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by all the dark gods, dave... where do you *put* everything?! as an aside, I really dig the idea of "paint one thing before you buy another". that's probably more realistic then "paint it all before you indulge in another plastic crack fix" :p

 varl wrote:
by all the dark gods, dave... where do you *put* everything?! as an aside, I really dig the idea of "paint one thing before you buy another". that's probably more realistic then "paint it all before you indulge in another plastic crack fix" :p

Heh....no kidding.

I have a large closet with many shelves literally FULL of unbuilt (or built and not painted) stuff off my game/hobby room.

Built armies are in cases on shelves in the game room.

It is an accumulation of years of gaming - almost nothing was purchased full retail - I usually save up my gaming budget for black friday or end of year sales (my FLGS has a 33% sale twice a year) and I do a lot of commissions and get paid in models most of the time. For example, I recently finished a thunderhawk painting / basing (that thing is HEAVY) commission, and the payment for that was a riptide and some other stuff.

To tackle it all I try to make lists and divide the work into smaller groups so I don't get burnt out.
(for example, this weekend is base last weekends painted pathfinders, assemble and mag barracuda #2).

I have actually declared cold turkey on new purchases - and am going to try and finish my Tau and Nids by the end of the year.
(I still have a few commissions in the pipeline, but am taking payment for those in X-Wing minis).

Yeahh...i dont think i can do that lol. I got my hands on 1250usd worth of orks for half off and i wasnt even done with the other 1000 i had lol, was too good of an offer to pass up. I fully intend to keep it all, its just such a huge pile.....rofl

And now i need to build terrain instead because i have none and my friends and i are parting lol

This thread is a real feel good thread. I can rest easily knowing there's people with much much more unpainted stuff!

Tyranids:
6 nearly painted Termagants
12 nearly painted Hormagaunts
2 magnetised Hive Tyrants
1 Doom of Malan'tai
2 Zoanthropes
3 Hive Guard
6 Warriors
41 Termagants
15 Hormagaunts
1 magnetised Carnifex
1 half assembled Trygon

X'Lanthos:
1 Commander
1 Assassin
1 Soldier Squad Leader
4 Soldier

I don't know if I can do this...

Got a Devastator squad and a land speeder done. Calculated it out, and I have 29 figures and eight vehicles left to paint. And after seeing a few of the epic lists earlier, im feeling pretty good about my plastic crack habits.

 Ascalam wrote:

DE - making no promises on these guys (models are too shiny to resist)

Archon x 2
Succubus x 2
Lelith
Sliscus
Drahzar
Malys
Urien - painted
Haemy x 6- 4 painted
Sathonyx

70 warriors/trueborn - 5 painted
50 wyches/bloodbrides
9 raiders - 2 painted
9 venoms - 1 painted
10 Grotesques
30 wracks - painted
30 Incubi
3 Taloi
3 Chronoi
50 Hellions
12 Reavers - 3 painted
15 Beastmasters
5 Fiends
10 Razorwing swarms
30 Scourges
3 Ravagers
3 Razorwings/Voidravens - 1 painted

Wow and I thought I liked to make sure I had plenty of options for an army that I make...*50* Hellions?? Are you insane??

Skriker

OK. Here we go. I'll have to edit this list when i confirm that everything has arrived

40 warriors
10 Immortals
10 Scarabs
3 Ghost Arks
1 Monolith
12 Wraiths
2 Tomb Sentinels
4 Pylons
1 Tesseract Vault
15 Acanthrites
1 Night Shroud Bomber
1 Tesseract Ark

Most of my models are packed away because im about to move, so im going off my head. But, painted i have:

Ghazzy
KFF Mek
Warboss on Bike (custom)
Wazdakka (custom)

5 MANz (technically not painted, i bought the lot for 45bucks and they were prepainted lol, im stripping them before i throw away my green sea though)
16 Lootas (12 of which are custom built)
80 Shoota Boyz
10 Big Shootas
3 Rokkitz
1 Trukk
1 Battlewagon
1 Dakkajet
3 Deffkoptaz
10 Grotz and a Runtherder
6 Warbikerz (4 with Klaws)

Unassembled... and/or unpainted...uh...LOT more lol. I dont even know how many boyz i have, i have around 24 bikes, some storm boyz/kommandoz, ~10 lootaz, 4 more battlewagons/dakkajets, 60 grotz, some kustom kannons, 7 deffkoptas...omg i have more than i thought lol i be slacking!

