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ChristopherOieK
@christopheroiek.bsky.social
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Public HS leadership teacher, father to three, husband to one, saved by grace, he/him, awkward mostly on purpose

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Nice Tzeentch #WIP you got there...shame if someone were to paint it up like #SesameStreet characters...

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#MiniPainting
#nerdlings
#Millennial
Three of Ephilim's Pandaemonium warband from Warhammer Underworlds. One has five arms and is painted red like Elmo (tickle me!), the next is a Big Bird of Change in bright yellow with orange legs, and the last one in Cookie Monster blue has a body lined with teeth. Can you tell me how to get, how to get away from here now?
March 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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TFW when you decide on a pretty original-feeling color scheme and then you realize it's just #Animorphs informing every aspect of your being.

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Skaeth the Huntsman from Skaeth's Wild Hunt Warhammer Underworlds warband accidentally painted up to look like an Andalite from K.A. Applegate's Animorphs series circa 1995.
March 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I've wanted this team ever since I got into Warhammer Underworlds, and they were a blast to paint! Went a little Red Hulk on one and Punisher/Ghost Rider on another. Can't wait to play them!

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#MiniPainting
#nerdlings
#Marvel
Gorechosen of Dromm warband from Warhammer Underworlds painted in reds and desaturated golds, with skull and bone helmets and accessories.
March 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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These already had a bit of blue when I got them, so I leaned in and decided to try ash bases instead of sand. More monochromatic than I usually go for, but I'm happy with them!

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Kainan's Reapers warband from Warhammer Underworlds in muted blues and gray's.
March 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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It's been a while, but I just finished my Stormcoven band as supervillains! Cheshire, Doom, and Kang! I'm not a comics publisher loyalist, so 🤷🏼

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Domitan's Stormcoven warband from Warhammer Underworlds with green fabric and various armor shades to match Cheshire, Dr. Doom, and Kang the Conquerer.
March 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Shrieking eels!
Wallace Shawn in The Princess Bride looking with surprise at the fisheater court eel riders with the caption "Inconceivable."
March 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Inspired by a paint job I saw searching for ideas, I am so happy with how this team turned out - even though I can see all the flaws and things that didn't turn out how I pictured.

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#BlackMetal
Warhammer Underworlds' warband Morgwaeth's Blade Coven in a grayscale black metal theme with dark black eyeshadow and lipstick over white foundation. Pastel green, pink, and white hair brighten the tops of the miniatures.
February 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Seemed too easy to be accidental. Crosshair was a bit of a stretch, though.

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#BadBatch
Warhammer Underworlds' Emberwatch team on snowy bases painted in the grays and reds of Star Wars' "The Bad Batch" Omega, Hunter, and Crosshair.
February 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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And now on Food Network, the Skinnerkin presented by The Chairman, Guy Fieri, Paula Deen, Alton Brown, and...ManBat?

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#nerdlings

*this is not an endorsement of any individual, obviously.
Warhammer Underworlds' Skinnerkin warband painted with similar skin tones and clothing aesthetics to very loosely match several 2010's-era Food Network stars, and one that looks like ManBat from Batman.
February 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Yay! I made it through all the analysis paralysis blocks to complete Mollog!

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#nerdlings
Mollog the Mighty from the Warhammer Underworlds warband, Mollog's Mob. He is bluish/purplish/gray with pinkish skin blemishes and a variety of colored mushrooms growing on his back and scalp. He holds a green bulging frog in his right hand and a large wooden club with barnaclesque fungus in his left. He supports a pink loincloth, which is all the rage in the caves this season, though he doesn't support fast fashion.
February 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Phew. This was a lot more involved than I originally planned! Green stuff, resin frames, glue-soaked tissues... but this warband ended up looking #Wicked!

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#WizardOfOz
The Exiled Dead warband from Warhammer Underworlds with Deintalos and Marcov painted like Elphaba and Nikko, the zombies all painted like Dorothy, Tin Man, Lion, Scarecrow, and green-skinned, wooden-mask-faced Wizard.
February 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Not done with the whole warband yet, but I had to share this questionable decision I made in giving Slakeslash Bernie's famous mitten. I was torn between that and MJ's sparkle glove, but I'm happy with my choice!

