 Hey folks, Johnny here joined by Nick and we just wanted to do a quick video to Tell you that we are going to be taking part in blackjack legacies Firefight slow grow challenge. Hopefully if you've checked out Andy's YouTube or you've seen on any of our socials, you'll have seen what's happening The idea is between now and I think the end of November to paint up a thousand points of a firefight strike force and Starting with your leader then a vehicle or a fly or some description and then on to completing the the whole army So we were dead excited to to get involved So which what we do little video to tell you what we're doing. So do you want to start yourself Nick? Cheers? So, yeah, I I have an existing army and forces that I'm quite excited to play with Unfortunately, they're not Terribly well, I've not progressed painting them. I'll admit to that right now So I currently have a Enforcerer cues are painted and a peacekeeper captain painted in gray and orange. I saw those in the previous video Yeah, we talked about that in the previous video I was very excited about the pathfinder models though So I think my army for the slow grow is going to have quite a lot of pathfinders in it I really like those models. I like them I quite like their rules as well quite like the idea of sniping some characters as some units So I've also got quite a lot of jet bikes and I'm quite Excited to play with some jet bikes. So my army is going to be pathfinders and jet bikes primarily It's gonna give me an incentive to go paint my miniatures, which is the key ingredient here So the benefit of it being slow grow is I can paint them in batches and stages in the right order that Blackjack legacy has asked for which is great. Yeah, I get to paint the character first It's good motivation to have those deadlines, isn't it? Absolutely brilliant motivation for that sort of thing Yeah, I agree and I've got the benefit that all my models are built already. Yes, quite a lot of the head start Yeah, I'm not so sure about the color scheme. I think that my existing color scheme of scheme of Gray and orange I'm not so happy with the orange. I'm not so happy with the gray So we shall see I might repaint them in a different color Yeah, that's always great is easy enough to paint over great is easy enough to pay to is always Do you put a another color over the top of the gray? Yeah, absolutely cool. How about you Johnny? I'm also going to do enforcers because You may have seen in the previous video when Nick was talking about all his jet bikes I got quite jealous because I think the jet bikes are fantastic models So I'm gonna copy Nick and do enforcers with predominantly jet bikes It's gonna be a bit of a race as to who has the most jet bikes in their enforcer army I have a feeling you're gonna. So If at any point you see the Mantic store suddenly ran out of jet bikes, you know, who's got them Apologies But I'm gonna instead of doing pathfinders like yourself. I'm gonna do my core troops as peacekeepers I Prefer building to painting. I enjoy painting but but building is where my hobby lies and So I tend to Yeah, I tend to steer clear of big hordes where I've got to paint an awful lot of troops So peacekeepers gives me that ability to just paint a Lesser amount of troops to be able to then get my jet bikes So Verman was a little bit lower down your list then it was yeah I did look at the idea of doing just rat swarms as my core troops and then have lots of tunnel runners, but I Thought to I prefer the jet bikes for the tunnel runners as nice as they are Yeah, really so so I thought I'd go I'd go enforcers I've been threatening to do a jet bike army for a very long time Yeah, and again talking about motivation. This is obviously the the kick up the backside Maybe I needed to actually get out there and do it. I think it's yeah, really good motivation to do these things Absolutely, and and it also means like it's the motivation longer term to actually play the game as well You know, we've had a few games ourselves of firefight. We really enjoy it, but Neither of yet sort of delved into fully immersing ourselves of getting a big army. So that will hopefully Be be good motivation as well to have an army to actually play with as well at the at the end of this It's a thousand points is the slow grow challenge Which is more than enough for a good game of firefight. Yeah So I'm looking at doing As I say jet bikes with peacekeepers Just under a thousand points on the list I've made at the moment I need to make the decision whether I want maybe a fly like the interceptor or whether a strider because I've got a Free free support a slot left. Basically. Do you like the robots? Yeah Strider but going on to my my ideas for my paint scheme, I've got a number of ideas and I think I want to stick with the sort of the law enforcement aspect of of enforcers So one of the ideas I had was if you've seen the old Mad Max films the original and before his Jensen interceptor car gets beat up and and All black and rusty. It's bright yellow with red and blue trim, I believe That's the sort of the police Colours I thought that would be quite fun for the jet bikes to be that color and then the extra enforcers to be to be in black Almost like the wearing levers. Yeah. Yeah, and so of course if I did that, then I'd have to have an interceptor as my flyer Because you know, yeah, just make sense Or I go sort of more down the lines of like Tron legacy that sort of Thought you know jet bikes. Yeah, really good in in maybe shape shift color shift paints or bright fluorescence something like that So that's what the idea is that I'm toying with at the moment It would be the case that I'll build a few and then do a couple of test paints and see which I prefer Let's go leave some ideas available for me. Yeah, because I don't I'll leave you the more difficult one We have matching armies. That's just embarrassing. It would but it would mean we better play like two on two. Yeah Yeah, I mean out of those two paint schemes what I'll probably end up doing is panicking and picking the easy one But we'll see I think you should you should test yourself Johnny. Yeah Yeah, it'd be fun like they I've painted those jet bikes in the past and they are they are fun models to yeah to paint so We shall see But yeah, it'd be great to see what you guys are up to as well if you're getting involved in in the slow grow Yeah, obviously, you know Send your works in progress over to to Andy at blackjack for him to feature on his channel But also send them our way as well and hopefully ours will be good enough to feature on his channel. Hopefully. Yeah, maybe Yes, send them our way as well We'd love to see what you're getting up to you have to feature me like the midweek round up that sort of thing And it would be really exciting to see so our hashtag they can use They can use hashtag my mantic on the likes of Instagram and that sort of thing to To help me find them a little easier And Yeah, it'd be really interesting and really fun to see come the end of sort of November We have a you know a lot more thousand-point armies Hitting the tables for for firefight around the around the community. We're on it. Awesome. Yeah, absolutely We'll also try and get some more guys at Mantic HQ to get involved I know Dave has said he might do his esterians. So I'll be called now. We've got that on camera He has to do it absolutely He's attached to it now, but we just thought we'd give you a quick update to let you know that we're getting involved So I'll see you again soon