 It's the Midweek Roundup Welcome to another Midweek Roundup. Quite a short one this week. Everyone's obviously been really excited about the Kings of War book release that they've downed paint brushes and headed to the web store. But we have had quite a few entries for Blackjack Legacy's Slow Grow for Firefights. There's quite a lot of wonderful firefight images coming up. I'm joined this week by Cleric. Cleric's going to run through some of his tournaments he's got coming up and some exciting news about the gaming club as well. So the first image, Tony Howell, he's done his Artificers. I really like the sort of the dull tones of the armour and the cloth on this one. It's really nice. Obviously our studio models are quite vibrant, aren't they? So it's quite nice to see a more dull down tone. All the Tony stuff is always great. I've followed his painting for a long time. It's nice to see him doing a forge father. Duncan Garcia has done a Peacekeeper Captain. I think it's always really nice to see when you see the face claws having that sort of glow effect to them. I really like the basing and the slight dusting of the feet as well. So it all blends in nicely. Yeah, not noticed that. That's really good as a contrast. The grey and the blue really well with the nice brown base. Jonathan Fox has been busy with his forge fathers. This great stern hammer here and then I've got a shot coming up of some more of his troops as well. I just really like the crispness of the paint scheme with the oranges and the greens. It's really nicely done, isn't it? Every time I see something from John, I feel embarrassed about growing pile of shame. I mean, the man churns out models left, right and centre and I'm like, it's just embarrassing really. It's a really nice colour scheme like the green and the orange, they go together well. Some great work on the barrel as well, the burning. I don't think the panel gaps are as bad as he says they are. Very good. It's really a nice job, isn't it? And then, as I say, a few shots of some of his troops as well and bigger stuff in the background, the ancestor in that. It's really, really nice, isn't it? It is. The blue on the weapons just helps sort of make it pop as well, doesn't it? Yeah, nice contrast to the greeny colours. Yeah. A little bit of Kings of War, as I say, everyone's been excited about the new book this week, doesn't seem to be doing much painting. This shadow hook from Justin is fantastic. I really like the blending from the blues into the purples on the arms. Yeah, you sit on the shoulder really, really well. Yeah. It's a nice contrast. Yeah. It blends between the two. And some nice work on the head as well, the different tones. Last week we saw Kevin's grunt butt. And so when I saw that he'd posted a picture of some more of his army as well, I was like, we've got to get that on. Really nice job. Really, really top work on the commander. And I really like they have more beasts as well. Really nice. It's nice to see that he's painted all the more beast's different colours as well, other than maybe going for the same fur tone across all of them. Just makes them a bit more unique. And basing helps bring all of those different colours together. Absolutely, yeah. Although they're all kind of a bit different, they blend really nicely because of the cohesive basing. All kings of war, big horde of undead. Nicholas has painted these. I really liked these because it's similar to the more beast. He's gone for different cloth colours throughout the whole horde. It's quite easy when you paint in big horde studish thing. I'm going to paint all of them the same uniform colours, but he's gone and chosen greens in some, reds in others, blues in others. And I think that was really nice. They're all individually based as well. They are, yes. He's so used to kings of war, multi basing. I rarely see any individually based units anymore. He did say I saw on the comment on this on Instagram that it's taken him over a year to paint this. I can't believe it. I've got very large undead army and they are massive timesink. They look lovely. Well worth it, yeah. So that's it for this week in terms of painting, but as I say, we've got Clarek here who's going to give us a little bit of info about some tournaments that are coming up and the gaming club. Yeah, cool. I did one of the most exciting ones first and that's the gaming club. I kind of, after chatting to my kids mostly, decided that a Sunday afternoon is great for gaming. Mantek has a really cool gaming hall and it's not getting used enough. So I decided the first Sunday of every month, we're going to open it up in the afternoon and just come in for some free open gaming. So I'll be here if you want to pop along, the hall is ready, just email into support or message us on Facebook and say what game you want to play. And I'll get the scenery set up for you and you can come along and join us. It's free, it's a nice place to be and you can play. Excellent. On top of those things, I regularly run tournaments every now and then. I've got a couple coming up for firefight. The first one would be October 15th here at Mantek. It's a one day. You need 1200 to 50 points. If you want to pop along, you haven't painted your whole army. That's fine as well. I'm not going to restrict you on painting. And then at the end of January, I've got a two day firefight tournament here as well. So I think that would be the first two day firefight tournament. And that one again is 1250, but you kind of need it painted by that point. But you know, the end of January is a long way away. I'm sure we can all get it done, especially if you've taken part in Andy's slow growth. Absolutely. It will be finished by that point. I would say you should have a thousand done by November for that. Exactly. So no 250 over Christmas, no problem. Yeah, that's just a couple of fires. You can have it done by then. Perfect. Yeah, so hopefully you can all come along. We're good to play with more new people. Yeah, definitely. It's always great to see the gaming hall really busy and people enjoying games and learning new games as well. So yeah, like Eric says, just drop us a line at supportmanticgames.com or through our socials or something like that and let us know you want to come down and it'll be great. Even if just for a demo. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Right, that's it for this week, folks. Thank you very much for joining us and we'll see you again next week. Bye.