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title says it.

how many projects do you currently have in the works? a project for this poll is termed as an army over 500pts, a FW or super hev class model with either being in the to be assembled or to be painted stages.

Painting new gk stuff got from tourney, repainting da stuff with new forgeworld additions, finishing fw iron warriors dreads and rhinos, painting fw greater daemons, working on coven thrones, and touching up old gk stuff that got dings and play wear.

Two. A nurgle/khorne chaos marine force, and an abstract tzeentch daemon army. Very fun!

This poll makes me feel like a bad person. :3

well personally im in the 5+ crowd... DE, nids, legion marines, phantom, tarantulas, ogre army, and terrain for my RoB board

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I've got a lot of projects in the works, but by the definition you've put on it, only one. (I only have a single army, just lots of stuff I am working on for it.)

As in what I'm actively painting/building?

Three. A Carnifex (so much red to layer on), a unit of Termagants and a Heriophant. I work on various other things (painting/building my VC and other Tyranids, Infinity Haqqislam), but those 3 are my primary projects.

Working with my daughter, her intro into gaming. Orks, nice blue orks.

None, lol

focus on one squad at a time. anything more and i think quality control suffers.

Very true. I only work 1 squad at a time, but unfortunately have multiple "projects" to complete. I think I would suffer a stroke if I ever ran out of modeling projects or managed to complete everything.

I try my best to only have one project at a time, but right now I'm working on finishing some Assault Marines for my Blood Anglels army and finishing a Shadowsword for the next Apoc game I'm going to be in!

I'm calling it 3. I've got a big number of Orks to paint and a few Battlewagons to model up, I still have Space Wolves to paint, and I'd like to one day go back to my Tau, repair all the damage from a lot of rough handling and flimsy, flimsy Broadside guns, and repaint them up to what I originally had in mind for 'em.

I think I'd have a heart attack from pure shock if I ever finished everything.

Starting a space marine for myself, a necron army with my brother, and an ork army with my sister.

I'm jumping back and forth with them.

Um...

Pretty much every army I have is "on the go."

I consider my model collection as a pool of miniatures I can draw from to make playable lists. I like WYSIWYG for most of my stuff - though proxying to try stuff out is useful - so I always have reason to add models to my collection.

Probably more than 75% of my total models are unpainted. A lot, but nowhere near all, are primed white, grey (I bought a can of grey spraypaint when I just couldn't find black primer anywhere local, and my word does it ever cover models thoroughly and quickly compared to the white primer, and preserves detail very well and though it rubs off the rim of the base a little while I paint (I tend to hold my models by the base a little tightly, and am constantly altering the angle I hold it in my hand, resulting in much heat and rubbing, but normal tabletop handling doesn't seem to have harmed any primed models or any painted models)) or black (from when I used GW primer). The vast majority is assembled.

Some stuff I've never painted or primed - Tyranids and Chaos Space Marines most notably. The rest of my armies have some painted models.

I don't normally force myself to do something I don't enjoy at the moment, particularly when the end is a long, LONG way off - the most I find I can do is level a World of Warcraft character up to max level, which takes a few weeks of real time if I work at it constantly, and even then, if the character is too low level, it often feels like it's too far off anyways, and I stop doing it. So basically I paint models when I feel like it, and when I do, I paint the models I feel like painting. I've tried forcing myself to paint just one model every day, a small, manageable goal, but I couldn't even stick with that - and the models were both interesting to me and easy to paint, AND quick to paint - Lizardmen Saurus Warriors. I just really don't like routines, and if I do the same thing too many times, I tend to lose interest in it. It manifests in my WH40k life through constant army list changes - often very radical changes - having about 7 or 8 - don't remember exactly the number - WH40k armies to choose from, having a few of a lot of different model types painted, and taking long breaks from WH40k to play World of Warcraft - I would say not mid-game, but my games are played over the course of a couple of days, with a couple of hours one night, then a couple of hours the next night. When I played 1500 point games, the games took a full week to conclude, which was getting irritating, so I scaled them back to 750 point games.

I don't remember what I was talking about, so I'ma end this post now.

kb305 wrote:focus on one squad at a time. anything more and i think quality control suffers.

I'm the total opposite. If I don't work on mixed models from various squads quality suffers, because I get bored and start to rush things just to get them finished so I can paint something else.

-Loki- wrote:

kb305 wrote:focus on one squad at a time. anything more and i think quality control suffers.

I'm the total opposite. If I don't work on mixed models from various squads quality suffers, because I get bored and start to rush things just to get them finished so I can paint something else.

I'm the same way with my Orks. I think it's just the prospect of having to paint 30 models all identically. At some point I just go "Feth it, I'm painting something else." Truth be told, it's the only reason my Big Mek is painted right now.

For the moment I have four projects going on.
1. Painting a new Defiler for my CSM
2. Painting Gors for my Beastmen
3. Assembeling Easterlings
4. A new Leman Russ tank

Death Guard army WIP (still collecting)
Necrons being painted (current task)
OOP Eldar Aspect/footdar army (ready for fine tuning, assembly of War Walkers, priming)
Spartan Uncharted Seas Shroud Mage fleet (still in box)
Undead Demo WHFB/KoW army (finishing basing for the last 3 units)
Brushfire Vandalands Warband (still in box)
Blackwater Gulch - acquiring gang still
IG Stormlord superheavy - primed, ready to paint for 13th Taglian

so.. 8 off the top of my head..

I have 3 projects I an working on at the moment.the first is the eldar army I still have from when I started 40k,I'm counting this because its my favourite army and i can never have enough models for it(a terrible way to be i know.them I am working on a grey knight army and a fledgling nurgle marine force.

Two at the moment. Death Korp of Krieg & a Kriegsmarine 'Victory At Sea' fleet

Too many things going on =P 4 40k armies, 1 fantasy army and baneblade trio. Thinking about quitting my job so I would have time to work on those

Orks, after changing the army list I only need 8 more lootas.

Necrons, since I had a lot from the last codex I only need Imotekh and 2 Crypteks now.

Empire, need to pick up about 16 more knights for completion. Then I get to painting most of it.

Hmm does a 500 point expansion count?
I am kitbashing/scratch building 2 TFCs and a 6 wheeled dread for one of my armies.