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So, perhaps this is more of a general question, but it’s not one system specific so I think here is where it fits best.

What I’d like to know is what are people’s unpainted model counts?
I’m thinking, anything done to the table standard goes in the finished pile (even though I’d say a lot of that stuff I have an aim of going back to or doing more with perhaps).
I think it would be great to do a before and after count, so what you think you have done for each, and then actually what you do.
Take a bit of time and get out each case, all the boxes with models in etc, and do a quick count of everything.
This also works positively in I’m thinking a format of counting what is painted - so like 30/100 Space Marines. To also perhaps show how much has been achieved.

I’m going to count all my stuff and get out everything tomorrow (I think personally I’m going to photograph my complete armies showing it all whether painted or not, but that’s a different story).
My list will be somewhat like the below, but I couldn’t even tell you totals of what some of my armies have model wise so as to which are painted will be interesting to see whether I remember right etc (particularly the fantasy stuff hasn’t been out of the cases in years now).
I’m going to count each model as one as Gimli suggests, though things like my Steam Tank is obviously a lot more work than one man).

What I think I’ve painted/got:
100/400 Vampire Counts, 150/250 Empire, 40/40 Nurgle Warriors, 5/35 Ogres.
50/80 Dark Angels, 80/120 Orks, 15/70 Death Guard, 15/80 Necrons, 10/10 Skitarii, 8/8 Deathwatch, 0/30 Genestealer Cults, 1/60 Primaris.
10/82 Warhammer Underworlds, 15/60 Dropfleet Commander, 40/75 Deadzone, 30/80 Dreadball,
10/20 Pirate Skirmish, 0/25 Bolt Action, 0/16 Westfalia Figures, 1/25 Empire Of The Dead, 5/30 Random Figures, 0/70 Bones V (backed).

Quite a lot of stuff there. Not including a chunk of stuff from Mortal Realms which is about 40 models, but I I’m probably selling so left off.
It brings me to that my guess total is 585 models painted out of 1666.

For me it will certainly be interesting which of these totals if either are way off.
Maybe I’ve actually painted a lot more (or conversely but I hope not, less). Have I forgotten loads of units from the armies? The stuff I haven’t seen in a good while it’s hard to really remember, I’ve done this without searching through files for army lists that probably tell me the exact numbers in armies or whatnot.

So feel free to jump in with me and do some calculations, or just the second part if you just want to know where you’re at.
Either way, once I get through all my stuff, I shall total it all up and see where I get to,
Wish me luck

That's a rather embarrassing question.

I honestly don't know, but I imagine at best it's around 10%. I know you wanted exact counts and percentages, but that would be a couple of days effort.

We have a giant cleaning project planned this weekend for the new hobby room, so I will get back to you.

*translation: so much is buried in closets that I can't even begin to guess

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/767743.page

Painted 50%+ for sure, probably more like 70%+, but I have a large collection of various armies.

Yeah I’d imagine tomorrow will be a days work but I’m moving it all around (and separately wanted full army shots for a while now Of parts of my collection), so it seems like the best time to do the counting, one fell swoop and all.
I’m hoping I have more done Than I thought, particularly after selling several projects or old armies in the past few years - what could have been 10-20% done becoming more likely 25-35% I’d guess. Though I feel like the total figure count is gonna be wrong!

That is not a question I feel comfortable answering

I don't want to know the exact numbers but if I had to guess I would say that about half of the models I buy are built, half of that are undercoated, half of that are partially painted and half of that are finished. And half of that will be used in gaming.

Well I’ve finished sorting my room, and with it the count.
So my original post. Compared to the actual numbers.

What I think I’ve painted/got:
100/400 Vampire Counts, 150/250 Empire, 40/40 Nurgle Warriors, 5/35 Ogres.
50/80 Dark Angels, 80/120 Orks, 15/70 Death Guard, 15/80 Necrons, 10/10 Skitarii, 8/8 Deathwatch, 0/30 Genestealer Cults, 1/60 Primaris.
10/82 Warhammer Underworlds, 15/60 Dropfleet Commander, 40/75 Deadzone, 30/80 Dreadball,
10/20 Pirate Skirmish, 0/25 Bolt Action, 0/16 Westfalia Figures, 1/25 Empire Of The Dead, 5/30 Random Figures, 0/70 Bones V (backed).

