Last of the six #trenchcrusade Prussian Shocktroopers from the two warband boxes I bought. This one was the biggest conversion, being an amalgamation of Stosstruppen 2's legs, number 3's torso and right arm, and the left arm from trooper 1.

A pair of converted Yeomen for the #trenchcrusade Prussians. I needed a second rifleman for my planned 700 ducat starter, so I sawed the arms off the rifle body and put them on the shotgun/flamethrower Yeoman. Pleasingly, the flamethrower then fit on the rifleman's body without much modification.

Couple more #trenchcrusade Prussian Shocktroopers. Light converting on these two to give Mr Cape a submachine gun and replace Helmet's left arm with an axe-wielding one.

when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.

Cracked into my #trenchcrusade Prussians this evening. Very happy with the kit, easily on the level of GW plastics in terms of detail. I bought two boxes, since I wanted to build all of the options, which also let me do a quick swap on the Feldkaplan using the spare tank-cutter from my second kit.

🤩GIVEAWAY TIME🤩 I'm randomly picking not 1, but 2 entries for a chance to win 4 out of the 31 MTG Chibi Commanders I made for Inktober, in FOIL! All you have to do is: Like, repost and follow me Comment which commanders you would like to win Winners will be selected on December 7th. Good Luck! 🥰

Embarrassing country, honestly.

If you're a fan of Ann Leckie and/or Arkady Martine (and why wouldn't you be), and/or discussions of empire and imperialism in science fiction, let me point you towards this conversation between the two on that very topic: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine

Average Commander pod

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once. Sure, there's only been one season so far, but it still counts.

In no particular order, nine books I think about a lot: 1. Excession 2. 2312 3. 'Salem's Lot 4. Night Watch 5. The Shock Doctrine 6. Leviathan Wakes 7. SPQR 8. Ancillary Justice 9. The Blade Itself

Secret Lair #MTG

Couldn't hurt

Angeleno friends posting about a long game of baseball meanwhile in Britain we have cricket matches that go on for DAYS you yanks are SOFT

Grunts! Post yer grunts!

The Gestapo very much were law enforcement.

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar. Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet. Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

Gryphonicus walks! Reaver-class engines Fury Intractable, Voltastus, and Gryphonne Indomitus stride through shattered streets, supporting an Ultramarines advance. Finished up a Ferrox maniple for a wee doubles event this weekend. #adeptustitanicus #legiogryphonicus #horusheresy

Had a bunch of tauhau in the cherry blossoms this evening

If I was to apply ai bro logic to this xkcd graph I would tell everyone we ought to start being a lot more complimentary about LEGO minifigs in public because there’s so many of them now and what if they rise up to destroy us

Happy October! 🎃 Time for some spoopy ink #darkart #inktober #crown #redart #illustration #skull

Woke up to images and friends' social media posts from all over the country of Italy's general strike for Gaza. The Right to Strike Commission declared it illegitimate last week. The unions responded, "we don't care". Over two million people participated in the rallies, blocking stations and ports.

Literally this

As you may have heard Youtube is being AWFUL and Shuffle Up specifically is being HIT HARD by the their latest madness. We didn't even swear in this one! 🤷‍♂️ But...I could still use your help. Please share and repost and retweet and re-up-whatever: youtu.be/SCWMs8JdoAM ❤️

Absolutely vile. Pride isn't something Kiwis are stereotypically supposed to display anyway, and when we do, it's because we're the ones standing up for the little guys. We back the underdogs and the battlers, not the bully boys. "National character" is fake, but even our fake character isn't this.

Okay, Ellie is pretty good. I might have to pick this one up. I can already see some sort of infinite shenanigans with Gravecrawler. And if I squint hard enough, I can pretend she's a Survivor from Duskmorne. #magicthegathering

For the record: the post replaced referred to "the autism problem." That wording is also present in the article itself. It should go without saying, but autism is not a problem, and those seeking a "solution" to it are eugenicists.

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This guy's been sitting at about 75% done since, like, July, and now I'm finishing him up for a Horus Heresy event next week.

now there's an obit I can get behind www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

Genuinely makes you want to scream. Obviously, the right was always going to try and make a martyr out of him, but the scrambling rush by Democrats and columnists to join in is maddening.

I have no idea who wrote the script for Paddington 3, and I'm not looking it up now, but how stupid do you have to be to write the script for the thing that's supposed to replace you? Imagine feeding yourself into the slop machine and then sticking your arm back out to turn the crank...

A doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

Yeah nah

God I wish that were me

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

Chanced upon the John Blanche Masterclass sets by Army Painter when I was at my LGS (shoutout to @beadnd.bsky.social), and I decided to challenge myself to paint a model using only the paints in those two sets (though I did cheat and allow myself a brighter silver to highlight the metal)

The world has changed so much since I wrote this, but at the end of the day it's still an essay I had a breakdown writing, an essay that took days because I couldn't stop crying long enough to write strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Finally found a Colour Forge distributor here in New Zealand, so I grabbed a can of Sanguine Red to have a play with. First victim was a #battletech Wolverine, and while he was only meant to be a test model, I think there might be a Draconis Combine lance or two in my future.

I was a bit unsure after the first episode of this New Zealand Taskmaster season, but episode two has been banger after banger.

Top E.U. court rules that member states must recognize gender identity changes - “Gender, like a first name, is a fundamental element of personal identity,” the court said in a news release accompanying its ruling. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Because it stands for "Excellence," you dolts. Look, I don't have any particular affinity for NCEA, other than it being the system I went through, but I believe enough in parents that they can understand a letter stands for something.

And if you're new here because of that ...special... fish mini, you might not be aware: I put out a free digital PDF of painting tips and tricks. I designed it as someone without "formal" art training talking to hobbyists, also without formal art training. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

let me sum this piece up for you: “hey, it’s me zaid jilani! you might remember me from my credulous profile of josh hawley, published the literal day before january 6. well now i have another credulous take, the time on another far-right maniac. i am definitely not an idiot.”

Using the new MkII kit to finally add some Nemesis Destroyers to my Ultramarines. I think the older plate would be a bit more robust against the effects of their weapons than the newfangled MkVI most of my 13th are wearing.

Precisely. We *already have* the compromise position. Removing trans people from sports isn't the moderate, considered option. It's just giving conservatives what they want.

Pepper's tees are the only shirts even remotely in contention with Beastwars band t-shirts for percentage of my wardrobe.

Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books 1. Joe Abercrombie 2. Dan Abnett 3. Antony Beevor 4. Ian M. Banks 5. James S. A. Corey 6. Robin Hobb 7. Stephen King 8. Terry Pratchett 9. Kim Stanley Robinson 10. Adrian Tchaikovsky