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Does that mean that your load of painted armies are a happy unintended consequence of your painting?

I think you’re vastly overstating my achievements to date. But, basically, yes!
I don’t actually do much gaming (in fact, in the last couple of years, about zero). When I did, the most fun I had was against my son-in-law in Sicily (we played over the internet). I really did love having a fully painted board, with characterful miniatures and so on. But I don’t play often enough for it to be the reason I paint miniatures.

I’ve a couple of fully-painted Blood Bowl teams (of eleven, not all sixteen). And maybe a couple of “squads”(?) of five or six space marines. A few genestealers. Then a load of random cyberpunk minis and a whole eclectic mix of one-off characters.

I only paint things that catch my interest in the first place (and very often, after one or two of a similar model, I’ll give up and try something else). And quite often, I’ll give my painted minis away.

Or stuff them with electronics. Sometimes both (like this, from a few years ago)

I don’t think there’s a place for Alice anywhere, in any army!
Sometimes I’m quite pleased with the end result. Sometimes I never get there. For me, that’s not why I paint. I do get immense satisfaction from a fully painted miniature. It just happens far less frequently than the number of times I pick up a paintbrush!