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Blog Imrahil's Paint and WIP log

Aginor said:
Nice work!
The bow needs a bowstring though.
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I know, right?
I have bothered with string before, on my warriors of Minas Tirith. I fixed it with knots, but they unraveled quite easily when moving on the table or in storing.

Perhaps a thin enough rod of steel/metal might do?

Grrr, Imrahil
 
Imrahil said:
I know, right?
I have bothered with string before, on my warriors of Minas Tirith. I fixed it with knots, but they unraveled quite easily when moving on the table or in storing.

Perhaps a thin enough rod of steel/metal might do?

Grrr, Imrahil
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Thread and a tiny drop of super glue should make it pretty stable. I used sisal fibre on my Kurnoth Hunter but I am not sure how durable that is.
But yeah, a metal rod is an option as well.
 
Imrahil said:
I know, right?
I have bothered with string before, on my warriors of Minas Tirith. I fixed it with knots, but they unraveled quite easily when moving on the table or in storing.

Perhaps a thin enough rod of steel/metal might do?

Grrr, Imrahil
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Maybe fishing line could work, glued to each end of the bow and painted up?
 
Imrahil said:
I painted up the shield in a different way then the Warriors of Minas Tirith currently have their shields. This was a nice tester to see if I could do better. It was supposed to look like the shieldbis made up out of multiple planks of wood:

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I like the result, but it could be sharper. I will try this on the warriors as well, when I'll get to repainting them.

And here is the end result of a Guard of the Fountain Court with shield:

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I still need to think of a way to get a removable banner on the spear:pompus:

Grrr, Imrahil
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This shield is Stellar
 
Imrahil said:
In the last couple of days I had to remind my son almosy every day that, although he has summer vacation, I still have to work.

Him painting his first model is planned for upcoming saterday :) :)

I lined up the following models, for him to choose from:

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And he picked:

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Grrr, Imrahil
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Awesome, can't wait to see the finished product!
 
Today's hobby time stood in the light of teaching my son to paint his first model :happy:

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He really liked the painting, he was focused and happy about the colors. He couldn't wait to show the model to his mother and siblings. So much so that he had no time to do extra highlights :D
At the end of the day he wanted to do another one and clean up the model that he already did paint.

During a next session I will help him with shading, more highlights and perhaps basing :)

I asked if I could share pictures of the model with you guys and he liked that idea. He insisted that I would mention that he is 7 years old (8 years, in 2 months :D)

Here is his model:

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Grrr, Imrahil and Elphir ;)
 
Tyranitar said:
Haha! Hey, it looks awesome! Do you get to play the game much or just focus on the hobby aspect mostly? If so, will you teach him to ay as well?
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Thanks, on behalf of my son ;)

Since half a year I try to get a game night in every month with my brother, who is a starter as well. No models for him yet, though.
So perhaps I will try some of the game with my son, but I am not sure if he is old enough to get a grasp on it.

He started to make up rules of his own this evening, though.(I overheard him explain them to his younger sister) :D

Grrr, Imrahil
 
Imrahil said:
Today's hobby time stood in the light of teaching my son to paint his first model :happy:

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He really liked the painting, he was focused and happy about the colors. He couldn't wait to show the model to his mother and siblings. So much so that he had no time to do extra highlights :D
At the end of the day he wanted to do another one and clean up the model that he already did paint.

During a next session I will help him with shading, more highlights and perhaps basing :)

I asked if I could share pictures of the model with you guys and he liked that idea. He insisted that I would mention that he is 7 years old (8 years, in 2 months :D)

Here is his model:

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Grrr, Imrahil and Elphir ;)
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Great job for one so young!

Highlights aren’t really necessary to be honest, I’ve never bothered with them in my entire wargaming life and my models look great as battle-ready units (but then I’ve always been more interested in the collecting, building and gaming aspects, if your boy is a big fan of painting he might enjoy highlighting ;)).

Getting them started early is the key, though I didn’t start playing Warhammer until I was 10, I got into wargaming in general at a much younger age, probably about 5 or 6-ish, when my dad and I used to play a simple dice game with my toy knights to see which side would win - melee involved dicing off for each pair of knights in combat, shooting involved rolling a dice for the shooter in the attempt to get a score based on how close the target was, with a successful roll killing the target.

Great to hear that he’s already making up his own rules, sounds like he’ll become a great rules-writer one day! I’d be interested to hear how his rules compare to the mainline Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game!
 
Imrahil said:
I asked if I could share pictures of the model with you guys and he liked that idea. He insisted that I would mention that he is 7 years old (8 years, in 2 months :D)

Here is his model:
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That is some great work! Really fantastic that he is showing interest in painting!

I did a similar thing with my almost-2-year-old last weekend, letting her paint one of her little toy dinosaurs while I painted up some space marines :D
 
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