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I'm at 65, which is pretty on course. If I can avoid buying much I'm hoping to actually be caught up soon and work on some terrain.

 Polonius wrote:
Goals- Paint more than I buy

Shot even further to hell after buying three sizable lots...

- Paint remaining Space Marines

I'm making progress, but haven't really finished anything else.

- Paint Guard, including upcoming Kreig (currently sitting at only a scout sentinel and Lord Solar)

No progress

Recently painted:

3 Infinity PanO models
1 HO scenery building
3 Test Orks
3 Metal SM Scouts to update squads to current rules
10 Metal SM scouts for resell
1 Dev Sargeant
Spearhead Terrain for a buddy
3 Eliminators converted out of old sniper scouts


Things I owned January 1st, 2025, that are now painted



Things I bought in 2025 that remain unpainted:
35 Ork Boys, 30 Nobs, 14 MANZ, 6 Ork Characters
20 Beastboys, 4 Squighogs, Squigboss,
6 3rd edition sentinels with Cadian and Armageddon upgrades
22 Pan0 Infantrry, 6 bots, 2 TAGs
Firstborn lot with 10 Vanguard vets, 10 sternguard, 15 assault marines
5 Assault marines on sprue (3rd edition)
10 metal Space wolf bodies
Stack of bits sprues
3 metal chaos terminators, 3 metal space wolf terminators, 1 rune priest
6 older scouts
1 metal Exocrcist
1 set warcry start crypt of blood terrain
Krieg Box


Things I bought in 2024 that remain unpainted:







Net change to the Pile of Shame/Potential
201 bought, 1 sold, 0 acquired for free, 36 painted.
Net count of 165

Finished 6 Leonine Avatara and a Prideborn yesterday.

Added a Legions Imperialis Mechanicum Battle Group to the pile.

Ah well...
Hopefully the contrast methods will help me go fast.

Three stands of Desolation Drones.

 Polonius wrote:
Goals- Paint more than I buy

bought another army lot, this time a great buy on Genestealer cult: 30 Acolytes, 10 Abberrants, 2 squads of jackals, 2 ridgerunners, 2 sentinels, 2 LRBTs, 9 older HWTs, 15 GSC characters. So far I've stripped 90% of it, and already reprimed 15 hand flamer acolytes.

- Paint remaining Space Marines

15 assault marines converted to modern jump pack intercessors complete, 2 land raiders and 3 landspeeders primed.

- Paint Guard, including upcoming Kreig (currently sitting at only a scout sentinel and Lord Solar)

No progress

Recently painted:

14 Infinity PanO models
15 assault marines


Things I owned January 1st, 2025, that are now painted



Things I bought in 2025 that remain unpainted:
35 Ork Boys, 30 Nobs, 14 MANZ, 6 Ork Characters (but most of this lot is now stripped and clean)
20 Beastboys, 4 Squighogs, Squigboss,
6 3rd edition sentinels with Cadian and Armageddon upgrades
8 Pan0 Infantry, 2 bots, 2 TAGs
Firstborn lot with 10 Vanguard vets, 10 sternguard
5 Assault marines on sprue (3rd edition)
10 metal Space wolf bodies
Stack of bits sprues
3 metal chaos terminators, 3 metal space wolf terminators, 1 rune priest
1 metal Exocrcist
1 set warcry start crypt of blood terrain
Krieg Box


Things I bought in 2024 that remain unpainted:







Net change to the Pile of Shame/Potential
272 bought, 1 sold, 0 acquired for free, 89 painted.
Net count of [color=red]165

 Dysartes wrote:
Goals
- Paint more than I buy
- Reach 1 character & 2 units for Eldar, Talons of the Emperor, Mechanicum & Tyranids
- Paint 1 Questoris or Dominus Imperial Knight, along with 2 Armigers
- Paint 1 Blood Bowl team
- Clear more of the "WIP at the start of the year" list

Spoiler:

- 0 of 3 complete
- 1 of 3 complete
- 2 of 3 complete
- 3 of 3 complete (or full 12 players of Blood Bowl team complete

Note - I'm just going to be tracking GW things here.

Things I owned January 1st, 2025, starting the year as WIP*
- 2 small ruins from 40k Command Edition (undercoated)
- Thunderer Siege Tank (WIP)
- Convergence of Dominion (WIP)
- Firstborn Dark Angels Master (WIP, based)
- Lord Felthius (undercoated or WIP, based)
- Vostroyan Officer (WIP, based)
- Commissar (WIP, based)
- Chaplain with Jump Pack (WIP, based)
- Firstborn Mentor Legion Captain (WIP, based)
- Mentor Legion Primaris Lt. (WIP, Based)
- Bladeguard Lieutenant (WIP, based)
- 5 Assault Intercessors (WIP, based)
- Cadian Command Squad (4 models, WIP, based)
- 5 Infernus Marines (WIP, based)
* - WIP is defined as at least undercoated, not just built. If I tried to include the unpainted stuff, the year would be over before the survey was done...
Note - this may expand as I find other WIP things I'd forgotten about, and as/when I start on things from the Pile that previously hadn't been undercoated.
Use of violet indicates they were also on the start-of-2024 list

Things I bought in 2024:
Q1
- MTO Sanctum
- MTO Basilicanum
- Biovore (and 3 Spore Mines)
- MotM Striking Scorpion
- 2 MotM Clanrats
- MTO War Wagon & Engineer
- MTO Empire Generals
- AOS Wight King
- Hell's Last
- MOTM Fire Dragon
- Deimos Rhino
- Herdstone
- Skitarii Marshal
- 5 Custodian Wardens
- Mechanicum Heavy Support Box (Thanatar-Calix, Krios, Karacnos)

Q2
Q3
Q4
Italics means I've ordered them, but they've not gotten to me yet...

Things I owned in 2024, now WIP (at least undercoated)
- Aleya
- Generatorum Hub
- Arch-Magos Prime
- Stilts McGee (Sydonian Skatros)

Things I purchased in 2025, now WIP (at least undercoated)
- 5 Custodian Wardens
- Skitarii Marshal

Things I owned January 1st, 2025, now completed:
- Valerian
- 5 Custodian Guard
- 2 large rubble piles from Operation: Hivestorm

Things I bought (or acquired) in 2025, now completed:
- Nowt

Net change to the Pile of Shame/Potential
29 bought, 4 acquired for free, 8 painted.
Net count of -21 (-25)

Borrowed the template from The Newman, though tweaked it a bit

So, quick end of Q1 update...
- Nearly completed the "character & 2 units" stage for the Talons, with an additional hero and two units somewhere around WIP stage
- Have acquired the bases to replace those I lost for my Khorne BB team, so I can take a run at those in Q2
- Still not made my mind up on a base colour scheme for Eldar or Tyranids
- In the red already (which will probably get a bit worse at the weekend), but I do have 13 models in various stages of WIP around me, with the Custodian Wardens probably next to get wrapped up

I have slowly started work on my Mage in the Mirror box.

Finished off my Squighogs and almost done with the Squigbuggy. I've still got a Dakkajet and 10 legacy Warmachine models on the pile, but I'm dangerously close to single digits.

Another three stands of Force Grown Drones. Did all of an hour's work on those over the last couple of days, I could have added them to the March total if I'd been a little more on the ball.

Managed to knock out another squad of models from the Leviathan set; the Terminators this time. The pile of shame shrinks just a little.

Finished up my Dakkajet and with it my Orks for now. Only things left on the pile are some legacy Warmachine stuff. Feels really good.

+1 Einhyr Champion
+1 Ancestor's Wrath Collector's edition
+1 LI Warhound, dug the whole kit out of the FLGS bits table! Paid $14!

Finishedan Abomination today. Also finished more Force Grown Drones, but the forum appended the two posts oddly and it looked like I'd double posted.

Got the pile down to single digits!

Three more Force Grown Drones. Clipping right along on those, they aren't particularly complicated.


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 LunarSol wrote:
Got the pile down to single digits!

Woooo!!!

I added a scratch-built Avatara Projection Biomancer to the pile. I didn't really "buy" it, but I'm not adding a whole category for that one model.

I got my Rattling Kill Team (including Ogryns) base coated today!
Not really painted, but also no longer grey plastic....

Got the end of my Force Grown Drones finished today.

Finished 3 stands Vanguard Infiltrator Clones and a scratch built Avatara Projection.

Finished the furniture in Mage in the Mirror. Finalizing the Wolves and Ogres next.

Finished some more Vanguard Clones

Just finished a huge terrain project in 28mm scale, I will post a showcase thread as soon as I figure out my board setup.

Finished an Eldar tower



Cheers,

CB

Knocked out my second Abomination.

 Captain Brown wrote:
Finished an Eldar tower



Cheers,

CB

Very nice.