All I can say is Wow! That's impressive.

That's awesome!  Does this allow you to buy more minis now?  (i.e. I'm not going to buy any more bloody minis until all the ones I have are painted - condition now satisfied).

You want to paint mine next?

Thank you for posting your collection.
Nice case too...

The minis look great!

copycat wrote:You want to paint mine next?

Nope.

gyg wrote:I'm loving this - good job there. Some great classic minis in that lot, particularly like the giants.

(Though it seems almost un-natural to not have any unpainted minis - you must be in a very select club)

It is much easier to buy minis than paint them.   And now that you mention it, I personally have never seen or heard of anyone who had a sizable collection where every mini was painted (as in, painted well).  But it's not something I've thought about much or asked about.  Interesting observation.

Thanks for all the kudos and comments everyone.  

TheHistorian wrote:

gyg wrote:(Though it seems almost un-natural to not have any unpainted minis - you must be in a very select club)

The equivalent of having no unread books on the shelves.  Anyone in that club?  Didn't think so.  

That would be sad because it would mean either:

a)  One had stopped reading.  

or

b)  One had run out of books.  

Nogrod wrote:Very very impressive <standing ovation>.

So what is next? Sculpting?

Z

Thanks for the kudos.  Interesting you should mention sculpting.  I have a bunch of minis that needed repairing.  Some were missing parts, legs, weapons, or whatever.  So, part of what I've been doing is sculpting metal parts in order to make the minis workable (and sellable!).  Here's an example of a rakshasa with a trunk I sculpted.

Nogrod wrote:Awesome!

That Reaper KS got me to pull out a number of my unpainted minis to give it another go. I will leave sculpting to talented people.

You are a 25mm guy aren't you?

Zach

Yes I am!  I have spoken of this from time to time, but 25mm made a lot of sense to me at the time, primarily because of cost, encumbrance, and variety advantages.  I would buy larger lots of 25mm minis at roughly 25 to 50 cents a miniature, especially after selling off the unwanted minis. The 25mm scale sounds only slightly smaller than the 28mm scale of minis, but when you have a collection as big as mine, the encumbrance roughly doubles in space, and I wanted a portable, and therefore useable, collection.  Finally, 25mm minis at the time I started collecting, and maybe even now, had the widest variety of minis available, and I prefer a variety of sculpts.

The biggest disadvantages to classic metal minis is that they are easier to break, their weight, and they require painting.  My collection of just over 600 minis weighs 42.4 pounds which is at the edge of portablity.  The D&D painted minis offer an attractive alternative because they are already painted and can take a drop.  Their bases also prevent easy tip-overs when players bump the table.  Many 25mm scale minis have bases that are too small, even though I have a developed my own base modification which is lightweight and attractive.  Some people just glue pennies to the bottoms of their bases, but pennies are not lightweight when massed together.

I wish this Kickstarter was around when I was starting my collection.  Here are minis which are lightweight and can take a drop.  They do require painting but no priming.  They cost about 50 cents a mini.  And based on what was offered, that kickstarter collection had many of the basic minis needed for many adventures, like a good group of undead, goblins, basic character types, plus some of the more expensive minis usually desired at great prices, like dragons, demons and giants.  And additional miniatures will be at price levels superior to metal minis.  The other disadvantage to these minis is their encumbrance as they will take up a lot of space to carry, meaning that it may require trimming down the variety of minis in the collection if someone still wants everything to be portable, but that's not a big deal to most players.

Best of luck to you as you paint, and do not measure your ability by web-sites like Cool Mini Or Not.  Maybe it's just sour grapes, but I personally don't like that style of painting.  As long as you like your painting, that's all that matters.