"What unpainted miniatures are STILL lying around?" Topic

Do you have large pile of unpainted miniatures that never got finished? If so, what are they, and what got in the way of your plans?

a. No
b. Yes

Yes, I do have a moderate pile of unpainted lead.

I always have a tendency to overpurchase for a project, and so the extras, a small amount for each project, tend to accumulate. Generally, the extras are given away every couple of years.

At this point, it takes a lot to catch my eye. All of the topics that interest me enough to invest in a project have been tried, either as part of my collection, or for someone else.

b. Yes

A new project got in my way of one I was doing previously and work has been particularly tough the last six months.

The projects on hold are as follows:

Flames of War early WWII Germans and French. I have four of the army style boxes they released when they first came out and just never got to them.

The Zulu War project ks partly painted but most is still waiting including the really nice Warlord Games expanded terrain box set.

American Civil War is stalled as well.

Pretty much my situation. The rest of the minis I do paint each week though I do still buy more but the stuff above I haven't added to or painted.

Are you in a similar situation?

Erik

My 25/28mm Jacobites will always be #5 on my priority list, and will stay there. Unfortunately. There is always something newer and shinier. Selling off my SYW British put a huge cramp in the project, since they made fine proxies that only a true pedant would object to using.

My Landsknechts will be #7, since they were supposed to be a Leonardo da Vinci by GASLIGHT project. No one but me is interested in this project and I am tired of painting both sides. That applies to the Jacobites too.

I forget what's #6. I may have sold them off. Maybe it was my Finnish Air Force, but that hit a bump in the road when I sold off my Finnish Flames of War army.

I am looking forward to buying a FoW Vichy army, so it can join the Japanese (#4) in my box of unpainted lead.

I once thought seriously about buying 25/28mm SYW Austrians, but never bought the lead, and besides a friend does them in 15mm.

I have buckets of unpainted lead, always have and always will. However mostly the buckets come down to a few categories.
1. 28mm AWI units. Mostly for the southern campaign. I pick away at them a unit at a time. Mostly Perry, but a little Old Glory.
2. Musketeer Miniatures Irish Civil War figures. Don't have a lot--less than 60. A couple months work. I just need to get to them.
3. 28mm The Hundred Years War. I probably have 600 unpainted figures. I also have about 600 painted figures. It's all about the Battle of Poitiers-at least in my head.
4. I have dribbles of other stuff, but I'm not suggesting I won't try to paint them. I'm a steady painter. I just need to not acquire vast piles of additional unpainted lead.

Surprisingly not that many anymore, still got a few, but its all part of the master plan…..

There is not enough bandwidth on the entire planet to start listing.

Oh god. Thousands and thousands. Entire armies of ancient Greeks, Persians, Romans, Gauls, Germans, British, Picts; Darkest Africa natives; Berbers and Legionaires for the 1920s; Vikings and Irish; even more Zulus than the hundreds I already have painted; Pathans; still more 18th century Royal Army and Jacobite Scots; plastic 20mm Napoleonics by the crate; medieval Scottish and English armies; Pulp figures by the hundreds and Fantasy figures by the thousands (some dating back to the late 70s); Amazons in their legions; plastic 20mm Alamo and Mexican armies; pirates and nautical types by the hundred; scatterings of other Colonial, Sci-Fi, and Gangster figures; WWI British and Irish Republican Volunteers. Help me! My name is Piper909 and I am a toysoldierholic.

Yes. Most of them. Laziness.

Yep. I have figures for playing D&D in 25/28mm. I have some 15mm figures for games set in Africa. A bunch of 28mm French and Indian War figures. A small number of 15mm WW2 troops. And a few WW2 figures in 28mm.
Then there are the models. 1/700th scale WW2 ships. A 1/72nd scale WW2 plane. A few WW2 1/48th scale tanks and transports. Plus a very large number of 1/35th scale WW2 tanks, other vehicles and guns.

Well….there's approx 450 Calpe Prussian Napoleonics in 28mm to paint before next June.
8 regiments of French Napoleonic cavalry in 28mm.
3 batteries of French artillery.
1 battalion of French artillery.
10 Battalions of Austrian Napoleonic Infantry in 28mm.
A whole bunch of 15mm WW2.
A bunch more WW2 in 20mm.
3 units of Burgundians, in 28mm.
50 WOR Halberds in 28mm.

Probably some I can't remember without scrounging around in the depths of my room.
I've trimmed it down quite a bit.

Yes.
Life.
No motivation.
I suck at painting.
No support from my support structure. (Hi sweetems)
NO motivation.
And finally, i SUCK at painting. Grimm

yes…

thousands…of all types….

Life and work in general….

Nope.

I've got a massive collection of 10mm WWII painted.
Massive 10mm 30YW collection painted.
Nice sized 10mm ACW collection painted.
28mm Post Apoc world just finished.
Arcane legion massive collection pre-paints.
54mm Gladiators painted.

