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Everything I own is painted to some degree or another. Not everything is completed to my liking yet.

I have about 200 figs I need to paint.

Way too much. From what I remember:
Nids: 1 Old Tyrant, 1 Swarmlord, 2 Lictors, 2 Zoanthropes, 30+ Genestealers, 30+ Termagants, 13 Warriors, 6 Rippers, 1 Trygon and finish my Hierodule.
BA: Chaplain, Librarian conversion, 2x 5-man Honour Guard (though one squad is almost done), 5 Sternguard, 10 Terminators, 10 Tactical Marines, 5 Assault Marines, 5 Scouts, 5 Death Company, 1 Attack Bike, 1 Predator, 1 Vindicator, 1 Land Raider Redeemer and 1 Razorback.

...FFFFFFF

I don't particularly enjoy painting (well, I enjoy painting things like character models that are brimming with detail, but painting tanks and rank+file troops bores me so they usually stay unpainted until I get a massive burst of motivation to do it.

unassembled:
1 Bloodthirster (not so much unassembled as fallen apart)
1 Sorcerer Lord

unpainted:
1 Tac squad
4 Obliterators
1 RT Khorne Berzerker
1 Kharn the Betrayer
1 Ezekiel
1 Chaos Terminator Lord
1 Dreadnought
1 RT Chaos Dreadnought
1 Land Speeder Tornado
1 Rhino

painted to a '11-year old has-to-be-done-in-under-60-seconds-to-remain-fun standard':
2 tac squads
1 termie squad
1 Ravenwing Bike squad
2 squads of Berzerkers
1 squad of Plague Marines
1 squad of Havocs
1 squad of Chosen
2 Land Raiders
1 Rhino
and a bunch of slugga boys (how did I get those?)


in progress:
1 squad of Plague Marines

fully painted:
1 of said Plague Marines

yeah I got stuff to do...

not as much as some of the people in this thread though... I know I'd get discouraged too if I had a whole room of tiny men staring accusingly at me with their tiny unpainted eyes.

~4500 pts of imperial guard...
8 guardsmen are fully painted, 2 chimeras, 1 vendetta, 2 hellhounds, and 1 leman russ tank
that's all =P

I am working on getting a full 1500 pt list painted for a tourny next month, though.

Im buying a megaforce in a couple of weeks. Thatll take a while.

Unpainted? around 30 (various nids / SM bitz and some chaos i have to repaint.

i made a rule to myself of not buying anymore models till i have painted all in the army. that way it motivates me cause if i'm be playing with 50 models painted, and 5 or so not, it'll bug me.

A full closet and then some of unpainted stuff. I started a new army just so i wouldn't be so far behind on painting of SOMETHING and that still has 15 figs unpainted.

1 SM Strike force
2 SM Battle forces
1 RW Battleforce
3 SM Assualt squads
15+ SM Bikes
5 SM Attack bikes

not to mention all the stuff from ebay that needs stripping before I even consider it unpainted, and the new batch of Sang Guard i'm getting before the price hike.

I refuse to play with unpainted models, but I try to paint good so I have a good pile of models waiting to be painted... Counting terrain I have about 10-15 units unpainted.

Damn, I should get back to work.

I try to paint 1 unit or 2 vehicles a week. Right now,

Unpainted but primed-
2 devilfish
2 Broadsides

Unpainted at all
12 FW
2 Crisis Suits
2 Pirhana

Unassembled
Hammerhead
Devilfish
broadside
12 Firewarriors
Pirhana
Drone squadron

Sitting in boxes for the next army (building)
Necron Destroyers
OOP Necron Raiders and Destroyers
50 Plague Marines + Rhinos
36 Horrors
27 Daemonettes
9 flamers
8 fiends
2 Greater Daemons
6 seekers
and probably a bunch else.

However, taken as a whole, less than 10% of what I have is unpainted..

I still have all this to go




Not worried , but excited to get stuck in, however I am been reall good and getting the loft finished as a "den" before I start !

Ive got 4 that are completely unpainted and 7 that are painted at a level below that which I'm painting now.

Completely forgot about the orks... add another 7 for them.

Well after working for GW I have maybe $5000-$8000 of unpainted product.

About 7k Eldar, 3k Orks, 8k Tomb Kings painted, plus lots of random models I just liked painting.

I've just gotten started into 40K and unfortunatly I got two squads of 10 Chaos Marines, 2 rhinos and a daemon prince unpainted but only because I dont want to spend the last remnants of the money I got left on paint. Luckily since I'm going Black Legion once I prime them they're already half done.

Wow... let's see.

- I figure about 5k of painted-done Imperial Guard... the other 10k are in various states of "almost done".
- About 2k of my Tau are painted-done... the other 11k are, well, not.
- 80% of my 'Nids are in their base color... a whopping two squads have their finalized details.
- None of my SMs are done. That was an investment for the future... when Black Reach came out, I did mass splits and hoarded trades and swapps, so I won't go there.

Collect, hoard, amass.

I get bored painting the same thing over and over again with my Tyranids, so I hop back and forth between the umpteen billion models I have to paint.

It also means I don't get a lot done of any one army, but in general "stuff gets painted." Eventually.

Yea, I dabble back and forth as well. Last half of 2009 was Tau. Then with Tanksgiving I switched back to IG. Last month I moved into 'Nids. So we'll see where I go next...

I've got about 16000 points of Emperor's Children, about 2500 of which is "completely" painted, another 2000 or so is "mostly" painted, maybe another 2000 is "has had paint touch it" and then the rest is either black primered or gray.

But then I have about 5000 points of Warriors of Chaos, only one unit of warriors, one chariot, two characters and a unit each of marauders and marauder horsemen is painted.

Roughly 3500 points of sisters of battle, NONE of which is painted [or rather some is painted very poorly by the guy I bought them from, and needs to be redone]

3500 points of Vampire Counts, about 1500 of which is painted

About 120 points of Protectorate Warmachine, only one units of knights exemplar, one seneschal, and one Castigator painted.

Technically I also have my fiance's Eldar army, 3000 points, all unprimed plastic

And her 2000 ish points of Dark Elves, not even built!

Oh, let's not forget my Warmaster army, I don't even remember how many points of that I have.

Then there's Battlefleet Gothic, about 5000 points of Imperial, roughly 2500 of which is painted.

I have a lot of models....

Samus_aran115 wrote:good luck with that warriors of mayhem. I tried that non-metallic paint scheme with some thousand sons, it took way too long and required too many paints to look good...It looks sexy as shell tho...

Thanks. I'd actually like to see those thousand sons. Do you have them up at on the gallery?

Hello, my name is Travis, and I am a...........40k addict, it has been 2 weeks since my last purchase.

I have currently 2 fully painted 2500 armies (Salamanders, Daemons), and 1 that is on the way to being done this month (Space Wolves). I also have an Air Guard Army to get to that is just mostly base coated, and 5000+ points of orks to paint, 2500 of that needs to be built and kustomizd first.

Well over 200 pounds worth in the shrink wrap. Several thousand dollars worth.

A 10-man devastator squad, Half a Command Squad, one Dreadnazi, and a 10 Man Assault Squad. Then it's just a matter of buying more METEL BAWKSES for my Tactical Squads.

I have most of two PM Rhinos to paint, and I have 20 ghouls/skeletons left to paint as well.
Giggles,
Mr. Self Destruct

All of my models are painted except for the one that I happen to be working on at any given time. The worst I had it was like 20 guys and a couple of vehicles, but then I stopped buying and started painting and I've been keeping up ever since.

I have to repaint my entire SM army. consisting of
Captain
3 tactical squads
combat squads of scouts
Drop pod
rhino
5 terminators
5 Assault marines
Bike squad
devastator squad
so, I have a long ways to go before i am finished

@templeorks: 200 figs is INSANE

I have a lot of models to paint up over three armies:
20 units, including 23 large models, 5 vehicles, and 72 standard infantry models.


To finish my Tau, I need to paint:
2 Broadsides
6 Drones
3 Crisis Suits
5 Fire warriors

For my Space Marine Bike army:
15 or so Bikes
2 Attack Bikes
Vindicator
6 Sternguard
Captain on bike
Half painted dreadnought
Razorback
Land Raider Redeemer/Crusader/Godhammer (needs to be assembled and magnetised first)
5 assault marines

And for my Sisters of Battle:
Inquisitor retinue (5 models)
35 or so sisters of battle
Immolator
10 Sisters repentia

Is that too much?

I quite amazed that the highest percentage of repsondents are those with well over 50 units.

Roughly 5 40k armies of 3000pts or more to paint; that's not to say they are all unpainted - some are old paintjobs that need to be revisited, some are ebay horrors that need redoing.

I tend not to open masses of boxes first, when I paint an army. Rather, I open a box, assemble, prime and paint. Then I do another box.
This means I don't get huge waves of despair looking at the seas of grey I would have left to paint after the first unit of the army!