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Rich May
@richdmay.bsky.social
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Professional video game programmer and omni-nerd. Space, Cars, Trains, Wargames, Retrogaming, etc. Lead Programmer
at Rebellion currently working on Atomfall. He/him.
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He's always been a favourite of mine too. Funnily enough I finally painted him up recently after owning him for at least a decade. He won the single miniature category at my local gaming club so he's still turning heads after all this time!
Photo of the High Elf Prince miniature, decked out in silver scale armour, white robes and a green cloak. He carries a huge, two-handed sword and an intricate golden helmet and shield, bedecked with gems and a sword-piercing-heart motif on the shield.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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It is! I don't have many pics of the whole of it because it's so big but I did grab a few dramatic shots with one of those White Dwarf background.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Has to be the big bridge board I played on at Warhammer World. So many fond memories of this game.
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Oh my. That's a blast from the teenage past.
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Has to be this one for me. I love the sense of massed infantry advancing, dying steadily but still coming. You can almost hear the Sharpe theme playing.
The classic Imperial Guard art from Rogue Trader showing a massed regiment of soldiers advancing into the teeth of enemy fire, banners flying. Silhouettes of great Warlord titans advance in the background as jets streak across the sky.
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Yes! That's why the protocol must be obeyed!
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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"Replace, Replenish, Recycle!"

This is the mantra of The Toilet Protocol, an initiative that I have been forced to enact in the face of continued cases of no roll being left in the bathroom and empty tubes left lying around like so much detritus.

Today I was greeted by this.
Photo of an empty toilet roll tubr with the words 'NO TOILET PROTOCOL' scrawled across it's surface hanging on a silver holder. Photo of an empty toilet roll tubr with the words 'NO TOILET PROTOCOL' scrawled across it's surface hanging on a silver holder. Photo of an empty toilet roll tubr with the words 'NO TOILET PROTOCOL' scrawled across it's surface hanging on a silver holder.
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Isn't the original post is basically the plot of Independence Day?
October 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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I'll just leave this here:
Cover image from Red Faction Guerilla on Xbox 360.
October 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Took the opportunity of a gaming day at my local club to get some pics of my armies. This is the first time in a long while I've had my entire Sisters army out. It's not big by modern standards despite being thirty years in the making!

#Warhammer40k #SistersOfBattle #Nerdlings #AdeptaSororitas
A photo of a Sisters of Battle army painted in the colours of the Order of Our Martyred Lady. It consists off several infantry units and a number of tanks, characters and the like and is standing on a brown desert-like battlefield.
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Maybe two things?
Photograph of a Sisters of Battle Exorcist painted in the Order of Our Martyred Lady black and red and gold scheme.
October 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I painted this #HighElf hero for my local gaming club's Single Miniature painting competition and it was fun/terrifying to really push myself. The shield was done by painting over an Averlorn decal.

#PaintingWarhammer #Warhammer #Nerdlings #HighElves #TheOldWorld #WarhammerFantasy
Photo of a High Elf Hero miniature, an tall figure in golden and silver scale armour with a winged helm and giant, two-handed sword and shield. He is wearing white robes with green trim and a green cloak. On the shield is a heart pierced by a sword surrounded by golden flower petals with a night sky scene in the background. Photo of a High Elf Hero miniature, an tall figure in golden and silver scale armour with a winged helm and giant, two-handed sword and shield. He is wearing white robes with green trim and a green cloak. On the shield is a heart pierced by a sword surrounded by golden flower petals with a night sky scene in the background. Photo of the back a High Elf Hero miniature, an tall figure in golden and silver scale armour with a winged helm and giant, two-handed sword and shield. His cloak is a deep, emerald green and a long scabbard runs the full length of his back. His golden blonde hair is swept to one side by the wind.
October 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Got your verification right here, jackass.
Screencap of my Xbox bio page showing the Xbox Live Gold badge given to people who had subscriptions 2002-2023. The text reads: "I like yoghurt. Location Oxonshire, Middle Earth EDIT BIO >"
October 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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I registered my Xbox Live Account in _2002_ you absolute gibbons.
Screen cap of an email from Microsoft about having to verify my age to use chat online on Xbox. The text reads: "At Xbox, we are committed to providing players with a safe and secure experience on our platform. In collaboration with the community, publishing partners, and industry regulators, we frequently iterate on our safety measures to ensure we are offering the safest player experience. As part of our compliance program for the UK Online Safety Act and our ongoing investments in tools and technologies that help ensure age-appropriate experiences, we need you to verify your age so you can continue enjoying social features on Xbox. Please feel free to disregard this email if you've already verified your age via the verification process."
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Finished this little batch of #SistersOfBattle that I've been painting to bulk up my force for an upcoming Crusade campaign. These old models are fully of little gribblies, casting marks and such but they still look good.

