At Least It’s Assembled: Our Very Scientific Painting Timeline
We had one of those painfully relatable hobby moments this week: the kind where seeing someone else’s pile of grey plastic makes us feel just a little bit better about our own.
Michał kicked it off by reassuring End3r that things were, in fact, not that bad yet on the unpainted-army front. And honestly? Looking at the evidence, we can see why this immediately became a group discussion.
End3r’s defense was immediate and completely valid: at least it’s all assembled, and that means it’s playable. And let’s be honest — in Warhammer terms, that already counts as a meaningful stage of progress. Built models on the table are still better than sprues in a box.
Then Stas arrived with the kind of hobby advice that is both correct and deeply threatening: just do it in batches. First primer, then base colors, then the second and third colors, then highlights… and apparently the whole thing will be done in five years.
Which, naturally, was still considered wildly optimistic.
According to End3r, we should correct that estimate to fifteen years. Five years, after all, is only enough time to finish the Ironclad.
We love this kind of exchange because it captures a very real part of the hobby journey: painting plans always sound fast in theory. In practice, every army becomes a long-term relationship. There’s always that one project we swear is nearly under control, right up until we line everything up and look at it all at once.
Still, there is something encouraging in this particular mountain of miniatures. It’s assembled. It can hit the table. And one day — whether in five years or fifteen — it might even all be painted.
Until then, we respect the grind, we trust the batch-painting process, and we continue to insist that “playable grey” is a legitimate army state.