PegLeg is happy (and painted!)…
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The Rocklobber is finally ready to be fielded with my waaagh.
Like all my miniatures, there is a story behind. Otherwise, where is the fun?
During last battle with pesky Empire humies, Gruznik’s waagh has been hammered all time but those annoying imperial cannons.
Gruznik scratched his head filled with doubts, he though only stunties had big kaboom tubes…now also humies. Damn it!
When a ball almost hit his beloved Wyvern, he understood that enough is enough, and flow directly to the battery, managing to get rid of those annoying pieces of metal and his Wyvern had the snack she was looking for…
Gruznik could not be the quickest mind but he is not stupid. His mind realized these tubes are useful and remembered that old PegLeg is always claiming “if I’d be able to get my hands on one of those humie cannons, I’ll show you how they work”.
So he took one of them to PegLeg ordering him to show how cannons work.
PegLeg expression said it all, he clearly had no idea how these humies cannons work…the problem now was to tell it to his boss…
PegLeg could not be the smarter brain in the Old World but sure his brain is faster than Gruznik’s reaction.
He told his boss “just give me a few days, I’ll fix it and show you how it works”.
Gruznik grunted: “ok, one day, not a second more”.
PegLeg was desperate, how to learn to use a cannon in one day, how make it throw stone balls hundreds of feet away in such a short time… then a light blinked in the desolate desert of his mind…an idea, and what idea!!!
The day after PegLeg was able to show the result to his master. The captured gun was indeed able to throw an huge stone hundreds of feet away. BTW the stone crashed in the middle of the closest goblin camp…
Gruznik was pleased, now his waaagh mastered the humie’s guns secret and could take its revenge!!!
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Where do all these amazing creations go? Are you continually adding on more shelving units (sorry, we’re a Chaos Dwarfs site… “shelfing units”) to your mini storage?? You must have a decent number by now 
~N
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As I am on hold with commision jobs I am working on my decades long backlog. I have miniatures waiting a brush for so long time that probably when I bought them socialism was still seen as a viable option 
Jokes a part, it’s my 10 years old kid that motivates me. He started to be interested into Dad’s bizarre hobby and I decided to let him try the game. Other fathers from his school became curious of their kids talking about tiny lead soldiers and came to me asking infos. We decided to try to introduce them into an hobby that help us to keep them at least for 1-2 hours away from screens… in short I am very happy to have finally an excuse to dust them off and see my beloved miniatures on a tabletop after so many years.
I have now a small cabinet but most of the armies are inside boxes.
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Unexpectedly wholesale is the best wholesome!
Perfect reason to dust the minis off!
Hopefully perfect timing with the soonish to be released tow
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My eldest son is 9…so im only a year away from getting him into it as a viable age. He isnt ready yet though.
Hope all 3 sons play it
Hope he has a delicate touch!
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@Zoddtheimmortal 10 years is ok. It is said that it’s still early to learn all the rules. I act like a sort of referee, guiding kids along the game, remembering what to do and claryfing rules. My aim is to make the game smooth and check as less as possible the manual in order to not let them get bored. Sometimes I skip some overcomplicated mechanisms and I take care of letting the game flows as simple as possible. The worst thing could happen is that they realize it’s a boring game and go back to videogames and youtube.
Yes, delicate touch can be a problem! Last battle was realy stressing because there were four of them and they got overexcited, a couple of minis fell down the table, luckily nothing wrong happened (thank god for plastic miniatures).
The most traumatic moment was when one kid pick up a 6th edition metal fanatic and came to me saying “look at the ball, I can move it”. He was bending the metal and toying with the ball. I had to use all my self control to say gently but firmly “pleeeeeese do not do that, it’s not a toy, its not supposed to move, it’s FRAGILE”. 
So my suggestion is…start with your kid and keep numbers of the little buggers (I mean kids…) to a maximum of 2 otherwise the Herod in you start to react 
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