Never feel bad about your unpainted collection. Bad feelings leads to lack of motivation which leads to sadness which leads to more minis. Skip everything in between and just enjoy the minis you buy
I have 60 rising sun minis unpainted... I finally buyed what i need to Paint them, and this evening i will start thanks to Emil vids that motivetes me so much and made me so happy
I have my about 700 modele of nearly complete Woody Elves collection of all times by GW to Converse and paint. I would live to have the quadrig charriot and a beastmaster to have totally complete
I’ve played 40k since the early 90’s and over the years have literally bought thousands of miniatures. About a year ago I made a conscious decision to sell off everything except my main army of interest (World Eaters). I then spent the last year painting the backlog of my main army and now have over 5k points of painted models: far more than I’ll ever need for a typical game. This has completely liberated me as a Hobbiest: i only paint when I want to now with zero pressure to have to do so. I can paint five minutes a day simply for the fun of it or not pick up a brush for a week if I choose with no feelings of not making progress, etc. I also find I now spend a lot more time on models I choose to paint because there is no pressure to have to finish so I can chip away at some overwhelming backlog and my individual models look better than ever as a result. I’ve never been more relaxed nor enjoyed myself more as a 40k Hobbiest and gamer and I’m never going back to having a huge backlog hanging over my head.
Learning to buy only what you can realistically paint is the way. I have maybe like 2-3 boxes on rotation at once, seems to work well. I think I'd get anxiety and not get much enjoyment if I had that many to do. Just looks like a job when you're like...yeah if I paint everyday this will take 2+ years to paint.
You have made a very valid point. I've been playing 40K since the early 90's, as well. I have four armies. Each one is approximately 3,500 points or more. I live overseas in a remote area. I have only one opponent. Therefore, I prefer to bring a different army for each session, so that my opponent doesn't feel bored fighting against the same army, every time. However, I envy the fact that you have consolidated your army. In my case, using an airbrush has reduced painting times. Now, I am re-evaluating my need for this many models....
RUclips is maybe a common answer to the question 'how do I leverage my massive collection of miniatures.' This kind of video is also awesome just because you see so many random things
4 hours a model? That's way too high. Lots of stuff in there that he can easily batch paint. Not to mention he has access to Guy, an experienced speedpainter.
And add in time for removing moldlines, cleaning the painting area, conversions, repairing broken minis, interrupting kids, interrupting adults, ordwring spare parts for the airbrush, cleaning the airbrush, scanning e-bay for complimentary models... 4 hours per model is not a bad estimate even if you only spend 2 hours painting.
Thanks Emil! This last video helped a lot! I too have far too many minis collected and to paint. Again, you have no idea how much your reveal has helped me. Ok maybe not so much help, but given me some understanding I am not alone. Thank you.
VLOG videos of you choosing one particular army/project and taking them to completion would be immense and a great motivation to keep other people painting
The lighting and editing are A++, great work team! Not sure if you actually want to paint your pile, but if so I'd suggest getting everything to the stripped and primed stage, then you have a nice common 'blank slate' to start with and can immediately start painting anything you fancy on a certain day without having to go through the prep.
What a collection! Makes me feel a bit better about the amount of unpainted minis I own. Love the video and especially the editing. Last couple of videos are just top-notch!
all those sculpts from the late 80's and early 90's are the best. I loved the one metals. I d like the new detailed plastics, but I still love the stuff from when was a kid, the best.
Oh boy :D your videos have always been awesome, but they have become so friggin‘ funny!! Not in a bad way, just so clowny in a good way :D love it! More please!
I'm surprised by the amount of Malifaux you have. I love the game but it rarely gets coverage and you don't often mention it any more than just in passing. I would enjoy seeing some work on that stuff some time (even if it would be a smaller vid on your other channel).
Funny video. I really like the new studio. I'm looking forward to see some new videos from the new studio :) Also, the music for the space orks is super awesome !!!
