I picked up these reinforcements last week. My airbrush honestly makes me feel like I'm playing this hobby on cheat mode sometimes. It's just so damn fast. My #BroodBrothers are getting closer to 2000 points. #WarhammerCommunity #AstraMilitarum

That's it for now. Not counting the Vindicare, around 1500 points of my Serrine 148th, all set for the tabletop. Must admit, the vehicles were the quickest part of this army to paint. Not sure what's next 🤔 Maybe a Rogal Dorn at some point. #WarhammerCommunity #AstraMilitarum #Broodbrothers

Some close up pics of my Serrine 148th Regiment. I really enjoyed kitbashing & painting these brood brothers. As with all horde armies, I went for a simple & fast paint scheme but with emphasis on making the GSC facial features visible on the tabletop from a couple of feet away. #WarhammerCommunity

I'm making good progress on my latest project. Loyal Guardsmen of the Serrine 148th Regiment. Known for their almost supernatural coordination in battle and their extreme devotion to the Emperor who is often depicted with four arms in their iconography. 🤨 #WarhammerCommunity #AstraMilitarum

Not often I post grey plastic but I'm very excited by my newest project. I needed a change for #WH40K so I dusted off my old Imperial Guard army. The old Cadian sculpts aged badly & I'm building new ones. You might notice there's something not quite right with the replacements 🤫 #WarhammerCommunity

Expat's view. I can sum up UK in a word: DEFLECTION. Rising prices, stagnant wages, unaffordable homes, shuttered high streets, NHS woes. Blame it ALL on 0.6% of the population. Ignore corporate profit, wealth gaps, asset buying splurges. Keep looking down & not UP for what's going wrong in Blighty.

I'm loving the variety of games available to play. Here's a pic of the last week's worth of gaming I had before I took off for my summer hols. It's a great time to be in the hobby. 😁

My newest army for #WH40K built with the Questor Forgepact detachment in mind. I've opted for the House Taranis colour scheme. The army is very much a work in progress (lots of Admech to build & paint) but I'm really looking forward to trying it on the tabletop when ready. #WarhammerCommunity

I finally have enough big bugs for a Crusher Stampede. Looking forward to trying them out on the tabletop. Sure, there's a lot in the meta that can smash monsters, but they look so cool. I've placed a brave (more likely crazed) Blooded in front of them for scale. #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids

Reinforcements for my High Elf Realms army are ready for the tabletop. With these princes painted, I think I'm finally ready to arrange my first game with this army 😁 #WarhammerCommunity #TheOldWorld

My High Elf Realms army is starting to shape up. I'm almost at the finish line and really looking forward to trying it out on the tabletop. Just a few more units to go. #WarhammerCommunity #TheOldWorld

I'm really pleased with my progress so far. My High Elf army is now about 1/3 complete. There's always a tradeoff between satisfaction & sanity. And I had to cut some corners to get this lot painted. But it never really shows when you plop them on the tabletop 😉 #WarhammerCommunity #TheOldWorld

Just finished this pair of Eagle Claw Bolt Throwers for my High Elves. I've been trying to figure out how to paint white robes efficiently. Turns out contrast paints are the way to go. They make for great glazes. Next up are 30 archers 🫣 #WarhammerCommunity #TheOldWorld

How it started... vs ...how it's going. My painted Eldar/Aeldari Biel-Tan Warhost 2015 vs 2025. #WarhammerCommunity #Eldar #Aeldari #miniaturepainting #Warhammer40K #40K #Warhammer

That's all but one of my entire High Elf army built, primed and ready to paint. It looks daunting. There's so much. I can't help but feel a little overwhelmed by it all. But I've been here MANY times before. Sooner or later this army will be fully painted 🤓 #WarhammerCommunity #TheOldWorld

I'm getting back into my flow with this #HighElfRealms army. Although I loved painting these chariots, I absolutely hated gluing them together after they were painted. The bits just wouldn't fit properly. Sometimes you just have to shrug & say "that'll have to do". #WarhammerCommunity #TheOldWorld