What I actually have painted/got:
212/315 Vampire Counts, 205/252 Empire, 45/45 Nurgle Warriors, 0/89 Ogres.
92/102 Dark Angels, 108/115 Orks, 21/139 Death Guard, 18/88 Necrons, 10/10 Skitarii, 8/10 Deathwatch, 0/33 Genestealer Cults, 1/80 Primaris.
27/82 Warhammer Underworlds, 22/55 Dropfleet Commander, 39/180 Deadzone, 67/123 Dreadball,
7/39 Pirate Skirmish, 0/45 Bolt Action, 0/16 Westfalia Figures, 1/42 Empire Of The Dead, 36/103 Random Figures, 0/52 Bones V (backed).
Blood Bowl 20/40, 0/24 Stormcast, 0/15 Nighthaunt, 20/30 Khorramshahr Bloodbound

So there it all is.
Estimated: 585/1666
Actual 959/2147

I’m actually pretty happy, when some of the old fantasy cases came out, I realised I had completed a lot more than 8 thought.
Orks was the same, it’s all almost complete. Though I found many models I didn’t know I had or forgotten about (Blood Bowl and the AoS stuff entirely!).
Admittedly a few bits don’t have the base painted, mainly DG my current project and a few older models here and there, but for the totals I counted them.

For my sake if nothing else it’s nice to have all this.
Perhaps there will be light at the end of the tunnel!
I can easily take off what I painted this year so far and then get a year by year track going forward.
(I’ve gotten quite good at not buying too many more models in general after selling off a lot. Cursed City and two Underworlds warbands incoming!)

I've got 4500pts-ish of painted Space Wolves, maybe 400pts unpainted.

2400pts of Harlequins/Ynnari 150pts unpainted.

1000pts of Chaos Knights unpainted.

2000pts of Gloomspite Gits painted

2400pts of Skaven painted, maybe 600pts unpainted.

1000pts of Ossiarch Bonereapers painted.

I did a rough head count recently, so estimated:
180 infantry painted, 30 waiting in the pipeline
21 cavalry painted, 5 waiting
16 vehicles/Monsters/artillery painted, 5 basecoated, 2 unpainted

painted 99.9%, only stuf on my painting desk are waiting to get paint slap on to
i paint to relax so all my stuff get painted to tabletop standaard before i buy new stuf

I do actually keep track, so it wasn't too bad to total mine up. This is counting every unfinished model as 1, regardless of whether it's a goblin or a titan (insert Gimli gif here...).

Total is 798 finished out of 1421 - not too bad. It's still hundreds of unfinished minis, but at least it's over 50% painted!

WHFB: High Elves 137/206, Lizardmen 50/50, Orcs & Goblins 72/142
40K: Biel-Tan 257/354 Old Homebrew Firstborn: 55/60, Salamanders Firstborn 81/147, Deathwatch 50/50, Sororitas (OoOML) 39/77, Frozen Stars Harlequins 16/16, Legio Metalica 0/2 (that's one Titan and one Princeps on foot), Forge World Metalica 0/22, House Lakar Knights 0/7, Primaris (Chapter TBC) 0/84, Necrons 0/74, Death Guard 0/31, Tyranids 0/24, Orks 0/29
BFG: Plague Fleet 16/16
Adeptus Titanicus: Legio Metalica, House Lakar, House Krast: 25/30

Which may or may not add up to the total I gave. It's nice to have a few factions in there where they're 100% painted, though those collections are fairly small and could barely be called 'armies'. I'm mainly in this hobby for the painting, and I do all of my minis to what I consider well over tabletop standard, but I do have an unfortunate habit of buying faster than my paintbrush can keep up. Still, a good chunk of those unfinished models are ones from starter sets and battle boxes where those minis/factions weren't the main reason I picked up those sets (see: Macragge, Black Reach, Dark Imperium, Indomitus, Wake the Dead...). I'd like to paint them eventually, but there's a reason that other things have been painted first. Take those out and my progress looks better!