This made me feel so much better about my pile of shame. I just kept showing my wife this video saying “see I’m not THAT bad” I think you saved my life man 🙏
My miniature hobby as a kid ended when someone stole my miniatures from the middle-school's paint-class while I was on a break. Haven't gone back to it yet and I am 26, and I was about 13 when it happened. Just found about you and like your videos still, because Warhammer is so close to my heart since childhood, the games and even learning the boardgame rules eventhough I never ever have got to play it myself.
Aaaayyy, Guy cameo :D Nice video, love the "behind the scenes" look. Edit: I have maybe 20 unpainted and 8 or 9 almost finished minis. Glad you have waaayyy more unfinished stuff :D
Very nice to see your tons of fun. I have counted my Warhammer Minis and some others but missed also the whole Warmachine and Hordes stuff. But I'm at 6600 Minis and the most of them unpainted. Oh my god so much to do, booya
Honestly ALL I want to see now, is some videos of your personal progress Finish your orcs and show us the journey! Finish the tomb Kings! PLEASE do some painting for YOU and the process involved
I think it's safe to assume that anyone that's dabbled in minis has their pile of unpainted models. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if there's someone out there saying "Rookie numbers!"
I was starting to worry that you weren't going to surpass my model count of 2000. I managed to accumulate my high numbers from a buncha board games that I planned on painting. Zombicide is especially great at accruing 100+ zombie models per game. Just gotta sit down and paint them all once I've finished moving into an apartment! I wish you the best of luck with painting all those minis Squidmar!
My back log was getting bigger and bigger as i was not enjoying batch painting models. But i have now changed my tactic and paint only one model at a time and paint want a want out of my back log. Since i started painting this way the quality of my paint has massively improved and i really enjoy painting again. Yes its not fast as i now only paint 1-2 models a week, but i love the pace and im much happier paint models.
This video makes me feel better about my unpainted Blackstone Fortress minis that I put together and immediately started playing with (With the exception of the ones from "No Respite" since those are simply ETB DG and had to join my DG army)...
That's not too bad, I've got nearly 200 minis boxed up and ready to go... what's that? 10 mins left in the video? More minis by an order of magnitude? Beats out your entire pile with just the minis for Heroquest? Good Lord, Mr Squidmar...
👕 I HAVE SOME COOL T-SHIRTS (caps on purpose, 'cus they're cool)
teespring.com/stores/squidmarminiatures
Thanks Midwinter minis for the David attenborough voice again :D check out his amazing channel:
ruclips.net/channel/UC9XTzwex6rGLVUGS9cLKFLw
Wish they came in 4xT for us husky Canadian fellas.
Giving the Table Top World houses extra detail would be a most welcome video.
I'm thinking about detail that you give your minis.
Ive got the same rug as you from IKEA, does this mean I have good taste? 😎
Speaking of caps how about a trucker cap?
oh yeah, this is a pretty good pile!
I hear that Iconic goobertown voice when I read this
@@GarrettPDGA YES! Me too!
Hey goobertown
Dose this mean well see a similar video from Goobertown🤞
I do not feel so bad about my unpainted collection now.
Never feel bad about your unpainted collection. Bad feelings leads to lack of motivation which leads to sadness which leads to more minis. Skip everything in between and just enjoy the minis you buy
I have 60 rising sun minis unpainted... I finally buyed what i need to Paint them, and this evening i will start thanks to Emil vids that motivetes me so much and made me so happy
I have my about 700 modele of nearly complete Woody Elves collection of all times by GW to Converse and paint. I would live to have the quadrig charriot and a beastmaster to have totally complete
That 'Space Orkz need sum Paintz' song was pure bliss.
I honestly want a full song done of it.
We need the full lyrics!
Agree, please expand
I’ve played 40k since the early 90’s and over the years have literally bought thousands of miniatures. About a year ago I made a conscious decision to sell off everything except my main army of interest (World Eaters). I then spent the last year painting the backlog of my main army and now have over 5k points of painted models: far more than I’ll ever need for a typical game.
This has completely liberated me as a Hobbiest: i only paint when I want to now with zero pressure to have to do so. I can paint five minutes a day simply for the fun of it or not pick up a brush for a week if I choose with no feelings of not making progress, etc.
I also find I now spend a lot more time on models I choose to paint because there is no pressure to have to finish so I can chip away at some overwhelming backlog and my individual models look better than ever as a result.
I’ve never been more relaxed nor enjoyed myself more as a 40k Hobbiest and gamer and I’m never going back to having a huge backlog hanging over my head.
Learning to buy only what you can realistically paint is the way. I have maybe like 2-3 boxes on rotation at once, seems to work well. I think I'd get anxiety and not get much enjoyment if I had that many to do. Just looks like a job when you're like...yeah if I paint everyday this will take 2+ years to paint.
I'm in the process of doing the same and it's extremely liberating. The paralysis of starting to work on what I'll never finish is gone.
You have made a very valid point. I've been playing 40K since the early 90's, as well. I have four armies. Each one is approximately 3,500 points or more. I live overseas in a remote area. I have only one opponent. Therefore, I prefer to bring a different army for each session, so that my opponent doesn't feel bored fighting against the same army, every time. However, I envy the fact that you have consolidated your army. In my case, using an airbrush has reduced painting times. Now, I am re-evaluating my need for this many models....
can we all just stop and just say how awsome the editing is in this vid
It is so good!
The Gimli clip was so perfectly timed, it nearly killed me.
You think I couldn’t tell Guy was in here playing David Attenborough, think again squidyboiw
Not so secret VO cameo
It's no coincidence this is a common topic on nearly every wargame channel.
RUclips is maybe a common answer to the question 'how do I leverage my massive collection of miniatures.' This kind of video is also awesome just because you see so many random things
The David Attenburough voice was incredibly on point 😂
Also awesome collection! Makes me feel better about my own lol
Midwinter minis is the GUY to thank :D
I thought so^
well now my 11 unpainted orks boys, 5 lootas still resading in their sprues and 6 Harlequins players in shop waiting for shipping doesnt look so bad.
Depends, is the rest of your collection two painted Spacemarines? ;)
@@modmoto6016well no and yes, i have only kill team starter set with tau and 5 space marines + 10 Rubric marines. + terrain which i paint now :D
tis an afternoon's work
@@antigrav6004 Well for me like half a month, cause i paint like disabled 80 years old.
Others: Yeah, my Pile of Shame is pretty high.
Emil: Look at my gigantic Mountain Range of Glory! Yes, no shame here!
At 4 hours a model (being conservative) and painting 40 hours a week. That gives you 4.2 years to complete you collection. You now have a new goal.
But that's a full work week. What about videos? : O
4 hours a model?
That's way too high. Lots of stuff in there that he can easily batch paint.
Not to mention he has access to Guy, an experienced speedpainter.
@@VaSoapman You'd also have to consider that many models will take waaay more than 4 hours as well though.
And add in time for removing moldlines, cleaning the painting area, conversions, repairing broken minis, interrupting kids, interrupting adults, ordwring spare parts for the airbrush, cleaning the airbrush, scanning e-bay for complimentary models... 4 hours per model is not a bad estimate even if you only spend 2 hours painting.
"THAT STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE!" That had me laughing for far too long.
Yay. He’s flexing his giant awesome mini collection again. =)
I love it!
That's one giant I would love to own also lol
editing, transitions and overall ideas and how you produced this is just epic!!! keep up the good work
I just ordered some of your brushes! Can’t wait to get my hands in them!!
Great pile. So many awesome minis. Looking forward to what you will paint. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Emil! This last video helped a lot! I too have far too many minis collected and to paint. Again, you have no idea how much your reveal has helped me. Ok maybe not so much help, but given me some understanding I am not alone. Thank you.
i dont even have 200 unpainted models
i need to up my game
Are you even trying?
Remember. You don't have to eat every day...that way you save money for more plastic crack!
i don't even have 200 models... :P
You’re legit my favourite miniature channel dude. You get me excited about models and painting like nobody else. Definitely gonna cop some merch
VLOG videos of you choosing one particular army/project and taking them to completion would be immense and a great motivation to keep other people painting
You just cured my "when am I gonna finish painting my rising sun full pledge worth of minis" dieses. You should do a charity raffle at this point.
You definitely can do it! I'm 3/4 done on Battle of the Five Armies, 109 miniatures.
The lighting and editing are A++, great work team! Not sure if you actually want to paint your pile, but if so I'd suggest getting everything to the stripped and primed stage, then you have a nice common 'blank slate' to start with and can immediately start painting anything you fancy on a certain day without having to go through the prep.
It's nice seeing you guys have fun with the production of the video.
Squidmar's Collection of Rogue Trader Orkz is the most inspiring thing I have ever seen! Oh my Childhood Dreams to see an army of those Painted!
What a collection! Makes me feel a bit better about the amount of unpainted minis I own. Love the video and especially the editing. Last couple of videos are just top-notch!
It looks like you're ready to do some Midwinter Minis style speed paint videos and have plenty leftover to build your own Goobertown roulette box!
Congrats on your family's new place! Also congrats on your new studio!
This was by far one of the most entertaining videos you’ve put out IMO. I lol’d
New studio looks awesome, looking forward to your videos!
Your video edditing just makes my smile. Thank you, good start of the weekend!
Highly enjoy the skill of your paints, try to learn as much as I can but this video game me a new level of joy. Incredible video sir!
Congrats on the new work space buddy! You deserve it!
“I may have gone a little overboard guys” 😂
Thanks for another entertaining video 😀
What a very entertained video! Really hope all the effort that you put into this pays off.. It's rare to see a video on the tubes this well made..
I'm impressed with the thick ply of your mummy wrappings
Please do a short series on coverting the studio as work progresses, would be so cool!
all those sculpts from the late 80's and early 90's are the best. I loved the one metals. I d like the new detailed plastics, but I still love the stuff from when was a kid, the best.
Wow the editing on this was amazing! The quality of your work and videos is insane, keep it up!
Oh boy :D your videos have always been awesome, but they have become so friggin‘ funny!! Not in a bad way, just so clowny in a good way :D love it! More please!
I'm surprised by the amount of Malifaux you have. I love the game but it rarely gets coverage and you don't often mention it any more than just in passing. I would enjoy seeing some work on that stuff some time (even if it would be a smaller vid on your other channel).
wow love those old school space orks , you even have my fav mini from that line the two ork Minderz firing the wierdboy as a cannon :)
Am I the only one who was really waiting for him to start singing the amount of minis like it was the 12 days of xmas?
blown away by the production value on this
Funny video. I really like the new studio. I'm looking forward to see some new videos from the new studio :)
Also, the music for the space orks is super awesome !!!
One hell of a flex. Seriously nice collection!
That goblin Army looks like a great candidate for a xx hour paint challenge video!
After a somewhat crappy day, the set up, narration and editing made me happy again ❤️😊
This made me feel so much better about my pile of shame.
I just kept showing my wife this video saying “see I’m not THAT bad”
I think you saved my life man 🙏
There's some amazing memories of my first collection in this video. This was fun! Thanks, dude. Good luck with the move.
I painted gunpla before I started painting minis and ive probably got like $2000 in gundam kits I've had for years that i haven't built/painted
Same here.
I think I have the entire "Endless Waltz" collection unopened in my storage unit :(
Hello, we share a boat.
You just need to 'paint more minis' ;D (Very impressive studio space there, you must be super chuffed)
Not the production quality we desired but definitely the one we needed.
Loved the advertisement.
I'll go get myself a shirt now.
Squidmar has more random assorted unpainted minis than my entire pile of shame
One of your best videos yet!
I feel so much better about the "few" miniatures I havn't painted now XD
really enjoyed the looser, almost improv feel to this video. great work!
Love the new style Emil! GJ and wish you all the best :-)
My miniature hobby as a kid ended when someone stole my miniatures from the middle-school's paint-class while I was on a break. Haven't gone back to it yet and I am 26, and I was about 13 when it happened. Just found about you and like your videos still, because Warhammer is so close to my heart since childhood, the games and even learning the boardgame rules eventhough I never ever have got to play it myself.
You make me feel a lot better about my various piles of gray. Thank you.
Can't wait to see whats going to come out of the new studio. Maybe a Space Orks offical EP? I'll take what I can get...
