Mid year hobby check-in, on track to decrease backlog. A lot of the building and painting is for a friend's Zerg, but my throughput is still positive. 80% of played games are Spearhead, with first 40k matches next week. Need to finish ~12 Stormcast models for 2k AoS and the new tome

Fukuzatsu (by @neonrot.bsky.social ) was a fantastic evening of destroying our decks and negotiations over trading Tarot modifications. My wife set the mood with Fool into World turn 1. Highly encouraged for a Balatro inspired twist of poker. Print reference sheets to help with the learning curve.

PRIDE DEMON #miniaturepainting #prideonparade

Endless spells are a nice change of pace. Got a lot of projects close to finishing but I could knock this out at work a little bit at a time. #minipainting #warhammer

Wonderful time learning Gaslands at Richmond Open after my painting classes. Definitely picking up a copy. #Gaslands #miniatures

Didn't get much time to hobby the past weeks, but I did throw together a car for Gaslands this Saturday at Richmond Open. Painted during kid's post dinner TV time. #gaslands #minipainting

Two more hydras to finish the unit, did a bit more chitin highlights on these, need to revisit the first two. #starcraft #minipainting

Zerglings 6-10 done. 26 more and I'll have done enough of them #starcraft #minipainting

Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo

Zergling for Archon's upcoming Starcraft Miniatures game. A lot more to go. #starcraft #minipainting

Settled on a simple scheme for Zerg so I don't take too long for the 72 zerglings and everything else. Nice change in pace to do chitin #starcraft #minipainting

Been busy being sick, and building Zerg miniatures for @subsourian.bsky.social ! They've been fun though I'm not even half through the various lings. Used some of his collection as backdrop. Painting to come. #starcraft #sctmg

Finished these a week ago and forgot about them while the oils dried. Pox wretches and tokens finished except for basing. Pestigors next! #warhammercommunity #minipainting

First finished models for WH Darkwater. Anyone have a preferred 2 part resin for water effects? Preferably one I can add inks to. I'd like to replicate the brackish water of Cypress Swamps I grew up around. #warhammercommunity #minipainting

Archon's Starcraft Miniatures beta using Carbot paper proxies and figurines on our finest terrain and mat. I jailed him with Roaches and the dice were never in his favor. Was fun and we'll keep testing it! #starcraft #miniatures

The whole NOVA Open situation has blown up recently, and we investigated what happened and why. The news ain't great! We talk NOVA's past, present, and shaky future, plus an interview with the delightful Andrew from sdc.miniatures, whose awesome "Resist" piece got swept into this whole kerfuffle.

Finished oils on the prosecutors that'd I'd been doing for 20 minutes at work when I could. And 9 more Turnip28 dudes built, with a lot more partially finished.

Hosted a paint & hang this afternoon. Got the undercoats and yellowed skin on 20 something Darkwater minis, toddler did some painting too. #warhammercommunity

Wife and I played the Darkwater tutorial last night. Only a few rules lookups and had a great time. Won and converted into a campaign. Now I need to finish building the rest and get some paint on them. #warhammercommunity

Happy I stayed in. Last painted/built for the year. The one two punch of Victrix Napoleonic and Darkwater sunk my backlog, but 4 months of job hunting and a new baby were the biggest impact on my hobby. I played 22 games, majority were Spearhead and Trench Crusade. I attended one narrative event

Great game of 2v2 Spearhead, Seraphon+Stormcast v Fyreslayers+Hellsmiths. We lost but had a great time with the grotmas rules. #warhammeraos

Started building my #turnip28 weirdos. Not going to be robots, they'll just be idiots wearing giant helmets. Will have to greenstuff hoods for the faceplate only bits.

