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The Great”ish” Hobby Clean up

So I’ve reached peak pile of shame!



I think Ive devised a realistic plan to try to reduce it. No actual picture as I don’t have a lens wide enough.

I know I wont be able to just not buy anything so a blanket no buy policy won’t work.
I know that painting to a deadline or target also helps (getting minis ready for D&D and da red gobo for Christmas etc)

So I’m going to put myself to the following rule;
I can only buy a new mini if I’ve earned it by tackling the pile of shame, Using the below scoring system.

1.0

I’ll document my progress here each weekend + the usual social media places

Thanks for looking

UPDATE 20/05/20

New Scoring system

Intriguing. Good luck!

Good luck, keep us updated

cheers both

doh! must have forgotten to hit enter for this last week ill post last weeks progress today then this weeks tomorrow


Not a lot of hobby time last 2 weeks this is my progress on the pile of shame, 16 minis assembled 1 painted and finished.



18 points accumulated

Total points = 18

Finished minis
“Corvus” paladin of the raven queen

This is my character for Adventure League a Hexblade paladin, personality is a bro trying to be an edgelord and failing.



White hair because I watched a lot of the witcher and there was just too much black on the mini with black hair too.

Hobby Clean up week 3

Bit more painting this week, rather than building got a build day set for today while i try to stay calm watching the rugby.



13 points accumulated this week

Total points = 31
enough point to buy one mini

Painting WIP
Stuff i put some paint on last week




Finished minis
Pilot



From crooked dice Colony87 first of Wave 3 finished. Very much influenced by the Xwing pilots in Star Wars.




Hill Giant



DND group are going to do Storm kings thunder soon which means giants are needed.
Saw this 3D print on Etsy and needed to get him.





Last pic is a size comparison against the only official hill giant I have.

Great paintjobs here. Love the paladin and the pilot looks really crisp as well.

I had to look twice at the second hill giant's belly though. Interesting curves going on there

Great work! I am in a similar predicament, I love how you are motivating yourself.

Thanks both

 Flapjack wrote:
Great paintjobs here. Love the paladin and the pilot looks really crisp as well.

I had to look twice at the second hill giant's belly though. Interesting curves going on there

lol

Hobby Clean up week 4

Progress this week



16 points accumulated this week

Total points = 47
enough points to buy one mini


Painting WIP
Stuff i put some paint on last week




Finished minis
Fantasy Soldiers
Captain and Spearman finished





well i say finished but as i posted the pics i notices that i didn’t put the decal on the models shield :(
ill count it and get the decal on tomorrow

They are bold and bearded and i love them

 amazingturtles wrote:
They are bold and bearded and i love them

thank you

Week 4
No finished minis this week, but a good amount of built minis



11 points accumulated this week

Total points = 58
almost enough points to buy two minis


Painting WIP
Stuff i put some paint on last week



on the colour of the storm giants armour, worked on the red for some of the sisters and got all but the posters done on the Steam punk advertising boards I built last week

Awesome work here, cloaks look super smooth! What was your recipe? Giant is coming along nicely as well.

That's a cool system!
It's really hard not to buy new minis instead of building / painting the old ones first

Good work so far!

Thanks Both

King Thor wrote:
Awesome work here, cloaks look super smooth! What was your recipe? Giant is coming along nicely as well.

Recipe is Mephiston red, nun oil wash, mephiston red on raised/ flat areas, wild rider red on sharp edges and big folds in fabric


Week 6
Opposite of last week just finished minis, no build ones



12 points accumulated this week(6 x 2pts for normal, 4 points for character and 4 points for the large mini)

Total points = 70
enough points to buy two minis

Finished Minis

FaceHuggers
6 more face huggers to the Xeno hoard



Purple”ish” Worm



From Reaper minis got this in the Kicksterter ages ago but didn’t know what to paint it as until i started playing DND.
went purple but not too purple.






Ultramarine lieutenant



Finally got this dude finished so i could get at least one Ultramarine finished for #marchformacragge
Happy with how he’s come out but don’t think the edge highlights are coming through very well in the pics

Aw, adorable little face huggers! And the worm is quite cool too

Worm looking great, and so is the primaris. Great progress made, and I really love this idea.

