Bill Adcock
@paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social
I’m Bill (he/him, 🏳️🌈) and I’m a cat dad, occasional freelance TTRPG scenario author, and miniature painter. I like metal figures over plastic.
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Bill Adcock
@paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social
· Dec 15
Figuring Out 2025 Plans
So first thing's first - I haven't done any gaming lately. Haven't gotten my army to the game store for Warhammer: The Old World. Kind of.....
dice-and-doubloons.blogspot.com
Wrote myself up a post on my (often disused) painting and wargaming blog to organize my thoughts and lay our an actionable plan for responsible hobbying in 2025. TLDR: buy less, paint more, play more.
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I have spent the last six and a half hours managing grown adults’ emotions for them. And now I intend to gird my loins in a tiger pelt, chug a bucket of rice wine and retreat to the mountains to live out my days as a fearsome oni.
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I have spent the last six and a half hours managing grown adults’ emotions for them. And now I intend to gird my loins in a tiger pelt, chug a bucket of rice wine and retreat to the mountains to live out my days as a fearsome oni.
Mustered all of my Oldhammer orcs and goblins on the table for the first time in over a year. More than six years of collecting and painting; don’t ask how much is still unpainted.
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Mustered all of my Oldhammer orcs and goblins on the table for the first time in over a year. More than six years of collecting and painting; don’t ask how much is still unpainted.
Repost this with you and your significant other (not really):
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Repost this with you and your significant other (not really):
It’s not Halloween until I see Paul Lynde’s look of confusion and mild fear upon seeing KISS take the stage: youtu.be/CCJ0D4pI0tI?...
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special - TX Date - 29 Oct 1976
YouTube video by Mislaid Comedy Heroes
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October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It’s not Halloween until I see Paul Lynde’s look of confusion and mild fear upon seeing KISS take the stage: youtu.be/CCJ0D4pI0tI?...
The neighborhood ferals have been bullying him through the window all day.
October 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The neighborhood ferals have been bullying him through the window all day.
Reposted by Bill Adcock
Local news story on why MotE/ PRI is special:
$̳1̳ ̳m̳i̳l̳l̳i̳o̳n̳ left to raise before the end of 2025 to save the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY.
#SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #museums #dinosaurs #Mastodon #Ithaca
#fingerlakes
www.wbng.com/2025/10/27/m...
$̳1̳ ̳m̳i̳l̳l̳i̳o̳n̳ left to raise before the end of 2025 to save the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY.
#SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #museums #dinosaurs #Mastodon #Ithaca
#fingerlakes
www.wbng.com/2025/10/27/m...
Museum of Earth could be met with possible foreclosure
The PRI has until Dec. 31, 2025 to raise $1 million or the only collections based national history museum between New York City and Buffalo will be forced into foreclosure.
www.wbng.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Local news story on why MotE/ PRI is special:
$̳1̳ ̳m̳i̳l̳l̳i̳o̳n̳ left to raise before the end of 2025 to save the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY.
#SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #museums #dinosaurs #Mastodon #Ithaca
#fingerlakes
www.wbng.com/2025/10/27/m...
$̳1̳ ̳m̳i̳l̳l̳i̳o̳n̳ left to raise before the end of 2025 to save the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY.
#SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #museums #dinosaurs #Mastodon #Ithaca
#fingerlakes
www.wbng.com/2025/10/27/m...
Re-skeet with your grunts!
I haven’t added anything new to my orc army in months (and honestly may be done with it) but I still love and am very proud of my work on these classic “Harboth’s Orc Archers.”
I haven’t added anything new to my orc army in months (and honestly may be done with it) but I still love and am very proud of my work on these classic “Harboth’s Orc Archers.”
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Re-skeet with your grunts!
I haven’t added anything new to my orc army in months (and honestly may be done with it) but I still love and am very proud of my work on these classic “Harboth’s Orc Archers.”
I haven’t added anything new to my orc army in months (and honestly may be done with it) but I still love and am very proud of my work on these classic “Harboth’s Orc Archers.”
Quote with your red art 🔴
Figures by Dunkeldorf
Figures by Dunkeldorf
October 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Quote with your red art 🔴
Figures by Dunkeldorf
Figures by Dunkeldorf
“Check out these vintage figures!”
I bought them when they first released…
I bought them when they first released…
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“Check out these vintage figures!”
I bought them when they first released…
I bought them when they first released…
He broke a ceiling tile, got catcalled by a feral in heat on our porch, and is now completely zootled on some fresh ‘nip.
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
He broke a ceiling tile, got catcalled by a feral in heat on our porch, and is now completely zootled on some fresh ‘nip.
Reducing the time I spend on social media including Bluesky, but wanted to shout out the amazing night of Dracula’s America I had last night with @leadasbestos.bsky.social ! Drew my first game and lost my second but the company was phenomenal.
October 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reducing the time I spend on social media including Bluesky, but wanted to shout out the amazing night of Dracula’s America I had last night with @leadasbestos.bsky.social ! Drew my first game and lost my second but the company was phenomenal.
When you buy miniatures from a small, family-owned company and the package arrived and they threw some candy in with your order? Oh yeah, that’s the good stuff right there.
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
When you buy miniatures from a small, family-owned company and the package arrived and they threw some candy in with your order? Oh yeah, that’s the good stuff right there.
A movie you loved as a kid and still love now?
October 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A movie you loved as a kid and still love now?
I’m sub-contracting out my work responsibilities today. Let’s see if anyone notices.
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m sub-contracting out my work responsibilities today. Let’s see if anyone notices.
Francis “One-Arm” Sutton, British adventurer, mercenary, arms dealer and supporter of Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin, died on this date in 1944; figure by Copplestone Castings, the “Sutton Skunk” armored tractor by Company B.
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Francis “One-Arm” Sutton, British adventurer, mercenary, arms dealer and supporter of Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin, died on this date in 1944; figure by Copplestone Castings, the “Sutton Skunk” armored tractor by Company B.
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
Mercenaries were sent to capture the rebel general before he could rendezvous with the TV news crew and address the western world. Their mission was unsuccessful.
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Mercenaries were sent to capture the rebel general before he could rendezvous with the TV news crew and address the western world. Their mission was unsuccessful.
I definitely need to make more jungle terrain but I’m definitely off to a good start. Time for a game!
October 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I definitely need to make more jungle terrain but I’m definitely off to a good start. Time for a game!
Gina: “Is there not a taser emoji? I’m trying to send you a flirty text.”
Me: “Should I be concerned?”
Me: “Should I be concerned?”
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Gina: “Is there not a taser emoji? I’m trying to send you a flirty text.”
Me: “Should I be concerned?”
Me: “Should I be concerned?”
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The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge
October 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge
My weekly paint and chat is canceled for tonight, and my lovely wife is nudging me to get a solo game in tonight. I think I know how I want to christen my new jungle terrain…
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My weekly paint and chat is canceled for tonight, and my lovely wife is nudging me to get a solo game in tonight. I think I know how I want to christen my new jungle terrain…
There’s no way he wasn’t saving that outfit in the back of his closet for just such a case.
What’s the investigation’s sirop de cassis budget?
What’s the investigation’s sirop de cassis budget?
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
There’s no way he wasn’t saving that outfit in the back of his closet for just such a case.
What’s the investigation’s sirop de cassis budget?
What’s the investigation’s sirop de cassis budget?
Finished ten bases of jungle terrain, and I think they’ve turned out pretty nicely! Just need to hit them with some matte varnish now.
October 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Finished ten bases of jungle terrain, and I think they’ve turned out pretty nicely! Just need to hit them with some matte varnish now.