PIRATE POINT ISSUE #2 HAS RELEASED! We've got great bite-size stories of the Inner Sphere, twice as many minis as the last issue, and a couple scenarios. Download and print one out for yourself! piratepoint.itch.io/pirate-point... #battletech #mechwarrior #ttrpg #minipainting #miniatures #zine

Took a sick day, woke up at noon, spent several hours celebrating the first day of Autumn by making #gooseberry #jelly and #saskatoonberry #jam.

#miniaturepainting another @jluna3d.bsky.social sculpt , their Sol Ursus Zealot. As usual a fun paint. I think I got the Spirit Bear fur about right, and the first NMM copper I didn't hate, but the palette I tried was meh. Aimed for a "faded/dusty" version of the priestess robes.

FINALLY had time to start #miniaturepainting @jluna3d.bsky.social 's beautiful sculpts. This is their Sol Order Pontiff model, with some imperfect surface caused by my own lousy technique (since improved). I'm deeply pleased with the face, best I've ever done.

Hannie Shaft, Truus Oversteegen and Freddie Oversteegen were teenagers when WW2 began, and they joined the resistance against the Nazis. All armed, they carried out daring missions of sabotage, assassination, and espionage. We've made 28mm minis of them! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...

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Special tribute illustration by Katsuhiro Otomo ("Akira") for Masamune Shirow's "Ghost in the Shell" exhibition.

#cooking some dead simple #homemade alfredo sauce for my spaghetti.

Quote with some femme fatale art. #miniaturepainting, from this weekend. BubbleGum Crisis' Knight Sabers have been a favorite for most of my life.

tomorrow 🖤

#miniaturepainting a #battletech Steiner scout squad. Went real hard on a new technique painting every panel individually. Didn't quite nail it and increased my time to complete from 1-2 days to a solid week. Still, have to admit it's striking and I got a lot of contrast out of it!

My weeklong frenetic BubbleGum Crisis #miniaturepainting #diorama is complete. I have done nothing but build and paint this week. It was one of my first #anime and first #cyberpunk influences. I got into painting almost a decade ago because I wanted to get good enough to do this exact project. ♥️

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Holy shit I am DONE the building part of my BubbleGum Crisis #miniatures #diorama! Way brighter than the OG in this lighting, but I think I captured the basic idea pretty good. Now to finish #miniaturepainting the Knight Sabers themselves. The unlit/dark picture is a surprisingly good match. :D

Daily #wip of my BubbleGum Crisis #miniatures #diorama, now with more #miniaturepainting! Door, ducts nailed down, mucho cabling, much shading. It feels like a real htg #cyberpunk diorama now. Still some bits to tack on but it's waiting on OSL airbrushing tomorrow.

Daily #wip of my BubbleGum Crisis #miniatures #diorama! The ducts are now metal, the concrete now has texture painted on it, and the Knight Sabers have their shadow layers on! Feels like I'm careening down a hill with no brakes now that I can see colour. Now technically with #miniaturepainting!

Priming caught up this morning! #wip #miniatures #diorama for BubbleGum Crisis is ready for... well more airbrushing mostly tbh, but this time in COLOUR ♥️💚💙 Got the ladies primed with the last of my rattle can white. Today will be ~paaaaiiintiiinggg~!

Daily #wip of my BubbleGum Crisis #miniatures #diorama. Most of my priming is done! And the Knight Sabers are trimmed, sanded, and pinned, ready for action! Didn't get priming done because I forgot what gummy shit Vallejo's black primer is. Airbrush deep cleaned and ready for tomorrow, though!

Final BubbleGum Crisis #miniatures #diorama #wip for the weekend. Managed to complete all parts and glued flat pieces so I can prime tomorrow!

#wip shots of today's work on my BubbleGum Crisis #miniatures #diorama. Cables! Duct texture! Neon sign! Railings!

More #wip of my BubbleGum Crisis #miniatures #diorama. First time working with styrene and I'm kind of in love. Lots of ducts today, so now I just have the cabling and bits left!

#miniaturepainting @onepagerules.bsky.social 's Quest Shadow Stalker Druid. Just fuckin' around. Tried some iridescence on the black feathers, new fur technique, splashed over a bad NMM copper with TMM, tried edge highlighting. @dragoncobolt.bsky.social ; purple flesh is easier and looks better.

Finished up a bunch of wall features for the BubbleGum Crisis #miniature #diorama #wip Hot Legs entrance; exit door, platform, and stairs!

