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Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut





I finished an Aristarch, six Minotaur Thyreans, and six stands of Hoplites, and for a glorious window of 6 hours all of my Conquest models were painted. Then some stuff I ordered arrived at the store.

   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





Finished a Mechanist and three stands of Thorikates.

   
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander






I finished some stuff, but also became weak and ordered some Forgeworld stuff before it comes out of production as well as two Characters...

Spoiler:
Things I owned January 1st, 2023, unpainted:
3 Sentinels
1 Chimera + various 3D printed turrets
A box of Archon Studios Terrain

Titanforge Amazons:
7 Characters
11 Dinosaur riders
3 Gorillas as Ogryn-Proxies

one MDF robot thingy (probably a Knight proxy)
the beginning of an Admech force I hunted on Ebay:
Datasmith
1 Sydonian Dragoon

Things I bought in 2023: shame shame:
FW Gorgon heavy Transport
FW Skytalon
FW Malcador Infernus
3 Serberys Raiders
1 Technoarcheologist
1 Sly Marbo

Things I owned January 1st, 2023, 12:00 AM that are now painted:
a bunch of IG/Inquisition characters:
2 Commissars (one intended to be traded)
6 priests (3 intended to be traded but I might paint them)
1 Jokaero
1 Beastmen hero
1 Rogue Trader dude
10 Skitarii
1 Tech Priest Dominus
1 Skitarii Marschal
5 Pteraxis
2 Kastelan Robots


Things I bought in 2023 that are now painted:
1 Tech Priest Manipulus
5 Sicarian Ruststalkers

~6550 build and painted
819 build and painted
830 
   
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Battlefield Tourist




MN (Currently in WY)

I just got my order of 6mm models from Baccus for my Battle of Kadesh scenario.

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Longtime Dakkanaut





Three Agema stands, a Hephistian, and a Promethian finished.

Got three stands of Valks and Fenr assembled, plus eight City State retinue models and a stand of ambiguous spare CS troops.

On the up-side, I have no new Games Workshop models as of now, and no new Conquest models on the horizon until at least October.

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2023/06/25 22:04:15


   
Made in ca
Fixture of Dakka





Surrey, BC - Canada

So I have done it. My pile of shame in empty.

To Paint List Complete Base Coat Completed - Primed - Un-assembled – Still in Blister/Box/Closet/Under the Bed

Eldar – 0
Eldar Falcn - 1
Converted Eldar Dark Reaper Exarchs - 2

Necromunda - 40K Terrain Large - 0
Ruined Cathedral - 3
Battle Zone Nachmund -5
Imperial storage pallets - 6
Alien plants - 3
Bridges - 2
Burnt forest terrain - 3

Sisters of Battle – 0
Cherub - 1

Painted in 2023
26 models and figures

Now this will not last, already my gaming group has made rumblings that they will leave some unwanted models on my doorstep, but for a few days there will be nothing to paint.

The long painting war continues...

CB

   
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MN (Currently in WY)

Congrats Captain Brown!

*Insert Fireworks Gif Here*


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Fixture of Dakka





Surrey, BC - Canada

Thanks Easy E,

It lasted a day…this morning an egg crate filled with heavily damaged and chipped paint covered Harlequins showed up at me door with the bell rung for a drop and run reverse heist.

CB

   
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Rogue Daemonhunter fueled by Chaos






Toledo, OH

I made the mistake of trying to do an accounting for the year, and It's made me sad. I thought I had slowed my buying down, but then I realized I bought 3500 Points of Votann army, a decent sized 100 Kingdoms army, two warcry starters, a small Stormcast army, and leviathan. And so far I've painted... well, a full Warcry starter, three sentinels, 2800 poitns of Votann, and some odds and ends.

So I've gotten a decent amount done, it's just mostly stuff I bought this year.
   
Made in us
Fixture of Dakka





I'm in the same boat. Judgement and Mk4 Warmachine arrived the same week and I haven't been able to get caught up as other new releases like Shatterpoint and the need to buy the last chance Warmachine stuff filled my backlog. Definitely way behind this year and need to focus on getting it cleared out again.
   
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Surrey, BC - Canada

Well I have been gifted 24 old metal Harlequins...so I have models to paint again.

Cheers,

CB

   
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MN (Currently in WY)

I got my box from Baccus for two armies of 6mm Chariot Wars, Egyptians and Hittites.

I am back with things to paint again!

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Longtime Dakkanaut





Finished eight City State retinue models and a single stand of faux Agema that I didn't own last time I posted. Also got another three Agema/Thorakites amd the end of the Nords that I'm ever going to own assembled and base coated.

I also added a genuine Pile of Shame item in the form of the 'nid half of the Leviathan box, although I offset that by trading some unpainted Marines as part of the acquisition.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2023/07/08 16:30:15


   
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MN (Currently in WY)

2 Units out of 22 for the Egyptians are done. I haven't even split up the Hittites yet.

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Longtime Dakkanaut





And those new Agemas and Thorikates done. It feels good to return to form and be painting at a respectable clip again, I went through a lull when my interest in 40k dropped off but I couldn't get my FLGS group to give Warmachine MkIV a chance. Conquest has got me re-engaged, loving that game.

   
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Regular Dakkanaut





Scotland

So my plan to finish my Arabs didn't go well. My main ancients opponent had real life issues, and I've had a whole string of health issues and self inflected injures. I didn't get as much done as I'd have liked, and trying to get in time before I was better ended up with me cutting open both thumbs with a hobby knife.

I got talked into playing Clash of Katanas so I ended up painting 4 ashigaru, 4 Samurai, 38 bandits and a temple building. Played my first game of it a week ago and it is excellent, although my plan for 4 armies is in retrospect a bit much.

Unfortunately I've been spending a lot this year on miniatures. I've gone for 3 kickstarters, luckily only Bad Squiddo's vampires have come to be added to my pile of shame. I'm also back into 40k, expanding my Tyranids, as well as more Samurai. At about 1:2 paint:buy and will get worse when more Tyranids come out as I failed to produce a contrast version of my old paint scheme. Didn't count the SM half, since I don't intend to paint them.

Currently I've been assembling my two lots of Leviathan Tyranids.

Spoiler:

So far I've painted:
24 Archers
16 Javelinmen
4 Slingers
10 Camel Archers
6 Camel Lancers
26 Medium/Light Cavalry
120 Spearmen

46 Japanese Samurai
1 Building

Total: 253

+ Arabs, Normans, Greeks, Tyranids, Japanese

Total: 517

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2023/07/19 23:04:00


 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





Three stands of Nord Stalkers.

   
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...and three Urg and a Blooded.

Chipping right along through the Nords, although the block of Valkyries is going to take longer. Four stands, so 16 individuals to paint.

After getting some tournament play in there's a pretty good chance I'm going to invest in another big brick of Hoplites though. I've seen how good they can be when properly supported and having duplicate units gives you more flexibility in your activation order in Conquest.

   
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MN (Currently in WY)

I have 6 bases of my 6mm Egytians done. 14 more to go!

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Fixture of Dakka





Time to level set. Things have gotten a little out of hand again, in part because I've made some bad choices, also in part because my old store collapsed and priorities have shifted and PP discontinued their stuff and also new Zelda and Final Fantasy and Street Fighter have all been incredible.

Excuses aside, here's the problem and the priorities:

- Bushido: 2
- Infinity: 20
- Star Wars Legion: 15
- Warmachine: 35
- 40k: 50

Alright, so the Bushido stuff just needs some highlights and I'll be all set there. The Legion stuff is kind of stuck in preorder limbo and frankly I should just cancel and not worry about, but Dark Troopers are super cool and should take minutes to paint. Picked up the new Bakkunin stuff, which probably wasn't wise, kind of have it on the backburner right in front of the Warmachine stuff which just... I need to walk away from that for a bit and come back later.

So that leaves the new 40k purchases and I'm going to do the stupid while I have the motivation and paint an Ork army. I've always wanted one; 10th edition is really fun, a lot of my friends are trying it out, the shops in town are making it the only game to play easily. It's a terrible idea, but its something I've long wanted, so..... 'Ere We Goooooo!
   
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Finished 4 stands of Nord Raiders, got rid of some more unpainted Space Marines.

   
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On an Express Elevator to Hell!!

Does anyone else suffer from a thought process that proceeds as "Right, base coat and a few bits done on these few minis.. that now justifies me buying a massive pile of new stuff"

I have just started seriously on the ASOIAF Stark v Lannister set, only a 100 or so minis to go!


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Fixture of Dakka




NE Ohio, USA

 Pacific wrote:
Does anyone else suffer from a thought process that proceeds as "Right, base coat and a few bits done on these few minis.. that now justifies me buying a massive pile of new stuff"


Good God, no.

What justifies buying new stuff is that I want to play with it.
How much paint is on it is irrelevant.
   
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Fixture of Dakka





Definitely been bad about that. I committed myself to doing better and its helped, but once I got behind again the fear of adding more to the pile has made it easy to make some bad choices.

On that note, Progress!!?

So I finished up the Bushido and chipped at the Warmachine and Infinity piles. Got a few more Orks as well putting me overall up, but I've started to make great strides on those Orks:

   
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MN (Currently in WY)

Too hot around here to paint lately.

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Using Object Source Lighting







Wish me luck!!! see you in 5 years XD

Project V



   
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Sagitarius with a Big F'in Gun





 NAVARRO wrote:
Wish me luck!!! see you in 5 years XD

Project V




What is that big robot? It looks ace.

Approx armies
9000pts AdMech (Main army)
7000pts Black Templars (original army)
3500pts Death Guard (lazy side project)
2000pts Imperial Knights (extension of AdMech)
2000pts Harlequins (fun side project)
 
   
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Philadelphia

Are we doing an assembly line or one box at a time?

   
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The green robots are some extra cogs I sculpted since I wanted to spice up a bit of the army. The big one in particular is supposed to be a recon robot.

The plan is building and painting box by box with the exception of the bases which will all be done in one swoop.

   
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Fixture of Dakka





Surrey, BC - Canada

First five of the gifted Harlequins painted.


The long painting war continues...

CB

   
 
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