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This is the first thread on dakka that has scared me. I dare not even try and compute this number.

 Redbeard wrote:
This is the first thread on dakka that has scared me. I dare not even try and compute this number.

It only hurts the first time, trust me.

I think around 1,8kpounds worth of minis to paint, very few havent been assembled and undercoated though, been trying to do that as I have bought them. Been collecting for 2 weeks

Maybe £150 - £200 but I've just started a new army of Necrons and I'm already bored stiff of building them and peeved with the seeming symmetry of the Triarch Stalker when in fact, the legs did need to go on a certain way $%£%&

I have 2 boxes of the new Plaguebearers that I have not had a chance to get to yet, other than that I am painting or done painting everything else. My wife and I have an agreement that we only play with painted stuff and I can always get more stuff if what I have is painted up, keeps me on top of projects (mostly). There are a handful of abandoned painting projects for Chaos in boxes but they are 3 color minimum and playable, just not "done". We live in a small place so we keep that rule in effect just to keep from drowning in projects/crafts!

Whoops! I do have a small horde of about 40 Rogue Trader era miniatures that will become henchmen at some point... probably 10 bucks or more a piece now.

 Shandara wrote:

 Redbeard wrote:
This is the first thread on dakka that has scared me. I dare not even try and compute this number.

It only hurts the first time, trust me.

It hurts just as much every time. But do share, Redbeard

I never miss an opportunity to run inventory, because I'm apparently a masochist (if you've read enough of my posts, you'll know how frequently I lament my sub-sluggish pace). Don't know point costs well enough to use it as shorthand universally, so by model count:

40k
+Orks:
-18 Boys
-3 Nobs
-metal weirdboy/warphead
+SM:
-1 Rhino
+Mantic
-2 Marauders (sample sprue)

Mantic
+Undead
-2 ghouls (sample sprue)
-30 Revenant, 2x command
-20 Skeleton Warriors
+Orcs
-9 Axe, command
+Elf
-2 bolt throwers + crew
-40 Spearmen, 2x command
-40 Bowmen, 2x command
+Dwarf
-10 Ironclad
+GW
-VC metal Vampire Lord

Terrain
+Pegasus
-Gothic City Building, large
-Gothic City Building, ruins

Board Games
-Dwarf King's Hold: Dead Rising (roughly clipped and poster tack-ed together temporarily, for play)

Non-Wargaming
-Monogram M48A2 Patton Tank
-Revell Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10
-Revell Wright Flier

Hard to estimate cost, since DKH is literally the only item bought at list price - two metal characters were on clearance at FLGS, Mantic plastics were from the holiday grab bag (the two sample sprues were freebies), GW plastics and Pegasus kits were bought on Ebay, aviation/armor kits were bought at Michaels with coupons or on clearance... All told, I'd guess it's somewhere between $200 and $250. DKH cost me $60 and all the rest of the Mantic figs were another $60 (the messenger bag came pre-assembled, so I won't count it ). The Ork plastics are what remains unassembled of a larger "new on sprue" lot.

Not nearly as bad as I would have thought, since a far greater proportion of my collection feels "untouched" to me, having been assembled for anywhere from years to months, but remaining unbased, unprimed, and, of course, unpainted. Were I counting those, I'd have to add easily (honestly, these are very conservative estimates) 1k more points of Orks, over 1.5K of SM, and two Infinity starter boxes (Ariadna and Haqqislam, with only the Janissaire painted, although the Veteran Kazak awaits final assembly, as his arms proved fiddly). At least my various all-but-abandoned scratchbuilds haven't cost me more than $30 in materials and adhesives.

I think I might have ~1.5-2k$ of stuff hanging out about waiting to be assembled or painted...

Unbuilt or started building hmmm....

For Fantasy, not as much, around $400 unbuilt mostly vampire counts.

