Thread 96698453

How bad is YOUR pile of shame?

I must have 2000+ unpainted miniatures. 50 miniatures from Heroquest here, 20 dudes for pennies at a swap meet or bring and buy there, toy spaceships from the store. It all adds up even if most of it was acquired very cheaply. I'm not one of those with piles of unsealed nuGW FOMO boxes.

In some ways, I must have like a hundred different manufacturers, it almost feels like having my own personal shop.

>>96698453 (OP)
about fifteen 15mm armies for DBA, Tyranids and Ultramarines waiting for near full options armies (at color scheme testing phase), at the moment making Mordheim warbands; some ww2 20mm also lurks for chance, keeping them to use in Chain of Command and similar
so about half these towers from boxes in corner worth, but have smaller room

>>96698453 (OP)
A more important question is:
How many minis have you painted last month?

>>96698453 (OP)
Wild. I'd buy your eldars if they're the cool old ones.

I currently have a wraithlord, 5 blades and a war walker partially constructed. I had to stop because i threw out my hobby desk, but hopefully ill have one again soon

>>96698453 (OP)
You tell me

https://pileofpotential.com/Luigino?project=83630141

I have other non-dwarf miniatures I got for free OT found at garage sales/thrift stores etc. But I don't count those as I have no interest in them and they're only things I trade for more dwarfs.

The list itself isn't 100% accurate but it's a pretty close approximation; I'd add maybe 20-30 minis to the painted section and 50-60 to the unpainted one

>>96698453 (OP)
I've been amassing 1/72 stuff since the Ukraine war started. But generally I paint 200-600 minis per year and try not to fomo into the latest new thing.

>>96698453 (OP)
My pile is relatively small. Not considering stuff I intend to just sell off, I'm looking at:
>2 mercenaries for a mordheim warband
>2 hired swords
>10 beastmen
>minotaur
>terrorgheist
>lord of afflictions
>lord of plagues
>6 gunslingers for a wild west game
>about a dozen pieces of scatter terrain
>about a dozen pieces of modest size terrain (1 story ruins, a farmhouse, that sort of thing)

>>96698453 (OP)
I don't have a pile of shame because I'm a historical gamer, not a GW pig. I don't just consoom products, I only buy minis I plan on using for a project and then I immediately start working on them when they arrive. There is actually a lot of time I spend WAITING for some minis to arrive in the mail because I finished everything and have nothing left to paint, and I use this time to build/paint terrain

>>96699702
Absolutely psychopathic post

>>96698453 (OP)
>swap meet

How do you interact with other gamers without delousing them? Every single other person I have met irl who does tabletop is so gross I wouldn't let them into my house.

>>96699702
I bet you also think you're running a simulation of historical combat. God you people are so cringe

Proud to say I don't have a backlog or pile of shame. I paint everything because I refuse to play with unpainted models

It's mostly most of the old pewter Warzone armies, with a couple exceptions. Not pictured is a trash bag full of the alien vs predator: the hunt begins mini boxes.

>>96702524
Better picture cus y'all are the only types who'd care

>>96702610
Bet that weighs a load anon, all that chunky 90s metal. I have a Dragon jetbike that's like 400g of metal

Did you see that guy that had acquired a huge chunk of the Warzone studio painted stuff he was selling off?

>>96702610
Also what's that vehicle bottom drawer?

It's not one of the Armorcast ones is it?

>>96702909
Weighs a ton, just like the jetbike. And yeah that guy had a dragoon rocket launcher with crew, didn't share to the group how much someone paid him for that absolute rarity. Fuck that guy.
>>96702945
It's a lumpy resin Reaver I've shared here too, but made by one of the dudes in the old excelsior/ultimate warzone forums back in the day. All I've done so far to it is add abbadons trophy rack. Sad that whole forum went up in smoke just a few months ago. Double sad that Meta is replacing all the old forum websites.

