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CryoCheese
@cryocheese.bsky.social
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Graphic Designer | BA Integrated Design

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AI can not make art.
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CryoCheese @cryocheese.bsky.social · Jul 5
Here's an updated group shot of my Custodes after just 4 years of building and painting them! 😇
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Pushing myself to get better at base-painting, especially rock surfaces.

I think it's going quite well. :)

#miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #basepainting #osl
Top down "before & after" comparison of the 100mm round base with lots of decorative rock slabs, branches and tufts I'm painting for a Custodes Telemon Dreadnought. It's painted with differently colored greys to resemble irl rock as much as possible, just like the gnarled branches and grass tufts. There's also a large circular rune painted with a color blend from blue to green into yellow, which is emitting subtle osl on surrounding objects. It's photographed in front of neutral grey fabric background and I put a tiny, low opacity version of my icon in the bottom left corner. A collage of hree close-ups of the 100mm round base with lots of decorative rock slabs, branches and tufts I'm painting for a Custodes Telemon Dreadnought. It's painted with differently colored greys to resemble irl rock as much as possible, just like the gnarled branches and grass tufts. There's also a large circular rune painted with a color blend from blue to green into yellow, which is emitting subtle osl on surrounding objects. It's photographed in front of neutral grey fabric background and I put a tiny, low opacity version of my icon in the bottom left corner. A collage of hree close-ups of the 100mm round base with lots of decorative rock slabs, branches and tufts I'm painting for a Custodes Telemon Dreadnought. It's painted with differently colored greys to resemble irl rock as much as possible, just like the gnarled branches and grass tufts. There's also a large circular rune painted with a color blend from blue to green into yellow, which is emitting subtle osl on surrounding objects. It's photographed in front of neutral grey fabric background and I put a tiny, low opacity version of my icon in the bottom left corner.
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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🔴Going live!

I'm continuing the Telemon base today, I want this better than any I've done before and that needs some tryharding.

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
a 100mm round resin base with lots of decorative rock slabs, branches and tufts. It's painted with differently colored greys to resemble irl rock as much as possible. There's also a large circular rune painted with a color blend from blue to green into yellow. It's photographed in front of neutral grey fabric background and I put a tiny, low opacity version of my icon in the bottom left corner.
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The Arachnae was surprisingly very enjoyable to build and paint, and also a good portion bigger than expected! Big enough to make it difficult to take photos with my little box! 🤭

Weathering is always a good time while the paint scheme is a bit on the simpler side.

#WarhammerCommunity #horusheresy
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Malitrax the Unmaker, Saturnine Dreadnought of the IV Legion standing on top of a ruined knight chassis.

This model helped me overcome my art block and I'm really happy to share it with you! I fell in love with the inversion beamers and the pose! Hope you like him!

#WarhammerCommunity #horusheresy
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Here's this years set of wooden animals I've painted over the last two weeks.

They'll be a christmas present for my mom (3rd or 4th year in a row, I do this for her now) and go into her very lare and very unconventional nativity scene.

#figurepainting #woodfigures #miniaturepainting #miniatures
Pictured are a pair of goats, big and small, as well as a big pig and three piglets, two meercats and a duck on black fabric background and with a tiny cryocheese icon in the bottom left corner.
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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posting some more old commissions i had fun drawing, heres some very fancy schmancy space marine helmets in different styles✨ #warhammer #warhammer40k
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🔴Live now!

Let's finish the wood aminals!

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
Image of a number of wood-carved animals. Front to back: two meercats, three baby pigs, one duck, one adult pig and one baby and one adult goat. In the background is a black, dotted, cutting mat and a section of my white wet palette, ready to be used pictured are a pair of goats, big and small, as well as a big pig and three piglets, two meercats and a duck. they are more or less painted and the background is a wet palette and a black cutting mat with white dots
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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deminded.bsky.social
Some WIPs from yesterday's stream - the Arachnae is taking shape, plus a base for the Saturnine dread!

#WIP #WarhammerCommunity
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🔴Henlo am live👋

I'm gonna try to finish these animals, if not today, I hope at least on wednesday.

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
pictured are a pair of goats, big and small, as well as a big pig and three piglets, two meercats and a duck. they are more or less painted and the background is a wet palette and a black cutting mat with white dots
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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After 5 years of waiting for the right moment (painting ability) to paint this massive resin chunk of a dreadnought, I finally decided it's time!

