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Andy Walker @balthazar-weiss.bsky.social · 4h

...and the first model I ever painted!

Plastic Dwarf from the Advanced Heroquest Paint Set

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 5h

My favourite trebuchet story is Edward I spending three months building one at Stirling Castle - nicknamed Warwolf - then angrily ordering the garrison back inside when they tried to surrender before he had a chance to use it at them.

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 7h

Reading Holy Warriors,Jonathan Phillips' excellent history of the crusades, I learn that catapults on the opposing sides at the siege of Acre at the end of the 12th century went by names such as "Bad Neighbour" and "Evil Cousin."

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BlueInVT 👊🇺🇸🔥 @blueinvt.bsky.social · 18h

Your painting certainly helps make that guy look great...but I also agree that some of the old Fantasy Regiments figures hold up well. I'm particularly fond of the Orcs and Dwarfs...finished this unit up for last Orctober...

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The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast @oldhammerpodcast.bsky.social · 18h

A fun fact about these guys- the bare heads had ears that tessellated with other versions of itself so you could make a really mean looking two headed skaven.

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Mike Edmunds @bassworm.bsky.social · 18h

A bit more progress on the rainy day in 1918. #histscalemodels

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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 1d

*Another* #DragonWarriors #RPG adventure?! You'd think it was the 40th anniversary or something.

This one's based on a #Knightmare novel: The Fortress of Assassins.

fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

"The Flameheart's Heir" (a Legend scenario for Dragon Warriors)

This scenario for Dragon Warriors adapts The Fortress of Assassins ( Knightmare book 3) into a quest to discover the fate of King Rigar ...

fabledlands.blogspot.com

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Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI @vintagefantasyart.bsky.social · 1d

« The Black Rose », 1972

by Jeffrey Catherine Jones (American artist, 1944-2011)
Cover illustration of "Nine Princes In Amber", Roger Zelazny, Avon Books, 1972

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #JeffJones #JeffreyCatherineJones #RogerZelazny #NinePrincesInAmber #ChroniclesOfAmber

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Dungeonbuster @dungeonbuster.bsky.social · 3d

Drop something SKELETAL

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 2d

The Pendragon Starter Set contains everything a fledgling Gamemaster requires to run a band of freshly-knighted characters through several adventures in the historic fantasy of King Arthur’s Britain.

www.chaosium.com/pendragon-st...

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Oakbound Studio @oakboundstudio.bsky.social · 2d

New Redcap releases for Orctober.

#goblins #orcsandgoblins #oldhammer #oldhammercommunity #thewoodsminiatures #thewoodsskirmish #orcs #orctober #oathmark #frostgrave #warhammer #warhammerfantasy #warhammerfantasybattle #wfb #kingsofwar #mordheim #wfrp

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Hawklorddragon @cimerians.bsky.social · 2d

Conan The Fearless paperback cover Boris Vallejo (1986)
#CONAN #fantasyart

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Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 3d

White Dwarf 126, a classic that featured Space Marine, Space Hulk, & Marieburg for WFRP

The cover is by artist Colin Sullivan and was used, along with some more of his art, in the GW release of RuneQuest. Sullivan's work also graced the covers of the Way of the Tiger gamebooks

#WarhammerCommunity

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 3d

Londoners could have travelled on the Underground to witness public hangings as the two briefly overlapped in the 1860s.

Simon Treanor @simonjtreanor.bsky.social · 3d

Jack the Ripper could have travelled on the London Underground

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 3d

The last widow to be receiving a pension because of her husband's service in the US Civil War died in 2020.

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 3d

Atari 2600 Star Wars games.

#atari #starwars

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 3d

Overtime Cop

]|[nquisitor S. (Lexicanum) @inquisitors.bsky.social · 3d

Basic Income Instinct

]|[nquisitor S. (Lexicanum) @inquisitors.bsky.social · 3d

9 1/2 Work Weeks

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 3d

Copy of Battle with Model Tanks, by Donald Featherstone and Keith Robinson. Book cover with model tank battle across a scenic battlefield.

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Ville @turms-of-alps.bsky.social · 3d

Time to continue with WAAAGH and now diggin deep into my old Ork miniatures - Citadel metals from the 1980s. On the left is orc champion with dual choppas and Mormo Jabberbinder Shaman from Mighty Ugezod's Death Commandos.

#Warhammer #oldhammer #orktober #paintingwarhammer #ork #waaagh #orcshaman

Two oldschool metal miniatures from Warhammer Fantasy range. On the left is orc champion with dual choppas and Mormo Jabberbinder Shaman from Mighty Ugezod's Death Commandos. Slotta bases and all, good times from 1980s.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 5d

53. Caverns of the Snow Witch, Ian Livingstone

Revisiting the favourite Fighting Fantasy book from my youth. A really great story in this one, really feels like a proper D&D campaign. Brick hard though, some nasty fights that I couldn't see a way to avoid (that damn Birdman!)

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Mark A. Latham @markalatham.bsky.social · 7d

Something for the weekend, sir?

#FightingFantasy

Fighting Fantasy gamebook, Island of the Lizard King.

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 3d

Fighting Fantasy 33 - Sky Lord. Les Edwards.

#fightingfantasy #oldhammer

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 3d

Mr. Heli

#atari #atarist #commodore #amiga #zxspectrum

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 3d

That our entry for Blockbusters was so bad it humiliated the teaching staff in front of their counterparts at the rival local secondary schools (a serious no-no when we gloried in the best GCSE pass rates for a state school in our LEA) and the girl concerned was put on study leave immediately.

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 3d

John Blanche

#oldhammer

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 3d

RIFTS Atlantis, Newton Ewell

#rifts

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