If you want to give Audible a go, have a 30 day free trial on me! Head to www.audible.com/midwinterminis or text midwinterminis to 500 500, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
How come stuff you *JUST* bought gets added to the pile of "shame" _right away?!_ Implicating every model one buys basically needs painting *_on the way home_* to not be reproachable! Doesn't make sense imo. Think we need a reasonable timeframe within wich a model needs painting before it is "shameful" to not having done it already.
Yeah, I caught that too! While I’m sure she will be pretty busy/tired for a while with ‘Mork & Gork’, I look forward to a video eventually with her painting it. :)
I, and I'm sure a lot of people, would love a stream were you random select a box of the pile of shame and paint live with us. I know many content creators aren't confortable with the type of engagement, so no pressure. But I think that even a stream with not much talk would be very cool.
Guy just needs to rephrase the question, instead of naming the twins Gork & Mork, they should name them Mork & Gork. See, it's all in how you ask it. Gotta make a convincing argument.
NGL, I really like the 24 hour challenges or army painting challenges - it's some of my favourite youtube content. I can never find enough of it to watch.
If you would like someone to lend a hand in slaying the grey I'm sure I could take a few minis off your hands Guy :P Got any retro orks that I could use for my Hawaiian boyz?
"All you need is a baby changing unit to prime your minis on, a baby bath tub full of your DIY dip wash and lots and lots of baby wipes to clean of the excess wash" "While you are basically finished at this point you can speed up the drying time using a baby hairdryer to speed up the drying. Be careful and only use the coldest setting, as you don't want to accidentally melt you minis. Now kindly borrow some of your girlfriend's nail polish to paint the details and you're done."
Creepy Imp: I will turn these gray sprues into finished models in one night, but on your twins' 18th birthday I will return for my payment...mwahahahaha!
"How did I achieve this? Well, to be honest, I needed to use an unconventional technique" *pulls out Homer's makeup-applying shotgun from The Simpsons*
Just wanted to say how much I love your channel. Haven't played Warhammer since I was young but apply a lot of your painting advice on printed DnD minis! Thanks!
Thanks Guy, you set the bar high for me and my mrs. Box set galore, sitting there gaining value, sitting there building guilt, sitting there in... GREY.
For anyone that feels bad about their Pile of Shame: For about 8 years I had a rented storage locker for ONLY my pile of shame because I could not fit it in my apartment. The locker cost me 100 per month. (8x12)x100 = 9600 Basically I paid short under 10K for ONLY STORING my pile of shame. Let that sink in!
@@altdorfkalle6227 I've been playing since 1994. I have 4 armies. Each army fits into a GW case(minus land raiders, rhinos, terrain, ...etc.) Your story has been a real wake-up call. My collecting habits could have become much worse. Fortunately?, I have financial limitations. Great comment and story! Thank you, for sharing it.
i tried listening to audiobooks or podcasts when painting miniatures, but i would get distracted by the people talking, so i would just listen to soundtracks or ambients. So thank you for the soundtrack you put up.
Oh my god! Penny at 11:37 "I'm remaining positive about this, otherwise I'd cry". I feel my wife has uttered those words so many times... Well done on getting so many painted, Guy. Feel you on the build up though. Too many cool things to get when they are available. My pile of shame for miniatures has grown badly this year (since TAC started) but my list of completed terrain is very healthy. I wish I had more time to my models but spend so much of my free time creating terrain videos. To be honest, I wish my pile of shame was THAT small! Well done. Oh, and Audible is awesome. Just start on "Penitent" by Dan Abnett - great book!
I know the Audible section was an ad, but the Space Marine bit was pure gold!.. er.. blue and gold! FYI, I just finished the first Ravenor, with the next one in my queue, and the recent Warhammer Crime novels were in the same vein. Great stuff!
I think it’d be really cool if once COVID is over, you made some videos about teaching your painting techniques in person with like your own little class, so you’d be painting one model from a set, and each student would paint their own from that set. That way you can cut down on the grey, make some content, get community involvement, and you get to showcase the different results from your tutorial class and display how your techniques work well for beginners.
I don't even play Warhammer, but I'm insanely invested in seeing the hopefully incoming update for 2022 and whether you've somehow managed to accrue another 1k+ worth of minis since then out of sheer subconscious spite. As a fellow hobby hoarder I can't even judge, I'm just so ready with the popcorn.
