The elf! Hoo boy. What can I say... Two steps forward, a leap backwards? Don't give up kitty! This mini almost made me give up. But I'm going to soldier on. It's a good thing nobody plays the elf. #talisman #miniatures

The thief! There's not much to say here. He's pretty small, either a tiny man or a halfling (does Warhammer have those?). With such limited real estate I focused on getting the basics right, and I think I succeeded.

The ghoul! For some reason he's the only mini from the set with an actual base. Maybe he hocked his clothes to buy it. I'm getting more comfortable with layering and shading, but need a lot more practice. The shading on the back of his head is the wrong hue and too strong. #talisman #miniatures

The Troll. Hooo boy, do not look directly at it. He looks like he's about to sew his own costume and yell WHERE'S FRANCIS at the other minis. Layering is turning out to be a challenge. At least trolls can get away with looking like they have a terminal skin disease. #talisman #miniatures

The dwarf! It was fun painting him, I always did like metallic paints. My brush control is shit, and it shows. I've also got to practice paint thinning. I tried Nuln Oil on the armor and.... Ehhhh. It did the job but I wasn't blown away, I wanted it more intense.

When it came to choosing what paints to use, it came down to being practical. My FLGS stocks Vellejo Game Color, Proacryl and Citadel. /thread

I started off by painting the toads once I got my paints. I tried a bunch of different techniques and asked my son and spouse which one they liked. They both liked the triangle based one, which was the simplest, technique-wise.

For my first project, I'm going to paint the minis from my 4th edition of Talisman!

I'm getting back into miniature painting after a long hiatus (30 years!) I still have the first mini I ever painted, which was from one of those old 'learn to paint kits' from Reaper:

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

@idrawcaralines.bsky.social Hi Cara, I just wanted to say Thank you for your 'Book of Cara Secrets'. I'm trying to get back into mini painting and it was really nice to come across it in a sea of warhammer speedpainting tutorials. It's both inspiring and useful. So again, thank you! 🙇

Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.

Never, under ANY circumstances take a single step in to the direction of crypto. Reminder that this video by Dan Olsen caused the ENTIRE crypto market to crash within 24 hours, because it explained how the entire thing worked and everybody realized it was a grift: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_x...

Beyond fucking evil.

Movie you've watched more than 6 times using gifs (no sw, st or lotr)

Elon Musk wakes up, bleary and disoriented. "Grimes, I just had the weirdest dream..." he mutters as he rolls over to her. "Tell me all about it, Space Daddy," replies Stephen Miller's wife in bed beside him. "Yeah, tell her," comes Stephen's bitter voice from a chair in the semi-darkness.

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

And to think Americans were complaining Canada doesn't allow "enough" US dairy. We're now heading to "none"

I never thought this would happen. A huge geopolitical shift.

If Republicans aren't going to follow the law because they don't feel like it, then maybe someone should remind them that states don't have to send them taxes if they don't feel like it either

The next four years are really going to be "what did that idiot do now", huh

I told my son today that something did indeed resemble the 21st Century Fox logo, wondered briefly why that sounded wrong, then withered up and died

Hellbent on rediscovering all the problems that led to the solutions

I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well. Neither do you. Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.

"If the website is temporarily unavailable because of too much traffic, so be it. If it gets accidentally DDoS'd by too many people not properly caching their CI runs, so be it." Offloading responsibility for your site's health onto your users is certainly a.... choice. #zig