40k, 5000 pts worth of new dark Eldars not touched
90 gargoyles and Harridan
Tau... around 2 vehicles and 2 suits not done

chaos... mostly not assembled ( might as welll sell it )

1 gundam model because it was onsale for $16 and not sure how to go about painting / assembling it

and tons more but Im too lazy to care about warhammer atm :'P

1k worth of Tau I have to rebuild, bought the entire list off ebay for 450$ and the twit that put everything togethor used a rubber cement and a primer with a grit, Its been fun though making my elite fire warrior squads.

Around another 1.5k in Guard, their largely on hold, and maybe sold soon as I am tired of that masterbation army it is.

100$ worth of Ork stuff, in different states of building, making a biker army is slow work.

Metric butt loads? After 30+ years in the gaming hobby and owner of Armorcast, I have lots... Never going to get it all done before I die...

Armorcast stuff
3 Eldar Phantoms
3 Eldar Revenants
Bunch of Tempests
A fair pile of Baneblades and Shadowswords
3 Reavers (will be Nurgle)
3 Warhounds
A number of Tyranid big bugs
Quite a few Chaos vehicles (Cannons of Khorne mostly)
A few BattleTech Atlases, Mad Cats and Vultures

Regular 40K stuff
2 DV sets...
Huge Nurgle army
Good sized Sisters army
A good start at an AdMech army (easily 2-3000 points even if AdMech stuff has high points costs)
Am actually working my way through my Necromunda stuff
Down to about 20 pieces (mostly big kits) for my Tyranids
Lots and lots of metal Chaos Terminators and other chaos bits. Was able to purchase at metal price on a visit to GW so my carry on contained 2+ kilos of GW metal. London airport security was not amused, but let it on the plane...
Some metal Eldar, lots more metal Marines (DA)
About 15 plastic kits. Land Raiders, IG, Eldar, Strongpoint, 2 Fortresses of Redemption for my DAs
And lots more

Other stuff
A bunch of Warzone, BattleTech and Dark Age metal, some WarMachine and god knows what else...
Large numbers of WWII 1/72 scale armor kits

Tim

After I dumped my Orks and Tau I have maybe $100.00 of stuff that needs to be worked. It is real liberating that when you buy a unit it is the only thing you have to work on since everything else is done.

At least £150 worth.

Ork Trukk, couple of dozen random Orks, two boxes of Gretchin, Tervigon, Flying Hive Tyrant, 8x Genestealers, dozen or so Termagants, box of Lychguard, box of Flayed Ones, box of Warlord Games Commando's, Blood Bowl and some random metal Crooked Dice & Harlequin miniatures I plan on using for 7TV.

And that's UNTOUCHED. There's then all the assembled but not painted/unfinished models lying around :(

Almost nothing is unassembled, a few ga(u)unts and skeletons perhaps.

Unpainted now. . .hrm.
I have 'painted' all my Tyranids, I think.

Not a single Tomb King model has paint yet though - so a few hundred I guess.

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The truly unbuilt stuff is the 40k stuff I've bought for my son....he'll look at the pieces, fit them together and build maybe one or two models from a kit. He's got 'Nids, Crons, and SWs....many a kit, two actual unfinished Cron Battleforces. And he's kind of out of the hobby ATM, he said I could build and paint his stuff....so I am.

I'd say about $500 -$750 for his stuff.

My two main armies are Eldar and Dark Angels, and I'm starting to pick up Dark Eldar stuff as it catches my eye. My MO on my own stuff is to build it up 50-75% before I get sidetracked by thinking how I can mod it to make it even better, or just sidetracked by another project. So started, virtually nil, but unfinished I'd say around $1500 give or take $200.

I've got smatterings of Reaper, Anima Tactics, Infinity, and other random stuff that is really items that have caught my eyes. This bulk is mainly unfinished/untouched and is probably around $200.