I have far too many unbuilt kits but it's mostly not wargaming stuff. For the /tg/ stuff I have sitting around it's mostly stuff I bought because it was going OOP. I have a bunch of Warmachine stuff I grabbed when that died. I also grabbed a bunch of Infinity stuff that was getting replaced with newer minis. Both of those fit into one container so I don't think it's that much. For GW stuff I have about 5 boxes of the old plastic cadians I grabbed before they went OOP and also some Blood Angels kits I grabbed before they were replaced by the ugly primaris ones.

>>96698453 (OP)
Seems like you like buying instead of playing and painting. Shopping and collecting are your real hobbies.

>>96702524
>a trash bag full of the alien vs predator: the hunt begins mini boxes
At least you've got the garbage sorted, I guess.

I've got a ton of Battletech minis to do, but I did recently finish painting up two battalions worth of mechs and vehicles in Davion colors. Gonna do another for Kurita next but I'm holding off until their forcepacks come out here so I can do more lore-friendly formations.

>>96702214
any plans to paint your shelf lmao?

>>96703609
It's ok to be angry you'll never get to unleash an oversized pack of hunting doggos from the so-so movie

>>96703658
my thoughts exactly

>>96703024
That's so cool

Yeah that guy that was selling them all, it would have been nice if they were all photographed and archived properly before he sold them to different people.

>>96698453 (OP)

My hoard is about that size. Though I started in Y2K with 3E 40K and 6E WHFB.

I've been selling like crazy on Ebay because of bills and my parents downsizing houses and not wanting their 39 year old son with his own condo storing shit in their basement.

>Triplicate Storm of Vengeance campaign

What's the story there? An LGS closed down?

>>96698678
About 60.

>>96698453 (OP)
This is why I like cardboard pawns instead of miniatures.

there is a table at my local game store's event nights where a dead man's leftover miniatures are sold for a dollar apiece (for loose ones). Some boxed sets as well.
As best I can tell he bought a couple thousand miniatures and then kicked the bucket. I hope the same doesn't happen to me.
Apparently the proceeds are going to his widow, who is also sick, and was struggling to even start cleaning out or managing his hoarder pile in the basement. This is the fate of any huge collection.

>>96711810
Grim. Someone mentioned getting some minis like that on Facebook and i opened my mouth like an idiot when it turned out it was the OP's dad who passed. But in all fairness, battletech has been around since the 80s and plenty of the OG players aren't around to play with catalyst's chunky minis anymore.

>>96698453 (OP)
Not that bad
>1 unpainted orc blood bowl squad (the plastic from the basic box of the 90')
>1 just alsmost finished human blood bowl squad
>1 kroot from the blackstone box
I have some unpainted marine and plague marine but I use them mostly for "coloring trainging" so i don't count them as pile of shame, I use them for friends who ask me to teach them how to paint, for trying new color patterns (I tried some ork skins on marines or chaos colors on loyalist marines).
So it's like 25 miniatures behind, I stopped painting 2 months ago when I got the starter box of blood bowl(I already had a squad but not the base box and I wanted the GROG box), I started painting my humans, tried the colors for ork skin but then stopped because restarted my job and doing some stuff at home, in this period is hard to retake painting, but I usually go back it's just I need to reschedule my time now that I work.

Multiple boxes but I wouldnt really call it a classic pile of shame. It's more so the case of buying a box to have conversion bits and leaving rest on the sprue because i find it easier than cataloging my bitz. Also some half full boxes of necromunda gangers on a sprue, since I am a Wysiwyg guy so i like to have some bodies if I the campaign calls for it.
Does that clasify as a pile of shame?

I ahev about £1500 worth of Necromunda because I started buying up lots of terrain to build my dream table after I got a new job that pays double my old one, but then we sold our house so have been stuck in moving limbo for the last year and a half so everythings been locked in the garage.

>>96713464
When COVID hit a local group died. As in, all three boomers who were playing together for 30+ years got it and passed a few weeks from each other. The local club did a tally and posted several hundred boxes of SPI games, some in good shape, some not, with tens of thousands of figures. The money was passed on to the only widow, the other two being bachelors or widowers. That's how I got my 15mm Napoleonic army, 1200 french and prussian troops, all painted, for 50 euros. I also took a good few squad leader boxes for very little. I like to think that they would have wanted people to play with their stuff more than for the widow to make a buck on it.

