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**PrinceRaven**

Holy

, PrehistoricUFO, how on Earth are you going to get all of that painted?

**Ascalam**

With difficulty, i'd imagine

On the upside, should keep him busy and out of trouble

**Brother Payne**

i dunno if i'll be able to do this but hell, why not try right?

SM

captain
librarian
5 tac marines
rhino
5 assault marines
5 scouts

Dark Angels

2x 10 tac marines
2x 5 terminators
belial
librarian
3 bikes

IG

7 infantry

Space Wolves

2 terminators
5 grey hunters
5 blood claws

'Nids

10 termagants

Dark Eldar

10 wyches

Orks

Nob
Mek
Dred

Alpha Legion

10 CSM
lord
20 cultists
helbrute
6 chosen

WoC

BSB
12 warriors
18 warriors
6 warriors
sorcerer lord
juggernaut lord
exalted champ
daemon prince
32 marauders
10 warhounds
5 horsemen

Empire

2x BSB
captain
general on horse
2x battle wizard
5 outriders

oh god...

**Ugin, the Owl King**

15 x SM bikers
3 x MM atk bikes
5 x SM command squad, on bikes
1 x SM commander, on bike
1 x SM chaplain on, bike
2 x TLAC RBs
2 x Tac squads

Guess who's making a White Scars successor chapter?

Spoiler:

**PrinceRaven**

Ugin, the Owl King wrote:
Guess who's making a White Scars successor chapter?

Robin Cruddace?

**wuestenfux**

Well, I usually obey this policy.

At the moment, I have the following to be painted:
1 Wraithknight
1 Shadowsword
1 Landraider Redeemer
6 Jetlocks
1 Jetseer
1 Hellbrute
1 winged Daemon Prince.

**Xiorell**

This could help me out, I've STILL not finished stuff I brought last year, but keep looking at new armies / models I might start lol, not as bad as some lists but....

Space wolves -
15x blood claws
10x grey hunters
10x terminators (although half are half finished)
1x wolf lord

Tyranids -
12x hormagants
3x Ravenors
1x Carnifex
10x genestealers

SMs
10x tac marines (although all near finished)
1x Rhino
5x scouts

**Sandcat**

Company Master Balthasar x1

Librarian x1

Space Marine Tacticals x6

Deathwing Terminators x5

Ravenwing Bikers x3

**l0k1**

l0k1 wrote:
l0k1 wrote:
This little challenge may help me stave off the desire to buy more models for a while. I'll do this by army since I don't have an accurate count of my IG off the top of my head, but between tanks and infantry I have around 150 models for them that all need painted and based. Once I get done with the GKs, I'll post the IG.

To paint
4 Paladins
1 Converted Grandmaster/ Inquisitor
1 Techmarine
6 10 man Strike Squads
3 Rhino/ Razorbacks
4 Land Raider Crusader
2 Storm Raven
1 Dreadknight

To Base
(See above infantry)
6 5 man Purifier Squads *15 Purifiers are based
1 10 man Interceptor Unit
2 10 man Paladin Units
3 Dreadnoughts
3 Venerable Dreadnoughts
Kaldor Draigo
Castellan Crowe
Inquisitor Coteaz
Vindicate Assassin
2 Librarians
2 Dreadknights

Truckin right along. Though I find myself actively trying to avoid painting my vehicles, simply because I'm pretty bad at it lol.

I ran into a little snag while basing my Purifiers. I noticed that paint had started to rub off in some places. I think I left them unsealed on purpose so that I could go back and try to fix their atrocious white shoulders. Fortunately my painting skills have improved since they were built and I gave them a fresh run of touch ups to make them look better than before

**Wardragoon**

So close to falling off the proverbial wagon.....I just looked at the HH hq praetors for the first time....

**liquidjoshi**

Wardragoon wrote:
So close to falling off the proverbial wagon.....I just looked at the HH hq praetors for the first time....

Don't do it man, Forgeworld is a deathtrap.

I don't need those XV88-2s yet... I don't... I don't...

**liquidjoshi**

me wrote: 3 Crisis Suits - All done!
12 Fire Warriors - 12 done!
6 Pathfinders - 6 done, done and done again!

So, my Tau are (currently) finished! That means I've done my Deathwing and my Tau. Pictures of the Tau will go up tomorrow to prove I have done it. More to the point...

