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Before I started the hobby of painting minis a few months ago, I made a rule not to buy a new one unless i have finish painting everything. I made it as a reward for buying more. This makes me strive to finish most of it. Same rule with video games, I will not buy new game unless a beat the game. It is painful and ichy sometimes to pull the buy trigger but you will get use to it.
Companies are starting to catch on in a big way, too. GW, of course, but also big players like Nintendo with their completely artificially limited-time Mario releases, etc. It's gonna be a messy new era for us miniature hobbyists to navigate. But hey, like Dana noticed here, being cognizant of it is a good first step.
Doesn't help when some of the more interesting sculpts are LE, which was the case with the Repentia Superior's backpack, and a few of the basic Sisters.
It’s not usually FOMO as in “I need to get this because it’s limited edition.” But FOMO as in “I want this in the future, and I don’t get this now, it’s going cost twice as much.”
I'm starting to go in the direction "If I can't buy it from the company selling it, that doesn't feel like it should be my problem". When a game sells out in the first hour of preorders, I start thinking I should just get a 3D printer and be done with it.
in 2019 while saving to buy a house, i spent all my free time painting and not buying miniatures(or anything really) I was able to knock out over 700 minis in a year. Now I think im at about 100 unpainted minis which eases some of the burden of knowing i had a huge backlog. Enjoy your pile of opportunity.
Always love seeing these "Pile of Shame" videos. Because it lets me see what other projects are out there and what cool combinations the years has gifted ya with. And it both makes me realize I am not SOOO bad with my own pile, but also spurns me to better organize and determine my own projects. Sharing hobby projects is easily my favorite aspect of the hobby for me, I love seeing what inspires others and seeing where they could go with it. I look forward to many of these super cool projects and this fascinating way to dwindle the painting pile! :D
"I bought this set when I had too much money and too little self control" Pretty much explains my entire pile of shame. I'm glad you didn't make the same mistake as I did and total up the cost of it all. It was quite depressing!
That "oh right, I almost forgot" was way too real 😭 counting up the unpainted loose Miniatures and thinking that's not so bad while ignoring my boardgame shelf is why probably why my pile keeps on growing lol
I'm not all the way through the vid yet but this is already feeling far too familiar for my liking... Why do we buy so much STUFF?! edit! Excellent choice on the Hexmark and the Chaplain... I did the same thing. Although my Hexmark is painted, technically... just in a scheme that I don't actually like any more!
@@Kirioth I think you need a special shelf for your stuff. On that is in the background of your videos, so that you can see what you have. (I still havent seen your old terminators got added to your terminators...) That reminds me, I should sort out my minis again. Need to check which ones are fully complete and which are missing basing etc...
I actually solved my pile of shame issues by just getting into 3d printing. Now *I'm not getting anything that's just a copy of an official model* but rather completely different models that work as proxies in friendly games. Like for example actually good looking seraphon models...seriously come on GW,most of that range is about as old as I am. I realized that the reason why I was buying so many kits wasn't about really wanting to do several big projects at different times,it was more about just having the *option* to work on different things. So now that I have the option to just print out anything from kitbashing bits such as helmets to full on models I just don't have the need to buy kits that I wouldn't even work on for months. Basically since I don't *always* need to buy new models when I think I want to start a new project I managed to just work through my backlog to the point where everything that I still need to work on can fit into one relatively small plastic box. So now instead of collecting a pile of physical shame I've bought a massive list of STL files that are just sitting on my hard drive,waiting for me to actually use them. Mind you that backlog will get bigger as soon as Dominion is available but let's not think about that.
It was the Canadian “sorry guys” that got me, WOAH the legion collection came out of nowhere for me tbh. So many models, so many paint schemes, so many art styles
The D&D Chainmail starter set was my first experience with miniatures as a kid, what a nostalgia trip. I did not expect to see them here, or anywhere for that matter!
I know what ya mean Dana. I started 3 space marine chapters during the nurgle plague plus 2 new bolt action armies. My deathwatch are mostly painted, but I'm struggling to finish my fleshtearers and brazen claws. Plus I have 72 us infantry to paint and 48 Germans for a d-day project I have been working on for a year. I got the board built and finished just not the models finished so far. I also have a lot of necrons to paint. I even painted a deathguard army and sold it during the last year. I probably have about 700 unpainted models right now between bolt action, 40k, Lotro and Marvel Crisis Protocol. My Star Wars Legion are all painted. I also bought 2 pelennor fields starters I have been trying to get through. Still got 49 orcs to go and 10 rohan riders.