>>96698453 (OP)
3500 points of admech I'm too scared to fuck up to even prime them.
An imperial romans starter set from warlord games plus several additional kitsch from other historical miniatures makers
Around 800 3dprinted models from several creators, ever growing

Sigh I'm a slob

>>96714470
>ai slop

lame

>>96698678
Eight

>>96698678
only 8 completed, but I worked on (and am still working on) about 30

Getting smaller.
I got stuff at my mother's house still, probably.
But a lot of my old stuff has just been lost over the years.

I been kitbashing a lot of late for indie wargames, and my childhood partially assembled mass of warhammer debris, which my parents spent far too much money on, has proven a fertile and well cultivated slushpile.

>>96714470
Keep the AI shite in its containment thread.

>>96714412
I imagine two out of three would have wanted people to play with their stuff more than for the widow to make a buck on it.

>>96698453 (OP)
Ad Mech Robot and skitarri box, warcry twistweald, and some goblin band thing. I dont have anyone to play with so I just get what I think I would enjoy painting.

>>96698678
Shugengan lord (no wings) for my girlfriend

>>96698453 (OP)
im not going to validate your addiction.

>>96698453 (OP)
Why are you proud enough of this shit to post a pic of it?

>>96722067
No way that's 2000 miniatures, more like 10,000 at least. It's not OPs pic it was from a guy that died iirc

>>96709225
Holy based. Third-party Blood Bowl-lookalikes?>>96714579
>>96714983
Nice, keep up the good job.

>>96698453 (OP)
I don't see malifaux minis, do you like them?

>>96698453 (OP)
I have zero unpainted minis, but I'm also an adult with self control and not an irresponsible manchild that just needs to consoom.

>>96714493
>>96716609
You faggots are the only people that care. Let me guess, you're "artists" and you're shitty at it. You're getting replaced. Deal with it.

I've got about 4 bones kickstarters to paint but then realised a 3D printer was much cheaper and now I can print and not paint on demand.

>>96722067
>>96726842
It's fun to collect things

>>96726969
No. Collections weigh you down. Too much of something and you stop owning it, it begins to own you. Look at the OP's picture again. Does that look like someone who is having fun collecting? No. That is an addict with a problem.

>>96727023
Nope, that looks fun. You can sell all your belongings and go live in the woods if you want, I don't give a fuck. Just don't get mad at people for having houses and stuff they like. Dumb fucking hippie

>>96727085
You're just being a typical contrarian. OP doesn't have a collection. He has a pile of stuff because he's a hoarder.

>>96727118
Room looks clean and organized, nigga

>>96727137
>Huge pile of stuff on floor
>"looks clean and organized"
Asmongold's hygiene has poisoned the minds of an entire generation.

Picture on wall over half blocked by stacks of boxes.
Chair is inaccesable, hidden behind the horde.
Microwave requires careful maneuvering to reach because of junk on floor.
>ClEaR aNd OrGaNiZeD
LOL! LMAO, even!

>>96727207
>>96727253
>but muh junk on the floor
Clearly taken out of the boxes on the right and photographed. Stay off the weed for a couple days

yuri scat hentai not made by humans tastes empty

>>96727253
trans flag!

>>96719146
>the dead are more important than the living

No

>>96698453 (OP)
I did do every single monster/nemesis in KDM base game, gambler's chest, gigalion, black knight, gorm, dragon king, dung beetle knight and lion knight. But I lose all motivation on survivors. Something about all the fur, bones and leather I get stuck in really muddy colors and cant think of anything colorful that would look interesting on those half nudes barbarians.

>>96714412
>dying from a 90% of survival flu

Scary

>>96727960
Yeah sad when they go young like that

>>96698678
29, 7 on my table being painted now, and crafted and painted a few terrain pieces. Feels good, anons.