This means I can buy more 40K stuff

I wanna thank Lobukia for making this thread and the motivation, my coach and fans, always there for me, my mom...

**liquidjoshi**

Proof that it's done:

Enough showboating from me, I shall return with an even bigger list soon!

Until then, comrades, I wish you all success in your endeavors.

**Wardragoon**

Wardragoon wrote:
Oh lordy........Challenge Accepted,
Aherm here comes the list for the massive grey blob of doom (bought most secondhand)

Cypher
Azrael
Belial
Sammael
Ezekiel
Terminator Chaplain
Jumppack Chaplain
Force Axe Terminator Librarian
Force Sword Terminator Librarian
PA Apothecary
PA Banner carrier
3 Vets
70 Tactical Troopers (counting special weapons teams in this)
15 Heavy Weapons troopers
15 Scouts
30-40 Deathwing Terminators
Dreadnought
4 Rhinos
3 Land Raiders
7 Bikers
10 Assault Troopers
2 Vindicators

1 Lord Commissar
30 Guardsmen
2 Leman Russes1 Leman Russ
1 Basilisk
1 Chimera
1 Crashed Valkyrie (aka half of the sprue got nuked so now I have a big unpainted terrain piece)

4 BFG ships

.....202 Fething models, holy crap, I really need to paint bad, well this time next year I may be finished

EDIT: Not counting my blood angels due to them going to the chopping block

Everything Primed

1 Russ done

**alabamaheretic**

alabamaheretic wrote:
Well Crap found my isles of blood skaven and all my lizard men

Skaven
x20 Clanrats with shields and spears
warp fire thrower
x2 Rat ogres
1 Master Moulder
1 Chieftain
1 Warlock Engineer
x20 Clanrats with shields and hand weapons
Piosnoned wind mortar

Lizardmen
Old Scar on cold one
12 Skink Skirmishers
6 Cold One Cavalry with full command
20 sarus warriors with spears and shields plus command
28 sarus warriors with hand weapons and shields with command
15 unassembled sarus warriors
7 cold one riders unassembled

ok looking at what needs to get done for 40k

Chaos
3 Chaos Lords on foot
1 Chaos Lord on a bike
16 plague marines
1 chaos rhino
20 Cultist
5 havocs
2 obliterators
Termie Lord

IG
2 leman russes
2 chimeras
Scout Sentinel

Tau
4 Shield Drones
12 Gun Drones
2 marker light drones
5 pathfinders
4 crisis suits
1 broad side
5 kroot
4 stealth suits

GOOD LORD IM GONNA BE PAINTING TILL NEXT CHRISTMAS!

well one thing at a time ill knock it out.

its getting better...slowly and steadily

**KommissarKiln**

Hey, people with IG stuff! Too many models and tanks and not enough time? Send 'em right over here!

But seriously, how do all of you people manage to obtain so many models?

**Wardragoon**

KommissarKiln wrote:
Hey, people with IG stuff! Too many models and tanks and not enough time? Send 'em right over here!

But seriously, how do all of you people manage to obtain so many models?

Dakka Swap Shop, I can't resist some of those amazing prices

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Would trading my terminators for bikes be failing the challenge?

**PrehistoricUFO**

Yarrick is done!

Now I only have 350 more models to go.

**l0k1**

l0k1 wrote:
l0k1 wrote:
l0k1 wrote:
This little challenge may help me stave off the desire to buy more models for a while. I'll do this by army since I don't have an accurate count of my IG off the top of my head, but between tanks and infantry I have around 150 models for them that all need painted and based. Once I get done with the GKs, I'll post the IG.

To paint
4 Paladins
1 Converted Grandmaster/ Inquisitor
1 Techmarine
6 10 man Strike Squads
3 Rhino/ Razorbacks
4 Land Raider Crusader
2 Storm Raven
1 Dreadknight

To Base
(See above infantry)
6 5 man Purifier Squads
1 10 man Interceptor Unit
2 10 man Paladin Units
3 Dreadnoughts
3 Venerable Dreadnoughts
Castellan Crowe
Kaldor Draigo
Inquisitor Coteaz
Vindicate Assassin
2 Librarians
2 Dreadknights 1 based and ready

Only a few more of my already painted models are left to base. Once I'm done with those I'll get back to painting the rest.