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Warhammer Underworlds the Dread Pageant warband member Slakeslash pictured from the back with sword arm upraised. Sure, there's a red lobster claw for a left hand and a glossy black studded boot on his right leg, but his glove is painted to match the viral mittens Bernie Sanders wore at Biden's inauguration. Various neutral shades of zigzag patterns and a loud but muted appeal to fashion and warmth.
January 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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One of my most ambitious schemes was these petrified stormcast coming back alive. I clipped armor and cloaks for chipping, tried to freehand cracks, and most of it worked out. If I could change one thing, it'd be a clearer line at the stone-to-metal transition.

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Stormsire's Cursebreakers warband from Warhammer Underworlds. Mostly painted in a stone gray with light drybrushing, some chrome armor beginning to show as they break the petrification curse. Stormsire with glowing blue eyes and a gold-tipped staff. He has a blue flame in his right hand. Female stormcast with half-stone, half-chrome face mask and a cracked stone sword Male stormcast that is almost entirely stone except for tip of sword and swordhand.
January 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Very easy to confirm or deny...
Total votes of "TikTok ban": Y - 360, N - 58, Not voting - 13 "Tik Tok ban" votes by party. Rep: Y - 186, N - 26...Dem: Y - 174, N - 33
January 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Another sort-of on-brand paint scheme, but I got brave and tried faces with a bit more detail than I have been. I'm happy with them, but I'm not where I want to be yet!

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Khagra's Ravagers from Warhammer Underworlds. Chaos warriors in flat black armor with pale gold highlights. One holds a sword glowing fire-hot and another wields a magic staff with green flames growing from the center of its chaos insignia.
January 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Please look deeper than the wading pool discussion in the #TikTokBan - here is everything attached to that vote and how bipartisan that vote was. Don't let this become a "He made the trains run on time" moment!
Roll Call of the "21st Century Peace through Strength" Act. YEA: 360, NAY: 58, Not Voting: 13 Votes by parry. Rep: 186 Y - 25 N. Dem: 174 Y - 33 N Shown Here: Passed House (04/20/2024) 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act Highlights: This bill establishes law on various foreign policy matters. For example, the bill requires the President to impose property-blocking sanctions on foreign persons (i.e., individuals and entities) associated with transnational criminal organizations that traffic fentanyl; authorizes the President to seize and transfer certain Russian sovereign assets to fund Ukrainian war compensation or reconstruction; prohibits entities in the United States from distributing, updating, or maintaining a website or application operated by ByteDance, Ltd., TikTok, or certain other entities; prohibits data brokers from providing personally identifiable sensitive data of U.S. persons to foreign adversary countries; imposes property-, docking-, and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons operating ports, ships, and refineries supporting Iranian petroleum exports; imposes property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons supporting Iranian missile programs and on certain Iranian leaders; imposes property-blocking sanctions on foreign states providing material support to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad; requires the United States to regulate exports of certain foreign-produced items related to Iran; extends the authority of the President to impose sanctions on foreign persons using human shields; imposes property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons involved in the trafficking of captagon; requires U.S. financial institutions to close certain accounts related to Iranian leaders and the Department of the Treasury to seek the closure of such accounts in foreign financial institutions; and prohibits U.S. financial institutions from opening or maintaining certain accounts with Chinese financial institutions that support Iranian petroleum exports. Shown Here: Passed House (04/20/2024) 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act Highlights: This bill establishes law on various foreign policy matters. For example, the bill requires the President to impose property-blocking sanctions on foreign persons (i.e., individuals and entities) associated with transnational criminal organizations that traffic fentanyl; authorizes the President to seize and transfer certain Russian sovereign assets to fund Ukrainian war compensation or reconstruction; prohibits entities in the United States from distributing, updating, or maintaining a website or application operated by ByteDance, Ltd., TikTok, or certain other entities; prohibits data brokers from providing personally identifiable sensitive data of U.S. persons to foreign adversary countries; imposes property-, docking-, and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons operating ports, ships, and refineries supporting Iranian petroleum exports; imposes property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons supporting Iranian missile programs and on certain Iranian leaders; imposes property-blocking sanctions on foreign states providing material support to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad; requires the United States to regulate exports of certain foreign-produced items related to Iran; extends the authority of the President to impose sanctions on foreign persons using human shields; imposes property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons involved in the trafficking of captagon; requires U.S. financial institutions to close certain accounts related to Iranian leaders and the Department of the Treasury to seek the closure of such accounts in foreign financial institutions; and prohibits U.S. financial institutions from opening or maintaining certain accounts with Chinese financial institutions that support Iranian petroleum exports.
January 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Sometimes a cool resin and a bad prime leaves me wishing I was emotionally ready for more stylistic "finished" models...