I've probably got 50,000 points of 40k stuff unpainted, maybe 500 painted, 5,000 in varying stages

I used to be embarrassed, but then I started tracking my progress. I committed to two models painted or sold before I added another. I did that for fifteen years and did get my unpainted pile to zero. This year I have not been as strict, but have still only acquired about 50 models and already 20 of them are painted.

CB

PS: You cannot count those Bretonnians in my For Sale Thread in the Swap Shop, as they belong to a member of my gaming group.

Painted: A few hundred. There's a small SM army, a GK army and an eldar army that haven't seen a table since 5th ed.

There are my 6 Infinity forces, some of which have up to 40 models each.
I don't put a model on the table unless it is painted. I also don't buy so many that I can't paint them all before doing so.


There ARE a pile of sprues of unpainted and unclipped bare grey plastic models, but they are being given away to other people (as they aren't things I will ever use. Mostly magazine freebies).

Fun.

40k: Craftworlds: 39/39 | Chaos 33/35 (2 characters left) | Harlequins 60/62 (2 skyweavers left)
AOS: StD: 47/53 (5 knights and the axe guy from the warband left) | Soulblight (new project) 3/19 (all skeleton warriors left)
Infinity: 14/15 (1 dragon lady) | Guild Ball Brewers: 5/6 | Guild Ball Morticians: 1/10
Blood Bowl: Dark Elves 15/20 (some random extra models left over) | Dwarves 13/14 (coach model left) | Willy Minis Chaos 0/16 (one day...) | Punga Vampirates 0/16 (can't wait to paint these!)

By my count that's 230 painted & 85 unpainted. So c.63% painted.

I must admit I found it quite surprising to do that exercise, I thought I'd actually have a higher percentage painted. 85 unpainted models means I've got plenty left to do, and I don't like having tons of models lying around on my shelves.

I have a spreadsheet to track stuff so usually have a pretty good idea of where I'm at. I try really really hard not to buy stuff that I'm not going to immediately paint – clearly, sometimes I fail. The Guild Ball minis I picked up at like 75% off, for instance... felt I couldn't leave that one. But in general I've sold off stuff that I'm not going to paint in the near future, and limited new purchases. I've also sold maybe 100 fully painted models in the last 12 months, mostly army projects I didn't think I'd finish.

Interesting exercise and sobering when put this way.

Well for AOS it's 546 painted, 275 unpainted. For these I made exact count recently and been updating as I paint stuff so I can say this for sure

For 40k haven't done such an exact count but I can safely say most are painted actually.

LOTR pretty sure over half the painted but again haven't made full count.

edit: More specifically for AOS:

Ogors: 40/42(painted/unpainted)
Slaves to darkness: 31/34
Slaanesh: 0/38
Stormcast: 68/122
Lumineth: 90/6
Gloomspite: 114/31
Flesh eater courts: 203/2

I don't have the exact ratio but for the most part I paint the stuff I buy or otherwise aquire. I've only been able to do this because I mostly just paint showcase models. To make this ratio even better I've learned painting with oils so I can paint models faster and complete armies in a reasonable amount of time.

Some great reads!
Glad to see some people are pleasantly surprised with how much they’ve actually done like I was.

@Bellerophon. I’m very simila in that I’m mostly about the painting not playing, though it doesn’t help with the whole see and want to paint thing.
And yeah it is great to have a faction 100% was very proud of my Nurgle Warriors Of Chaos. Ten years ago finished almost, but they were done, and I could go touch up to bring more in line with my current skill.
Maybe I will just do the last few models in the armies that are almost done too..

@Captain Brown.
I like the idea of selling or painting two to buying one, I probably got close to that in the last few years as I had a 2019 Of buying nothing, and 2018-2019 of selling off Brets, Lizards, Dwarfs, loads of Mantic, random blisters and on and on.
But on the paint side of it I could, should and will aim for the ratio.

So is the goal to just completely guess without actually counting what the size of our collections are, and then actually counting the models up?

