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Like many I suspect, I lurked in the background of Dakka for ages.

I spent my time posting elsewhere. Now I'm not doing that, and technically I should be more productive.

I think I've managed the real world productivity, but the plastic/resin/metal dolly productivity isn't working out, despite appropriately allocated time.

Frankly, I've got, in my opinion, an almost grotesque number of unfinished projects, half built, half painted endeavours. I mean some of these things date back to when you could still buy Battlefleet Gothic and Epic off the shelves. Pile of shame? More like Vault of Shame. The second edition of AoS is out, and I haven't even painted all of the Bloodbound from that, never mind others I've got since then. Soul Wars sits in a room, silently judging me for even looking at it, never mind owning it.

So anyway, my brother suggested and demonstrated that a thread on dakka served quite well to focus him.

So I thought I'd set some rules for myself, and finish things. Defined as assembled, painted, based, with the aim of a reasonable force, group, squadron or whatever, for each game system or army. Once stuff is finished, I can swap out the spot for another unfinished project.

That way I end up with foam storage full of finished miniatures, instead of racks, shelves and drawers of plastic shame. In theory.

So to start, I uploaded photos to the dakka gallery,I can't seem to get the photos right on dakka, so someone let me know if I've posted a load of rubbish there.
imgur gallery. https://imgur.com/a/mAoVmHj

Bloodwarriors I actually managed to partially paint the original set, but I caved and added a bunch of others which I've neglected.



Blood Reavers. Similar progression really.



Gorechosen. A couple undercoated, the Lord never even properly assembled. There is another Slaughterpriest conversion hiding somewhere in the Vault, but I haven't been able to find him. I was going to use the kickstarter mini as a stand in, but I rather think it works as a Slaughterpriest model, even next to the swollen bulk of the others.



Poor lone Khorgorath, because I couldn't face having a bunch of clones.



Mighty Lord of Khorne, my reward for achieving the above is that I can use the gigantic armoured Boris from Heresy Miniatures. The doggies are from an earlier effort to finish stuff off, apart from the blue one, from a blue phase years ago...



Brief flash of Heresy, Sons of Horus squad, to face off at some point in the future when a game of 30k isn't just theoretical, against my brothers Dark Angels.



Knight Armiger, mine on the right. A sort of Targaryan theme.


I have lots of tyranids, many grey plastic monstrosities. I am pretty sure my carnifex brood has been languishing half-arsed like this for going on three or four years. A disgrace really.

Tyranid Prime (there are about 3 unfinished conversions for one of these, I feel like I should have at least one to use)


Carnifex


Carnifex 2, an old one eye stand-in some times.


Representative swarm of Gants and a Neurothrope, so old that I have a strangleweb and spike rifle conversion, from back when they might have been viable, and mostly because I owned metal versions and liked them because they broke up the monotony of Gants. I like the kit, except for the swine who decided to make the heads two part. That person is a malevolent entity, on this earth to bring only pain and torment.


Mix of plastic and resin Rippers. Its unfortunate how sparse the plastics look next to the excellent, if frustrating to clean Forgeworld models.


Lictors, a mix of the resin and metal versions, and the first Lictor model, which I've always rather liked.


Dark Imperium also sits, gazing accusingly at me from the Vault. All assembled, but the curse of a conversion obsession struck with the Pox Walkers, but I managed to get 20 put together, and over-indulged in experimentation with different washes.


Staying with the Nurgle them, Blight Kings, came with the Hammerhal WHQ box set.


Not actually sure when to stop painting one of these guys, I tried for a sort of pale flesh look, as if these guys hibernated underwater in a swamp, only to lurch out in all their rusting and decaying glory.

Finally, two long abandoned Tyranid Drones, conversions, along with a bunch of other Tyranid BFG stuff, which have been slithering through my Vault for I'm guessing a decade? I threw them in to give me some conversion/greenstuff work to do, since the above is mostly painting, and skin gets itchy without conversions...



So the idea is I update something every week, and eventually I end up reducing the accusing pile of expensive unassembled dollies, and the Vault fills with hobby accomplishments, blessed with paint, that will crush my enemies on the field of battle, and now this pledge is recorded, and whilst it might just fade away, I'll always know it was here...

So, first of all, welcome to the Dakka P&M forum thread!

Second, I'm feeling the feels of gamer/project ADD kinship...and I will try to make you feel a little better by saying I may have a much more daunting (and shaming) vault of neglect than you...so have faith!

I see your collection of projects as very doable, and I hope that my words of encouragement help to motivate you to stay on task. The key is small wins. Keep giving yourself small, achievable goals and watch your attitude and momentum soar.

You've inspired me to do something similar with my own project blog..I've got a terrain project to finish up...but after that, I will be posting a small project for each game system/army/board game that I've got.

Good luck on these, my friend. I'll be back to check your progress from time to time. Keep up the good work!

Good luck Lythronax.

I have pretty well followed the rule of painting two models in a siting (infantry and not large models) with some movie I have seen before is the background. Switching between armies when I started getting tired of the same colours. Once you finish a couple of models you get inspired to do more.

Cheers,

CB

 Fango wrote:
So, first of all, welcome to the Dakka P&M forum thread!

Second, I'm feeling the feels of gamer/project ADD kinship...and I will try to make you feel a little better by saying I may have a much more daunting (and shaming) vault of neglect than you...so have faith!

I see your collection of projects as very doable, and I hope that my words of encouragement help to motivate you to stay on task. The key is small wins. Keep giving yourself small, achievable goals and watch your attitude and momentum soar.

You've inspired me to do something similar with my own project blog..I've got a terrain project to finish up...but after that, I will be posting a small project for each game system/army/board game that I've got.

Good luck on these, my friend. I'll be back to check your progress from time to time. Keep up the good work!

I've made pathetic progress I'm afraid, but thank you.

Real life interferes with a vengeance, and Adeptus Titanicus and Kill Team were so shiny...

Anyway, I did manage to make some progress on my Blood Warriors.











And I suppose its a bit typical, but I did originally mean to add the Gorechosen as goal, I've made some progress with them, but nothing special, just blocking out, so here is the basic pic I failed to upload...all those weeks ago.



And I did also intend to add a terrain.

I have had the usual grandiose plans for terrain, giant piles of sprues and half-arsed projects. I thought I'd start small with some small bits for kill team.

Aegis defence lines that I had just been plonking down as unpainted sections to serve as basic blocking cover/scatter terrain, I wanted to make them a little more customised and characterful, and to be thematically appropriate to my goal, to finish stuff, rather than leaving it unfinished.

First tried a single section, and scrounged through the bits box to find anything vaguely inspirational, and ended up building a little makeshift shrine.

The not exactly customised front side.




Used the bases from a lasercut MDF terrain websitethat has some nifty stuff, including a bunch of appropriately sized bases for linear terrain like this, and random bits of scatter scenery. https://www.wargame-model-mods.co.uk/ourshop/cat_872750-Terrain-Bases.html

A couple of other WIPS of the Aegis defence lines.

A sort of adhoc stores area, taking the idea that these aegis panels were put in place a while ago and have gradually become entrenched and altered over time.



Couple of others, field surgery, and normal defence line at the back.

Good to see you've made progress! Even small amounts add up! I really like the Nids you painted up in your original post, Carnifexes are one of my favourite models.
I have a hoard of unpainted models and boxes of sprues that I'll eventually get round to, but shiny things do catch my eye. I've got an aegis defence line lying around since 6th edition and you may have just given me an idea for my own.
Keep it up, hobby blogs are a great source of motivation!