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This thread continues to inspire. After giving in to temptation and buying the Indomitus box, the quality of those minis really shows up the old style marines. So I did what I thought I would never do, hardened my heart and sold 22 boxes of mini-marines (some of which I’ve had for well over a decade).
Happily, the insane prices here in NZ meant I’ve made enough $$$ to keep me in new minis for a few years!
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Wasnt too bothered about Shephards but figured getting the play up to Farmers ones as singles was going to be a faff in the future so added the whole team to the backlog
Also painted a metal Wraithlord (purchased I think from my local FLGS on closing week over a decade ago)
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"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
We're trying to finish as much as possible before winter. We don't have a permanent painting station, so once the holidays roll in, mini production grinds to a halt!
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Rather than appreciate my progress, I picked up some Legion Rebels to add to the pile for no good reason. Digging myself out of that mistake and otherwise treaded water by buying and then immediately painting the new MonPoc and Marvel stuff.
I ordered more stuff. I ordered two boxes of Republican Romans, some elephants, and some Greek cavalry from Victrix.....
The Pile of Shame is Dead, long live the Pile of Shame!
Edit: Started working on the Cavalry horses this weekend.....
Congratulations on killing the Pile of Shame, long live the Pile of Shame!
I did the same thing, finished my last model back in June and then almost immediately added all the Indominus marines and a Terminator Chaplain to the pile. On top of that I traded the Indominus Necrons and took on some commission work for a couple of Slannesh boxes and pile of 'Nids (and bought some more on top...), so my Pile of Shame includes a Hive Tyrant, 30 Hormagaunts, 30 Termagaunts, 7 Genestealers, 6 Tyranid Warriors, 2 Pyrovores, 8 Spore Mines, 3 Hive Guard, a Lictor, an Exocrine, 10 Ripper Swarms and 3 Ravengers, 5 Assault Intercessors, the Indominus Captain, Lieutenant, and Ancient, 3 Blade Guard, 3 Eradicators, 5 Steeds of Slannesh and a Soul Grinder.
Since my last post I've finished the Indominus Chaplain and Judicar, 5 Assault Intercessors, 3 Outriders, 8 normal Marine Bikes, a Marine Captain on a bike, 7 french peasants and a cart, 8 TSR space worms from Star Frontier, 10 Gargoyles, 4 Fallout lab tech guys, 4 Fallout Minutemen, a couple of crab monsters, 7 garbage zone terrain pieces, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Jeeze, that's 62 models in two and a half months. That's pretty slow for me.
Then I’ve seenthings, and it’s made me buy a lot more myself..
The pile is growing
Ah don't feel too bad. Lockout helped prevent me from dropping lots of money on stuff but now that its been lifted I have ended up buying a bunch and adding to my pile as well. Luckily I was able to also organize my pile in such a way as I atleast feel I have control over it.
In other news, weather is getting colder so I have been able to get to some painting done. Hopefully I'll get back into a groove and knock out all the stuff I had prepped over the summer.
Commodus Leitdorf Paints all of the Things!! The Breaking of the Averholme: An AoS Adventure
"We have clearly reached the point where only rampant and unchecked stabbing can save us." -Black Mage
For my Death Guard, I commissioned an amazing painter to paint up Mortarion. I've got some final touches on 20 plague marines, 5 terminators, and 3 Death Shroud. Then I have to finish 2 Hellbrutes, 2 crawlers, and a drone. Otherwise, I completed 40 cultists, 14 marines, 28 walkers, Typhus, the bell dude, 2 hose guys, Nurgle's butterfly dude with grenades, and a captain. I still need to purchase a Prince, another carrier, 2 haulers, a unit of HTH marines, and another box of terminators. Then my army will be more or less complete.
For my Ogors, I just need to paint some tattoos on them. The Mournfang need to have a second highlight on their skin. Their pile of shame consists of a Butcher (assembled), slaughter master (unassembled), frost lord on stone horn (unassembled), and a second tyrant (assembled). I need 3 more start collecting boxes since it's almost the same price as a stone horn. I need to buy more cats/ fenrisian wolves.
For my Slaves to Darkness, I found some Tzeentch banners (Finecast) on the cheap so now I need to add them and paint them up. I've got to finish my current units though too - 3 double weapon warriors, 10 chosen, 10 warriors with shields (new box), 5 Knights (new box), the krakadraka (need to finish the details), a unit of the Slaanesh mortals on steeds, and a couple of marauders on horseback. I base coated the mutalith and now have about 5,000 points of stuff
For my Legions of Nagash, I have just Zacharius left to paint. 4,000 points of undead... I have 1 box of OBR from the Ogor vs OBR box. Not sure if I want to keep them. May go to my brother if he wants them
For my Astra Millitarum, I found a blister pack of the advisors so I have 3 models. For my Space Wolves, my mom the found the 1988(?) Leman Russ model when she cleaned out some boxes in the atic. There were also 4 servitors (newer ones). I've also got an indomitus box. My Crohn's flared up REALLY bad in late July/ early August. So little was accomplished - just assembly on the space marines. Not sure if my brother wants the Necrons. He will get first dibs on them if he wants them. I may paint them and let him play them. Really up to him if he wants to expand them.
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How's everyone's Piles coming along? I've painted about half of mine, and figure I'll probably be done with it by this time next year. Are we all gonna do end year progress pictures?
thechosen1 wrote: How's everyone's Piles coming along? I've painted about half of mine, and figure I'll probably be done with it by this time next year. Are we all gonna do end year progress pictures?
Mine has stalled because I can't get my Vostroyan colours to gel.
So I've stripped a bunch of my original stuff and I'm fixing up a friend's donation.
Finished a Crystal Peaks Camp terrain crate from Mantic (on commission) and my Blade Guard.
