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Am I counting just bare models or ones that are painted but not by me and thus bound for acetone-free baths and a repaint?

Counting them is not really an option, but thousands, probably not 10k.

 dragqueeninspace wrote:
Counting them is not really an option, but thousands, probably not 10k.

40k?

Had to ask lol

Herzlos wrote:

 privateer4hire wrote:
On my trade shelf I have 20 unassembled Dreamforge sci-fi troopers. Everything else is painted.

...how?

I don't typically play with anything that isn't painted since I really dislike it.
I also hate to paint---at best I'm tabletop quality.
So I only buy things like GW's new board games (Deathwatch, Betrayal @ Calth, Execution Force) and AoS starter (treated as a self-contained board game).
Those have at most 50 miniatures.

EDIT: I also used to collect FoW and Bolt Action (still have them but no regular local opponents).
Playing historical stuff also tends to get you weird looks if it's not painted so 2000 pts of Germans (WW1 & WW2), British (WW1) and US (WW2) gotta be painted before you can even play

Hundreds unpainted. Possibly close to a thousand...

But thankfully, thousands (low thousands) painted!

Estimates are on the low side...

40k:
-Orks 350+
-Tyranids 103

AOS:
-Skaven 200+
-Demons 146
-Vampire Counts 31
-Chaos 61

Hordes:
-Skorne 115+
-Legion 64
-Minions 18

Confrontation:
-At least 400. Probably much higher.

Warzone:
-At least 125+

Reaper:
-36

Am I the only one that uses a spreadsheet for this? 212 210 minis that are not finished. Mostly D&D minis (75, cheap PVC things) that I want to paint because I need the practice, rather than they need the paint. And Infinity minis (94 minis. But a fair number are base coated, and even more have color blocked in, so really, only 48 just are primed/unassembled) The rest are odds and ends, Pathfinder Reaper, Malifaux, an Old Ral Partha Frost Giant ( a repaint. It is from 1978.) some 2e gretchin (Mekboy assistants I think) Stuff that is on the 'fun to paint when I have the time' list.

I am making progress though. Even as a slooow painter.

Edit: painted 2 more

I long ago outstripped what spreadsheets would provide. I actually use an app called MyStuff2 on iOS to track my collection and other major things around the house (primarily for insurance purposes). As we've previously established in this thread, I am mildly insane.

To answer Silent Puffin?'s question, it mainly started when I was younger it started as a hedge against some mythical time when I would "grow up" and have too many bills to spend money on models. Since plastic and resin are mostly non-perishable goods, it makes less of a difference if the model is brand-new or a decade old; it represents pretty much the same amount of hobby time. Oddly, life is what happens while you were off making other plans, and events conspired to leave me in the very fortunate position of never having that budget crunch materialize. While it now seems unlikely that it ever will barring catastrophe, I am amply prepared if it does.

Combine that with the fact that my attention frequently drifts, and it rapidly escalates to where things are. However, just because I probably have ADD doesn't mean a project is forgotten about; I will eventually find a circular tuit and thus get around to it. Heck, this thread nudged me into getting to the near-final stages on 110 miniatures (some touch-up on the bases and then varnish)! We will ignore that they're all 15mm soldiers for the time being...it still counts!

I have 4001 painted miniatures.

I think it's more than my unpainted ones.

Well I'm feeling a lot better about my painting backlog having seen what some of you guys have got in your 'to paint' piles...

Well, I've got about a hundred Orks I got from a friend, a bunch a Chaos blokes and 40-ish Cultists, but those are models I'm planning on converting/selling/giving away. For Space Wolves? Maybe 15 PA models and a Land Speeder.

I've got to guess that my assembled but unpainted number is north of 3000.

Soo sooo much plastic....

The gray is inumerable

Beyond count. To save space II de-sprue all mine and segregate the parts in DIY parts boxes. Even so I have 5 such large parts boxes and 3 smaller ones. (That includes small scenery items, of which I have a lot). I've only constructed about 7% of the kits I bought. Haven't gotten around to painting any yet. Yes I admit have a problem. Though it's a relief to see that I'm not the only one...

I wish I had the energy to keep up with a spreadsheet, I have well over 7,000 figures. Most are painted, but the unpainted are legion too...

When my Dracosan arrives in the next few days it'lll make my number to 160. I was making some good progress but DW:O.......
It's not a terrible number by any count. Want to make a sizeable dent in it (ie get the 4 boxed sets finished) before Shatted Earth arrives whenever. Mind you that's going to my Irish address and not to here so it won't really count

I'm currently bored so will try work this out.
40k
Imperial guard: 29
Do want to repaint them all but i wont get round to it so will count them as painted
so like 20 guys plus 2 tanks and 7 dkok

Tyranids: 117
Swarm box 95 , getting started box 14,3 extra warriors and 5 gaunts

Orks: 116
56 orks 60 grots.

Chaos space marines: 71
about 65 guys and like 6 tanks, do have box of second hand guys that needs sorting out though

knights: 1

Demons:17
1 kos 16 demonettes

Fantasy

vampire counts: 66
10 dires wolves, 20 skellys 18 graveguard and like8 charectors.

High elves: 140
Some stuff needs striping but will count it as i am interested in getting it done
32 spears, 32 archers 10 seaguard 10 reavers 16 silver helms 5 dragon princes 1 chariot 2 eagles 24 sword masters 4 mages 3 comanders 1 prince.

Blood bowl: 26
23 night goblins and 3 trolls i need to convert into a team

Necromunder: 33
one redemptionist priest
2 empire wizards 10 flagalents and 20 dark vengance cultists to be converted into the rest of the gang.