#PaintingWarhammer #Nerdlings #AdeptaSororitas #Warhammer40k #Warhamm40000
A squad of five Sisters of Battle miniatures on a white background. They are painted in black "Order of Our Martyred Lady" livery and are carrying red boltguns with brown bases. A close-up of a Sisters of Battle miniature on a white background. She is painted in black "Order of Our Martyred Lady" livery and is carrying red boltguns with a brown base. She has a ginger/red bob haircut. A close-up of a Sisters of Battle miniature on a white background. She is painted in black "Order of Our Martyred Lady" livery and is carrying red boltguns with a brown base. She has a broen bob haircut and holding her weapon at ease. A close-up of a Sisters of Battle miniature on a white background. She is painted in black "Order of Our Martyred Lady" livery and is carrying red boltguns with a brown base. She has a blonde bob and is aiming her boltgun to the right, gritting her teeth as if firing at some particularly egregious heretics.
October 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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My new Dark Eldar codex seems to have come packaged with some dessicated Catachan Bloodworms.
Photo of a large cardboard box with a single book at the bottom. Perched on top and to the side are some long, wrinkled worm-like pieces of packaging material.
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Choo choo!
Photo of a red Squat Land Train from the Epic Space Marine game. It's a tiny red armoured train-like vehicle with a big "locomotive" bristling with silver and brass turrets and a train of smaller 'battlecars' behind it, adorned with a variety of outlandish weaponry.
October 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.

#PaintingWarhammer #WIP #Warhammer40k #Warhamer40000 #Nerdlings #SistersOfBattle #AdeptaSororitas
A photo of some work-in-progress Sisters of Battle miniatures (the old school metal ones) painted in the red and black of The Order of Our Martyred Lady. They are perched on a selection of old citadel hex pots that are being used as painting stands.
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Played my first game of #Warhammer40k for a few years last night, Grey Knights against my Sisters. It was a chilled out game, mostly me trying to remember how to play and attempting to teach the Knights player how 40k works.

#Nerdlings #AdeptaSororitas
Photograph of a Warhammer 40,000 tabletop battlefield with brown battlemat, a selection of ruins and buildings, including a gun emplacement, with various units set up behind them. A Sisters of Battle Exorcist tank - a cross between an APC and a church organ - sitting between two ruins, ready to fire. A squad of Battle Sisters from the Order of Our Martyred Lady move through the battlefield, holding position in a crater. An Immolator tank turns its twin flamethrowers toward the Grey Knights skulking in the ruins ahead of it.
October 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Excellent stuff, as ever. My love for the Repentia was rekindled during last night's game (my first for several years) where they minced up two units of Grey Knights, dying spectacularly in the process.
Photo of game of Warhammer 40,000 in-progress showing a unit of Repentia facing off against a unit of Grey Knights who seem determined to turn them into blood armour.
October 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Not _purest_ green, but still...
Photo of a Dark Eldar (Drukhari) Scourge - a bewinged figure in dark red and gold armour - swooping dow with their weapons poised to strike, their vibrant green wings flared out behind them.
September 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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The commander of the Land Raider excelsior looks just like that smug cat meme.

#Warhammer40k #Nerdlings
Close up of the commander of the Land Raider Excelsior poking his head out of the top of the tank's hatch. The "smug cat" meme showing a white can perched over a plate of food.
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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As long as they have this vibe.
A man riding a tiny motorbike.
September 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM