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How do!

New promotion type thing from GW

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zuyx9b9b/introduce-new-people-to-warhammer-and-help-us-reach-a-target-of-one-million-miniatures-painted-in-2026/

Between 17 January and 19 May, pledge to paint 25, 50 or 100+ models at your local store, and if you hit your target you can get some cumulative rewards.

Rewards are…quite nice to be honest. Definitely nice to have, rather than must have in my opinion.



Also further rewards for “recruiting” people into the Hobby.



Mostly to extract digit from orifice, I’ll be making a pledge. Got the models to paint already, so might as well use it as motivation and get some nice enough rewards as well.

I've never had a metal cotton swab holder before!

Seriously, what is that?

Brush Case.

Stepped thing in the second pic is a brush holder.


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Jeebus. I reckon, focussing on my Epic Scale stuff, and no not counting each individual infantry as a single model, I could thrash out 100 models in a fortnight.

Do my Astartes Infantry boxes gets me to 88, so only need a few more. And boy do I have options for said more!

Seems interesting! I didn't manage to even paint 10 miniatures this year as the ones I started were something i was enjoying so little i've put off painting them....but felt like i had to finish before starting another. They're some of the Battle for Skull Pass Dwarves.Think i'll just leave them unfinished and start something else.

I might be able to do 25, but not even sure on that.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Brush Case.

Stepped thing in the second pic is a brush holder.


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Jeebus. I reckon, focussing on my Epic Scale stuff, and no not counting each individual infantry as a single model, I could thrash out 100 models in a fortnight.

Do my Astartes Infantry boxes gets me to 88, so only need a few more. And boy do I have options for said more!

Wait? Legion Imperialis models count? That seems unfair.

With a can of black primer and a single pot of silver paint - you can have an entire Iron Hands Legion done in an afternoon!


Ehhhh.... I just noticed something.

You’ll get a One Million Miniatures pin badge for 25+ miniatures, a purity seal water pot stand for 50+, and a paint brush tin for 100+.

If I paint 50 models you get a rubber pad for the water pot, not the water pot itself.

I paint so slowly/erratically that I'll be lucky to get 25 minis painted in 2026....

And I have no local GW store (not that I'd ever paint something at the shop - if I'm at the FLGS it to play.)

I don't think that I'm the target audience for this one

Is this the world's first rubber pad for a water pot? I imagine so!

Faction, game system, and size of miniatures doesn’t matter, it’s just how many you can paint.

My guess is that it's not as as open as one could interpret this sentence.

Perhaps they should have not labelled the LI boxes as such if they wished to avoid getting rules lawyerd.

Do they have to be GW minis?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Jeebus. I reckon, focussing on my Epic Scale stuff, and no not counting each individual infantry as a single model, I could thrash out 100 models in a fortnight.

My go to for Iron Painters were stock Necron Warriors or (whatever undead) Skeletons. 8-10 hours for 100ish scrubs to a decent standard, then the other 4-2 hours for a handful of command or some kind of 'special' thing like a chariot.

The hard part for those were always the assembly, so it was at least somewhat of a challenge.

I feel like Marines would be pretty easy these days now. I wouldn't want to do an entire company in one go, but I feel like airbrushing some base color(s) and oil washes would make them a lot faster than what they used to be.

This is giving off "desperate for sales" vibes from a company that I thought was in good financial shape.

Dude, it’s just a post-Christmas Promotion to drive hobby engagement.

There’ll be many hobbyists that received new models for Chrimbo. And those, ideally, need building and painting.

It’s also a way to get folks in-store to spend their Christmas Money on more Warhammer.

PoorGravitasHandling wrote:
This is giving off "desperate for sales" vibes from a company that I thought was in good financial shape.

How does it? They do things like this every year, because the start of the year is a time when people are more likely to have bought, will buy new miniatures and/or start new projects. It's just a way for them to have a bit more engagement.

I'll be buggered if I managed 25 miniatures but I'll give it a shot.