**MetalOxide**

I have to paint up/assemble

For Dust:
Lara Walter
Heavy Laser Grenadiers
~~Hans~~

**volatileart**

Been slowed down by baby prepping stuff and work, but hopefully I'll have three more sergeants done by the end of tonight or tomorrow. Making progress on the troop models is easy, it's the vehicles I'm worried about

**TheCustomLime**

Space marines

2x Captains

10x Assault Marines

50 or so tac marines

2x rhinos/whirlwinds

Land Raider

2x Land Speeders

Imp guard

4x Junior officers

6 plasma gunners

6 melta gunners

4x Flamers

50 or so guardsmen

5 leman russ tanks

3 chimeras

2 valks

Red Army

80x commies

T34

Soooo... Yeah. I have to repaint my IG army so that will be fun

**liquidjoshi**

Hi folks, I'm back with a tonne of IG. Recently got given some very nice models by a friend, so everything is on hold until they're done. In the long haul, my aim is to have these and my Russ tank company fully painted, though these will be in two very different styles.

So, the new list:

15 stormtroopers (One of which needs to be finished)
10 Guardsmen
2 Heavy Weapons teams
7 Leman Russ Battle tank variants, with condiments (alternative weapons, etc)
1 Hydra

After that, it there's the 70 or so guardsmen to do, as well as anything I acquire over the christmas period - which could (potentially) include a Stormblade

However, that is all in the future. There is my list, due by Christmas Day, mission Alpha painta is a go

**PrehistoricUFO**

Yay! Skink Chief and Skink Priest are finished now, and I'm starting work on my Stegadon. For whatever reason I've become very enthusiastic about painting as of late - probably because I've finally nailed down a color scheme that does Lizardmen justice instead of the plain boring old blue/green stuff.

**Skriker**

KommissarKiln wrote:
Hey, people with IG stuff! Too many models and tanks and not enough time? Send 'em right over here!

But seriously, how do all of you people manage to obtain so many models?

Too much disposable income, interest in too many armies and too much need for options in every army you have.

That is at least how I do it. I still can't make myself post up all I have to paint here because I know it will just completely discourage my hopes of getting it all painted.

My biggest issue is in slowly selling off all but one of my fully painted armies, while expanding that one dramatically, and adding and growing a bunch of others as well. So I kind of slowly phased out the painted minis and replaced them with unpainted new stuff with much less time available to paint it all. Hahahahahahahaha!

Skriker

**liquidjoshi**

Just do what I'm doing. Small chunks (I say small... 7 Russes. Madness.) for a set deadline. It's got me through my Tau, it'll get me through the first part of my IG!

**Ascalam**

I paint a model a day, average.

I paint on my lunch break at work (snakebite grots FTW! ), and the bigger stuff at home when i have more time.

Vehicles take several days, so i make the lost models up in grots...

**PrehistoricUFO**

Oh man, I gotta say, Stegadons are really difficult to paint.

I have three, and they're assembled but don't have their platforms attached to their backs - it's just the dinosaurs. However, I'm having a really hard time painting these. Their back plates are relatively easy, but their bodies are so full of tiny plates and hills and valleys on the musculature it's incredibly difficult to shade and highlight. I've botched two in the process of trying to figure them out, and they're now destined for the simple green treatment and the last one will stay untouched until I significantly improve my ability to cope with such an exotic landscape of detail. Sheesh!

Well, I'll move onto my metal Kroq-Gar model. It's a similarly styled sculpt in terms of tiny plates of armor, but in lesser quantity. Wish me luck, folks. :(

**KommissarKiln**

PrehistoricUFO wrote:
Oh man, I gotta say, Stegadons are really difficult to paint.

I have three, and they're assembled but don't have their platforms attached to their backs - it's just the dinosaurs. However, I'm having a really hard time painting these. Their back plates are relatively easy, but their bodies are so full of tiny plates and hills and valleys on the musculature it's incredibly difficult to shade and highlight. I've botched two in the process of trying to figure them out, and they're now destined for the simple green treatment and the last one will stay untouched until I significantly improve my ability to cope with such an exotic landscape of detail. Sheesh!

Well, I'll move onto my metal Kroq-Gar model. It's a similarly styled sculpt in terms of tiny plates of armor, but in lesser quantity. Wish me luck, folks. :(

By the sound of it, an ink wash or two would do wonders the texture you're describing.

**l0k1**

I finally caved in and bought 2 Baneblades through the swap shop. I couldn't pass up the deal! For now I'll get them built and set aside with the other 200 or IG models til I can finish my GKs lol