I may have started painting these 15mm Soviets from Battlefront even before I started the podcast...

Running into the weird issue of "What am I supposed to paint the backs of the head as?" because they're just flat outside of some strap-like thing just below the helmet. Is it supposed to be hair, close-cropped (so kind of just like a gray wash) hair, ???

The time of the cosmic Law/Chaos conflict in fantasy is long gone, but there is some definite charm in that whole theme giving miniature armies that are all VERY weird mutated freaks. Just a rainbow coalition of extreme mutations that don't give you mainstream Cool Dark Badass points.

Listen, Custodes should have never been an army in any 28mm game, but its worth if the female head will give some of the worst people online an aneurysm.

The Blackskull Open brings mad mechanics and daredevil drivers to the Verney Testing Grounds every year. The contestants have to not only survive one another, but also have to face against deadly experimental weapons and death traps devised by Verney Engineering. #Gaslands #diecast #nerdlings

So today I'm thinking of one range of non-3D printed space citizens AND IT'S NOT COLONY 87. I swear they were somewhat stranger, though maybe not Moebius-strange. Any ideas?

#Stargrave scenery. Hab-pods. Ponics-pods. #Paintingminiatures #scenery

Getting cracking in this ol' boy. Not sure I'm feeling it but we will see how it turns out!

I'm almost done painting these to add to my Lannister army. So far, all speed paints which I love using.

pike support tank #battletech #miniaturepainting

Less "good" and more an admirable trait I'd describe myself is putting maybe a little too much effort into preparing for our games. Not in the rules-reading department, but in the table-and-supporting materials.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Without saying Gundam, name a giant robot. Thug THG-11E Made so good right out the gate, it took 500 years to develop an improvement.

At least miniature games are far less attractive to people wanting to make a quick buck. Now, miniatures and STLs...

Clearly I could not be even slightly interested in Historicals, it's well known I only like fantasy settings. Anyways, fellow femmes, share your own! #Nerdlings

I know it's not a novel take in way, re: women in historical gaming, but the reason why you don't see more playing that is the same reason you previously didn't see more playing TTRPGs, Hams, etc.: nobody was letting girls into MANLY hobbies. So how could they get interested in the first place?

As I reposted and commented upon John Stallard's comments yesterday, I thought it's only fair to also show you his response to the backlash. I will leave it up to you, dear reader, to decide how you want to feel about it.

might as well just... add some additional panels

Human artists, use only once piece to convince people to follow you!

This is also John Stallard, by the way. Source: www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-h...

I don't know how many of you will remember this but we interviewed John Stallard and Robin Dews back in 2023 but took the video down after we were made aware of Stallard's anti-woke bollocks. Sad to see he's learned exactly nothing in the intervening years.

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

Leaping Slomm Two-Face

What a terrible loss, but what a beautiful table and minis!

Smander! #minipainting #printedmodels model by @pepunki.bsky.social

I can finally show you all the big rainbow model I was working on at the end of the year. ☺️ GW sent me the Nightbringer and I knew what I had to do. 🌈😋 Check out all the other amazing models in the article here: www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl... #Ad #AdWIP #New40k #WarhammerCommunity

GOD'S OWN 3d printed SCALE

man's doing better with one arm than I'm with two.

A guest, a guest! He brings the podcast a protocol droid that knows all the latest troop deployments of Star Wars: Legion, a sci-fi mass combat miniature wargame from @atomicmassgames.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6m6C...

saving this in case I need it later... www.reddit.com/r/furgonomic...

Finished basing Tlingit yesterday and did a head count: 70 minis and a couple of canoes. Here’s a few quick snaps of the force so far. All Varang Miniatures with some conversions. Really enjoyed painting these and looking forward to gaming with them soon! #wargaming #miniatures #nerdlings

I love how capitalism has made us go back to the concept for web portal, for what website can be trusted that hasn't been peer-reviewed?

I love GHQ also puts their train models into newsletters cos then I get to see darlings like this:

The Scrungaloids are now available! Happy New Years! cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...

You may have heard me say something about it in A War Transformer review, but any Weird War setting that inexplicably goes "Oh, an Soviets/Russians etc. decide to make it a three way war" has the preternatural power to make my hand move said setting toward the trash can

What's your Nerd Shit Wrapped for 2025? Any GOTYs or outstanding moments, or something that you're proud of?

@trenchcrusade.bsky.social silence on what Mechanized Infantry is supposed to be/look like if you don't give it the mechanized armor is damning.

You can also spend 25 on TWO minis: badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Jeann...

OK, the basic warband is mostly done. Need to greenstuff some gaps as well as decorating the Mechanized Infantry to make it cooler, and then it's off to painting.

ko-fi.com/s/fc34523e7f Happy New Year, Fuck Gen AI, Never Surrender.

Finished the Moonstone starter set - shown with @handiworkgames.bsky.social backdrop

Kiddos first game of Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game yesterday. She loved it and Eowyn chopped through five orcs which was magnificent. Still remains a really elegant little game!

Oh shit, those stormies! That ROBOT WIZARD!!!

The work on my Irish rangers continues, now with @trenchcrusade.bsky.social Church Accessories!

My recap is "read the news about WeTransfer moving to train LLMs on the contents of the transfers," "tried a couple other file transfer services," "now sends podcast recordings via Wormhole"

this, also in minis producers and indie RPG writers. the big companies dont *need* your orders (their shareholders do!) but small indies pay their bills via your purchase

Imagine Fortified Niche being a video podcast, where we're just sitting and talking, totally missing any footage of games being played, thus putting even more effort into having a show about a highly visual medium without any visual representation of said medium.

rt this bc i wanted to say, i still have friends who post on twitter, thats their choice and im sure it helps their careers but the tradeoff is that THIS happens to your work and you have to make peace with the fact- im too argumentative and people AI arting my stuff would drive me up a wall

I don't want to downplay the danger posed by Ekron, the City of Beelzebub, and demonic diseases bred therein but You can inscribe the names of so many saints and martyrs on a 6m+ long tungsten rod