Mike Everest
@britishbersagliere.bsky.social
Wrestling, History, Metal, Wargames, RPGs, Toy Soldiers, Italian and British Great War.
Nerd.
He/Him
Nerd.
He/Him
Finished these last night. Arguably my favourite models GW ever produced. Eowyn the shield maiden, and Eowyn in the battle for Helms deep. I’ve painted them loads of times before, but these are specifically for MESBG next year. No surprises, im doing Rohan.
#LOTR
#wargamjng
#LOTR
#wargamjng
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Finished these last night. Arguably my favourite models GW ever produced. Eowyn the shield maiden, and Eowyn in the battle for Helms deep. I’ve painted them loads of times before, but these are specifically for MESBG next year. No surprises, im doing Rohan.
#LOTR
#wargamjng
#LOTR
#wargamjng
WIP of my dads Xmas present. It will have 3 aircraft fighting over the South Downs far below. Rookie mistake of not ordering enough Perspex rod, but that’s an easy fix that I can get more by next week.
Me109 chaser is complete and the saviour spitfire ready too. Not long now!
#ww2
#diorama
Me109 chaser is complete and the saviour spitfire ready too. Not long now!
#ww2
#diorama
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
With a voice like a Melodic Siege engine that crushes ancient walls in its wake. Nina lead Lowen last night into an astounding set of Sumerian doom metal.
Life affirming shit. Felt the emotion and sound wave push into the pillar behind me.
Incredible music.
#metal
#ancient
Life affirming shit. Felt the emotion and sound wave push into the pillar behind me.
Incredible music.
#metal
#ancient
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Recently, one of our players completed a campaign with her first character. During the game, her characters Mentor was slain in the final battle in a moving scene.
I comissioned @carnaby.bsky.social to make a stained glass window of him as a Birthday gift for her.
Absolutely amazing.
#realart
I comissioned @carnaby.bsky.social to make a stained glass window of him as a Birthday gift for her.
Absolutely amazing.
#realart
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Recently, one of our players completed a campaign with her first character. During the game, her characters Mentor was slain in the final battle in a moving scene.
I comissioned @carnaby.bsky.social to make a stained glass window of him as a Birthday gift for her.
Absolutely amazing.
#realart
I comissioned @carnaby.bsky.social to make a stained glass window of him as a Birthday gift for her.
Absolutely amazing.
#realart
Rapier Missile systems. I’ve done them in a park in Berlin to give a bit of colour. The cables are made from pipe cleaners I removed the fluff off. Lovely models!
#wargaming
#berlinbrigade
#wargaming
#berlinbrigade
December 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Rapier Missile systems. I’ve done them in a park in Berlin to give a bit of colour. The cables are made from pipe cleaners I removed the fluff off. Lovely models!
#wargaming
#berlinbrigade
#wargaming
#berlinbrigade
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
Steeleye Span (1st)
Megadeth
Anthrax (best)
Public Service Broadcasting
Castle Rat (most recent)
Steeleye Span (1st)
Megadeth
Anthrax (best)
Public Service Broadcasting
Castle Rat (most recent)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
AC/DC
Paul Weller
Deep Purple
Joe Bonamassa
Rammstein
AC/DC
Paul Weller
Deep Purple
Joe Bonamassa
Rammstein
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
Madness
Marillion
Pink Floyd
Depeche Mode
Roxy Music
Madness
Marillion
Pink Floyd
Depeche Mode
Roxy Music
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
Steeleye Span (1st)
Megadeth
Anthrax (best)
Public Service Broadcasting
Castle Rat (most recent)
Steeleye Span (1st)
Megadeth
Anthrax (best)
Public Service Broadcasting
Castle Rat (most recent)
This is really powerful. Six months after I got together with my now wife, she was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. We are now nearly 20 years down the line. I’ll never forget the feeling 2 weeks before our wedding in 13, her official cure report coming in.
Good tears.
A ride I never want again
Good tears.
A ride I never want again
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is really powerful. Six months after I got together with my now wife, she was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. We are now nearly 20 years down the line. I’ll never forget the feeling 2 weeks before our wedding in 13, her official cure report coming in.
Good tears.
A ride I never want again
Good tears.
A ride I never want again
‘What’s your location?’
‘Passing a BMW on the Potzdammer strasse!’
