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 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
Out of interest, how often do these get placed onto the table? My historical armies are huge (Napoleonics alone is masses and masses of stuff)..........but it all sees the table in play.

My Ultra are too unwieldy to ever hit the field full-force. Most I’ve had down at once is a full battle company. One thing I like to do when making army lists is to pick something from the dust, and bring it out to play. Not all at once; they are dusty for a reason, but I like to rotate less-used things into the light from time to time.

That’s not going to help minis from dead games, or abandoned armies. But it does help a bit.

The other saving grace was my last RPG group, when my old armies would sometimes get units tapped for the night’s encounter. But my current group doesn’t break out a battle mat, and just keeps things free form. But as one of our GMs was very fond of demons and undead as bad guys, it let some of my stuff hit the table, even when I wasn’t playing WHFB.

I did a rough count a few months back and it came out at circa 800 models.
Thats everything mind, from Grots to Gargants and everything in between.

Oh I found an old pic:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
Out of interest, how often do these get placed onto the table? My historical armies are huge (Napoleonics alone is masses and masses of stuff)..........but it all sees the table in play.

My fantasy minis see play in my dungeons and dragons campaigns, so do my historicals. But my sci fi stuff mostly just sits there since I don't play 40K any more.

I would like to get more use out of all of it, but I am happy to be getting ANY use after years of no gaming.

Last count - over 2000 miniatures with maybe 1000-1200 painted.

Rough guess 8 - 10K miniatures.

About 12,000 points of Black Legion.

About 6,000 points of Chaos Daemons.

About 5,000 points of Grey Knights.

About 5,000 points of Astra Militarum.

About 5,000 points of World Eaters.

About 5,000 points of Sons of Horus.

About 4,000 points of Orks.

About 3,000 points of Dark Angels.

About 3,000 points of Craftworld Eldar.

About 2,000 points of Death Guard.

About 1,500 points of Thousand Sons.

Total number of infantry models comes to around 1300. Total number of vehicles comes to around 70.

About 2/3rds of the models are kept in 6 large Citadel carrying cases. The rest sit in a closet.

400 ish Space Marine infantry, 26 vehicles - 50% painted

200 ish Chaos Space Marine/Demon infantry, 10 vehicles - 75% painted

100 Eldar maybe, with 5 vehicles - 15% painted

Tyranids. . . closing in on 500 I bet. - 25% painted

Every army I've ever owned was purchased with the intent to hit 3,000 points. Since the great sell off during 6th Ed. 40K and 8th Ed. WFB left me with only a few factions per system, I've been picking up where I left off. Now, the goal is a playable 2,000 in 6th Ed. WFB and a playable 1,500 in 3rd Ed. 40K with enough extras to allow for some modularity. Don't know if I'll hold to that or if I'll blow past, but I know that prices make it more difficult to do so on a whim.

In total, including the grey plastic pile of shame? Somewhere approaching 1000 at an estimate. This includes about 20 vehicles.

In painted stuff? I just did a quick count including digging out my old armies.

Dark Angels- 70 (total), including 8 vehicles. Ravenwing component (of the 70) is 18, including 3 vehicles.
Death Watch- 32, including 1 vehicle.
Tzeench Demons- 34
Purple Death Legion (vanilla marines, old army from 4th or 5th Ed)- 35, including 3 vehicles.
My first DA army- 26 poorly painted miniatures. lol

I counted bikes as 1 miniature, there are 18 in there.

Tikay Fortooun wrote:
I sat down and counted up the points on my space wolves.
5000 points.
One vehicle.

I guess i’ll be getting Apocalypse.

And damn, I’m never going to finish painting them....



Has anyone else done this and panicked?

I have over 1000 minis and roughly 90% of them are painted.


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 Ratius wrote:
I did a rough count a few months back and it came out at circa 800 models.
Thats everything mind, from Grots to Gargants and everything in between.

Oh I found an old pic:

You had the nerve to build TWO stompas?! I only completed one and swore never to purchase another one. Construction was a pain in the butt and painting took an awful lot of time.

Those are rookie numbers. You gotta bump those up!

So , if we assume there are 'rookie numbers', where would be the step to semi-pro / pro ?



Counting the painted:

Loyal to BiG E:

Adeptus Astartes 1180
Adeptus Sororitas 83
The Imperial Guard 263
Mechanicum 81
Imperial Knights 13 ( 9 real ones 4 "pets" )
Inqusition 38

=> 1658 Models. Infantry, bikes,speeders,tanks, fliers, walker.

If you want this detailed: https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/User:1hadhq

Possible Allies:

Necrons 104

Maybe there is some other stuff somewhere, fantasy models for example , i don't think it is more than 100-300 Models.
And... numbers of IG seem low, but I love tanks...

Just under 5000 in Death Guard/Nurgle Daemons, about 3500 Stygies VIII Ad Mech, roughly 3000 of Necrons and only god knows how many points of ultramarines I have. Also a few random models here and there, Celestine and the like.

I like a bit of variety in my armies.

Whatever my number is it just went up another 72....

Kings of War undead: 360 minis painted
Yellow/Black Empire: roughly the same; probs 350 minis painted
Red/white empire: 120 painted
Swamp things: 25 painted not counted before. (lower abyssals/ghouls counted with undead)
Goblins: 35 painted
Dwarves: 8 painted.

Total 900-ish models painted.
and then about a third more unpainted.

Pictures and overview:
[img]http://kingsofwarvince.business.blog/2019/07/09/overview-of-my-completed-armies/
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I have about 1500, with about 500 painted.

One day I will turn that number around.

 StygianBeach wrote:
I have about 1500, with about 500 painted.

One day I will turn that number around.

Ah, the lies we tell ourselves....

I was totting mine up the other day due to this thread, and I reckon if I stopped buying minis now, and painted at the same rate I have been doing (which is reasonably often for pretty long periods) it’d likely take me 3-4 years to clear my backlog. That wouldn’t be too bad, but I only restarted collecting again 2 years ago.

Ultra marines - 10000 points
Eldar - 5000
Imperial Knights - 5000
Tau - 5000
DE - 3000
GK - 3000
TS - 3000
CSM - 3000
Daemons - 1500
Astra Militarum - 2000

Also AOS
Everchosen 9 Varangaurd + Archeon
Svlaces to darkness 40 warriors 15 knights 3 chariots 1 manticore lord (never even played a game of AOS)

Whatever the last post had +more models.

 BuFFo wrote:
Whatever the last post had +more models.

Ditto after over a decade of collecting someone would have to pay me to even try to count all my models. I would need to take a vacation from work, and wade through kits in my back room like a 5 year old in a ball pit.

Painted miniatures: 1210, of which 514 are Fantasy/Age of Sigmar, and 696 are 40k and Adeptus Titanicus.
Unpainted miniatures: maybe 20 split between the various games.

Edit: Woops! counted wrong, missed some of my Raven Guard. Sneaky buggers.

Five hundred metal Praetorian Imperial Guard...and a bad back!