>>96728413
Depends on whether they were young at heart or manchildren.

>>96727960
me when I fucking lie with blantant false information

>>96698453 (OP)
>Battletech
2 manticores
2 partisans
A bridge and a building
>DnD
Roughly 1k euro worth of dungeon and lasers terrain
3 elementals
A bunch of Goblins
Balor

I think I'm doing okay
I painted up most minis I had for DnD and a lot of Battletech stuff the last few months

>>96726891
>literal subhuman cope
No one but literal shekel shufflers likes your kind.

I printed 900 18mm miniatures over the past 2 weeks and they all require painting
I'm ignoring my GW pile of shame since I don't care about them anymore
Also my infinity pile of shame since I don't care about them either

>>96698453 (OP)
I have more or less what I need. I'm doing a couple of pretty modest 19th century and dark ages matchups and have a few pulp figures and a fairly large collection of pretty random plastic kits of the more generic sci fi and fantasy figures out there plus a bunch of blister packs. Probably about 24 squad sized boxes and about 4 starter set sized ones. Enough to fill but not flow over two small bookshelves. Enough to play big skirmish games in those settings. Scant but decent terrain.

Anything else I get will probably be more considered. I don't own any GW stuff outside of Contrast Paint and Shades but I think those are pretty good.

Don't really like new GW stuff but always thought about picking up the cheap board games so I could have some Muhreens.

I'd say I'm under 2,000 figures in my backlog and I painted about 48-52 this year lol.

>>96727960
They were boomers; the implication I took is that they all got vaxxed to the gills.

>Uk government has been quietly paying people vaccine damage compensation under the table ever since

>>96698453 (OP)
I have one unbuilt army (Daughters of Khaine, two christmas battleforces, two additional blood sisters plus Morathi), two boxes of seraphim for adepta sororitas and one combat patrol of Drukhari that I grabbed before they released the new one, because I could use two more raiders.

Unpainted, unbased... too many, in various states. Death Guard could use wash. Maggotkin doesn't have basing. Sisters of Battle need to have the details touched on. Sylvaneth need magnets on the bases for easier trasport.

Just went through my collection last weekend. All from the 90s except the Tyranids and Dark elves. All unpainted. Have started cracking into my undead though.

Wfb
Nurgle 2k
Slaanesh 2k
Tzeentch 2k
Khorne 2k
Chaos Dwarfs 3k
High Elves 2k
Wood elves 2k
Undead 2k
Orcs and Goblins 2k
Bretonnia 2k
Dwarfs 2k
Dark elves 1.5k
Skaven 1k
Lizardmen 1k

40k
Eldar 2k
Blood angels 2k
Tyranids 2k
Chaos 2k
Harlequins 1k
Orks 2k

Blood bowl teams
Humans
Orcs
Undead
Dark elves
Vampires

Man o War fleets
Dwarfs
Elves
Bretonnia
Empire
Dark elves
Chaos dwarfs
Orcs

Necromunda gangs
Goliath
Orlock

Lotr armies
Minas Tirith
Rohan
Isengard
Mordor
Moria

>>96727334
...what?

>>96733424
Nice

>>96698453 (OP)
A little over a year in and this is it. I know it doesn’t look like a lot but it’s a lot of work.

I’m thinking of collecting a second army but i’m afraid of growing the pile of shame.

I will not speak of The Forbidden Room's contents...

>>96698453 (OP)
Like this big but I do paint and build daily.

>>96714470
>An imperial romans starter
start with that

>>96722067
It's what comes up when you Google pile of shame

>>96698453 (OP)
Jesus.

I bought 1.5k points of World Eaters for $350 including Angron. The prior owner already primed and painting around 5 berserkers. One fully the other four maybe 2/3 and 1/3.

In addition, I have 3 kill team armies. Mandrakes, Plague Marines, and Angels of Death. As well as minis that came with the Final Girl Starter set.

I have some bolt action models too, but I painted the ones I am planning on playing with. Also, the epic scale battle of Gettysburg other half of box. So more than I thought desu.