That’s not quite the incentive I would go for, but it takes all types

Oh, that's a big fat nope from me then. I doubt I'd be allowed to use my AK, MIG, War Painter Fanatic and Mr Hobby paints in a GW store.

Big fan of the water pot, I use it for all my paintings. Many times GW hobby tools etc are a bit gimmicky but the water pot is really well designed and very useful.

A good incentive to paint the grey if you ask me.

Eh, this year, maybe I'd have been able to. Next year is Definitely For Sure Getting Those Trench Crusade Miniatures Painted Year.

So do you have to paint the models in store? It doesn't actually specify in that article.


I suppose I should sign up though. I've got an army of skeletons and zombies to paint and getting some cheap tat rewards for doing it sounds like the sort of incentive I need.
It's a shame that the brush stand is only for recruiting people though.

I’d guess ask your local store?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’d guess ask your local store?

My local store wants you to bring in the unpainted models as proof (or buy them at the store) and then bring them back in after you paint them.

I figure the mangers (local and/or regional) might have some leeway in interpreting and making the scheme work based on their local customer base and setup. Eg some stores might have insanely tiny painting stations and know that they've got lots of customers but that they can't run this in person - others might want you to paint in person at the store to avoid the scheme being abused etc.....


In the end there's likely a regional finite amount of stock for this and in the end its all about having a bit of fun encouraging people to get painting on the new shinies they got for christmas and all.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I’d guess ask your local store?

Seems a sensible course of action. Also gives me the perfect excuse to go in and get the Servitor mini of the month.

Lathe Biosas wrote:My local store wants you to bring in the unpainted models as proof (or buy them at the store) and then bring them back in after you paint them.

That would seem not unreasonable. Not perfect by any stretch, but workable.

Overread wrote:I figure the mangers (local and/or regional) might have some leeway in interpreting and making the scheme work based on their local customer base and setup. Eg some stores might have insanely tiny painting stations and know that they've got lots of customers but that they can't run this in person - others might want you to paint in person at the store to avoid the scheme being abused etc.....

My local GW has a small table for painting, probably big enough for two people comfortably, 3 at a squeeze. Although I can't honestly say I've ever seen anyone painting there except for the redshirt. Most of the time it's got a box full of Mini of the month sprues sitting there waiting to be taken. This might see an influx of people painting in store though.

If it's anything like the other store challenges they've run lately, they will want it to be new models that you buy when you make the "pledge".


I rather like the water pot mat thing, I wonder if I can find the same thing on etsy

My local stores do not allow people to come in to do anything other than play a demo of the games, build the free mini, and demo paint one of the two free figures. Even though the manager I spoke to knows it's insane, and that getting 'bums on seats' in store means more chances of random purchases.

Figure it will be "show us it unpainted, and then painted".

 NAVARRO wrote:
Big fan of the water pot, I use it for all my paintings. Many times GW hobby tools etc are a bit gimmicky but the water pot is really well designed and very useful.

A good incentive to paint the grey if you ask me.

The water pot is not the prize. The prize is the flat rubber thing that the water pot stands on.

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
Big fan of the water pot, I use it for all my paintings. Many times GW hobby tools etc are a bit gimmicky but the water pot is really well designed and very useful.

A good incentive to paint the grey if you ask me.

The water pot is not the prize. The prize is the flat rubber thing that the water pot stands on.

Tought you were joking, but after reading the article, it is indeed the case lol. This is direct to thrash knick knacks

I don't really have a "local" GW store, so I guess I'm just screwed. There are three in my state, but each one is 2+ hours away by car in whichever direction. Not that I was terribly worried about having more Warhammer doodads, but it would have given me a big incentive to actually get some stuff worked on.

Well, I doubt I can hit 100 models, but I do have the emperors children launch box plus the Christmas box and soon to get gift of the combat patrol, so I’ll aim for 50 models. Sadly I don’t have much else of a backlog, but I don’t need a paintbrush holder so whatever. Free pin and coaster is always nice.