With 32 magnets in arms, weapons, head and rocket-battery it's basically an action figure as well.

#minipainting #custodes #telemon #dreadnought #base
First WIP of the painting process of this Custodes Telemon Heavy Dreadnought from Forgeworld (now Games Workshop). It's primed black, has one cannon arm and one powerfist in this picture as well as a custom base with different decorative elements, like branches, rocks, tufts, but also a large rune, which is the only detail painted in color, which is a blend from yellow to green and into blue, which will emit an osl onto surrounding shapes. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner. First WIP of the painting process of this Custodes Telemon Heavy Dreadnought from Forgeworld (now Games Workshop). It's primed black, has one cannon arm and one powerfist in this picture as well as a custom base with different decorative elements, like branches, rocks, tufts, but also a large rune, which is the only detail painted in color, which is a blend from yellow to green and into blue, which will emit an osl onto surrounding shapes. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner. First WIP of the painting process of this base for the Custodes Telemon Heavy Dreadnought from Forgeworld (now Games Workshop). It's primed black, and has different decorative elements, like branches, rocks, tufts, but also a large rune, which is the only detail painted in color, which is a blend from yellow to green and into blue, which will emit an osl onto surrounding shapes. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner.
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Pushing myself to do better with bases, starting with painting rocks.

I'm struggling more with this than you might think. Ideally it'd look proper realistic, but for now I'm content with this result 😄

#basing #basepainting #resinbase #minipainting #miniaturepainting
Top down view of a 100mm round resin base with lots of decorative rock slabs, branches and tufts. It's painted with differently colored greys to resemble irl rock as much as possible. There's also a large circular rune painted with a color blend from blue to green into yellow. It's photographed in front of neutral grey fabric background and I put a tiny, low opacity version of my icon in the bottom left corner. Two low side angle images - split in the middle horizontally - of a 100mm round resin base with lots of decorative rock slabs, branches and tufts. It's painted with differently colored greys to resemble irl rock as much as possible. There's also a large circular rune painted with a color blend from blue to green into yellow. It's photographed in front of neutral grey fabric background and I put a tiny, low opacity version of my icon in the bottom left corner. Two low side angle images - split in the middle horizontally - of a 100mm round resin base with lots of decorative rock slabs, branches and tufts. It's painted with differently colored greys to resemble irl rock as much as possible. There's also a large circular rune painted with a color blend from blue to green into yellow. It's photographed in front of neutral grey fabric background and I put a tiny, low opacity version of my icon in the bottom left corner.
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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susannashore.bsky.social
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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🔴 Live now!

I'll start by looking at last nights Warhammer reveals - and giving them a personal ranking! :D - before painting the Telemons base I posted about yesterday.

Should be great fun 😊

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
WIP of the painting process of this base for the Custodes Telemon Heavy Dreadnought. It's primed black, and has different decorative elements, like branches, rocks, tufts, but also a large rune, which is the only detail painted in color, which is a blend from yellow to green and into blue, which will emit an osl onto surrounding shapes. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner.
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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After 5 years of waiting for the right moment (painting ability) to paint this massive resin chunk of a dreadnought, I finally decided it's time!

With 32 magnets in arms, weapons, head and rocket-battery it's basically an action figure as well.

#minipainting #custodes #telemon #dreadnought #base
First WIP of the painting process of this Custodes Telemon Heavy Dreadnought from Forgeworld (now Games Workshop). It's primed black, has one cannon arm and one powerfist in this picture as well as a custom base with different decorative elements, like branches, rocks, tufts, but also a large rune, which is the only detail painted in color, which is a blend from yellow to green and into blue, which will emit an osl onto surrounding shapes. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner. First WIP of the painting process of this Custodes Telemon Heavy Dreadnought from Forgeworld (now Games Workshop). It's primed black, has one cannon arm and one powerfist in this picture as well as a custom base with different decorative elements, like branches, rocks, tufts, but also a large rune, which is the only detail painted in color, which is a blend from yellow to green and into blue, which will emit an osl onto surrounding shapes. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner. First WIP of the painting process of this base for the Custodes Telemon Heavy Dreadnought from Forgeworld (now Games Workshop). It's primed black, and has different decorative elements, like branches, rocks, tufts, but also a large rune, which is the only detail painted in color, which is a blend from yellow to green and into blue, which will emit an osl onto surrounding shapes. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner.
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Here's a little something I speedpainted (5h) as palette cleanser.