I too am planning to make a decent dent in the grey pile of shame in 2020, and something like this could really work

Thanks Both


Purchase!
First purchase since i started the point system.



Harshnag has arrived for Storm kings thunder!

30 points gone back down to 40 still enough to but another mini

Point Total = 40

Nice clean paint job on the lieutenant.
The work is really cool too!

He's a pretty mighty looking guy, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with that figure

Thanks Guys


Week 7

Pretty happy with the progress this week especially given the Doom Eternal Distraction



17 points earned
9 built (1pt each)
4 finished (2 pt each)

Total points = 57


Finished Minis

Ultramarines
Got two more ultramarines over the line and finished







Albion Rifles Sergeant
Sergeant Jones of the Albion rifles reporting for duty, another mini that was just waiting to be finished now finally finished.





Rogue Psyker
had this mini for ages but never finished it now i have




I’ll probably use her as a Rogue Psyker in Blackstone Fortress, here’s a size comparison



and some lore for her

Sgt Jones looks great! Serious attention to detail in painting the Union Flag on his shoulder pad. You even got the red saltire orientation right, kudos!

The giant terminator like thing looks cool, but I’m most interested in your plans for the ambull. She’s such a cool mini

 gobert wrote:
Sgt Jones looks great! Serious attention to detail in painting the Union Flag on his shoulder pad. You even got the red saltire orientation right, kudos!

The giant terminator like thing looks cool, but I’m most interested in your plans for the ambull. She’s such a cool mini

Ta dude, the Flag is just a transfer no way could these hands ever paint something so tiny

Week 8

Last week was a break in the project for Final Fantasy 7, so not counting that



9 points Earned

3 built (1 pt each)
2 vehicle sub assemblies (1 pt each)
2 finished minis (2 pts each)

Total points = 66


Finished Minis

Human Wizard

From Mantic Games Dungeon saga, I Did my best but there wasn’t a lot of definition in the face, pretty happy with how the cloth and leather trousers came out tho.





Dwarf Warrior

My first Dwarf, again from Mantic Games Dungeon Saga.

Everything is looking great mate. I think I may follow in your footsteps for the ability to curb my spending.

Those fireforge minis look great! I'm going to be painting a few myself shortly going for red padded armour.

Keep up the lovely minis.

Love how your ultra primaris look. I can't put my finger on it, but they look so much grittier than I am used to, and not 'cartoony' at all!

Mantic stuff looking great also, and very interested to see your work on the Ambull

Thanks both

Week 9
Set myself a challenge this week to earn 30 point on my hobby clean Up system so I could order sister Tariana. (I have the points saved up to order her anyway but I do like a challenge)



Mission accomplished

30 minis assembled 30 points earned

Total points = 96

Excuse me I’m going to order a Sister of battle

Logen Magnuson

Human Barbarian/fighter waiting for a future campaign to be played in
Favourite hero from Dungeon saga, good details and works in the PVC.
Put in the extra time in on him and v happy with how he’s come out.

Finished some Private security troops for Mantic’s Star Saga and general sci fi shenanigans.




Painted one of the Guards with genestealer Cult skin as a tiny easter egg


Heres the Whole Private security force including the ones i did previously, led by the guy with a stash obviously.

Nice work, I like how you’ve done their bases. Very neat and straight lines, were they freehand?

 gobert wrote:
Nice work, I like how you’ve done their bases. Very neat and straight lines, were they freehand?

Thanks
Yeah all free hand

Another finished mini

One more sinner or the united colours of heresy,
John Bullock formerly of the minotaurs chapter.

I approve of a chaos Minotaur marine . It just seems right, the bad rep that Minotaurs have in fantasy should make them chaos marines and not the High Lords of Terras gestopo.

Cheers Theo

Doralys the Oracle
Sister Doralys has taken armour of faith a little too literally or she’s a bit tapped .
Either way the mini is stunning and usable in a lot of games and settings. From Raging Heroes