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I don't necessarily mean 'done with gw' or 'done with 40k'.

It occurred to me recently and I've been pondering it since, wondering if others have had similar, or different experiences.

My 'realisation I was done with something came about from painting, funnily. I've always been drawn more to the B-list chapters that typically get a lot of exposure in forgeworld publications- chapters like the charcharadons, minotaurs and Raptors - more so than the a-listers like dark angels or apace wolves. Raptors were my big 'do them to the 9s'painting project.

Anyway, we sold our place earlier this year and bought again recently. In between, all my wargaming stuff was in storage. So when we move in to thr new place, first thing I did was get out all my models.

My Raptors. Green and grey.
My fifth border legion khador. Green and grey.
My ariadna. Khaki and... Green.
My cadians. Khaki and... Green.

And all the same Green. P3 traitor Green- lovely shade.

But looking at all that Green... and I was done. Of them, the only active project I am adding to is my Raptors. Literally just couldn't face painting that colour any more .

Thr story has a positive turn though as it gave me the incentive to start my Minotaurs project. and honestly just the change in paint scheme (literally: not Green!!!) has reinvigorated my painting.

So what are your stories of realising you were done with a project? What were thr consequences, both positive and negative? Where did you go next?

I started playing in 5'th. Decided on Tau. They were fast, could JSJ and they were weak in CC, so a lot of tactics was needed back then. Unless you played against IG, then we just sat in our corners and shot with tanks. ><
Anyway... I stopped playing a bit into 6'th. I didn't enjoy it at all. But at the dawn of 8'th, a new friend of mine nagged and nagged about me starting again, so I slowly did. I brought my Tau and really damn hated them. I was DONE with Tau. And their aesthetics doesn't appeal to me anymore. So I've shelved them indefinately. I am super tempted to sell them, because I'm "never" gonna play with them again. But it feels so wrong to sell them. I bought 2600p for 100 bucks and I can sell them for about 220 bucks now. But it feels wrong to sell my first army.

The upside was that I started comishion painting for friends to afford my then new army Death Guard. I've always loved Nurgle, and since the models looked sweet AF, it was a no-brainer. Once I had assembled roughly 2300p, I started Custodes. And once I reached about 2500p with them, I started Admech. But the Admech project is more... Rule of cool, but playable cool. I don't want to spend my few monies on models I won't reasonably play. So it's a slow long-going project.

So you're not done with a project so much as being done with the color green.

I know that feeling.
Last spring/summer I painted 320+ goblins (& some orcs). That's alot of green (and assorted browns). The project started with me needing a handful of goblins painted up for a D&D game. After those were done? I'm like, "Well, thanks to this damned pandemic, all I'm doing is sitting around watching Netflix. The orc/goblin box is out. All the paints etc are here. There is literally no better time than now to paint the rest of this stuff...." {there's ALWAYS been something better to do than goblins - until suddenly there wasn't}

How did I know when the project was done? I ran out of orcs/goblins to paint.

The positive? Every orc & goblin I own is now painted and I have yet another fully painted AoS/WHFB army.

The negative?
I'm not aiming to paint much of anything green/brown in the near future....
That's waaay more painting than I usually do in a year. I think I burned myself out as I can't even bring myself to finish off some Necrons.


My other current projects:
Necrons - not counting the painting, once I build 9 more Tomb Blades, 1 new Monolith, & Illuminor Szeras I'll be finished with my Necron update project as I'll have built everything I want.
SoB - there's about 20 models to go before I'm finished with this build project.

Where to next? Getting the Primaris 1/2 of my Indom box built/base-coated.

Done with a project? They have endings?

Seriously, I haven't considering much beyond some kill teams as done. Even then, I wouldn't mind going back of some of them and doing some extra detail/highlight work. I just haven't made the time as I have models that require more work and are more likely to be fielded in games.

I played a lot of WWII games. As such, I painted a lot of things green. I have more shades of green by at least 3 times than I do any other color. It never really bothered me. Green doesn't really have any issues to coverage, and if I remember correctly the human eye can pick out more shades of green than any other color. However, I do understand boredom with a project. I cycle through my various armies about every 3-4 weeks. Occasionally, I get caught in a cycling between projects like every day. This is due to either an extreme interest in painting bunch them all at once or an extreme disinterest in painting anything where I am looking for a project I can at least make some forward progress.

I will admit, I was concerned with my latest project Necrons of the Mephrit Dynasty. They are a combination of green (well Russian Uniform which is a type of green) and orange which are also my Primaris (Olive Drab green) and my GSC (orange). I already try to space out my Black Legion and Slaves to Darkness painting as they are in the same black with gold trim. I do think that is the trick to continuing painting projects. I know with my kill teams, I did make an effort to pick color schemes that were varied. Although, looking at them now, greens, yellows and black did come up a lot with them.

I hope to finish a few projects this year. Unless CSM get more new models, I think a few more Raptors/Warp Talons and Terminators and my Black Legion will be entirely complete. I might consider a Leman Russ and some Jackals for my GSC, but otherwise I have all the models I want for them too. My Slaves to Darkness army also only has a couple of things I would like to add before calling it completely done. When and if they get done, I have other projects to finish. If I happen to get them done. I could always go back and check if my models could use a bit more detail or high-light work.

I don't think I will really ever consider anything done. Just more or less incomplete. I don't know if that is a particularly good way to look at things, but I like to think the journey is more important than the destination. Or something.

I mean, most stuff I put down I come back to...eventually.

But I was halfway through painting my Word Bearers Chosen from the 6e starter set and watching the rules coming out for that edition...I just lost all interest in 40K for like 8 years. Still half painted, three house moves and a change of job later.

Planning on actually finishing them this year though!

Built up a Marine force, have been at it for around 8 years now when I bought the Strike Force box to give me something to do during uni.

Enjoyed it very much, painted them similar to Red Scorpions but different fluff. Eventually got them up to 3k but then they started to release Primaris. Didn't mind it but took a good while before I even bought my first box of Intercessors.

Now I read through the Codex and I honestly feel a bit of a dick if I were to play these guys against anything else. I don't have any Primaris vehicles, but was painting up my only squad of Eradicators when I read their new rules and I was just done with them. Haven't touched them since.

 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:
Done with a project? They have endings?

I played a lot of WWII games. As such, I painted a lot of things green. I have more shades of green by at least 3 times than I do any other color. It never really bothered me.

. I do think that is the trick to continuing painting projects. I know with my kill teams, I did make an effort to pick color schemes that were varied. Although, looking at them now, greens, yellows and black did come up a lot with them.

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Apparently some do, haha! Never thought I'd be one to be 'done' with an army, but 200 odd khadorans, 50 odd araidnans, about 100+ raptors and 70 odd metal.kasrkin painted the same shade of green, I found myself disheartened (still beats 'they changed the lore of my faction!')

Yeah, too much bro! Could do it other greens? Green trim? Fine! I have a small retribution of scyrah houseguard painting project that will have 2 shades of green. :p it's just that one drab military green that I can't do

A trick to painting is variety. I tend to do it for historicals and for games like necromunda. My gangs have something unifying them, in this case, for my orlock, ike sons of anarchy, it's the cut/jacket and the armour. Boots, jeans, top and hair will all be different. Makes them feel like a bunch of individuals, you know? For ny historicals, I mark the shield the same but the clothes are a rainbow of different colours. And it works really well

I deliberately used new color combos for each army to avoid getting sick of the same shades. None of my armies are 'done' per se, but they are rather large and it's getting harder to envision adding much to any of them.

I started with the 3rd ed. starter box set of marines and dark eldar, which I painted dark blue and black and dark purple and black respectively. Tyranids with dark red and yellow came along and then orks wearing mostly orange came next. Chaos had bluish green with gray and black trimmed in copper, and a commissioned army was purple and gold Sisters of Battle. The last army was a joint project of Imperial Guard in a desert tan camouflage. I admit changing up the colors helped maintain interest.

I've never really had a desire to make more city ruins out of styrofoam sheets. What I have looks great and I could use another couple buildings, but the muse for that specific process has never returned.

My Renegade Militia project was finished for me by FW discontinuing the models. Otherwise I like to keep my options open. I have a fair amount of backlog stuff for different systems so that I can jump to whatever inspires me at the moment.

I realize I'm done when almost everything is still sitting in boxes years later.

Ouch, I feel called out.

I think it was two years ago, CA came out, didn't change thing for the better again, there was no codex even rumored, I looked what I would have to do to make my army work better and it more or less required me buying a practicaly new GK army, minus the characters. For the same money, I could have bought an army for another game, or start a large chunk of an army which would always be better then GK. Then I remember that I have no money to buy 6+boxs of GK strikes, and decided that I am more or less done with the army as far as buying something else then rules to play with. Turned up to be a good thing to do in the end.

This is why my armies are deliberately different colours.
Saim Hann
Dark Angels
Tau (teal)
Crimson Fists

Done with a 40k project?
My projects run ad infinitum ...