Would love to see painting tutorials for the Space Crusade minis. That was the game that introduced a young me to WH40K back in the 90’s and I have fond memories of Sunday afternoons playing it with my friends
That's how/when i got into GW back in the day too. Just recently gotten back into mini painting after a break of about 20 years - by restoring a friend's damaged copy of space crusade. Sadly only one genestealer remains from my old set... (many of the minis suffocated under numerous layers of paint - and got lost between too many house moves). All the while my ancient pile of shame is staring at me. (Though it is tiny compared to Guy's)
I had that game but never played. We got it for the mini's. I bet it was a blast to play. Our game, besides RT and 2nd edition, was Space Hulk. I did speed painting on the genestealers before the internet was what it is today. Neat.
Man would love to see a speed painting tutorial for zombicide. I have the medieval version still all in grey. Would be great to see the process you choose to paint everything
Hey man! If you see this, congrats on your new babies. Regarding your shirt, Pink Floyd... my kids are 8 and 10, and I have just introduced them to Pink Floyd (and the Beatles, and Prince, and the Beach Boys)... my kids LOVE PINK FLOYD! Here's to a future of hobby and music, mate.
Hey there. Completely new to Warhammer and slowly working my way though your video library this week learning alot! Just a quick thanks and I will hopefully be purchasing my first Mini's to get painting. Cheers for the great content!
My childhood flashed before my eyes when you showed that old Warhammer edition, that skeleton army box, Heroquest and Space Crusade. I still have the skeletons, high elves and goblins, and they're all painted up.
I'm also a big fan of listening to audiobooks while I paint. Lately I've been leaning heavily on my local library system's audiobook offerings rather than subscribing to Audible, but either way it's a great way to help settle into that groove.
If I'm honest, I haven't watched quite as much on your channel in this past year as my favourite of your stuff is the painting videos. It will be nice to see more of that content on the channel overall
Months after you got your warlord titan mine is still sitting there staring at me to paint it..... did I mention there is now an Astraeus and a warmaster on the pile now too......
Really appreciate your down to earth approach to these videos, thanks so much for the amazing content. I don't feel quite so bad about my unpainted minis now lol. Also noticed you said no "new" GW boxes, which I feel cleverly gives you room to grab as much OOP content as you'd like...
@@MidwinterMinis It’s a VERY good loophole, and as a sucker for all things Oldhammer and Midhammer myself I can’t blame you one bit. Those nostalgia videos you’ve been doing where you paint classic gretchin and Space Wolves are some of my favorites. 😁
Watching a series of projects being taken to completion to clear 'Pile Of Shame' items I think would be an amazing series of videos/live streams to keep up with. Would be great inspiration to work through my own too
Hey I have that troll that's at 6:46 and his two brothers that were from that same Ral Partha line. Damn I loved those old Ral Partha minis. Such great sculpts.
Speaking of 1 year backlogs: I *finally* assembled my Start Collecting Space Marine squad yesterday, that i bought back in January 2020, after my Caliban Green paint arrived. Originally i wanted to paint the figures in the colours of some fictional characters from my youth but that would require me to get at the least 12 different paints, just to use them on one model each. Aside from black and a light grey that is uniform over the 6-person group. --- That would've left 6 more marines, a sergeant, captain and Dreadnought that could've been painted as characters of my own but that would necessitate even MORE one-time paints... Instead i decided to nix the idea and will just paint the entire 12 man squad in my own personal colours of grey and green. Quite convenient too as the models start off grey. :P --- Even so; in efforts to FINALLY get in gear with this project; i've bought more paints, namely an Army Painter gun metal primer along with Citadel's Grey Seer Base and Eshin Grey Layer paints. --- I already have the Death Guard vs Ultramarine paint set that was promoted SEVENTEEN MONTHS AGO so that can provide the accent colours needed for cloth and weapons, plus the sandy terrain paint that's included. I hope the Macragge Blue isn't too dark for the optics but i can probably mix some with the white paint included to brighten it up to a lighter hue. --- Needless to say i'll be using your painting guide video as reference since this will be my first time painting Warhammer. The paint set should provide the required weathering paints like washes and highlights --- Another thing is while building my Marines; i actually did 2 deviations from the instructions: The Terminator Captain is intended to be built with an unhelmeted head but i had a spare helmet head as i'd used one of the Corvus/Beakie pattern helmets. So i pried off the flesh head i'd gone with and glued on the helmet head. I don't know if that breaks lore or not, for a Terminator Captain to wear a helmet, but i don't care. I want my squad to be consistent, even if one has a Beakie but that's appropriate to who i've assigned them to be. --- The other modification is i wanted a Marine to hold a grenade but no hand-less left arms remained. So i unhanded one of the Bolter supporting arms and glued on the grenade hand. Said Marine is rather annoyed that they've been assigned with only a grenade and Blot pistol while most others in the squad have heavier stuff, primarily their best mate who got the bazooka/cannon thing. --- Due to time waning on; i didn't have time to apply the shoulder pads as i had TH-cam stuff to watch with only 5 hours before bedtime. I can apply the shoulders once my paints start arriving. --- My younger brother has an even WORSE backlog of assembled but unpainted Daemons Of Khorne/Chaos army plus a Knight Desecrator, but he DOES have some paints he bought so i could see if any of those will be useful to me. I want a Knight, specifically the Warden as the box model's colours are mine inverted, but they're expensive at £80 each...
