 It's the Midweek Roundup Now folks, welcome to another Midweek Roundup. Let's get straight into the action and see what you guys have been painting. Let's do up here some boats. We've got the Dwarf Fleet from Brent Mayew. Really nice big Dwarf Fleet, done in similar sort of colors to the box art. Really, really good job and really like the basin as well. He's used some water effects there I think with a nice white dry brush over the top to give the effect of the waves lapping up against the boats. Really, really nice job. Also very jealous of how neat and tidy his paint racks are in the background compared to mine. And we've got some Duggos. We've got some Good Boys. We've got the Bomb versions of the Moor Beasts for the Marauders in Firefight. This is Brutal Deluxe Painting we've featured in before. Really, really top notch artist and I think these guys look fantastic. The boat, this is Chris Parallel. Again, I think we've featured Chris in the past with some more of his boats. Really, really like the effect on the sails. The red and the sort of off-beige cream because of that dirty sort of out at sea look. These are really, really nice making me need to get on and finish mine. I've started a Farringah fleet and I've got as far as painting and dry brushing the holes and I've got a base coat down on the sails. And then I started a Firefight Slow Grow and a Night Stalker Army and all the rest. And it's back on the back burner, but really do need to get mine finished. I'm sure we're all in the same, excuse the pun, boat here that we all have many projects on. I'll quickly jump on to these guys while I'm talking about them. I am currently putting the slow into Slow Grow doing Blackjack Legacy's Firefight Slow Grow challenge. So it's three months to paint a Thousand Point Army. Started at the beginning of this month. Head on over to his YouTube channel. There's a good video on there explaining how you can take part. It's also a Facebook group, which is a great community of everyone motivating each other to get stuff done. I'm doing enforcers, as you might have seen in the earlier video with Nick. We're both doing enforcers, slightly different themes. He's more patified and reminds more peacekeeper. I've built so far two peacekeeper captains. I think probably I'm only going to field one, but I wanted the option of a couple of different weapon options. And I've got five of my peacekeepers done so far as, well I'll say done built. And hopefully by the end of this week, I'm going to try and knock together a test scheme for the painting. Still not really sure on exactly what I want to do paint wise, but that's why we do tests, isn't it? So we're going to have a look. I'm aiming towards maybe doing white, but for like a nice crisp white, maybe sort of like British police force sort of look. We'll see. On Friday, I'm doing a blog. It's getting close to Halloween, my favorite time of year. And talking of needing motivation to get things done. I've been meaning to do my night stalker army for or fully complete my night stalker army for a very long time. Some of you might have seen the shadow hook I did the affectionately named pumpkin giant quite a while ago now, probably good year or two ago. And I still haven't got around to actually finishing my night stalker army. But with the ambush rules in the new rule book, they'll check those blogs out if you haven't already. I could achieve a smaller army at a much quicker rate. So my plan is to do a night stalker army between now and Halloween for ambush, somewhere between 750 and 995 points. And then I've got my good base point there. And then if I want to build it up into a full Kings of War army, I can do it after that point. But ambush, I think it's not only a great way of getting new people into the hobby, into the Kings of War, but also a great way of getting people to build armies that there may be. I've had to sat on a shelf of like, oh, I've quite fancy doing that army because I like that unit or something. But I've already got XYZ, big Kings of War armies. I don't really need to build another big Kings of War army, but you might just want a small 750 point army of many different other armies, different races, different factions, and it gives you that option really. So that's my plan. Look out for the blog on Friday and see what I'm going to be up to. Back to your painting. Now enough rambling from me. Looking off peacekeepers and peacekeeper captains. Really like the color scheme that Daniel Kennedy has done on this. It's every, I could try to work out how word how to describe it. It's camouflage, but also not quite. I don't know, I really, really like it. It's really well highlighted, really well shaded. I mean, it's just an absolutely fantastic job. Really nice. And the base is really nice as well. It ties it, but sort of the dusting on the base ties in with the colors of the peacekeeper as well. Talking of nice stalkers as well. It's almost like a planned all