Paint All
the Things
I'm not sure
how long ago it was, maybe two years ago that fellow hobbyist Joe Rogers from
Pointhammered started this little challenge thing about painting everything you
own. A lot of other hobbyists on Twitter
and Facebook took it up as well as me.
Basically we totaled up every model we own and then found out the
percentage we had unpainted. Everyone
then set out to cut that down as drastically as they could by either culling
their collections and selling models off or by actually doing what we're
supposed to do and painting them. it was
a fun little diversion from the everyday work on a consistent project and set
me off on assembling and painting a lot of terrain at the time as well as a
hand full of random models that had been lying around for quite some time. I got my collection to as low as 11%
unpainted which was pretty good I thought.
Fast forward
to now and it’s probably been at least a year since I really thought about that
challenge. My number has inflated
although not dramatically up to 16% at current.
Luckily for insurance purposes I've always kept a pretty consistent
tally of what comes and goes in my hobby.
Let’s face it, if my house burnt down I could use the money from my
losses to buy myself a new car; honestly.
As current I have 1153 models in my possession. There are likely a few unaccounted for but
that’s a pretty accurate number. I did
start buying flames of war which accounts less for that ballooning than the
fact that I sold off my Skaven Army.
When I had another 300 models the percentage was just less unpainted;
again looking at that tally though I currently have listed 189 unpainted
models. A very small chunk of that are
unpainted fantasy models. About 30,
while the Space Marine army I won at raffle last year is about 50. The rest are Flames of War.
So I’m going
to set myself a goal right now. Get my
US army to 0 and try to finish off those fantasy models that are lying
about. Truth told my US force is almost
done as it is. Of the 17 models left
unpainted I currently have 13 of them on the paint table being worked on. That leaves me only 4 that have yet to be
started. Then I've got some Brock Riders
for my Dwarf army and a handful of Human models for my Kingdoms of Men. I'd been ticking away at the 30 minute hobby
a day challenge which was hash tagged #HobbyStreak and then the number of
days. Pre-Adepticon I got up to day 54
but without the drive of a tournament coming plus the weather changing and Boy
Scout events starting to occur more often I know better than to think I'll be
getting to things on a daily basis.
Still I'm
going to try and finish those projects by the end of the year. Feel free to join me in my endeavor! Not going to get anywhere near 100% painted
this year, but going to work towards it!
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