 Sicaran - assembled, primed, base coated, metals, and red panels completed. Need to highlight the black, wash metalics, highlight metallics, and paint lights. Finalize with decals.
2 Spartans - 1 unassembled. 1 assembled, primed, based, red panels completed, black highlighted, metallics base coated. Need to finish the metallics and lights. Finalize with decals.
2 Rhinos - need to finalize metallics with wash and highlights.
10 Devastators w/ volkites - need to paint and detail the weapons. Base models.
10 Plasma Support Squad - need to paint plasma guns and base them.
5 old resin jet bikes - unassembled
10 Cataphractii - paint 5 lightning claws. Paint 5 combi bolters. Base 5 models.
1 Praetor w/ sword - detail work and basing.
5 Tartarus - needs basing, highlights and details.
80 bolters, rotor cannons, lascannons, autocannons, and voltkites. All completed and based.

AOS
Scenery- floating waterfall from the Ghur set. Warcry 1.0 buildings (all barricades completed).

Ogors :
1 butcher - primed
1 Slaughtermaster - primed
20 of the "free" gnoblars from other kits - primed

Slaves:
10 warriors - detail work to finish
1 lord on Krakadrak - detail work

Beastmen:
20 tzaangors - base coated
Cyborg unassembled
6 bullgor - primed and based

On the blog I use Speed Paints to paint up some miniatures for the Hellboy Board Game that a friend gave to me. I have some thoughts on using the paints, and what they good for and not good for. Plus, their are pictures of some miniatures being painted.



If you are interested in my thoughts and the other pictures, feel free to check out the blog for more details.
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/02/on-painting-desk-speed-painting-some.html

Getting there... just finished a bunch of AdMech dudes as testmodels for a paint scheme. Now starting the Sicarians, Pteraxiis and the Manipulus. I aim to finish them till end of the month.

Two Iffarit Scouts and a Bone Shrine done as of yesterday, those went fast for Warmachine models. I added five Servitor kit bashes, they're basically just little grav-sleds with a brain in a jar wired on so they'll be very quick to paint once the weather permits me to prime them.

My backlog... my poor poor backlog.

Had a few kickstarters and preorders get delayed again and again and they all decided to arrive this week.

Khador mk4 box. Judgement. Some Malifaux, Infinity, Bushido, MCP. Going to busy for a while.

I painted up a full army.....



Of 6mm scale armor and infantry on 60 x 60mm bases. All were 3D printed on my Orange30.

Finished a Sicaran and a Kratos, added the new Marine box set.

Gotta stop buying stuff faster than I paint.

So, I WAS down to like 2 models:

Sisters Exorcist
Hooch Hauler

Finished one of them:



Then I got completely hammered with Kickstarter/Preorders:
- 7 MCP figures
- 5 random Infinity things
- 7 new Malifaux models
- 5 Bushido figures
- Khador starter with 25 models
- Judgement kickstarter for another 27

So.... lots of new shame. Way more than the "paint faster than I buy" I've been enjoying. Ah well, time to roll up the sleeves and starting with Judgement, which I've been eager to own/play since I first demoed it in 2016:

(Pic Heavy)

Progress on Judgement continues!

(more pic heavy)



Unfortunately I had a few more things come in that kind of offset this stuff, but progress continues!


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Wow, those pics are way larger than on mobile. I'll have to post something more viewable once the project is done.

Finished the entirety of my Farrow, and also a Gobber Tinker. Ten models in all that took waaay longer than they should have.

I added the latest Marine box set (donno if I reported that yet) and I've got some Conquest ... whatever the Spartans are called on order.

Somehow my 2023 pile of shame is exactly the same as my 2022 and 2021 one.

I'm onto basing on a lot of it, so I'm doing better, but they still aren't finished.

Finished a unit of Sternguard and a jump-pack libby.

Kayback wrote:
Somehow my 2023 pile of shame is exactly the same as my 2022 and 2021 one.

I'm quite familiar with that.
Recently, for every model/kit I finish, I seem to replace it with another.
For ex; I've knocked out 20 some random singles/small unit kits (like nurglings) from my backlog. And last night I added a new box of (20) HH MKvi marines....

Got some things done from my pile of shame.. did also buy some new shames though :')
Currently trying to get through pile of shame units by entering challenges, atleast that gets me into Orks.

I have a full Nurgle (mortal) army of AOS assembled but un-basecoated.. standing around oozing tears of pus for the neglect.
Also some harlequin stuff from 40k still to do (a starwhatever flying thing, two reaper guys and a solitaire) and some Eldar stuff (mobile weapon) but also still (STILLLLLL) have to properly finish the sculpt of my custom Wraithknight head, with the rest of the Wraithknight 100% done -_- )

So that brings me to Orks.. I have too many Orks.

