My Pile of SHAME: How BIG is my Warhammer Collection???

[@DanaHowl]

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[@theinquisitionsparrot6749]

I do have a shameful grey pile. It’s trying to get pushed back, slowly.

[@jsbasa]

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.

[@GoobertownHobbies]

I love the way you take care of the pretty boxes!

[@SuperDuperHappyTime]

I’ve seen worse. *Casually glances into guest bedroom* Good, it’s still there.

[@SuperDuperHappyTime]

And saw the Super Dungeon Stuff at the end, nice.

[@Vangelus]

FOMO is real and an ongoing battle

[@RyanEdwardsVA]

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.

[@edawang1671]

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.

[@CrossbowROoF]

Oh, hell yes.

[@SuperDuperHappyTime]

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.”

[@vincentmuyo]

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.

[@mrmooney25]

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.

[@danielhenderson8000]

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

[@Annies_mini_marvels]

now THIS is relatable warhammer content

[@Annies_mini_marvels]

135 unpainted nighthaunt is like looking into my soul, I feeeel that

[@DanaHowl]

it was a good deal at the time!!!!

[@vincentmuyo]

@@DanaHowl ... Isn't it always? :|

[@bitzbox]

"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!

[@Kirioth]

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!

[@DanaHowl]

when i buy things it makes my brain happy

[@Kirioth]

@@DanaHowl it makes me happy until I have to store it. then I get the sads

[@tristanellis-mascoll1171]

@@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...

[@shrunkendesigner]

I always regret buying lots of minis to paint, but I never regret having them once I've painted them.

[@drakan292]

@@DanaHowl i have the same situation XD i just keep buying.. and buying

[@halloweencrab]

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

[@jnew9036]

I bought the entirety of Middle Earth in miniature form and only painted 2 of them xD I was dying laughing!

[@sainbrian2]

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.

[@doomrooster]

I lost all of my almost complete set of Chainmail during a move and anytime I see Chainmail boxes, I get a little sad.

[@TheHorreK2]

I have like still 3 boxes of never opened Ad-Mech miniatures and 4 of AoS Goblins sitting and patienatly waiting

[@josephskiles]

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.

[@BarokaiRein]

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.

[@waveemann8857]

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!

[@penslasleikir]

i love how AoS gets big boxes with every army and 40k always has 50% space marines in those boxes.

[@cronkitepercussion]

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 😏

[@sleestack2723]

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

[@hobbybro3902]

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.

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

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.

[@donaldkelly9833]

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!

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

I’m more of a builder than a painter but these kind of videos inspire me to do more.

[@ChairmanMjau]

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.

[@ZombieApocalypse09]

This is the perfect video to convince my SO that I'm falling behind and need more minis.

[@kolegakolegi]

I have not seen such bold paint schemes anywhere. Good job!

[@quantumflea]

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.

[@moonprison4904]

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.

[@MrVolvobloke]

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.

[@Mantyszyger]

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.

[@SugarCandyMiniatures]

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!

[@jacquelinelove8481]

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...

[@TypeiZ]

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

[@samuelbracke3334]

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 :)

[@taylorian9]

the tau boxes look amazing, i would love to paint these in the classic paint scheme

[@joshbecka6110]

Lol…I like how we have the same 2 stand alone hexmark and terminator Chaplin…

[@DanaHowl]

LMAO I blame the INDOMITUS hype at the time

[@GirlPainting]

Everything is FINE...."looking at the 2 meter shelf filled with boxes".....no they will not crush me at some point ^^

[@grahamstrong995]

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 😉

[@TheSaraGames]

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.

[@PuckCurtis]

Chainmail?! That's lovely. Please share a video series when you paint those.

[@BadDecisionDinosaur89]

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!

[@TheStafman97]

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

[@nrgspike]

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.

[@Bluecho4]

Good job.

[@davidballantyne7431]

Great video and I too have the same FOMO problem. Will need a bigger living space at some point - oh well - that's life.

[@mr.horseshoe2301]

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.

[@vincentmuyo]

Stay strong!

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

Ooh, who did you get?

[@mr.horseshoe2301]

@@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.

[@52Miniatures]

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.

[@NotVeryRitch]

That Tau set was the first warhammer i owned, really excited for that video for the nostalgia!

[@Eruidraith]

oh I'd love to see your take on retro Tau! you could do that justice for real

[@BadgerBishop]

I recently started collecting LEGO with my son, and there are sets I want but less than others, problem is I know I need to buy sets that are going out of production first at the cost of having to wait for the stuff I really want most.

[@johnburt2477]

I am and have been a huge fan of Star Wars since 1977 and am also a big fan of Space Marines

[@kal6351]

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 :-)

[@drpretzel2086]

I’m thankful my city has 2 shops that buys and resales minis painted and unpainted

[@skull9674]

I also want to build my chainmail collection. A had built a few but they usually need some serious gap filling.

[@TeamQuiggan]

I've been trying something similar to the Backlog Golf idea, (painted + Sold) - Minis purchased. I'm going to attempt to get it to Zero, then keep it above! I've got a ways to go, though!

[@combompazza6740]

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 :)

[@warlordwurzoggwigsplittaht2933]

I read somewhere in a comment section that its not a pile of shame its future projects.

[@stevenpavelski6035]

I'm also working on the complete chainmai miniatures set. The promo ones are really hard to find.

[@unchartedways]

I'm soooo much looking forward to seeing you paint your Empire army for the Tale of the Six Warlords 😍

[@zhivi_nasekomoe9444]

У тебя великолепные покрасы. Просто сказка. Не видел ничего настолько красивого у русских художников. (Translate pls. Rus)

[@Mara999]

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

[@rushputin]

I try to keep my backlog from getting out of control by tracking how much I spend on models vs. how much I sell models for (when I sell them) and the MSRP (or an estimate) of models when I finish painting them. If those numbers stay close, I tell myself, I'm not buying more than I'm painting. I've got 5 years' worth of that data and... I did a pretty good job in 2020! I'm not in 2021!

