Jungle Swarm
Daniel Turner
New Member
- Messages
- 2
- Likes Received
- 16
- Trophy Points
- 3
Hi, Welcome to my blog,
I've always been a Warhammer fan since I was a small child, I stumbled across the hobby one Saturday afternoon on the top floor of a department store that my parents happened to drag me in and I then went on to hobby until my teenage years.
As with most things, life tends to get in the way and other interests form so my miniature painting and playing took an extended break. At the backend of last year, I was going through some old boxes tucked away looking for the box of Christmas ornaments and I happened to stumble across an old box that contained some models from a Fantasy Wood Elf army I had when I was a child. I dusted down the box and proceeded to take the contents inside and this caught the attention of my son. Surprised that these poorly painted and beat up models from yesteryear caught his attention (Their not YouTube or the latest gadget that is "cool") I sat him down and explained what the models were and what you did with them.
To my surprise, he sat and listened to me ramble on and I wasn't greeted with his apparent desire to leave to go to other stuff that is clearly cooler so I offered to take him into the local independent hobby store so he could look at the newest models and not some from back in the day. So off we went and we took a tour of the local hobby shop a few days later. My son is into his dinosaurs and so immediately he was drawn to the lizardmen armed with his pocket money to buy Pokemon cards he left the store empty-handed I asked why this was and he told me he was going to save for the start collecting box of
Skinks. I explained to him it was a lot of pocket money and that I would make him a deal if he was very serious about the Skinks I would buy him the box and once painted we would go and play at the local store together. Not expecting my son to take me up on the offer a few days passed and he asked about the start collecting box once again with an agreement that it would be something we can do together and so off we went to the store.
Not knowing anything about Lizardmen, the lore or a quick google search lead me here and I've been lurking and getting inspiration for the last few months. Over the last few months in my various free time, I've been painting up the start collecting box. I thought now that I have some models painted it would be good to get feedback and branch out into the wider community for Ideas. So here we are if you've managed to endure the wall of text above please see some pictures below of the progress.
I've always been a Warhammer fan since I was a small child, I stumbled across the hobby one Saturday afternoon on the top floor of a department store that my parents happened to drag me in and I then went on to hobby until my teenage years.
As with most things, life tends to get in the way and other interests form so my miniature painting and playing took an extended break. At the backend of last year, I was going through some old boxes tucked away looking for the box of Christmas ornaments and I happened to stumble across an old box that contained some models from a Fantasy Wood Elf army I had when I was a child. I dusted down the box and proceeded to take the contents inside and this caught the attention of my son. Surprised that these poorly painted and beat up models from yesteryear caught his attention (Their not YouTube or the latest gadget that is "cool") I sat him down and explained what the models were and what you did with them.
To my surprise, he sat and listened to me ramble on and I wasn't greeted with his apparent desire to leave to go to other stuff that is clearly cooler so I offered to take him into the local independent hobby store so he could look at the newest models and not some from back in the day. So off we went and we took a tour of the local hobby shop a few days later. My son is into his dinosaurs and so immediately he was drawn to the lizardmen armed with his pocket money to buy Pokemon cards he left the store empty-handed I asked why this was and he told me he was going to save for the start collecting box of
Skinks. I explained to him it was a lot of pocket money and that I would make him a deal if he was very serious about the Skinks I would buy him the box and once painted we would go and play at the local store together. Not expecting my son to take me up on the offer a few days passed and he asked about the start collecting box once again with an agreement that it would be something we can do together and so off we went to the store.
Not knowing anything about Lizardmen, the lore or a quick google search lead me here and I've been lurking and getting inspiration for the last few months. Over the last few months in my various free time, I've been painting up the start collecting box. I thought now that I have some models painted it would be good to get feedback and branch out into the wider community for Ideas. So here we are if you've managed to endure the wall of text above please see some pictures below of the progress.
even bringing more with him.
