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So I've tried blogs, projects, schemes, ideas, plotting and all kinds of things to get me to actually put things in boxes/blisters together into actual models and I think I found something that finally works (for me and maybe others too).

Thus I created the BOX OF SHAME. A box that basically has to be moved around the room (as there isn't space to just store it in a corner) and which is open (so you can't stack stuff on top). It stares right back and shows all those full blisters and sprues!

I've also decided that trying a policy of "No more models until you build what you own" doesn't work as I can easily run out of interest in one range and get interest in something new or previous. So I've simplified it - no new models for a specific range until that range's backlog is overcome!



So first into the box is my Legion! A collection of blisters built up over the years of random purchases and gifts.


And its working because once I got the idea, and before I got the camera out, I've already got 4 part built. Raek needs its tail (kinda slow on that a the tail is a nasty thing to clean up with the mould lines - just takes ages) and I'm in two minds about the odd lump and bone banners on the Beast Mistress (honestly it sort of looks/feels like an afterthought part - esp considering how chunky thick hte base of it is).
Otherwise they just need a greenstuff clean up and bases fixing on (I'm likely to build a load and then do greenstuff in one block).

So there is the start - I hope to post back regularly and work through the box! To finish the legion that I've got!

Support, shared projects, ideas, your own Box OF shame and all would be great to hear from others!

Hope your idea works for you. I have a room of shame, and that didn't encourage me during the years U hAve been absent from the hobby

And now I'm starting to model again I can see some interesting things in that box of yours that I might have used for..... Damn these people and their blogs

Memo to self - put raek on guard to protect box from poachers

 monkeytroll wrote:
Hope your idea works for you. I have a room of shame, and that didn't encourage me during the years U hAve been absent from the hobby

And now I'm starting to model again I can see some interesting things in that box of yours that I might have used for..... Damn these people and their blogs

Man i have a warehouse of shame.

its probably not working because its off site from my work area :(

Rooms of shame I can imagine - but a WAREHOUSE? That just begs to see photos of!


As do Rooms of shame too!

Of course you could also make your own boxes if you dodn't want to show that many unbuilt things

 Overread wrote:
Rooms of shame I can imagine - but a WAREHOUSE? That just begs to see photos of!


As do Rooms of shame too!

Of course you could also make your own boxes if you dodn't want to show that many unbuilt things

Well less warehouse more like a room in a warehouse that isnt being used but it is quite alot

I probably should start cataloging it one day

There's a photo at the start of my chaos blog :




Bear in mind that was 8 years ago, 5 years of buying more toys, 3 years where I wasn't really buying much, but was receiving various Kickstarters... (And the table was the stuff I was 'working' on)

What wasn't shown there was the wardrobe and cupboard full of boxes, and the pile that filled the space under the desk.
At this point in time it is not an exaggeration to say there are a couple of foot spaces in the way to the desk. No room for the chair anymore, that got co-opted for the lounge a while back. Which is also home to a goodly pile of sorted and boxes.

Possibly worth adding U live in a houseboat, so not like I have the space just sitting there.

Let this be a warning of the heinous dangers of plastic crack....And indeed metal crack (I do have enough shame to not want to post pictures of current status)

That's quite the stuffed table!

Mine was sort of like that, I find it counter productive - just too much staring back at me all at once and getting messy and in the way of starting anything.



As for me today a bit more progress! A Teraph started taking shape (gods that's a tricky model to get together with its odd front legs). Plus I took a break from metal to go to BONES. Now that is a strange material to work with, its rubbery and gives way too easily to be easy to work with. A blade scuffs and burrs more than it scrapes; fingernails actually prove to be quite effective at a scrape; but still best method seems to be to very very carefully slice with a very sharp blade. Even then its a pain to get the little bits that get left behind off.

Still very neat material for the price, esp for much larger models. Got one dragon built and two more to go (and in all honestly if the dragons were made out of resin, metal or even plastic they'd likely take as long if not longer to actually clean up and assemble - metals and resins needing pinning and likely way more cleaning and greenstuff work.

Another day of good progress!

Afflictor, 2 Nephilm Soliders, 2 harrier, Teraph got his arms and tail, 3rd and final Bones Dragon made and I got the legs and guns on my Heavy Relthoza walker.

I think clearing the work desk and focusing on just one box and nothing more is working at clearing the mental fuzz of "I've so many different things to work on"

So thus far progress has been slowed.

Two Bolt Throwers are built, one plastic nerpah, Abby 2 (still needs her hands affixing);

I've gone from a box to just a couple of blisters!

Now to restock and focus on getting some Necrons built!

One of my first treads on Dakka was my Shelf of Shame. That turned into a Room of Hoarding Nightmare, have spent the last 2 years culling it down to 2 large tote tubs of shame and a closet that I don't talk about. To be clear, that's the stuff I'm getting rid of. The stuff I have left fills a 10x10 room floor to ceiling, though highly organized and properly displayed. There was a time I had a HUGE hobby room and it looked similar to the pic monkeytroll posted.

The anxiety of having so much stuff is constant and overwhelming. I genuinely see it no differently than a mental health or substance abuse issue (and having had both at points in my life I speak with a degree of experience). I love this hobby for sure, but sometimes I think what I love is buying hobby-related items. I have thousands of completed projects and run narmies in multiple systems, but why? Why can't I be the guy that just has his one 2.5K pt Chaos Marines and be content?

If you Box of Shame is the extent of what you have now, heed the cautionary tales of the graybeards here.

Skalk very true points and your point regarding purchasing and hoarding being a condition like hoarding is very valid*. I certainly have much more than is in the box (though nothing like whole rooms dedicated to it). I can already feel, as you describe, that pressure that sits above you in having so much "stuff" that is unfinished.

That was my intention with the box idea - put a small selection of stuff in the box and focus just on that. Ergo clear the work-desk; box the other stuff up and put only a small manageable amount in the Box of Shame.
For me I think its helped as it strips away all the other stuff and just keeps me looking at a small, achievable amount; and because its smaller if I don't complete it within a time-frame its not a "huge" failure.



Also its my impression that some people are lucky to be dedicated and others lucky to be broad and that both groups can be very envious of the other. The person who has a very deep singular overriding interest and focus can be envious of the person who appears to be far more widely experienced and interested; similar (as you show) the person who has lots of interests (or variety within one interest) can be envious of hte person who has a very limited focus (often at a higher level because of that more limited window of variety to distract).


*In watching a few of those hoarding TV shows its clear that many hoarders latch onto specific things that they hoard. Of course by the time it gets to becoming TV-Worthy many of those hoarders are either hoarding very unhealthly or abnormal things (eg rubbish) and/or they are hoarding to a point where they are unable to cope with normal life (house/land fully chocked).