All four on the floor!
Buccaneers ready to rock for Team Yankee.
These guys look absolutely badass!
#teamyankee
#berlinbrigade
‘Passing a BMW on the Potzdammer strasse!’
All four on the floor!
Buccaneers ready to rock for Team Yankee.
These guys look absolutely badass!
#teamyankee
#berlinbrigade
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
‘What’s your location?’
‘Passing a BMW on the Potzdammer strasse!’
All four on the floor!
Buccaneers ready to rock for Team Yankee.
These guys look absolutely badass!
#teamyankee
#berlinbrigade
‘Passing a BMW on the Potzdammer strasse!’
All four on the floor!
Buccaneers ready to rock for Team Yankee.
These guys look absolutely badass!
#teamyankee
#berlinbrigade
‘I don’t know what it is but it’s weird and it’s pissed off’
This is awful
This is awful
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
‘I don’t know what it is but it’s weird and it’s pissed off’
This is awful
This is awful
‘Hello control we are at cruising altitude on the Autobahn to Berlin now. Just about to overtake a Mercedes’ in the fast lane’
Buccaneer number one table ready. Got some hazard markings to paint on, but otherwise, this one is ready!
#teamyankee
Buccaneer number one table ready. Got some hazard markings to paint on, but otherwise, this one is ready!
#teamyankee
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
‘Hello control we are at cruising altitude on the Autobahn to Berlin now. Just about to overtake a Mercedes’ in the fast lane’
Buccaneer number one table ready. Got some hazard markings to paint on, but otherwise, this one is ready!
#teamyankee
Buccaneer number one table ready. Got some hazard markings to paint on, but otherwise, this one is ready!
#teamyankee
Berlin Brigade air support thundering in at 0 feet.
Blackburn Buccaneers in 1:144 scale for team Yankee. Game wise, these will be stand ins for Harriers.
Fantastic 3D prints from Quentin, a chum who was with me at Warfare today in Farnborough!
#wargaming
#airpower
Blackburn Buccaneers in 1:144 scale for team Yankee. Game wise, these will be stand ins for Harriers.
Fantastic 3D prints from Quentin, a chum who was with me at Warfare today in Farnborough!
#wargaming
#airpower
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Berlin Brigade air support thundering in at 0 feet.
Blackburn Buccaneers in 1:144 scale for team Yankee. Game wise, these will be stand ins for Harriers.
Fantastic 3D prints from Quentin, a chum who was with me at Warfare today in Farnborough!
#wargaming
#airpower
Blackburn Buccaneers in 1:144 scale for team Yankee. Game wise, these will be stand ins for Harriers.
Fantastic 3D prints from Quentin, a chum who was with me at Warfare today in Farnborough!
#wargaming
#airpower
Reposted by Mike Everest
did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
Wolfgang and his Bratty wagon! The absolute staple and legend of Soltau. Master of manhandling his Mercedes’ grill van across the tank rutted training grounds of west Germany. Supplying enough Sausage and cold Pils to the soldiers of the BAOR that he paid for a caravan park for his daughter!
#15mm
#15mm
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Wolfgang and his Bratty wagon! The absolute staple and legend of Soltau. Master of manhandling his Mercedes’ grill van across the tank rutted training grounds of west Germany. Supplying enough Sausage and cold Pils to the soldiers of the BAOR that he paid for a caravan park for his daughter!
#15mm
#15mm
Jamie Hayter is the Wrestling Equivalent of a 9.2 Inch Howitzer. Absolutely magnificent levels of violence on Blood and Guts last night on @aewontv.bsky.social
#Wrestling
#Wrestling
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Jamie Hayter is the Wrestling Equivalent of a 9.2 Inch Howitzer. Absolutely magnificent levels of violence on Blood and Guts last night on @aewontv.bsky.social
#Wrestling
#Wrestling
Absolutely incredible art. Cannot wait for the match!
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Absolutely incredible art. Cannot wait for the match!
On patrol with the Tigers, as the Royal Hampshires support the 14/20th Hussars down the Berlin Wall line.
Berlin Wall prints from Patrick Miniatures. Painted largely by my daughter with some copies of original designs in there too.
affordable and great quality prints!
#wargaming
#coldwar
Berlin Wall prints from Patrick Miniatures. Painted largely by my daughter with some copies of original designs in there too.
affordable and great quality prints!
