4 Steelhelms finished today!

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

Growing a lime tree indoors in Michigan wasn't working great until i put a grow light on it for 8 hours a day. The dark leaves are the old standard, the new lighter leaves all popped up in the last three weeks and are like quadruple the size. Kinda nuts.

Lazy holiday painting this morning. This light is really nice but a pain to take between floors when I want to paint around the house.

Slapchop prepped my 2nd (of 3) Steelhelms. I love drybrushing stuff. Let's see if I can do these in a week, too.

My first finished Age of Sigmar unit, the Cities of Sigmar Steelhelms in a Lethis-y scheme. The alternate purple guy is next to the banner, which used the alternate purple for its color. First use of transfers was mildly panic inducing but they came out nice.

Critical transfer/decal failure. Either not enough gloss or too much microset because the contrast paint got reactivated and bleached in a few spots. Basically unfixable. I'll survey the extent of the damage on all of them in the morning.

Working on some basing for these Steelhelms. Thinking mud covered in ash, or like an ashy waste, so this is what I just finished up. How does it look?

Hobby (Steelhelms) update: Got a transfer on one shield, waiting until the morning to seal it and make sure it's good before I do the rest. Muddied up all the bases with a mix of molding paste / sand / tea / paint. Waiting for those to try to paint them up as well. Could finish this unit tomorrow!

Enough people are telling me to just wait and do it properly with Microsol/Microset or Tamiya mark fit strong (??) that I'll wait to do it 'properly' and not gamble on like 15yo sealer that's probably gone off a bit.

Despite having played Games Workshop games since 2nd ed 40k, today marks the first day I've ever applied a transfer. Found some old Reaper sealer and stuck a tiny one on a Flagellant's base. Test successful, I've got some Steelhelms to do up later.

My friend sat across from me instead of next to me in a class in college.

Kind of a funny suggestion that works really well, these little rubber popper things make great painting trays. It doesn't stick to acrylic, so when they dry you just pop them from the other side and they come out fairly cleanly. With contrasts that don't work well in wet palettes this is great.

Cheated here, the priests hair and beard is just my slapchop prep with nothing over it. I wanted white tinged with black, and it was already there. I've got a huge banner on the desk now, which needs three colors. Thinking about bringing back that more purpley-purple for it.

Finished minis 7 and 8 this week, the sarge and priest of a Steelhelms squad. I decided they can have a touch of tin and a little more silver to make them stand out in the crowd a little. Been painting two a day!

Happy Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core EA release day for those that celebrate (in like two hours)

I love some tee-zay-tee-zai-kai. I said it like that to a Costco samples lady and she looked at me like I was insane (rightfully).

this is a masterpiece

I've got a nice big hobby light for painting at my desk, but I also want to do mini painting around the house so I'm not holed up away from my wife and kids so much. Anyone know of any good portable hobby lights? Something like this maybe?

Excited to click on a login for yet another app at work, and then having to fumble with my phone to confirm it's me, 10x a day for another 30 years of my life or w/e

Mini painting update: Painted two more Steelhelms today, and then did the first half of two more (I only have two paint handles, so I do them two at a time). Hope I can stick with two a day for awhile. I think getting that first squad done is going to feel good.

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Ciaphus Cain is coming to the tabletop. I repeat, Commissar Ciaphus Cain is coming to the tabletop! www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

I'm getting back into painting because some cool Cities of Sigmar stuff is releasing, and I have to make sure I'll actually possibly paint them one day. I asked my wife how many I need to paint to 'deserve' some new minis. She quickly said 100! My number is more like 20-30. We'll see how that goes.

Painted up my first minis in a few years, a pair of Age of Sigmar's Cities of Sigmar Steel Helms. The faces are still janky, but I'm testing out some Lethis-y schemes. Grey leather instead of white, and two purples to choose from. Do we prefer the more purple-y left, or the more 'legit' right?

Hey everyone, I'm putting paint on minis for the first time in like, two years. Please clap

My new Skaven set looks kinda messed up

I heard you like board games and need more time touching grass, so i bought you the fucken huge outdoor Guess Who.

Got my 9yo Pokopia for her bday. This game is really cute. I might start my own save to play when they're in bed.

We got really close, but the fellowship lost hope just steps from tossing the ring in. Armies massed from Near Harad marched on Dol Amroth, dropping our hope enough to lose. We did have a very rough start where the first set of turns brought in 7 wraiths on Frodo and we rolled 4 hope loss. Neat game

Going to play Fate of the Fellowship tonight for the first time (for all 3 of us). Already watched @watchitplayed.bsky.social How to Play, so I'm good to go I think! Looks pretty neat, and a nice coop will be a pleasant departure from Arcs three times in a row.

My AI slop list is up to about 8,000 accounts now. Still adding accounts daily to it via visual inspection to make sure I'm not getting false positives in here. If you want to clean up your bsky, consider blocking this list!

An ugly pic of my unpainted Age of Sigmar, Cities of Sigmar army! Just using this to compile what I have in the alt-text. With all the new stuff coming out, I'm thinking about finally painting... anything.

Me looking at the new Cities of Sigmar Cogfort

My AI slop list is up to about 8,000 accounts now. Still adding accounts daily to it via visual inspection to make sure I'm not getting false positives in here. If you want to clean up your bsky, consider blocking this list!

What should I 3d print? I've got enough terrain for now. Any cool FDM prints out there, for whatever? Anything you're like "I printed this, it's cool, everyone should print this."

After 11 fantastic years, Bloomsbury Publishing, the owner of Osprey Games, has made the difficult decision to sell the board and card game line. This was not a decision taken lightly and reflects a strategic refocusing on book publishing. (1/7)

Loving all the Cities of Sigmar news coming out. I'd love to play a game of Age of Sigmar one day ;(

Cities of Sigmar being part of a $220 spearhead two pack (with new knights on foot and grenadiers), and then Gate Gargants, Cogfort, new wizards, new priest(s?), and their book all coming out in a short period seems like a LOT. I want it ;( I haven't even played, I just have an army collected.

Checked out some more books this morning! I love that the library tallies up how much you've saved. Nearing the $32k mark since we started using it like seven years ago.

The 3rd Malazan book is waiting for me at the library, but it closes early on Friday. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see what new warcrimes and magic occur.

Saw there are free mechs to print so I printed my first Timberwolf Prime (aka Madcat). It was a bit of a mess of tree supports but I think it came out great! 14 grams of filament (like maybe 18c of materials?) and four hours of printing got me this. Looks pretty good for FDM!

Gonna play the 3rd and final game of our first Arcs campaign tonight! Had a bit of delay due to illness, but we're starting earlier tonight to do the 2nd->3rd game setup and making room for an extra chapter at the end.

Oooh, new ways to find fakes. These make sense but I haven't ever made use of these vanishing point tricks. I'll note that when I'm adding things to my slop list and I'm not quite sure. (Slop list is nearing 8,000 accounts now)

Ganondorf in the Pyramid of Power for Super Zeldathon this summer @zeldathon.com made from bristol paper, cardstock, & sketchbook paper (+ micro LEDs)

I'm sorry, WHAT

Printed two carts and a carriage for some terrain to clog up city streets or add onto small markets. The top of the carriage comes off and the interior is modeled. Should be easy to paint up when I get the time again.

Played Far Far West last night. It's my favorite robot cowboys using magic fighting the undead hordes game I've played yet.

Took this exit again and went "hehe"