EDIT: Oh, how the crap did i forget my kustom Deffbrute thats painted and has a layer of dust on him? Insanely badass model (Hellbrute converted to a mutated Ork counting as a Deffdread) but never fielded because the rules just suck so bad. Also have 2 normal Deffdreads and 3 kits of Killa Kanz unassembled lol

 Skriker wrote:

 Ascalam wrote:

DE - making no promises on these guys (models are too shiny to resist)

Archon x 2
Succubus x 2
Lelith
Sliscus
Drahzar
Malys
Urien - painted
Haemy x 6- 4 painted
Sathonyx

70 warriors/trueborn - 5 painted
50 wyches/bloodbrides
9 raiders - 2 painted
9 venoms - 1 painted
10 Grotesques
30 wracks - painted
30 Incubi
3 Taloi
3 Chronoi
50 Hellions
12 Reavers - 3 painted
15 Beastmasters
5 Fiends
10 Razorwing swarms
30 Scourges
3 Ravagers
3 Razorwings/Voidravens - 1 painted

Wow and I thought I liked to make sure I had plenty of options for an army that I make...*50* Hellions?? Are you insane??

Skriker

That's a matter of some debate

I plan on getting 120 of them someday, and running them as troops with Sathonyx, with Reavers and Scourges as support

Of course i also intend on getting 30 Mandrakes just for the painting joy, so hey...

 Ascalam wrote:


That's a matter of some debate

I plan on getting 120 of them someday, and running them as troops with Sathonyx, with Reavers and Scourges as support

Of course i also intend on getting 30 Mandrakes just for the painting joy, so hey...

Ascalam, you seem to be the definition of "Go big or go home"

20 Catachans (First layer)
Leman Russ (primed)
Leman Russ Demolisher (primed)
Basilisk/ Salamander & Earthshaker platform(primed)
3 Scout Sentinels (Built, Unpainted)
Valkyrie (Unbuilt)

I am feeling much better about my addition now lol...

I have yet to paint:

Commissar Yarrick
Creed
Lord Solar Macharius
1 Leman Russ
6 Lascannnon Teams
6 Steel Legion Plasma
2 Steel Legion Commissar
40-50 Steel Legion Infantry

I'm totally OCD when it comes to painting though. It generally takes me 4-6 days to paint a single guardsman. Not including basing time. Basing is another 1-2 days in itself, depending if I screw up or not. Just this week I had a guardsman 70% finished, tried painting while I was tired....did not end well. Ended up having to take acetone & stripping the entire model. Went right back at it & its back to about 50% completed.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Ascalam wrote:


That's a matter of some debate

I plan on getting 120 of them someday, and running them as troops with Sathonyx, with Reavers and Scourges as support

Of course i also intend on getting 30 Mandrakes just for the painting joy, so hey...

Ascalam, you seem to be the definition of "Go big or go home"

Hey, no comments on my weight!

I'm a bit OCD with my armies. I like to collect the full FOC. If I collected Marines it would be collecting the entire chapter, and gods help me if I ever start collecting Guard.

Some people want a large army even if its impossible to run it even in an apoc game (since it'd all die to 2-3 Str D pi plates before getting anywhere).

A friend of mine plays Blood Angels and before he moved he put his army out on our 2 game boards to make sure he had everything. We couldnt play for 2 days, he covered BOTH boards with marines and mind you these were 6by6ft boards we had taped off to be the right size for playing.
Off the top of my head i'd say he had around 150 normal everyday blood angel marines. Thats just marines, not termies dreads vehicles bikes planes etc lol

He says he wants to field an entire chapter.

I NEED TO BUY SOME.... this is very hard...

Want to buy a penitent Engine to model a homebrew character.
Must resist.

I have :-

Dark Eldar
Archon (half finished)
10 wyches (half finished)
20 warriors (almost finished)
5 incubi
1 khymera (almost finished)
1 Medusa
5 scourges (primed)

Update

1 Dakka Jet Conversion

4 Loota boy conversions

2 Storm Boy conversions

3 Lobba artillery conversions (possible, depends on bitz available)

3 skinks for the Engine of the Gods.

I might hold off on the Ork conversions until the update. Wouldn't want to build that Dakka Jet from that Academy P-35A fighter, only to find that Dakka Jets are useless.

