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Specialist Games General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stormwind on March 11, 2014, 10:02:24 PM
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I ask this not for people to boast, but more from the point of view of mutually shaming one another into painting more.
I have painted a dozen Warmaster blisters - and have in various stages of preparation for painting etc. about another 30. This leaves a lead pile of about 150 blisters / units worth.
I'm about to make another order to Sally 4th - if I can get them magnetised and in easy to store boxes - it's encouraging to at the very least prepare and undercoat them ready for test battles!
What is your shame?
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Mine's barely a molehill at the moment.
I've got a unit of Pendraken Knights for my Araby army, plus the General and 2 Wizard stands to do, as well as a collection of various Pendraken figures to make up a Paymaster and Pay Wagon stand for my Dogs of War army, then I'm out of stuff to paint.
I've just received a load of bases from Renedra, so will have to get some more figures ordered in the next few weeks.
I've also got lots of Evil Men figures on order with Yann via Indiegogo, whenever they will arrive.
Stuff I'm planning to buy is various units to finish off my Araby army, a few extras for my Dogs of War, then probably move onto Chaos Dwarves - hopefully with some Steppe Goblins included in the ranks ;D
No rest for the wicked...
Edit: I'm not one for much of a back log - it's a bit too daunting. I prefer to buy a reasonable amount of figures and finish them before buying more.
It also helpfully stops SWMBO making pointed remarks about how much I'm spending! Fortunately she's into scrapbooking, so when she asks what I'm going to do with the figures I collect, I simply point to the significantly larger area of the room that her hobby takes up. The good thing about 10mm minis, they don't take up much space :D
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2 to 3 times that.
Slowly wading through painting 12 units of skeleton spearmen at the moment. 6 nearly finished.......
You do know that when you finish painting your last unpainted figure, you die?
At this rate I'm going to live until I'm 100! :)
Dave
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Oh man, I have a lot.. An empire army, Araby, dark elves, chaos for warmaster...
Chaos, marines, and guard for epic..
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I spent many years in a small apartment, planning and gathering my armies while sending what I did receive to my parents (with a much bigger house and numerous storage sheds). I do not recommend other people do this. I recently returned to my parents house for a while and sorted through my stuff, and was kind of overwhelmed...
I have a minimum 2000pts of Dwarfs, High Elves, Chaos, Khemri Undead, Orcs and Goblins, Empire, Skaven, Lizardmen, Kislev, Daemons and probably more I've forgotten about. Many of those armies are 3000+ pts, some even up to 4000 or 5000.
So- how much is painted? Well, almost all of my High Elves (which I bought painted ;D) and almost 1500pts of my Orcs and Goblins.
I also collect Epic, 40K, Warhammer and BFG, and the situation doesn't look much better for them either.
I really need to outsource some painting. But I do really like painting- I'm just so slow at it.
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well, i just have BFG, but for only collecting it for 3 years and on limited resources, i think i have gathered quite a lot...
besides the huge lots i have painted and done, i have about 8 bigger and 20 smaller ships in various states of assembly or painting, as well as roughly 30 ships in blisters.... plus the load of around 50 ships i got from ebay which need a full redo. ::)
and a crapload of orbital mines. ;D
my problem: huge 40k armies, plus i really, really HATE painting.
i just see it as a necessary evil, and force myself to have models painted before i allow myself to use them in-game... only way anything gets done. it is still VERY slow :(
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The SG stuff is the lion's share but I've still got a bunch of other minis beyond it.
1 MH warband, on sprue.
4 GM mobz, some built.
4 gangs of NM and most of the hired guns. 1 gang should be painted come April.
5 fleets of MoW along with the Norse and Sea Monsters. 1 fleet is painted.
30k of WM spread out over 10 armies. 8% is painted.
I'm not counting the points I have for Epic, but somewhere around 20 armies and at least 100k worth of points.
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I began to have several WM armies, but othing as big as that.
A Kislev army painted, and some few other figs i should paint one day...
A Dark Elves army painted.
A Lizardmen army painted.
A small Bretonnian army painted.
A Big undead army painted too.
Several units from here and there, remnants of boughts or trades. I should let them go but i did not (yet) took time to propose them.
Epic : Squats and Tyanids. Far too many of them, definitively.
Man O'War : Really tons.
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With the risk of attracting burglars (you've heard of the ones that specialise on GW right ;) )
Warmaster painted:
3k Dark Elves
3k Skaven
Warmaster various degrees of painted (0-25%)
2k Undead
2k Dwarfs
3k Empire
3k Chaos
2k High Elves
One box of BoFA painted and one unpainted.
