@wirelizard
Cat furniture, mostly. Wargaming & figure painting & terrain. Random nerdery. Bike safety. Society for Creative Anachronism. Leftist (no, further left than that...). Fuck AI "art", fuck TERFs. Pronouns: he/him/@#$%$^! cyclist.
Glad to see BL Manuscripts on the Blue and to see the gradual restoration of your digital collections! All the weird little marginalia, especially in the Luttrell, has to be a favourite.
Beware that some ballpoint pen ink will bleed through some acrylic paints like mad. I have a building made years ago with pen marks still clearly visible on the inside of one wall because I grabbed a random ballpoint to mark up my cut lines on the foamcore. It's got many coats of paint, too...
Scalpel/Xacto knife plus pencil. This is an older video but still a good intro to this sort of stonework. Texture with a real stone or a ball of tinfoil rolled around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXb6...
I preemptively blocked that account. Not worth even thinking about.
a neil gaiman defender contests a response of 'no' to a link to a substack, and is told 'I see that like Neil Gaiman, you don't understand that no is a complete sentence'
you want to see a murder
Say hello!
#minipainting
#miniature
#diorama
#gencon2025
#teletubbies
The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
“Humiliated Nazis” is the genius new 28mm release from Bad Squiddo Games, and THEY MUST BE MINE!!!
badsquiddogames.com/shop?mc_cid=...
"There's no real differences between Canada and the US..."
Canadians, and apparently actual international survey data: "The fuck you say..."
Yeah, I saw that too. Yikes and double yikes.
The YT vid mentioned below is now removed (or unlisted?) but the new not-pology vid is, well, a not-pology, so that's an easy removal from my YouTube subscriptions.
No tolerance for slop.
Always amuses me when people are startled by the Infinity range being mostly metal still. They're beautiful sculpts.
Obsidian Statue done!
#miniatures #miniaturepainting #malifaux
Heinkel 59 biplane floatplane behing lowered or lifted from a hard stand. A group of soldiers are standing around it, and two men are supervising the operation inside the plane and on top of the upper wing. Unknown date and location, Facebook.
New favourite chonk is dropping.
That detail makes it into their wikipedia article, "The British claimed that because the air-sea rescue aircraft were being used for reconnaissance, they were legitimate targets despite carrying Red Cross markings.". Now I'm wondering if someone does a 1/1200 scale version of this beast...
"Oh, it's a biplane floatplane I hadn't heard of, interesting... holy hell that thing is massive, that's a person on the nose and another on the top wing. WTF?" - me, just now. Wild airplane, I need to go look it up now... (the 1930s was such a gloriously weird time in aviation...)
North Park or Fairfield Bikes are my go-to these days. Russ Hays maybe, haven't been there in ages.
Good bike shops should absolutely let you test ride saddles. Tell them what you're there for and what has worked or not worked for you in saddles in the past.
Chicken1: A small painted chicken miniature in front of a backdrop of green hills; we can see the left side of the mini. The chicken has a green plastic base, painted to look like grass, yellow feet and a yellow beak, brownish-red plumage, and bright red combs. The chicken is looking balefully at you with a magical left eye, painted a whitish-purple like Magnus.
Chicken2: A front view of the same miniature. Magnus the Rhode Island Red is looking directly at the camera
Chicken4: Rear view of the chicken. You can really see the tail feathers.
Chicken3: A right-side view of the same chicken. It looks pretty much the same as the left view, except that this side has a normal black eye.
Mini of the month - what’s wrong with you?
Entry 8 by @beerandrockets.bsky.social
Magnus the Rhode Island Red
#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
Two cosmonaut bears explore an alien landscape as the Soviet colors billow behind them on the Martian breeze… does mars have wind? I probably should have looked that up
Two cosmonaut bears explore an alien landscape as the Soviet colors billow behind them on the Martian breeze… does mars have wind? I probably should have looked that up
Two cosmonaut bears explore an alien landscape as the Soviet colors billow behind them on the Martian breeze… does mars have wind? I probably should have looked that up
Two cosmonaut bears explore an alien landscape as the Soviet colors billow behind them on the Martian breeze… does mars have wind? I probably should have looked that up
Mini of the month - what’s wrong with you?
Entry 9 by @ratbag.bsky.social
Ursi Gagarin
#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
Dak always dreamed of being on television. Since joining the Ruinous Powers and following Tzarn, The Lord of Changing Channels, his dream has sort-of come true. Now he's a goat-like Beastman with a view-screen for a head, wielding a loop aerial in one clawed hand and a clicker in the other. He has a lovely blue top, though, and he quite likes the yellow cut-off shorts
Dak in the Underhive, back to us this time, about to go knock on a door and see if he can get any more converts. He's hopeful, even though he doesn't always get a good reception.
Mini of the month - what’s wrong with you?
Entry 10 by @tammi.bsky.social
"Are you interested in changing your cabal provider?"