2 boxes of boyz, 2 of Nobz, a box of kommandoes that I've been using to kitbash challenge units with (because some parts were missing anyway, bought it on sale because of it.) a Blitzabomba (woosh) a Morkanaut (ding dong ching chong) and a pack of stormboyz now that I think of it too..

Then I still have some Sylvaneth stuff laying around once painted in bright yellow because I wanted to make fairy tree's. :l (sigh) for like.. I think 3-4 years ignored now.

And a few Imp's from the Chaos pack..
Oh and some sisters of the ..forgot what' with those flaming bows (Aos, cities), bringing me to my latest purchase being a box of Vampire horsemen (50% off, couldn't pass it up being 50 bucks normally).

I probably forgot some shame.

I'm not good with remembering shame.

-Leopold.

So three months into my move, I've painted up a bunch, and held off on buying more, at least until Adepticon.

Painted:
Kahl
Einhry Champion
6 Pioneer Bikes
25 Kin
20 Darkoath Savagers
Heart of Ghur Terrain
Mindstealer sphyranx

Bought at Adepticon:
10 MT Scions on Sprue
2 Unbuilt Tauroxes
25 SC Liberators
5 Judicators
3 SCE characters
Dominion box minus Vigilators, hobgrots, big character
Conquest 100 kingdoms box

So, Despite making some prgoress before adepticon, I'm back behind for the year.

 Polonius wrote:
I moved out of my house for a job relocation in January, and prior to that did a huge ebay spree to clear out unpainted stuff. Since I don't even have my pile of shame right now (it's chilling in a warehouse in Cleveland), I'm going to focus on the stuff I brought with me to the rental house and things I've bought since the move:

Unpainted:
6 Field guns
3 Sentinels
20 Sisters Novitiate
60 Necron Warriors + 18 Scarabs
40 Hearthkyn Warriors
6 Pioneers
2 Kahls
2 Champs
Heart of Ghur Terrain
2 Darkoath Warbands
2 Corvus Cabal Warbands
Cypher Lords
Rotmire Creed
Horns of Hashut
Iron Golems
2 Tarantuls Brood
Khaintite Shadowstalkers
12 Chaotic beasts
Mindstealer Sphiranx
Ogroid Myrmadon
Fomoroid Crusher
Scions of Flame

Bought in 2023:
12 Pioneers
60 Hearthkyn Warriors

completed so far:
4 Hearthkyn warriors

So... my backlog has continued to shrink.

Heresy Dark Angels:
2 Sicarans, 5 Tartarus Terminators, 1 spartan, 1 Praetor, 3 contemptor, 1 Leviathan

Beasts of Chaos:
2 spawn, 3 Bullgors, 1 Cygor, and 30 Tzaangor

Slaves to Darkness:
Sorcerer on Manticore, the special edition Chaos lord, 10 old resin Chosen

Soul Blight:
2 special edition vampires (both my wife and my mom got me the same model so I'm definitely painting these up in different ways!!), Radukar (both versions), a VLoZd, 3 vargheists, 10 grave guard, 10 skeletons

Slaanesh:
10 myrmadesh, 11 archers, 3 slaangor, 5 blissbarb, a shard speaker, a pain bringer, lord of hubris

Ogors:
1 cannon, assorted gits

Aeldari:
The riders for 22 bikes, 4 vipers, 1 wave serpent, ~20ish old guardians, swooping hawks, multiple warlocks, multiple farseers, wraith seers, and spirit seers

Death Guard:
1 resin demon prince, a tally man

Black Templar:
Grimaldus and Co, Helbrecht and squires, 3 Outriders,

Slaanesh and Soulblight are my 2 largest factions open to complete. I have a couple more things to buy for Slaanesh and Beasts of Chaos. Some will be used in both.

Judgement is complete!



Got some new MCP coming in this week that will take priority. Until then I'm going to either finish up some Malifaux or work on the Warmachine starter.

Finished two War Dogs this evening.

I'm pretty sure my 40k purchases are going to drastically fall off as Conquest picks up, I'm really digging that system.

 Dysartes wrote:
Borrowing the template from The Newman, though tweaking one category a little...

Spoiler:

Note - I'm just going to be tracking GW things here.

Things I owned January 1st, 2023, WIP*
- Thunderer Siege Tank (WIP)
- 5 Flesh Hounds (WIP, based)
- Karanak, The Hound of Vengeance (WIP, based)
- Convergence of Dominion (WIP)
- 2 small ruins from 40k Command Edition (undercoated)
- Firstborn Dark Angels Master (WIP, based)
- Lord Felthius (undercoated or WIP, based)
- Vostroyan Officer (WIP, based)
- Commissar (WIP, based)
- Chaplain with Jump Pack (WIP, based)
- Firstborn Mentor Legion Captain (WIP, based)
- Mentor Legion Primaris Lt. (WIP, Based)
- Bladeguard Lieutenant (WIP, based)
- 5 Assault Intercessors (WIP, based)
- Cadian Command Squad (4 models, WIP, based)
- Sloppity Bilepiper (WIP, based)
* - WIP is defined as at least undercoated, not just built. If I tried to include the unpainted stuff, the year would be over before the survey was done...
Note - this may expand as I find other WIP things I'd forgotten about, and as/when I start on things from the Pile that previously hadn't been undercoated.

