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# Joining the Million Miniatures Challenge
- URL: https://www.adventurousdadanddaughters.com/joining-the-million-miniatures-challenge/
- Published: 2026-02-01T16:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-15T19:56:24.000Z
- Description: How to motivate ourselves to get painting? Warhammer has the answer…
- Author: Dad
- Tags: mini painting, warhammer, Million Minatures Challenge

We may be relatively new to Warhammer (or, in my case, newly returned), but we’re already beginning to build up something of a pile of shame. That needs to be addressed this year. Our confidence as painters is growing, so the pace is beginning to pick up.

But what we *really* need is an incentive. Some sort of challenge. 

Wait… [what’s this…](https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zuyx9b9b/introduce-new-people-to-warhammer-and-help-us-reach-a-target-of-one-million-miniatures-painted-in-2026/?ref=adventurousdadanddaughters.com)?

> Our first challenge is one with a lofty goal – the **Million Miniatures Challenge**. It’s exactly how it sounds, we want to see one million painted Warhammer miniatures. Taking part is simple: head down to your local Warhammer store from the 17th of January and pledge to paint 25+, 50+, or 100+ miniatures by the 9th of May. Faction, game system, and size of miniatures doesn’t matter, it’s just how many you can paint.

Well, that’s a kind of motivation. But if only there was some kind of reward.

> As you hit your milestones, you’ll be awarded with a series of cool gifts at the Million Miniature celebration event on Saturday 9th May. You’ll get a One Million Miniatures pin badge for 25+ miniatures, a purity seal water pot stand for 50+, and a paint brush tin for 100+.

Oh, OK. 

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The first two, I can take or leave. But the brush case is *really* nice. And Youngest *really* wants it. So, I guess I’m doing 100 miniatures, then. Wish me luc… No. This doesn’t require luck. This requires planning and organisation. This requires a schedule. And that means…

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… a spreadsheet.

Our local Warhammer store requires some evidence of unpainted miniatures before we get going, so some serious pile of shame photography was in order:

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Youngest’s target miniatures 

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Dad’s rather ambitious target

We registered with the store, and got to work.

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Starting big!