The best part about Heroquest is still having unpainted miniatures so you can continue to get joy from painting them in the future.
"4 metal miniature, i dont know what they are." That is literally every single one of us in this hobby xD
The editing!! Such a fun video Squidmar.
You managed to make a surprisingly funny and entertaining video of a unpainted collection review, Well done !
Aaaayyy, Guy cameo :D
Nice video, love the "behind the scenes" look.
Edit: I have maybe 20 unpainted and 8 or 9 almost finished minis. Glad you have waaayyy more unfinished stuff :D
Very nice to see your tons of fun. I have counted my Warhammer Minis and some others but missed also the whole Warmachine and Hordes stuff. But I'm at 6600 Minis and the most of them unpainted. Oh my god so much to do, booya
"Pile of shame" has a new meaning now
Honestly ALL I want to see now, is some videos of your personal progress
Finish your orcs and show us the journey!
Finish the tomb Kings!
PLEASE do some painting for YOU and the process involved
Thank you for making me feel slightly better about my unpainted mountain of minis.
some of the stuff in this video was so stupid, I loved it so much!! Thank you for making us all feel better about our piles of shame!
This was such a good video. Really interesting, brilliantly edited, hilarious, and it made me feel better about my pile of shame. Love it!
OMG I LOOOOOOVE this video!!!!!! It made me laugh so much all the cute singing and silly shit you guys did!
Oh my god your collection is huge haha that's amazing ! New place looks good too :)
The Attenborough part was lovely!
The Editing was top notch in this video.
THANK GOODNESS!! I thought I was bad with 1400 Space Marines collected over 35 years. Thanks for making me feel better Emil!!
Outstanding editing on this one mate and what a pile of shame. One for the ages!
So much opportunity! Would love to see a follow up video of everything that is painted 😁
Is it possible for Emil to make something, that isn't entertaining? It's all such high quality content, and i love it!
I'm really jealous of the bigger animal ones. They look amazing.
And this is the definition of "pile of shame".OMG.
I'll need the rest of my life to paint all of them.
I think it's safe to assume that anyone that's dabbled in minis has their pile of unpainted models. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if there's someone out there saying "Rookie numbers!"
I love Sand Mummy Things. I need an lp of the "you can do it Squidmar"!
I thought my collection was bad since I started 3d printing.
Yours in pure insanity.
I almost pissed my bed out of laughter when Gimli showed his face xD
Ouch. The whole video was funny, but the space crusade thing hit me way too hard. I almost lost the curry I was eating when I burst out laughing.
Thanks, Squidmar! Helps me not to feel too bad about all the grey I still have in my collection.
I was starting to worry that you weren't going to surpass my model count of 2000. I managed to accumulate my high numbers from a buncha board games that I planned on painting. Zombicide is especially great at accruing 100+ zombie models per game. Just gotta sit down and paint them all once I've finished moving into an apartment! I wish you the best of luck with painting all those minis Squidmar!
Awesome Video! Now I don't feel so bad about my unpainted minis. Thanks for the inspiration to keep painting!
My back log was getting bigger and bigger as i was not enjoying batch painting models. But i have now changed my tactic and paint only one model at a time and paint want a want out of my back log. Since i started painting this way the quality of my paint has massively improved and i really enjoy painting again. Yes its not fast as i now only paint 1-2 models a week, but i love the pace and im much happier paint models.
I only have 20 minis hiks. Can I have it some?
just started this hobby hahahaha
This video makes me feel better about my unpainted Blackstone Fortress minis that I put together and immediately started playing with (With the exception of the ones from "No Respite" since those are simply ETB DG and had to join my DG army)...
That themesong!!!! Should be at the start of all the space ork streams and videos you were about to do :D
Indeed your favorite color on those walls, looking fresh 💚
Its looking good! Cant wait to se it finished Emil😁✌🏻
That's not too bad, I've got nearly 200 minis boxed up and ready to go... what's that? 10 mins left in the video? More minis by an order of magnitude? Beats out your entire pile with just the minis for Heroquest? Good Lord, Mr Squidmar...
I had bad feeling for 14 minis unpainted , you lift my mood :D