GRETCHIN and painting them on the go | Warhammer 40k 2nd edition 

Love the wife interupting. Pure comedy gold.

I just found an ice cream container with 25 of these guys. Your videos have inspired me to do up all my old minis in the old style but better than I painted them when I butchered them as a young ratbag

I used to do all my painting on holiday - didn't have anything set up for painting at home, but school holidays were spent up at the grandparents' place on the central coast, and since I needed something to keep me occupied full time for a couple of weeks I'd get to pick a small stash of paints and minis from the hobby shop before we drove up there. Once I got properly into the game during 2nd edition and set up a little desk at home with all my paints and gear I flipped to the complete opposite, couldn't imagine painting without having everything to hand. Your gretchin look great, very characterful, and plenty of variance to avoid the army of clones look - I can easily imagine the repeated monopose just being the result of their runtherd getting bored and teaching them 'present arms' for a laugh. I won't be doing 40 of them, but you've inspired me to dig out one of the old gretchin, and a corresponding ork boy, to have a go at just to see how I do with them nowadays.

Lovely blend of content on this video. Ducks, dogs, guns and funs!

The last vacation I went on was in July, when I went to the GW Open Tournament in Tacoma, WA. It was half Blood Bowl tournament and half visiting my wife's sister who lives a couple of hours away. I didn't do any painting, but I bought some stuff at the GW booth at the tourney. I still have most of the WH40K 2ed box set, but I think I traded all the Ork stuff to other people, since I don't have any of them left. Except for the spiffy Deff Dred.

I did try to take some models with me on holiday as a kid, but never managed to get anything done with them. My entry into miniatures - HeroQuest - did travel around with me. Also, I hear that late-80s airport metal scanners didn't pick up somewhat rusty craft knife blades hidden under the inner soles of the trainers of young boys. As an adult, I have also had holiday hobby success with Gretchin. One Christmas, visiting my in-laws, my wife gave me a gift of Gretchin - the current sculpts - and I spent some happy hours of that holiday with them.

I noticed the Haymarket bus station in Newcastle, 🧐i could tell you some stories of that place, stories that would melt your face & de-marrow your bones! From your vantage point i thought you may have set up a snipers nest, having a clean line of sight onto the street. You could of created a great kill zone if you were so inclined brother Matthew.🤔 A very nice painting holiday too brother. Also brother i have searched both RU-vid and my mind for many weeks now and i still can't for the life of me remember where i saw that Land Speeder though;🤔 Maybe it is like Edgar Allan Poe once coined in the Raven "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"

Love seeing the English country side. Good idea for a video!

Went on a holiday with some mates years ago, brought along a board game to crack open and play(it went untouched over the week) and a mordheim warband and some paints. Got a few figures done between the beach time and gallivanting about the lakeside. Good times, but kinda wasted effort bringing it all along. Likely won't do so again in future.

Hah, you went on holiday two miles from where i live. Hope you enjoyed your stay!

This is exactly what I bring on holiday :)

oh i remember now, once a time i took a Arfix Rescue Launch with me in holiday, but glued outside on a table that had spaces between the woodsticks, so some pieces of that boat, some small may even lay there since then =) could not find them, seaching took more time than gluing =))

Those bad moons really make this sculpt look good

in a pinch you can put models in a plastic bag and put in a lot of hand sanitizer and leave it sit for a couple hours and it gets the majority of paint off and isnt to smelly

in the 90s i remember packing up my models and paints into my lego suit case and taking my minis to cornwall on a family holiday

I do this as well, I pack all what I need and go abroad in the summer and paint by the swimming pool! Great way to relax 😀

My brother did this on the plane to Australia. Just primed them at home and painted them on the 24 hr flight there and back.

I remember about 30 years ago going on holiday to Bournemouth. I insisted on visiting the local GW, much to my younger brother's chagrin. Found a metal gretchen, (although the base tab said goblin), with a blunderbuss my local store never had. Had no paints with me, but unpackaged him at the hotel, imagining the wonderful paint job i would do. Unfortunately i ended up getting glandular fever, so holiday was cut short. Was several weeks until i felt well enough to paint him in all his Blood Axe glory!😂 Hope your holiday went better. Great to see how a few paint scheme changes can make such a difference to what could be a very uniform army. Hope the mrs' had a good time too.👍

I hope the wife interrupting in new and interesting ways becomes a comedic staple of this channel. Looking forward to the next video.