Just bought my first models, ever. I promised myself not to buy anything else until I finish painting my current box. I should be done with my 2000 pt army by 2026.
@@Inquisitor_Vex A start collecting box for Age of Sigmar. After a month, I finished two models. I will have to adjust my completion time to around 2035.
I can't believe those flying paint pot rockets. Reminds me of the Rogue Trader Compendium which has instructions on how to make deodorant stick hover vehicles. I keep similar buckets of trash around and make funny faces at my friends who use wet pallets while I reach into the plastic bottle cap bin and I'm set.
Looking at the pile that is now higher than the Lego The Tower of Orthanc (28'') because I can no longer hide it in any other cupboards and I have just spent 3 weekends buying vampires I'm not even going to count. I look forward to the Backlog golf video. I can tell you two things that have really helped me in painting more: joining a Facebook group that has monthly challenges on something to paint with a certain topic (a Tale of X Warlords like you are doing) and getting audiobooks to listen to - I am only allowed to listen when I paint so those detective novels pull me in as well as sitting down to paint :)
Your rebel Star Wars folk look lovely! I hadn't seen them before. Good luck with painting all the rest :) I've started just giving stuff away... It's a lot quicker than painting.
MY partner and I prefer to reference our pile as a pile of fun and options instead of shame. This works for us :) We set our personal goals and it works :) We do have a lot of minis though.
May I started back working on my pile of opportunity after I went overboard around Christmas. Started May with 592 minis, knocked out 23 minis. June is going slow almost done with 7 bikes. Gonna try and get two impulsors and 6 eradicators done before Thursday for a 1500 point game.
It's taken me 3yrs to crunch through about 2,000 models - problem is when I started my pile of shame was only around 500 models. Fortunately it's now only 25, so it CAN be done... But, yeah FOMO is an issue.
Don't we always think we "have it under control"? I've got an abundance of Privateer Press miniatures, Reaper Bones & Bones Black, 3-D printed minis from eBay, Enigma minis...not nearly as many as your pile of shame, but enough for me! And of course I'm always adding to the pile...those Chainmail minis look mighty appealing to me!
Enjoyment from buying and owning the figures, dreaming of armies and colour schemes yet to come is just as valid a reason for ownership as it is for actually playing games with them.
Dana, great video. I look forward to your version of backlog golf. However, as someone who barely makes videos due to how long they take to edit, please do not feel rushed on my behalf.
im so glad that when prompted to search literally anything as an example on anything i'm using, i am not the only person to just search 'horse' and see where it takes me.
Nothing can out do my mom during the Beanie Baby boom. Nor my dads collection of sports cards from owning two card shops. Just think of yourself as a non profit distributor that enjoys tapping into inventory now and again…you know like a card shop owner that rips open a new box of packs cause it wants to sell that rare card inside the shop. (i.e. Attending an LVO championship)
@@DanaHowl The thing I love about Frostgrave, Stargrave, and Infinity is you can add them all up and the cost is still less than one GW force. However, in the case of Frostgrave, you can still use those fantasy figures you have. Plus they are fun.
@@Space_Ranger Not to mention Grimdark Future: Firefight and Age of Fantasy: Skirmish. Then there's DnD, which always benefits from having small numbers of many different types of creatures. And there are SF variants of DnD or similar RPGs out there, for using the SF minis. Really, buying for Skirmish scale games is the way to go. It's easier to find people willing/able to play, there's less of an investment (time, money, labor), and if you end up not liking an army for whatever reason it's not as much of a waste.
In an episode of SATC, Carrie has been told she is undesirable for a loan, and she asks Miranda where is gone all the money she made. And Miranda, holding a shoe, says: - 400 bucks a pair, how many of these do you have? 10? - A hundred. - Well, a hundred times 400, there is your money. - Oh my god, I´ve spent 40.000 on shoes?! Yep, that dialogue use to come to my mind when I look at my pile of shame.
