Erion's 40k Painting Mess

You may be seeing a pattern here wherein I tend to neglect things for quite a while.  I imagine that this is true for many of us.  In reality, I spent much of the summer and fall purging / selling off a lot of stuff I’m never going to finish, cleaning and organizing my basement hobby space, and actually doing some work on games I enjoy (like the relaunched Monsterpocalypse,  Team Yankee, and Tanks: the Modern Age).

That said, the one consistent game system in my hobby, since it started, has been Warhammer 40,000.  I do love 8th edition, and Kill Team has been a bright spot as well.  So it is with renewed fervor that I return to working on this system with an aim to getting my still rather sizable (and, indeed, even larger than my last writing) backlog of 40k-related projects cleared up.

If I got everything built and painted, I’d be able to build at least a Patrol Detachment-sized army, if not much larger, for each of the following forces:

• Space Wolves
• Blood Ravens
• Deathguard
• Genestealer Cults
• Adeptus Custodes
• T’au Empire

Additionally, I can (and plan to) do Kill Teams for these forces

• Orks
• Adeptus Mechanicus
• Gellerpox Infected
• Elucidian Starstriders
• Heretic Astartes

Not to mention a backlog of Terrain Pieces both purchased and 3D printed to fight over / around / through.  I could conceivable paint nothing but kits related to 40k for the entirety of the next year, at a fairly rapid pace, and still not be out of projects.

The trick, for me, is to figure out a way to break this up into bite-sized pieces so I don’t get overwhelmed.  I also need to spread out the different forces  and paint scheme so I don’t get hobby fatigue from doing the same thing over and over.

It helps that the FLGS has started to actively encourage people to get their models painted.  They’re hosting hobby get-togethers on Sunday afternoons, the first of which saw me complete some Space Wolves I got fairly recently in the Tooth and Claw set (more on these in another update, soon-ish).    They’re also using social media to organize a monthly “get it painted” competition for a decent amount of Store Credit.

Now I have to mesh all of this with the fact that my oldest child has expressed an interest in Blood Bowl, and one of my oldest gaming buddies wants to do Necromunda now that the rulebooks have been consolidated and updated, and Adeptus Titanicus is within my field of view, begging for attention.  I have a pretty full and varied slate of hobby things to complete without getting more than a few steps away from Games Workshop.   I just need to get organized and stay motivated.