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Hi, my name's Dave Axbey. I'm mostly here to follow mini painting, palaeo, baseball, tabletop, indiepop & gunpla folks. This is my second go at Bluesky 'cos I was following FAR too many people with my first account! Like, just a ridiculous number. He/Him

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A plump and cheerful snow T. rex sitting in a garden. It has little twig arms and pebble eyes.

A plump and cheerful snow T. rex sitting in a garden. It has little twig arms and pebble eyes.

The snow rex with a small, fluffy, grey yutyrannus plushie sitting between its feet.

The snow rex with a small, fluffy, grey yutyrannus plushie sitting between its feet.

Snow rex giving the camera a friendly smile

Snow rex giving the camera a friendly smile

It snowed enough to sculpt a fat little tyrannosaurus today!

14.02.2026 00:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 573    ๐Ÿ” 239    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
Three realistic plushie salamanders lined up on an ironing board

Three realistic plushie salamanders lined up on an ironing board

They're plushie fire salamanders! One has a yellow dotty belly and one has a red belly

They're plushie fire salamanders! One has a yellow dotty belly and one has a red belly

Close up of plushie salamander face showing printed details and beadie little eyeballs

Close up of plushie salamander face showing printed details and beadie little eyeballs

I've been working on salamanders!

I'll have some in the shop in the next few days

11.02.2026 11:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 126    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just a little teaser from Night Witches.

10.02.2026 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 117    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Wonder Festival 2026 [Winter] Retrouvez ici lโ€™intรฉgralitรฉ des articles concernant les actualitรฉs figurines du Wonder Festival 2026 [Winter].

โ˜† Wonder Festival 2026 WINTER โ˜†
โ†“ Complete coverage: news, photos & updates โ†“
bit.ly/WF2026W-index
RT & stay tuned for all the figure reveals!

07.02.2026 23:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#่‡ชๅทฑ็ดนไป‹ใซ็„ก่จ€ใง4ไฝœๅ“ใฉใ†ใž

24.10.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 911    ๐Ÿ” 268    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think Vampire Survivors has a Switch port.

07.02.2026 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

'Romancing The Scone'

or

'Let The Right Scone In'

depending on how you like to say it.

05.02.2026 19:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
27.04.2025 04:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 230    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Ilium: A Game of Heroes is now open for playtesting!

irregularwars.blogspot.com/2026/02/iliu...

#wargaming
#miniatures
#nerdlings
#trojanwar
#myth
#IliumAGameOfHeroes

03.02.2026 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RONDO THE LADIES GRAPHIC MAGAZINE A FICTIONAL CREATION OF HIROMI MATSUO
paddysbooks.bigcartel.com/product/rond...
#artbooks #illustrations

11.01.2026 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, that awesome - thanks very much! And super quick too...

02.02.2026 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

WTF? (complimentary).

02.02.2026 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A dark elf with her foot resting on a dead beast

A dark elf with her foot resting on a dead beast

Fauna and fauna

01.02.2026 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1128    ๐Ÿ” 264    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We took Ilium: A Game of Heroes out for a run this week. Fired by enthusiasm, I thought I'd share a glimpse.

irregularwars.blogspot.com/2026/01/iliu...

#wargaming
#miniaturepainting
#nerdlings
#trojanwar
#myth
#FantasticScuffles
#IliumAGameOfHeroes

31.01.2026 22:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks, that'd be great! (Oh, the project's mostly just scouring the Wikis for appropriate MH quest text, then making location-specific monster, beast and environmental complication tables. I'll happily pop a PDF over if it ever gets completed (and isn't embarrassingly rubbish), though!)

30.01.2026 18:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GLIDE: Part Two - a new adventure awaits From Sasquatch Games - GLIDE: Part Two - a new adventure awaits

I'm launching the GLIDE: Part Two preview with over 200 events for players to explore, for free! Follow below to get notified when it launches in February.

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

30.01.2026 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks excellent(ly creepy)!

Did you ever come up with a stat block for Goss Harag in Monster Guts 1e, BTW? (I don't believe there's one in your books, but just thought I'd check - I'm doing a silly project to make a quest board featuring all your monsters in their appropriate MH locales... )

30.01.2026 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Image of a page from MONSTER GUTS 2e featuring the Greatsword. The following text surrounds a pink-and-black picture of a Greatsword:

"Greatsword. Bide your time and unleash tremendous power.

