Hendrik

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Good on you. I am currently in some bizarre corner with a small cluster of UFO enthusiast being the closest to my lonely planet. (I am not a UFO enthusiast, to be clear.) The closest significant cluster is the New Zealand Progressive Left, and I have honestly no idea how I got here. Weird.

flyer for bad squiddo games - five minis of different eras or genres, web link (www.badsquiddogames.com) "passionate and specialist manufacturers of 28mm femme miniatures" minis all by bad squiddo, sculpted by Shane Hoyle and Alan Marsh. Painted by John Morris, Andrew Taylor and Paul Cubbin Backdrop by Handiwork Games

It's my birthday so by law you have to at least visit the shop and go "wow what a good girl you did this all by yourself" & some local bylaws demand a purchase. I don't make these laws!

Thanks for all your support, younger me would be SO HYPED for today me <3

www.badsquiddogames.com

a meme — the top says “My dog just got a haircut and now he looks like he gave up drinking and got his life together” and underneath are 2 photos of a dog (a schnauzer i think?). on the left, the “before,” he’s scruffy and in need of a haircut and a bath. and on the right, the “after,” he’s clean and clipped and wearing a jaunty red bow tie and looking very dapper indeed.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

Colour Forge facebook post recalling Moss Green and Atlantiko Blue

Hobbycraft recall notice for same products stating asbestos as the reason for the recall

In case you were unaware, there's a recall notice on Colour Forge basing sand in these colours for possible trace contamination with asbestos from the manufacturer

On the plus side, your bases won't catch fire

#nerdlings #warhammercommunity

Alright Smeggers! The Boys from The Red Midget are here to bring their particular brand of incompeteance to the Galaxy. No they still haven't met anyone who can shoot strait! weprintminiatures.com/products/the...

#Miniatures #Sci-fi #reddwarf

Is it just me or does "chintz in his yard" sound definitely euphemistic in this context?

Do you have any LARP groups/cons in your neck of the woods? That might be another opportunity to reduce your overspill.

It's a fun, harmless kind of madness, so nothing wrong with that. Keep 'em coming.🙂

It's a double-edged, very sharp sword. They do live on in our minds through such moments, but every single such reminder really hurts. Big hug.

Hoping that getting a new pup will help close the wound to just a scar the way it did for me.

That is brilliant! Love that!

I seem to remember BANG! being in there somewhere.

Is this any help? www.comicbookfx.com/fxlist.php

How did you brake?

He also credited his recovery from a serious bout of pleurisy in his mid-90s to having his nurse rubbing him from head to foot in vaseline.

A close up of a blue dice tray depicting a white nordic style wyrm/dragon eating a D20

A blue dice tray standing upright on a table, depicting a white wyrm/dragon eating a D20

A blue dice tray standing upright on a table, depicting a white wyrm/dragon eating a D20

Our new Wyrm dice tray design on dark blue leather with white inlay 🐉
Coming to the shop Friday (tomorrow!) at 8pm CET ✨
#ttrpg #dicetray #wyrm

RUN!
(pew-pewing ensues)

Oh. Um. <cough> How very remiss of me. I'd better have a thorough browse through your shop then, in case I missed any other cool stuff which I haven't got yet.😁

Brilliant! It must be mine! Couldn't you have released this a few days ago? Now I have to place another order with you! The humanity! 😉

skeleton from Pompeii who's crushed head-first under a massive stone block. imagine this is Neil Gaiman, but make sure you Unfollow him first or you'll still be counted as a follower and some fucker somewhere will be totalling up those numbers for whitewash purposes.

unfollow, *then* block

fenrisgames.com/shop#!/FGDBB...

The basic problem is fitting a tabbed metal miniature into a slotted plastic base. The two materials are not great for being glued together and so I am putting my trust in a more mechanical approach. I am starting off by fitting the miniature's tab in the base's slot. Then marking the lines where the bolts are going to be so I know where to drill the tab and file the base. And when I say bolts, I mean lengths of 0.5mm hardened steel wire.