Epic various degrees of painted (0-75%)
12k+ Imperial Guard
7k+ Orks
4k+ Eldar
4k Space Marines
4k Titans
70 odd Tau and Imperial BFG ships.
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Well , what can I say , everyobe heres quite reasonable .
I collect mostly warmaster , with other scales and figures as well .
wm
at present i have painted ,
technically when I pay for them
vc 3,000pts
khemri 3,000pts , 2,000pts half painted , 7,000pts unpainted
wood elves 2,500pts
empire 2,100pts , at least 70 units unpainted
chaos 4,000pts painted , 6,000pts unpainted
high elves 3,000pts painted , 7,000pts unpainted
dwarves 4,000pts unpainted
araby 6, 000pts unpainted
orcs and goblins 70 units painted , 70 units unpainted
kislev 1,800pts unpainted
bretonnians 1,500pts unpainted
theres probably more , heavy painting projects this year , planning to have 250 units painted . I hasten to add I'm not painting them .
not mentioned copplestone figures
horse tribe army 2,000pts
orcs 40 odd units , more to follow
and yes waiting for steppe goblin army err...........hoard that I want
yes evil men as well
oh well at least I know what my vice is . Need more space .
Stuart
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forgot looking for demon army , and increasing some of my other armies .
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And I thought I was a Warmaster mentalist!
I like the approach of getting professional help (painters, not psychiatrists)....
Dave
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Yeah , well I seem to have fallen of the deep end and missed the safety net . Who knew !.
On the other hand I have been wargaming for over 37 years , so I have lots of other stuff as well .
My wife is fairly resigned to the fact that the postman brings varying parcels that rattle when shaken , then her eyes roll up with a statement it's yours !.
Hehehe .
Stuart
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I really need to outsource some painting. But I do really like painting- I'm just so slow at it.
This is me pretty much. Plus, I am not a great painter, due to the lack of time to get consistant at it, and I hate to paint stuff if I know that I wont be happy with the result, and so the vicious cycle continues.
For BFG, I have both Chaos and Eldar as my main fleets, and each of those have over 60 ships. Epic is where it gets crazy though, starting at 10K points of Tau and moving on to boxes and boxes of stuff. I had an Epic box full of blisters, around 50 plastic double sprues for Marines, Eldar, Tyranids and Chaos. a shopping bag full of more blister packs, around 50 sprues of Squats.... the list goes on and on.
Honestly, its not something that I should be proud of, and at this point I seriously doubt that I will ever actually get through it all.... but I still cant bring myself to get rid of any.
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Stuart,
Damn, that must be the top side of 80,000 points! Well done that man! The next time SWMBO has a little dig at the just under 16,000 points I've got painted, (and 5000-odd planned :D ), I'll mention it to her ;)
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I'm looking forward to potential steppe goblin and ogre armies, since my chances of getting lizardmen, araby etc. without a bank loan are diminishing. x-D
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Seen some of the wips of the gobbos , really nice . Just waiting for the shopping list to come out .
Stuart
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Me too, a man can't get by without a few gobbos to paint up! ;D
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The kicker is that the better you get at painting, the longer it takes to get shit done.... When I was younger I'd churn out armies no problem. Does that 6mm model really need two highlights? I can't bring myself to dumb my paintjobs down...
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Got 20kilos of unpainted metal still to go :-[
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Before I joined up there was a "Tale of Painters" or something with a similar thing, encouraging people to paint a unit a month - perhaps we should be trying to encourage each other that way :-X
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my goodness 20kilos . thats a lot .
I think even if i ( got painted ) painted 15 units a month it would take a very long time to get through it , partly because i keep adding units and armies .
must stop pressing buy now , bidding on you know where .
But the good news is that there is the beginnings and alot of interest in 10mm , for a while there i was getting a little worried .
now i'm smiling
Stuart
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I've got:
2k of high elves
2k of undead
My wip kislev force
Mordheim witch hunters
Escher gang
Then I've got the core gw stuff:
An ever expanding tau army
A large sisters of battle army
A large praetorian army (150 infantry models)
Ogre kingdoms army
Chaos dwarfs
And a horrendous amount of lotr stuff
I wish I could make more time to get it done but I'm too slow and my spare time is dominated by motorcycles :/
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Having read the thread, I now realise that my pile of partly-painted and unpainted metal is perhaps not as bad as I had thought ...
3k Slaanesh Daemons/Chaos/Chaos Dwarves (work in progress)
3k Beastmen (unpainted)
3k Dogs of War/Araby - Marienburg (unpainted)
2k Empire - Nuln (unpainted)
But the good news is that I seem to have broken my Empire habit - although I can see a relapse coming.
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Warmaster - 3k worth of Empire, HEs, Dwarfs, Lizardmen, Chaos, Daemons, Orcs and Goblins, Bretonnian, Tomb King, Vampire Count. and 2k of Kislev to paint.
Epic - 6k Chaos Space Marines, Eldar, Lost and the Damned, and 3k of Tau.
I believe.
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2K of High Elves painted
2K of Bretonnian (1K painted)
1K of Tomb Kings unpainted
2K of Araby unpainted
bits and pieces of Eureka Chaos Dwarves and currently trying to buy some Lizardmen and Dwarves...
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My problem is I always say to myself "I wait till I paint this model, when my painting skills are better because it's such a cool OOP piece." :-[
As for now i have
BFG:
- Large Chaos fleet, 30 cruisers and the same number of escorts, all of the battleships plus ordance.
- Huge corsair eldar fleet in various stages of painting, some forge world stuff i will not touch until i'm sure my painting wouldn't ruin it.
- Forge World Tau fleet - same here.
- Crafworld eldar one of each ship plus escorts.
- Also Tyranids plus some imperium, space marines and Adeptus mechanicus ships.
Necromunda - Escher gang and Scavvies
Mordheima - Skaven
Also i still go my Space hulk and Dreadfleet models unpainted. :-\
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Warmaster... let say... as big as the Misty Mountains
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Warmaster - 2.5k of dwarfs completely unpainted
Epic - ~8k imperial fists remaining, 4k of white scars, 4k of emperor's children, 4k of death guard, 4k of Saim-Hann, 12k of "craftworld eldar", 10k of orks, 15k of guard, 4k of titand
The ridiculous thing is that I had a fully painted 8k guard army which I swapped for an unpainted one.....
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The ridiculous thing is that I had a fully painted 8k guard army which I swapped for an unpainted one.....
Oh no :o
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Mostly all unpainted at this time
Numbers are approximate points. There may be more.
I usually stick to 2000 point games as a max and use the extra points as variety for the lists.
Undead; 2380
Chaos: 4846
Chaos Dwarves: 3320
Orcs; 3375
Araby: 3110
High Elves: 3075
Dwarves: 4745
Dark Elves: 2805
Empire: 2760
Lizardmen: 2915
Daemons: 2670
Skaven: 2640
Vampire Counts: 2540
Brettonia: 2460
Developing Armies:
Wood Elves: 1310
Kislev: 1425
Beastmen: 0 (planning on 2460)
Norse: 0 (planning on 2585)
Ogres: 0 (planning on 2865)
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I'm WM only when it comes to SG stuff.
Painted:
3000pts of Chaos
2500pts of Dark Elves
2000pts of Tomb King
2000pts of Lizardmen
2300pts of High Elves
With some bits of WM which are not SG: a full 3000pts-worth Ind army with 3 Mumakils, Magic Pillars, Be'lakor, 2 nagas, fortifications, siege equipments, etc.
Unpainted:
2000pts of Empire
3000pts of Chaos
300pts of Dark Elves
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Mine's more of a hill than a mountain really:
2-3k of WM skaven, unpainted
2k WM dwarves unpainted
Waiting to paint them once I make a dent in:
Maybe 4-5k of epic tyranids
3-4k epic Tau
3-4k of epic steel legion, Krieg and Vraksian traitors pending
Then there's
About 300-400 points of infinity Aleph
A couple of sets of sedition wars plus extras
Stealers and termies for my 1st ed Space Hulk ( plus librarians and hybrids)
Oh, and about 3k of wfb Skaven,
and maybe 3k of 40k Tau
...and a Phil Kelly era Chaos All Stars bloodbowl Team
Hmmm... Maybe it's a little more than I thought! It's gonna be great when it's done though!!!
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Blood Bowl
- Numbers are # of teams I have in each race
- All teams have cheerleaders, full 18 man rosters, and support staff
(I am pretty sure - has been a few years now)
- I may have more teams in unopened blisters
- I have all 55 star players from the last V5 update
Amazon x1
Chaos x3
Chaos Dwarves x2
Dark Elves x3
Dwarf x3
Elf x2
Goblin x2
Halfling x1
High Elf x1
Human x5
Khemri x1
Lizardmen x1
Necro x1
Norse x1
Nurgle x1
Ogre x1
Orc x3
Undead x1
Skaven x2
Vampire x1
Wood Elf x1
Slaan x2
Chaos Pact x1
Underworld x1
Sometime in the future I will put up the Epic mountain :)