 It's the mid-week roundup Welcome to another mid-week roundup. Lots of images to show off and a little bit about Clash of Kings as well that's just gone on the last weekend. So let's crack straight on. Fantastic Asterians by Alvaro. Really like these because they almost have that sort of icy feel to them. They're not done in sort of a snow pattern but that's a sort of vibe I get from them. Really nice texturing, really nice sort of dull tones but I don't mean that in a negative. I mean that in a positive light they're really, really well painted. I really like that scheme. Something a little different. Moving on we have Christian. He's done his Pathfinders and his enforcers. Really like these colours. What I particularly liked about these, you'll have known by now watching these that I really like seeing well done bases. The dust, the mud on the tyre of the monocycle I think is just spot on like it's done really, really well. I say we're all chipping away at our slow grows. I'm still very far behind but Daniel Oliver, he is well ahead so end of last month, end of September we all should have had our leaders done. I haven't but now we're moving on to vehicle. This month of October is get a vehicle done and painted. We are on what the 5th of October. I don't know when he actually finished this but it's already done so that's incredibly speedy for his slow grow. It's all credit to Daniel. Really like the tones, the highlighting, the way he's done the blue armour like priming it black and then just sort of dry, it looks like it's sort of dry brush highlight of the blue and then edge highlighting as well. It's really, really interesting technique and looks fantastic. It's been painting some ogres. I really like the fact that you've gone for blue skin tones for something very different. Hopefully Dustin is very keen and excited about the new ogre releases and I certainly am. I keep eyeing up sprues that are on studio desks and thinking maybe I could do a little ambush ogre army because they are one of the finest hard plastic sprues I think we've ever done. They really are absolutely stunning. It's been doing some embiro dust. Fantastic idol of showbix and the monolith. I really like the monolith particularly the flames. They've got a real sort of ethereal look to them which is exactly what you want from those flames. That sort of magic as opposed to just fire. Yeah, they're really, really nice. An idiot-proof Dalek's been knocking it out the park again. We've featured him plenty of times now. He's an absolutely fantastic painter. He's currently working on his basalians for Armada. This is a work in progress. As you can see, adding some of the sails at a later date once you've managed to paint all the fiddly bits is often easier to paint some of the Armada ships in separate pieces for that reason. I suppose it depends on what level of detail you want to go to. If you go into this sort of level of detail then you really have to do them all separately. You just want in a basic brown deck and fitting in the dry brush of silver on the cannons. That sort of thing. You can definitely get away with building it all first. Personally, I'm always a build-it-all worry about painting it afterwards. You see some of these crazy people that will paint stuff still on the sprue and I just can't have the foresight for that personally. I prefer the building rather than the painting anyway as the hobby. So my mind goes make the model and then worry about fiddling around where I can get a paintbrush at a later date. At the end of the day, if you're only one in tabletop really standard then often you can't see a lot of undersides and things anyway. But you do get people like Iddy Proof Dalek that are just all about the painting and making it absolutely stunning by going to this sort of level of detail. So yeah, fantastic that. King's been doing some goblins. I really like the dusty sort of tones to these. Very neutral rather than a bright green. It is sort of, I guess you'd call it an olive green maybe for the skin tone and then very similar dark browns and neutral tones for all the armor and everything as well. These are cracking. And we have just got back from Clash of Kings this weekend. It was my first time at Clash of Kings. I've done plenty of events in the past but I've never done a clash. So I didn't know particularly what to expect and it was fantastic. It was really good to see so many people out there playing Kings of War. The community is second to none. Everyone is so friendly, so welcoming. Incredible to see so many people coming from abroad as well. So that was just lovely. I've got a few slides that Kyle has taken some photos and a few mine as well from while we were there. So we'll just run through these quickly. This is a fantastic action shot here. Some fantastic riff forged orcs painted up here. They look really nice on that gaming table actually. The snowy gaming table with the silvers of the shields look spot on. And it's Ronnie with a big crowd of the Spanish contingent that came over. It's fantastic to see so many people coming from abroad. We had French, American, Spanish, you name it. Really great to see all of them out on the Saturday evening as well. We went for a Turkish. I've never eaten so much in all my life. It was brilliant. So that's it for the midweek roundup this week. Keep an eye on the blogs this week and next week. If you are maybe currently playing Firefight or whatever else you might play or you've literally just found us now on YouTube, we are doing a week or two weeks of Kings of War getting to know exactly what it is, how to play in a hope to bring in more and more recruits. It'd be fantastic to see this community grow and grow. It's already an absolutely thriving community. But with the new red book on its way out, there's never been a better time to jump on board. So do watch out for those. And in the meantime, we'll see you again soon.