Wow. Were it me, I think one of the first things I'd paint up for a video would be that ancient Skeleton Army box. Delightfully retro, and very easy to batch out quickly.
Hulk Hogan as Space Marines is the laugh I didn't know I needed, brother! In unrelated news, time to crack out the yellow, red and orange paint for a new colour scheme...
Still waiting for a pile of shame video where someone actually reduces the pile. :D Great video, guy! It's always fun to watch and hear what's happening in your hobby life.
I’d love to see the opposite of this video: I wanna see your whole collection all on one video! From your earliest mini to the most recent... that would be incredible!
Love the channel, I started the hobby just under 2 months ago. largely due to this channel making painting look so fun. I have now painted 99 minis and I am currently working on an imperial knight canis rex as my 100th model! And on the topic of audiobooks I would recommend the book brutal kunnin' by mike brooks. I didn't see the appeal of orks till this book. really funny and well written plus no use of the word "BROTHER"
Your Pile of Shame video was one of my faves and I'm delighted to see a follow up. Despite your major efforts this year I have a feeling that your net total will still be over 500....
Oh Guy!!! I am disappointed in you! There would be something so satisfying about seeing that pile being eaten away, not growing bigger! :( Daily painting videos please!!
Guy, please do more challenge videos. They are extremely inspiring. I still revisit your 7-day Ork Army Challenge and your 25-hour Bringers of Decay army Challenge videos often. It gives such a powerful arse-kick to sit down and paint - you have no idea. Good luck on going through this ol' pile of shame this year, I sadly don't think that in 12 months you're going to change it all into painted minis, but maybe you can prove me wrong :-)
Whilst you may class it as a "pile of shame" there are some absolute gems in that pile! I'd take no shame at all in having some of those sat in my hobby room................ Just gives you loads of awesome content!
Well I guessed that your pile of opportunity (never be ashamed!) would increase, as that is the inevitable natural order for all hobbyists, so it seemed like a safe bet.
I'm gonna have to check my pile of shame after watching this video. I checked what I had last year and I totalled out at 1700 minis to paint. I have a decent collection of 40k models, and grabbed some of their boardgames too, like speed freekz, blackstone fortress, gorechosen, and the recent Cursed City. The rest of the stuff are from the myriad boardgames I've collected over the span of a year. You're already familiar with how many minis you get from Zombicide so just add all the expansions and they add up fast. I've honestly considered starting a youtube channel where I paint everything over time. Should be fun, and I'm looking forward to seeing more painting videos from you!
If you want to give Audible a go, have a 30 day free trial on me! Head to www.audible.com/midwinterminis or text midwinterminis to 500 500, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
How come stuff you *JUST* bought gets added to the pile of "shame" _right away?!_
Implicating every model one buys basically needs painting *_on the way home_* to not be reproachable! Doesn't make sense imo.
Think we need a reasonable timeframe within wich a model needs painting before it is "shameful" to not having done it already.
Get the Ciaphus Cain series!
Hey Guy, how would I go about joining the discord channel? cheers, Brett
Can you make a crib out of sprues? Or a kiddie gate maybe?
If you end up having 4 kids name them Khorn, nurgal, teeznche, and Kain lol
I dunno, I feel like if you are going to have a 1k pile of shame, you may as well carry on and aim for the full 40k.
If it doubles every year
1k Pile of shame? That my friend is not a pile, merely a bump.
Patrick Swan Given the sheer volume of resin the Warlord uses,I’d argue 1.5k
I get the feeling a Mr Beast spending challenge is coming now
The Emperor protects.
TECHNICALLY that warlord I sent is the seed model for PENNY'S pile of shame...
Yeah, I caught that too! While I’m sure she will be pretty busy/tired for a while with ‘Mork & Gork’, I look forward to a video eventually with her painting it. :)
13:35 - "This stuff has taken me years to accumulate!"
A year, Guy. Singular. You got half of that pile in a year. You can't use that excuse anymore!
Hey, plural can just mean 2! ;)
It’s been 55 weeks since the last pike of Shane
Really he accumulated 900 because last year he had 500 and painted 400.
@@MidwinterMinis like Twins?
That's a great pile Brother, keep goin! Rule 1 is spicy, I like it.
Rule one is easy. I live this way for 8 years now. But I've got a thousand models pile of shame of mantic
@@СанСанычБакулин LOL, looking to sell!?
It's not a pile of SHAME, it's a pile of CONTENT OPPORTUNITIES ;)
True
Well said.
Yes! I came to the comments to say just that!!
It's not a Pile of Shame!
It is a Pile of Possibility! A Mountain of Future Magnificence!
Haha! Pile of Content, I like that XD
Some serious Bob Ross vibes here :D
I, and I'm sure a lot of people, would love a stream were you random select a box of the pile of shame and paint live with us. I know many content creators aren't confortable with the type of engagement, so no pressure. But I think that even a stream with not much talk would be very cool.
'You can't buy another thousand this year'
You all heard it. that sounds like a challenge to me.
Foreshadowing
So it will be 2k ... as it is not 1k ... np
999 then?
Congratulations Guy, Penny, and Alpharius Omegon!
With apologies to Penny-and your unborn children-I think it's time for, "If we reach 500k subscribers we will name our twins Gork and Mork."
'with apologies to your unborn children' is a phrase I never knew I had to use some day... Until now.
Guy just needs to rephrase the question, instead of naming the twins Gork & Mork, they should name them Mork & Gork. See, it's all in how you ask it. Gotta make a convincing argument.
At least middle names
NGL, I really like the 24 hour challenges or army painting challenges - it's some of my favourite youtube content. I can never find enough of it to watch.
Unrelated to wargaming, but wishing Penny and Guy the best as they prepare for their two kids.
Hey Chris did you happen to play a game called Cards, the Universe, and Everything? I recognize that pfp from their discord server
@@ohlookaflower.5961 yeah that's me.
Guy and penny will be great parents no doubt. And will have probably have the coolest Halloween costumes :)
As a father of twins, I'm going to miss the content for the first couple of years, but I would gladly donate diapers to help the cause.
As a twin parent, Im going to be calling my boys gork and mork from here on out. I currently refer to them as Deimos and Phobos
a warframe player?
If you would like someone to lend a hand in slaying the grey I'm sure I could take a few minis off your hands Guy :P
Got any retro orks that I could use for my Hawaiian boyz?
I mean as long as we’re asking for minis...
Get your greedy eyes off my Orks Simon
Lmao
Poggers it's the Dr Simon Clark
You should give some of these away what a waste
He’s going to make a “it still only counts as one” reference when the warlord Titan gets counted isn’t he
The scary thing about this is that you are able to justify each and every mini.
Never change, Guy.
Penny says I have an excuse for everything...
@@MidwinterMinis
2020 - 3 digits of unpainted minis
2021 - 4 digits of unpainted minis
2022 - ?
@@rakino4418 by 2030 the whole planet will be a pile of shame
@@vodam6970 It's well on its way there.
@@MidwinterMinis she might be onto something. Try "my bad, I am sorry" next time ;)
Mordian glory: "You need to paint 200 models for an infantry list!"
Guy: *Pathetic*
The GW staffer who runs marketing looking at your rule 1 and deciding to send you a free box of every new release this year for the lols.
"I kept all the receipts" Yes, gotta write those off on your taxes as a business expense.
Viewers: “Guy why doesn’t Penny feature in the channel much these days?”
Guy: “I may have registered the Babies names as Gork and Mork...”
No, no, no. He needs to be more brutally cunning than that.
George and Morwenna.
That space marine dialogue bit was amazing
Damn, the quality boost is super noticeable now. This is basically a mini-TV show!
Thanks for noticing! :D
@@MidwinterMinis No problem dude! I swear, between you (MWM) and 52 miniatures, warhammer channels have been hitting it out of the park lately.
I agree it looks really professional and you have came a long way
I am actually astonished how the Pile of Shame doubled over the time where Guy said he was going to work on it.
I was brushing my teeth while watching and the Hulk Hogan Space Marine almost made choke on my toothpaste, brother!
1,042!!!!!!! I am so relieved! I thought I had alot, but it will take me a looooong time to catch up to you!
Next video on the channel:
"I have painted 1042 models in 24 hours"
"All you need is a baby changing unit to prime your minis on,
a baby bath tub full of your DIY dip wash
and lots and lots of baby wipes to clean of the excess wash"
"While you are basically finished at this point you can speed up the drying time using a baby hairdryer to speed up the drying.
Be careful and only use the coldest setting, as you don't want to accidentally melt you minis.
Now kindly borrow some of your girlfriend's nail polish to paint the details and you're done."
Creepy Imp: I will turn these gray sprues into finished models in one night, but on your twins' 18th birthday I will return for my payment...mwahahahaha!
"How did I achieve this? Well, to be honest, I needed to use an unconventional technique"
*pulls out Homer's makeup-applying shotgun from The Simpsons*
The best part of every hobby, no matter how serious you take it, is collecting material and THERE IS NO SHAME IN THAT... keep on keeping on!
Your pile is not of shame it is of pride showing your commitment to warhammer. Love the content.
True that.
Pile of Fame!
YES!
Just wanted to say how much I love your channel. Haven't played Warhammer since I was young but apply a lot of your painting advice on printed DnD minis! Thanks!
me at the beginning of the video: lmao imagine if he somehow managed to double his pile
penny says the number: oh.... oh gods.....
Oh my, my pile of shame is not that large!
Always appreciate your videos!! The most relaxing part of my days! Thanks for being with us!!
Let's start a bet: who will be standing up right earlier? His kids or his finished and painted Titan?
It will ABSOLUTELY be the twins.
Hell, I think the kids will be painting before the Titan is finished.
Twins😁
Maybe if he does the plastic one, he will have a chance :P
Titan
Thanks Guy, you set the bar high for me and my mrs. Box set galore, sitting there gaining value, sitting there building guilt, sitting there in... GREY.
Genuine guffaw when Penny read out the new number.
You'll eventually reach that saturation point of "no more retro sets to buy"
My wife told me to stop at 50 unpainted models. Penny is so ... patient
Thats why hiding is a thing😆
@@zamnodorszk7898 if this wasn't his job it would be insane.
I love the yearly update, great video. All the best with your impending family!
For anyone that feels bad about their Pile of Shame:
For about 8 years I had a rented storage locker for ONLY my pile of shame because I could not fit it in my apartment.
The locker cost me 100 per month.
(8x12)x100 = 9600
Basically I paid short under 10K for ONLY STORING my pile of shame.
Let that sink in!
Guessing you meant years when you said "For about 8 months..." cuz otherwise theres something very wrong
@@phr00tpie I corrected my post. Thank you.
Sadly I can’t go back and correct my error the post is about
Damn... Was it only "Games Workshop" items, or did it include other hobby items?
@@Bryan-zx8cl Straight up GW
@@altdorfkalle6227 I've been playing since 1994. I have 4 armies. Each army fits into a GW case(minus land raiders, rhinos, terrain, ...etc.) Your story has been a real wake-up call. My collecting habits could have become much worse. Fortunately?, I have financial limitations. Great comment and story! Thank you, for sharing it.
Crazy to think it’s been an ENTIRE YEAR! most of it I spent in lockdown so felt quite short, but either way love your videos guy!
i tried listening to audiobooks or podcasts when painting miniatures, but i would get distracted by the people talking, so i would just listen to soundtracks or ambients.
So thank you for the soundtrack you put up.
