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Hi I’ve been back in the hobby for a couple of years and still do not have more than 1000 points painted for any army.

I can’t stick to one army and would like to .

I have 500-2k of the following models in various states of painting / on sprues

Ba , Sm , DG , CSM , Cult mech , IG , Tau , Knights , Eldar , DE , Nids , Necrons and probably more

Used to like my DE which is my most painted force but the loss of my Corpse theif and the nerf to taloses makes me not want to play them any more.

Any help would be great thanks in advance.

I suffer from the same malady, but have a higher points tolerance

I have GSC, Mononurgle Daemons, Death Guard, a few World Eaters. Admech...

And that is just 40k

I also have Warmahordes Farrow, Trollbloods, Menoth, Rhulic Mercs, Circle Orboros

And xwing, some WHFB and tons of Reaper minis...

I either need professional help, or a warehouse like in Raiders of the lost Ark...


If you REALLY need to scale down and focus I would pick two armies and sell the rest to fund expansion

 konun wrote:
Hi I’ve been back in the hobby for a couple of years and still do not have more than 1000 points painted for any army.

I can’t stick to one army and would like to .

I have 500-2k of the following models in various states of painting / on sprues

Ba , Sm , DG , CSM , Cult mech , IG , Tau , Knights , Eldar , DE , Nids , Necrons and probably more

Used to like my DE which is my most painted force but the loss of my Corpse theif and the nerf to taloses makes me not want to play them any more.

Any help would be great thanks in advance.

I guess the main question is, why are you changing armies so frequently? Do you not like the models? The background? The prospect of painting them?

 NurglesR0T wrote:

 konun wrote:
Hi I’ve been back in the hobby for a couple of years and still do not have more than 1000 points painted for any army.

I can’t stick to one army and would like to .

I have 500-2k of the following models in various states of painting / on sprues

Ba , Sm , DG , CSM , Cult mech , IG , Tau , Knights , Eldar , DE , Nids , Necrons and probably more

Used to like my DE which is my most painted force but the loss of my Corpse theif and the nerf to taloses makes me not want to play them any more.

Any help would be great thanks in advance.

I guess the main question is, why are you changing armies so frequently? Do you not like the models? The background? The prospect of painting them?

Depends on the army . My DE I dropped as the 8th ed changes killed them for me .
I generally dislike painting power armour / Trim as I struggle to make it look good .the prospect of painting a horde scares me .
The lore although good doesn’t generally sway me towards an army but lore wise Tau and Thousand sons are my favourites. I do miss my hammerhead from 3rd ed. But I tend to care more about how the army playes. I also struggle to make lists that work half decently and my club is majority competitive.

If you really want to stick with less armies, just pick 1 for looks, and 1 for comp play.

And then get a theme going for them (not the same theme for both) that excites you, then work on those 2 armies for now.

Set a goal to get a solid 1k points done for each, once you get those painted models on the table and your playing a fun army and a comp it should help a lot.

GL!

I am in the same boat. I can't stick to one army.
But mainly because i do like variety.

Orks, over 10k points, maybe 40% painted :/
Nids, about 6k points, about 70% painted
Ultramarines 5k points, about 50% painted
Necrons about 2k points, not even assembled
Blood Angels 4k points, 20% painted
AdMech only Start Collecting Box, not even assembled
Death Guard about 2k points, 0% painted

So i really do have a problem when it comes to painting...
And i really would like IG too at some point.

So yeah, hmm...

 konun wrote:

 NurglesR0T wrote:

 konun wrote:
Hi I’ve been back in the hobby for a couple of years and still do not have more than 1000 points painted for any army.

I can’t stick to one army and would like to .

I have 500-2k of the following models in various states of painting / on sprues

Ba , Sm , DG , CSM , Cult mech , IG , Tau , Knights , Eldar , DE , Nids , Necrons and probably more

Used to like my DE which is my most painted force but the loss of my Corpse theif and the nerf to taloses makes me not want to play them any more.

Any help would be great thanks in advance.

I guess the main question is, why are you changing armies so frequently? Do you not like the models? The background? The prospect of painting them?

The vagaries of new rules/codex's means you'll either have to stick with one army through thick and thin (Dark Eldar) or pick one that stays near the top competitively (Space Marines)
Either way there's lots of people who have lots of armies (cough cough, CSM, Daemons, Orks, GSC, Eldar, Space Marines...)

Depends on the army . My DE I dropped as the 8th ed changes killed them for me .
I generally dislike painting power armour / Trim as I struggle to make it look good .the prospect of painting a horde scares me .
The lore although good doesn’t generally sway me towards an army but lore wise Tau and Thousand sons are my favourites. I do miss my hammerhead from 3rd ed. But I tend to care more about how the army playes. I also struggle to make lists that work half decently and my club is majority competitive.

Yeah, I used to be the same. I've managed to stick to my Horus Heresy World Eater force for a good while now and I'm upto 6k points of them. I recently started Legio Custodes as a second force for HH, as they're a elite that's nice to paint and not too expensive.

At the moment I use my World Eaters for 40k, but will be starting a Adeptus Mechanicus force to have a purely 40k force.

I think it's about finding that one army that clicks for you, for me it was my Horus Heresy eta World Eaters.

As soon as I reached a comfortable amount of miniatures to play games with, I told myself to finish my grey minis before buying some new ones.
So far, it's going great because most of my stuff is painted (except my nids, who I adopted, but that's WIP)
and it pushes me to keep painting if I want a new model.

only downside if I have to paint 15 models I don't like to paint, it can take a while and it's a real pain.. but as soon as they're finished i'm happy I did it.

I think a lot of people have this problem.

I personally create a kind of 'mini campaign' for armies that I'm building and pit them against particular foes. For example, my T'au v Tyranids on a desert world.

It allows me to grow the fluff and backstory for two very different forces and build/paint a unit here and there for two very different styles of army, whilst technically contributing to "one project".

They share a similar basing style and I also try and put together a gaming table for them to have a go at each other. Don't need to worry too much about points at the beginning, Just buy a few models from each force and then just alternate between them, allowing for an arms race to evolve and the two armies to really take off (10k+ of T'au and 4k of Nids so far, haha!)

If I find myself drifting from the project I sit down and write a few paragraphs about the world they are fighting over, perhaps a short story or try and come up with a cool character, or terrain piece. I've found it a great way to keep motivated and at the same time, it creates a huge range of hobby activities.

I'm just about to embark on a brand new campaign which will be set on the grim, toxified world of Zika 17 between the imperium of man and Nurgle.

I sat down and wrote a few paragraphs about the world, have brought a few Death Korp units and a few Death Guard units. The planet is perpetually engulfed in atomic winter so it's snow bases all round which will make a nice change from the dessert scape of my nids and T'au.

Flitting between projects probably happens because you aren't particularly invested. Once you begin to build a storey and craft characters you become more likely to stick with it.

I'm a conversion bug and also my friends are poor (or rather, they spend ludicrous amounts of money on non-40k geek stuff, like in-game digital goods, mtg and , in one case, a gun hobby that puts my 40k addiction to shame) so I tend to collect various armies that they use instead. I don't really mind it and it gives me an excuse to buy random models and build armies out of them.

There's no magic answer outside of...use some discipline.

For me, I've benefitted from simply being honest with myself. I don't buy armies for power/meta...I buy armies I like. You'll paint stuff you like. I don't play with unpainted stuff, so this encourages me to paint. The main thing is simple...what would you rather have? A nicely painted 5K point army you can proud of? Or 20K worth of points of half-painted/grey-plastic stuff you don't love?

Miniatures, namely GW miniatures are way too damn expensive for me to buy something I don't love. Not to mention if I change my mind (as happens) I keep everything new or in-box till I paint it so I don't lose my ass when I end up eBaying some models off. Personally a fully painted army (even if it's not brilliant) is something to be proud of and a damn good goal to pursue. Also, it's an addiction once you have one. Once you have a nicely painted, fully complete army you'll realize how much you'd rather play with it than your horde of grey-plastic in various states of disrepair.

TLDR: Only buy stuff you really, really like...and are willing to paint. Your friends and opponents will thank you.

What if you want it all?

Seriously this is like my pokemon.

I suffer the same affliction. Though I did manage to get one 2000 pts army and a 1500 pts army complete (altough still not finished painting). Apart from that I have like 5 tiny armies of only a few squads.
Now that I have to devote most of my time to my study and can't have a sidejob anymore to fund my addiction, I have been forced to become a lot more disciplined in buying miniatures. So far I have been successful in not buying anything anymore until I finish my current project.

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
What if you want it all?

Seriously this is like my pokemon.

Yeah, between kits that I bought for a conversion and then "Well, I have now 5 Grey Knight paladins, 1 Ancient and 1 Captain, why not expand the army", or models that I bough just because I liked them like the Black Templar Emperor Champion, Krell, or the Marneus Calgar Honour Guard and the guy wit the crest and two swords in metal, I have a TON of 200-600 point armies... that are actually pretty usefull to do 4 way games, or to tell someone "Ok pic the one you like more by the looks and lets play"

Wanting it all doesn't preclude you from doing one army at a time, or simply using some discipline to concentrate on one for a while. There's nothing more useless than having a dozen 550 pt. lists of various armies.

 Elbows wrote:
Wanting it all doesn't preclude you from doing one army at a time, or simply using some discipline to concentrate on one for a while. There's nothing more useless than having a dozen 550 pt. lists of various armies.

Thats why I'm loving 8th army-building freedom.

My Grey Knights, Tempestus Scions, Custodes, Bullgryns, Celestine, Tauroxes and Sisters of Silence have been mixed in a... I painted them black and call it Inquisition army

 konun wrote:

Used to like my DE which is my most painted force but the loss of my Corpse theif and the nerf to taloses makes me not want to play them any more.

The more you play the more you stop wanting to paint.

build a beater army for playing and have a seperate painting army for painting. once finished switch it or start a new painting army or expansion and your fully painted army is now the beater army.

 Elbows wrote:
Wanting it all doesn't preclude you from doing one army at a time, or simply using some discipline to concentrate on one for a while. There's nothing more useless than having a dozen 550 pt. lists of various armies.

The problem is you then end up with about a half dozen souls of the damned on your workbench constantly wailing "finish usssss" every night. And I'm all out of garlic.

As a collector of Blood Angels, Orks, Steel Legion, Cadians, World Eaters, etc etc, I know just how you feel.

Years would go by where I'd paint up a Rhino or a dreadnought for this army, then do something else a month, then paint a handful of Ork boyz, and then just one Commissar, and so on.

I decided this year I needed to get down to business and have at least one fully painted army, in a case, ready to play.

To do this, I followed advice I had heard on the "Independent Character's" podcast, and used a Kanban board. A Kanban just lets you map out what units you need to do to meet a goal, set progress stages like "Purchased", "Assembled" "Painted" "Finished." As you complete a step for a unit, you move it to the next stage.

After doing that I set a timeline, to complete one unit a week (or more) with a definite completion date. And... it worked. Three months later my World Eaters were in their case, fully painted, just in time for 8th edition to make them good.

There are lots of Kanban apps for cellphones - if it sounds good, I'd recommend giving it a try!

You could (assuming you're not strictly a gamer only) make a display/diorama of a battle or something. When you finish something, add it to the display.

Himmelweiss wrote:
I am in the same boat. I can't stick to one army.
But mainly because i do like variety.

Orks, over 10k points, maybe 40% painted :/
Nids, about 6k points, about 70% painted
Ultramarines 5k points, about 50% painted
Necrons about 2k points, not even assembled
Blood Angels 4k points, 20% painted
AdMech only Start Collecting Box, not even assembled
Death Guard about 2k points, 0% painted

So i really do have a problem when it comes to painting...
And i really would like IG too at some point.

So yeah, hmm...

I don't think you should feel bad about this; after all, you've made quite a lot of progress and have plenty of stuff painted that you can play with.

Personally I've always done the same thing, although I try not to hold on to stuff I've abandoned. In the past I've had Black Templar, IG and BA armies that I mostly painted but eventually got rid of. Right now I have about 3k of Dark Angels/Ravenwing only about half of which is painted but when DG came out I realized how little fun it is to paint all of those feathers and how much more fun the followers of Nurgle are. I just like everything about DG better: the rules, the aesthetic, the creativity you can bring to the table when modelling and painting them. It's not quite as torturous as painting a bunch of black Ravenwing bikes by the numbers. So now I'm trying to sell my DA stuff because I just can't bring myself to paint any more feathers!

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
What if you want it all?

Seriously this is like my pokemon.

A journey of a thousands miles begins with a single step.

I have the same issue, Now with 5 armies and a fierce Inquisitor addiction. My new goal has been to paint before I buy and it seems to be working pretty well. out of my five armies (necrons, DE, Eldar, Harlequins< Genestealer cult) the only one that's not painted is the cult. And now that an Inquisition campaign is running my gaming life it will have to stay on the back burner for now.

I buy terrain while I paint models too fend off my "oh shiney new!" bug.

Oddly, another bonus to having painted armies.

When you "finish" more or less an army (let's say fully painted/based and you have a playable force)...then you don't need to feel bad about painting random models for various armies. But trying to do the same while building 4-5 forces is just putting yourself in a hopeless bind. I've two 40K forces at the moment. Both are playable and "done" so to speak. This means I can now do a unit here, or a unit there and just do what I want --- opens up a lot of freedom without penalizing me.

This is how I got around the problem of sticking with one army. I play renegades and heretics. I have options to play them as pure R&H using the new AM codex so I can still play my bloody-handed reaver doctrine. Chaos genestealer cult's is in the lore, and its what I played in the rogue trader/2nd edition era. Chaos soup always needs R&H artillery and the broken malific lord for lulz. So here's three options for one army that should spice things up abit if you ever get bored of one army and doesn't require you start over from scratch buying models.

 Hollow wrote:

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
What if you want it all?

Seriously this is like my pokemon.

A journey of a thousands miles begins with a single step.

More like a journey of a thousand purchases begins with a single card swipe.

I have this same problem - only, I don't see it as a problem. It keeps me interested, since I constantly have an unfinished project to work on. I am in the scale of 10,000's of points though...so, most are large enough to field.

Got the same problem, always happens to me when I do stuff like this... just like I can't decide what class/ character to main in games like World of Warcraft or League of Legends. Ah well, such is my curse, and I'll have to live with it Currently playing Death Guard and Space Wolves, but also got some Orks and must resist the urge to branch out to other Chaos armies/ Daemons and startin a Tau army... I also have a bunch of Primaris marines lying around that I'm not sure exactly what to do with, point is they don't exactly synergize well with my Wolves for the most part so I'm thinking of turning them into another chapter entirely... maybe Sons of Medusa (or whatever that Iron Hands successor chapter is called).

I'm totally guilty of this at times, but my rule to try and mitigate against it is: If it's not painted, it doesn't count, and it doesn't get used.