Three Seven Years War Prussian officer characters, all 28mm Foundry castings. Some liberties taken with the uniforms. Now that I've enlarged the photos, the fellow in the middle looks like a muppet, and I can't unsee it. #SYW #wargaming #foundry #miniatures

Or, and hear me out, Bond could be a hapless River, Lamb is M, and every mission begins with M with his feet on his desk telling Bond to eff off.

I loved this book so much! @byzantienne.bsky.social has done such a fine job of inventing two very strange and very convincing human cultures and putting them in conversation. Space opera but with an intimate focus on the characters. Just bought the sequel. #booksky #books #spaceopera

Thank you so much @monicabyrne13.bsky.social for the stickers. I chose the less sweary one for my laptop, since I got in trouble with parishioners once for using the F-bomb, but that's how I feel about AI.

Give me your favourite non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor: youtu.be/Zj7OJeyhq2Q

Reposting this to see if I can see it in the #NavalWargaming #navalwargaming thingy.

That’s a big NOPE from me, Air Canada.

Louise Arbour’s appointment as Canada’s Governor General is a good one and signals that international law and human rights still matter.

Small fast boats are on the news today, so here are some that are almost ready for a test run of the Torpedoes and Tides rules by @thomasbrandstetter.bsky.social . The Fairmiles are 3D prints from STLs found on Thingverse and the schnellbootes are from Skytrex, all 1/300 scale. #navalwargaming

Greetings from the Diocese of Toronto St Paul’s Bloor Street / Little Trinity / St Thomas Huron Street

Finished these three scurvy Cossacks to give my Russian SYW force some chaotically undisciplined rabble capabilities. 28mm Foundry figures. #minis #hobby #wargames

Timeline cleanse.

PM Carney on the Americans calling the alcohol ban an irritant: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariffs on steel. 50% tariffs on aluminum. 25% tariffs on automobiles. All the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants, those are violations of our trade deal."

CC @canadaslifeline.bsky.social

A week in paradise is done and heading home. It was a good week for reading #books. McEwan was a bit of a slog, Herron a guilty pleasure, Barnes made me think of Conan Doyle in a new light. Of the four I’m most glad I read Robinson. #booksky

I was today old when I learned that Jeremy Brett once appeared in the original Battlestar Galactica. Or maybe he played Adama. Holmes always was a master of disguise.

strait of hormuz update

Holiday reading. This was published in 1980 and I’m only now discovering it. It may well be the most beautifully written thing I’ve ever read. #books #booksky

Always pat the plane.

Playing WW2 #navalwargaming with @jamesmanto.bsky.social and Janes is teaching me the Snorkers Good-Oh rules. It’s all going poorly for the Kriegsmarine.

Some WIP 3D printed hobby projects. Sopwith a from @4ppress.bsky.social - I ran out of wee decals so started hand panting roundels which is nerve wracking. Also a Fairmile MGB in 1/300 scale from Thingverse for @thomasbrandstetter.bsky.social’s Tides and Torpedoes coastal WW2 #wargames rules.

Make the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy Great Again.

The Enthusiast’s Guide to Military Operation Names: AMERICA: drink nine jack and cokes and throw these darts at the 9/11 Memorial Wall of Portentous Adjectives. Feastables Presents Operation Enduring Hubris

This is a fine theological take.

Hopefully the dogs have had all their shots.

Olfa knife hobby fun tonight, working on ideas to base the 6mm scale Vauban star fort I’ve printed. The cardboard came from the Bambu printer shipping box, which I think is pretty meta. 😏

Second playthrough of Storm Over Jerusalem by Multiman Publishing. Herod’s Palace and the Temple holding out by a thread. Romans have one last turn to seize these objectives or perhaps eke out a win on VPs from heavy Jewish losses. Terrific siege game. #historicalwargames #siege #MMP

Without downloading any new pics, what’s it like dating you?

@sluggodoug.bsky.social so your comments about orchestral Beck music at the Sydney Opera House got me thinking about orchestral music. So if we trained killer whales to swim around to symphonic settings of OMD, would that be Orchestrated Orchestral Orca Maneuvres in the Deep?

Brief visit to hotlead.ca today and a chance to catch up with wargaming bestie @jamesmanto.bsky.social. Bravo James you and your lads put on another great show.

Newly painted scurvy Cossacks and a toast with a friendly Prussian. #28mm #SYW #wargames Foundry minis.

I have a miniature wargames joke, but it’s not painted yet.

Spring break sleepover w the grandparents and of course that means another epic game of Heroquest. The kids are alright but I’m still trying to dissuade Ollie from his Leroy Jenkins tactics.

Sure they’re cute, but can they open the Straits of Hormuz?

Only fans but it’s just me and @jamesmanto.bsky.social painting toy soldiers.

So friends, let’s pour one out for the late Wiarton Willie, Ontario’s “curious and charismatic” weather-predicting rodent. I’m .. I’m gonna need a minute. www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/w...

I was amused by the latest @economist.com Checks and Balances podcast where Charlotte Howard and her guests were gently mocking Canadian politeness. Meanwhile a bunch of polite Canadian kids just shattered the hockey record for most penalty minutes given in a game. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today’s used bookstore find on Canadian fast small boats at war. Definitely interested in getting @thomasbrandstetter.bsky.social ‘s Torpedoes and Tides rules and some wee boats. Bless @4ppress.bsky.social for pointing me to some nice STLs. #navalwargaming

Some more SYW 28mm Foundry figures; I love painting these vignette figures to enliven the wargames table. Gustav the tired pioneer, Ferdinand who would give his other leg for Der Alte Fritz if he could, and Magda the camp follower. All painted using Foundry triad paints.

Newly finished SYW 28mm Foundry Prussian grenadiers. These are painted as the Anhalt Desau companies of the 3/6 Von Kleist converged grenadier battalion. Their comrades from the von Retzow companies are still in the painting queue.

This was a near #miniatures #painting disaster. Finished this stand, picked up what I thought was the W&N matte spray and it was black primer. I almost cried. The two figures on the left of the stand needed to be repainted. I’ve left the black on the edge of the stand base as a reminder.

#TerrierTuesday #lockscreen Brodie lounging around outside.

This was part of a recent haul from the Helion Books sale. I honestly know nothing about the Great War in the Baltic other than that embarrassing episode with SMS Magdeburg and the code books. There must be some Baltic #navalwargaming adventures waiting to be inspired.

Can’t take on any new assignments, my in tray is full.

First time playing @multimanpublishing.bsky.social ‘s Storm Over Jerusalem game and it’s really good! Romans probably aren’t going to win this one. You know it’s a good game when you can’t wait to restart it and try it again.

Nothing brings my high school days back to me as vividly as this image does.

Men’s Olympic hockey is just an extra NHL All Star game.

Calling these figures done and sending them to the Basing Depot. SYW Prussian grenadiers by Foundry. #wargames #minis #SYW

Drop some hats.

Can’t help but think that this how the Jackpot in @greatdismal ‘s novels starts.