Shovel Knight done and painted! First serious attempt at OSL, lots to learn still as usual. #blender #3dprinting #miniatures

Trench Crusade is not my scene, but this wire-bound book of backdrops for tabletop photography of #MiniaturePainting is a really cool idea.

Wrapped up this guy, I really like how the colorful underpainting comes through 😎 #Warhammer #warhammerfantasy #ageofsigmar #chaos #miniaturepainting #miniatures #warhammercommunity

If you’re curious about the new #ArmyPainter #Speedpaint Markers, I’m doing a thread here with my trial experimentation with them. #MiniaturePainting 🧵👇🏼

This is one of the most detailed miniatures I've ever painted. Though I prefer the overall fantasy aesthetic of Age of Sigmar, I do enjoy this gothic industrial hybrid. #warhammer #warhammer40k #necromunda #PaintingWarhammer #miniatures #wargaming #miniatures #tabletopgames #paintingminiatures

Fortunately, the long term prognosis of this is a lot brighter than the more common but deadlier medical condition of you being inside two wolves.

Army Painter said my package was delivered today. But they also said my package was shipped today. Pretty sure they couldn’t pull that off even if they lived in my back yard.

I’ve never painted one of these ill-tempered spacemen from #Warhammer40K before. Another take-home mini started at one of the Games Workshop Hang Out and Hobby events at #GenCon. I finished it up with proper decals to give the classic faction representation in my display case. #MiniaturePainting

An #AgeOfSigmar Liberator, liberating liberally. #MiniaturePainting One of the projects I carried home with me from the Games Workshop Hang Out and Hobby events at #GenCon.

Latest work in progress #minipainting #dragon #D&D

Assigning a guy named Rico to cover a racketeering story seems too convenient not to be lazy.

The Friday night TV watching crew and I were between shows so we played a game of Atma, a true zero-prep card-based RPG last night. Will take a couple sessions to familiarize myself with the design conceits and make the best use of them, but would definitely play again. www.meromorphgames.com/atma

Sakamoto Days S1E18: “Whose fault is this? … Is it mine?”

A promo of @atomicmassgames.bsky.social’s mascot Atom from the #MiniaturePainting hangout event at #GenCon. I initially made a hatchet job of the base coat because I was hasty and didn’t undercoat the yellow. It was… yikes. But after I got it home, I gave it some love and got it looking presentable.

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There’s a joke here about grand juries indicting a ham sandwich, but I can’t quite secure it.

Printers are hands down some of the worst consumer electronics you can buy.

If you enjoyed the Paris-through-a-mirror-darkly vibe of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, then I suggest China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris for your next read. #BookSky

A totally normal door. #MiniaturePainting

Pendulum just out out their first album in fifteen years - Inertia - and it is a triumph. Some of these tracks have been getting play since an EP release in 2021 but the polish on the new mixes really improve on the original releases.

Maybe I’ll preorder the new Army Painter speed paint markers, see how they are. Shipping costs as much as the markers. Maybe I will not. #MiniaturePainting

“Duck… duck…”

Increase a band Counting Murders

Hopeless optimism is an email unsubscription page that imagines I might want to resubscribe.

The Hasbro enshittification of @dndbeyond.com is here. I found I couldn’t create a bog-standard Battlemaster Fighter today using the 2014 PHB (which I have the license for), even with the 2014 rules enabled on the character.

Next up from #GenCon is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stuff for cross-universe dueler Unmatched from @restorationgames.bsky.social. Their mini sculpts out of the box are all excellent and this set looks to pull out the stops.

Okay got a couple exhibits from #GenCon to share, in case you missed it. First, this “Gundam” thing might be catching on. Gundam Assemble is the mini wargame based on the anime / indomitable modeling hobby. I gather this was something of a coup if you managed to score any of this at the con.

And this is my reward for capping off a fulsome #GenCon. If you haven’t had the huge tacos from Agave & Rye, you’re missing out. It’s become a must-stop for me since two years ago! www.agaveandrye.com/locations/ag...

Another humble paint job but I’m pretty proud of this one. This was from @steamforgedgames.bsky.social’s P3 speed #MiniaturePainting competition at #GenCon. Speed painting is NOT my forte so getting something like this finished in an hour was real growth for me!

Participated in Wyrd Games’s Iron Brush #MiniaturePainting competition at #GenCon this morning. Using only whatever brushes and paints are left at the end of the con and confronted with mischief like needing to paint off-handed having your palette stolen, do your damndest.

Terrible hotel room photos of two of my theee #GenCon #MiniaturePainting competition entries. I didn’t get the third because I need to reglue units to their bases when I get home!

I took two bronze ribbons in the #GenCon Miniature Painting Competition, and one Merit. Not bad at all for my first time competing. I’ll share some photos when I get home.

Headed to #GenCon today, will be in town tomorrow afternoon.

In retrospect, it was a mistake to throw away the remains of the lava lamp itself before Serv-Pro arrived to clean up the rest.

Sike. Here’s the real new logo.

What a disaster.

I don’t subscribe to the NYT, but I just dropped NYT Games from my phone because I don’t even want their meager ad revenue from me subsidizing this bollocks.

Got my entry forms for the #GenCon #MiniaturePainting competition filed today!

Derpy is the best boy & of course I had to paint him 🥰 Kpop Demon Hunters is my new fave film! It’s knocked FF Tokyo Drift from the top spot (don’t @ me on my film taste) #kpopdemonhunters #derpytiger

I’ve finished up a customized AoS Druanti the Arch-Revenant (Sylvaneth) to serve as a boss creature in a D&D campaign. First major completion since the house got all fixed up and my hobby table unblocked. #MiniaturePainting #AgeOfSigmar

Ten writers from whom you’ve read 5 or more books: 1. Brandon Sanderson 2. James S.A. Corey 3. Jim Butcher 4. Martha Wells 5. Erik Larson 6. Malka Older 7. John Scalzi 8. N.K. Jemisin 9. China Miéville 10. Anderzej Sapkowski

Finished reading Blood Sweat & Chrome, an oral history from @kylebuchanan.bsky.social about the making of Mad Max: Fury Road last night, completing my annual reading goal of 35 books. 🎉 This was a fun read, and an fascinating way to look back at the unexpected sensational film

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

Bring on @nkjemisin.bsky.social’s The Fifth Season!

The World Model expo 2025 was kind of a SHITSHOW : a thread For my first international competition, I gotta say, the organisation was pretty terrible. Almost everything that could go wrong, or be badly handled, was. Here is a probably non exhaustive list of the problems encountered that week-end

This is an AMAE: Ask Me Anything Else

I wonder how much money my local school district spends on this school software that isn’t intuitive, requires loads of online instructions and FAQs that don’t help, and is leaving me needing to call the school office despite my best efforts anyway.

After two and a half months, the house is fully repaired. I have access to my painting table again!

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Okay new verse. Then they came for the billionaire drug addict, And I didn’t speak up because that guy deserved it.