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I don't really know where to post this, we don't know the other dakka mambers ages as its one of those privacy/i wanna be secret/bla bla bla, well I don't care. I got in the game years ago. Playd fantasy then. Playd a couple of games with what I had, packed the stuff up and kinda forgot about it. Had a child and sure enough the child woke up in me again.
Got the old warhammer stuff out and my boy liked what he saw.
Started converting some fantasy to 40k and the laaitie(afrikaans for young kid) got involved. Its my birthday today and we spent the whole night getting a ±500 orkVScsm(som)army list going, spent a good time together.put the game on pause till morning(he is only 8 and it was 12:30) I just wanna express my happiness and joy that warhammer and any boardgame for that matter that it brings, will be posting a some picks soon for "some" to enjoy.
Use this thread to post picks of you and your kids painting,playning or even washing your pallete for all I care. We pay big bux on plastix and resin, but the memories are priceless.
Keep playing with friends, family but you will never reallyenjoy the game....till you play it with your young ones.
Just my two cents.......pics to follow.pleae do eaxalt or comment if you agree, and pics

I think this will work better in general discussion, more people will see it and it's not really painting and modelling only

Thanks motyak appreciate, did not know where to put it as the young come up with some cool convertion ideas and some weird yet effective paint scemes, they are after all the future generals.

Yeah, my daughter and I had a long running Gorkamorka/Necromunda campaign. It was really fun building terrain, naming figs, and playing games.

My family (Wife and daughter) also play in a D&D campaign with my immediate family. It is fun at family gatherings to pull out Ye' olde 20-sided dice.

My son loves 40K figures and makes his own rules for playing with them. Its adorable. It also shows me just how much I dislike the direction 40K is going at the moment because most of his OTT rules and scenario that come from a 10 year olds imagination are scarily close to what GW actually publishes.

Just played a game of Risk with The Wife and The Boy. Still working on the fundamentals of world conquest. And geography. Nothing teaches the lay of the land like fighting over it.

I read this title the..... Shall we say 'wrong' way :(

Back OT, whilst I am yet to have any (for many years yet I hope) I will love to teach them the intricasies of the hobby

X-wing with 10 & 11 year old boys is chaos at it's best.
Throw in wife and grandma and comedy gold.
Just picking ships is bad enough, then pilots, then upgrades.
Eldest still thinks I am a fool for flying A-wings... but he gets shot-up by them all the same. He likes Darth Vader Tie-Advanced.
Youngest thinks like how you should always be the Batman, failing that: always be the Boba-Fet.
Wife: Han-Solo Millennium Falcon... she takes a wee bit of effort to take down by the boys... but Boba is up for it.

I refer to all of my wargaming stuff simply as "Orks" when talking to my children. My boy will go downstairs with me when I'm working or doing hobby stuff. I gave him some old 2nd Ed snap-fit Space Marines and a couple of beatup Rhinos to play with on my gaming table. He happily pushes his "Orks" around the table while making pew-pew noises

Both of my children are still a bit young for wargaming, but I'll definitely make time to teach them how to play when they get older.

Since having kids my hobby room and free time have both been subsumed by fatherhood. So now it's painting and modelling from portable boxes a little at a time and gaming has become a super rarity. My oldest son however is demonstrating a keen interest in all of "Daddy's Toys" Goblins Vs space marines (cause that's what I'm painting these days) is a firm favourite. As well as "Robots" (battletech, the most infinitely breakable metal minis I could possibly put in the enthusiastic hands of a four year old. My youngest is nearly 2, he'll generally just steal minis from the table and give them to mummy. I try to keep the old lead ones out of his hands... and mouth.

Looking forward to when they're both old enough to have proper games, Necromunda especially.

Bought the daughter an Eldar army for 40K when she was twelve and she was actually a pretty good player, but she never really got into it. Last year after Adepticon I bought a bunch of X-Wing stuff. We played a game of that and boom she loved it, and so did I. Unfortunately she is now 18 and off to Collage but every time we go to visit or she comes home we play like crazy!

I've got a few years yet, but I sure hope my son loves it as much as I do!

Here's a hint that he might...

My eldest is almost 4, youngest is 2 in a few days, and there's a third spawnling due in march.

They're girls, but hot damn am I going to dork them up proper.

I can't have kids, but I have worked with after school clubs and I love how enthusiastic and honest they are about the hobby.
If they don't like something, they don't force it upon themselves or kid themselves into liking it. There's a lot of lessons to be learned from how children play.

funny you are talking about your kids playing warhammer when my dad complains that I am to involved!



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I've got a 7 year-old and a 3 year-old, both boys. My wife despairs that they seem to have inherited the geek gene from daddy. Eldest is desperate to get involved. We occasionally have painting sessions with some practice models - cheap stuff I've picked up from ebay. He's not doing badly! My local GW have said he'd be very welcome to come in for a painting lesson, so will book that in at some point for some father-son bonding time...

That's awsome guys, glad that this thread is giving us a chance to prove just how much this "waste of money" hobby actually does a lot more for us than what outsiders think.

sushi2001 wrote:
funny you are talking about your kids playing warhammer when my dad complains that I am to involved!
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sorry too involved

Parents are always afraid their kids will get sucked into some hobby or cult that prevents them from having a proper grasp of reality or priority.
Too much passion scares us... should be something to cultivate rather than prevent I know.
I had parents that every time I liked something they used it to punish, made me learn pretty quick to not like anything or hide it well.

