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Painted in 4 days for an event at my local GW. Not finished unfortunately, but good enough to drop off. Looking forward to finishing the details, great mini to build and paint!

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Finished pics of my Squat Rockgrinder for Battle of the Brush at GW Manchester. So glad to have this one finished!

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WIP Rockgrinder for my Squats. Really interesting model to paint. Plenty of time for once before my competition entry deadline!

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Latest comp entry for Battle of the Brush, my Sternguard squad for my Squats. Fingers crossed!

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Finished my Squat Commander for Battle of the Brush, wish me luck!

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Making some progress on my new Squat Commander. Lots of fun so far, or at least since the metallic stuff was mostly done!

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Beard colour suggestions much appreciated!

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The snow has finally cleared so it's spray day for my new Squat commander!

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My collection of Kev Adams era Night Goblins... Love these minis!

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My latest competition entry, a Land Speeder for my Squats. Judging tonight, fingers crossed!

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What ever happened to your Jade Falcons? Have you considered resurrecting them with the new BA codex?

Sadly they've been gathering dust since I got back to the UK. I might resurrect them in future, but I've got a busy year this year, so I'm not expecting to look at them for a bit!

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Latest wip for my Squats, a Land Speeder!

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So Women cant have bad Charactertraits?

Are you kidding me? Of course they can, don't be absurd! Engage some logic and read what I said again. Women (singular) can have any permutation of good and/or bad traits. Women (plural) do not have any set of shared character traits because they are all individuals, saying that all women (for example) are vindictive is sexist and patently false.

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Sexism, Forge World & Tony Cottrell.

I have to say, I'm really disappointed reading the quotes from Tony Cottrell at the FW open day. To insinuate that Clan Escher are exotic and vindictive because they are women is just outright sexist and inane.

I've been reading a load of neckbeard responses to this situation on social media (FB mainly) and it's just infuriating that people can't see this from the minority viewpoint.

Here's a matrix for those that are finding it hard to understand why this is wrong:

1) Women can be exotic and vindictive.

2) Women can be exotic but not vindictive.

3. Women can be vindictive but not exotic.

4. Women can be neither exotic nor vindictive.

See how that works? Women can fall into any of those categories, being a woman does not automatic mean you are category 1! The behaviours he is classifying as associated with House Escher have nothing to do with their gender.

To insinuate that those behaviors are caused by them being female is archaic. I'm glad to see Forge World have come out and disassociated themselves with his comments. It's just a real shame in this day and age to see attitudes like this persisting and being given a platform.

Worse still is the amount of people who don't even think it's an issue, who don't seem to be able to see the situation outside their own damned privilege. We all want to see greater diversity in the player and fan base, it's stupid shit like this that makes female gamers walk away, because they feel excluded. It pisses me off that this message was served from the HQ of a company that is supposed to be making headway to be more progressive.

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Just finished this unit of Squats for my local GW painting comp, fingers crossed!

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Apparently these are the big surprise for WHW tomorrow, new Custodians, presumably as well as the HQ GW teased last month.

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All hail Da Red Orktober - made by the manager at GW Manchester. How cool?