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Life Update: And Then There Were Four

Well of course, once I decide to recommit myself to writing and posting again with regularity, life throws a curveball. Good news! The baby is here. Crazy news: he came way earlier than anyone anticipated. He only made it to 32 weeks before he decided it was time to join the party. I might get into all of the details sometime down the road but for now I will say that both he and mom are happy and…

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A Thing I Made: Kitsune Merchant

I’ve been kind of at a loss this week as to what to write because that post I made last week about the new Lady Custodes got quite a bit of attention and I wasn’t sure how to follow it up. For now we will get back to our regularly scheduled programing with a new model I finished recently that I am very proud of. To date this is up there with the Lady of Arcana as one of the best things I’ve ever…

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My Unsolicited Opinion On The New Custodes

Like many people who consume Warhammer content, I have sat back in awe as the fandom has pretty much torn itself apart for the last week over the fact that Games Workshop has decided to make female custodes cannon in the lore. I don’t mean this as an exaggeration either, people have absolutely gone to war over this shit. GW also decided that not only were they adding them into the lore, but they…

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Lady of Arcana

Wings and eyes! I’ve been working on this model from Creature Castor for the last few weeks. I have used it as an opportunity to work with colors that I don’t usually get to paint with, especially the oranges and the greys. Right now I like how it pops, however I think I can push the highlights even further, especially with the wings. Pushing color is definitely something that gets me out of my…

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New Baby, New Anxieties

Well here we go, new year big news. New baby on the way! Once more into the breach. It’s says a lot about how confident I am that none of my family members read this that I am able to announce that we are having a new baby despite not really having told any of them yet and knowing that I don’t think any of them will know. That is not a complaint by the way, I have done a pretty good job of…

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2024 Is The Year

2024 is the year friends.

Heyooooo! Another year another attempt at keeping this blog alive. What is the over/under on how many months I am able to maintain posting? Probably 3. God I hope it’s more than 3. 2024 is the year. I’m not really sure why I am feeling so confident but for some reason for the first time since 2020 I am thinking that this is the year of success. Maybe it’s because 2024 just has a nice aesthetic.…

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Drycha Hamadreth

Still need to clean up the base a bit but essentially finished

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Baby Rejection: My Biggest New Dad Challenge

In the months leading up to the birth of our daughter I spent more time pouring over new dad material than I knew was even possible. I read books, articles, watched Youtube videos, and peppered every father figure I knew for advice. I learned infant CPR. I tried to devour as much content as I could, even though I knew it wouldn’t be enough. Truthfully, most of the first 60 days or so is just a…

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The Hanged Man Tarot by Peter Mohrbacher

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Art by Apofiss

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There is no middle ground

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The Void Dragon

This has been another bugbear of a mini for a long time. Glad that I finally found the will to assemble, paint and feature the dang thing. Makes a lovely centerpiece to my Necron Shelf, and gives me the gas to actually play a high-point game.

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[WH40k] Lucius model Imperial Lasgun (by me, @ottohimmel12)

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A Thing I Made: Owlbear

Just look at that little guy! I like the way the mom turned out but LOOK AT THE BABY OWLBEAR! That’s pretty much the whole reason I bought this print. I have found lots of different versions of owlbears online, but this was the first I had seen with the baby, and I just wanted to paint it so damn badly. I got the print from Yasashii Kyojin Studio’s Patreon. I was a subscriber for about a year and…

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James Bingham art for the 1951 Ray Bradbury story, The Fog Horn. From Ray Bradbury’s own art collection.

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How I Learned to Paint: Stormcast Eternals

I want to start this post off with a disclaimer: what you see below are not good paint jobs. But, it seems like the best place to start is at the beginning. This was the start of my miniature painting journey, a set of Stormcast Eternals that I painted back in 2016. It was my first step into what has since become one of my favorite ways to spend my free time. It is one of the first hobbies I’ve…

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First commissioned work for a friends DnD campaign. Great design, fun to paint. One of four family members I will be posting as they are complete.