My copy of The Highlands Burn by @jkass99.bsky.social that I ordered at, like, 9pm on Tuesday was delivered the way I like my Chinese takeaway delivered: suspiciously quickly, and with 3x more content than I was expecting!

A late night painting session, this mini is a birthday present for a dear friend at work who's leaving at the end of the year, who's a superfan of the Queen, so I wanted to do something special. I even had to look up HRH's favourite flower & make tufts of it! Mini by @badsquiddogames.bsky.social

Back to the reviews on Finishing Touch, delayed partly due to the heatwave and partly from doing all those Greeks for the themed basing article! This time it's my first review of a Siege Scenics basing mix, Mangala Plateau: #wargaming

My first Hobby Corner article for my site, this time on how you can vary up your army by starting with a basic theme & then iterating on it in different ways while still using the same materials. Been awhile since I wrote a longer article like this, so please let me know what you think! #wargaming

My birthday present to myself last year was 3 large job lots of #mesbg Uruk-Hai, which once I added a handful more models would be the basis for 3 Isengard armies. Well I got the last few minis recently, & it's so hot out that I put on a film & spent 2.5hrs sponging (1/2) #wargaming #lordoftherings

Currently on a quest to make "interesting open ground" terrain a thing, using these broken up flagstone plates from @fenrisgames.com & some additional bits. These will be cut up into blobs to lay down as stuff to move over & around in more melee focused wargames where cover isn't as necessary.

Another review has gone up on my website, this time of one of Geek Gaming Scenics' "Base Ready" mixtures. Featuring my first 54mm mini, some French monster hunters and... tiny flakes of brick? #wargaming

My first review to break 100 views is now also the first to pass 500 in just 2 days 🥳 There's been a bunch of positive feedback on Reddit, too - I was prepared for this site to just be something I did as a hobby that maybe 10 people would see, but people seem to be really finding a lot of use in it.

It's another review on my blog, The Finishing Touch, and both my first reviewing tufts and something from Gamers Grass. Check it out!

Just finished these girls from Dragon Bait Miniatures. I don't usually go in for racier models like these but they had such a cool Leiji Matsumoto vibe that I wanted to use them in Stargrave. A moon princess & her handmaids looking for a new home planet maybe? #wargaming #miniaturepainting #scifi

Another review has just gone up on my blog, as Geek Gaming Scenics makes its first appearance with their small scale Mediterranean Soil mix. #wargaming #terrainmaking

I'm retiring my current #killteam and wanted a completely different playstyle, so I figured I'd take the opportunity to do a pretty out-there colour scheme. I figure these Raveners do a phosphorescent light flash when they burst out of their tunnels like deep sea fish. #wargaming #miniaturepainting

My second review has just gone up on my website, The Finishing Touch! This time, we're looking at Krautcover's Booty Beach basing mixture. #wargaming #miniaturepainting

I had some (pretty bad) Warlord Games hoplites I got for free recently, and felt like experimenting, so I did them in a "Greek Pottery" style. Since they're so smol and wonky, I'm going to use them as Spartoi (summonable artificial soldiers) rather than humans. #wargaming #miniaturepainting

My first basing materials review has just gone up on my blog, The Finishing Touch, where I go over Krautcover's A Tale Of Grimdark signature series mix. #wargaming #miniaturepainting #terrainmaking

So here's a project I've been planning since last year, but am finally taking the plunge on: starting a review website about basing materials for model wargaming! Weird, yes, but here's the first post where I explain why. The first couple of reviews are written and will be going up next week!

