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Seeing as this will be my first Christmas as a father my wife and I ended up discussing Christmas traditions from our youth. Though my family celebrated the holiday we didn't really have any traditions whereas my wife's family had a ton. Since I don't have any traditions from my family to pass on my wife asked if there was anything I'd like to start. At first I couldn't think of any and figured I wouldn't come up with anything. After a week though I came up with an idea that hopefully my daughter will enjoy in the years to come. I figured we could paint a miniature together and make an ornament each year. Obviously the kid can't help me paint anything yet or even give me ideas for a miniature or paint scheme. I think I came up with something good though. An ordinary Cadian figure with the right paint job easily becomes a Cadian Santa, add a present to it's base and you're done. I really wish I photographed the miniature before inserting it inside the ornament, but that's just something I'll have to remember for next year. Now I'll be the first to admit I didn't plan this build very well. Much like when I'm creating a new piece of terrain this isn't much more than a proof of concept build but I'm thinking of sticking with this initial piece, so if this does become a tradition we can always look back at my first piece. Maybe we'll even see improvement over the years.

Even though I got these during last year's 12 Days of Reaper, I only just got around to painting them! I tried an experiment with these; painting them first with special Chrome spray paint, and then using Citadel gemstone transparent paints on them: Spiritstone Red, Soulstone Blue, and Waystone Green, in an attempt to given them that lacquered mirror look that real ornaments have. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. In the second photo, they are shown with Copplestone's "Lovely Assistant" to give a sense of scale with a normal sized human figure.

Last ornament of the year.

Newest Ornament I have painted.

I haven't had much time for minis this month due to the cards and ornaments I've been working on. This is the most recent thing I've painted.

Merry Christmas, everyone! I painted up my Sophie Christmas Ornament and had an absolute blast (the positioning of the "2014" is my only truly heartfelt regret). Hope your day is great, whatever you're doing.