A wonderfully in depth review from the weekly scroll. Whilst I work on the final edition, you can get the 2nd edition for free here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

I need a giant or perhaps large person to grab me tenderly by the head and wiggle me until every bone in my body pops like a christmas cracker. I need to be put on a rack and stretched until my spine screams like a speaker picking up an incoming text. I need to be wrung like a tea towel.

Good news! I am not being made redundant. Better news! I am having my hours reduced BUT i get to input on how that manifests, which might mean I get WAY more mammoth time. BEST NEWS! I wrote two pages of lore about a hat for planet 28. www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...

Friend at work went for his "consultation" meeting and was told "You're being made redundant, there may be jobs you can apply for, but everyone else will be going for them, also it's bank staff" and fuck me if that hasn't soured the mood in the break room. looking forward to my turn this week.

Meeting with my union rep this afternoon to prepare for the first of the official "dude where's my job" meetings next week. There is a SMALL chance I can swing this whole thing to get the exact hours I petitioned for two years ago, but I'll hold out for just not being made redundant.

Hyperspace mercs for planet 28 - mutants, mercs, and machines. When a gun is too risky, a big bastard with a sharp stick is just as good.

Good news! planet 28 finished onover £29k! the biggest mammoth minis KS to date and WAY more than I had ever hoped. Bad news! the university I work for is making technician redundancies and I'm staring down the barrel of a 20% paycut! Medium news! I found a pack of polo's in my bag.

We're down to single digit hours on the kickstarter and we have smashed through £27k! this will be mammoths biggest KS ever and I am amazed and humbled and not a little bit nervous! www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...

Lead adventure forum is still offline so here's my blog again. it's got dazzle camo... blood-and-rust.blogspot.com

The KS for planet 28 FINAL EDITION passed 23k in the night! There's 3 days to go if you want not just a fun and easy sci fi fantasy skirmish toolbox, but also loads of expansion material and some exclusive STL minis! www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...

Merry Mighty Mammoth Miniatures Mutants! @nic-the-mammoth.bsky.social #mammothminiatures #mutants #scifi #retroscifi #retro #roguetrader #oldhammer #oldhammer40k #oldhammercommunity #postapocalyptic

indie game marketing is untenable right now, bro allegedly took a shot at the president and it got him 22 concurrents

CMON used to have a catalouge of very good games that could have provided them with not insane but reliable income for years to come, but alas the need to feed the shareholders means they are locked in to the kickstarter mega game ecosystem. which is a shame because they used to be a genuine hub...

New episode! Ryan sits down with @nic-the-mammoth.bsky.social to talk miniature sculpting, game writing, the OSR, and PLANET 28 Final Edition: an updated and expanded printing of the narrative focused sci fi fantasy miniature skirmish game along with a new wave of expansions. watch here 👇

Relistening to the foundation audiobooks and man I wish there was a proper foundation tabletop game, I wish I was in charge of writing it, and I also wish the series got as much credit as dune for influencing 40k because there is WAY MORE of it than there is dune.

Been pretty good and posting regularly to my blog in an effort to return to oldschool internet behaviour. I just put up a post about some little airships I made for myself. blood-and-rust.blogspot.com

New KS update! learn the history of War World One, the final destination of legal gridlock. Writing the fiction for this setting guide is some of the most fun I've had in game writing. There's so much silly stuff I could throw in. Also KS is now over £14k!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...

Post post salute - It took a few days for the con cough to get me but here I am at work with a sore throat and sinuses more stuffed than a mules backside. If I was smart I would have booked a few days off post salute but instead I went straight back into the classroom. Woe, woe the miniaturist fool.

Planet 28 2nd edition is a hairs breadth away from 11K on KS. As a retroactive stretch goal every backer will get an STL of the front cover Psi-merc sculpted by the wonderful Big Mr tong. www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...

This years super tiny skirmish demo board! This was a fun and quick build over a couple of days (with a concussion break in the middle) and my brother in law ran a good few games throughout the day, with the cult of the red death defending their stronghold of dankskull mountain. #salute53

SALUTE!!!! Mammoth miniatures will be on stand TF05! We've got new stuff, we've got old stuff, we've got demo games of super tiny skirmish, and our much loved big bags of miscast minis!

LA wargames now stock a wide range of mammoth miniatures figures and games! If you're California based and want some of my brightly coloured resin, check it out! www.instagram.com/lawargames www.mammothminiatures.com

One week till salute, which means it's time for my pressure chamber to start leaking again! it does this every year until i threaten to throw it out the window, at which point it decides to behave again.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/185... 10/04/26 click now to be notified on launch! #planet28 #tabletopgaming #miniatures #wargames

MAMMOTH MENTIONED!!!!!! Also go to @badsquiddogames.bsky.social at salute!

Today is trans day of visibility. This is the only day I can see many of my friends before they disappear once more into the ether. I will return to make the same joke about myself on September 23rd.

If you've never played planet 28 you might think "what makes it different from any other skirmish game?" and one of the answers is the toolbox approach to game design. you can play planet 28 in any number of ways. The game is made to be modular, so you can play in any number of ways! #planet28

SALUTE! 2 WEEKS! This isn't an announcement of anything, just a general statement of panic! but also I'VE GOT SO MUCH NEW STUFF THAT WILL BE RELEASING AT SALUTE!

Setting up the planet 28 final edition kickstarter - keep your eyes peeled! This going to be an updated softback of planet 28 with new artwork and cleaned up rules. There's also some expansion which I think are really fun. Everything is going to be 2nd ed backwards compatible too! #planet28 #minis

Off work and I have realised that I don't know how to relax. If i try and do something the concussion says "no" and gives me a headache, but doing nothing is making me want to break things.

A number of people at work now know I make miniatures and so they try to talk to me about actual brand name warhammer. I'm considering getting this shirt made.

Added a standard bearer to my monopose chaos warband. Also designed and printed some movement trays that are perfect for super tiny giant battles. next step is to get another couple of units of 3 warriors done before looking at cavalry. #warhammer

I WILL be trading! genuinely super excited for another lead and steel - last year was great fun.

Fell off a ladder at work today, It folded under me like a wet cardboard box and I ate shit on the workshop floor. Walked away thinking I was unharmed but now everything is beginning to hurt in increasingly new and unpleasent ways.

have you ever wanted an army of one eyed muscle clad orc-y monsters? cool cool...maybe check out my cyclorks. www.mammothminiatures.com/product/cycl...

1994 chaos warriors - these are the same age as me! (the champion has been converted because I am incapable of painting units to completion without kitbashing something.)

I've had a sudden spike in overseas orders being returned marked "no such address", despite the assurance of the customer that their house does in fact exist and has been there for at least a week. So yeah...not sure what the deal is there.

Super tiny giant battles, a full rank and flank wargame in a handy A6 zine, is avaliable now! www.mammothminiatures.com/product/supe...

Look at these BEAUTIFUL rust goblins and friends! Seeing mammoth minis painted and converted like this is amazing!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/831... Is in the final 2(ish) days! If you like grim and lethal RPGs from a creator so indy he doesn't even have social media (despite my prodding!) then this is the RPG for you. #zinequest #zine #rpg #osr #kickstarter

I would get so much shit done if I didn't have to go to work. I'd be broke as shit but man would I be productive till I was forcibly removed from my house with a firehouse by the bank. In other news, I have loads of unreleased miniatures lined up to for release lead and steel/salute.

It's coming back! Putting the finishing touches on an updated A6 pocket sized, rank and flank fantasy wargame. I've cleaned up the rules and expanded the advanced rules to give more gameplay options.

I FOUND SUPER TINY GIANT BATTLES! 5 years ago I wrote a rule lite rank and flank wargame, kickstarted it, got absolutely overwhelmed trying to ship it whilst moving house, then lost all the files when my laptop exploded. It was super disheartening and I never tried to rewrite it. BUT I'VE FOUND IT!

I hate the smooth on website - I don't know if my brain is wired up wrong but I find it impossible to navigate. Also I'm sculpting evil little dwarves.

I'm supporting this kickstarter from a first time creator as illustrator and publisher! Its part of zinequest right now! #zine #zinequest #tabletop #osr #rpg www.kickstarter.com/projects/831...

Put a blog post up about the spincasting system I built a couple of months ago. www.youtube.com/shorts/6D51o... blood-and-rust.blogspot.com/2026/01/batt... If you've ever wanted a centrifugal casting system, know that it's only one ebay electronics binge away.

In an effort to bring back the good old internet, I have started posting on my blog again. my latest post is about a session I ran with my students in which we made diorama scenery as a creative jumping off point. blood-and-rust.blogspot.com