Dakka Jets are far from useless.
I've heard tell it's a pretty nasty plane, with a lot of firepower.

 Ovion wrote:
Dakka Jets are far from useless.
I've heard tell it's a pretty nasty plane, with a lot of firepower.

Currently, yes. But I was talking about the future.

Loborocket wrote:
I'll bite on this one. I don't really have all that much I need to paint. Typically I already buy and then paint what I have before I buy more. Of course sometimes that runs over gift giving occasions so someone buys me a gift before I get everything painted. Currently what I have left was bought as a big group so hence some is yet unpainted.

1 Tactical squad (8 models, already painted the sgt. and the heavy weapon guy because I needed them for a tournament)
5 tac. terminators from the DV box These already have a base coat on them.
1 captain, from the DV box

That is it. A total of 14 models

I want to get these finished up so I can get a 4th bike and 2 attack bikes to add to the DV bikes I already have.

Update:

I have made some progress. I finished up the TAC terminators last week. Here they are pictured with 5 other terminators from AoBR. I converted the DV Sgt. To have a chainfist instead of the powersword.






Now my list is;

1 Tactical squad (8 models, already painted the sgt. and the heavy weapon guy because I needed them for a tournament)
1 captain, from the DV box

I have decided to make a decent dent into my unpainted stuff before I buy any more too.

Making progress on my Eldar - in the process of painting up two Farseers, about 7 Warlocks and 10 Warp Spiders (unfortunately for some reason the primer on these guys is resisting paint so I may have to strip them again and start again).

Almost finished the Farseers other than some final details, and the Warlocks just need some of the main bits finishing and then details painting on. Might try my hand with freehand painting on the cloaks of all of these guys.

Also painting up a few spare Guardians as well as 3 support platforms and crew.

Guess we are ahead of the Podcasts... Independent Characters just had an excellent cast on pretty similiar topic: Its covered in the first 1/2 hour, I recommend giving it a listen

http://theindependentcharacters.com/blog/?p=3062

Here's his project organization for getting things done:

http://www.theindependentcharacters.com/home/kanban/kanban.jpg

and the website for starting a new one:

https://kanbanflow.com/

 Lobukia wrote:
Guess we are ahead of the Podcasts... Independent Characters just had an excellent cast on pretty similiar topic: Its covered in the first 1/2 hour, I recommend giving it a listen

http://theindependentcharacters.com/blog/?p=3062

Here's his project organization for getting things done:

http://www.theindependentcharacters.com/home/kanban/kanban.jpg

and the website for starting a new one:

https://kanbanflow.com/

Thanks for the info mate This will either help me, or just distract me for some time and then ignore all I did.

On related news, woot, one the Infinity models is done! ... and now I'm going to paint minis that aren't mine, so the list is not getting shorter

What is considered as unfinished? For example I'm a making a unit of nobs but they lack a transport. Is it finished when I just finish the nobs or is it finished when also got the trasport done?

How about kits that I have sacrificed for the bitz god? Should I build what I can from remaining bitz?

edit: I also accidentally got too many boyz for my purposes should I also finish those as well?

I have nowhere near as much left to do as some of you guys.

I have to finish;

29 guardsmen
1 chimera
1 vendetta (still need to buy the weapons)

The only problem is, I'm a very slow painter. I enjoy the modelling and gaming sides of the hobby more then painting so I get bored quickly when I paint. I hate fielding unpainted models though so I need to get them done.

This is a great idea, hope I can follow up on the challenge Here we go....

Ghazy
Weirdboy
Big Mek KFF
Big Mek SAG
2 Warbosses
15 Lootas
20 Nobz
90 Boyz
20 Grotz
2 Trukks
Dakkajet
9 Deffkoptas
3 Warbikers
Battlewagon
Deffdread
3 Killa Kanz

Oh my God I have alot of stuff to paint!!! I hate you "Get it All Painted Before Buying More Challenge"!!

Cheers

 Waaagh-a-Licious wrote:
Oh my God I have alot of stuff to paint!!! I hate you "Get it All Painted Before Buying More Challenge"!!

Yeah multiply that list across 9 or 10 armies and you have my list and the clear reason why I will not take part in this challange. Even my longest established army, my khorne dedicated chaos marines which as a couple thousand points fully painted, still has had enough new stuff added to it to require a lot of painting time. Ack...I just enjoy modelling much more than painting.

Skriker