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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
#WIP #MiniaturePainting #Midgard
Progress on @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social Goths and Romans
Might be onto shields and basing tomorrow!
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Fantastic stuff!
Tonight’s Midgard Heroic Battles scrap: Hornchewer Hill. For the climax of our campaign, Prinz Alaric led his Dwarves against Azgoth Hornchewer. Despite driving the Orcs back up the hill, the Dwarves were beaten and Alaric escaped into the old mine workings. #wargaming #nerdlings #spreadthelard
February 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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100% this.

The trans community in my hobbies are wonderful people, funny, smart, and full of love and compassion, more than many cis folk I know and certainly kinder and more caring then any politician in the UK.

#TrabsRightsAreHumanRights.
Hello trans pals & followers

I hear you, I see you and I love you

You are better than this country x
February 12, 2026 at 6:10 PM
#navalwargaming
Oh my!
These are fabulous!
1/800 IJN. First batch completed and will be based on Monday.

Kamikaze Class DD
Mutsuki Class DD

Looking forward to using these with the Snorkers(Good Oh!) tabletop rules.

#shedowar #snorkersgoodoh #wargames #wargaming
February 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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I don't want gen AI in my browser.
I don't want gen AI in my PC.
I don't want gen AI in my art.
I don't want gen AI in my games.
I don't want gen AI in my music.
I don't want gen AI in my movies.
I don't want gen AI in my books.
I don't want gen AI in my cart.
I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.
I don't want gen AI in my browser.
I don't want gen AI in my PC.
I don't want gen AI in my art.
I don't want gen AI in my games.
I don't want gen AI in my music.
I don't want gen AI in my movies.
I don't want gen AI in my books.
I don't want gen AI in my cart.
I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.
I don't want gen AI in my browser.
I don't want gen AI in my PC.
I don't want gen AI in my art.
I don't want gen AI in my games.
I don't want gen AI in my music.
I don't want gen AI in my movies.
I don't want gen AI in my books.
I don't want gen AI in my cart.
I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
So apparently, the shutting down of El Paso airspace was because of

*checks notes*

A stray party balloon.

Which was shot down.

*cue music*

youtu.be/hiwgOWo7mDc?...
NENA | 99 Red Balloons [1984] (Official HD Music Video)
YouTube video by NENA
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Honest, a 40 hour week is waaaaaaay too long.
February 11, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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It's ANOTHER distracting DORK TOWER WEDNESDAY (special Thursday edition). Pay no attention to that other stuff over there...CLICK HERE for a new strip up at the Mothership:

www.dorktower.com/2026/02/11/d...

Repost/reblog/repeat, thanks SO much!
February 11, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Some Sohei Warrior Monks I have recently painted, from Fireforge Games.
February 11, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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 .
media.tenor.com
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
ALT: a man is asking if he can put a dogecoin in his car
media.tenor.com
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