Wasting time... it is all relative to what you value.
Grown men who will watch and talk about sports for hours that they do not even participate in.
Skill development is always worth-while.
Social interaction, competitiveness, assembly and painting skills, collaboration, community development... there are many good things to be found in the tabletop hobby.
Heck, when I made the mental leap of treating my kids like miniatures for making costumes for Halloween it reached new levels of awesome finding a "new" skill set.
I wanted a better surface to play games on and made a few, carpentry! Who knew!

Anything that gets your kids engaged in creating / making in general is a great gift to give to them.
It makes for kids that grow up to be parents that are fairly fearless and tackling new things and not saying "I can't do that!", sure you can, it is only a matter of research and effort.

Osric ready to battle his dad!

It is very cool indeed. My seven year old daughter keeps seeing me painting my models and is desperate to play a game of 40k with me and my 4 year old son is also very keen (but a little bit too young - plus he would likely break my miniatures). I am looking forward to having a game with them both in about a year or so's time when the youngest is a little bit older.

I really don't get this sighing or stigmata against grown-ups doing wargaming and then their kids catching the bug. There are so many positives to it, the kids learn to be creative in terms of painting, building and customising their models, it encourages thinking and planning and above all it is fun and also very safe. A lot of this cannot be said of a lot of other hobbies and sports.

When they become teenagers, I would much rather my kids have a hobby than get bored and end up in with the wrong crowd.

It also gives you a very good excuse to have multiple armies, i.e. 'help' your kids build that Eldar army that you yourself could not justify getting


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Crispy78 wrote:
I've got a 7 year-old and a 3 year-old, both boys. My wife despairs that they seem to have inherited the geek gene from daddy. Eldest is desperate to get involved. We occasionally have painting sessions with some practice models - cheap stuff I've picked up from ebay. He's not doing badly! My local GW have said he'd be very welcome to come in for a painting lesson, so will book that in at some point for some father-son bonding time...

He might even be able to finish painting his dad's Chaos army for him..

I should never breed

 Rainbow Dash wrote:
I should never breed

Figured we would give birth to the kid that cures cancer or the next anti-Christ...
We rolled the dice and got something in-between.
Each of us has something to add to the round planet.
You hang out with us so you can't be all that bad!

My boys are 5 and 3, and VERY interested in Daddy's models.

"Is this one from Warhammer or Darklands" is a question I am often asked, or "Can I see that big slobbery beast, please?"

 Slaphead wrote:

He might even be able to finish painting his dad's Chaos army for him..

We both know that's never going to happen. Harry helping, OR me finishing painting my army...

Thinking about it, I am actually seeing a point to Age Of Sigmar - it would be a good game for Warhammering parents to play with their younger children. I can't see Harry putting up with 20 minutes to take each turn in 40K, no matter how excited he is at the start.

Maybe I will buy a couple of boxes of dwarfs after all... And they can go unpainted, along with my CSMs and Dark Eldar...

I introduced my 6yo daughter to hobby type stuff when she needed to make a building for her school Tudor project, which ended up being a timber framed house which has surprising utility as a Mordheim building!

My previously ignored office/hobby area frequently gets invaded when I'm out as evidenced by the amount of chopped up paper, foamboard and glitter I find there now. I have ceased to bother removing the glitter flecks from my models as it's an exercise in futility.

Since then she has become interested in the occasional game of X-wing (albeit a simplified version) and the Terror od Meeple city ; which I heartily recommend for ankle biters btw.

My 3yo son groans and throws himself on the floor at the very thought of my hobbying: "Not more models Daddy!" He probably has a point, but this will change I'm sure.

On the subject of involving the kid, A chap at our club posted this blog about a throwing has kid a tabletop birthday party. Pretty cool.
http://fanplasticlittlemen.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/lords-of-war-tourney-for-birthday-party.html

 Talizvar wrote:

 Rainbow Dash wrote:
I should never breed

Figured we would give birth to the kid that cures cancer or the next anti-Christ...
We rolled the dice and got something in-between.
Each of us has something to add to the round planet.
You hang out with us so you can't be all that bad!

Considering I am out of my mind and whomever has children with me would be out of their mind too... that's a ton of crazy for one person.
Or becomes some normie that can't be related to by their parents.

Crispy78 wrote:

 Slaphead wrote:

He might even be able to finish painting his dad's Chaos army for him..

We both know that's never going to happen. Harry helping, OR me finishing painting my army...

Thinking about it, I am actually seeing a point to Age Of Sigmar - it would be a good game for Warhammering parents to play with their younger children. I can't see Harry putting up with 20 minutes to take each turn in 40K, no matter how excited he is at the start.

Maybe I will buy a couple of boxes of dwarfs after all... And they can go unpainted, along with my CSMs and Dark Eldar...

Yeah, I am also tempted to get the Age Of Sigmar starter set for my kids, maybe for Christmas next year or something. I'm sure I could cope with helping them play games of it and I can pinch left over bits for my 40k armies

Actually, thinking about it, I'm sure your eldest would love the new Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth game, that has short turns and has no need for buying loads of additional scenery etc, you can just play straight out of the box. Plus you can use the miniatures in games of 40k as an added bonus

Yea, the horus and aos are very cool starter boxes, but at the price of them! The new kings of war has some very cheap starter armys. Have not playd it yet but it seems like its like warhammer fantasy - but simplified.

My son (now six) has been fascinated by my toys, as he calls them, since he discovered them three or so years ago. He's a little young to actually game, but we play a couple of "games" every day off we have together. He's even started painting:




with a little help from me.

That moment when you realise a six year old paints better than you did when you started at the age of 12...