now that's a serious tale.... anything painted yet?
tips for you smaller army maybe?
1. try to find a compromise between satisfying quality level and time required for painting to that level.
2. divide the army into consumable chunks.
3. set up some goals - 1 unit per month. 2 units. unit+machine. 100 points. 500 points. 1000 points. see 1. above
4. go, go go!!!
Like my fellow posters above, good luck with it, and yeah, show us some pics
As for the amount of painting, I think Nameless summed up pretty much everything (and I do understand the feeling because I have perhaps not the same amount of points but my Salamanders army is quite huge as well)