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Hello everyone. I wanted to share with everyone the blog I am posting to.

Here is the description:
This blog is a project I am conducting documenting my experience of learning how to play and paint Warhammer Fantasy with my wife. I hope to post how much I spend, what I buy, and my wife's reactions. We will unbox everything together. I hope this blog will provide insight into how this all works and also encourage others to make their loved ones a part of what they enjoy.

I am also going to post a few picture I placed on the site:






Let Me know what you guys think.
http://warhammerandwife.com/

It would be easier to let you know what I think if you gave me a link to the site I'm suposed to be thinking about

I got so excited I forgot to post the Link =D.

http://warhammerandwife.com/

That's one lucky guy, his wife wants to learn more about 40K. Hopefully, she won't use that knowledge against him...

Okay, that's pretty cool

My wife can't stand it, but then I guess I kind of like that about her, too

My GF plays both 40k and Fantasy. She is a rare find indeed.

I'll give this place a shot, my GF's son is just starting fantasy, and she "really really" likes the High Elf Models.

So they let me play Orcs and Gobbos so they can beat me up

Mithrax wrote:I'll give this place a shot, my GF's son is just starting fantasy, and she "really really" likes the High Elf Models.

So they let me play Orcs and Gobbos so they can beat me up

QFT

I think that your wife is unbelievable. In my state Special Ed teachers last an average of 5 years, with 7 being an outlier. It is quite refreshing to find someone that has actually DONE that job and still seems to LOVE that job.

I know what she means abotu wanting to be interested in what you are doing. My wife and I went round about this when she re-started me into wargames. She felt she HAD to actually have an interestin my games and habbi...hobby. Took some massaging to find a status quo that we were both comfy with. Poor girl trying to watch 40k games. That can be like watchin paint dry.

Maybe some more background in the blog?

InquisitorFabius wrote:My GF plays both 40k and Fantasy. She is a rare find indeed.

You jammy git. I hope you know how lucky you are.

Yah, the one pretty girl at Gamesday Toronto Last year I went that wasn't a member of the medieval troupe was swarmed like flies to the unclean one's nether hole.

Mine likes to play (and her painting isn't too bad either, when she'll actually paint something) & encourages me. Good to hear that I'm not alone! Good luck with it!

Nice one! Lucky you, bro. Your wife is an attractive woman, and seems to be a rare find. You must be very happy. Good luck with the experiment!

So there are a few of us out there. LOL
I got my wife to play back in 2nd edition. She built and painted some where close to 3K current points of Orks! Snake bites being her favorite, She cut off the feather and replaced them with real ones taken from a craft project she had. They are cool, if there is a breeze in the room the feather move around!.

She also played D&D and paintball with me before our second child came along. She is currently working on a complete High elf army ( read that as I bought her all the stuff and she keeps saying she will get to it, Shes just like me!)

She not as much into gaming 40K any more but we still do alot of Mayfair and fantasy flight board games.

I agree, Its nice to have your partner in life share your hobbies!

Captain Vyper wrote:Snake bites

WIN!

Old wayz is best.

You can read the "awkward moments" thread to get a feel about what my first wife thought about the hobby. I don't think the owner of my flgs ever recovered.

While my wife isn't a gamer (dyslexia doesn't make pages of text/numbers that appealing), she does support my hobby and likes my models (especially the blue and/or purple ones).

She pays for my gaminghobbynerdiness. In return, she occasionally picks a model SHE likes and gets me to make it and paint it (I can't stand fantasy, but there are a few models that I like - and she likes both fantasy AND SF).

Congrats man. Im slowly getting my wife into the hobby. I think itll slowly take a hold of her. I know for a fact that when she makes her first uber kill with some nids she'll be hooked. Nice website BTW. And where the hell did you get a space dwarf? lol

If I could ge tmy wife into ANYTHING gaming related that would make my life better...

Melting the plastic on fire looks really dangerous...

wouldnt plastic cement work better?

About your pinning video, that's the (wrong) way I used to do it before I discovered pin vices and wire gauge sized drill bits. You're lucky you didn't melt the icon. There's more than one "right way" to do things, but it's a lot easier and safer if you use the proper tools. If a person is self taught, he also teaches himself the bad habits and they're hard to shake.

Paperclip, correct. Needle nosed pliers to cut wire, not the best, but it will do. Bic lighter heating wire so it can melt through plastic, uh, wrong.

You can get pin vises at any hobby store for less than $10 that comes with a variety of different sizes of bits based on wire gauges. My favorite kind are the ones with the wooden ball handles, they are the most comfortable, but you have to make sure you don't slip and stab yourself. Wire gauged bits are matched with AWG wire; use a 20 gauge bit with 20 gauge floral wire for example. The bits that come with the pin vise won't be marked, you can compare the thickness with the thickness of the wire, but as long as the hole you drill isn't too much larger than the wire, you're good to go. The crazy glue or plastic cement will fill in the gaps.

I would also get a pair of mini wire clippers that cut wire a lot cleaner than the wire cutter on needle nose pliers. A lot of the hobby tools come in handy sometimes for oddball repairs, and you can save the receipt as a write off for your taxes, but I'm not an accountant.

Check out the articles section on dakka, there are several tutorials on pinning on nearly every site about miniatures.

Pinning plastic to plastic is valid, especially with spears and standards, plastic isn't as strong or flexible as metal wire. I pin hands and arms when I swap them around to make sure they won't snap off.

A Dremel tool with a drill press stand and hobby vise is probably the best way to pin pewter, pin vices are still the way to go for drilling plastic. You want to avoid melting the plastic.