#wargaming
#coldwar
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On patrol with the Tigers, as the Royal Hampshires support the 14/20th Hussars down the Berlin Wall line.
Berlin Wall prints from Patrick Miniatures. Painted largely by my daughter with some copies of original designs in there too.
affordable and great quality prints!
#wargaming
#coldwar
Berlin Wall prints from Patrick Miniatures. Painted largely by my daughter with some copies of original designs in there too.
affordable and great quality prints!
#wargaming
#coldwar
Well done Germany!
German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Well done Germany!
Superlative.
London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Superlative.
Lee's T62's looking handsome!
#WW3CheckpointCharlie is go, as 15 T-62 roll off the painting table. These are painted up as Soviets but I left them free of markings (not atypical for Soviets) for multiple use.
#ww3TeamYankee #paintingminiatures #nerdlings ##Coldwargonehot
#ww3TeamYankee #paintingminiatures #nerdlings ##Coldwargonehot
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Lee's T62's looking handsome!
Immaculate last post from Alice Boileau today at the Chailey war memorial. Her brass playing remains an absolute triumph and the students taught by her are extraordinarily lucky to have such a talent.
A quiet and moving small local ceremony.
A quiet and moving small local ceremony.
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Immaculate last post from Alice Boileau today at the Chailey war memorial. Her brass playing remains an absolute triumph and the students taught by her are extraordinarily lucky to have such a talent.
A quiet and moving small local ceremony.
A quiet and moving small local ceremony.
Awaiting their L6 Wombats on Tuesday, but otherwise this platoon of British Mechanised infantry of the Berlin Brigade is all done. One more 432 for them and those will be finished as well. These have been a joy to paint in parts. Can’t wait to play them!
#teamyankee
#wargaming
#teamyankee
#wargaming
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Awaiting their L6 Wombats on Tuesday, but otherwise this platoon of British Mechanised infantry of the Berlin Brigade is all done. One more 432 for them and those will be finished as well. These have been a joy to paint in parts. Can’t wait to play them!
#teamyankee
#wargaming
#teamyankee
#wargaming
WIP for the infantry in DPM of the Berlin Brigade. Greens a bit dark so I’m going back over with a green grey drybrush and the brown will be a bit redder/brighter
Tactical moustache on all infantry.
#wip
#berlinbrigade
#15mm
Tactical moustache on all infantry.
#wip
#berlinbrigade
#15mm
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
WIP for the infantry in DPM of the Berlin Brigade. Greens a bit dark so I’m going back over with a green grey drybrush and the brown will be a bit redder/brighter
Tactical moustache on all infantry.
#wip
#berlinbrigade
#15mm
Tactical moustache on all infantry.
#wip
#berlinbrigade
#15mm
Proof of concept for basing these Berlin Brigade infantry. Roadside kerbs with infantry crossing them. I’ve got some bins and other street detritus on the way to make the bases pop as well. I reckon this could work!
#basing
#WIP
#berlinbrigade
#basing
#WIP
#berlinbrigade
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Proof of concept for basing these Berlin Brigade infantry. Roadside kerbs with infantry crossing them. I’ve got some bins and other street detritus on the way to make the bases pop as well. I reckon this could work!
#basing
#WIP
#berlinbrigade
#basing
#WIP
#berlinbrigade
November.
I'm begging groups across the UK organising memorial events, please just use the plethora of IWM photos or actual original pieces from the Great war. Using Gen AI images and designs looks amazingly crass, enforces weird stereotypes and is just plain wrong.
#poppygeddon
I'm begging groups across the UK organising memorial events, please just use the plethora of IWM photos or actual original pieces from the Great war. Using Gen AI images and designs looks amazingly crass, enforces weird stereotypes and is just plain wrong.
#poppygeddon
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
November.
I'm begging groups across the UK organising memorial events, please just use the plethora of IWM photos or actual original pieces from the Great war. Using Gen AI images and designs looks amazingly crass, enforces weird stereotypes and is just plain wrong.
#poppygeddon
I'm begging groups across the UK organising memorial events, please just use the plethora of IWM photos or actual original pieces from the Great war. Using Gen AI images and designs looks amazingly crass, enforces weird stereotypes and is just plain wrong.
#poppygeddon