Next I'm drilling the holes in the tab. I drill in increments from alternate sides to reduce the risk of the hole being skew-whiff, i.e. anything but perpendicular to the tab. The miniature is by Twilight miniature for the Anyaral: The world of Twilight setting (complete lack of sparkly vampires).

Then I'm filing the slots/grooves in the base. I am using a Dremel (actually a Proxxon) for that, because it is just plastic. As you can see, the autofocus cannot get its electronic head around what I did there, sorry about that.

Next comes fitting the bolt(s). This can be a very fiddly process which involves a pair of narrow-nosed pliers (partly visible out of focus on the right) and some occasionally blue air. It is a very satisfying feeling when you get it right, though. Incidentally, the little pin which goes vertically into the base farther down goes straight into the foot of the mini and will be glued to the side of the slot walls. It is there because the tab was not fully cast and thus not connected to the mini's other foot, and I am - as you may have gathered - a very careful person. Actually, looking at it now, that piece of straight wire should better have been a nail. Oh well, next time. The bolts are then secured with blobs of superglue and the rest of the slot is filled in with UV-curing resin.

Now, I hear that some people just glue their miniatures into the slotted bases. I have never found a glue which I trusted with that task, so I have developed a method which uses at least one retaining bolt.

Be honest: am I overdoing this German overengineering thing?

11 years? Wow! Well done you. I remember when you were the shy and scrawny weird one at Crisis who sold me a self-crocheted dicebag. Here's to the next 11. May your arc keep pointing upwards - and be full of balloons. 😉🎂🍀

Why can't it be both?

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it.

The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT.

Let's talk about it.

A decayed goblin skeleton in black robes stands in a woodland scene. A gigantic red cap mushroom sprouts from the cap of its robes and smaller mushrooms are growing from inside the hanging skeletal jaw. The goblin holds a giant scythe that is covered in bright green lichen. A spiders web is being strung between the blade tip and the handle. The wooden base has a collection of different mushrooms sprouting from it. 

A decayed goblin skeleton in black robes stands in a woodland scene. A gigantic red cap mushroom sprouts from the cap of its robes and smaller mushrooms are growing from inside the hanging skeletal jaw. The goblin holds a giant scythe that is covered in bright green lichen. A spiders web is being strung between the blade tip and the handle. The wooden base has a collection of different mushrooms sprouting from it. 

A decayed goblin skeleton in black robes stands in a woodland scene. A gigantic red cap mushroom sprouts from the cap of its robes and smaller mushrooms are growing from inside the hanging skeletal jaw. The goblin holds a giant scythe that is covered in bright green lichen. A spiders web is being strung between the blade tip and the handle. The wooden base has a collection of different mushrooms sprouting from it. 

A decayed goblin skeleton in black robes stands in a woodland scene. A gigantic red cap mushroom sprouts from the cap of its robes and smaller mushrooms are growing from inside the hanging skeletal jaw. The goblin holds a giant scythe that is covered in bright green lichen. A spiders web is being strung between the blade tip and the handle. The wooden base has a collection of different mushrooms sprouting from it. 

Mini of the month - Rebirth

Entry 3 by @tristanwelsh.bsky.social

The circle of strife. 

#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

That's what I read into it as well. Now where's me life-changing hat?

International Zebra Day? I've got models for that

Three dhole larvae - far, partially armoured, disgusting grubs.

Model of a Dhole - a giant carniverous worm with a trilobal mouth and too many teeth erupting out of the ground.

Bhole model - an icy white and blue gigantic worm bursting through ice.

A bileworm model - a fat pink maggot with suppurating boils and exposed teeth from multiple inner mouthparts.

I've got worms.

You can get some, too!

I bet he only starts thinking about what he wants when he gets to the front of the queue.

We (Germans) don't have a word for it. There was even a public competition to find one but it did not produce a satisfactory result.

lizardman warrior with sword and shield.

lizardman berserker with club.

lizardman guard with trident.

in weather like this, you should never *not* expect lizardmen

more Otherworld rehomes! hopefully in time for Salute ! exclamation mark !