#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
Right after the injured Alien, that the Coftyran Royalists pulled out of the wreckage of what was left of that UFO, regained consciousness, he took over command of the whole brigade. Not one Rhyfler had the heart to tell him, that they sure were Royalists but never heard of that Emperor he was always babbling about. He always said they were “Abhumans, but his Abhumans”. Soon they found out that he was a tactical genius like Alwyd has never seen and he led them from victory to victory. So they let him do what he does best. Lead from the front lines.
Right after the injured Alien, that the Coftyran Royalists pulled out of the wreckage of what was left of that UFO, regained consciousness, he took over command of the whole brigade. Not one Rhyfler had the heart to tell him, that they sure were Royalists but never heard of that Emperor he was always babbling about. He always said they were “Abhumans, but his Abhumans”. Soon they found out that he was a tactical genius like Alwyd has never seen and he led them from victory to victory. So they let him do what he does best. Lead from the front lines.
Right after the injured Alien, that the Coftyran Royalists pulled out of the wreckage of what was left of that UFO, regained consciousness, he took over command of the whole brigade. Not one Rhyfler had the heart to tell him, that they sure were Royalists but never heard of that Emperor he was always babbling about. He always said they were “Abhumans, but his Abhumans”. Soon they found out that he was a tactical genius like Alwyd has never seen and he led them from victory to victory. So they let him do what he does best. Lead from the front lines.
Right after the injured Alien, that the Coftyran Royalists pulled out of the wreckage of what was left of that UFO, regained consciousness, he took over command of the whole brigade. Not one Rhyfler had the heart to tell him, that they sure were Royalists but never heard of that Emperor he was always babbling about. He always said they were “Abhumans, but his Abhumans”. Soon they found out that he was a tactical genius like Alwyd has never seen and he led them from victory to victory. So they let him do what he does best. Lead from the front lines.
Mini of the month - what’s wrong with you?
Entry 13 by @owolf.bsky.social
Commissar Quarick
#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth #JHBackdrops
a green skinned goblin stands on a worn and weathered candleholder among a collection of old books. A big burning red candle sits on the goblins head, positioned like some sort of giant top hat. The goblin holds a burnt match in place of a spear. A smattering of red wax adorns the candleholder and an open box of redhead matches can be seen behind the goblin.
a green skinned goblin stands on a worn and weathered candleholder among a collection of old books. A big burning red candle sits on the goblins head, positioned like some sort of giant top hat. The goblin holds a burnt match in place of a spear. A smattering of red wax adorns the candleholder and an open box of redhead matches can be seen behind the goblin.
a green skinned goblin stands on a worn and weathered candleholder among a collection of old books. A big burning red candle sits on the goblins head, positioned like some sort of giant top hat. The goblin holds a burnt match in place of a spear. A smattering of red wax adorns the candleholder and an open box of redhead matches can be seen behind the goblin.
a green skinned goblin stands on a worn and weathered candleholder among a collection of old books. A big burning red candle sits on the goblins head, positioned like some sort of giant top hat. The goblin holds a burnt match in place of a spear. A smattering of red wax adorns the candleholder and an open box of redhead matches can be seen behind the goblin.
Mini of the month - what’s wrong with you?
Entry 3 by @tristanwelsh.bsky.social
Light Goblin
#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
The Floof, a longhair brown tabby, rolling around on a knitted cat bed with a multicolour rat-shaped cat toy in her paws and another similar toy behind her.
A longhair brown tabby rolling around on a knitted cat bed with rainbow colored toy rats on either side of her.
A sleeping longhair brown tabby all curled up on a knitted cat bed, tail tucked under her chin.
The Floof, a longhair brown tabby, looks up from a wicker storage cube outfitted as a cat lurk spot with a towel for padding. A Christmas ornament hangs from one corner of the cube above her head.
It is #Caturday and the Floof continues to be photogenic. Persist, but pause to gaze upon the floof. Remember that Nazis need punching, ICE must be abolished, Canada will never be the 51st State, alt text should be included in all images, trans rights are human rights, and all cats are best cats.
orange cat curled up
don't look at the news. look at this
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”
Three characters from the 'Vikings' TV series, wearing a variety of impractical-looking dark leather outfits with various gridded elements, arbitrary straps, and decorative panelling.
Three dark leather lawn chairs made of interwoven leather and gridded panelling.
One of our survey respondents characterised present-day popular viking outfits as 'lawn chair armour', and there is frankly no better description out there.
Four 28mm musketeers and three Roman auxiliary getting converted to ghostly spectres with greenstuff spectral flames and some skull heads. Several more rounds of greenstuff to go, you can usually only do one piece of flame per figure per session otherwise you ruin your previous greenstuff work.
Seven more spectre conversions in progress. Four musketeers and three Roman auxiliary, several with skulls instead of regular heads. Spectral flames in progress. That'll give me a dozen spectres. #nerdlings #miniatures #wargaming
I have a double batch of Meridian figures on the painting table right now, two of their medieval marginalia sets. They do good tightly run Kickstarters for unique, gloriously weird, beautifully sculpted figures. Recommended! (no KS for me this round, I'm on a bit of a purchasing break...) #nerdlings