How many points worth of 40k models do you own?

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**SharkoutofWata**

Since I don't keep honest track, my best guesses:
4k Tyranids
3k+ Ultramarines in 30k and 40k
2k Astral Claws
2500 Chaos Marines
2k Blood Angels
1500 Eldar
800 Dark Eldar
Turning both of them into 1500 Corsairs
1500 Necrons
780 Orks
300 Inquisition

**hippyjr**

Hmmm.... maybe I should have been a teensy bit more ambitious with my poll options

**carldooley**

according to my inventory
4919 pts tau
710 pts allied assassins
2144 pts magnetized suit & weapon options.

not updated for my new acquisitions.
not included are the
200+ pts of Cygnar
80+ pts of Convergence

**Tannhauser42**

If I were to spend the morning going through all I have, I would probably easily break 40K points of 40K models.

**farshot9**

25,000 crons
5000 nids

**Polonius**

Tannhauser42 wrote:
If I were to spend the morning going through all I have, I would probably easily break 40K points of 40K models.

that's always been a secret goal of mine: 40k of 40k!

**Gamgee**

Approximately 2200-2500 of Tau and a small amount of DE probably about 500 points.

**Jayden63**

These are all impressive numbers, but the real question is...

How much of your collection is painted and based, verses just assembled, vs still in box?

In my case its all painted and based, 10,000+ points worth save 5 dark eldar models.

**Polonius**

The 13k of IG I posted about are all painted. I have about 3k or so unpainted as well, but that'll happen when you collect huge armies.

**1hadhq**

Ratius wrote:Nids 7500
Orks 7000
SW 6000
IG 7000
Eldar 6000
Crons 3500

+ Superheavies about 40000

Polonius wrote:
Tannhauser42 wrote:
If I were to spend the morning going through all I have, I would probably easily break 40K points of 40K models.

that's always been a secret goal of mine: 40k of 40k!

It isn't called 40k because thats what you should aim for ???

Currently own about 1200 Models of space marines... maybe 30k Points.
Some IG and some super heavies , a few knights, SoB , Necrons too.

So more than 5000 was my pick. I suspect the Imperials are already 40000..

Plus the ( unassembled ) boxes of BaC, the Ad Mech I am painting right now .... ownership is a bit ahead of completed projects

**Spyro_Killer**

And i thought about 5000 was a lot

**Nevelon**

Spyro_Killer wrote:
And i thought about 5000 was a lot

The thing is: It is. If you have 5,000 points on the shelf, you can put together a wide variety of lists, swap stuff out to keep things fresh, etc. You could stop there, and have a happy hobby life.

But we all know that doesn’t happen. New shiny stuff gets released. We find a bargain to good to pass up, we want more WYSWYG options, etc.

And models don’t go bad. Once you paint something and stick it on the shelf, you can keep using it. I know I’ve been slowly growing my collection for decades. While some years are slower then others, it builds up.

**JohnHwangDD**

Spyro_Killer wrote:
And i thought about 5000 was a lot

5000 *is* a lot. You generally won't play it all in a game, so a lot of it is for looks and funsies. Really, anything over 2k is just extra options.

**Scott-S6**

Jayden63 wrote:

How much of your collection is painted and based, verses just assembled, vs still in box?

About 24K/27K painted, about 26.5K/27K assembled.

**Gamgee**

The majority of my Tau is painted and I'm working on the last few things. 6 Stealth Suits > 4 ML Drones > XV8 Team > Commander > Last of the Tidewall. I don't usually paint my drones though since why. I'm hoping to have about 3000-4000 points when all said and done for each army I eventually make over the years. Some things need touching up and the majority of it isn't highlighted or shaded because I hate that.

**TheCrusadeSmurf**

Ultramarine - 5500
Fallen Angels - 2250
FSE - 2000, but only half assembled.
Inquisition - 600

**conker249**

Imperial Fist 3rd company, 8300 (5500 points painted)
Ravenwing ~2000 (1900 points painted)
Deathwing ~2000 ( 300 points painted)
Sons of Horus ~3000 ( 2500 points painted)

Got a long way to go, ugh

**CthulhuDawg**

Check out my sig. My tau points have gone up from like 900 to around 2000 or so I should probably change that.

**Nerazim**

I could just about muster 1000 points of CSM.

I'm a bit faster at painting now so I expect to have a 2000 points ready to go pretty soon.

I don't buy unless I've finished painting what I have.

**dethric**

This will be rough estimates from my head, but close enough.
5600 points of CSM, although that is without ANY wargear at all, it seems to be about 7k with wargear.
Other than that I have like 500 points of Daemons and 1000-1500 points of 30k Word Bearers.

All painted of course.

**Árn_Templar**

500 points of IG *cries in a corner*

**kodos**

Somehow the poll has the wrong numbers.

I expected seomething like <2000, 2k, 4k. 6k, 10k, 15k 20k, >20k

I mean after more than 15 years in 40k, 5k is the size of one army. And I have 5 of them painted

**hippyjr**

kodos wrote:
Somehow the poll has the wrong numbers.

I expected seomething like <2000, 2k, 4k. 6k, 10k, 15k 20k, >20k

I mean after more than 15 years in 40k, 5k is the size of one army. And I have 5 of them painted

Yeah, I had no idea that the options would be so small compared to what people actually have....

**General_K**

I have

-5000 pts of Marines
-6000 pts of Imperial Guard (I share this with a friend, though, and he houses/stores/keeps the models)
-4500 pts of Orks

**Polonius**

hippyjr wrote:
kodos wrote:
Somehow the poll has the wrong numbers.

I expected seomething like <2000, 2k, 4k. 6k, 10k, 15k 20k, >20k

I mean after more than 15 years in 40k, 5k is the size of one army. And I have 5 of them painted

Yeah, I had no idea that the options would be so small compared to what people actually have....

People with large collections, myself included, love to talk up how big they are. I'd guess the poll has some answer rate bias.

**SBG**

12k or so in Nids. Fills up a full sized dinner table with exceedingly minimal spacing, and then some.

**JohnHwangDD**

kodos wrote:
Somehow the poll has the wrong numbers.

I expected seomething like <2000, 2k, 4k. 6k, 10k, 15k 20k, >20k

I mean after more than 15 years in 40k, 5k is the size of one army. And I have 5 of them painted

The typical player seems to have something like 20k - 25k worth of models.

So it should have been 1k, 2k, 5k, 10k, 15k, 20k, 25, 30k, 40k, more!

**Fifty**

Well over 18000 points of Craftworld Eldar and Harlequins in my parents' loft.

About 12000 points of Marines.

About 2500 of old Renegade Marauder Chaos Marines.

About 2500-3000 points of Orks in my parents' loft.

About 1500 points suitable for a Lost and the Damned army.

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Oh, and about 3000 points of beakies and other RT era marines destined for becoming 30k Raven Guard.

**Brennonjw**

Polonius wrote:
The 13k of IG I posted about are all painted. I have about 3k or so unpainted as well, but that'll happen when you collect huge armies.

Based? Only my Thousand Sons, painted: EVERYTHING!

**JamesY**

5k Gk
4k sm
3.5k ad mech
2k LoD
1.5k orks
1.5k assassins
1k csm
1.5k harlequins
1.5k ig
1k nurgle daemons
500 de
500 nids
1k inq

So about 25k total.