 It's the mid-week round-up Hey folks, welcome to the mid-week round-up. This week we are joined by Martin. He's going to be critiquing all your lovely artwork. Hello, everybody. You've got my head in this time. I've got your head in this time, yeah. I'll do this. What have we got this week? This week, first of all, we're going to apologise if you hear a lot of banging and clattering from the door outside. We've tried our best to keep the noise down, but we're shipping the Kickstarter. It's Hellboy Kickstarter yet again. Everything's starting to leave our building. Everything's starting to leave some of the hubs, so it's all go, go, go. It's great to see so many boxes. We've not seen the store look like that for a long time. It's just jam packed. I'm both excited at seeing stock in the shop leaving from a yay kickstart point of view. I'm also really excited because I don't have to ship it now. I've moved out of the warehouse and into the office. Double win. Shall we look at some lovely photos? Yeah, I'm trying not to look at the screen. Okay, I'm looking at the screen now. Two screens. This is Anthony Donati. He's done a rather large orc fleet. That was amazing, isn't it? I think the two things that stand out for me are the close to the box art. Yeah, very similar colours, isn't it? Yeah, and the way he's done the scene as well. Because of the matte, it's so like an azure blue, isn't it? Very bright blue. I think any of the bases that people do that match that kind of brightness, I think works really, really well. The brightness of the sea as well. It's quite a dusty sort of matte finish to the actual ships. Lovely job. It's nice. It was Britcon here in Nottingham this weekend just gone. I believe Elliot Morris won with his twilight kin. It was great to see lots and lots of Kings of War being played. Obviously, the past couple of years we've had it's fantastic to see people out there gaming again. Is it 3,000 points? I believe so, yeah. Off the top of my head, I'm not too sure. I know Ronnie got to go. Yeah, Ronnie went ahead and knows he didn't. I didn't have time to go no more, but brilliant. Last week, we had Ewan Turner with Strider, and Rob was really keen to see when the rest of the strike force was finished, and we've just found this other image as well since, where they've got some more troopers painted, and I think you'll agree the basin's great. It's great. I like the gold on the screen. It's giving that shine, and the basin's brilliant. Yeah, we were saying last week that the gun of Strider being yellow just really adds a bit of contrast to the rest of it, and then also brings ties in the hazard stripes. And then when you've got some of the red as well on the shoulders. So that's a nice bit of colour variation there. Great job. For you. Nice marauder-ripper. Lovely job. It's done quite a lot of weathering in it as well. Yeah, it looks to be. It's like bronzes and silvers, but then sort of toned down with weathering over the top, yeah. Yeah, and a bit of a modification. I think he's removed the teeth, necklaces. Sure, that was a good thing. He stood around again. I suppose it's the option if you decide you want two in your force, you can make them look a little different then as well, can't you? Yeah. Some more boats, another Org Smasher. It's time with black sails. It's really, really nice. I love the flame work in the mouth. It's even given a bit of OSL in there, I think. I think so, yeah, just a little bit, yeah. I think it goes to show how characterful the, certainly some of the earlier ships were we have with the Orcs. It was just amazing to see. It makes me laugh every time I see them. I think Orcs just in general in the fantasy setting are always just great for being able to just go above and beyond with your imagination really. We'd love to find that meme. Have you seen the meme with the two golfers? Is it Daily and Tiger Woods? Yeah. Yeah, find that meme and post it up. Okay. Nice to see some fliers as well. Always good to see. Yeah, we just got back from GenCon and the star of the show was it absolutely was Armada. It was, like, from the moment we opened to the last sort of demo was pure Armada. And, yeah, it sold really, really well. So, and it's nice to see it getting out there and more and more people. Those are shows as well, isn't it? That I know when I've done shows as well. If you're walking past tables and tables of brown and green boards and you see a big blue board, you go, oh, what's that? Yes, exactly. It's very eye-turning. Yeah, it's one of its strengths. Eye-turning? Eye-catching and neck-turning. There we go. More votes. Idiot-proof Dalek. If you've seen any of the work previously on our midweek roundup or anything, you know, the paint work is absolutely superb, isn't it? And it's really nice to see that. It's framed for his bass and laying, hasn't it? Yeah. Because he's been showing those off for the past few years because I've been looking enough to get to Clash and he's always up there or there about so we've best painted for his armor. Yeah. So it's interesting how he's carried his Kings of War theme color theme through to his armada. Yeah, he ties them all in nice and pretty well. Yeah. And then Kevin Haney has done a rather large amount of plague zombies for firefight. I picked these out because I really liked just how subtle and plain and the paint work was. It's great, isn't it? It's something really different. It's a map horde coming towards it. Yeah. It almost looks like it should glow in the dark. Yeah. And the fact that all the basing matches as well it's a good job. Yeah. Really nice. And then lastly we've got Marcus with his cronious. I picked this out because I thought it was the really nice different highlights of the different colors within the cronious. And I just thought it was a great battle image as well coming up against the frost fathom. It's almost like a reverse of what you'd normally expect with the flames being the dark and the actual torso and arms being the light. Yeah, not a thought of that actually. Yeah. And it looks like a rather violent encounter, doesn't it, with the horn of the frost fathom. Which way are you putting that horn? Yeah. Good job. Yeah, fantastic work by everybody. That's it this week. Thanks to Martin for joining us. No problem. As we say, usual, if you want to be featured, make sure you use the hashtag MyMantic, sticking it on all the socials, and we'll keep an eye out for some more fantastic painted miniatures. Cheers, everyone. See you later, guys. See ya, bye.