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Neil Shuck

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Player of all types of tabletop miniatures games, boardgames and RPGs. Avid collector of miniatures, which will get painted to an average standard...eventually. Sometime blogger and host of the (now retired) Meeples & Miniatures Podcast

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Converting and Painting a Unique Orc Wyvern Model A couple of weeks ago, I published a post about using ChatGPT as a sounding board for creating a painting scheme. This post shows the results of that discussion. The task was to paint a centrepiece…

Following on from my blog post about using ChatGPT in the creative process for deciding on a colour scheme for my Orc & Goblin Army mounted warlord, here is how I put theory into practice

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25.09.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Highlights from Ebor Lard Gaming Weekend 2025 The second weekend in September saw a gathering of friends and gamers in the depths of Yorkshire for the annual Ebor Lard gaming day, which brought together just over 40 people to play games, enjoy…

Finally managed to write up a report on the recent Ebor Lard gaming day - includes a number of photos of some lovely looking gaming tables

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24.09.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kiss Me, Hardy: Wargames Rules for the Combat at Sea During the Time of Nelson Napoleonic naval miniature wargame rules intended for 1/1200 scale ships but usable for other scales. Turn sequence is card driven and the rules place the player at approximately Admiral level and th...

Played Kiss Me, Hardy: Wargames Rules for the Combat at Sea During the Time of Nelson today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

13.09.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Midgard: Heroic Battles Tabletop battles and heroes from ancient to medieval times.

Played Midgard: Heroic Battles today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

13.09.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heroes of Normandie: The Tactical Card Game The landing in Normandy with commandos, paratroopers, rangers against the Wehrmacht.

Played Heroes of Normandie: The Tactical Card Game today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

08.09.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Using ChatGPT for Creative Wargaming Solutions – Painting a Wyvern I’ve recently been exploring several different ways to make use of ChatGPT in my gaming and modelling hobby. One area I’ve found particularly useful is getting help with painting decisionsβ€”most not…

I've written a blog post about how I have used AI in my creative process to paint the centrepiece of my Orc & Goblin Army - An Orc Warlord mounted on a wyvern, using a conversion of the Archon Studios plastic wyvern.

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07.09.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Memoir '44 Revisit the battles of D-Day and control the forces of the Allies and the Axis!

Played Memoir '44 today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

01.09.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not even going to use it to play an RPG - oh the horror!

I suspect it might have something to do with monster size and base footprint, but as I don't play 5e that's pure conjecture on my part

19.08.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aliens: Bug Hunt Work together with your fellow marines to dice your way past the xenomorphs.

Played Aliens: Bug Hunt today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

18.08.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now for a slight change in direction on the painting table - this will make a change from Elven Cavalry!

17.08.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finishing Touches for My Elf Army Characters The next figures in my Elf army are now finishedβ€”the charactersβ€”which means I finally have a viable 2,000-point force ready for our Oldhammer gaming day in October. It’ll make a nice change from fi…

Latest painting update

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17.08.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aliens: Bug Hunt Work together with your fellow marines to dice your way past the xenomorphs.

Played Aliens: Bug Hunt today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Played for the first time having owned the game for several years - it's actually really good!

12.08.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Painting Elven Cavalry: My Latest Units Last weekend saw the completion of the final two Elven Light Cavalry units for my army, as I finished the basing on the last 10 models. This brings the total to a fairly formidable mounted continge…

Latest from the painting table

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06.08.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tiny Epic Dinosaurs Become dino ranchers in the lucrative dinosaur farming industry.

Played Tiny Epic Dinosaurs today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

31.07.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tiny Epic Vikings Viking clans seek glory and the favor of the gods!

Played Tiny Epic Vikings today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

28.07.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tiny Epic Dinosaurs Become dino ranchers in the lucrative dinosaur farming industry.

Played Tiny Epic Dinosaurs today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Played this for the first time today - an excellent worker placement/resource management game

27.07.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth Heroes explore Middle-earth, working together to combat evil in an epic campaign.

Played The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

14.07.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inspiration vs. Perseverance in the Wargaming Hobby Inspiration can strike the unsuspecting gamer at any time – whilst playing a game at an event, browsing around eye-catching demo games at a games show, during a late-night scroll through Kick…

It's too hot to paint, so I am shsring some thoughts instead

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12.07.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Support Ragnarok’s Brunanburh Miniatures Campaign Today! In 937 AD, the Battle of Brunanburh determined the fate of Britain, where the Anglo-Saxons, led by Athelstan, faced the Celtic Alliance, consisting of the Strathclyde Welsh, Scots, and Norse Gaels.…

This looks like a fantastic Kickstarter campaign

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10.07.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Today is Captain Scarlet Day! But why? Subscribe for more!  #retro #scifi #nostalgia
YouTube video by Gerry Anderson Today is Captain Scarlet Day! But why? Subscribe for more! #retro #scifi #nostalgia

Happy 'Captain Scarlet' day everyone
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10.07.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Latest Progress on My Elf Army Painting It’s been a month since my last update on painting progress, and while it hasn’t been as much as I’d hoped, there’s still been significant progress. I’ve managed to complete two additional units fo…

My contribution to WIP Wednesday

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09.07.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Memoir '44 Revisit the battles of D-Day and control the forces of the Allies and the Axis!

Played Memoir '44 today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

07.07.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Undaunted: Normandy Command your rifle platoon to victory in this WWII multi-scenario deck builder.

Played Undaunted: Normandy today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

23.06.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Commands & Colors: Ancients Accessible tactical wargame from the dawn of history to the opening of the Dark Age.

Played Commands & Colors: Ancients today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/14... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

16.06.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Memorable Weekend at Operation Market Larden 2025 Saturday 7th June marked the 11th annual Operation Market Larden eventβ€”a dedicated Lardy Day celebrating the wargames published by Too Fat Lardies. Held once again at the Northwick Hotel in Evesham…

Finally managed to put finger to keyboard and give my reflections on OML11

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#toofatlardies #tfl #OML11

15.06.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revamping Classics: New Editions of favourite rules My recent hobby purchases seem to have followed a distinct theme: revisiting old favourites through their new editions. First up is the second edition of Burrows & Badgers, lovingly crafted by …

News of my latest purchases - rules this time (mostly).

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13.06.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the painting table – Wed 11th June 2025 The painting table has been fairly quiet recently due to me being away on holiday, but I’ve managed to make some progress since I’ve got home. I have pretty much finished my second Elve…

A quick painting update
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11.06.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chain of Command Innovative miniatures rule set, giving you command of a WW2 platoon in action!

Played Chain of Command today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/14... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

07.06.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What a Cowboy! Gunfighters shoot it out in the Wild West.

Played What a Cowboy! today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

07.06.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Recent TV viewing inspires purchases… Having just wrapped up Star Wars: Rebels and Season 2 of Andor, I found myself in the mood for more adventures from a galaxy far, far away – not letting the fact that my current collection ha…

New arrivals into the hobby grotto

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20.05.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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