What I think I own and have gotten painted:

Nighthaunt: 250/250
Bonereapers: 45/45
Junkforce KO: 34/36

Necrons: 225/265
Deathwatch: 0/54
Adeptus Titanicus: 19/20

GB Fishermen: 12/12
GB Morticians: 8/12
GB Butchers: 16/16
Bloodbowl: 13/13
Infinity: 2/25
DC Bane Crew: 6/6
Shadespire Mollog's Mob: 4/4
Necromunda: 8/15

Miscellaneous (Busts, 75mm figs, etc.): 20/30

Terrain (how do I even count this? individual pieces?) 1/30

What I know I own and have gotten painted:

Nighthaunt: 178/178
Bonereapers: 45/45
Junkforce KO: 35/37

Necrons: 136/179
Deathwatch: 0/56
Adeptus Titanicus: 18/19

GB Fishermen: 13/13
GB Morticians: 11/13
GB Butchers: 17/17
Bloodbowl: 13/13
Infinity: 2/25
DC Bane Crew: 6/6
Shadespire Mollog's Mob: 4/4
Necromunda: 8/15

Miscellaneous (Busts, 75mm figs, etc.): 8/19

Terrain (how do I even count this? individual pieces?) 1/34

Overall, the gap between what I what I own and what I have painted is fairly consistent between both sets of numbers, so I've got a fairly accurate gauge of what my pile of shame is. I did vastly over-estimate how much I think I own for two of my bigger collections (which, to be fair, my Nighthaunt and Necrons are fairly large collections and I don't count them regularly), and in terms of Miscellanous busts and figures, I know I trimmed down/sold a lot earlier last year, so I probably still thought I had more than I actually did.

The estimating bit was purely optional.
I’d made my list on paper when I was thinking how much I had before deciding to pull it all and do a real count.
So for me it was already there to compare.
I do think it’s very interesting when people gauge how much they think they have, particularly for I,Dee things they’ve not done in a while, and then grossly misjudged under or over, with the amount painted and the total there..

My unpainted model numbers right now are massively inflated due to a box of 130 15mm ww2 miniatures I recently bought.

Setting them aside at last count I was sitting at about 35 unpainted miniatures. Generally stuff I just don't have the motivation to paint because it's depressingly terrible in 40k, like genestealers, or stuff I already have a enough of for all the lists I run and aren't particularly exciting, like kabalite warriors.

Danny76 wrote:
@Captain Brown.
I like the idea of selling or painting two to buying one, I probably got close to that in the last few years as I had a 2019 Of buying nothing, and 2018-2019 of selling off Brets, Lizards, Dwarfs, loads of Mantic, random blisters and on and on.
But on the paint side of it I could, should and will aim for the ratio.

It really works, and it helps if your better half sees it happening. I have reduced what I have left to paint soo much that on our virtual painting nights, other members of the group have noticed. Now they are giving me items they admit they are never going to point or terrain they no longer need...which has been the main reason for my OOP Necromunda campaign to gather more steam and some models to paint.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:

Danny76 wrote:
@Captain Brown.
I like the idea of selling or painting two to buying one, I probably got close to that in the last few years as I had a 2019 Of buying nothing, and 2018-2019 of selling off Brets, Lizards, Dwarfs, loads of Mantic, random blisters and on and on.
But on the paint side of it I could, should and will aim for the ratio.

It really works, and it helps if your better half sees it happening. I have reduced what I have left to paint soo much that on our virtual painting nights, other members of the group have noticed. Now they are giving me items they admit they are never going to point or terrain they no longer need...which has been the main reason for my OOP Necromunda campaign to gather more steam and some models to paint.

Cheers,

CB

Ha, that’s not helping your numbers though!
Yeah when I did all the selling I made sure the wife was aware of everything going (and ideally never see the stuff coming in )


My other result from this little project, is to start linking all the remaining random models into camps of possible use.
Modern Day, Pirates, WWII, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Historical, (maybe some steampunk/Victorian fantasy type elements).
So everything should fit into these camps, and if I can group stuff into these and usable armies/teams or whatnot.
The problem is (and I was mentioning this in another thread somewhere, about the difficulty of it), the scales.

I have Warlord, Studio Minis, Hasslefree, Black Scorpion, Reaper, Westfalia, West Wind, Hero Forge & Titan Forge, then the few other single minis from places.
Obviously not everything matches setting, and some vary between heroic or not.
But it’ll just be a shame when I might have 25 pirate models, and then 15 are 32mm and 10 are 25or 28mm or whatnot.