I used a kit-bashed mage to trial a colour scheme for my High Elf army. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I'm very much looking forward to getting the rest of the army painted & on the tabletop - although it might take a while. #warhammerCommunity #TheOldWorld

#WIPWednesday & I'm working on my latest army for #TheOldWorld. I found the dragon frustrating. What an odd design choice. I had to put serious work into making sure I could actually bring it into base-to-base contact with another unit. Anyway, I kitbashed some mages too! 😁 #WarhammerCommunity

I just finished painting the Lancer. I'm think it's probably high time I got myself a Techmarine 🤔 #WarhammerCommunity #Ultramarines

No painting this week so I'm posting for #ThrowbackThursday instead. To try different techniques & develop my brushwork, I painted marines in the colours of every Legion. Here's a Space Wolf. You can track my approach in the pics. I rarely paint to this level any more TBH. #WarhammerCommunity

Feedback: I asked game publishers how they plan to respond to newly announced U.S. tariffs, and here's a sampling of their responses: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... That post features only 15 of more than a hundred responses, so I'll post another round-up tomorrow. —WEM

Just heading back from the FLGS. The store was buzzing. But no 40K in sight. I was playing Spearhead with a newbie. Some folks were painting while debating whether Gotrek could pry Felix away from Sigmar if he were a Stormcast. Tables further down were The Old World intro games. #WarhammerCommunity

Every once in a while, you need to take stock of your collection. Today was that day for me. I decided to focus on my #Warhammer30k & #Warhammer40k armies. I didn't realise just how much I'd collected over the time I've been out here. So let me show you what I've got. #WarhammerCommunity

This #WIPWednesday I have something that's no longer a WIP. I "was" working on it today & I've only just finished it. So that still counts right? 🤔 TBH, I struggled with this one. A cool model but has way too much trim for my liking. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K #Ultramarines

My backlog is cleared. While I wait for a restock at my FLGS, I'm having to find things to work on. So I made some counters for my #Ultramarines. Five counters (using company iconography) for sticky objectives. And two more for Oath of Moment. Yes, Guilliman is inbound 😁 #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K

My last two #Ultramarine minis. An Ancient & a Lieutenant. I've kitbashed both (using Horus Heresy bits) to emphasise the Ultramar look. I love how they turned out. Rather disconcertingly, my backlog is now fully cleared. A visit to my FLGS will soon sort that out 😉. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K

So, I've been working on this army for a while now. I'm not quite done, but I just couldn't resist taking some group pictures. My first ever army was an #Ultramarines army. It feels really good coming back to it after all these years. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K

These are some of the earliest #WH40K models I bought. They're from the Dark Imperium box circa 2017. They've been painted, stripped & repainted many times since then. Got so sick of the stands snapping I ended up magnetising them. About to repaint them #Ultramarine blue again. #WarhammerCommunity

Day 2 of the tourno at my FLGS and I really enjoyed this game. My #Tyranids went up against one of the finest painted Ultramarines armies I've seen (should've taken better pics). I lost. But the game was so close, it was only decided on the last round. Bring on day 3 😁 #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K

It's a holiday week out here & my FLGS has setup a #WH40K tournament during the break. I'm not a competitive player, but I signed up to catch more games. We're playing a game each evening over the next 3 days. Today was my 1st. Somehow I won, despite facing two Lord of Skulls 😲 #WarhammerCommunity

I'm finally done! I've worked through my entire #Tyranid backlog. I have no more bugs to build or paint. I didn't appreciate just how many I'd collected until I lined them up on the table. Sorry for the janky photo. I had a hard time fitting them all into a single pic. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K

More Endless Spells! This time for my Slaves to Darkness. I struggle with fire effects & habitually avoid kits with fire of any sort. This made me face that problem head on. I'm OK with how they turned out. But I'm going to keep on avoiding fire whenever I can. #WarhammerCommunity #AgeofSigmar

Having painted nothing but Tyranids these last few weeks, I needed a palette cleanser. So, I painted some Endless Spells for my #StormcastEternals. Although the focus was on speed, I think they turned out reasonably well. Now to try them on the tabletop. #WarhammerCommunity #AgeofSigmar

Tyranids or Ultramarines?