I have like 15 unpainted minis and that alone stresses me out to the point of not being able to decide what to work on. Thankfully when I rejoined the hobby I went the 3d printing route so my backlog never jumps with big box buys. Thanks for the video!
painted around 100 models this year. i stoped painting every troup unit like its the centerpiece and i stoped buying anything but the kill team boxes (i like the game, i play it often, i paint the stuff when i get it so its ok for me). the pile of shame gets smaller and smaller with every week and im feeling much better. i try to reach the point where i have no pile of shame. i want to buy a box and have nothing else on my to do list. sounds like a feeling of freedom :D
I painted my pile of shame. It took a while. I think that the blisters with 3 figs back in the days where better in that sense that you wanted to build and paint when you came home. On the other hand I think the multipose/purpose boxed set was great. I will go back to buy models and play if GW bring back the Chaos Dwarfs in the "Old world"! until that I only paint warbands.
See I had a great idea. I would start a podcast and every episode show off the models I painted each month, So long as I have *an amount* then I'm good for that month. I never specified the number, so long as it's *some* it's fine. Your "oh wait there's more" also happened to me after I did a pile of Opportunity video, in that I found a box of airfix kits. They're certainly worth looking at since I own them, probably not to the meticulous detail that model kit builders go to, but I'll put some effort in.
I'm actually kicking ass on my pile this month! In the last couple weeks I've finished a Lady Olynder, knight of shrouds, 2 black coaches ( one plastic one metal), a unit of bladegheists , 4 of the easy build huants with glaives, the malign sorcery spells, and a tomb banshee ( the the bases all are unfinished I admit). Last night I built a Deimos command rhino for my Night Lords army along with some of the elite terminators and while the zenithal prime job is drying I'm on building some raptors and scouts as well.
I have the same fear of missing out problem..so I really want to stay tuned for that golf related solution. Good luck getting through your miniature backlog!
It's really weird to see so many people fall in to the same traps. Big limited boxes and rare or cheap ebay deals. I've decided to really take the axe to the backlog this year tho, which includes selling some projects that I'm not getting around to. Honestly, if I ever want to pick a project back up, you can find almost anything on ebay or whatever. I'm really hoping to see a one-year follow up!
It's nice to know that other people struggle with huge piles of grey plastic and pewter too... looking forward to miniature painting golf. Presumably, if we are painting weapons barrels we'll put a hole in one 😉
This is good advice for me, with the impending release of the Dominion box. It contains so many sweet models... for two armies I don’t play, when I haven’t finished painting the two armies I DO want to play. Thanks Dana.
I cannot believe how much nostalgia I had just seeing those old Lord of the Ring's boxes. I think I'll have to dig around and find some of those minis to paint...
Lol, I'm in the same boat. My board game minis pushed me from ~2000 to almost 3000. And I specifically bought many of those boardgames for the minis. I have no intention of ever playing some of them. How bad is my problem? Unlike most people, I'm not very upset my Kickstarter projects are late. Each is probably 100-200 minis that I don't have to add to my total count just yet :-)
I’d love to see some videos on how you paint your legion models! I think it would be super interesting to see how you balance canon looks with your bright and fantastical style
4 minutes in- That's not so bad. 7 minutes in- Ok, getting to be an issue. Final count- Wow. You sound like me. :-) And don't even get me started on the amount of 3D mini files I have that I can print....
i have as much in my pile of shame as you, but i had to ditch all the boxes to save space. a lot of GW metal, inc the 1987 golden demon figure, ill get around to it one day, over 1200 painted figures too :)
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I do have a shameful grey pile. It’s trying to get pushed back, slowly.
Before I started the hobby of painting minis a few months ago, I made a rule not to buy a new one unless i have finish painting everything. I made it as a reward for buying more. This makes me strive to finish most of it. Same rule with video games, I will not buy new game unless a beat the game. It is painful and ichy sometimes to pull the buy trigger but you will get use to it.
I’ve seen worse.
*Casually glances into guest bedroom*
Good, it’s still there.
And saw the Super Dungeon Stuff at the end, nice.
I love the way you take care of the pretty boxes!
FOMO is real and an ongoing battle
Companies are starting to catch on in a big way, too. GW, of course, but also big players like Nintendo with their completely artificially limited-time Mario releases, etc. It's gonna be a messy new era for us miniature hobbyists to navigate. But hey, like Dana noticed here, being cognizant of it is a good first step.