I've got a painter I keep busy with anything I can't paint,(which is most of it).

All sides of everything except Desert War WWII and WWII Chinese.
And, only German Catholic, German Protestant and Dutch TYW.

I really enjoy this hobby but have gotten to the point where I wont buy unless it can get painted in the foreseeable future. I like playing with painted minis and finshed terrain.

Update….
My support structure says she supports me.
But now she is too conveniently too busy to show me or the rest of the world what that looks like.

Grimm

Yes

I don't want to think about it right now – there's just so many and I keep buying more.

"I am 20thMaine, and I am a Wargames Addict"

Although, I may be Grimmnar as well…no motivation…suck at painting…yup….that's me

I have a moderate pile – got too ambitious in buying and too busy with work and kids to get to them!

So I stopped buying (I know, I know – crazy talk) and will concentrate on painting for a while

I'm not a slow painter, not the fastest painter, my problem is I have so many periods that interest me and then over-buy or stock up beyond my capacity to keep up with the assembly line. Plus I bounce around from period to period and tend to only paint what I can use or must have for the next game. So some periods lie fallow for years and other projects or figures get painted up more quickly.

I like to paint and would do so even without a gaming hobby as an excuse/outlet -- I'd only paint for display and not need to paint in quantity, so I'd have fewer figures overall and a higher percentage of them painted. I couldn't afford a painting service, even if I didn't like painting my own stuff too much to farm out even the drudge work. I don't think I've EVER had ALL my toys on hand painted up since maybe 1974.

Boxes of Vikings, boxes of bren gun carriers and Stug III's.

No unpainted figures around. With that said, I do own Miniature Service Center and whenever I want to paint a new unit, I just go and pick one out of my stock! Oh my, how life can sometimes be so hard.

Anyone have any Dixon 25mm AWI or Perry Miniatures 28mm AWI figures lying about they're not planning on doing anything with?

I have a couple incomplete units I'd like to bulk up to 24 figures each.

-- dberczel AT hotmail DOT com

Yes,

25mm British colonial
25mm FFL
15mm ACW
15mm 1815 Prussian Naps
15mm 1815 British Naps
25mm WWI
15mm FPW
25mm Misc. stuff

Mostly because you get more than you need in a package. I also used multiple poses. I also belong to a support group. "Hello, my name is Fred and I am a lead addict"

Another addict here. We should create Wargamers Anonymous!

Seriously, I have so many unpainted figures that it is embarrassing. Life and worries is what got in the way of my hobby.

About four tubs worth. I plan to retire in five years' time and then – bring on the paint!

Yes. My unpainted lead is in wooden ex-cigarboxes and first was in one closet. There are three closets now. But recently I discovered that not only some cigarboxes were not filled to the brim, but also included figures from the same size and period als in another cigarbox. So putting the content in one box made the total of filled cigarboxes one less !
Of course the now empty cigarbox will be filled in the near future because I saw the new 15mm Khurasan Lizardmen and the old ones are already painted. Oh, and those 28mm Victrix Republican Romans ! Someone has a new cigarbox ?
No, I am not an addict…

Oh, I just realized that Victrix is plastic, so it does NOT add to the lead pile !

I have lots of painted figures, lots of primed figures, and lots of still-in-the-bad. Just bloody tons of the latter.

No. I pretty much plan new purchases to arrive when the old ones are done. I have a "lag" of figs from a couple of purchases ago (which normally expands when I travel for work and contracts during holiday vacations), but I don't have like a stack of things I bought a year or more ago that keep getting pushed to the back.

And, yes, I know … I am the AntiChrist.

28mm Vikings are begging for paint but competing with WWII combat troops for my attention. Neither are getting it yet.

I can sum up my response in a repetitive cycle as follows:

1. Get interested in an historical period and war.
2. Buy and read any Osprey titles on the subject.
3. Order a modest quantity of metal miniatures.
4. Buy or borrow any other books I can find
5. Order a far larger quantity of metal miniatures.
6. Begin painting the first batch of miniatures.
7. Order yet more miniatures to 'fill the remaining gaps'
8. Continue the painting, but my zeal is no longer there.
9. Return to step 1

I'm ready and willing to join Wargamers' Anonymous but may not have time for the meetings because I just discovered an interesting war that I'd like to learn more about …

B. I hate painting these days*, just can't get in to it (*read the last 20 years more or less)

Yes lots.

10mm ECW… just can't find rules that I like.
15mm SYW Brits.. hate painting red coats, also some
Austrians that I don't have a plan for.
I tend to buy stuff with out a clear plan of what I'm
doing. Also not painting much lately, but then not gaming
much either, mostly gaming with prepainted stuff (Wings
of Glory)

Yes.

10mm Spanish
10mm French infantry to replace crap figures from GHQ.

Work and house remodeling have put back my schedule