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antihierarchist.bsky.social
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@antihierarchist.bsky.social
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he/him giant robot slapper, diceroll person, gunhaver, 1/2gay, lefty. more left. lefter.

likes: critters, photog, mecha, trrpgs, cookery (order varies)
dislikes: the brute machinery of fascism & its footsoldiers, hierarchy

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antihierarchist.bsky.social
arrived this morning, and what a thing of beauty, @biohazardjeff.bsky.social and @slavetothehat.bsky.social - do i correctly recall a hellsite thread about how the bathymetry/cartography was done in arcgis pro?
photo of the slipcase for the new edition of the Blue Planet roleplaying game showing a ... mollweide kinda projection map of Poseidon, the setting of the game, with bathymetry. as a map guy, i rate it very high quality.
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
who can say no to that blue curvy weird angry bug unicorn? not me.
low angle photo of a model of the kämpfer mobile suit from the Gundam OAV War in the Pocket. Mostly cobalt blue with a scowling pink monoeye and yellow vents and verniers. Two metallic steel painted rocket cannon barrels jut from mounts on the model's back. kämpfer is looking directly at the camera and she looks PEEVED.
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
love this ridiculous tchotchke but jeez. not a fan of the red monoeye. how tough would it be to disassemble and wire in a nice pinky-purple led set instead i wonder.
a huge char's Zaku 2 head, 1/10 scale maybe? on a stand atop a detolf display case. if it didn't have stuff inside you could wear it for a helmet. maybe a little short between crown and chin. the cyclopean camera eye is lit in a reddish orange, which is strictly incorrect - zaku monoeye glows a pinkish purple.
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
@gundamplanet.com y'all going to have me hate-building this kit, i love zeta but not that smirking creepoid boptimus rococo
photo of the box for the 1/100 model of zeta Gundam anime antagonist Paptimus Scirocco's massive prototype mobile suit, The O. The box is big. The model (i guess) is big. This is what i get for being a completionist I suppose.
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
working on the ver.ka ball and the illo shows the pilot in a white normal suit? nah, this zeonbait gets standard issue mustard colour.
A tiny Federation pilot model in the jaws of an alligator clip, the pilot's probably no taller than your thumbnail. painted in the Federation typical flight suit colors of ochre (or mustard, as you like) with light gray/dark gray/black accents, turquoise face plate, and brown boots. blurry in the background, the box showing the the "shoot me here" orange hatch cover and round seaglass green canopy of the RB-79 "Ball," which is basically a cottage sized spherical spaceship with robotic grapple arms and bigass cannon on the top.
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
okay, the paper @theonion.com is a fuckin treasure. the double take and sharp bark of disbelief-laughter was worth at least 1.5 venti half caff caramel lattes.
A (fake) newspaper advertisement for Adobe products. over a rainbow splotch, the text "Experience the magic of buying new software, every month, forever."
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
(les claypool voice)

now, wynonna's got herself
a big beam bazooka—
the more or less complete Psycho Zaku from Gundam Thunderbolt, a 1/100 model kit of a brick red humanoid war robot (a mobile suit, in the parlance) standing errr, 8 inches all or so, representing a machine some 18m in height. it's carrying a "beam bazooka," like a blocky slow firing laser cannon the size of a locomotive. (less complete, since the mobile suit should be rigged out with a fearsome array of rocket backpacks, booster modules, and propellant tanks, those still being decaled/finished)
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
hello, pacific ave
photo of the left end of a rainbow near Olympia, WA - the pot of gold may be located at a t mobile store, reports unclear.
November 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
idly scrolling pics in the picfile and jeez. i miss playing exalted, it was such a mindfuck when it first came out. magnificently supercharged panfantasy madness. my lunar exalt character, laughing tiger poet. his previous incarnation shot a star out of the sky with that bow (it was complicated)
A pen and ink drawing of an anthropomorphic cat/human thing, not really a "furry," a cat headed & tailed humanoid body with long taloned fingers and toes - the cat head modeled on a caracal, superb ear tufts. lots of piercings. a lunar exalt, which is to say blessed of the moon deity, this critter Laughing Tiger Poet by name, while drawn in black and white in life has rich green fur and many many metallic silver tattoos. he's carrying an asymmetrical bow, kind of a tree themed yumi-ya and crouched looking right at you with his three eyes (vertical third eye in the middle of his forehead). real facts, this sketch is like 20 years old (weeping) and i still haven't really learned to draw legs.
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
this lumbering goof. 22lb of squeaky voice and going-down-the-stairs sounding like a sack of cinder blocks.
telephoto lens pic of a tuxedo cat looking to your right. modestly okay depth of field action, the cat's face is nicely focused and everything else is softly blurry. sorry, baxter, if i'd tried to clean your eye boogers I'd never have gotten this shot.
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
decal-ing the psycho zaku (qu'est ce que c'est) and despite the talking heads joke i'm somehow more into the white stripes at the moment.
the legs of the Psycho Zaku 2, mobile suit model from Gundam Thunderbolt. Brick red robot legs with charcoal knees and blue-black feets, the many rocket nozzle shrouds and armor skirtings bedecked with white pinstripes courtesy of Delpi Decal
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
fooling around with metallic lacquers and I'm kinda diggin' this red + bare metal look.
a battletech miniature in a painting handle, this one an AWS-8Q 80-ton assault mech. the left arm, leg, and center torso have been painted a dark metallic silver color (DSPAIE 'dark iron') - the right arm, right torso, and right leg a fire engine red. juuuuust a little highlighting on the left limbs with dry brushed orange.
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
local anna's hummingbird hangin' out in the back 40, streedling away like a squeaky screen door. love these little sugar fueled fireballs.
telephoto pic of an anna's hummingbird, local to the pacific northwest (US). it's perched on a bare twig, in the background slightly out of focus is doug fir greenery, bejeweled with water drops because (no fake) it just finished raining before starting to rain again.
October 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
you know, for a kinda dorky 0079 suit (not *completely* dorky, lookin at you, zock) i'm enjoying the gelgoog quite a bit. solid kit, sturdy, fun details. decals and flat coat shortly.
photo of the 1/100 scale model of a "Gelgoog" mobile suit from the Gundam anime series/manga/etc. This one is Char Aznable's custom mobile suit, in the old school Char livery of salmon pink arms legs and head, and sort of a cherry burgundy torso. the Gelgoog carries a blue-black oval shield trimmed in a mustardy gold, and is pointing a beam rifle kind of over your left shoulder.
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
nothin' fancy, i've always liked how this wolfhound came out. i sorta screwed up getting it reattached to a hexbase, it accidentally looks like it's leaning hard into a turn.
a battletech miniature, that of a WLF-2 Wolfhound, a 35-ton (which is to say, in the "light" weight class) walking tank. painted khaki or light tan, its right arm is a massive weapon nozzle and it has a little trio of laser emitters in the middle of its chest. red canopy glass on the head plus funny little dog ears. the miniature is on a hexbase covered with green sawdust that looks vaguely like crumpled grass.
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
this guy showed up and got a distinctly mid paint job, ah well.
the Gelgoog cockpit at 1/100 scale, a little gray box with a seat in. said seat is occupied by a 1.7cm tall char Aznable, pilot of the Gelgoog roundabout ep. 38 of Gundam 0079. char is painted up in his Zeon officer drag, red tunic and trousers, white belt boots gloves and helmet, sassy black half cloak with gold flashy bits. Looks fine at arms length but up close it's a ... pretty... grungy paint job. Fortunately ol Char will be inside the Gelgoog and no one will ever know this paint job sucks so badly.
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
come to texas colony in 20 minutes if u want a gel googing
the head of a 1/100 scale model of a Gelgoog mobile suit, from mobile suit Gundam 0079 anime, on the end of an alligator clip. looks like a lil pig, or maybe a parrot. it's pink, char Aznable pink, with a command fin and a hawk crest kind of appurtenance, and also two little snoot holes. despite its utter dorkiness I do like this mobile suit.
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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what better paint job for an urbanmech than urbancamo, right? turns out that it just looks like a big gray booger then. sorry, um-r60, even the little green highlights can't change the fact that your details are effectively obscured and therefore you're not very visually interesting.
a battletech mini, painted blotchy light and dark gray in the manner of urban camo. Reddish windows and some pine green panels break the visual monotony, a little, it's still not much fun to look at. The antenna tips are hi-vis orange? That's kind of nice.
