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Andrew Oates
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Woodworker, Lab Tech, Miniature-Painter, Pixel Artist, Sailor, Bear. Probably a few more things, but I can't recall.
I have been working on some Pillage Wargame stuff recently, and also had a good game of it. We were able to play on my friends 2x2 foot board he made, and we just had 250 point forces, but it was grand fun. Also pictures is all my finished Victrix pillage miniatures so far. There are more to paint..
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM
We did! I managed to finish my Lieutenant (on horse), and have a battle over a bridge. My forces died gloriously defending the bridge from the Trench Ghosts (fielded by my friend Thomas, who also took the pictures). I managed to just squeak through holding objectives, and take out his tank-priest.
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
#Inqtober Final! all of the warhammer 40k pixel art drawings I did for October of 2025, and it was a grand time!

Here is my Deviant Art, with better resolution, if you want to peruse it: www.deviantart.com/sleeping-dem...

What's your favourite?

Cheers!
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
#Inqtober - 31 - Inquisitor

The final prompt of Inqtober, and I decided to do a power-armoured inquisitor. Her armour says Ordos Malleus, but her hat says Ordos Hereticus.

Tomorrow I will post a full-page-final, with links to my deviant art (and better quality pics). Cheers!
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
#Inqtober - 30 - Chapter Serf

A serf of the Iron Knights chapter, born from a long line of chapter serfs, and dedicated to the maintenance of the Godwyn pattern bolters of his company.

I really wanted to show off the size difference between a normal person and an Astartes Boltgun. Cheers!
October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#Inqtober - 29 - Street Vendor

To go along with the Festival Goer from day 9, This is the meat vendor at the festival. Another happy fellow. Perhaps they only get a shipment of real meat for the festival, and the rest of the year its corpse-starch nuggets or something.
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#Inqtober - 28 - Abominable Intelligence

My first thought for the prompt had to be one of these silly little guys. A robo-squat, with a pick axe. Such a good little fellow.

I didn't have a template for the squats, nor the armour, so I had to do a fair bit for this one-off fellow. Cheers!
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
#Inqtober - 27 - Street Punk

I figured I would make a simple Escher Ganger for this one, maybe a novice of sorts. She's only been in a few fight so far, though shes got some scars for it.

I am starting to run out of steam a bit, but I think I will be good until the end of Inqtober. Cheers!
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#Inqtober - 26 - Lexmechanic

Just a low-level fellow in the adpetus mechanicus, showing off his scroll of mechanicus law.
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
#Inqtober - 25 - Joyride Pilot

so originally I was going to try and paint up a vehicle of some sort, but that was going to be a bigger time-sink than I wanted, and then I remembered the Last Chancers from the old white dwarfs. Grease Monkeys crime was stealing an Eldar grav-falcon for a joyride.
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#Inqtober - 24 - Faithful Retainer

This is some sort of bodyguard within an Imperial Knights house, which I always thought was one of the coolest additions from the last couple editions. However, I always wanted it to go further, with feudal lasgun-troops in support of Knights. A man can dream.
October 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
#Inqtober - 23 - Scholarum Attendee

Okay, I had a lot of fun with this one, mixing Warhammer 40k and Spy Family. I did feel the small Imperial symbol on her uniform wasn't quite enough, so I also drew her canine-servo-skull who helps her day-to-day.
October 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
#Inqtober - 22 - Domestic Servant

I just had to draw a maid for this one, in some sort of fancy spire-borne dwelling. I tried to keep the decoration minimal, with only the Aquila being prominent. Also, some sort of eye-covering so the servant class do not gaze up at the eyes of their betters.
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
#Inqtober - 21 - Saboteur

Some sort of deep mine worker, with a bit of a purple-ish look to him. I figured this might be some sort of true believer in the 6-armed emperor, or whatever local idea of the emperor they have on his planet. Cheers!
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
#Inqtober - 20 - Planetary Governor

I wanted somewhat fancy for this fellow, like perhaps he is the governor of a small mining world or something, not big and flashy, but very comfortable (especially compared to the mining-populace). Also, big moustache.
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
#Inqtober -19 - Xenos Navigator

Here is a jaunty Air-Caste Tau Pilot, ready to fly circles around the nearest imperial vessel (and hopefully not catch a broadside). Had fun doing up a new template for this fellow, and I will probably make more Tau templates, Cheers!
October 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
#Inqtober - 18 - Techno-Shaman

I was reading lots of the Dark Heresy RPG (and Rogue Trader) in the lead up to this month, and I loved the description of Icanthos. Basically a world of mad-max warlords, and whoever collects the most Ghost Pollen is crowned the planets governor for the next 5 years.
October 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
#Inqtober - 17 - Priest-Militant

This fellow is some sort of armed priest of his small order. Tall hat and boltgun seemed like a fun combination. Cheers!
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
#Inqtober - 16 - Lurking Predator

Instead of a Tyranid or other 40k xenos, I decided to make this, a Catachan beasty. Just one of the endless predators on the planet of Catachan, it is a big-cat like creature, with a mouth like a sharks. Oh, and it leaps, out of the tall grass. Cheers!
October 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
#Inqtober - 15 - Assassinorum Student

I went fairly simple for this one, just a novitiate of some sort of death cult. Their gear resembles that of other proper assassin temples, but is of lower quality (except for the blades themselves).
October 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
#Inqtober - 14 - Suspected Daemonhost

So I figured, if I just drew a fellow with horns and warp energy, it would be more of a "Confirmed" daemonhost. This "Suspected" daemonhost is a senior administrator whose work is always beyond reproach, and yet results always lead to major logistical losses.
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
#Inqtober - 13 - Noble Conspirator

A very fancy member of high society, with a grav-hookah of some sort. Now, when we hear Noble Conspirator, we think they are doing some heresy or something, but what if its a conspiracy to unseat a heretical governor or the like? That's what inspired this one.
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
#Inqtober - 12 - Enslaved

I couldn't resist drawing some sort of Penal Legion type character for this. What was his crime you ask? perhaps he was merely born to a prison colony, perhaps his great-great-great-grandparents spit in the street or something.

Warhammer 40k is a bit grimdark.
October 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
#Inqtober - 11 - Resurrectionist

One of the names for old-timey grave-robbers, so I figured I would continue with that. Maybe he gets bodies for a Magos of the Biologis study, or maybe for terrible Chaos reasons, either way he's getting paid.

I had to give him a cyber-eye to make him more 40k.
October 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
#Inqtober - 10 - Lonely Servitor

Well, in stark departure from Happy 40k, here is a very lonely servitor. I figure he was left on the other side of a bulkhead, with instructions to guard the door, but no foe ever came. So he just sits there, waiting for instructions.
October 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM