February is normally the coldest time of year if you live near the Great Lakes. Last week tore us a storm we haven’t seen in years. While my kids have built snow forts, ramps, ate more snow, and went to the local sledding hills we still need things to do inside for most of the day.

So what better way to spend some time together than painting miniatures. Its been casually dropped in a few articles about board games in our house, but what you might not know is many games give you a bunch of miniatures, specifically Zombicide. This is a co-op game where everyone works together to beat the game itself. The important part is you get a ton of unpainted minis.

While D&D and Warhammer are probably the most well known for painted miniatures, these random collections of figures in other boardgames are a great place to start. You don’t need to worry about too many details, you have dozens of them to practice on, and even bad paint jobs add to the ambience of the game when you’re playing it.

So, this is going to be a winter activity of ours this weekend. The picture above was one of the first minis my eight year old painted. She did a pretty solid job. I think this time we’ll throw on some Lord of the Rings movies while we paint away.

~~Miniwing~~
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