It's a customized Flesh Golem for my Blood Bowl team - the "Necromantic Abberations".

Very fun, very spoopy, very silly.

#bloodbowl #miniatures #minipainting #spooktober
Picture of a Games Workshop Flesh Golem miniature from the Necromantic Blood Bowl team. It's a bipedal, patchwork golem with werewolf head, green foot, spider on the pauldron, exposed bit of brain with tube in it and very colorful "jersey" colors inspired by chromatic abberation images. The base is covered in green tufts with a bit of white playing field linings. The base rim, plinth and background are all black and there's a little low opacity cryocheese icon in the bottom left corner. Picture of a Games Workshop Flesh Golem miniature from the Necromantic Blood Bowl team. It's a bipedal, patchwork golem with werewolf head, green foot, spider on the pauldron, exposed bit of brain with tube in it and very colorful "jersey" colors inspired by chromatic abberation images. The base is covered in green tufts with a bit of white playing field linings. The base rim, plinth and background are all black and there's a little low opacity cryocheese icon in the bottom left corner. Picture of a Games Workshop Flesh Golem miniature from the Necromantic Blood Bowl team. It's a bipedal, patchwork golem with werewolf head, green foot, spider on the pauldron, exposed bit of brain with tube in it and very colorful "jersey" colors inspired by chromatic abberation images. The base is covered in green tufts with a bit of white playing field linings. The base rim, plinth and background are all black and there's a little low opacity cryocheese icon in the bottom left corner.
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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🔴 Live now!

Continuing the farm animals where we left them on monday.

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
pictured are a pair of goats, nig and small, as well as more animal figures in the background. big goat and one piglet are more or less painted and the background is a wet palette and a black cutting mat with white dots
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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🔴We live!

Painting the wood-carved animals for my moms nativity scene.
Should be very chill!

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
Image of a number of wood-carved animals. Front to back: two meercats, three baby pigs, one duck, one adult pig and one baby and one adult goat. In the background is a black, dotted, cutting mat and a section of my white wet palette, ready to be used
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🔴HI, I'm live now!

I decided that it's finally time to start a big project I put on ice over five years ago, because I wanted to be a lot better at painting than I was back then.

Let's find out together if I can do this Telemon justice! (www.instagram.com/p/CD7AIEZH8KF)

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
Top down image of my work desk with a number of different basing materials, one round 10cm diameter base with resin casted decorations and one Telemon Dreadnought body (without arms). - The latter two are entirely primed in black.
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I had to postpone the update post of last weeks 17 hour painting of the two days I had inbetween SMC and SPIEL.

This is the state of Argel Tal, as I entered it into Golden Demon and won a notable pin with.

Which is amazing, given how unrefined it is! 🥰

#GD25 #argeltal #minipainting #miniature
WIP picture of the heavily reposed Argel Tal I've been building and painting. The original model kit is produced and sold by Games Workshop / Forgeworld. I customized it with a Custodes Guardian Spear and a few random chaos bits and trinkets. The paintjob is held close to lore-accurate depictions following a "Horus Heresy Legions" card art (seen in another image within this post, which features a lot of saturated reds, with slightly orange leaning highlights and horns being black towards the tips with some fleshy mid tones in the blend toward those black ranges. The Eye lenses of the helmet, as well as the daemonic eyes on pauldron and thigh, are mainly greenwith a blend into yellow toward the center. The spear arm is painted in brown and beige hues, with fine vein details, stippled magenta details to create a sort of sore flesh and black, sharp-looking claws. The serrated sun sigill on the chest as well as the first steel nmm bits of the armor ar painted as such with greys and white as well as some color influences from the environment around the miniature, which is also indicated on thee basing of the plinth. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner. WIP picture of the heavily reposed Argel Tal I've been building and painting. The original model kit is produced and sold by Games Workshop / Forgeworld. I customized it with a Custodes Guardian Spear and a few random chaos bits and trinkets. The paintjob is held close to lore-accurate depictions following a "Horus Heresy Legions" card art (added to the bottom right of this image) which features a lot of saturated reds, with slightly orange leaning highlights and horns being black towards the tips with some fleshy mid tones in the blend toward those black ranges. The Eye lenses of the helmet, as well as the daemonic eyes on pauldron and thigh, are mainly greenwith a blend into yellow toward the center. The spear arm is painted in brown and beige hues, with fine vein details, stippled magenta details to create a sort of sore flesh and black, sharp-looking claws. The serrated sun sigill on the chest as well as the first steel nmm bits of the armor ar painted as such with greys and white as well as some color influences from the environment around the miniature, which is also indicated on thee basing of the plinth. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner. WIP picture of the heavily reposed Argel Tal I've been building and painting. The original model kit is produced and sold by Games Workshop / Forgeworld. I customized it with a Custodes Guardian Spear and a few random chaos bits and trinkets. The paintjob is held close to lore-accurate depictions following a "Horus Heresy Legions" card art (seen in another image within this post, which features a lot of saturated reds, with slightly orange leaning highlights and horns being black towards the tips with some fleshy mid tones in the blend toward those black ranges. The Eye lenses of the helmet, as well as the daemonic eyes on pauldron and thigh, are mainly greenwith a blend into yellow toward the center. The spear arm is painted in brown and beige hues, with fine vein details, stippled magenta details to create a sort of sore flesh and black, sharp-looking claws. The serrated sun sigill on the chest as well as the first steel nmm bits of the armor ar painted as such with greys and white as well as some color influences from the environment around the miniature, which is also indicated on thee basing of the plinth. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner.
October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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🔴Going live now!