Midwinter Minis, providing all the background noise solutions since 2018, haha
Oh my god! Penny at 11:37 "I'm remaining positive about this, otherwise I'd cry". I feel my wife has uttered those words so many times... Well done on getting so many painted, Guy. Feel you on the build up though. Too many cool things to get when they are available. My pile of shame for miniatures has grown badly this year (since TAC started) but my list of completed terrain is very healthy. I wish I had more time to my models but spend so much of my free time creating terrain videos. To be honest, I wish my pile of shame was THAT small! Well done. Oh, and Audible is awesome. Just start on "Penitent" by Dan Abnett - great book!
given that the bulk of marine releases are done and orks are on the way, you're going to have an industrious year.. bruvva
They’ll find some more super saiyan primaris down the back of the sofa, then it’s back on the release train
Hahahahaha NOOOOO NOW I WILL ALWAYS READ SPACE MARINE DIALOGUE IN HULK HOGAN'S VOICE 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Ha! The hogan brother montage was one of the best bits! ....brother!
You're gonna have ta drink yooour own SWEAT to survaaaaahve BROTHER
His outro song makes me feel like i've just seen the best movie of my life and am sad its over lol.
I remember that scene from BSG of Gaius Baltar looking over the entire fleet’s dna tests, knowing it will take him 60+ years to complete
I know the Audible section was an ad, but the Space Marine bit was pure gold!.. er.. blue and gold!
FYI, I just finished the first Ravenor, with the next one in my queue, and the recent Warhammer Crime novels were in the same vein. Great stuff!
Ever since I got my 3d printer my pile just won’t stop growing
Same for me, I really shouldn't be allowed to print anymore
@@ahumanperson3158 Ive started 4 armies, I have a problem
I think it’d be really cool if once COVID is over, you made some videos about teaching your painting techniques in person with like your own little class, so you’d be painting one model from a set, and each student would paint their own from that set. That way you can cut down on the grey, make some content, get community involvement, and you get to showcase the different results from your tutorial class and display how your techniques work well for beginners.
Start with painting all the skeleton horde with Citadel contrast paints. That'll be "quick & easy" 😉
I don't even play Warhammer, but I'm insanely invested in seeing the hopefully incoming update for 2022 and whether you've somehow managed to accrue another 1k+ worth of minis since then out of sheer subconscious spite. As a fellow hobby hoarder I can't even judge, I'm just so ready with the popcorn.
And here I am with about two dozen partially painted minis, feeling bad that I still haven't finished them all. This is insane :D
Now I want a Hulk Hogan narrated space marine audio book, just for the campy dialogue
Would love to see painting tutorials for the Space Crusade minis. That was the game that introduced a young me to WH40K back in the 90’s and I have fond memories of Sunday afternoons playing it with my friends
That's how/when i got into GW back in the day too. Just recently gotten back into mini painting after a break of about 20 years - by restoring a friend's damaged copy of space crusade. Sadly only one genestealer remains from my old set... (many of the minis suffocated under numerous layers of paint - and got lost between too many house moves). All the while my ancient pile of shame is staring at me. (Though it is tiny compared to Guy's)
I had that game but never played. We got it for the mini's. I bet it was a blast to play.
Our game, besides RT and 2nd edition, was Space Hulk. I did speed painting on the genestealers before the internet was what it is today. Neat.
I started with Eisenhorn half a year ago. Then Ravenor and now Gaunt :) Dan Abnett mastered his craft!
Man would love to see a speed painting tutorial for zombicide. I have the medieval version still all in grey. Would be great to see the process you choose to paint everything
Hey man! If you see this, congrats on your new babies. Regarding your shirt, Pink Floyd... my kids are 8 and 10, and I have just introduced them to Pink Floyd (and the Beatles, and Prince, and the Beach Boys)... my kids LOVE PINK FLOYD! Here's to a future of hobby and music, mate.
I love the hulk hogan / space marine part, so so funny!
Hey there. Completely new to Warhammer and slowly working my way though your video library this week learning alot! Just a quick thanks and I will hopefully be purchasing my first Mini's to get painting. Cheers for the great content!
You've painted more in a year than I've in my whole life 😂
Well it is his job. I guess that helps a little xD
My childhood flashed before my eyes when you showed that old Warhammer edition, that skeleton army box, Heroquest and Space Crusade. I still have the skeletons, high elves and goblins, and they're all painted up.
