2021 Kids Chapter Challenge: Chromatic Watermelons

[appiah4]

I thought it would be a fun family activity to try #KidsChapterChallenge with my dear daughter who is currently recovering from the human malware. And it surely was!

What she came up with was.. quite something. I think the watermelon shoulderpads were an amazing idea for a five year old! Alas, I present you the Emperor's finest: Chromatic Watermelons

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[Brother Tyler]

I saw the first picture and thought something along the lines of, "Holy crap! That would be a pain to paint. I doubt anyone is that crazy." And then I scrolled down.

 

Kudos to you for actually painting that scheme and showing your child how much you love her. That is a great way to brainwash ease her into the hobby. Now you just need to complete an entire kill team to get her going.

[N1SB]

I'm so impressed by the watermelon pauldrons that i want to make my custom Chapter, The Emperor's Watermelons.  Now I gotta figure out its Chapter Tactics.

[Magos Takatus]

I remember my brother painted a model kit of a flying boat (Short Sunderland I think) similarly to this for me. I wasn't expecting to have this thread bring up a fond memory I'd forgotten about. Thank you. I don't know where the watermelon detail came from but it's certainly amusing.

[Trokair]

I'm so impressed by the watermelon pauldrons that i want to make my custom Chapter, The Emperor's Watermelons.  Now I gotta figure out its Chapter Tactics.

Master Artisans and either Born Heroes or Fearsome Aspect suggest themselves, purely on what it would take to go to battle as a watermelon.

[Slave to Darkness]

Looks great!! Ngl I think the colours are better than a lot of chapter colours GW come up with, please paint her a full kill team!! 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

I'm so impressed by the watermelon pauldrons that i want to make my custom Chapter, The Emperor's Watermelons. Now I gotta figure out its Chapter Tactics.

Considering what the late R. Lee Ermey regularly did to watermelons on Mail Call, it should emphasize FIREPOWER. In this case, using a watermelon as a Chapter symbol will be like using a split skull as a Chapter symbol: a warning of what fate awaits your enemies.

 

Use Iron Hands and/or Imperial Fists Chapter tactics to maximize the effects of your Marines' small arms, medium arms (autocannons, lascannons, Gatling guns, missile launchers), large arms (battle cannons, Vanquisher cannons, Earthshaker cannons- it doesn't matter if they're not in Codex: Space Marines, copy the stats and special rules in Codex: Astra Militarum, get the models, and shoehorn Space Marine crewmen into them).

 

Crack open enemy bodies the way R. Lee Ermey used his guns to crack open watermelons.

[Brother Argent]

As a father of five, dude, you just won.

[appiah4]

Thanks for all the kind words and wishes.  I doubt I will make a Kill Team or anything of the kind for this paint scheme.  It was a 6 hour or so paintjob I did to make her less miserable for a while, and it worked; it was all that counted.

 

As for initiating her into painting figures, I kind of did.  Here's something she painted last month.  Her first mini, actually.  She has been following me closely for a while, and knows things like thinning your paint, separating objects by color, doing multiple coats, shading, brush control etc.  Obviously, she is not a master painter or anything but I still think this was pretty amazing for a 5 year old who was just putting to practice what she learned through watching and listening.

 

 

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[Vinny]

That is adorable, brother!! Well done

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Please pass on my compliments to your daughter, for her efforts. She certainly invested more in her art than Matt Ward did in his.

 

Is that a Wood Elf from Warhammer Fantasy, or will she use the model as an Aeldari Aspect Warrior?

[Magos Takatus]

Personally that's almost on par with my painting when I first started and I would have been slightly over double my age. Impressive.

[phandaal]

I'm so impressed by the watermelon pauldrons that i want to make my custom Chapter, The Emperor's Watermelons.  Now I gotta figure out its Chapter Tactics.

 

Bolter Fusillades should be one, to represent the power of spittin' watermelon seeds.

[MithrilForge]

Watermelon pauldron's for the Win!! 

 

Sorry i didn't see the wood elf ....   but mod's gotta do their jobs... 

 

Mithril