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I have to say that I was pleasently surprised when my daughter, at age 6months, would hold a model in her hand and coo happily.
I was also pleased(and a little frustrated) when, at a year and a half I couldn't paint for ten minutes without her trying to steal a model, or dice, or templates, or a measuring tape. It got so bad that to distract her I would set her up a little flat area and let her roll d6's to her hearts content...and she was SCARY good at rending.
Now that she is three, I am bursting with paternal pride that the only way I can get her to behave, is if I threaten to not let her paint with me when I get home from work! She has a very artistic spirit, and I am more than happy to cultivate it, and spend good quality father/daughter time by painting with her every night.

Well, the other day she was so proud of her work that I told her I would show it to the world....

So here it is, the debut of the first GW mini, painted wholey by my daughter Savannah.

Comments are welcome, but I warn you, if you make her cry I'll find you a'la Jay + Silent Bob!!!

Good for you! My son has recently started his ork army (he's 7). This caused a little jealousy with my 11 year old daughter til I showed her some old White Dwarf mags. Her favorite color is purple so her Ty army will be pink and purple like the old genstealers.

Think of how many times you go to your GW store and people play with primed armies......keep encouraging her. She's already painted more then almost half of the people I play! If she likes it thats all that matters.

I remember my first figures, a pair of plastic rogue trader Mk6 space marines. I painted them gold and silver, with red eyes, and red shoulder pad spots I think.

Very cool i cant wait to show my son how to paint, but i have along time before that hes only 14 days old.

I hope my kids like warhammer 40k when they grow up. My dad introduced me to 40k, and I hope to pass it on.

That's great. Keep at it, soon you will have your own army painting slave!

I've been letting my 7 yo nephew help but his 3yo brother gets jealous. We were painting one time and he suddenly says "Why are zack's hands all silvery?" the 3 yo decided to dump mithril silver all over my freshly painted black tank luckily I caught it as it happend and washed it off real quick before it started to set. Scared the kid though, he ran screaming for mommy, who ended up getting silver hand prints all over her jeans.

Haha, awesome.

Some of you may have heard this before...

My (now 10) year old daughter had been bugging me since she was 4 to "paint guys" with me.
Finally, at 5, I put her off by saying i'd start showing her how at 10.
Five freaking years and she NEVER forgot.

At 7 or 8 I gave her an old paint pallette, some ruined old prushes and "throw away" minis for her to "pretend paint." basically, i was getting her used to holding a brush and mini.

It was the cutest dang thing, too. She'd spend a half hour or so "painting," then bring it to me to ask what I thought. She'd tell me what colors she used where & point out all the little details she'd painted and everything. It was genius. To my eyes, every one was a Golden Demon winner, too!

Well, she turned 10 in March. For her birthday she got a SLEW of "Ceramcoat" brand paints (Wonderful acrylic paints marketed towards ceramics painters), some ceramic pieces to start on, some brushes and paint pallettes.


I just asked her last night if she wanted to learn how to play 40K. My heart swelled with joy when she leapt to the ceiling and yelled, "Yes!"
I'll be buying a couple of AoBR boxes. She starts playing (and painting) Space Marines in the fall.

I swear, that has NOTHING to do with my desire to start an ork horde, either.
Nothing what-so-ever.


Eric

dude, that's awesome.

I didn't start painting until I was ten or eleven, so she's got a head start on all of us.

Deathmachine wrote: Very cool i cant wait to show my son how to paint, but i have along time before that hes only 14 days old.

Congrats dude...I also have a couple sons that are brand new as well....I think I'll hold off until they can at least hold their heads up by themselves before they start.


Its sad really, (now keep in mind I'm a tad biased), my daughter is ridiculously smart, and I'm afraid to teach her to play the game when she's old enough because I keep having this vision of a little blonde head, barely seeing over the tabletop, looking at me with disgust and saying...

"Daddy, that wasn't tactically sound."

her Ty army will be pink and purple

ahem....thats 'blush and bashful'

That's great. Keep at it, soon you will have your own army painting slave!

With the twins, I'm gunna have my own little sweatshop. One person's quality family time is another's violation of child labor laws!

Pretty darn good for a three year old. at this rate she should be ready to enter the young bloods contest @ GD ny age nine.

My son is a year and a half old and loves to climb into my chair and take a brush and a miniature and just sit there tapping the brush on top of the paint jars and "paint" the mini. Really funny.

Soon he will be old enough to help tackle that growing pile of miniatures I have.

Daddy's unite! I think that Terminator looks great...better than I could do a couple years ago!

I taught my daughter 2 things since birth:
1) Daddy is the boss (wife is VERY jealous she didn't think of this)
2) Daddy's toys are very breakable

She never touches them unless I give her permission. Of course I let her, I want her to get into it. She likes to sit on my lap and watch while I build or paint. I did some Nids recently, and she saw them and said 'Oooooh Daddy!' so I figure they are passable She also bugs me to bring her to my gaming group on Wednesday nights, and when she gets a wee bit bigger I will. I think this weekend I am going to let her paint some of Daddy's "Scary Faces" (Orks!). She is 3.5, probably ready to paint by now.

Let's hear more Daddy and Mommy stories!

Mines 16 months old and in the "stealing paint pots and models while I paint" stage. She instinctively knows which model is metal and the pointiest and refuses to be distracted by old miniatures I dont care about I caught her walking around the house with an open pot of chaos black while I was watching the olympics last week, miraculously didnt get any on the carpet. Better if the wife doesnt know these things.

Phrases like "honey she's got the gun off your rhino again" are quite common in our household. Wouldnt have it any other way and hope she wants to paint too.

There's a four-day old here. I could best you all yet! I was tennish when I started.

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Doesn't matter what you say, Dez. Milk and Cheese speak for you. You sir, are win.



Ghidorah

Ghidorah wrote:

Dez wrote:blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Doesn't matter what you say, Dez. Milk and Cheese speak for you. You sir, are win.



Ghidorah

Always glad to see a fellow fanatic. Though I have never seen anyone else with a Milk & Cheese tattoo...nevermind 3

MERV GRIFFITH!

My son will be turning 4 in a month. Since he was 2, he has been begging me to play "army guys." I keep telling him when he is older. Every time I tell him he is big boy, he asks if he can play warhammer yet.

Once, when I went out, he wanted to set at my paint table to paint and build models like daddy. The problem was, that there was an open box holding all my eldar and Dark Eldar on it. Need less to say, the handles he used to pull himself up were my boxes, which then flew to the ground, smashing my Dark Eldar army into hundreds of pieces.

He always sits on my lap to look at "army guys" on here or GW. For Christmas, I asked him what he wanted to look at, and he sad "Bad Guys." We looked at all the Chaos models, and he said I want those (Khorne Berzerkers). Needless to say, he got some for Christmas and after two months of begging dad to put them together, he had them to play with. But then he smashed them all to nothingness.

I can't wait till he is old enough to play. I have a fear though that he will throttle me. I have also let him roll dice to play 10 Marines versus 10 Berzerkers. Needless to say, they Dice Gods love him, and I died to pistol shots.

Lots of Good stories, keep them up.

Soup

i never got introduced into 40k, the way i got introduced was walking around taking interest and trying to figure out who the bloody heck it was so i had no 'paint' talent or influence which i don't really mind but it would of been cool... (playing since ? just had a year and a bit break)

Cheers,
Gutteridge

Great to hear these stories. My wife and I found out we're having a little girl. I couldn't be more excited but part of me was sad my little girl wouldn't want a part of this. Now, I'm really looking forward to babysitting

Really great job, especially for one so young! Keep letting her paint and just like any skill, she'll get better in time. Props.

-Wook

When my son was 3 (almost 4) years old he liked to join me when i was painting.... I usually give him a plastic marine, and some watered black paint and let him paint-prime it while I concentrated on other tasks...

...one day y was so much concentrated i didn’t realize he has just finished priming his marine... so he got bored.... and he started to "prime" whatever he could reach from his chair... the table, the chair itself, his hands, etc etc etc... when I finished painting the last details in my Grey Knights Land Raider and paid him a little attention almost half the room was black-primed!!!!

I got a good laugh about it, but my wife wasn’t that much joyful when she discovered the disaster…

Awesome stuff guys, we should start a 5 and under RTT or something....


I think chaos would rule....and I don't mean marines

I know I am looking forward to getting my new nephew into painting and mini's fairly soon. Well, that and SCA heavy weapons combat. I will finally have vengeance upon my sister by way of being the wierd cool uncle who buys him stuff to get in trouble with.

We just started playing 40k this past year, mainly because my 12 year old son was interested (and I was looking for an excuse to take it up ). My youngest son, who was 6 at the time, bought a box of Necron warriors with some money he'd saved up, and we showed him how to dry brush them:



My 9 year old daughter likes the way the Tyranid Gargoyles look, so she's started painting some of those to match my fledgling army. It really is great fun to have them all working at the table with you. If my 4 year old was showing any interest, I'd have her in there too.

Nice, how old is your daughter. I've started teaching my 5-year old boys how to paint:

NoBanjo wrote:We just started playing 40k this past year, mainly because my 12 year old son was interested (and I was looking for an excuse to take it up ). My youngest son, who was 6 at the time, bought a box of Necron warriors with some money he'd saved up, and we showed him how to dry brush them:



My 9 year old daughter likes the way the Tyranid Gargoyles look, so she's started painting some of those to match my fledgling army. It really is great fun to have them all working at the table with you. If my 4 year old was showing any interest, I'd have her in there too.

That post oozes in both "Awesome" and "Sad."
Awesome because you've got the little tyke drybrushing already.
Sad because his skills are as good as many RTT armies I've seen... and MOST of the 'Ardboys armies I've seen.

LOVE the rust effects.

Eric

Seriously, these kids have some great talent! I may have to sit my girl down at the table tonite and see what she can do.

i started painting when i was 9. I googled lotr and found gw I got the mines of moria about 2 months later. I located the Memphis Battle Bunker and went. My first painted mini was a moria goblin. Just block colors. A year later i won a battalion for empire and i ended up collecting over 4,000 points of empire. Then i got 500 points of 40k orks off a yard sale.

My 3 year old sister says she wants some a dem Orky boyz so she can go to WAAAAAAAAAGH!(seriously) and my 5 year old sister wants marines so as soon as i have money i will probably get the Battle for Black Reach set for them heck I got my whole family to like Warhammer my mom says as soon as she has some spare money she is going to get A DaemonHunters army