 It's the Midweek Roundup Folks, welcome to another Midweek Roundup joined again with Rob today super excited to have him with us That's better, that was a much better intro than last time Much better, yeah, felt more infused this week Yeah, yeah, good, done that You know, I was only teasing the previous week Alright, let's have a look Christian Vultures already painted up his taster set Shipping those out of the warehouse It's been fantastic to see how many people are getting involved in jumping into Armada Don't forget, you do only have to end of today to pick one of these up before they're gone forever They sail off into the sunset I was waiting to get a point It's been lovely having you guys Talking of Armada Chris Parallel has been doing his Kraken as well It's a fantastic model He did say it's not often you get an excuse to use purple So, fantastic purple Kraken Been a nice stalker fan I use purple all the time but it's one of the lesser used colours for maybe certain armies It's definitely for Armada as well I mean it's only got a blue base I guess Yeah, it's on the mat and found it on the fanatics page on Facebook If you ever want any hobby tips from the community that's a great place to go I really like the sort of bloody moor Yeah, you wouldn't want to face that Absolutely not That's cool This is absolutely fantastic from Brutal Deluxe Painting on Instagram I saw some of his commandos a few weeks back and he's now done his captain as well Just a bit of a few more finishing touches on the base as I think he said to do but already it's absolutely fantastic isn't it Yeah, I mean the skin is I don't know if you know it but I paint quite a lot of green skin but that skin really pops really nice, it's really good and the black as well, black is so difficult to do to get the highlights but that is absolutely fantastic I can't wait to see it done with the base as well I particularly like the black in the clothing It really looks like the sort of lever you'd expect that would be beaten and a bit bashed up in the war He's done some moor as well Yeah, so he's done the commandos previously as well Oh, good to see you all together Yeah, lovely Being just to see where he goes with the bases as well Chef's kiss You said that, like a little your favourite to get Johnny's kiss Like a Paul Hollywood handshake Yeah, okay Craig McAfee has been making his own Beast of Nature He's used the Frost Fang and the Abyssal Fiend Wings I believe those are absolutely fantastic, isn't it? Yeah, what I like about Kings of War is when people go, okay I want to use a mantic model isn't that the best way to do it and they kind of get creative and do things like this and this is really good It reminds me of a bit ago we had a herd army which was all Abyssal heads I think on It was different heads It was like sent to our heads on Abyssal bodies Which actually really works really well and this is the same thing that's obviously been created My favourite part of the hobby is conversions and taking a couple of models and making them slightly different and that sort of thing, so when I saw this That's great, really effective actually And then onto some Rebs We'll Go Rebs You've got to officially say that when you talk about Rebs It's going to Brian Novak We'll Go Rebs They'll make him happy now This is Hurls' Efforts Absolutely fantastic Similar sort of way of doing the skin as the old, previously The really heavy highlights Really really nice work So you've got the two standard kind of Grogans on the left and the right from the Rebs set and then you've also got the Eric from StarSat He's a mantic point model Not a model I've seen painted up that much actually So it's really cool to see them The highlights often been the blues that we've already had in the studio model Great little squad though Really nice Goblins Not green though Is that first Goblin isn't it? Oh yeah It's almost like you've looked ahead It's almost like I've already seen what's coming or that we were talking about green skin earlier I've been following John's progress He's been posting a lot of the marauders I'd say that red skin tone I think he did some skyscrapers a while back Really really good I joked about painting a lot of green but actually red skin tones work really well for Goblins and for Orcs as well So this is really good I'm enjoying seeing John's army coming together It's a really good work in progress We're going to see it finished Fantastic I did have to do a double take when I first saw this on our studio model It's smashing isn't it This is Dan Byrd's Halfling Iron Beast It's really really well done I love those sort of non-metallic metals and the rusts and everything on it It's another one I've been following Dan's progress He's been posting quite a lot of pics of this one It's things like we need to post a leg You're like wow that leg looks great So actually to see it all like this is amazing I've handed out my chef's kiss earlier on Do you have another chef's kiss out? I think you can have more than one It'd be more apt for a chef's kiss when there is two chefs riding on the top Yeah I mean this generally looks so close to the studio one It's really good It's probably one of the best Iron Beasts I've seen It's absolutely stunning isn't it Joshua Crady has done his Asterian Kyrochroma This is really nice paint scheme, it's unusual to see pastel pinks Yeah I sort of like that It's a bit of Chris Cowburn's red Asterians Aston as well and they look really, I like that sort of red those kind of colours of the Asterians a bit different to the studio ones So this is good and he's gone really to town on the base there Very grassy and a lot of tufts The base looks so realistic doesn't it Amazing Lastly, one more goblin for you Thank you, I appreciate the amount of goblins in this week It's 100% more goblins than well 200% more goblins in the previous video Yeah I really like, I mean this is one of my favourite models that we do anyway It's got so much character hasn't it And I think actually the move to resin for the stunt bar or bolts Brilliant, you know it really, because I had a metal one I had the resin one and actually the amount of detail on the resin one is fantastic You just really miss out on a lot of that the bolts themselves when you've opened up the cockpit Yeah, great It's also moving to resin gives you a bit more option as well, I talked about about this earlier, somebody came into the shop recently and he said that he's managed to drill free hinge in the back of the helmet and pin it with a piece of metal rod His helmet can actually hinge it open, which I think is fantastic might well steal that at some point Yeah, that is good, I really like more than Kev's done a good job of this one I'm used to seeing Kev doing plague, so it's a nice change Well, there we go That's it for this week some fantastic painted models some good works in progress that we're excited to see finished, see finalised some basing to add to a few and hopefully a lot more next week as well, don't forget to use the hashtags MyMantic on any social media if you want to be featured Thanks again to Rob for joining me this week My pleasure, Johnny No worries, see you again soon