Doesn't help when some of the more interesting sculpts are LE, which was the case with the Repentia Superior's backpack, and a few of the basic Sisters.
Oh, hell yes.
It’s not usually FOMO as in “I need to get this because it’s limited edition.” But FOMO as in “I want this in the future, and I don’t get this now, it’s going cost twice as much.”
I'm starting to go in the direction "If I can't buy it from the company selling it, that doesn't feel like it should be my problem". When a game sells out in the first hour of preorders, I start thinking I should just get a 3D printer and be done with it.
in 2019 while saving to buy a house, i spent all my free time painting and not buying miniatures(or anything really) I was able to knock out over 700 minis in a year. Now I think im at about 100 unpainted minis which eases some of the burden of knowing i had a huge backlog. Enjoy your pile of opportunity.
now THIS is relatable warhammer content
135 unpainted nighthaunt is like looking into my soul, I feeeel that
it was a good deal at the time!!!!
@@DanaHowl ... Isn't it always? :|
Always love seeing these "Pile of Shame" videos. Because it lets me see what other projects are out there and what cool combinations the years has gifted ya with. And it both makes me realize I am not SOOO bad with my own pile, but also spurns me to better organize and determine my own projects. Sharing hobby projects is easily my favorite aspect of the hobby for me, I love seeing what inspires others and seeing where they could go with it.
I look forward to many of these super cool projects and this fascinating way to dwindle the painting pile! :D
"I bought this set when I had too much money and too little self control" Pretty much explains my entire pile of shame. I'm glad you didn't make the same mistake as I did and total up the cost of it all. It was quite depressing!
That "oh right, I almost forgot" was way too real 😭 counting up the unpainted loose Miniatures and thinking that's not so bad while ignoring my boardgame shelf is why probably why my pile keeps on growing lol
I'm not all the way through the vid yet but this is already feeling far too familiar for my liking... Why do we buy so much STUFF?!
edit! Excellent choice on the Hexmark and the Chaplain... I did the same thing. Although my Hexmark is painted, technically... just in a scheme that I don't actually like any more!
when i buy things it makes my brain happy
@@DanaHowl it makes me happy until I have to store it. then I get the sads
@@Kirioth
I think you need a special shelf for your stuff.
On that is in the background of your videos, so that you can see what you have. (I still havent seen your old terminators got added to your terminators...)
That reminds me, I should sort out my minis again.
Need to check which ones are fully complete and which are missing basing etc...
I always regret buying lots of minis to paint, but I never regret having them once I've painted them.
@@DanaHowl i have the same situation XD i just keep buying.. and buying
I have like still 3 boxes of never opened Ad-Mech miniatures and 4 of AoS Goblins sitting and patienatly waiting
I lost all of my almost complete set of Chainmail during a move and anytime I see Chainmail boxes, I get a little sad.
I’m more of a builder than a painter but these kind of videos inspire me to do more.
I bought the entirety of Middle Earth in miniature form and only painted 2 of them xD I was dying laughing!
I have not seen such bold paint schemes anywhere. Good job!
I relate. What helps me is: I think of how much WORK it will be painting the box of minis I am currently eyeing. Stops me most of the time 😏
I actually solved my pile of shame issues by just getting into 3d printing. Now *I'm not getting anything that's just a copy of an official model* but rather completely different models that work as proxies in friendly games. Like for example actually good looking seraphon models...seriously come on GW,most of that range is about as old as I am.
I realized that the reason why I was buying so many kits wasn't about really wanting to do several big projects at different times,it was more about just having the *option* to work on different things. So now that I have the option to just print out anything from kitbashing bits such as helmets to full on models I just don't have the need to buy kits that I wouldn't even work on for months. Basically since I don't *always* need to buy new models when I think I want to start a new project I managed to just work through my backlog to the point where everything that I still need to work on can fit into one relatively small plastic box.
So now instead of collecting a pile of physical shame I've bought a massive list of STL files that are just sitting on my hard drive,waiting for me to actually use them. Mind you that backlog will get bigger as soon as Dominion is available but let's not think about that.