Possibly my least glamorous miniature project ever - even terrain sometimes has skulls or scifi doodads on it! - a couple of herds of livestock and some critters for hunting, for an upcoming campaign. #wargaming #miniaturepainting

Using a Warbases buffalo as a base, I sculpted an homage to a favourite illustration from one of my childhood myth books of the Sumerian Bull of Heaven for #warriorsofathena. This is the most freeform sculpting I've done on a single mini before, so it's still a bit rough! #wargaming #wargames

If you need a brawny, blonde, bare-chested hunk to accompany Xena Warrior Princess in your games of #warriorsofathena there's only one natural choice, right? That's right, Dar from 1982's The Beastmaster! Partly because I love the film, but also fuck Kevin Sorbo, AKA "Boy Xena" Hercules #wargaming

With days to go before #warriorsofathena releases, I made a push to finish the two main characters for my party, Xena and Gabrielle, and a bunch of NPCs for them to fight with and against! Minis from Crooked Dice, Lucid Eye, @badsquiddogames.bsky.social and @footsoreminiatures.bsky.social (1/5)

My first two heroines for Warriors of Athena, the left one from @badsquiddogames.bsky.social & the right from Lucid Eye. This project's taking me way out of my comfort zone, experimenting with bright colours like this. There'll be more to come soon! #warriorsofathena #wargaming ##miniaturepainting

So I bought a bag of Victrix Greek archers for #warriorsofathena which ended up having a sprue of two slingers in it. When I asked if they could send another sprue they just sent another bag! I'm sure this is WAY too many archers, but at least I have a lot to choose folloers from! #miniaturepainting

Just blitzed through a set of simple bamboo forest #terrain for playing games of Ronin, Pulp Alley and other #wargames. It's turned out OK and more importantly is simple enough that I can whip up more if I ever need to. #miniaturepainting #terrainmaking #wargames #samurai

A few months ago I bought some Saxon body sprues to try & use up my Victrix heads and weapon arms. I was going for a generic "pulp fantasy baddies" vibe so they could work in multiple different settings. Not my best work but I'm sure I'll get a lot of use out of them! #miniaturepainting #wargaming

I've got probably the last #40k game I'm going to play with my #sistersofbattle army this Sunday and I realised I'm now 55pts under 1k. I can't afford any more models right now, so I decided to #kitbash this Inquisitor using only stuff from my bits box. A bit janky but some paint will hide all sins.

This Christmas week I sat down & finally got a load of half finished miniatures for #stargrave #silverbayonet & #pulpalley done. The WW2 stuff was tough going but having the @badsquiddogames.bsky.social and Crooked Dice minis to add a bit of personality helped me stay engaged. ##miniaturepainting /1

This morning I put the last touches to this hefty terrain piece from @fenrisgames.com for my Classical/Fantasy skirmish games. It was daunting tackling this much resin, but I was so hyped to see it finished it shoved everything else off my hobby queue since it arrived! #miniaturepainting #wargaming

I finally found a use for all the spare heads and weapons that come with Victrix's Saxons and Rus: Warlord Games' armoured and unarmoured Saxons come as a sprue of just bodies and heads, and they sell them separately! (1/2) #wargaming #kitbashing

Just finished painting up this lovely little Ailthean tractor for This Quar's War. I've not done a tank before, unless you count Tau Devilfish, but I was so excited to try scale modelling tricks on it like netting & weathering that I couldn't put it down! #quar #wargaming ##miniaturepainting

Just finished off this morning, a horde of #oldhammer zombies! For 2ndhand minis the poses weren't too goofy, and my experiment with a blue undercoat for the skin made 'em look nice and pallid. 1st background by @handiworkgames.bsky.social, props by @fenrisgames.com #miniaturepainting #wargaming

My second crew of Stargrave minis - a gang of space spiders! Experimented on in a lab, where they developed super intelligence, their leader gained psychic powers from his brain implants, and led his fellow test subjects to swipe some guns & escape! #stargrave #wargaming #miniaturepainting

Now I have a proper camera on my phone, I'm going to start using my Bluesky to actually post pictures of the models I paint in my spare time. Here's all the ones I did on my week off for Silver Bayonet, Stargrave and Frostgrave. I'll post closeups with more detail over the coming week.