I really like the way you do videos! Good jokes, good painting and just fun vibs.

I didn't have a proper holiday this year. But with this vid I didn't need to! Thanks Miniscape, it's just like being there :D

Vallejo Model Air Burnt Umber is the best brown ever. It primes. It paints. It brushes. It airs. Fight me!

The conversation was rather frigid whilst on holiday at butlins a few years ago when I took all the paints,tools and brushes to paint a squad of catachans with the wife and daughter also went downhill after purchasing a german helmet.

I always think about doing this at work

Subbed to your Instagram. I have a bunch to gretchin to paint up too. I'm impressed how much character and individuality you managed to give those identical grots.

Nice work! I always hated how uniform those grots looked, good idea customizing each one just a tad.

The wife in the background..."why?".."what for?"....😂❤

Lovely stuff. Good work on getting them done while away. Ive never tried hobbying while away tbh, I think i would miss my desk light and station in general.

Holidaying not far from where my grandfather looked after pit ponies. I got back from Cambridgeshire last weekend whilst away I undercoated a load of figures, six boxes of song of ice and fire, and built and undercoated a warcry warband. Loved how the little guys came out, especially how doing different colours and decoration helped to individualise them. Good job!

If I’d have known you’d be in Blyth I’d have come and say hello, I live that way!

I remember doing this as a kid in Spain. An empty ice cream tub for transport and got a 10 man Blood Angel tactical squad done between dips in the pool. Good times!

Loved the video and love the gretchin

Best miniature war gaming you tube mini scape you are the best

BOYES rocks

When I was a kid I managed to paint the Orks 40 and Gretchen 80 from 2 starters! 😊

I took some grots on holiday once. I was surprised how many different paints I picked up for them. 😂

Lovely paint job on these Grotz; but it must have been a chore driving to the coast, with twenty-odd Gretchin chanting "Are we almost there yet?!" the whole way there.

Very solid productivity there chief. And again with some models close to my childhood memories of the hobby 😊

I painted some Genestealers on vacation one summer.

i work nights and it's mostly dead during my shift so I do my painting at work.

oh yes, i like to see them storm all at once into? what ever! have 20 in orange and 20 in lightblue clothes... waiting to get ready, some Flames on look verry good! like even the idea to mark the Guns =) thank you für inspiring, to get even those real monopose guy atractive so i will dooooo greetings

yes.

I took mine to work a few times, but the conditions were suboptimal at best 😂

That random shop looks like a Boyes.

I painted all 40 from my box set with a unique paint schemes in the late 90's. I didn't really know a lot of ork lore, but I wanted to avoid the clone look.

What the hell is going on with those humbrol pots- once you open them, it is impossible to put the lid back on straight. It defies physics, turbo dynamics, time and space and paint pot orthodoxy. They are cursed paint pots I tell you. Cursed!!!

Im an early riser compared to the rest of my family, so YES i bring my hobby tools OFC. Mainly the fodder, i wont paint a big creature/character. Notably Ive brought my nids to Disneyland and Aulani Hawaii :)

My parents, the Caravan Club members: “Why don’t you holiday more in the UK? It was good enough for people during COVID. You don’t need to go abroad.” Sometimes I think they have a point. But then I saw some of your B-roll and I’m reminded why I pick Madeira over Margate… Great video. Loved it when the Mrs came in and you had to try to explain what you were up to. We’ve all been there with this hobby 😂 The amount of times my wife says “I don’t get it” when I try to explain what I’m doing is unreal.

A Question. Back in the day, We had hobgoblins and in the new iteration of Age of Sigmar, they showed back up. Were there never any 40K Hobgoblins?

Sand for basing lmao 😂

Was that a Boyes?

like a real gamer, you pretended to have a girlfriend too. almost sounded like a woman. :)