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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 23, 2016 4:46:38 GMT
so, since we all subscribe to the name of this forum, what are everyone's long term hobby/painting plans? I've been pondering this a little bit myself lately. Is it growing one army to massive proportion? Or having an army for every last faction? Or armies for certain historical battles? Or just painting willy-nilly without any plan?
just thought this might be a fun little topic to chat about while sipping your alcoholic beverage of choice.
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Post by frozenfood on Dec 24, 2016 6:59:12 GMT
I plan on making armies and playing them for a long time. First I wanted to play more armies (8 now), now I just want time to play. My friend has all the armies (dude's got money) but now I'm buying stuff for him to complement his collection
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Post by TheREALricksalamone on Dec 24, 2016 16:30:30 GMT
Long term for me:
-add stuff here and there to empire army, maybe enhance the painting on some older units like handgunners, etc. I'd also like another 10 knights. Oh, and I have one of those wizard carts. The army is maybe 10k now but I'm interested in a little more stuff.
-Undead, I'd like to get maybe 10 more skeleton archers, another horde of sword skeletons, black knights, and finish up some characters I've got floating around.
-chaos, a unit of blood letters and some khorne Beastmen to add to my legion
-EEFL Brets, I want this to be a real showstopper. I've got 5 models painted but I have plans for a large low-fantasy force using all older Brets and black tree models.
I also want to paint a few units of dwarves to go with my awesome beer tank.
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Post by dannytee on Dec 26, 2016 1:21:04 GMT
For me my main project for the foreseeable future is painting metal dwarves in the scheme on my painting thread in this forum. I will probably mix in a bit of other stuff here and there (building skaven for Rich to paint for me and maybe painting some lizardmen).
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Post by grandmasterwang on Dec 26, 2016 2:28:13 GMT
More monsters...always!
Work on my Chaos Dwarf army... eventually i want all the oop metal warrior sculpts along with a Bale Taurus/Drazhoath.
Finish painting my Reaper Kracken (massive Kracken)
Paint my Magmadroth well. (Goes with both my monster and Chaos Dwarf quest)
Finish painting Cor'Bax Utterblight to complete my leaders of Nurgle.
Slightly expand and paint my Stormcast Eternals force.
Finally I'd like to eventually paint up all the Silver Tower Miniatures to a decent standard.
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 26, 2016 5:35:50 GMT
hey, you guys aren't reaching for the sky! EEFL, life can be pretty long.
although, I am rather mundane too. Finish up the Volganof Empire army. Paint up a few fun chaos mortals on the way. Then I'd like to work on dwarfs. I have a painted Battle of Skull pass set. Would like to pump this up to a 2500 pts army using some of the older models. The other thing I find tempting is wood elfs. The models are really sweet. But, I've refrained from buying any so far and want to stay strong until above is taken care off a little more.
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Post by Anton on Dec 30, 2016 6:55:27 GMT
I usually work on one project at a time and when it's done I pick another one. So I usually don't have long term plans, but I have a few pipedream armies I want to do or complete one day.
I have daemon armies of Slaanesh and Nurgle based on their holy numbers (6 heroes, 6 units, 66 daemonettes; 7 heroes, 7 units, 77 plaguebearers) and some day I want to do the Khorne and Tzeentch armies as well to complete the daemon horde.
I want to increase Skarsnik's Night Goblins to 1000 models at some point. I have the models already, it's just a matter of painting 300 more. I also want to get to grips with the new AoS Orcs and make a lot more greenskins of every variety. I always keep returning to my greenskins.
I want to make an army of FW Chaos Dwarfs. I just love that range.
I want to make some kind of Empire army one day. Empire is just so central to the Warhammer background it's a shame not to collect them. I just never quite decided what kind of Empire army I want. I did feel a spark of inspiration when my son built the Stardrake I got him for Christmas. It would be perfect for an Imperial Dragon conversion, it's such a great kit.
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Post by mottdon on Dec 30, 2016 13:52:52 GMT
I'm like you, Anton. I have no immediate plan and usually paint whatever model strikes my fancy at the moment, yet my overall "big picture" plan is to have all 8 of my armies more-or-less painted by the time my son and daughters are old enough to play a game with me.
I pushed like crazy to collect as many models as I would want before the quads were born so that I wouldn't have to agonize over not having the money to buy "X" model because the kids needed "Y" baby-thing. I'm pretty satisfied with what I have now. If I buy anything else, it will be merely for fun. In a way, I'm kinda glad GW has given up on the old world. I couldn't afford all of their shiny new models and books that would make it impossible to win without them.
I also really like to bounce from army to army, painting a monster for my Wood Elves, a unit of Dwarves, a hero for my Empire, etc... That keeps it fresh for me and gradually grows all armies uniformly. Sometimes I'll spend a little more attention to one army because I'm trying to meet a certain goal (like getting 3K points of Dark Elves playable), but for the most part, there is no set schedule that I adhere to.
In the meantime, I'm focusing more on my Tomb Kings (I have a long way to go on them), my Lizardmen R&F, and finishing up some Dark Elves R&F.
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 30, 2016 17:41:33 GMT
I have daemon armies of Slaanesh and Nurgle based on their holy numbers (6 heroes, 6 units, 66 daemonettes; 7 heroes, 7 units, 77 plaguebearers) and some day I want to do the Khorne and Tzeentch armies as well to complete the daemon horde. Ha! This I like. Painting 99 horrors is a manly life goal. |
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Post by KevinC on Dec 30, 2016 17:51:39 GMT
Well, I'm going to do my best to remain committed to painting Skaven. I'm also always working on expanding my Goblin army. And I have bunch of Nurgle stuff to paint to expand my Nurgle Daemon army, such as Plague Drone Riders, Blight Kings, and Moridex Twiceborn.
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Post by avatarofbugman on Jan 2, 2017 16:05:47 GMT
For me I am aiming for the following:
Ogres- get more mournfang, a thunder tusk, and more bulks. I want to get this army to 10000 points.
Dwarfs- paint my beer tank, 40 iron breakers, 10 irondrakes, and do more work on a slayer army, including rules. This army also needs to get to 10000
Daemons/Chaos-paint up my Keeper of Secrets alternative from Mierce miniatures. Finish my daemonettes, and add some Warrior models to the mix.
Vampire Counts- paint up the Manic ghouls, zombies, and skeletons. Also paint up some bones miniatures to add to various units.
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Post by vulcan on Jan 2, 2017 22:24:43 GMT
In no particular order (I'm still accumulating parts for most of these projects): Continue painting up all the stuff I've already assembled (mostly DE Swordsmen and Crossbows) Converting two Ork Deffkoptas into Gyrobombers to compliment my existing Deffkopta->Gryocopters. Converting 40 Mantic Dwarf gunners into Firedrakes. Making several Dwarf 'volley guns' using cannon telescope tripods and space marine assault cannon...  Converting some Seekers/Hellstriders of Slaneesh into Cult of Slaneesh Dark Riders and Warlocks. Kitbash spiders from Goblin spider riders and DE warriors into Drider Dark Riders. (I might even get some Arachnarok Spiders to proxy for Hydra/K-Beasts when using them.) Combine Black Orcs and DE Cold Ones into Dragon Ogres. (Yes, I know there's a kit for Dragon Ogres; where's the fun in that?) Finish up the hooped bombards (think VERY LARGE but immobile cannons) to proxy for Bretonnian Trebuchets. Convert a couple Bretonnian knights into Priests, so I can use my Brets as proxy Empire. Convert two more AoS Dracothian Guards to Bretonnian standards as proxy combat chickens. Finish converting IoB Griffin to Bretonnian standard (I even have a King Leoncoeur mini for a rider!). Get a rider for my riderless DE Manticore. That'll keep me busy for a while. |
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Post by grandmasterwang on Jan 4, 2017 16:15:56 GMT
I have daemon armies of Slaanesh and Nurgle based on their holy numbers (6 heroes, 6 units, 66 daemonettes; 7 heroes, 7 units, 77 plaguebearers) and some day I want to do the Khorne and Tzeentch armies as well to complete the daemon horde. Ha! This I like. Painting 99 horrors is a manly life goal. Indeed... and then you need to paint 198 blue horrors  This has been some great inspirational stuff reading through this thread. Let's hope we manage it! Also... Driders? From the Forgotten Realms to the Warhammer world... I love it! What an idea..... now where's Drizzt when you need him to kill them all  |
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Post by vulcan on Jan 8, 2017 2:11:52 GMT
Someone did a neat Drider conversion over on Druchii.net several years back; I've been considering doing it myself for a while now. I'm not sure where I saw the Black Orc/DE Cold One -> Dragon Ogre conversion, but it looked absolutely wicked!
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