It was the Canadian “sorry guys” that got me,
WOAH the legion collection came out of nowhere for me tbh. So many models, so many paint schemes, so many art styles
The D&D Chainmail starter set was my first experience with miniatures as a kid, what a nostalgia trip. I did not expect to see them here, or anywhere for that matter!
i love how AoS gets big boxes with every army and 40k always has 50% space marines in those boxes.
I know what ya mean Dana. I started 3 space marine chapters during the nurgle plague plus 2 new bolt action armies. My deathwatch are mostly painted, but I'm struggling to finish my fleshtearers and brazen claws. Plus I have 72 us infantry to paint and 48 Germans for a d-day project I have been working on for a year. I got the board built and finished just not the models finished so far. I also have a lot of necrons to paint. I even painted a deathguard army and sold it during the last year. I probably have about 700 unpainted models right now between bolt action, 40k, Lotro and Marvel Crisis Protocol. My Star Wars Legion are all painted. I also bought 2 pelennor fields starters I have been trying to get through. Still got 49 orcs to go and 10 rohan riders.
Your necrons with the pink actually look sick
Quarantine was the first time I finished paint projects faster than I was buying models
Just bought my first models, ever. I promised myself not to buy anything else until I finish painting my current box. I should be done with my 2000 pt army by 2026.
Stay strong!
Ooh, who did you get?
@@Inquisitor_Vex A start collecting box for Age of Sigmar. After a month, I finished two models. I will have to adjust my completion time to around 2035.
Glad to see that a painter that I look up to has a sizeable amount of LotR miniatures and isn't looking down on them. Keep up the good work :)
У тебя великолепные покрасы. Просто сказка. Не видел ничего настолько красивого у русских художников. (Translate pls. Rus)
I read somewhere in a comment section that its not a pile of shame its future projects.
Chainmail?! That's lovely. Please share a video series when you paint those.
Everything is FINE...."looking at the 2 meter shelf filled with boxes".....no they will not crush me at some point ^^
I can't believe those flying paint pot rockets.
Reminds me of the Rogue Trader Compendium which has instructions on how to make deodorant stick hover vehicles.
I keep similar buckets of trash around and make funny faces at my friends who use wet pallets while I reach into the plastic bottle cap bin and I'm set.
I’m thankful my city has 2 shops that buys and resales minis painted and unpainted
Looking at the pile that is now higher than the Lego The Tower of Orthanc (28'') because I can no longer hide it in any other cupboards and I have just spent 3 weekends buying vampires I'm not even going to count. I look forward to the Backlog golf video. I can tell you two things that have really helped me in painting more: joining a Facebook group that has monthly challenges on something to paint with a certain topic (a Tale of X Warlords like you are doing) and getting audiobooks to listen to - I am only allowed to listen when I paint so those detective novels pull me in as well as sitting down to paint :)
Your rebel Star Wars folk look lovely! I hadn't seen them before. Good luck with painting all the rest :) I've started just giving stuff away... It's a lot quicker than painting.
5:17 incorrect, there's never enough Orks and Goblins
MY partner and I prefer to reference our pile as a pile of fun and options instead of shame. This works for us :) We set our personal goals and it works :) We do have a lot of minis though.
The pinkish colour-scheme on the Necrons make them look a bit fleshy, as if they were Terminators that have recently torn off their organic layer. :D
May I started back working on my pile of opportunity after I went overboard around Christmas. Started May with 592 minis, knocked out 23 minis. June is going slow almost done with 7 bikes. Gonna try and get two impulsors and 6 eradicators done before Thursday for a 1500 point game.
The scared face, priceless haha...love it!!! It seems that in the future I will have a pile of shame too :)
It's taken me 3yrs to crunch through about 2,000 models - problem is when I started my pile of shame was only around 500 models. Fortunately it's now only 25, so it CAN be done... But, yeah FOMO is an issue.
Good job.
This is the perfect video to convince my SO that I'm falling behind and need more minis.
Holy blinking flip. That IS a lot. I ended up selling a lot of painted armies. My Night Lords one sold well quick. Cheers for the upload Dana.
Lol…I like how we have the same 2 stand alone hexmark and terminator Chaplin…
LMAO I blame the INDOMITUS hype at the time
Don't we always think we "have it under control"? I've got an abundance of Privateer Press miniatures, Reaper Bones & Bones Black, 3-D printed minis from eBay, Enigma minis...not nearly as many as your pile of shame, but enough for me! And of course I'm always adding to the pile...those Chainmail minis look mighty appealing to me!