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#3Dprinting
#Anycubic
Resin-printed ogre with two goblins steering on a wooden platform. Partial gray prime allows the back-lit model to glow red in the core of the bodies. Second photo from a different angle of resin-printed ogre with two goblins steering on a wooden platform. Partial gray prime allows the back-lit model to glow red in the core of the bodies.
January 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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I know tomorrow is #WIPWednesday, but I am so excited my freehand practice is paying off! Trying animal pelts and am learning how to really look at what I'm trying to recreate... which is... globs of patchy color?

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Back view of Vasillac the Gifted from Warhammer Underworlds' Dread Pageant warband looking fabulous with a purple cape and leopard print shawl. Not pictured: pink glitter boot!
January 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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You know those family photos where it's impossible to get everyone to stand still and stay in frame?

Zarbag knows!

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Warhammer Underworlds warband Zarbag's Gitz with Citadel Averland Sunset skin tone and teal robes. Zarbag's hood has white flames, and the squigs are a matching teal color with pink gums. Zarbag's trapped fairy lantern glows a fluorescent yellowish-green.
January 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Base colors on Gryselle's Arenai. Definitely not painted to look like Captain America, Green Goblin, Hela, Proxima Midnight, or Lady Deathstrike (from left to right).

Now to add shading, washes, and highlights w/o ruining them.

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Warhammer Underworlds Gryselle's Arenai warband. They actually are painted to look like Captain America, Green Goblin, Hela, Proxima Midnight, and Lady Deathstrike (from left to right).
January 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I'm a big fan of Citadel, Game Color, and AK - but I'd be lying if I didn't say I've used the heck out of craft smart and FolkArt paints. But one of my absolute favorites is this Cape Cod Blue Ceramcoat by Delta. Such a lovely base, such a lovely face.
4 Oz. Bottle of Cape Cod Blue from Ceramcoat by Delta, smeared with dry paint of various *other* shades. Behind it sits various works in progress, including Gryselle, the Slaughterer painted to look like Marvel's Hela.
January 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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MR. SMEEEEE!

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#PeterPan #Hook
Warhammer Underworlds Blackpowder ogre and goblin painted up like Disney's version of Captain Hook and Mr. Smee from Peter Pan.
January 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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#TBT to my first finished warband! As you can see, I hadn't yet decided that it was a good idea to have matching bases for the entire team...

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Warbands Underworlds Da Kunnin' Krew painted in various green and brown skin colors, some with skin differences. Dark bronze metals and deep purple fabrics unite the warband, though some of the bases are painted a reddish brown whereas two are a bright, varnished, oozy green.
January 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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#WIPWednesday A stormcast in the classic Hawkeye colors to go with my Iron Man Stormcast!

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Warhammer Age of Sigmar Stormcast Knight-Judicator in teal and plum colors like pre-MCU Hawkeye
January 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Accidentally ended up with a double warband in my eBay bidding... went Sigmarite Brotherhood for one and Arthas/Death Knights with the other. Which do y'all prefer?

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A pair of Steelheart's Champions warbands, left painted white with purple highlights, right painted black metal on snowy bases to match the aesthetic of Arthas the Lich King, including Severin Steelheart holding Frostmourne with glowing runes.
January 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM