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Noob here
I know that usually when people paint their models they enjoy it and trust me I do. But I play 40k orks and its just dawned on me how much stuff I have to paint. I don't like fielding unpainted stuff but I'm not the guys who cares if my opponents stuff does, I just like fielding a painted army. My question is what do you guys do when you have so much more to paint and hit am mental block.

Try to mix it up. Say you just painted a handful of boyz go ahead and paint a vehicle or some special character. Unless of course you have just a bunch of boyz... then good luck.

Don't force yourself to paint as it never ends as well as when you are happy and motivated to paint.

Find shortcuts to help you reduce the amount of time painting ... esp Orks. Krylon and Rustoleum both have a dark green camouflage color that I use as my primer and basecoat.

Prime them all and say you are repainting them

Well, when every now and then I get too excited and make too many Iron Warriors, and then set them up on my desk so I can see all of the awesome models I just made. Then I airbrush my base coat on all of them and have ended up with about 40-50 Iron Warriors and a vehicle or two just sitting there. And when I try to sit down and focus on them they stare at me. Judging me with their little judgin' eyes. I try to put things over them, but they're just sitting there being disdainful and smug. So I put them all on the shelf instead of my painting space and try to focus on one at a time. Which ends up helping a lot.

I work on a scratchbuild project or make some terrain for a while. Then when I start hitting a wall with those projects I start to get motivated to paint again. You have to be careful that you end up with so many projects that you never finishing anything, but I tend to focus on painting a unit or vehicle till it's done and then move on to the next thing.

I read a book. Then I 'mire the ones I have already painted. Then I read the book some more. Then I watch Big Bang Theory while painting. Or talk to my grand dad while painting.

I love building stuff, and I absolutely love having painted things, but I'm in the same place as you. I just don't really enjoy the painting.

There are a lot of useful tips in this thread:
- Shift it up. Don't sit and try to paint the same model over and over to get that regiment done.

- Remove the models you are not painting from view. It is surprising how much it does to not have a hundred unpainted models staring at you.

- Don't worry too much about the details. Try to get away from the perfectionist thinking. Save that for your centerpiece models. some details that you insist on painting are behind weapons. No one would notice if they were ork skin/same colour as the pants as long as you throw a wash on there after.

But in the end, you're gonna need to find a way that works *for you*. We're all different.

Try the reward system. Paint 10 boyz then reward yourself with something, a vehicle, or a character. Or else try a small side project that you can pick up when you're struggling. Maybe some terrain pieces like mars says, or some objective markers out of your bits. Mars is also correct to suggest not to have too many different things on the go at once, but one or two small things to allow you a break every now and then.

Have you thought about getting into a small skirmish game on the side? A small necromunda gang, infinity force, blood bowl team? I know a whole other game is a bit of a commitment but you could do it really slowly. Get a few models and really take your time over them,only picking one up when you need an ork break, with a view to getting playing by the end of the year.

I don't play I collect and paint and I have 60 odd boys , a deaf dredd, a stompa, burner squad , Loota squad and shed loads of other stuff unpainted after a couple of years. I just pick up a model spend an evening and a few episodes of something and a few beers and paint 1 model of a boy type of an evening, if its more complex like a Loota or a stormboy I might take 2 or 3 evenings to do two models but this all only happens on evening I can be arsed. If not I will not force myself to do it.

I play orks and have 120 dudes plus elites and 10 larger models(fliers, tanks ect.). Im finally in the home stretch of painting everything to a very high standard. It just takes time and a system.

I would paint 5 dudes at a time and try to crank out 20 dudes a week panting in the evening. After every 20 dues I'd do a larger model. Rinse and repeat.

The trick is to get them totally done so you dont have to come back to them at a later time to repaint. Another trick is to base them, adding a good base to the model makes it look 20 times better. So take the time when you finish painting a squad to base them.