Bubblegum Crisis diorama continues!Basic structure cut out and sanded, bottom level glued together. #miniature #diorama #wip

Got tickets to YYC's Dungeon Fest next week, found out there's an open format kitbash/painting competition, and got VERY inspired to finally make the BubbleGum Crisis diorama I've been working skills up for, for years. Expect lots of progress posts this week. #diorama #miniatures

For my 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 friends. I'm pessimistic about the future of the continent but please remember that fascists are losers and standing up to them is not nearly as difficult as they try to convince us. There are good people, you are not alone.

HUMAN ARTISTS OF EARTH! use only one photograph of tiny painted toy soldiers to convince people to follow you.

@dragoncobolt.bsky.social I BLAME YOU. There was a discussion: "drow: monochrome or purple?" Mono blends are a PITA, because we're 10x more sensitive to value than hue. @twingoddessminis.bsky.social 's Nadya. The skin took DAYS and still only looks okay at arm's length. D:< #miniaturepainting

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Last bug knight #miniaturepainting for a while, I think. Played with just painting shade lines and edge highlights and I liked the results. Reaper Bones IV Adventurer.

#miniaturepainting a palate cleanser, just fucking around with more bug palette knights. Another Reaper Miniatures Adventurer from Bones IV. Aimed for a rougher sponging than usual to get some texture. Didn't quite get the same colours, but it worked out fine.

#baking some #homemade #pizza tonight. Baked on an oven stone. Cupperoni! P:

I'm painting @twingoddessminis.bsky.social 's recent Nadya the Drow and I gotta say the commitment to thigh squish on the boots is breathtaking.

#miniaturepainting again after too long away. I've been hankering to do some palate cleansers by fucking around with some less detailed models. Bug palette knights ahoy. Reaper Miniatures Adventurers from Bones IV. Tried some NMM, tried some colours, mostly just playing around.

I'm running a ST game in Fate, around S3 DS9 but near Cestus. Because of @dragoncobolt.bsky.social's critiques of SNW my fanon is Gorn a) adopt traits of the parasitized like sentience and empathy and b) are desperate to find alternative reproduction before they attain enough empathy to suicide.

Getting pretty sick of the proliferation of ai/scam accounts posting humanitarian aid/begging while roleplaying as starving refugees with pro quality photos and slick websites.

There is a comic artist spectrum, and Watterson and Davis are at opposite ends of it.

Zero painting done this weekend, BUT I am in the process of pre-move decluttering and managed to empty two cans of Corax White on my old Bones kickstarter models after cleaning mold lines. Feeling pretty accomplished. Also feeling like I got used to airbrush nooks-and-crannies getting, but nbd.

This is a bit too early for my coding tastes, but hot dang it's a really cool implementation.

No new content here, just a group photo of all my grimdark #miniaturepainting using the palettes of various Canadian government ministries. Lot of fun, and I'm really happy with how good the group looks. I improved my NMM and basing game and got to try Imperial-themed forces I rarely paint.

Hey artists, quote with your woman art (still don't feel like an artist buuuut this paint job counts I guess) #miniatures #minipainting #art #painting

I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.

Holy fuckin shit I miss my wife. 2w trip. Married 2y, together 6y, first time we've been apart >1w. She's been part of more of my post-therapy life than not. I hunger for her company with my back teeth. My hands want her flesh, my ears want her voice. The world is sharp-edged, too bright, too loud.

The probably-final #miniaturepainting model of my proudly Canadian #grimdark models. This is Station Forge's Scavenger Hunter, in the colours of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Had a lot of fun with this project! My NMM has improved a lot, though it's not quite done.

Modern day corporate capitalism is grinning wide with gleaming white teeth bared, chanting "I will shine brightly, I will shine brightly" under your breath while pouring a can of gasoline over your head, with matches at the ready.

HUMAN ARTISTS! Use only one piece to convince people to follow you. #artshare I paint miniatures! Maybe I'm not super great but I like em! This one was from Artisan Guild. #miniatures #minipainting #art #3dprinting #miniaturepainting

Another immediate #cooking post of that peanut sauce on wings. P: this started because STRIP CLUBS DON'T SELL CHEAP WINGS ANY MORE, WHAT THE HELL. I'm married, so I can DIY the whole experience at home, only better because the girl really does like me. ;D (sex work is real work, unlike landlording)

#cooking some peanut sauce, a recipe from Penang in Raichlen's Barbecue Sauces. Cilantro, lime, peanut butter and peanut oil. P:

QRP with your fan art! My entire gay urbanmech project was inspired by the much more finished pride marines of @cerberusxt.bsky.social .