1 year on and you're definitely smaller, good job lad
That wasn't the game! Haha
this is true
The difference is striking.
Well done lad!
I'm also a big fan of listening to audiobooks while I paint. Lately I've been leaning heavily on my local library system's audiobook offerings rather than subscribing to Audible, but either way it's a great way to help settle into that groove.
Trying to paint minis with twins is going to be the ultimate challenge.
If I'm honest, I haven't watched quite as much on your channel in this past year as my favourite of your stuff is the painting videos. It will be nice to see more of that content on the channel overall
Months after you got your warlord titan mine is still sitting there staring at me to paint it..... did I mention there is now an Astraeus and a warmaster on the pile now too......
Really appreciate your down to earth approach to these videos, thanks so much for the amazing content. I don't feel quite so bad about my unpainted minis now lol. Also noticed you said no "new" GW boxes, which I feel cleverly gives you room to grab as much OOP content as you'd like...
You've spotted my loophole ;)
@@MidwinterMinis It’s a VERY good loophole, and as a sucker for all things Oldhammer and Midhammer myself I can’t blame you one bit. Those nostalgia videos you’ve been doing where you paint classic gretchin and Space Wolves are some of my favorites. 😁
Challange: How many models can you paint until your world shifts to Family Dad
Watching a series of projects being taken to completion to clear 'Pile Of Shame' items I think would be an amazing series of videos/live streams to keep up with. Would be great inspiration to work through my own too
When you don't buy any Warhammer for a year but your Shame Pile still grows ever larger.
So great. And the Miniac cameo is so fun.
I'm disappointed in myself for guessing lower, but I'm proud of you for hoarding even more
Hey I have that troll that's at 6:46 and his two brothers that were from that same Ral Partha line. Damn I loved those old Ral Partha minis. Such great sculpts.
Speaking of 1 year backlogs: I *finally* assembled my Start Collecting Space Marine squad yesterday, that i bought back in January 2020, after my Caliban Green paint arrived.
Originally i wanted to paint the figures in the colours of some fictional characters from my youth but that would require me to get at the least 12 different paints, just to use them on one model each. Aside from black and a light grey that is uniform over the 6-person group.
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That would've left 6 more marines, a sergeant, captain and Dreadnought that could've been painted as characters of my own but that would necessitate even MORE one-time paints...
Instead i decided to nix the idea and will just paint the entire 12 man squad in my own personal colours of grey and green. Quite convenient too as the models start off grey. :P
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Even so; in efforts to FINALLY get in gear with this project; i've bought more paints, namely an Army Painter gun metal primer along with Citadel's Grey Seer Base and Eshin Grey Layer paints.
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I already have the Death Guard vs Ultramarine paint set that was promoted SEVENTEEN MONTHS AGO so that can provide the accent colours needed for cloth and weapons, plus the sandy terrain paint that's included. I hope the Macragge Blue isn't too dark for the optics but i can probably mix some with the white paint included to brighten it up to a lighter hue.
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Needless to say i'll be using your painting guide video as reference since this will be my first time painting Warhammer. The paint set should provide the required weathering paints like washes and highlights
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Another thing is while building my Marines; i actually did 2 deviations from the instructions:
The Terminator Captain is intended to be built with an unhelmeted head but i had a spare helmet head as i'd used one of the Corvus/Beakie pattern helmets. So i pried off the flesh head i'd gone with and glued on the helmet head. I don't know if that breaks lore or not, for a Terminator Captain to wear a helmet, but i don't care. I want my squad to be consistent, even if one has a Beakie but that's appropriate to who i've assigned them to be.
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The other modification is i wanted a Marine to hold a grenade but no hand-less left arms remained. So i unhanded one of the Bolter supporting arms and glued on the grenade hand. Said Marine is rather annoyed that they've been assigned with only a grenade and Blot pistol while most others in the squad have heavier stuff, primarily their best mate who got the bazooka/cannon thing.
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Due to time waning on; i didn't have time to apply the shoulder pads as i had TH-cam stuff to watch with only 5 hours before bedtime. I can apply the shoulders once my paints start arriving.
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My younger brother has an even WORSE backlog of assembled but unpainted Daemons Of Khorne/Chaos army plus a Knight Desecrator, but he DOES have some paints he bought so i could see if any of those will be useful to me.
I want a Knight, specifically the Warden as the box model's colours are mine inverted, but they're expensive at £80 each...