And finally I bought heavily into Confrontation in the early 2000's and just before Rak switched over to PPMs. I bought into Giffons, Lions, Wolfen, & Devourers as these were the armies I thought were the coolest. The bulk of this is either unassembled or unpainted and is upwards of $400 at least.

So between all this stuff I think maybe around $3000.

Not too much stuff. All my 40k models are done (except for a single Eldar Farseer that I liked as a model and haven't gotten around to painting yet). My Fantasy OnG on the other hand... There are about 100+ Night Goblins still unpainted (although assembled), at least 20 Orc Boyz and a Boar Chariot, and 20 Goblins. I think that's all. Money-wise, I'm not sure how much this all adds up to.

This thread makes me feel much better about my unbuilt collection.
1 Battle Wagon
2 Trukks
Box of Nobz
Box of Boyz
12 Bikers

All of them more or less on the table and waiting for the weather to get cold, so I have an excuse not to be outside all the time.

Needing painting:
*60 grots
*20 Lootas
*20 Shootas
*20 Sluggas
*15 Kommandos
*10 Mega Nobz
*1 Wunderrokkit
*1 Stompa head

Stuff waiting to be built:
*30ish yard-sale and ebay auction ork bikers (next big project)
*20 Stormboyz from an Ebay lot
*An old broke Armorcast baneblade to become a Skullhamma
*A liftdroppa stompa half built
*3 painted 3rd Edition land raider BWs to become battlefortresses with some add ons.

Really not all that much. I am usually in modeling mode or painting mode and I just finished preparing for NOVA. So I am probably going to churn through assembled units who just need paint. I painted 15 shootas in one day on sunday so now I get to do a 'fun' unit to reward myself then back to painting grots or something.

My apartment is infested with 100+ rats. And by rats I mean Skaven.
Also have about 10+ random figures scattered about that needs some painting as well.

Literally thousands of miniatures and countless thousands of dollars spent. I've been collecting miniature since 1983 and had a significant issue w/ -hoarding- collecting in the 90's. I was gone from the hobby from '99 to '09 but as soon as I got back into it I started to amass even more stuff. Then about a year ago I won an auction on eBay for a monstrous collection of old IG / CSM / random bitz / terrain, etc., most of it unpainted and a lot of it still in blister / box. I later found out from the seller that it was from their father's estate sale and they hoped I got better used out of them than he did.



That hit me pretty hard. I started looking at the overwhelming and unmanageable amount of things I have and decided I'm not going to do that to my kids. I have so many great ideas, so many projects I want to do, so many miniatures to build and paint, but at 45 I am feeling the press of time and eventually all things go to Papa Nurgle.

Over the next few months I culled my collection down to the items I am absolutely and genuinely certain I'll maintain an interest in, have scheduled what I want to do as far as projects go, and have started to clean my life up. I started w/ my gaming / hobby area first and removed 5 contractor bags and countless cardboard boxes of JUST 'terrain building' stuff. I also sorted through my entire collection and about 70% has been inventoried / boxed / ready for sale.

I feel a lot better about where I am in modeling and in life. My workspace is clean all the time, I'm able to focus on a few projects at a time instead of feel overwhelmed bu the 15-20 I was trying to manage. I get more work done in less time. I look forward to my next project instead of feeling like it is 'work'.

All total I still have about 1k models left, but most of those are painted or directly slotted for specific projects. I genuinely enjoy modeling again and I feel now I can realistically expect to finish the vast majority of the things I have left before returning to the warp that spawned ms so many years ago.

Word of advice to the Young Bloods- spend time, not money. You'll be a lot happier for it 20 years from now.

Unbuilt or unpainted, I have the majority of 3 armies. It's a big reason why I'm selling and downsizing to 2 armies instead of the 4 I have now. 1000s of points...I don't even want to think of the monetary value.

Probably less than $200 and that includes my resin anime figure garage kits.

I really try not to have too much just laying around. I tell myself I have to finish a unit before I can purchase another one. This keeps me motivated and why I have 4 fully painted armies and 1 currently under construction.

