Beat The Backlog! Hobby decluttering challenge 2022/2023

[Brother Argent]

The adepts of the Administratum have completed their cogitations and I, Brother Argent, bear a Leadweight of 887.7 on my mortal soul (excluding for now Warhammer Fantasy and all Firstborn marines). I pledge to make every effort to reduce this to 880 by the dawn of next month, through the toil of painting.

 

Here I was thinking I had a huge back log but despite having been collecting for 25 plus years I seem to have a small pile copared to some.  Even if some of that pile is still in plastic wrap from 2009...  And some still on sprues from even earlier.  I guess relative poverty has its benefits...

 

I am going to start small, having started late in the month.  Still think it will be a push but I gotta start somewhere.

[TheArtilleryman]

35 minutes ago, Brother Argent said:

The adepts of the Administratum have completed their cogitations and I, Brother Argent, bear a Leadweight of 887.7 on my mortal soul (excluding for now Warhammer Fantasy and all Firstborn marines). I pledge to make every effort to reduce this to 880 by the dawn of next month, through the toil of painting.

 

Here I was thinking I had a huge back log but despite having been collecting for 25 plus years I seem to have a small pile copared to some.  Even if some of that pile is still in plastic wrap from 2009...  And some still on sprues from even earlier.  I guess relative poverty has its benefits...

 

I am going to start small, having started late in the month.  Still think it will be a push but I gotta start somewhere.

How do you get to a .7?

[Grotsmasha]

1 hour ago, TheArtilleryman said:

How do you get to a .7?

If big stuff is worth more points, then I'd guess LI is less.

[TheArtilleryman]

3 hours ago, Grotsmasha said:

If big stuff is worth more points, then I'd guess LI is less.

Ah that makes sense. I wondered if there was some guideline about partially painted or something. 

[Grotsmasha]

5 hours ago, TheArtilleryman said:

Ah that makes sense. I wondered if there was some guideline about partially painted or something. 

There was something earlier in the thread, but for me personally, I found it easier to track everything as "1" model.

[Brother Argent]

I was working on 30g of terrain being one point, so if something wasn't quite a 30g interval I divided to make it a decimal place.  And I have a lot of terrain. I'm crazy like that.

[Lord_Ikka]

January Finished - 
3 Rogue Trader entourage members and 2 Imperial Agents with Mystic Staves (5), 24 non-board appropriate minis (24)
Total leadweight - 165 (down from 194*)

Total models - 102 (down from 131)

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Turns out I forgot about 20 Necromunda corporate troopers/mercs, ser Hektor, and Imotekh the Stormlord. Also forgot to list Orikan, even though I counted his leadweight/model number. I blame holiday brain.

 

For February, I've pledged in the 12MoH the Knight and Armigers, Ser Hektor, the ratlings, and all four of the Necron characters (Overlord, Szeras, Imotekh, Orikan). We'll see if that is possible.

Edited January 26 by Lord_Ikka

[Brother Argent]

January Report:

 

Models complete: (Hernkyn x1)

Spoiler

Starting Leadweight: 887.7

Leadweight Goal: 880

End Leadweight: 891.7

 

Total Gain/Loss:  +4

 

Well.... damn...  Not only did I not complete anywhere near what I had hoped I went back because I found a Hive Tyrant and Tyranid Warrior I had stripped and packed away in the wrong area.  At least its only a gain on accounting, not on buying.  Even so, not at all the start I had hoped for.

 

Going to need to knuckle down a lot more this month.  Mental health is having a bit of a drain on my but I will push on.

 

So, onto Feburary,

 

The adepts of the Administratum have completed their cogitations and I, Brother Argent, bear a Leadweight of 891.7 on my mortal soul (excluding for now Warhammer Fantasy and all Firstborn marines). I pledge to make every effort to reduce this to 864.7 by the dawn of next month, through the toil of painting.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Unexpected xenos in the modelling area..?  Call the Deathwatch!

