TABLETOP GAMING | MOTIVATION AND TIPS TO CONQUER YOUR PILE OF SHAME AND ACHIEVE YOUR HOBBY GOALS! 

Great video, thanks for sharing your own strategies to cut the backlog down. I’ve found a few things that have helped me: 1. Have three main brushes, the airbrush, a big brush and a small brush. The airbrush helps when weather sucks and you need to prime/zenithal/varnish some stuff. The big brush really helps with base coating if the airbrush isn’t applicable. The small brush is great for those finishing details. 2. Like you’ve mentioned, having two projects in parallel is beneficial. Especially if one is fairly quick and easy alongside one that is a bit more difficult or complex. Getting that satisfaction and sense of accomplishment is great. 3. Participate in a challenge. Whether it’s something with some painting buddies or maybe something like Goobertown Roulette helps give you something new and different to do. 4. Finally as you’ve mentioned as well sustained progress is much better than no progress. Even if it’s just one color on one part of one model, it’s still progress. Those little things all add up because a few days of that progress and all of a sudden you’ve got a tabletop standard model ready for finishing touches. Thanks again for the video and sharing your experiences. I’m glad I could give you an idea for a video.

I like the system suggested on another youtube mini painting channel - concentrate on a single army until you’ve got it ‘table-ready’. The painting doesn’t have to be perfect and you don’t need to complete all the different support options that you have in your pile: just figure out a core force plus some essential options and work on that until it’s done. Getting a painted force onto the table is a huge boost, and should give you the mojo you need to attack the next box in your pile.

This is something I struggle with from time to time, so it's really good to hear how you deal with it. I mentioned to you over on Instagram that I was struggling to get through the Chaos Knights from the SC box too, but now they're done I'm super happy with them and I'm fired up to do the Warriors. I definitely find having palette cleansers really helps me to be motivated to do more stuff and having it organised into projects makes everything so much less daunting. Moving from batch painting large batches to much smaller ones (I do my Chaos Warriors in pairs, Necron Warriors in fives) and I find that much more enjoyable and less stressful. I think it's easy to get overwhelmed having too many models in front of you at once.

This is a great warning and tip for a rookie to the game. Thank you AON

One of my ‘problems’ is that me and my gaming circle are all into ‘too many’ games. We play 40k, 30k, AoS, Adeptus Titanicus, Epic, Warmaster, Bolt Action, Kings of War, Black Seas, 6mm WW2, Napoleonics and ACW historicals....... the list goes on. We play mainly one system for 2 or 3 months, then jump to the next game. This leads to lots and lots of partially completed armies.

Ohhh I had a mountain to get through but now it’s “better”... massive motivator for me was the channel or having a project/campaign to take part in. With that however moving onto contrast paints massively helped get through the pile. Also setting a reasonable standard of painting to work towards helps 😄

Wow, really need this one! Sadly i will miss the live stream but if you take questions that the community might discuss i have one : "Right now i have a great hobby streak, but it gets almost monotonous; you pump out armies but the hobby gets less fulfilling because you're either in a rut or getting things done just to get things done. How do you make it more of an experience?". Tabletop minions gave the advice to switch between terrain and models, but what if the hobby just gets a grind? looking forward to watching you vid on thursday! :)

Thanks for this.I got my death guard army finished last year felt good now slaanesh for aos.

Thanks! These are good tips. I also recently abandoned batch painting for certain units. It actually makes me feel like I am hitting the important milestones faster. So, in a weird way, I feel like I am painting "faster" even though in reality I am probably painting "slower."

Great video

Great video as always. I have a suggestion for future videos. Go back through each of your in-depth series and do an update video on the current state of the faction and add an FAQ for all the questions that had been posted in the comments.

Great video. I was just thinking about my own backlog and how to proceed. I'm currently powering my way through all 100 of my Vanari. Then I'll tackle a second StD start collecting box. Around the time that's done, my Warcaster Empyreans kickstarter pledge should arrive so I might be taking a break from AoS at that point. After that, maybe Alarith, maybe more StD, maybe I'll tackle my unfinished whfb Waaagh! Who knows?

Great vid! Its something we all do or have done ☺️ Im getting better this year too, trying to stop playing with unpainted models is also good advice. And really nice models you have painted, insane zombie dragon 😄 When cursed city and soulblight gravelords releases, can you resist it? 😬

Does it count as a pile of shame if we're talking clanrats? I swear I'm painting them as fast as I can but I made the stupid artistic decision to have them all in mismatched uniforms :p

I'm too broke for a pile of shame

My big issue is that right now I’m at a point of painting two anointed on Phoenix and I’m trying to figure out how to Mount them to the bases... because I REFUSE to use the plastic twigs they ship with them...

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I have one issue with your video... it is too long for my attention span. I have ADHD and have tried watching this several times and can't focus long enough to take it in, could you provide a brief synopsis? What I have managed to pay attention to seems like really useful advice, so otherwise great video man.