Wow. Were it me, I think one of the first things I'd paint up for a video would be that ancient Skeleton Army box. Delightfully retro, and very easy to batch out quickly.
The GW FOMO is real. I applaud your decision to avoid it and I hope more people will adopt that philosophy.
The part with the bass guitar. Thank you for making this jaded hobbyist laugh out loud. God knows I needed that :D
You should do a challenge on how fast you can crack out the skeletons. See if some other channels will do a race with an equivalent box.
You know what? In my brain when you asked to guess in the comments below, my brain randomly picked 1,076.... I can't believe I was that close
I thought we were calling them "piles of opportunity" now? 😄
That spells POO
Pile of Potential
Hulk Hogan as Space Marines is the laugh I didn't know I needed, brother!
In unrelated news, time to crack out the yellow, red and orange paint for a new colour scheme...
Will you be trying the eBay Miniature Rescues, "How much can I paint with a new born?" challenge?
Out of necessity! Haha
Still waiting for a pile of shame video where someone actually reduces the pile. :D
Great video, guy! It's always fun to watch and hear what's happening in your hobby life.
I’d love to see the opposite of this video: I wanna see your whole collection all on one video! From your earliest mini to the most recent... that would be incredible!
Penny feel free to buy more sharpies.
No need to give her permission, haha
@@MidwinterMinis Are you thikin' of building a Gundam Plastic model kit/Gunpla?
Love the channel, I started the hobby just under 2 months ago. largely due to this channel making painting look so fun. I have now painted 99 minis and I am currently working on an imperial knight canis rex as my 100th model! And on the topic of audiobooks I would recommend the book brutal kunnin' by mike brooks. I didn't see the appeal of orks till this book. really funny and well written plus no use of the word "BROTHER"
There’s no way it’s been a year already! Time flies when you’re in a national lockdown...
Next week, 2,000 minis. Or at least it'll feel like next week.
Your Pile of Shame video was one of my faves and I'm delighted to see a follow up. Despite your major efforts this year I have a feeling that your net total will still be over 500....
Oh Guy!!! I am disappointed in you! There would be something so satisfying about seeing that pile being eaten away, not growing bigger! :( Daily painting videos please!!
SPRUES FOR THE SPRUE GOD
Guy, please do more challenge videos. They are extremely inspiring. I still revisit your 7-day Ork Army Challenge and your 25-hour Bringers of Decay army Challenge videos often. It gives such a powerful arse-kick to sit down and paint - you have no idea.
Good luck on going through this ol' pile of shame this year, I sadly don't think that in 12 months you're going to change it all into painted minis, but maybe you can prove me wrong :-)
I bet it will be like 300 or so, this addiction can’t be stopped
Edit: boy oh boy I didn’t saw this coming
Guy: I need a few minis to make content
Penny: Well that's 10 years worth at this rate
I'm doing my best to only buy what I need for my army but somehow other models follow me home anyway
Whilst you may class it as a "pile of shame" there are some absolute gems in that pile! I'd take no shame at all in having some of those sat in my hobby room................ Just gives you loads of awesome content!
Well I guessed that your pile of opportunity (never be ashamed!) would increase, as that is the inevitable natural order for all hobbyists, so it seemed like a safe bet.
It is the way of things
@@MidwinterMinis This is the way.
I feared it had gone up despite your heroic painting efforts. I was still amazed! Makes me feel better about mine!
I want to start painting again but I don't want to. You know?
I'm gonna have to check my pile of shame after watching this video. I checked what I had last year and I totalled out at 1700 minis to paint. I have a decent collection of 40k models, and grabbed some of their boardgames too, like speed freekz, blackstone fortress, gorechosen, and the recent Cursed City. The rest of the stuff are from the myriad boardgames I've collected over the span of a year. You're already familiar with how many minis you get from Zombicide so just add all the expansions and they add up fast. I've honestly considered starting a youtube channel where I paint everything over time. Should be fun, and I'm looking forward to seeing more painting videos from you!
Pile of Potential
That's the spirit
Thanks Guy. You've made me feel abit better about my unpainted mini situation 😁
Too bad that the midwinter babies are not gonna be named after too genius like gork and mork😭
I got a good chuckle out of the Titan “it only counts as one” I look forward to what year has in store for the channel!