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vanvlak
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint  Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:40 am |
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:29 am |
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Well I thought I was bad, but there's always someone worse out there.
Nice to know I'm not alone.
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:43 am |
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I usually don't have money to hoard miniatures. But even so, I always have a few in progress of converting or painting, so I never have quite enough time to finish them all. The second card Dread is for example sitting half-done on the shelf for last 9 months or so.
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:58 pm |
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| Quote (vanvlak @ 13 2004 Dec.,08:40) | | Quote (Mojarn Piett @ 13 2004 Dec.,06:47) | Wha...   ?Don't you know what happens if you paint all your figs?? ? |
you'll softly and suddenly vanish away,
and never be met with...
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Hehe, yeah I believe this sort of thing too... I always have unpainted miniatures... and am bidding on more auctions at the moment...but these days I have a shelf worth of bare metal and plastic, rather than an entire cupboard like I used to!!
For instance, when I say my Imperial guard army is entirely painted, I am not counting 2 plastic warlords needing weapons, 8 sprues of guard needing chimeras, a shadowsword needing two more shadowswords for a company... or the 9 artillery which I picked up yesterday 
However, compared to the amount of stuff painted these are just bits and pieces, not the depressing 'boxes of armies' that used to be lying around!
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:27 am |
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Ah, I see. That's better... 
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:41 pm |
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Counting my collection of craptastically painted Battlemechs -of a total ranging 60, only 20 are painted to a quality that I can stand - or am too sentimental on them to strip them straight away, like the oldie Battlemaster and Phoenix Hawk, who both were some of my first Mechs painted - I have a lot of things to do in case I completed all model in painting now.
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:14 pm |
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Long time reader, first time poster (always wanted to say that  ), and this topic caught my interest...
I, like most of you, have a lot of unpainted figs...
2 (10,000+ pts total) Warhammer Armies,both around 75% painted.
4 (all 4000+pts) 40K Armies, all around 75% painted, maybe slightly more...
A pile of Confrontation figs, not one painted!
Around 60-80 B5 ships, 90% painted
Couple of thousand assorted points of BG, 50% painted
And epic, my current obsession:
30,000pts Guard - 90% painted
15,000+ Chaos - almost all painted! (apart from the 100 bases i just got off ebay...)
10,000+ Eldar - 90% painted (but in easy Ulthwe colours )
5,000 Orks - None painted...
At the moment, I'm churning out around around 20-50 bases a day, maybe painting 2-3 days a week. So most of that epic stuff has been painted in the last 4/5 months (it had been lying around for years). My paint scheme isnt amazing, but I consider it a decent play standard. The disturbing thing is I actually think Im painting faster than Im buying stuff off ebay, which I do find strange...
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:02 pm |
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Welcome aboard, RB ! 
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:08 pm |
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vanvlak
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:31 pm |
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Welcome RB - great production rate!
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Tas
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:58 am |
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In all this self flagellation on hoadring, you guys seem to have forgotten the ancient wargamers' saying:
"He who dies with his bodyweight in wargames figures- wins!"
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:22 am |
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| Quote (Tas @ 16 2004 Dec.,18:58) | | "He who dies with his bodyweight in wargames figures- wins!" |
Is that just Epic or all wargames you own?
Does Terrain count?
[dafrca wonders how long it would take to weigh his stuff, realizes it is silly and goes back to eating his dinner.]
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Tas
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 12:40 pm |
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All wargames figs, and terrain doesnt count.
And plastic ifnnatry doesnt help the cause either.
Still waiting for primarch to weigh-in...
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Post subject: Hoarding and no time to paint Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:54 pm |
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I just lost about 40lbs ... so I'm just that much closer !!! 
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