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Johnny Zed
@thejohnnyzed.bsky.social
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Old school Warhammerer remembrancer. Geek and fanboy going way back. Will often say "back in the day".
Mostly here for hobby posts and to support friends.
Is the same @TheJohnnyZed from Twitter.
Member of the #Nerdlings miniatures hobby community.
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Johnny Zed @thejohnnyzed.bsky.social · Oct 4
My name's John, and over 40 years(ish) of miniatures hobby, I'm STILL horrible at getting anything finished up, but I still love the hobby and the inspiration I get from others (that often leads me to having Way Too Many Projects Going At Once). I'll often include "back in the day" in sentences.
A unit of three space marine Aggressors, done up in the colours of the Iron Hands chapter. A group of necrons in the colours of the Szarehkian Dynasty, advancing through a set of dark hexagonally-shaped rock outcroppings. An Adeptus Mechanicus Kastelan robot Ever-Faithful, done in colours evoking both the Mars Craftworld but also the Astartes Ultramarine chapter, with whom it served during the defense of Calth. An Imperial Knight Armiger-Warglaive, done in the colours of House Taranis of Mars.
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Getting up in the morning is gonna burn... but all the subassemblies are pretty much done at least.
A mostly assembled but as of yet unpainted Warhammer Horus Heresy Thanatar-Cavas battle automaton, standing in a menacing, slightly forward leaning pose to indicate aiming the plasma bombard on its shoulder. Some armour plates are off as I've not fully glued it together so that I can paint some of the trickier to reach areas as subassemblies. It's currently being held together by blu-tac and strong wishing.
August 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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One. Arm. One. Damn. Arm.
The assembled but not painted arm of a Warhammer Horus Heresy Thanatar-Cavas battle automaton. The instructions page for how to assemble the arm of a Warhammer Horus Heresy Thanatar-Cavas battle automaton, a ludicrously involved process involving more parts for a single arm than most miniatures have in the entire model. The work in process mock assembled Warhammer Horus Heresy Thanatar-Cavas battle automaton, still missing the left arm, shoulder mounted plasma bombard and a number of ammo feeds and armour plates left off for subassembly painting.
August 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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It's good knight from me.

(Yes, I did watch the Doctor Who season ender, why do you ask?)
An assembled but not yet painted Questoris Knight Magaera from Games Workshop's Legions Imperialis. It is a hulking humanoid-shaped mecha with a cyclops-eyed head, clad in thick armour and armed with a massive claw on one arm and a huge lightning cannon on the other. To give an idea of the size of the miniature, the backdrop to it is the palm of my hand.
June 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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The one kind of crypto I can get behind; a pair of necron cryptothralls.
A pair of Necron Cryptothralls from Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000. Hunched robotic humanoid cyclones with scythe like hands, they are painted in the ancient brassy colour of the Szarehkian Dynasty, with steely joints and scythes and with glowing yellow-green accents, and marching across a cracked blackened base with green energy visible through cracks in the ground around their feet.
April 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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So #WarhammerCommunity posted an article celebrating the history of Land Raiders, and I figured that sharing these venerable pre-millenial efforts of mine would be appropriate. A 1st gen Land Raider and Predator from my second homebrew chapter, and an Epic scale Emperor's Children one.
Classic first generation Warhammer 40,000 tanks, a Predator on the left and a Land Raider on the right, painted in an orangey reddish colour with yellow camo stripes line with black in the heraldry of an old homebrew chapter of mine. A slightly dusty classic Land Raider from the Space Marine/Epic 40,000 "epic scale" games.l by Games Workshop. This one is painted purple with gold side panels and bears an attempt at a hand painted Emperor's Children chapter icon on the door, as part of a larger Epic Scale army of Emperor's Children marines I painted back in the day.
April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Right then, just need the base done and any egregious goofs i spot and done. Like how this Iron Hands terminator captain from the Leviathan job is working out.
A Space Marine Terminator Captain, from the Leviathan boxed set by Games Workshop for their Warhammer 40,000 game. His armor is the steely black of the Iron Hands chapter, with highlights in bright steel, brass, gold, white and red. In one hand he holds an ornate power sword arcing with bolts of blueish energy, and in the other he holds a massive double barreled storm bolter with a white casing. His head is half covered in an iron plate, and the opposite eye has been replaced with a glowing red bionic eyepiece.
April 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Applying transfers is annoying.

More progress on my Iron Hands terminator captain.
Rear view of a Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Captain in Terminator Armour (Leviathan boxed set version) showing off his cloak and the transfer sheet detailing. Work in progress. Front view of a Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Captain in Terminator Armour (Leviathan boxed set version) showing off his cloak and the transfer sheet detailing. Work in progress.
April 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Pulling a stalled project off the bench and started working on it again. The perils of watching a live stream battle report for one of the factions I have in progress.
A Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Captain in Terminator armour from the Leviathan boxed set by Games Workshop. A massively armored warrior in primarily black armour, with much heraldic detailing in silver, gold, brass, red, white, grey stone and bone colors. He weilds a massive double barreled storm bolter gun in one hand and a huge, heavily ornamented sword crackling with arcs of energy in the other. He's still a work in progress, with some painting and detailing left to be done, as well as the painting of the elaborate scenic base he stands on.
April 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Coming in at the 11th hour, but some stuff I've been working on for the #WarhammerChallenge

(The rumors of my devolving into chaos spawn are much exaggerated)
A mostly painted Grombrindal miniature from Games Workshop, an axe wielding legendary dwarf with flowing white hair and beard. A fully painted but still needing to be based Canis Rex model from Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000. A gigantic Knight Questoris mech suit with a crushing hand, a massive laser weapon for the other arm, and painted in silver, gold, red and white heraldry with white wolf head and broken chains iconography.
March 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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If you're playing a Spyrer gang in Necromunda, and it's led by an Orrus that gets seduced by the draw of chaos, is that the Orrus 'Eresy?
February 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Been a while since I felt I had anything shareworthy, but this WIP glamour shot of a knight armiger felt like it needed to be shared.
February 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Oh hey, I found a thing when I was going through my storage.
Apparently once upon a time I made the grade (okay, the BRONZE grade, but still...)

It's OLD street cred, but I'm happy to have earned it.
A small bronze coloured statue of a demon with crossed arms, one hand holding a paintbrush. It stands on a small wood plinth with a brass plate that reads "Golden Demon Awards 1991" The underside of the plinth, where a small affixed sticker reads "Eldar Dreadn. John Z. Third P. Congrats!"
November 29, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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So I hear Eldar are back in vogue again... do these count?
A plastic storage box lined with foam trays holding a large number of classic metal Warhammer.40,000 space elf corsair, done in the blue and yellow colors and bearing the banner iconography of the Eldritch Raiders.
November 26, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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To all the friends who've gifted me with GW vouchers over the years... it's finally allowed me to pull the trigger on one of my dream acquisitions.
Good grief, what have I gotten myself into?
A large, rectangular red box featuring the logo of the Legio Titanica from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. A side view of a large, rectangular red box featuring the logo of the Legio Titanica from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. A Ballistus Dreadnought in the colours of the Iron Hands chapter of Space Marines from the same game stands on top of it for scale. A view inside the box of about half a dozen large ziploc-style plastic bags bearing the Forge World logo and website address. Each contains many, many pieces of cast resin parts. The instructions booklet for an Acastus Knight Asterius, a very large class of Knight (think piloted mecha) from the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
November 20, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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My friend @snowbringer.bsky.social has been working on the adventures of her OC Cattemage for a few years now, and lo, she's working on a new one now! So if you'd like to follow the story of a feline mage and her ghostly companion as they adventure through the world they live in, give it a look!
snowbringer.bsky.social snowbringer.bsky.social @snowbringer.bsky.social · Nov 3
She's BACK.

I'm gonna be posting Cattemage daily at the patreon and then bundled so it can be perused in a together form.

(reminds self that done is better than perfect, especially with daily/fast comics...)
drawing of a cat wizard, explaining she is there to get her sibling, and a gatekeeper is fumbling for words in response. Gatekeeper explains that his mistress and hers have come to an agreement Cat wizard explains clearly that she has no mistress, catching gatekeeper with hoof in mouth
November 4, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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Because @matarakan.vshojo.com asked me to reshare it from the Twitch stream where she reacted to it, here are the images I submitted that she reacted to. Happy stream anniversary!
(And apologies for any roughness in the paint job, I was under a lot of time pressure, will touch it up later)
A Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Adeptus Mechanicus Kastelan robot with power fist, phosphor blaster and heavy phosphor blaster armament. It is converted to have ear-like antennae on its head and small grasping manipulators extended from below its chest plate. It is white with purple and brass accents, and stands on a base of cracked red Martian earth. The faceplate is done to resemble the face of the "momo" mascots of Twitch streamer Matara Kan from Vshojo. A group of Warhammer 40,000 Adeptus Mechanicus units, including a Techpriest, Cybernetica Datasmith, eight Kastelan robots, two Armiger Warglaives (in the red, black and white of House Taranis). The rest of the models are done in the red of Forgeworld Mars, except for a single Kastelan done in white with purple and brass accents and a matching white and purple "momo", the mascot of Twitch vtuber Matara Kan of Vshojo in celebration of her stream's one year anniversary.
October 21, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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Periodically, I'll do a big splurge on my hobby purchases (usually to celebrate some kind of milestone, in this case my work contract being renewed). Woo?

Big thanks to Sunward Hobbies for the supply drop, love those folks!
(Link below as they're not on Bluesky that I'm aware)
www.sunwardhobbies.ca
A shipping box full of hobby goodies, including Warhammer: Darktide (the miniatures game version), a Kroot Lone Spear kit, the Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines 10th edition codexes (because I'm stupidly a completist), two hobby clamps, and the recent Sisters of Battle Army of Faith army starter box. Also contains a "Thank you" card from Sunward Hobbies, the Toronto, Canada based hobby store I got it all from.
June 28, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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If you see this, post something toothy.
A horde of Iz, small creatures that are mostly a flattened globular body with no feature other that a large, toothy mouth, to which are connected thin, gangly arms to either side, and a stalklike trunk below leading to large flat feet. From the comic book/cartoon The Maxx.
June 27, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Needed to take a walk tonight, and I'm glad I did. I really do love the city waterfront at night sometimes.
A moonlight view across the water of a point of land sticking out from a wooded area into Lake Ontario, taken from a secluded rock beach cove just west of Woodbine Beach, Toronto. A nighttime view across the water of distant downtown Toronto, taken from a spit of land just west of Woodbine Beach, Toronto. A nighttime view of the Ashbridge Bay Yacht Club mooring area seen from a spit of land across from it at the west end of Woodbine Beach, Toronto.
June 25, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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I'm not sure how I feel about this.
On the one hand, I think it's going to be a tough ask to find ways of telling interesting stories here that aren't just weird silliness.
On the other hand, the casting is about as good as you could ask.
June 19, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Money is tight so I have opened commissions. $50 gets you a hand painted character- portrait or full body, it's up to you. The image will be delivered digitally as a png file or you can pay extra to have it shipped from Korea. ko-fi.com/jwvhewitt/co...
A World Eater space marine; watercolor. A friend of mine cosplaying as a Witcher character whose name I can't remember; acrylic gouache. A knight with a shiny helmet; acrylic. A wizard; gouache on watercolor paper.
June 16, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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I kinda love these.

Hey #Nerdlings, think we should do something summer themed inspired by these guys?
possumacquainter.bsky.social Gregory Possum-Friend @possumacquainter.bsky.social · Jun 12
the main lore thing about Warhammer Orks "Flash Gitz" units (besides their affinity for ridiculously heavy and baroque guns) is that they love the color yellow, and that other orks find them obnoxious. So I had to start sculpting some very tiny Hawaiian shirts. Happy summer from the Beach Gitz
June 12, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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Everything that Statuesque makes is absolutely wonderful, and if you like your miniatures cute and whimsical (but not without a bit of an edge to them!), then you might want to give them a look.
statuesque.bsky.social Statuesque Miniatures @statuesque.bsky.social · Jun 11
What happens when a cloth doll imagines herself and her faithful beanbag cat as daring, roguish adventurers?

A bit of a self-referential indulgence maybe, but I had fun designing them.

statuesqueminiatures.co.uk
statuesqueminiatures.etsy.com for EU and Norway
The cloth rogue and beanbag magic cat from the Letters from the Habernagerie miniatures range meet cloth doll Olive and her beanbag cat from the Left at the Bottom of the Garden miniatures range.
June 11, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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This is a really great novella! If your tastes in fantasy were heavily influenced by things like Labyrinth and Legend back in the day, this is what a more mature, developed take on what an expedition into a dangerous-fae-world-next-door story looks like.
And for that price? Treat yourself.
premeemohamed.com Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · Jun 10
HWELLO and good morning! Catching up on 4 billion emails from a busy weekend BUT may I add that THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST -- my novella about a rescue mission in a dangerous magical forest -- is ONE DOLLAR NINETY AND NINE today on Kindle and Kobo! In Canada, anyway.

www.amazon.ca/Butcher-Fore...
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST by Premee Mohamed, 208 ratings, Kindle Edition Limited-time deal, $1.99 (Print List Price $24.99)
June 10, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Nicky is great. Hire her for your commissions. Hire her to illustrate your comics. Provide a game development grant to GearHead Caramel payable directly to Nicky so I can hire her to draw decent hair for all the characters. Help a cartoonist out!
A commission of Jessica the dragon dentist from my story "The Wrong Kind of People" drawn by Nicky Rodriguez. A commission of Vanda the Pyromaniac Queen from the GearHead series of games drawn by Nicky Rodriguez.
June 8, 2024 at 2:48 AM