Some of you will be aware that I try to share the pictures you guys and girls send to our Facebook page. I was contacted by Szen (a.k.a. Wookiepelt) who wanted to share his 10 year old daughter’s impressive models. I was so impressed I offered to share the pictures on Tale of Painters blog. Hear what his talented daughter has to say in her own words after the jump…
Hi, I’m Annamaria (a.k.a. BlindRedFury) and I’m 10 years old.
My first model
I started Warhammer in January 2013 when I was 9 so that I could join the Junior School’s Warhammer Club at St Dunstan’s College. When I first started painting, I found that it was not as hard as I had expected it to be. This was mostly due to the great tips given by the managers at GW Bromley: James and James!
Working at home
I started learning to paint using a Skaven Clanrat from the Island of Blood set with the two James and when I finished it I entered my school Warhammer Club’s painting competition with the finished model. To my surprise I won my age group with this model in the competition!
As I was the only person that played with a Fantasy army at the club, I needed a 40k army to join in in the battles at school so I started a Space Wolves army with my dad. However I still carried on painting the Skavens and an occasional High Elf after that.
Skaven Champ, Musician and Clanrat
Skaven Colour Scheme
Skaven Clanrats Pack
Rat Ogre
High Elves WIP
I stopped working on my models for the whole term before Christmas in 2013 because I needed to prepare for my 11+ entrance exams which took place in January 2014. However during the Christmas holidays I started thinking about starting my own Blood Angels army. Once I finished my entrance exams, I started my BA army with a jump pack Captain which I made in a Kit-Bash Challenge at GW Croydon with James! I then went on to build and paint my 5-man Sternguard Veteran squad which I am very close to finishing now.
Blood Angel Jump Pack Captain
Blood Angel Sternguard Veterans WIP
I hope to improve on my modelling and painting skills as I progress with this challenging hobby. I’ll pass back to Garfy now.
Garfy: I just want to sign off by saying, I’m really impressed with BlindRedFury’s work. I think she’ll be one to watch for the future. I hope her father continues to send us her work via the Facebook page. If you haven’t already, why not join our Facebook page where you can see more models from the community who follow tale of Painters. Tale of Painters on Facebook.
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Rest in Peace little Annamaria!
Thank you, Randy. <3
Wow! Blindredfury, those are great models. Your first model is good and it's clear that you are rapidly progressing. The secret to anything is lots of practice and lots of passion. I'm excited to see your stuff at Golden Demon some day!
Wow! Blindredfury, those are great models. Your first model is good and it's clear that you are rapidly progressing. The secret to anything is lots of practice and lots of passion. I'm excited to see your stuff at Golden Demon some day!
Damn! Aged 10 and painting like that?! I foresee demons of the golden variety in her future if she takes to it with the kind of passion she is currently showing. Awesome stuff 🙂
This is so nice to see. The youth and enthusiasm we all started with back in the day. Great painting there to Annamaria 🙂
I think AnnaMaria should be very proud as the models are super cool. She paints way nicer than I did her age. Awesome stuff 🙂
Would love to see more of this Garfy, new talent is always welcome in our hobby, just goes to show that anyone with the right mindset can achieve a lot. I see great potential here and would love to see how she does say 6 months down the line. Let's hope that she experiments a lot and soaks up everything she is taught. Thanks again!
Impressive!
Kid paints better than I do!
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She has some excellent color choice & decision making skills (other than choosing an affordable hobby that is)
She's got a great start to her painting & gaming career.
~Muninn
This is very impressive — and also rather humbling, especially when I look back at my own first attempts at painting: When I painted my first model at age ten or so, it ended up looking terrible, and it took me half a decade after that to even attempt something as involved as painting an entire WFB regiment…
Keep up the amazing work, BlindRedFury! And, going by your username, you might want to give painting some World Eaters a try… 😉
The Force of painting is strong in this Girl
Yea when i first started I was terrible so good job! keep up the good work you'll be making money by time your 14 selling these models on E-bay haha!
That is awesome, and only 10! Great job dad for supporting her hobby and progress and great job BlindRedFury
These look better than the models I painted when I was 15!
I have to say that I am very impressed. This is much about my starting level at the age of 14 or so, and it is not much below my current level at 30 :-D.
All 3 thumbs up! wait…?