this. David Crabtree has done these shadow hounds, really like the almost monotone color scheme to this where it's all black, but then just highlights of green within the mouths of the shadow hounds and the crystals to just make the scene pop. This is why multi basing is fantastic as well. You know, really make dioramas out of every single unit. You can see the rock and the tree in the background. So they're all coming over the top of it. It's really, really nice. Yeah, it's interesting to see what you can do with. I say so few colors. I'm sure there's a lot of different colors or shades of colors in the paint job there, but in its basis, you know, black and green, two colors. Really, really nice job. David Crabtree has been doing his halflings. I think we've featured Eddie's halflings already, but I chose his iron beast that I saw recently because I've not seen one done with such light woodwork before. They're often like the box art. They've gone for the dark woods and the dark colors. I think this is really nice. The bright bronze of the metalwork and the really light wood is just something a bit different. And I think that's really nice. That has been busy with his pathfinders. He's in force to fight army for firefight. Again, we've featured these a couple of times now, but I've been really interested and avid follower of what he's being up to, because I think the paintwork is superb. Really nice edge highlighting on them. Really nice just tones of the purples just in certain areas, you know, on the shoulder pads, on the masks, that sort of thing, just to bring out a bit of color. Yeah, they're absolutely fantastic. And every time I see an update from him, I'm blown away with how they're progressing. Now, Lodbrook has been doing some peacekeepers as well. I really like this two-tone of the green and the sort of khaki. Again, a bit like the peacekeeper in the past, and it was sort of camo, but not camo. It's quite a bright green, but you can see how that would be in certain alien planets would be quite good camouflage. And I really like the basin as well. Not sure what companies used for the plants and the flora and fauna. They look to be paper ones, but they're really, really nice. Be keen to know where he's got those from. And the tufts as well, to give it a proper alien world feel. So they're really nice. And it's great to see that Ragnar's taken up a nice hobby after a spoiler alert no longer being in Vikings. In some snow trolls, I love seeing snow effect bases. I think they're very difficult to do, but really effective when you can. It's always finding the right snow powder textures and that sort of thing, because they can sometimes just look a bit like blobs of white paint rather than fluffy snow. So I'm not sure what he's used here, but he's done a really good job with it. Ties in nicely with the trolls as well, all sort of uniform colour between the bases and the snow trolls, and then just like the reds on the cloth and that sort of thing just to make them pop. Steve has done his GCPS, nice traditional camouflage colours with these guys, but really well executed. And I actually picked these guys out for the basing as well. I think sometimes it's all too easy to, when you're doing grass, be it static grass or tufts or whatever it might be, it can be sometimes a bit too easy to just pva the entire lot, dunk it in, and have the whole area as one sort of lush green meadow, which you would imagine most war-torn battlefields don't quite look like that. They look much more like what Steve's managed to do here, where there's a lot of bare patches and rubble and things like that on the ground as well. So a perfect example of less is more. I think they've really done a fantastic job there of getting it very realistic looking. Is it this week folks? Plenty of people painting lots of firefight for the slow grow, bit of Kings of War. Everyone's obviously really hyped about the new book, so people will be looking to see what they can build next, particularly with ambush as I say on the way. And I'm sure there are plenty of people as well that have got existing Kings of War armies that will see the Legion rules and think, right great, I can add another thousand points to this army now and do big 3000 point battles. Hopefully some people will start building some siege towers as well for the siege rules because that looks like a lot of fun. So yeah, as I say, look out for my blog on Friday if you're a Night Stalkers fan or a Halloween fan. I'll be keeping that semi-regular between now and Halloween and hopefully touch wood. I'll actually have some Night Stalkers finished to show off around that time and some peacekeepers and maybe even some Armada Northern Alliance or Varangar boats as well. Busy, busy, busy, as I'm sure we all are or should be. Hope you all have fun painting over the next week so don't forget to use the hashtag MyMantic if you want to be featured on this midweek roundup. See you later, folks.