Epic:
Eldar:164
bought recently so don't have it here to do a proper tally
like 60 wave serpents 2 scorpians 6 walkers 4 wraithlords 2 avatars, 15 weapon platforms and probaly around 300 infantry figures will count in stands though so about 75.
dkok: soon

LOTR 120
60 moira goblins
30 uruk hai
30 orcs

Infinity: 38
6 nomads
yu jing 10
Aradnia 13
other 3

All quiet on the martian front: 73
8 tri pods
15 tanks
50 stands of infantry/drones

Historics

FOW russians: 66
11 T-32s 5 half tracks and probaly 50 stands of infantry

Naplionic austrians: 104
104 infantry

6mm coldwar russians: 78
31 T-72's these should be done tomorrow
2 hinds
12 bmps and 23 stands of infantry, 10 random support vehicles

I think thats everything.
Total: 1118 things to paint/ assemble.

Wait, we're only counting stuff we've taken out of the boxes/blisters, right?

 Aspiring Champion wrote:
Wait, we're only counting stuff we've taken out of the boxes/blisters, right?

No, why would we? Don't think you can somehow get out of this alive

How do you all have so much unpainted stuff? o_O

And I thought my backlog was bad.

Right now I'm sitting on

2 ghost / D. Arks
24 Necron Warriors
3 Terradons
16 6 th ed bretonnian archers
2 crypteks to be converted from warriors
1 dakkajet to be converted from a japanese fighter plane model

Total : 48 models. Warriors are currently being constructed and painted, so it might drop down to 24. The bretonnians are pretty low priority too.

I do use a spread sheet: Makes keep tracking of progress much easier. I even use it to log which paints I have.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How do you all have so much unpainted stuff? o_O

No time (for whatever reason)/low motivation/ mass purchases from sales and or good deals online....

There are many more reasons

I'm with everyone on piles of unpainted stuff, but I've never understood the unopened/unbuilt stuff. I'm a kid on Christmas whenever I get new minis. They're usually opened before I get home and built within the next few days. But painting takes more time, so for unpainted...

Let's get some estimates, no time for exact counts right now.

40k:
40 Bolter/Flamer/Superior Battle Sisters
10 Serephim
1 Exorcist
Celestine

Warma/Hordes:
~25 CoC Infantry/Solos
~15 CoC Vectors
2 Skorne Cyclops'

Dreadball
~100 Unpainted. Went all in on KS's, only painted two teams thus far.

H-historicals...
120 Zulu War British Infantry
24 British Cav
Actually, that wasn't as painful as it looked initially.

Infinity-
2 Haqq Ghulam Infantry
2 Haqq Janiassaire's
2 Haqq Remotes
1 Haqq Naffatun

So, somewhere between 300-350. Well, that's actually the smallest backlog I've had in years. I'm actually motivated -to- paint by this.

Oh man.. okay.. lets see here.

10 Chaos Space Marines
1 Maulerfiend
3 Rhinos
2 Vindicators
20 Cata Terminators
30 Mk4 marines

18 Fire Warriors
6 Stealth Suits
4 Crisis Suits
1 broadside
1 Crisis commander
1 Riptide
1 Supremacy Suit
26 Drones

I'm actually pretty good about this.

1 tankbusta nob
1 deffkopta
5 burnas

It would be less but this whole week has been really busy.

Not as bad as it could have been, seeing as I sold off all my stuff when I left the hobby brielfy and have only been back for 18 months:

CSM/KDK

Terminator Lord
Khorne Herald
5x Terminators
5x Possessed
24x Berzerkers
19x CSM - I have finished 1!
3x Bloodcrushers
Helbrute
2x Rhino's

Dark Angels

Company Master
Librarian
Interrogator Chaplain
20x Tactical marines
15x Terminators
5x Company Veterans
3x Ravenwing bikes
Predator

2x Imperial Knights winging their way to me shortly - broke my no purchasing vow as Imperial Knights Renegade was such a great deal - Feth you GW!

I also have 5x Dark Angels models from Dark Vengeance which I was selling until my enthusiasm waned due to the low return on these. I may just incorporate them into my DA force now, so thats an extra 100 models.

Total = 210

Painted = Kharn + 1 CSM

Hundreds, maybe even a thousand. I've been collecting for decades now.

2 decades collecting, round about 900 unpainted models (I counted 878 from memory so the real number could be quite a bit higher!)

Now I want to count how many I've painted!

From memory, about 1700. Nearly double? That's not counting stuff I sold off.

Ouch...
Ghaz
6 Battlewagons
4 Trukks
6 Killa Kans
6 MANZ
6 Ork Bikers
3 Deffkoptas
at least 15 Nobs
at least 60 boyz

Furioso Dread
Storm Raven
15 Scouts
10 Tac Marines

5 lychguard
15 flayed ones

Impact Miniatures Sarcos Team (18)
Impact Miniatures Dark Elf Team (18)
Impact Miniatures High Elf Team (18)
Impact Miniatures Elf/Dark Elf Star Players (12)
Impact Miniatures Ork Band (5)

Suddenly I feel so much better about how many unpainted minis I have

Unpainted:

5 SM Devastators

Approx 50 British Infantry (28mm, Peninsular War)
12 British Light Dragoons (28mm, Peninsular War)
2 British Mounted Officers

1x Covenant ORS Cruisers
4x Covenant SDV Corvettes

Part Painted:

1x Warrior of Minas Tirith (90%)
1x Anvil Industry Blacksmith (50%)
1x Primarch Vulkan (99%)
4x British Infantry (90%)
2x British Light Dragoons (99%)
1x Covenant ORS Cruiser (70%)
Approx 30 SMs in need of Decals and re-basing.

Compared to most on here, I'm feeling pretty good about this now. Now I've just got to try and finish things...

Count my unpainted minis? You funny!