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@jamesmanto.bsky.social
Miniature #wargamer, Tolkien enthusiast, tea addict. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
My #wargaming blog: rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com
My gaming con: www.hotlead.ca
Distracting myself from the collapse of one empire by painting figures for the collapse of another.
@wargamesatlantic.bsky.social 3rd century Romans and Goths. 3 units for #Midgard #SpreadtheLard #wargaming
Inks tomorrow night, then metal bits and touch ups before shields and bases.
February 11, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I'm doing up custom card decks for "Snorkers! (Good Oh!)", as you do. (Mainly because I keep getting confused about who's red & black.)
I'm making data cards for each ship class with a plan drawing & the game stats.
Think I can find any for British E & J class DDs?
#WargamerProblems #navalwargaming
a cat wearing glasses is laying on a laptop .
ALT: a cat wearing glasses is laying on a laptop .
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February 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Ready for action, wherever the front takes him. The @warfulcrumgames.bsky.social Great War figures have some wonderful poses, especially considering how hard it'd be for this poor corporal to signal with a mask on!

#jhbackdrops
February 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Peak Warhammer aesthetic
February 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Yay! I'm inside the Tabletop Miniature Wargaming moat where it's cozy and safe!
I tried and got "user not found" :/
Found you somewhere east of me 😄
February 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I cannot get this to work.
I'd assumed when it says "ready" a pin would appear to give my location so I could zoom in?
February 10, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I don't understand the appeal of Trench Crusade.
Regular First World War is grim enough.
Honest.
Gas masks still bloody terrify me.

This @warfulcrumgames.bsky.social British Corporal is dangerously close to finished, once I get the gunk on his base and a little grime around his boots. Not all of 1918 was trenches and mud, but it's still kind of iconic for the Great War!
February 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
#mood #life
So, what's on everyone's #painting bench?
February 10, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Stargrave crew so far.

@anvilindustry.bsky.social droids and some other bits. Bases are Kromlech toppers.

#stargrave #stargravecrew #scifi #miniaturepainting #anvilindustry
February 9, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Doesn't @ospreygames.bsky.social usually have a sale around this time of year?
#wargamerproblems
February 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I *knew* Big Tech had meetings to figure out ways to make tech shittier
the tech industry
February 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I don't judge people by what kind of car they drive.
Unless it's a Cybertruck.
a man is asking if he can put a dogecoin in his car
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February 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
February 8, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Some test models knocked up today….

#aloadofoldtoby
February 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Dr Who”, or “Transformers.”
February 6, 2026 at 11:08 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Dr Who”, or “Transformers.”
February 6, 2026 at 11:06 PM
S5 of #Fargo just knocked it out of the park.
I love the juxtapositions of silly & sinister, grand & banal, Shakespeare & suburban in all of "Fargo"
The end of S5 we have forgiveness, redemption, and a 500 yr old curse lifted with buttermilk biscuits and some "Minnesota Nice"
Fargo 5x10 Ole Munch and "Bisquik" Finale
YouTube video by Dummies
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February 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Chain of Command 2. Italy 1945. 38 Brigade pushes into German lines on the road to Argenta.
#15mm
#spreadthelard
#wargaming
February 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Rhyme a word, ruin a classic.

Lord of the Blings
Rhyme a word, ruin a classic...

Lord of the Pies

(Missed Mr. Stakpole's brilliant Steinbeck choice when I quoted him earlier)
Rhyme a word, ruin a classic...

The Crepes of Wrath...
February 5, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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A couple of in game shots from the play testing of #MotherRussia in Tajikistan
February 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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America, It's Not You, It's...
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It's time for a midweek mood check!
Use a gif or pic or video to share how you are feeling today...
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
#WIPWednesday #Nerdlings #SpreadtheLard #Midgard #wargaming
Working on some @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social Goths and 3rd century Romans.
1 unit each of Romans, Goth warriors, and skirmishers for #Midgard
February 5, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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February 4, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Legit !
Listen to the poets.
February 3, 2026 at 7:29 PM