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Hi there,

what do you think about the titles question ???

My little girl is now 2 and a half - and she is obsessed with "painting a colour with daddy" as she says.....

Is that too early ???

See the pictures and yes i am proud of her

If they enjoy it and you have the patients then, any age I say.

She likes blood, worshipper of Khorne?

khorne ??? dont think so, but total contribution to chaos - thats more like her

Obviously I'm not a parent so don't take my opinion too seriously... but I'd say, so long as you mix the paints for her (you don't want her butchering your models), give her something simple (like a Marine) and try to guide her hand, maybe give her an example moddel (so she sees that, for instance, the exposed parts of the armour are supposed to be black padding), you should do fine.

I also suggest that rather than letting her try to do details... you get her to follow standard guides but stop on like the third step, thataway she can salvage the models when she's older.

So, using watered down paints after it's been undercoated, get her to apply the basecoats to the model and the weapon, maybe let her try to do the eyes.. then get her to leave it.

I know if someone had gotten me to do that when I was 7, my models wouldn't be sitting in brake fluid right now

My daughter was exactly the same, so at the ripe old age of 3, I set her down at her own little table and let her go to town! I covered her and the table with newspaper, just to cut down on the aftermath, and set her up with 10 Necron warriors. I gave her a small paint pallette, which I would dab some Gunmetal onto, then showed her how to dip, wipe and 'whippy paint' (drybrush heavily) the guys. Over the next 2 weeks, she base painted over 100 warriors, my pariahs, wraiths and a couple of scarab bases. AND she was the happiest little kid I've ever seen! Now my son, who is 4 years her senior, STILL won't sit down and do it (and he just turned 11). All of them are different.

Wow, Khan... I want a kid now... if she actually based them properly that would be sweeet... kick-back and watch some telly whilst your lil' slave is at work >