I also roughed out a couple each of factory buildings, ruins, woods, several river/pond sections, and a variety of storage silos, but thats all just spare boxes, Solo/Dixie cups, and spray paint so it barely counts.
Next update, got a few more things done
Blood Bowl- still done
Batman - doing the last few highlights on my League of Assassins stuff, after that it's starter set Batman and the BMG stuff is done, with DCU still languishing behind. That's only 7 models though so easy to get done at some stage
Warcry - Untamed Beasts, Chimera and Gitz are all painted. Beasts and Chimera need basing but that can wait. Terrain and Chaotic Beasts still need doing
Malifaux - I'm down to 2 unpainted keywords in Outcasts, and my Ten Thunders are only 6 models off being fully painted too. Very happy with my progress, will probably pick up a bit more soon to flesh out some of the smaller crews and finish full keywords rather than owned keywords (these are the 2 unpainted ones though)
Legion - Progress has stalled, but I've got 500 points painted. Just need to make the final push on the last 2 boxes and get them done
Lord of the Rings - Still haven't touched any of this and probably won't for a while.
Bolt Action - Added on cause it's been in the pile for a long time and nothing's been done to it. My gaming group are playing it but I'm finding motivation hard here.
The Other Side - I've got a full faction of King's Empire and none of it has any paint on it. I could get it painted but I'm not playing it so I see little point at this stage.
40k - Add this too because I'm going back and touching up old paintjobs/stripping and redoing where necessary. Making a lot of changes on things to prepare for the new edition and I'll probably buy more stuff at some stage once
Update for a few more things
Batman - It's done! DCU included, everything is finished unless I find more lying around in the backs of cupboards
Malifaux - Still in progress, but I've got the last things for my Outcasts on the table and 1-2 days off finished (the entire faction!) and diving into getting my Bayou finished in the next week or so as well. For something that started the year as such a huge hurdle of random schemes there's a light now at the end. I'm going to call this done when my Outcasts, Ten Thunders and Bayou are finished because it's only one more crew otherwise, and I have no immediate plans for it anyway.
Warcry/Malifaux/Bushido - I've left a lot of things painted but not based over the last few months. Once the current lot is cleared off my desk, and with it completing the factions for all 3 of these games, I'm going to be doing a few big batches of basing to get them finally finished and table ready
Legion - It came out onto the desk, then got put away again in favour of other things. It's still on my mind though so will definitely happen soon
Batman/Bushido - still done. Haven't bought anything new but it's all finished
Malifaux - working on it, now have my Outcasts all but finished (6/8 keywords entirely, number 7 needing basing and the rest in some stage of paint. Ten Thunders and Bayou in the same state but I'm knocking over most of what's left over the last few weeks so should be able to tick it off by the end of the year (despite buying 2 entire new keywords over the last 2 months)
Legion - I got given a clone army and my Rebels still aren't finished... One day
Mine has stayed about the same. I got into organizing a necromunda campaign, so I have been buying and painting models and terrain for it. Thus I haven't been working down the actual backlog. campaign will end in a few weeks. So hopefully after that I can start working down the backlog again.
After having most of the summer off and deciding not to really paint much I started back up over September. Cleaning up some Bones Lizardmen I has primed back in 2016 for a campaign I was running but never got around to painting.
Now they are done! Moving on to a bunch of Goblins now, cutting down that Pile!
Commodus Leitdorf Paints all of the Things!! The Breaking of the Averholme: An AoS Adventure
"We have clearly reached the point where only rampant and unchecked stabbing can save us." -Black Mage
I managed to get my pile of shame to everything painted. Then I decided to get some old metal Shining Spears and then some more...so six, plus bits for three more en-route.
I think I have gotten less a pile of shame at this point and more "Models Needing painting" where I dont have massive amounts of models from each of my armies needing painting, where i have just my MCP stuff and Marine stuff, with a small smattering of others here and there.
I'm having a very quiet night shift and I've been reading through this thread. During December I'm going to make a full list of my pile of shame and I'll post it. Since march I've nearly doubled my painted army (nearly 3000pts now). I'm aiming for 1 unit a month and I'll try and keep that up next year.
I plan to not buy anything until the new codex is out (AdMech) but I only really need flyers as I have everything else.
Approx armies
9000pts AdMech (Main army)
7000pts Black Templars (original army)
3500pts Death Guard (lazy side project)
2000pts Imperial Knights (extension of AdMech)
2000pts Harlequins (fun side project)
I've only purchased Fabius and Eltharion since November of last year. I've also been participating in a monthly painting pledge challenge which has greatly diminished the pile.
I still have years of miniatures to go but plan to continue chipping away at it and not adding any more to the pile until at least the end is in sight.
Having said all that I will note that my attitude towards it has completely shifted since the Pandemic began. Having a smorgasbord of hobbying available at no cost has been a godsend and I now treat it as the Pile of Opportunity!
BlaxicanX wrote: A young business man named Tom Kirby, who was a pupil of mine until he turned greedy, helped the capitalists hunt down and destroy the wargamers. He betrayed and murdered Games Workshop.
My pile of shame is rapidly running out of primed models. Pro: I will be able to start on the NiB models soon. Con: It's november and soon I won't be able to prime the newly built models outside due to the weather.
Finished Forge World Elysian Army 
Finished Tau Sept Cadre 
Alaitoc Eldar Warhost 
Finished Order of Our Martyred Lady - Sisters of Battle 
Finished Necromundian Imperial Guard Regiment 
5000pts 
6000pts 
3000pts
AdMech (Main army)
Black Templars (original army)
Death Guard (lazy side project)
Imperial Knights (extension of AdMech)
Harlequins (fun side project)
