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Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening depending on where you are, thank you for stopping by and checking out our work. For those of you that haven't read my last two threads, let me introduce myself. I am Zylem, I just recently started getting into Warhammer because my son wanted to start an AOS Stormcast army. So for his birthday, my wife and I bought him the Dominion box set. The idea was we would have two armies and could learn together. After watching a few videos, I noticed someone kept mentioning Dakka Dakka (EonsOfBattle, if anyone was curious who to blame lol). So I decided to check out the site and well here I am. Thank you for the warm welcoming and helping answer questions I'm sure have been asked dozens of time before.

While we have no Warhammer background, I painted miniatures back when I used to DM in Dungeon and Dragons. So I know some of the old tricks and can get caught up with some practice and YouTube research. I hope to be able to share our journey as we dive further down the Warhammer rabbit hole and improve our techniques. If you have any feedback or suggestions for how I can improve my posts, please let me know. (I'm not that up to date on forum code, so please excuse the formatting of these first few posts I'll get it figured out soon. )

I don't have any pictures of us building the models. I didn't think I would be starting a blog at the time, funny how things can change. We were sure to remove the sprues with snips and sand/file any burs and mold lines. this took awhile but was very therapeutic. We used the time to talk about what's going on in our lives and tell jokes. Overall it was just a great time sitting, talking to my son.

The first picture we have is spray priming the Stormcast army with black matte spray paint. I tossed a few extra minis I had left over from an old DnD campaign for us to practice with. Looking back, I wish I had a way to secure them to the cardboard. The spray from the cans was strong enough to knock over some of the minis. So I had to glove up and take it one at a time. My son sprayed half of them after he watched me. I walked him through making small, controlled sprays, keeping a good distance away so the paint would not pool and lose the detail of the model.



It was a hot, sunny day so we did not have to wait long for the next coat. My son wanted most of his army to have gold armor with purple accents. So once the black primer coat dried we blasted them with a few very light coats of Retributor Armor spray paint. Experimenting with how heavy we wanted this layer to be was fun. He decided to let the black show through more on a few of the minis. These will have seen more action is what he told me.


We have been visiting some game shops in our area, trying to find a community to play and learn with. While talking with one of the workers that leads the shop's Warhammer games, he recommended my son come up with some lore for his armies as he paints them. "Make them your army" was what he kept telling us. So at that recommendation, my son decided to paint the armor on four of his characters silver. This is a core of specialist Annihilators, hand selected by Yndrasta herself. So their armor is going to be matched to Yndrasta's.


The final models we left black because that have a lot of fabric on the top layer instead of metal armor. Our plan is to brush paint these and try some old wash techniques to make it look more like fabric. I was worried the metallic paint would make it look too glossy or shiny.


Finally, I know some of you have noticed by now that some of these models and not on their proper base. This is because we may have gotten the buggy way in front of the horse. We started working on the bases way before priming the minis. My son saw a video on how to make cobblestone bases using Crayola Magic Putty. So now he wants his whole Stormcast army on these bases. So while I was busy trying to not cut my thumb off fixing sprue burs, he was dressing up these bases. Again a shout out to EonsOfBattle, it was his tutorial that helped.


Whew, well that was a lot. I hope you all are still with us. Next we are going to be hand painting the purple accents on all the models that were sprayed with metallic paint and trying to figure out what to do with the Kruleboyz arm. I am leaning towards red skin, light brown tunic colored clothes and a peachy yellow accent. My son is thinking green skin, grey clothes and deep red accents.

We really look forward to sharing more and hearing from you all. Thank you for spending your time here with us.

Those bases look great already, your son seems to already have a strong direction!

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
Those bases look great already, your son seems to already have a strong direction!

Thank you for the compliment. He is super excited to see how they look on these bases. He just splurged on some some bushes and grass to add once the models are done.

Sorry all that I have not updated this thread in awhile. We are still painting and I hope to be able to share our progress with you all soon. Until then, happy Orktober!

Hello all, sorry it has been awhile since I have posted anything. I was excited to start a blog here and share my journey in to this crazy hobby with my son. But as things began to get going, life decided to jump in the way. I swapped jobs and between being busy learning a new position and wanting to spend as much time as I can with my family, I haven't been able to stop by as much as I had hoped. The good news is things have calmed down a bit and even though we have been busy, the family has sent some time painting and collecting out armies.

I know the last time I was here, I shared how we tried to start Age of Sigmar but there are not many players in our area so my son and I decided to play 40k and jump down a whole different rabbit hole. So first update, my son has decided he wants to play marines. He tried Tau for a little bit, playing Killteam and watching others play larger game. In the end, he liked how Marines can do a little bit of everything and how easy they are to assemble and paint. We watched a few videos on YouTube about the diffrerent chapters ans he was drawn towards the lore of Imperial Fists. Only problem is, his favor color is emerald, so we are building a special select group of Imperial Fist that chose to go green to better protect a forest moon. Then what color goes with green well red of course!!



He been practicing the "slap chop" method and really is enjoying it. So much so that he has painted 15 marines. He still needs to go back and paint their eyes, guns and pouches but that is boring according to him . Honestly, as long as he is having fun, who cares. The other players at out local shop love having a young player there and have help him come up with reasons why his marines have unfinished weapons. Best story yet is when the weapons were built, the painter decided to go on break and watch a game of blood bowl and forgot.

Since we converted half of our extra room to paining and playing Warhammer, my wife must have been feeling left out. So she decided to join us rather than sit and listen to us complain all the time about bad rolls. Now, she does not do anything with out first reading reviews and watching recommendations. To help, I found a few books for her to read by asking around Reddit. She got half through The Infinite and the Divine before choosing Necrons. I had to help her build the first few warriors which was awful. Trying to glue all those push fit models with my big bear hands was not a fun time . But I got through it and I can proudly say, I only snapped two arms off a single warrior.



Finally when I am not helping build Marines or Necrons, I do manage to get some work done on my Orks. I love painting these guys. they all have so much character and I don't have to make them all look the same if I don't want to. I am so glad you all helped me decide to go with what looked cool.



We still have a ways to go and pretty much have just enough painted to play 500 point games(plus a Killteam for each of us). It's fun to catch my wife and son planning what their next purchase will be or watching videos to learn more about their army. We get excited thinking about what our armies will look like at 1000 point or even 2000 points. The part I enjoy the most about this hobby is spending time with my family and the new friends I have made along the way. Starting a new job at this point in my life was tough, I spent the better part of year feeling like I was not accomplishing anything while trying to get up to speed at a new company. Painting miniatures helped a lot with that. I think we all enjoy seeing something go from start to finish and that is a great thing in this hobby.

Well, thank you so much for reading along and I hope to be back soon with more pictures to share. Maybe even a story about some games we have played.

Heya Zylem, wholesome hobby story and keen to see how yours and your family's hobby'ing develops.
Not sure if its just my view but just a heads up that the images arn't loading?
Subscribed either way and looking foward to seeing how this develops

Sorry I haven't updated this in awhile. I have been trying to fix the pictures so they show up. I started trying to use Instagram more to upload my progress. Is there a way to link those pictures here?