You can never have too many minis, just an increasing back log whose destiny has not yet been determined.
Love You're painting style
Enjoyment from buying and owning the figures, dreaming of armies and colour schemes yet to come is just as valid a reason for ownership as it is for actually playing games with them.
those chainmail sets really take me back.
Dana, great video. I look forward to your version of backlog golf. However, as someone who barely makes videos due to how long they take to edit, please do not feel rushed on my behalf.
im so glad that when prompted to search literally anything as an example on anything i'm using, i am not the only person to just search 'horse' and see where it takes me.
Just remember its "collecting" not hoarding.
I like to think as hoarding as collecting all manner of things where as I only have loads of miniatures so ....
Nothing can out do my mom during the Beanie Baby boom. Nor my dads collection of sports cards from owning two card shops. Just think of yourself as a non profit distributor that enjoys tapping into inventory now and again…you know like a card shop owner that rips open a new box of packs cause it wants to sell that rare card inside the shop. (i.e. Attending an LVO championship)
FOMO is absolute hell, I feel you on that.
Thanks for making me feel better about *my* backlog. I'm deep, but not 1500 minis deep. *stares at Crisis Protocol at FLGS*
Omg the potential future video's are looking great!!!
Time to get into skirmish games!
I'm on it!
@@DanaHowl The thing I love about Frostgrave, Stargrave, and Infinity is you can add them all up and the cost is still less than one GW force. However, in the case of Frostgrave, you can still use those fantasy figures you have. Plus they are fun.
@@Space_Ranger Not to mention Grimdark Future: Firefight and Age of Fantasy: Skirmish.
Then there's DnD, which always benefits from having small numbers of many different types of creatures. And there are SF variants of DnD or similar RPGs out there, for using the SF minis.
Really, buying for Skirmish scale games is the way to go. It's easier to find people willing/able to play, there's less of an investment (time, money, labor), and if you end up not liking an army for whatever reason it's not as much of a waste.
The time and money You spare on miniatures, will be spent on terrain. :)
@@bicskeiz Not the way I make terrain! But even if I did buy terrain, it still won't cost as much. Besides terrain can be just as fun as miniatures.
I would EASILY buy a poster of that Sisters of Battle box-art if I found it!
I love your painting schemes, you just gained a new subscriber ☺️
You are an excellent painter, not surprised that u get commissions
In an episode of SATC, Carrie has been told she is undesirable for a loan, and she asks Miranda where is gone all the money she made. And Miranda, holding a shoe, says:
- 400 bucks a pair, how many of these do you have? 10?
- A hundred.
- Well, a hundred times 400, there is your money.
- Oh my god, I´ve spent 40.000 on shoes?!
Yep, that dialogue use to come to my mind when I look at my pile of shame.
oh I'd love to see your take on retro Tau! you could do that justice for real
The last church is a must see 😱😱 40k
I have like 15 unpainted minis and that alone stresses me out to the point of not being able to decide what to work on. Thankfully when I rejoined the hobby I went the 3d printing route so my backlog never jumps with big box buys. Thanks for the video!
I love your necron color scheme.
I'd always rather have good bits than have to print.
The worst thing about fomo, is when you assemble and paint a limited edition, one is devaluing the fucking set. Fofu: Fear of fucking up
Finally someone in my realms of numbers.
painted around 100 models this year. i stoped painting every troup unit like its the centerpiece and i stoped buying anything but the kill team boxes (i like the game, i play it often, i paint the stuff when i get it so its ok for me). the pile of shame gets smaller and smaller with every week and im feeling much better.
i try to reach the point where i have no pile of shame. i want to buy a box and have nothing else on my to do list. sounds like a feeling of freedom :D
Khrones throne is actually made from the ever growing pile of shame
You're brave. I don't have the guts to count my pile of shame...
I painted my pile of shame. It took a while.
I think that the blisters with 3 figs back in the days where better in that sense that you wanted to build and paint when you came home. On the other hand I think the multipose/purpose boxed set was great.
I will go back to buy models and play if GW bring back the Chaos Dwarfs in the "Old world"! until that I only paint warbands.
Impressive chain mail collection.
9:36 PUPPERS!!!!
See I had a great idea. I would start a podcast and every episode show off the models I painted each month, So long as I have *an amount* then I'm good for that month. I never specified the number, so long as it's *some* it's fine.
Your "oh wait there's more" also happened to me after I did a pile of Opportunity video, in that I found a box of airfix kits. They're certainly worth looking at since I own them, probably not to the meticulous detail that model kit builders go to, but I'll put some effort in.
I'm actually kicking ass on my pile this month! In the last couple weeks I've finished a Lady Olynder, knight of shrouds, 2 black coaches ( one plastic one metal), a unit of bladegheists , 4 of the easy build huants with glaives, the malign sorcery spells, and a tomb banshee ( the the bases all are unfinished I admit). Last night I built a Deimos command rhino for my Night Lords army along with some of the elite terminators and while the zenithal prime job is drying I'm on building some raptors and scouts as well.
Man I'm 100% in to see Dana do some LorR MESBG content
i mean...im kinda speechless...but in a good way. Get paintin!!!!! :)
I have the same fear of missing out problem..so I really want to stay tuned for that golf related solution. Good luck getting through your miniature backlog!
I dont think you have a problem, you have plenty of opportunity for future fun videos and for commissions :)
After 40 years of hobbying I still havn't figured it out. Trust me 1500 unpainted minis isnt to bad LOL.
I counted mine lately and felt relieved now that there are people that have way more😂
I am and have been a huge fan of Star Wars since 1977 and am also a big fan of Space Marines
Great video and I too have the same FOMO problem. Will need a bigger living space at some point - oh well - that's life.
It's really weird to see so many people fall in to the same traps. Big limited boxes and rare or cheap ebay deals. I've decided to really take the axe to the backlog this year tho, which includes selling some projects that I'm not getting around to. Honestly, if I ever want to pick a project back up, you can find almost anything on ebay or whatever.
I'm really hoping to see a one-year follow up!
It's nice to know that other people struggle with huge piles of grey plastic and pewter too... looking forward to miniature painting golf. Presumably, if we are painting weapons barrels we'll put a hole in one 😉
oh no! so many minis!
This is good advice for me, with the impending release of the Dominion box. It contains so many sweet models... for two armies I don’t play, when I haven’t finished painting the two armies I DO want to play. Thanks Dana.
My count is probably around 1000 after Reaper Bones V arrives.
I am excited for the backlog golf video. I'll wait rather than google it.
That escalated quickly.
Dana, you made a mistake at 5:18. Im sure you ment to say you don't have enough goblin and Ork stuff because you can never have enough goblins!
I cannot believe how much nostalgia I had just seeing those old Lord of the Ring's boxes. I think I'll have to dig around and find some of those minis to paint...
If it's new-in-box you can count it as stack of potential, not pile of shame. I swear!
Lol, I'm in the same boat. My board game minis pushed me from ~2000 to almost 3000. And I specifically bought many of those boardgames for the minis. I have no intention of ever playing some of them. How bad is my problem? Unlike most people, I'm not very upset my Kickstarter projects are late. Each is probably 100-200 minis that I don't have to add to my total count just yet :-)
The videos of piles of shame produces on me a lot of pain. I'm studing arts and i can't buy some miniatures :( i'm very jealous
I’d love to see some videos on how you paint your legion models! I think it would be super interesting to see how you balance canon looks with your bright and fantastical style
4 minutes in- That's not so bad. 7 minutes in- Ok, getting to be an issue. Final count- Wow. You sound like me. :-) And don't even get me started on the amount of 3D mini files I have that I can print....
I also want to build my chainmail collection. A had built a few but they usually need some serious gap filling.
I hate that old night goblin kit. The amount of times the arms fell off but then again who doesn't love night goblins...
Wow what a backlog and a huge opportunity
Pile of opportunity not pile of Shame
i have as much in my pile of shame as you, but i had to ditch all the boxes to save space. a lot of GW metal, inc the 1987 golden demon figure, ill get around to it one day, over 1200 painted figures too :)
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*staring at chainmail minis, interest intensifies*
Not even halfway through and I'm throwing up at how much unbuild plastic there is 😩