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The STORM

Custom Balor/White Witch, for when you need a nano whip AND a ferrous lash.

Art for Incanor Ian

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by Juan Richard Feliz

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77256: Brass Bull (Reaper Bones)

Another from my original run. I did a lot with glossy top coat.

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Off the coast of Australia Macroctopus caught the shark, wrapped all its tentacles around it and soon released it. Most likely, he scraped all the parasites off her.

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A soup? Time's a weird soup? Is that a saying where you're from?

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I'm making a collection of censored dirty talk that takes me more than 3 seconds to read. "Pɐuʇıəs" took me what felt like a month. Also impossible for me to read that last slide in anything but the "I can haz cheezburger?" voice

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“Functional and loaded”

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

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Parrot and White Birds, Yu Fei'an, 1941

Ink and colour on paper scroll 93.5 x 45.5 cm (36 ¾ x 17 ⅞ in.)

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I feel like I lost my vision for painting miniatures at the moment? Not in like a big way, but I keep trying to figure out a scheme for space marines or my Gravelords and I just can’t? Building and kitbashing is still there but colors are beyond me at the moment?

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It's time for more Scythe of the emperor!

It just seems that these are a little more aggressive than usual. 🤫

Commission Work

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So I’ve been painting again and here are a few of my little dudes. The assault intercessor was my first time trying to paint an ultramarine and I think I’ve really improved with this last guy.

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Church Mouse Musician Playing the Mandolin // MedievalKnight

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Pretty much done. I just need to add a few decals and some flames.

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Michael Bryan meeting Dorian Pavus while playing Dragon Age: Inquisition for the first time (via YouTube)

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His Shield is complete! Next, sword or cape? I shall see