Category: kid stuff

The Emperor Protects (painted figures more than unpainted ones)

My son received a few more Imperial Guardsmen from a friend this Christmas.  He knows that if he plays a game with them sans paint, that his old man will feel such overwhelming shame that he’ll take the dang things and paint them for him.  He did it to...

Flashback Update

Remember way back when I first posted the construction of these bunkers? Yeah… Since I ran out of figures, I went ahead and painted them up....

No Son of Mine!

“But Dad,” the boy tells me, “It’s okay, everybody plays with unpainted terrain!” “Not in this house,” I bark at him.  “So long as you live under my roof, you’ll play by my rules.”  Which is a bold faced lie, as 40K is anything but my rules.  We’ll let...

Kid Stuff Sixdux

The boy traded off some terrain I built for him in exchange for more figures.  Well done him.  He figures he doesn’t need terrain because, in his words, “The store has terrain we can use.”  No son of mine is gonna be stuck using in-store terrain.  I’m raising him...

Kids Stuff Fivedux Redux

I swear this isn’t turning into a Games Workshop blog.  I’m just light on lead of my own to paint, and let’s face it – friends don’t let friends play with unpainted miniatures.  So I painted up my son’s heavy flamers for him, too.  He traded for a pair of Catachan...

Kids Stuff Fivedux

Last week I took the boy (13) down to the weekly games day at the local games shop for a bit of Memorial Day wargaming.  As usual, games day consisted of mainly 40K with a few tables of the flavor of the month.  Which is fine, as it gave...

D&D w/Porn Stars Challenge: Complete!

Zak S over at D&D With Porn Stars unilaterally designated today International Anklebiter Illustrator Day.  In honor of this fine day I commissioned the illustrious and illustratory Lenore (age 7) to produce two pieces of illustration, one a scene from our current Rules Compendium Campaign, and the other the requisite displacer beast....

Anklebiter Sneak Peak

You haven’t forgotten about International Anklebiter Illustrator Day, right?  It’s tomorrow.  Zak S is hosting it, and I’m participating by submitting a couple of illustrations crayoned by my seven year old daughter.  She submitted the artwork on time, but it won’t be published until tomorrow.  In the meantime, I’ve...

D&D w/Porn Stars Challenge: Accepted!

Zak S over at D&D With Porn Stars unilaterally designated May 29 to be International Anklebiter Illustrator Day.  To whit: 1. Locate a child.2. Locate two one-dollar bills or the local equivalent.3. Explain patiently to the child that you–a dungeon master or otherwise appointed administrator of a substantial swath of...

Kids Stuff Fourdux Redux

A couple of days ago you saw some junk being spun into Tau terrain in the hopes that the Tau terrain could be spun into gold – or at least some Imperial Guardsmen.  Here are the buildings with paint. The Tau stuff is really easy to design and paint....