 It's the mid-week roundup. So, welcome to the mid-week roundup. We've got Nick joining us this week, and we'll get straight into looking at your fantastic pain worker over the last week or so. First up, we have David Hall's Mutant Raffine. Now, I picked this because I love dark and dingy, gritty, horrible paint schemes, and I thought this was absolutely top notch in that terms. It almost, in a complementary way, looks like it's been left in a cupboard to gain dust for a few weeks. I think it's really well done. I really like the shading on it. I think that's excellent. You can see the leathery effect that's been done on the arm there. Really nice, a little glint in its eye as well. It looks like you don't want to touch it. It looks as grimy as you would expect it to in real life. It's leaking out of a sewer somewhere. Awesome. That's a really fantastic job. From dark and dingy, we go super bright. These are a sterian army done in a metallic green. We'd love to get ahold of Foggy and see if we can get some closer-up images for next week. This is the image that we found. It's full army, but to see some close-up details would be great. It almost looks like it's been inked over a metallic base coat, doesn't it? Possibly, yeah. It's got that sort of brown, sort of shade to the green. It's our lava base on its spectra as well. It is, yeah. I love a good lava base. It's done across a few of the bases, I think. That's cool. That's very nice. These weapon platforms, the Rackin or Vimmin, sorry, weapon platforms, and really nice edge-high lighting. Yeah, absolutely. I quite like the bases as well. Some nice tufts. It's very dusty as well. I think there's a bit of weathering powder used on the wheels as well. Yeah, it looks good, doesn't it? It's a nice mix of really sharp, crisp paint work, but then also... I really like how the ribbon is part of that. The weathering as well. Yeah. And some nice scenery in the background, too. Yeah. Kevin Haney's done a GCPS Trooper. It's really nice tones, isn't it? Good detail. Yellow and browns. Get some good edge-high lighting. Some different camo there, and you just see a regular green. I like the base as well. That's a nice tuft. Yeah, it's fun to see that. The alien flora, isn't it? Yeah, it's an alien flora on the base. That's nice to see. Yeah, really nice vibrant colour. It makes the model pop as well, doesn't it? Yeah, absolutely. I'd like to see a whole table done like that. A whole table of alien flora. That would be cool. Max-K has done these halflings. This is why we love Kings of War, being able to do dynamic diorama bases, as it were. We've got the fence in front from the terrain crate kit. I wouldn't have said that colour scheme, the pink and yellow. Don't find that too bad, actually. Yeah, if you'd have said, I'm painting my halflings pink and yellow, you'd be like, oh, but actually, it works really well, doesn't it? It's not offensive. Oh, it's his joke. Oh, dear. The thing is, when I tell upon, I think it's the funniest thing in the world, when I hear upon, it's the cringiest thing in the world. Absolutely, I'm so sorry. Mitch Chee has been blowing out the water again, much like these worms. Fantastic painting on these two. I like that they're different colours as well, the black and red and then the more traditional blue. Yeah, it's good, it's a nice contrast. I really like the, it's got some nice thick basing on there. I'll go back to that. But the actual shading and highlighting of the scales on the chest of both those worms just absolutely spot on. Yeah, stunning, isn't it? It's really good. Pete Jones has been making some funcon versions. He's been using the Northern Alliance Klansman with the GCPS to create these winter soldiers, sort of GCPS soldiers. I do love a good kit bash. That's really good. They look like they can survive any cold weather conditions. Definitely, yeah. If I remember the quote right there, I saw that he'd said it took lots of hours, lots of snipping and lots of swearing. But it looks fantastic, doesn't it? Yeah, Pete's done a brilliant job on those. Really looking good. Looking forward to seeing them painted as well. Yeah, that'd be a good one. Yeah, absolutely. And then Stephen has painted this interceptor. Absolutely fantastic. Like he's kept it in keeping with his kitchen as well. I don't know if that was intentional or not. He had some pots and had some buckets of... Yeah, just had some Jewel looks like knocking about. It looks really, to be fair, I really like the crisp colour on it. It's lovely, isn't it? I think it's a lovely orange. I think it's grey or maybe blue. It's a bluey grey, yeah. Maybe. Yeah, a bluey grey and then an actual grey and then a yellowy orange. Really nice, Chris. The contrast was in two colours and it's really well painted. It's a great vehicle for doing those sort of blocky edge painting, isn't it? Yeah. You've painted that as well, simulating with the grey and orange. Yeah. So it takes very well to painting it in different colours. I played some Firefighter the weekend and these things were beastly. Yeah. Really, really terrifying. Yeah. It's an awesome, lovely, lovely model. Lastly, we've got some Viermin. Third rats we've seen on this scene, hasn't it? Yeah. It's been quite a heavy sci-fi week this week. That's good. She's great to see. See the Firefighter is still roaring ahead. These are really great. I love that they've gone for the sort of the yellow that we see on the box art and that sort of thing, but then the green really just makes that little bit different. Sort of similar to our Volchaser color scheme, isn't it? Yeah. That green is really vibrant and it just helps make the rest of the model. Yeah, yeah. I really like the highlighting on the yellow of the armour there. That's brilliant. I'm a big fan as well of, particularly for sci-fi, using black sand or that sort of to give whether it be actually black sand or be roads or urban sort of environment, but I just always think that that really helps the model as well. Yeah. If you've got a bright model, a dark base really helps the model pop. Even a dark model as well, I think. Yeah. It can sometimes, it draws you to the model rather than to the base. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Whereas sometimes a vibrant base can be a bit distracting. Yeah. Fantastic, that. That is it for this week. We'll be back again next week. Remember to keep using the hashtag MyMantic if you want to be featured on the show. Hopefully get some more painting done in the next week or so. Hopefully see some more fantasy and some more amada as well. Absolutely. Thank you for Nick for helping me out. Thank you. Thank you very much, John, Johnny. See you there, guys. Take care. Bye.