Things I bought in 2023:
- Eldar Bonesinger (metal)
- Cadia Stands! (28 models?)
- Black Templar Castellan
- 3 metal Cadian Shock Troops with Meltaguns (the 3rd ed design, not the 2nd ed one)
- 2 M2O Inquisitors
- Scarcrag Snivellers (12 Goblins, being split into 3 groups of 4 (2 Gouged Eye teams, and reinforcements for my other Goblin team))
- Captain Messinius
- Necron Combat Patrol (Overlord, 10 Immortals, 3 Tomb Blades, 1 Death Crescent)
- Store Birthday Kahl
- Store birthday Kharadron guy
- Melee Leviathan Dreadnought
- Necron Boarding Patrol box (10 Warriors, 3 Scarab Swarms, 10 Lychguard, 3 Ophydian Destroyers, 1 Plasmacyte)
- The Lion and Friends

Italics means I've ordered them, but they've not gotten to me yet...

Things I purchased in 2023, now WIP (at least undercoated)
- Nothing currently

Things I owned January 1st, 2023, now completed:
- 2 barricades from Ryza-pattern ruins
- Cybernetica Datasmith
- 5 Blood Angels Scouts with Shotguns
- Bayard's Revenge (not painted by me, though)
- Spoilpox Scriviner
- 5 Plaguebearers
- 5 more Plaguebearers
- Lt. Calsius
- Psychomancer
- 10 Plaguebearers

Things I bought in 2023, now completed:
- 3 Scarab Swarms

Net change to the Pile of Shame/Potential
97 bought, 35 painted, so a net of +62

Consider this a slightly delayed end of Q1 review - was trying to get the second set of 10 Plaguebearers finished before I posted, and they took longer than expected.

The fact the net figure is in the red isn't brilliant, but most of that comes down to three purchases - Cadia Stands!, the Necron CP and the Necron BP. One of those was to grab the CP from my LGS before the price rise went through, and the BP was part of getting the items I wanted from my local GW store birthday (which I'll hopefully collect this weekend).

I'm reasonably happy with how much I've completed YTD - not at the breakneck pace I've managed in previous years, but still reasonable progress. I don't foresee much - if anything - being bought before the 10th starter hits, so let's see how much of this deficit I can claw back by then...

I finished 24 Phalangites and 6 Haspists. That does run counter to my goal of finishing all the 2022 leftovers, but after having exclusively played Conquest this last month I'm seriously considering selling off all the Marines.

Edit: I dig that people keep borrowing my tracker format.

I finished up some of the Warmachine stuff and now I'm working on the new MCP. Oddly enough, I'm heading deep into the well and painting terrain for a change.

boyd wrote:
So... my backlog has continued to shrink.

Heresy Dark Angels:
2 Sicarans, 5 Tartarus Terminators, 1 spartan, 1 Praetor, 3 contemptor, 1 Leviathan

Beasts of Chaos:
2 spawn, 3 Bullgors, 1 Cygor, and 30 Tzaangor

Slaves to Darkness:
Sorcerer on Manticore, the special edition Chaos lord, 10 old resin Chosen

Soul Blight:
2 special edition vampires (both my wife and my mom got me the same model so I'm definitely painting these up in different ways!!), Radukar (both versions), a VLoZd, 3 vargheists, 10 grave guard, 10 skeletons

Slaanesh:
10 myrmadesh, 11 archers, 3 slaangor, 5 blissbarb, a shard speaker, a pain bringer, lord of hubris

Ogors:
1 cannon, assorted gits

Aeldari:
The riders for 22 bikes, 4 vipers, 1 wave serpent, ~20ish old guardians, swooping hawks, multiple warlocks, multiple farseers, wraith seers, and spirit seers

Death Guard:
1 resin demon prince, a tally man

Black Templar:
Grimaldus and Co, Helbrecht and squires, 3 Outriders,

Slaanesh and Soulblight are my 2 largest factions open to complete. I have a couple more things to buy for Slaanesh and Beasts of Chaos. Some will be used in both.

I've painted up 5 myrmadish, 3 slaangors, a lord of pain, a special edition vampire, and a farseer. Also, I've painted Helbrecht and need to paint the dead Ork/base and his servitor entourage. I've done the base coats for The Grimaldus servitors.

As far as producing any actually finished minis paint wise?
As of 5/16/23 my 2023 total stands at....... 2 Battlemechs (a scorpion & an Urbanmech) and a kit-bashed spiritual Weapon spell effect token for D&D (a floating mace painted in golden hues)