This is the white paper you want. It's a bit buried on the Gov UK site. But it's there if you hunt around. HMRC have not been making it easy for freelancers.

I'm serious. Tons of little tanks, hovercraft, infantry, and the titular Ogres. DMs open.

Woohoo! #BattleTech #Aces has arrived! Reminder, if you're in the UK and want Aces, please support my mate Luke at Hypnotic Monkey instead of buying it off of bloody Amazon!

Just ran across a Reddit discussion of where I got the word Stravag; and tying it to vulgar Russian. I took it from an archaic English dictionary...

Got it in my head to attempt drawing a mech. Not in my comfort zone at all but it's fun.

Woohoo! #BattleTech #Aces has arrived! Reminder, if you're in the UK and want Aces, please support my mate Luke at Hypnotic Monkey instead of buying it off of bloody Amazon!

Bluesky I’m asking you rather than your sister X because I know you can be responsible: do you know any artists who can pull off something in this Nancy Drew cover style in a relative hurry and are taking commissions

Hello nice people liking this photo! Did you know I’m currently holding a raffle to raise money for mutual aid, helping those affected by ICE violence? Yeah! You can enter for a chance to be sent a kitbashed miniature by yours truly 🥰

Just some appreciation for the amazingly retrofutursitc side-car motorcycle, the BMW Krauser Domani. This looks like it's out of a piece of old sci-fi concept art.

Christ, is Games Workshop redoing their paint line again? ...anyway, I'm ancient cosmic wyrm.

Dark Energy is much cooler than Dark Matter.

Slightly diminish a band. Bokeh

If the whole thing with some misogynist saying women don't exist in wargaming pisses you off (and it should), I can recommend @badsquiddogames.bsky.social - I backed their "Women of WW2 Resistance" kickstarter not long back (still sitting on my "to do" pile) and their whole range of minis is great!

A very happy "fuck you" to John Stallard of Warlord Games, who is worried about "wokeism" killing wargames and thinks women don't play them, possibly because women don't want to hang around twats like John. And how did taking on female wargamers go for the non-"woke" side last time, John?

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I'm opening miniature painting commissions again. These are for the month of February. I have space for ~40 miniatures, either BattleTech or other micro scale games like Epic 40,000. Prices in the alt text, DMs open!

For reference:

It is a well-known fact that women aren't interested in historical wargaming, and we only paint fairies and unicorns and princesses. As proof, behold these four completely blank images that do not feature historical miniatures I have painted. Fellow femmes, share your own! #Nerdlings

line work and blocking. probably will pick at the text some more. then shading and then colors #battletech

sketching a thing #battletech

Hey UK #Battletech folks - my mate Luke at Hypnotic Monkey is dipping his toes into BattleTech (largely at my instigation); he has Aces box sets coming in in the next couple of days; if you want to grab one AND encourage him to stock more BT, hit this link: hypnoticmonkeycards.co.uk/products/bat...

Discworld QOTD, from Equal Rites “Zoon tribes are very proud of their Liars. Other races get very annoyed about all this. They feel that the Zoon ought to have adopted more suitable titles, like ‘diplomat’ or ‘public relations officer’. They feel they are poking fun at the whole thing.”

Hey UK #Battletech folks - my mate Luke at Hypnotic Monkey is dipping his toes into BattleTech (largely at my instigation); he has Aces box sets coming in in the next couple of days; if you want to grab one AND encourage him to stock more BT, hit this link: hypnoticmonkeycards.co.uk/products/bat...

Spent NYE painting up this little lady, an Edgerunner Technician from Cyberpunk: Combat Zone. OSL hitting the feet wasn't planned but it's a happy little accident.

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will

Closer by NIN

daddy georg

Easily this one

The AI slop got a bunch of votes overnight, presumably by assholes who hate art*, so if you get a chance please give iHunt an upvote. * Not a joke, fuck these guys. Even if you think the iHunt short sucks at least it was made by human hands and not the soul eater.

My guinea pig son Dave is about to rack up some mega vets bills so even more reason to treat yourself to some bargains. Shipping resumes on Monday (after the vets!) Sale ends super soon. Last chance to get some of these packs before they're retired.

This will forever be my favorite way to explain why I don’t get competitive as an artist.

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

perfect metaphors don’t exis—

It's a fucking travesty that AI slop is even allowed to compete with real short films. Take the moment to register and vote, show those assholes that we won't stand for this shit.

Rereading Calvin and Hobbes and found this gem. Somehow I feel like this would generate letters these days.

The AI the tech Bros thought they were making vs the AI they actually made

OH MY GOD REPLY GUYS IT'S FUCKING CHRISTMAS LOG THE FUCK OFF.

Mech Advent Calendar Day 24: King Crab! Okay, yeah, you probably knew this one was coming. Still of my favorite pieces I've ever done. I need to practice more freehand painting. #BattleTech #MechAdvent2025

Manufacturers had absolutely nailed the perfect feature set for a microwave oven by about 1988. But for some strange reason they change the designs every couple of years. Please stop redesigning. 90% of microwaves would benefit from F-91W levels of design stability.

art is cool. just do whatever the fuck. it might turn out good

Narrator: (dramatically) Through this magical door is a world of myths and legends. Me: Like a four day work week and universal healthcare? Narrator: No, this is a fantasy story, so like dragons and shit. Me: Can the door go to a place that respects creativity? Narrator: Dude. Give me a break.

Painting this Ion Sparrow to Maximum Effort™ felt like the artistic equivalent of lifting to failure, but by the Great Father does it shine like a diamond. #battletech #miniaturepainting

Mech Advent 2025 Day 22: Hatchetman. Another piece I did pretty early, later updated for a good friend. This is in Kell Hounds colors. #MechAdvent2025 #BattleTech

If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it

So ima just let the BattleTech folks know now that Death From Above Wargaming aka DFA are chuds. They always were but we never talked about it much. They're very cool with hateful speech in their comments and are only getting worse with nazitech embracing their AI art.

I tried doing soviet winter paint on a 'mech at @einherjarvalk.bsky.social 's suggestion. The first attempt was weird but this one turned out pretty good. #battletech #mechwarrior #ttrpg #minipainting #miniatures