Spooooopy minipainting today!
A little 2-for-1 mini: Palette cleanser & monthly GitGud challenge

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
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Hi, I'm Cryo, I paint the type of miniature projects that tend to make people go
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October 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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🔴Live now!

Short-ish stream today.

Mostly yapping - recapping Golden Demon & SPIEL, looking at the Winners, maybe painting wood-carved animals, we'll see how it goes!

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
Photography of three figures I took to Scale Model Challenge in the netherlands and Golden Demon at SPIEL in Essen, Germany over the last two weekends, as well as the medals and pin I won with them. From back to front: - (left) The Apollon, God of Sun figure on chariot and massive plinth, painted and posted about from January to October, and the small bronze medal (advanced division) and MiniMatties Community medal it won at SMC. - (right) Argel Tal on slanted plinth, with spear and reposed, painted within the last 5 weeks only and the 'notable' pin it won at GD. - (middle) Jenetia Krole miniature, with the big bronze medal (masters division) and a 'notable' pin from GD as well. The background this time is a white fabric.
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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🔴We live!!

Last stream before Golden Demon and SPIEL!!
Finishing Argel Tal to the best degree of polish I can manage today.

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
WIP screenshot of the heavily reposed Argel Tal I've been building and painting. The original model kit is produced and sold by Games Workshop / Forgeworld. The paintjob is held close to lore-accurate depictions following a "Horus Heresy Legions" card art (seen in another post), which features a lot of saturated reds, with slightly orange leaning highlights and horns being black towards the tips with some fleshy mid tones in the blend toward those black ranges. The Eye lenses of the helmet, as well as the daemonic eyes on pauldron and thigh, are mainly greenwith a blend into yellow toward the center. The spear arm is painted in brown and beige hues, with fine vein details, stippled magenta details to create a sort of sore flesh and black, sharp-looking claws. The serrated sun sigill on the chest as well as the first steel nmm bits of the armor are painted with greys and white as well as some color influences from the environment, like sand, pale pink, lavender and blue as well as browns. The spear is dark red with steel nmm similar to the one on the armor. It's held by a hand with black glove on and screenshotted in front of a black cutting mat with white dotted lines.
October 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🔴Going live now!

SMC recap, unplanned birthday stream and somehow trying to finish this big boy for Golden Demon in *checks notes* two days ... 💀

www.twitch.tv/cryocheese
WIP picture of the heavily reposed Argel Tal I've been building and painting. The original model kit is produced and sold by Games Workshop / Forgeworld. The paintjob is held close to lore-accurate depictions following a "Horus Heresy Legions" card art (seen in another image within this post, which features a lot of saturated reds, with slightly orange leaning highlights and horns being black towards the tips with some fleshy mid tones in the blend toward those black ranges. The Eye lenses of the helmet, as well as the daemonic eyes on pauldron and thigh, are mainly greenwith a blend into yellow toward the center. The spear arm is painted in brown and beige hues, with fine vein details, stippled magenta details to create a sort of sore flesh and black, sharp-looking claws. The serrated sun sigill on the chest as well as the first steel nmm bits of the armor ar painted as such with greys and white. It's photographed in front of neutral grey background and features a small sized low opacity version of the CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner.
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM