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My Boy has said for years now that he is going to play Chaos Marines when he is old enough. For years Ive been saying, wait until your 8. Well, this past weekend, his uncle and I were playing some Warhams, and he gave Spencer a Chaos Marine I made years ago. Spencer was really happy, and said he is going to paint it like Captain America. Since he is turning 8 in January, I said go for it kiddo. I built the shield for him the other day and primed it. Other then that, all I personally did, was paint the shield and the "A" on his head, the rest was done by the lad himself.

Now it could be the father in me, but I think he did DAMN good! Granted its basically just a 2 color, 2 layer wash job, but it turned out really well. And the kid is super duper happy. I give you "Captain Chaos"

Enjoy

Awesome, just awesome.

This is awesom!

Very nice!!

Not too shabby at all.

Looks like my first miniature... which I was twice his age before I painted...

damn, thats amazing for a kid his age... wouldnt be surprised if/when he got into the hobby if he won a GD or 2

Not bad at all.

Epic, man. That's better than some Pro-Painted entries you see on ebay....

Tell him the weird guy with the cowbell says "well done!"

Did Captain America get stuck in the warp instead of a glacier?

Very well done

KC, that is an awesome looking Cap

Tell the little guy he done good And he's definitely on the right track to be a great painter.

Much better than my first mini.

Pretty sure if he keeps going for as many years...well actually less, but still a few, he'll be winning trophies by the dozen!

My son is 2 and I just cant wait to teach him to paint. I can only hope he does as well. Good job little dude!!!!

Well you lot have put a big ol smile on the kids face. Thanks for all the compliments

That's better than my first and I was...yeah that's looking pretty good. Your little guy did a good job.

Good Job!

Pretty sweet conversion, and the colours are great.

When do we get to see the rest of the 40k Avengers?

No way an 8yr old painted that!? Congratulations, you have a talented boy there. Get him on commission work. Who needs school anyways?

Outstanding job! Who said grots can't paint?

Your kid does damn good work! Way better than my first job. Hell, its better than some of my current work.

I love that he correlates CSM with Captain America . It's a super sweet model. Though it's an easy paintjob he appears to have good brush control, which is one of those things you can't teach.
Does he have any plans moving forward? Maybe a Hulk Daemon Prince, or some Iron Man Raptors? Terminator sorcerer Thor would be awesome actually. Give him MoT, a thunder hammer, and some shooty psyker abilities... I'm doing it.

That's actually better than a lot of adults that play this game, haha.

By the way, letting your child join the ruinous powers of Chaos? Great parenting.

The Ravagers.

Way better than my first paint job. Great look for the model, and a nice follow through. Can't wait to see were he is in a few years.


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I love that he correlates CSM with Captain America . It's a super sweet model. Though it's an easy paintjob he appears to have good brush control, which is one of those things you can't teach.
Does he have any plans moving forward? Maybe a Hulk Daemon Prince, or some Iron Man Raptors? Terminator sorcerer Thor would be awesome actually. Give him MoT, a thunder hammer, and some shooty psyker abilities... I'm doing it.

IronMan Raptors/Warpclaws is an awesome idea. Just waht every growing boy needs the "Super Heros of Chaos" collection.

HUH. That's pretty good, actually. My boy's 9 and doesn't have that level of brush control, sadly.

And The Hulk should be a spawn - all that sudden and violent mutation, you know.

No, he definitely did the model, minus the very few things I did. I sat next to him and coached him, but that was all him. Again, its a couple layers of washes I made up, but still, he did an awesome job. As far as how he wants the rest of his army, I couldnt tell ya, the kid is crazy and cant keep his mind made up for more then 2 minutes. And of course I let him pick Chaos, I told him when he wants his own army, he should play what he thinks is cool first, and thats what he picked. Im not going to say no because they are bad guys and murder for fun

Hey King, first off..very awesome job by your son. it's great to see alot of father /son time going on in our world of table top gaming. My own boy is just turned 4, and for his birthday all he wanted was space marine stuff.. So after getting the biggest nerf bolter looking gun i could find and painting it up, giving him a squad and half of 3rd edition marines a skimmer and a dread or two..he has now moved onto painting.. yes he is only 4, but we use it more as a teaching tool for numbers , colors shapes and grouping patterns and such. Hope it isn't hijacking your own thread but id like to throw a pick up of his firs painting. he has already become a smaller member of our local club, and i cannot wait until he day he can actually play 40k with me.

All of this stuff with the youngins getting into the hobby is great. Me and my cousin are already making plans to get his boys in as soon as they show interest.

I have to agree, excellent Cpt. America! The colors of the shield are perfect!

And yes, that is leagues better than many of the models I see painted by adults at the local store.

That's awesome. It's ten times better than my old chaos marines

As a father myself I must say that this will be something he will remember for life. Well done!