Thanks everyone for your advice in the run up to this game. I had lots of fun and contrary to all expectations, I survived past turn 2. A key takeaway is I need Lictors! I already have my next game booked. The chittering swarm will descend to feed once more. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K #Tyranids

I'm set to play the first ever game with my new Tyranid army today. Pic of my list attached. I'm facing the World Eaters. Seeing as I have no idea what I'm doing, I'm fully expecting to get tabled by turn 2 😜 Regardless, this should be a fun game. Wish me luck! #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K #Tyranids

Wow! I'm getting much faster at this. These einforcements are ready to join the hive. I added a traitor guardsman to the photo for a sense of scale. The models are massive. Only a few more kits left for me to do before I can call time on this project. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K #Tyranids

Another #WIPWednesday and it's been quite the journey with this #Tyranids army. These four are the last models from the big batch I bought during my Christmas break. And they are huge! I'm really looking forward to getting them painted. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K

The next brood of Tyranids are ready to join the swarm. The bugs keep getting bigger and bigger. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K #Tyranids

#WIPWednesday sees me sticking with my pledge to not start a new project until I've completely finished the current one. I'm making good progress with this army. But I still have lots more bugs to build and paint. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K #Tyranids

Reinforcements for my Tyranid swarm. This time, there are "brain bugs" for some tasty synapse & psyker shenanigans. BTW, I'm really starting to get the hang of working with contrast paints now. How did we ever live without them? #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K #Tyranids

This is exactly what I'd envisaged when I started collecting this army. A near endless swarm of Tyranids chomping their way across the tabletop. Not really fussed about how they're going to perform. It's all about the "rule of cool" just now 😜 #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K #Tyranids

I've made a start on my "New Year, New Army". Having found a fast paint scheme on YouTube (thank you StrikingScorpion82) the Termagant production line is in full swing. I'm so looking forward to re-enacting Starship Troopers on the tabletop: "It's an ugly planet, a bug planet!" #WarhammerCommunity

Looks like there's a race to the bottom when it comes to social media. Meta just reminded me why I quit FB & stopped posting to IG. When I left Twitter last year, I briefly switched to Threads before finding BlueSky. Guess I'll be walking away from Threads too now. No great loss.

I've not really given #WH40K 10E a chance TBH. I've only played two games this entire edition. Horus Heresy has been scratching the grimdark itch for me these last couple of years. I'm aiming to give 10E a go in 2025. And of course, a new year means a new army. Feeling peckish? 😉 #WarhammerCommunity

Once I saw the face, I could not resist it. #warhammercommunity #nerdlings #warhammer40k

🧵 I just watched a YouTube video explaining the origins of the Latin Alphabet. youtu.be/CYqqFqoLnnk?... I knew it came from the Phoenicians via the Greeks. Each letter was given a name which starts with the letter sound. What completely blew me away was the Phoenician names for each letter. 1/5

🧵The last few months have been a little unsettled. But, amidst the uncertainty, I've managed to achieve two personal stretch goals I set myself for the last quarter of 2024. The first was to clear my hobby backlog and the second was to lose weight. (1/3)

I've been dieting & exercising regularly for the last 3 months. My reward for hitting my weight target is a pizza. I've been thinking about that pizza today. It's so tantalisingly close now. 🍕👀

Okay so interestingly enough, hashtags in alt text do not behave as hashtags, but they *are* searchable. I bring this up b/c hashtags in #minipainting and #warhammercommunity posts are starting to get wild, & longer username tags means space to write posts is actually shrinking even w/ 300 chars.