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im so proud *sniffle*

Your so lucky. my daughter is turning four and she loves to play 40k... she just needs to equip all the terrain with beds and chairs. Its usally Orks vs. Littlest Pet Shop pets and their vehicle of choice is a pink convertable with eyes, "Oh look one of those stinky orks kidnapped the kitten again." Those LPS's would make a great army, I haven't beat them yet!

Grimgob wrote: "Oh look one of those stinky orks kidnapped the kitten again."

DAMN THOSE DASTARDLY ORKS!!!!!!!

Anyway, congratulations. I wish I had someone to paint with me .

*sniff* They always grow up so fast.

Good show!

And whats funny is my wife got all butt-hurt cuz i never let her paint any of my mini's lol!
but truthfully my wife always wants to try and paint one of my ultramarines.
my daughter just wanted to paint.... so she paints the minis i've hacked up for bits and is happy as a clam

Egads, pink! You must intervene before she becomes a worshiper of Slaneesh... (Which has got to be every fathers worst nightmare, I think...)

Commander Endova wrote:Egads, pink! You must intervene before she becomes a worshiper of Slaneesh... (Which has got to be every fathers worst nightmare, I think...)

lol too true! but my girl is a girly girl so... she went for the pink!

And don't forget to correctly utilise this eagerness to get involved (before the several years of resenting all that you do and are...) like that guy who got his daughter dipping his tyranid army in washes for him.

He got his whole army done I think, that's practical and quality time!

Here is my daughter at about 4 mounths old helping me with my Tau Battleforce. She still watches me at 9 months when I hobby at home.

Warlord Imp wrote:Here is my daughter at about 4 mounths old helping me with my Tau Battleforce. She still watches me at 9 months when I hobby at home.

thats awesome! whenever i sit at the table and turn on my paint light, my little one comes running up and says "daddy, whatcha dooin?" and i say "painting" she then walks over to my case, and points at a random miniature (painted or not) and asks "you paint diss one?"

What I find odd in the pics is the Elmo chair. Viewed out of context it just looks like Elmo is off to the side, just starring in awe at everything around him!

Warlord Imp wrote:Here is my daughter at about 4 mounths old helping me with my Tau Battleforce. She still watches me at 9 months when I hobby at home.

Bitz and 4 month olds. Great combo.

Pure W1N. Letting the little ones paint is a great investment. Even if the paintjob isn't perfect, it's still better than 90% of the armies I play against (which are unpainted). Giving them the idea that they enjoy the hobby at an early age really pays off in the long run. Of course, be sure to use just plastics with the little ones (less dangerous if ingested) and for that matter, make sure your (very) young ones don't swallow any small parts!

If you're afraid of the little ones swallowing small parts, may as well let them paint your APOC Superheavies and Gargantuan Creatures, that's what I say!

Cute lil' booger - and she paints better than I DO!

Commissar Molotov wrote:Cute lil' booger - and she paints better than I DO!

I bet she doesn't use a hat-brush quite as well as you do, though.

Give her time...I was wearing a sock on my head at her age!

This thread is great. Whenever I'm painting Guardsmen, my year-and-a-half-old sister wanders into my room, points at them, and excitedly yells, "Dya'dee!" (Russian for "men" - sorry, I don't know how to correctly Latin-ify Cyrillic).

I let her play with them and everyone is happy. When I'm just sitting at my computer she reaches up onto my shelf, grabs my 40k templates and dice, and brings them to me. She especially likes wearing the small blast on her finger.

H.B.M.C. wrote:What I find odd in the pics is the Elmo chair. Viewed out of context it just looks like Elmo is off to the side, just starring in awe at everything around him!

yeah... im not really a big fan of the elmo chair... but grandma bought it..... and the kid likes it... so elmo stays.


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makr wrote:This thread is great. Whenever I'm painting Guardsmen, my year-and-a-half-old sister wanders into my room, points at them, and excitedly yells, "Dya'dee!" (Russian for "men" - sorry, I don't know how to correctly Latin-ify Cyrillic).

I let her play with them and everyone is happy. When I'm just sitting at my computer she reaches up onto my shelf, grabs my 40k templates and dice, and brings them to me. She especially likes wearing the small blast on her finger.

awwww sibling bonding. i used to play Fantasy WH with my bro, those were good times.

Good, Gooood.



Seriously though, that's so cute.