"Weighted: When something tries to Send you Flying, you may spend 1 Edge to stay put.

"Crush: 3
"Slice: 0
"Pierce: 1
"Health: 10
"Edge: 5

"Techniques
"Lean In (1)
"Reaction
"Charged Swing (2)
"Shrug through the next enemy blow, preventing it from canceling any Patient attack and reducing incoming Harm by 2 (minimum 1). If you start your turn with a Patient attack ready to activate, you may Dash before releasing the attack.

"Charged Swing (2)
"Close, Crushing, Patient
"Prepare a massive swing that will deal 4E Harm and Stagger your foe.

"Follow-Through (1)
"Close, Crushing, Cleaving
"After landing Charged Swing, whip your sword around your body into a second attack that deals E+2 Harm."

Image of a page from MONSTER GUTS 2e featuring the Greatsword. The following text surrounds a pink-and-black picture of a Greatsword: "Greatsword. Bide your time and unleash tremendous power. "Weighted: When something tries to Send you Flying, you may spend 1 Edge to stay put. "Crush: 3 "Slice: 0 "Pierce: 1 "Health: 10 "Edge: 5 "Techniques "Lean In (1) "Reaction "Charged Swing (2) "Shrug through the next enemy blow, preventing it from canceling any Patient attack and reducing incoming Harm by 2 (minimum 1). If you start your turn with a Patient attack ready to activate, you may Dash before releasing the attack. "Charged Swing (2) "Close, Crushing, Patient "Prepare a massive swing that will deal 4E Harm and Stagger your foe. "Follow-Through (1) "Close, Crushing, Cleaving "After landing Charged Swing, whip your sword around your body into a second attack that deals E+2 Harm."

It's no secret that MONSTER GUTS 2e takes a lot of inspiration from the Monster Hunter series, and one of the design goals of MG2e is to mirror the gamefeel of the weapons from MonHun. Let's talk about how I did that with the Greatsword. #MONSTERGUTS2e #MG2e #MonsterHunter #indiettrpg #ttrpgdesign

29.01.2026 22:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Followed by 'The Sausage of Buster Scruggs'.

29.01.2026 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Miniatures of cloth goblins with spears and wooden shields (one goblin had a sword and a door knocker shield) and a cloth troll, seen through a stone doorway.

Miniatures of cloth goblins with spears and wooden shields (one goblin had a sword and a door knocker shield) and a cloth troll, seen through a stone doorway.

Anyone want some cloth goblins? A cloth troll maybe?

Check out what the Habernagerie has to offer ๐Ÿ‘‡
statuesqueminiatures.co.uk and statuesqueminiatures.etsy.com for ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

29.01.2026 11:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 122    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Coen brothers triple bill: 'O Sausage, Where Art Thou?', 'No Sausage For Old Men' and, of course, 'The Big Sausage'.

29.01.2026 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MONSTER GUTS 2e by Wheels Within Wheels Publishing Action-focused TTRPG inspired by monster hunting videogames

MONSTER GUTS 2e gives a face and flesh to our modern
ghosts, the horrible, bodiless, seemingly inexorable forces that
plague our world, and tells you to go kill them, cut them up,
salvage the useful, and repurpose the rest.

Happy Hunting, scavengers.
dubdubpub.itch.io/monster-guts...

28.01.2026 20:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Oh, excellent; just popped an e-mail over to the info@... address; hope that's the right one!

28.01.2026 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You never see 'really quite early mediaeval' and 'actually still late antiquity' in the same room together...

28.01.2026 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To judge by the reading lists at the back of rulebooks, an awful lot of wargames - tabletop and board-based - appear to draw on outdated material and/or a surprisingly small selection of sources. Many of them are still fun games, of course, but still...

28.01.2026 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Speaking of retail therapy, do you know if your tree stump houses are likely to come back into stock soon(ish)? (I wouldn't have hassled you, but the gnomes I'm painting are very insistent...)

28.01.2026 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To put it into perspective, if this definition of border was applied to the UK, there wouldn't be anywhere that wasn't on the border. (Also makes me realise that I live on a tiny island.)

27.01.2026 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

'I wish I wasn't so relentlessly efficient in my pursuit of evil, but what's a guy to do?'

27.01.2026 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

TBF, he does live in a world with mirrors, it's just they've all been hung too high up for him.

26.01.2026 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wouldn't say no to the titular bolter from Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Loadsa dakka, innit?

26.01.2026 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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