[@Space_Ranger]

Time to get into skirmish games!

[@DanaHowl]

I'm on it!

[@Space_Ranger]

@@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.

[@Bluecho4]

@@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.

[@bicskeiz]

The time and money You spare on miniatures, will be spent on terrain. :)

[@Space_Ranger]

@@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.

[@RozanovaHunter]

Great music choices and editing, looking forward to the hobby backlog gamification video.

[@end_game]

How much would you sell your Stormcasts for?

[@EDSKaR]

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.

[@mattpreston1298]

Thanks for making me feel better about *my* backlog. I'm deep, but not 1500 minis deep. *stares at Crisis Protocol at FLGS*

[@masterchef2875]

I love your painting schemes, you just gained a new subscriber ☺️

[@Devi1Grace]

Thank you for all the content you make! I went to watch a video about blending and vaporware but ended up here...

[@MaskedRiderChris]

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!

[@christianvandenboorn6001]

Dana youre lucky with only a small problem on unpainted models, and made work of it to paint models. My problem is that most games i have, and collect are not played anymore that make it difficult to get them painted. Butt on the otherside, because the games out of producten, i cant buy unlimited of it. And slowly start to paint it.

[@jeannefrenken3284]

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 :)

[@M.OK138]

Your necrons with the pink actually look sick

[@wezab]

You can never have too many minis, just an increasing back log whose destiny has not yet been determined.

[@BlizzAz]

I have no idea how many I have, but I wouldn't be surprised if my mountain of opportunity (I refuse to attach shame to something I love) was pretty comparable. I will say this though; I have painted far more minis so far this year than I did all of 2020, and I've also painted more this year than I have purchased.

[@kosachilles2504]

Omg the potential future video's are looking great!!!

[@ThaBenMan]

Oh wow, I'm in awe of that Chainmail collection - it's a pretty cool range! Your Star Wars Legion stuff is awesome too

[@daniellogue8365]

Quarantine was the first time I finished paint projects faster than I was buying models

[@guadalupemunoz1767]

So many cool box sets such a great collection. Excited for the mini golf backlog video

[@ilovewarhammer6668]

You are an excellent painter, not surprised that u get commissions

[@illyrio]

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.

[@evileyeball]

Glances at my Circs 2005 Thousand sons Defiler that still isn't fully painted... Also at my Pike of Khador shame, My pile of Circle shame, My unpainted Space Hulk My Unpainted Battle master (which I don't plan to paint) and my 2 Unpainted Kill Teams My tau Team is currently the most complete of any "army" I own that I plan to keep (I plan to sell the Thousand sons force) All that is unpainted for Tau is the 3 Crisis Suits from the Start collecting which I didn't have plans to use in KT at present. if you do count the thousand sons they become the most painted So TS > Tau > Circle > Khador > Alpha Legion KT > SM KT > Board game minis is the order of paintedness among my mini collections.

[@nikital.6523]

Off-topic, I know, but I really liked the Tau box-art, to my surprise, seeing as I generally don't like their aesthetics. I think it's that painting style that reminds me of the illustrations in the (relatively) older books about history and ethnography.

[@perfectcell8130]

I would EASILY buy a poster of that Sisters of Battle box-art if I found it!

[@nameisbad]

FOMO is absolute hell, I feel you on that.

[@TylerProvick]

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.

[@gggfx4144]

Nice video, was cool so see your many projects and I'm intrigued to hear about your game! Hehe all I can say about FOMO is Guy from Midwinter tried to keep his pile of shame down and a year later bought a 6'2 space marine so yeh, watch for the rebound haha

[@AdamViklund]

I just sold my entire collection of Necromunda due to covid debt. That must have been nearly 150 models and terrain bits. I was sad to see it go, but glad to see some shelf space!

[@busterbackster1]

Khrones throne is actually made from the ever growing pile of shame

[@seanmorgan2257]

I dont think you have a problem, you have plenty of opportunity for future fun videos and for commissions :)

[@Gingerbread22]

Totally feel your pain on the missing out on good deals. I had a few bad times when I would start a new faction/army and buy up multiple used armies online for the amazing deal! I had to self-ban myself from ebay and Facebook marketplace for a while. Still can get rough since I'm a completitionist too!

[@totesmcgotes8793]

Man I'm 100% in to see Dana do some LorR MESBG content

[@squishcognito6780]

You need a healthy purge. There’s way too much here that you will just never get to. And every month new stuff comes out. EBay and giveaways are your friend. Unload and free yourself from the chains, it’s very therapeutic I’ve done it twice myself and now have almost zero pile of shame.

[@paulausten5786]

Lol I had 3/4 of wardrobe full of unpainted models. Mainly historical. When I moved to the US I had to severely cut them down & sell a lot of it. I did bring a fair few with me & it's more under control. Either that or my will kill me.

[@stevenrussell8820]

I love your kit bash squibs and Gretchen/goblins I’m going to try the same what were the best 40K for your kitbashing ?

[@kidelloco]

Love You're painting style

[@nicolaslegoll8105]

I've started to just accept I have a collecting problem, and I now see my pile of shame as a capital for my daughter (my pile including a complete 5/6th edition Dogs of War army).

[@EmeralDQueenTV]

The scared face, priceless haha...love it!!! It seems that in the future I will have a pile of shame too :)

[@deenawhelan3311]

I love your necron color scheme.

[@bysigmar3819]

I counted mine lately and felt relieved now that there are people that have way more😂