3rd Place at Huzzah Hobbies annual charity Spearhead tournament! Beat records for food and money donated to Loudoun food charities. Disregard the field of only six players. Should have taken more photos but had a great time. #warhammeraos

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Finally got some projects moving this evening as my wife took the boys to her parent's. Completed Gryphounds and built my rhino. Helps balance the hobby log against the bag of Victrix I bought for Turnip 28. #warhammer #minipainting

Another hobby time experiment with the toddler. He got pretty good at the water > color > paper order (kept doing water > color > water). I cleaned up a few bits for a rhino. Wider container for water to reduce mess. Still have to stop him from sticking the brush tips in his mouth.

Toddler painting experiment was successful! Disposable watercolors for him, some basecoats for me. Didn't stick with it for long, but he wasn't stealing my brushes or paint pots.

Built my Goremongers. Not much painting can happen managing both kids right now, but it feels like progress.

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

Welcome to Pride On Parade! This is a solidarity & fundraising project in support of young transgender people, initially in the UK because that's where I live :) If you'd like to get involved in any way, or if you'd just like to show off your Pride-themed minis, that'd be awesome! Outline here:

More progress on my Otters! Think I need to stop OSL before I mess something up. #burrowsandbadgers #minipainting

Wonderful time at GHO narrative this weekend with great maps and people. Thanks @goonhammer.com ! #warhammer40k

In progress before GHO. Two otters because I loved the new purples. Very happy with the cape, other highlights will be after the basecoats. #minipainting #burrowsandbadgers

He's ready for GHO Narrative! I'll do some edge highlights later but it's time for an Otter break. Backlog did grow by one model, I'll get to that later. #warhammer40k #minipainting

Going into the woods for a week so a progress post. Moirax cleaned, magnetized, and primed. The brass underbody drybrush started. Base is 90% done at least. #miniaturepainting

Brutal game of TC versus my buddy's sultanate. He won off some heavy hits and dumb moves on my part. #trenchcrusade

Two games of Burrows & Badgers today! We were both learning (1e) but got a couple others interested in the system. A win in game one, and a hilarious sling shot into melee, critting my own leader in the back of the head (lost game two) #burrowsandbadgers

Hosted a friend for his second game in our group's crusade. Knights of Avarice versus Naval Raiders. I won after a lot of back and fourth, though noo elites were hunted per mission title. #trenchcrusade

Between vacations and dad duties, finally finishing another model. First Chaos Knight since 2023, and first time using Dirty Down Gore. #miniaturepainting #warhammer40k

Heretics vs the Court in recover the relic. I lost, but no one died (permanently) . A wretch nearly got a kill with his knife, and my buddy and I each got identical exploration results, so the two forces met up for drinks after the fight. #trenchcrusade.

Campaign started! My Knights of Avarice defeated the Saint Methodist forces, with my priest killing one of the Shrine Anchorites and his War Prophet. Also pictured is the gorgeous in progress trench board our host is putting together. #trenchcrusade

Getting close to done. Some anti shine and eyes before I base her.

In progress since I won't have much time this weekend. Love the sculpts and the excuse to do bright happy colors than the usual grimdark. #minipainting #burrowsandbadgers

Finally did the oil wash, just rims and flock to finish my skaventide half. #ageofsigmar #minipainting

First of my Romp of Otters, probably no more tartan though. Beautiful sculps, excited to get them ready for 2nd edition! #burrowsandbadgers #miniatures

Haven't posted much due to travel/life. I've got three projects 70-90% done. But! I just got my Oathsworn Badgers & Burrows minis, a cheap set of AoS Gryphounds, and picking up the Goremonger killteam tomorrow. Expect some finished work so I can work on new stuff. #minipainting

Calling her done. Just basing and rims and the squad will be done. Glowing chest and head symbol idea credited to whomever posted it here #trenchcrusade #miniatures

Getting better at blending fire, got to get the symbol glowing

Why finish one project when I can make miniscule progress on three? Grimed up my Trench Crusade, set some glow on Stormcast, and a bit of stipple blending left on my 40k war dog carapace

An incredible evening seeing Kælin Mikla, MONO, and Alcest in the same place.