October 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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veering away from scumbag mercs and/or pirates, here's a couple locusts. the 'bug brothers' always operate as a pair, running around and plinking until a lucky shot turns one or both into flaming scraps. i thought the canopy reflections on these came out okay.
a battletech mini! This one's khaki with cocoa brown legs, a (I think) a LCT-1E, all energy weapons in the little snub arms. What's that chin tube for? That's the rostrum that it drinks through, plunging it into coolant barrels. A stock LCT-1V Locust, chin laser and stumpy machinegun arms. This one's more a leather brown with cocoa legs. The antenna/command fin/whatever on its back is gaily highlighted with coral red stripes.
October 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
feel like everyone's seen these already, so the rest of the bonesquad here in one post. these are the obnoxious lil guys that run around and peck your (my kid's) trundling mercs to pieces.
battletech mini, a PNT-9R Panther painted up, you guessed it, in boney off white. Refreshingly this lil walking tank has yellow accents and some inexpertly applied rust wash. Otherwise, it has kind of a screaming cat head type head, with the canopy tucked in the mouth and kind of hard to paint. Right arm has a big weapon tube. battletech miniature, an SDR-5V Spider, the jumpiest of annoying jumpy battlemechs. Bone white with red canopy glass, though this one came out grayish instead of the browned old-bone look, not sure why. Battletech mini, a WLF-2 Wolfhound in the classic (to me, anyway) old bone tan/white. Paint job pretty okay on this one! The big green optic above the large laser on the right arm makes me happy, a little color pop on this rather drab livery.
October 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
everyone's favorite, leaky pete the um-r60l urbanmech. one gigundous cannon, a jumpjet, and little else. leaky pete is what you get to drive in graveyard shift when you skip out on doing dishes after mess. tried to give ol' leaker here some zombie green tones but eh, didn't come out quite right.
closeup of a battletech mini, a funny little walking trashcan called an urbanmech. This one basically has a giant gun and nothing else, though there are two rakish aerials with orange tips that I think are quite nice. painted, as usual, old-bone off white with some exciting greenish panels. moss on bones, maybe? Rotten flesh perhaps? Suggestive of that kind of thing anyway.
October 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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2nd in command jean hu and their axman axm-1n. if you say to yourself "self, there seems to be a trend here involving jumpjets and ac/20s" you are correct. is this because my kid likes to play plodding assault mechs? who can say.
closeup of a battletech mini, a thing called an Axman AXM-1N. The world's least surprising name for a walking tank because it in fact sports a giant axe plus a giant feckin cannon on its shoulder, presumably as an intro to a later axe attack. again painted a dingy old-bone off white with brown panel lines and red cockpit glass.
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
fuckin around with a new camera, here's some battletech minis. pirate gang or scumbag merc company called "graveyard shift," all their mechs are painted up kinda boney or zombie-suggestin colours. first up, mort kinckaid's victor vtr-9b, the pending boss fight for my kid's battletech game
a closeup of a battletech miniature, that of a thing called a Victor VTR-9B, eighty tons with a mongomanous cannon for a right arm. Painted a dingy off-white suggestive of old bones, with some cocoa brown accent panels and red cockpit glass.
October 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
antihierarchist.bsky.social
snagged a camera for mini/gunpla photos, telephoto lens in the bundle. i *guess* i can take pictures of things other than robits. i guess.

(anna's hummingbird gettin' his fill of birdjuice, color balance not great? still learning, sigh.)
photo of an Anna's hummingbird drinking from a hummingbird feeder. the beak end is obscured by the feeder, leaving a head with its inkdrop eye staring out. kinda underexposed so the brilliant scarlet cap and moustache of the male Anna's is more... black with red highlights here.
October 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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just one (so far) - doesn't do short blasts very well but it does manage a pretty loud screech-owl kinda wail.
photo of a 3d print, the "Mayan death whistle," in this case a lil human skull in matte white PLA. Larger than a golf ball, smaller than a tennis ball, with a hole at the crown you blow in producing either a) a wavering, hollow wailing sound or b) if you blow too hard, a choking spitty noise, considerably less scary. photo of the back of the Mayan Death Whistle showing some slashes above the occipital region. seems like they let the howling out.
October 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM