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The Bearded Spartan
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44 year-old parent, geek. Recently diagnosed Autistic dude who loves Warhammer 40k, Battletech, Greek Mythology, Halo and all sorts of other weird and wonderful things. Mentally ill as f...
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My mercenary unit is an Enhanced Lance representing me, my wife and kids. Eldest recently discovered the Atlas, and Kerensky's famous quote.

Kid: "Can I swap my mech from an Awesome to an Atlas dad?"

Me: "Yeah, of course"

Kid: "Can you paint it to look like death?"

Damn it...

WIP

#battletech
An Atlas mech from Battletech. It is primarily black with the beginnings of a basic skeleton roughly sketched out in an off-white. Background is burgundy curtains.
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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A gift from my wife, just because she's an amazing person.
#LPU #LinkinPark
The cover of Linkin Park's latest album, From Zero. The cover is green with an oily liquid effect flowing across it and has the Linkin Park emblem in the centre.
October 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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But also, yeah, I probably should. Thanks, sweary guardian angel! 👍🏻
September 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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My lil' dude is feeling the call of the model painter. I had this spare Strike Cruiser lying around and he has expressed an interest in collecting Space Marines for 40k.

For The Emperor!
#hobbypainting #citadelpaints
#warhammer40k #adeptusastartes #spacemarines
A boy paints a Space Marine Strike Cruiser from Games Workshop's Battlefleet Gothic game. The small ship has a black undercoat and is held carefully in one hand, as dark blue paint is applied from the brush in his other hand.
September 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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So, I've absolutely fallen in love with #ArmyPainter. The colour triads especially are brilliant for people like me who struggle with finding complementary shades and tones for highlights. Can't wait to try out the magenta range on my Drukhari
#hobbypainting
A black Army Painter wet palette plus three examples of Army Painter's Triad system, where six complementary tones are packaged together. The picture shows the red, green and magenta triads.
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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As over a century of war in the Indomitus Crusade reduces their number to five, Brother-Sergeant Atharel's 7th squad finally relent, agreeing to cross the Rubicon Primaris.

I'm biting the bullet and painting up a squad of Jump Pack Intercessors as my new 7th squad.
#Warhammer40k #ThrowbackThursday
A five-man Space Marine Assault Squad, painted in the green of the Dark Angels Chapter. Their weapons and eye lenses are painted red, to provide contrast to the main colour
July 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The Battle Barge 'Righteous Indignation' being worked on at the moment. Hobby mojo is really low right now; hoping my mood improves soon so I can get back to this beauty.

#BattlefleetGothic
#3dprinting #Wargaming
A 3d printed Battle Barge from the out-of-production tabletop game 'Battlefleet Gothic' by Games Workshop. The hull is painted dark green while weapons are painted in a combination of gunmetal and red.
July 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Weirdly, my favourite is probably this Razorback. Bought new in box, it has been serving the Dark Angels for literal decades by now and I kind of love that the model is developing a history just like its in-universe counterpart would.
July 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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June 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Khorne Berzerkers are coming along very nicely. I decided to go all out with both new and old techniques to really try to get the very best out of the miniatures. My battle damage needs work but the whole squad is WIP at the moment 🤙🏻
#Warhammer40k #WorldEaters
#Hobbypainting
A Khorne Berzerker from Warhammer 40,000. His blood red armour is accented with brass while his plasma pistol has a vibrant orange glow to its coils. The same Berzerker, seen from the right side, showing his devotional chains and pistol holster. Same miniature again, seen from the front. His axe is bare metal for now, with brown bindings for the handle. His eye lenses are green, providing great contrast to his armour.
May 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Rick Sanchez, of Rick & Morty, sucking a lollipop. The catchphrase "you son of a bitch, I'm in" is written along the bottom in yellow
May 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Furious Retribution has been serving the Chapter for literally decades at this point!🤙🏻
May 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Got the weapons done for what will hopefully become a full ODST cosplay at some point. Autism willing, more WIP images to follow 🤙🏻 #Halo405th #cosplay
3D printed prop of a pistol from the video game Halo. The prop is currently white as it hasn't been painted yet. 3D printed prop of a submachine gun from the video game Halo. The prop has multiple join lines and is two different colours, a result of being printed in multiple pieces and then glued together.
April 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Mucking about with ideas for a small DCMS force I can take if I ever actually get out to a gaming club. Started at 4000 BV limit, then saw that if my opponent was a Clanner, they wouldn't even get two 'mechs out of that so I increased to 5000. Didn't want higher as I'm still learning.
#battletech
Small list of Battletech unit names, variants and points values. Middle group is crossed through in black pen.
March 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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@vancityreynolds.bsky.social
Looks like I found the Ryan Reynolds appreciation section at my local Smyths 👍🏻
February 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Sooooo, yeah. Using a glaze to blend is SUPPOSED to be a really slow, barely noticeable process, right...? Right?
#hobbypainting #warhammer40k
#tabletopgaming
February 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?
A Khorne Berzerker from Warhammer 40,000 stalks forward on a flame-wreathed battlefield, eyes flashing yellow, axe in hand and skull trophies hung at his waist.
December 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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This silly moggy stands on this window sill most days, watching me come home from the school run. This is my house. I do not own a cat. I do, however, belong to next door's cat as does my house... 😆 #cats
December 17, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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I'm cheating slightly as all I have a pic of right now is second squad's Razorback...
December 4, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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If you see this, post something green.
December 2, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Tee hee hee
Finally arrived at the perfect mileage. Now I just have to never drive this car again 🤙🏻
November 28, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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Griffin GRF-1N from the Battletech Beginner Box, painted blue and grey.
November 18, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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"Alrite darlin' got any Daemon in you? No? Well, would you like some?"
#Warhammer40k #WorldEaters
November 18, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Mucking about with different highlighting styles and scaring myself because I'm out of my comfort zone 👍🏻
November 15, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Experimenting with different highlighting techniques after using the 'Tron' look for many years. On the left is corners and random spots, on the right is the result of shining an actual light from above. Am I wrong in thinking the right one looks better? WIP
#warhammer40k #hobbypainting
Primaris Intercessor highlighted on the corners and sharp edges. Primaris Intercessor highlighted using an actual lamp light as reference.
November 14, 2024 at 7:39 PM