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Nerding it up with my 5 year old :) Painting D&D miniatures

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So my daughter is 5 and I've been trying to figure out some good Dad & Daughter things that aren't Barbies, TV, Candyland (please shoot me), or a host of other things that we've done a billion times.

I recently started getting into the miniature painting hobby to spice up some of the minis that have come in the board games I own.

My daughter really took a shine to the little characters and knows all of them by name now, which are good, which are bad, ect. And she loves arts and craft time at school.

So I figured, what the heck, I'll see what she can do. So, I've put her to task in helping me paint up some of the mini's that came with some D&D board games I own.

A few days ago she was just helping me measure out and mix up the washes. Helping make some executive decision on color choices (although I hold executive veto power over pink & purple 😀).

But yesterday I started letting her do even more. I taught her how to drybrush and set up her brush and palette for these gargoyles. Other than the red eyes she did all the painting, drybrushing and shade washing. Turned out pretty awesome.

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=E46B...cid=E46BB480E134A82A&id=E46BB480E134A82A!4211

More work from yesterday - her gargoyles. I did the other two dragons but she did the shade wash after I was done.
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=E46B...cid=E46BB480E134A82A&id=E46BB480E134A82A!4210

Some other work...she loves the demon guy and the trolls 🙂
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=E46B...cid=E46BB480E134A82A&id=E46BB480E134A82A!4213
 
I found a bag of my old multi sided dice the other day that I totally had forgotten I had still. I'm going to play Monopoly with a 20 sided die with the girlfriend tonight. haha
 
I got to get her trained and able to assist on the production line for when my kickstarter games start rolling in.

I've got like 100 minis coming from Zombicide Season 2 and the expansion pack and stretch goals:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/zombicide-season-2?ref=live

And then the grand daddy of skill that we're both going to have to train for is when my Arena Rex gladiator minis come in...there's another 20'ish I'm getting from that.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1596689756/arena-rex-gladiator-combat-in-a-mythic-age-0?ref=live

I've spent *way* too much money on kickstarter in the last couple months :/
 
Nice! She did a great job.

Hope I can get my daughter (due on the 15th) interested in board games and stuff like this when she gets that age!
 
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