[TheArtilleryman]

Finally got around to an audit:
 

Heresy:

 

10 x tactical  marines

10 x plasma guns

10 x assault marines

10 x missile launchers

10 x breachers

5 Cataphractii terminators

1 x x Spartan

1 x Kratos

 

57 models, 69 points

 

Space Marines:

 

7 x Kill team marines

5 x Infernus marines

 

12 models, 12 points

 

Imperial Agents:

 

10 x Inquisitorial agents

 

10 models, 10 points

 

Imperial Guard:

 

10 x infantry

5 x command squad

3 x heavy weapon teams

1 x Leman Russ

1 x Chimera

 

20 models, 39 points

 

99 models, 130 points total

 

Looked back at the first time I posted in this thread which was June 2023, and my leadweight was 260. Through a monster 18 months I have got through an enormous number of models! Considering when I started I had zero Horus Heresy models and I now have over 5,000 points of stuff, I’m amazed that I’ve managed to halve it. What’s more, I’m now down to less than 100 models. There’s no way I would have done it all without this community, so thanks everyone!

 

I’ve no idea how much I’ll paint this month so I’ll just pledge 1 model for now and anything else is a bonus.

The adepts of the Administratum have completed their cogitations and I, TheArtilleryman, bear a Leadweight of 130 on my mortal soul. I pledge to make every effort to reduce this to 129 by the dawn of next month, through the toil of painting.

 

Edited February 2 by TheArtilleryman

[Grotsmasha]

So I kicked off January with a good start. I reconnected with an old budy from school who I heven't seen in a decade. He lost all his Warhammer in a car accident a few years back, and I've offloaded my AoS Orruks, and my Sisters Combat Patrol onto him, reducing my Leadweight by 62. I further reduced my Leadweight by painting 3 models this month, reducing my Leadweight to 1, 669.

 

However, of course, I still bought 9 models, 3 of which were immediately cut to pieces for parts, another 4 were bought to create an Article.

This leaves my Month End Leadweight at 1,675.

 

 

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“The adepts of the Administratum have completed their cogitations and I, Grotsmasha, bear a Leadweight of 1,675 on my mortal soul. I pledge to make every effort to reduce this by 5 models by the dawn of next month, through the toil of painting and the catharsis of philanthropy and rogue trading".

 

[Lord_Ikka]

February roundup - 
Beginning of the month added - 4 non-board appropriate minis (damn you BT salvage boxes!!) 
(Leadweight 175->179 models 106->110)

 

Painted

33 non-board appropriate minis (all non-board minis now done including ones added at the start of the month, pretty sure I forgot one originally...)
1 Questoris Knight, 2 Knight Armigers , Ser Hektor, 2 ratlings, 4 Necron characters

 

End of the month added - 13 non-board appropriate models (Trench Crusade hit me...)
Total Leadweight = 179 -> 133 -> 146
Total Models = 110 -> 67 -> 80
 

Next month will be lighter as far as finishing stuff goes, as I'm just planning on 12 Word Bearers for the Knives in the Shadows KT challenge, but I'm also going to add at least 12 more non-board appropriate minis because I need to finish off my second TC warband, so it might be a wash of a month unless I get the urge to paint my Necro stuff...

[TheArtilleryman]

Right. Last month I managed to paint:

 

10 breachers

 

and 4 Kill Team guys

So I would have hit the goal but I went and got an AmAZiNg DeAl on 3 printed basilisks, so I HAD to buy the crew as well, then I nabbed the wraithlord issue of Combat Patrol as well. I’ve reduced the model count but upped the points  In my defence, I have also got almost everything built and undercoated as well so I can just pick up and paint whatever model I want.

 

New audit:

Heresy:

 

10 x tactical  marines

10 x plasma guns

10 x assault marines

10 x missile launchers

5 Cataphractii terminators

1 x x Spartan

1 x Kratos

 

47 models, 59 points

 

Space Marines:

 

3 x Kill team marines

5 x Infernus marines

 

8 models, 8 points

 

Imperial Agents:

 

10 x Inquisitorial agents

 

10 models, 10 points

 

Imperial Guard:

 

10 x infantry

5 x command squad

3 x heavy weapon teams

1 x Leman Russ

1 x Chimera

3 x basilisks

6 x tank crew

 

32 models, 57 points

 

Eldar:

 

1 x wraithlord

 

1 model, 4 points (monster, I think?)

 

98 models, 138 points total

 

Backlog photos:

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve already pledged the Kill Team for 12MoH so I’ll start there for now. But I will aim for more, especially if the March for March gets going.

 

The adepts of the Administratum have completed their cogitations and I, TheArtilleryman, bear a Leadweight of 138 on my mortal soul. I pledge to make every effort to reduce this to 135 by the dawn of next month, through the toil of painting.

Edited March 8 by TheArtilleryman
Swapped some pictures