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Winston Ab Rees

@winstonabrees.bsky.social

Historical wargamer/model builder. Lots of Wars of the Roses, medieval, English Civil War & terrain. No politics. πŸŽ₯πŸ“Ί Run a YouTube channel on it, when I can gather the energy.

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Messing about with AI a lot recently with no particular goal/task. Just trying to understand how it works and what it can/cannot do, to see what the implications might be - good and bad. I worked on asking it to create an image of a 15th century English valley. Thoughts?

18.01.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks!

22.12.2024 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pics of our Wakefield 1460 game hosted by Tom using the new #Midgard Heroic Battles and written up by @mogsymakes.bsky.social #WarsoftheRoses

22.12.2024 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great to get the WotR collection out again for this wonderful game hosted by Tom and chronicled here by Midgard mastermind James. It really is a wonderful and free-flowing set of rules.

22.12.2024 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cheers

10.12.2024 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks a lot

10.12.2024 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury 1400–1460, Yorkist stalwart, executed following the Battle of Wakefield. Father to Warwick the Kingmaker.

Perry miniatures 28mm metal. The heraldry was a pain but worth it!

08.12.2024 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Richard, Duke of York (Father of Richard III) 1411–1460.

By claiming the throne he is arguably the spark that ignited the Wars of the Roses (though his claim was strong). Opposing Lancastrian Henry VI, briefly served as Lord Protector, died at the Battle of Wakefield.

28mm metal Perry figure.

08.12.2024 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve just painted something decent for the first time this year and my mojo has returned! Pics later. #WarsoftheRoses #Wargaming

08.12.2024 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Henry.

17.11.2024 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‹ here. I do not like the old place at all at the moment. Maybe I’ve really left it for good this time.

13.11.2024 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right, Historical Miniatures Wargaming Starter Pack 2 is underway. I’m trying to avoid duplication so please check both lists before asking me to add you! But if anyone *isn’t* on either list but would like to be included, please respond to this post and I’ll get you on it asap.

go.bsky.app/CiHRRNj

13.11.2024 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 2
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Chuffed to see this on display right at the front door of my local library ✊ @battlegames.bsky.social

06.01.2024 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keeping the ECW shelf heaving with 11 more parliamentarian musketeers.

06.11.2023 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next up - these wonderfully detailed and dramatically-posed ECW Bloody Miniatures. I’ve based them singularly so they can make officers/characters for the army. Also polishing off 16 Perry musketeers.

01.11.2023 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today I went exploring to tabletop games centre Lead Belt Gaming Arena in #Nottingham. Nice set up, welcoming and they have a forthcoming Baron’s War tournament I’ll perhaps drop in on.

23.10.2023 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keep thinking about the remarkable Stokesay Castle model I saw at Partizan. Made me realise I need one or two bigger status building pieces in my terrain collection.

16.10.2023 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes but they are not clickable.

14.10.2023 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A transgression I’m willing to overlook on this one occasion.

14.10.2023 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good to see Raglan getting and ECW project going - this will be interesting πŸ‘Œ

13.10.2023 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There he is!

12.10.2023 06:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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King of the Castles. More from the Partizan show photo dump. #Wargaming

09.10.2023 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

May the Blue Sky be full of refugee angels flapping their wings to fly far away from the car salesman’s arbitrary nonsense.

09.10.2023 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Partizan show photo dump 3. Yes someone scratch built this. Yes it’s Stokesay Castle. Yes, it was incredible!

09.10.2023 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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More from the Partizan show photo dump

09.10.2023 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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While I settle in after moving over from β€˜the other place’ here follows a mass dump of Partizan show pictures from yesterday.

09.10.2023 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘ŒπŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹

09.10.2023 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing like a Partizan to send a man screaming back to the painting desk….

08.10.2023 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, what?!? They still haven’t fixed that? I didn’t stick around long enough to know it was still an issue. I’d assumed they’d sorted that months ago πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ. Feck me!

08.10.2023 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So Threads isn’t working as an wargaming community alternative is it? It’s so quiet there now. Anybody care to share their thoughts on why it’s not worked out? Personally I found it just pushed generic viral nonsense into my feed from the word go. So I left pretty quickly….

08.10.2023 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0