Two anime figures
1 ork warbiker that needs a little converting and paint.
1 ork tankbusta boy + bomb squig
1 set of aobr orks boys
1 box of DE warriors
1 box of DE reavers
1 box of Kroot (primed)

I have to stop counting after just compiling the Tyranid army I have been hoarding bugs since 1995 and have recently stripped all my bugs to repaint in a matching theme. but counting all the GW, FW, armorcast, old school forgeworld, Dark Arts minis and chapterhouse puts me just shy $9,700. sadly I have BFG Necromunda Bloodbowl and a eldar army of similar size to the bugs.

more then i could count
I have a whole hordes army I'm never gonna use
my orks, chaos, space marines
then half armies like dwarves, undead, chaos-beasts and warrior, snotlings...

i dont even play much anymore (especially not 40K, as I dislike 6th ed, 8th ed sucks, but 6th sucks worse)

Oh I probably have close to a couple grand at current prices.

And it is only getting worse.

Most of it is kinda assembled. Only like, 5 models are done being painted, and my two valks (of three) just need weapons and they are done

Everything else needs repainting, rebuilding, building, or painting. There is a good stack still NOS

Ugh, I try not to think about it.

Off the top of my hand

Death Korp of Krieg Army (about $1k) in FW bags
Deathwing Army
Warriors of Chaos WFB army
LOTR Rohan Army
LOTR Metal Galadrhim Army
Gothic Fleets - Orks and Eldar
Unassembled and unpainted stuff for my current WordBearers, Fleshtearers, Daemonhunters/GK, Dark Eldar, and Bretonnians.

Non-GW stuff
10mm Seven Year's War Austrians
15mm Napoleonic French
15mm ACW
FOW German Panzergrenadier Army
FOW US Armored Rifle Army
28mm Perry Samurai
28mm Perry War of the Roses
1/300 WW2 Aircraft for Check Your Six
1/600 Modern Aircraft for Check Your Six Jet Age
28mm Conquest and Perry Indians for French and Indian War

I'm sure if I dig around in my closets, I'd find more that I am unaware I bought and/or acquired. The above is bad enough...

In the neighborhood of fifty or sixty boxed kits and three battleforces (mostly Chaos, some Daemons, Chaos Warriors, a bunch of Eldar, SM, Dark Angels, Blood Angels, and a few thousand points of Necrons), and a pile of misc metal blisters (mostly OOP chaos).

I buy mostly used and OOP miniatures, and do alot of trading so it's hard to really put a value, but my tally of completely unpainted stuff is pretty daunting. I'll put a value as a conservative worth if ebayed as my best guest

Void Junkers
50 Figs, 4 vehicles
$250

RT and 2nd edition era Space Marines
60 figs (mix of plastic and metal)
$300

Current Edition IG Vehicles
4 Tanks, 1 Valk
$250

Post Apoc figures and vehicles of various brands
50 figs, 10 vehicles
$150

Various Fantasy figs Reaper, GW, Mantic etc
100 FIgs
$300

Vintage Metal Magic Sardaykin Legion
50 figs, 1 tank
$210

Necromunda
30 figs
$150

Inquisitorial type figs from GW and Warzone
30 figs
$130

Total: $1700 (350 figs and 15 vehicles.)
Holy crap, I had no idea I had this much stuff! That's not even counting the many projects I have in the works, or terrain, or 10mm and 20mm stuff. I was just congratulating my self on having downsized. I guess that was premature.

A bunch of space marine vehicles, half a Dark Vengeance box, a Khador army & a Cryx army. About $500 worth of stuff but I got it all in trade so that's OK. Stuff I buy I usually put it together pretty quick.

This thread makes me feel so much happier.

Unbuilt only 1 box of termagants.

Unpainted, the termagants, some gargoyles, tyranid warriors, 15 marines or so, oh and the whole of Island of Blood