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Bill Adcock

@paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social

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I’m Bill (he/him, 🏳️‍🌈) and I’m a cat dad, occasional freelance TTRPG scenario author, and miniature painter. I like metal figures over plastic.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · Dec 15

Wrote myself up a post on my (often disused) painting and wargaming blog to organize my thoughts and lay our an actionable plan for responsible hobbying in 2025. TLDR: buy less, paint more, play more.

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Figuring Out 2025 Plans

So first thing's first - I haven't done any gaming lately. Haven't gotten my army to the game store for Warhammer: The Old World. Kind of.....

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 14h

Wrecked cars and barricades finished!

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe more that I just wanna put a junkyard on the table?

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 17h

I think just a final wash and doing the bases and that’ll be it for these.

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 17h

the Fenris co-pilot's in for surgery again tomorrow, bless his heart, so doesn't currently understand why theres absolutely *nothing* for him to eat.

thoughts, prayers, ko-fi, orders via the shop all very much appreciated!

bat-eared husky-cross puppy in the meeting room at Battersea Dogs Home the day I met him nearly 11 years ago. he's sitting skew-legged on a white linoleum floor looking up at the camera with his bright blue eyes.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Praising me for taking extra efforts to protect the immunocompromised while in the same breath proudly announcing that she won’t do the bare minimum to protect others is unfortunately pretty par for the course with her.

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Last time I attended one of these quarterly meetings, one of my coworkers commended me for masking to protect my wife, then launched into the story of how she refused the shingles vaccine, got a painful case of shingles, but still would not get any vaccinations going forward.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

It would be one thing if I was confident my coworkers washed their hands and covered their mouths when sneezing and if my wife wasn’t immunocompromised, but sadly I know they don’t and she is. And fuck three hours of bingo for mini candy bars.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible night’s sleep and the neighbor’s dogs goaded the local skunk into spraying again in the pre-dawn hours. So glad I scheduled myself off so I don’t need to make a two hour commute for a meeting that’s going to be 3 hours of forced socialization.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, pretty soon it’s going to be time to just prep for the winter months.

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Kev Dallimore @kevdallimore.bsky.social · 1d

298. ‘Big Tam’ Frazer, Department X veteran, from 7TV Crooked Dice. (my second paint of him, Fraser tartan) All done in Foundry paints. Mix of brushes.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight’s painting efforts: wrecked cars are 3D prints, glued to MDF terrain bases and gussied up with some Mantic TerrainCrate bits. Barricades are Mantic. Not done but close!

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

This is how he tries to convince me to share my peanut M&Ms with him.

Poppy, a brown and white cat, laying on his back with his back paws in the air and his front paws crossed.

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 3d

Boosting the signal, because THIS is the lesson so many of us, particularly me, need to learn. Celebrate others’ wins, even if you don’t know the winner personally, and don’t worry about the return. You may not get one, but that’s not why you’re doing it in the first place.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d

A big thing about people who think like this is that they don’t realize: learning how to be happy for other people is a HUGE step in the direction of learning how to be happy for yourself.

How that would help me? Because I already do that but the fact that I have nothing to celebrate myself make me just bitter in return
It's like clapping and be happy toward people about having cake without having ourself cake

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a goofy thing but I love it. Giant inflatable gorilla in sunglasses holding a going out of business sign is a mood. Just a base and the straps holding the sign to his hands left to finish.

A neon red gorilla wearing neon green shorts and sunglasses, holding a red and yellow sign that reads “ALL STOCK MUST GO!”

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Not the Western Front Society @ntwf.bsky.social · 2d

Issue 1 of the journal of the Not the Western Front Society has been published 5 great articles in this issue including The Siege of Tsing-Tao Part 1, Ramadi and Signal Company in Gallipoli

Its just £7.50 a year for subscriptions and you can sign up at www.trybooking.com/uk/ESJZ

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

AI is no match for a Frenchman with a big nose hiding in the bushes and feeding you lines.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

In the good old days you’d have a French swordsman who was self-conscious about the size of his nose hide in the bushes and feed you lines to say.

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OSHIROmodels @oshiromodels.bsky.social · 2d

Afternoon everyone 🙂 Got a little medieval release today in the form of a skep or beehive shelter. A six part kit including three skeps.

www.oshiromodels.co.uk/medievaladdi...

#oshiromodels
#wargaming
#nerdlings

A shot of the skep shelter with three skeps or beehives inside.

There is an ECW soldier next to it for scale (28mm on a 25mm base).

A photo showing the parts of the shelter. Three skeps in front with a little shelf behind them. The roof to the right and the main shelter to the rear.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 3d

“What if a werewolf was also a Pixar mom?”

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a shame.

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been ordering through their US distributor, Badger Games - hopefully they get a restock soon but if needs be I’ll order direct and accept the idiotic tariffs.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 3d

Perfect for my tastes in all ways - I think I’ve only had one figure so far that wasn’t a single piece casting, and the level of detailing is just right - no getting bored painting endless belts and pouches!

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sure I’ll be making a few more orders in the not too distant future as well. These guys need someone to fight after all…

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