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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#hobbystreak day 1012 The hammerers are progressing nicely, getting a colour highlighted each day. Soon they'll be ready to reinforce my dwarfs. I had a 1k game vs empire which was fun even if a lot went wrong! The Rogal Dorn I need for my 40k league has it's silver basecoated, early days there.

10 dwarf hammerers in the red and white of Karak Norn

A classic sight, dwarfs defending a hill

The dwarfen battleline from the other side, not really enough covering this flank!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I played a battle march game vs goblins, the Bugmans supplies were notably reduced afterwards. The longbeards are still grumbling that there used to be more goblins to kill back in the day...

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Im very excited for them, been after them for a long time! I now have 19, full unit except the champion!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 1008 While I'm very much in an old world mood, and my hammerers and miners are making progress... The return of my clubs 40k league has put some fire under me to finish up some guard. Tonight i finished up an enginseer and a Vanquisher turret for my league list.

A unit of dwarf hammerers, inked and ready for highlights

A leman russ vanquisher with an enginseer on top

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jumped on blender today to design then print this base adapter movement tray. Grombrindal and pals can now lead my hammerers to war!

A movement tray with slots for 20mm bases to make them 25mm in size, with a special slot for the white dwarf 30th anniversary model to fit in on his 20x40mm base so he takes up a 50mm square

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 1004 Making good Dwarfen progress. The first 10 hammerers are basecoated and starting to get inked. 5 miners are stripped, based and ready to spray, along with the 7th ed 'mining cart'. And as a bonus I've started magnetising my painted dwarfs, so far 30 done!

The hammerers musician letting gravity keep the ink in his horn

5 miners and a mining cart prepped for spraying

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They're Strip miners! Haha Get it? I'll... I'll just go...

5 metal miners in front of a bottle of biostrio

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, it's just 10mins a day (though tbf usually more) to count and I don't count days I literally can't, eg Im not home because of a holiday. I also count playing a game, as ita all hobby!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 1001 (yesterday) I had hoped to take day 1000 off for a paintathon, but alas life is too busy. Instead it's modest progress, as hobbystreak tends to be, with some finished artillery bases and progress on the hammerers.

4 bases painted goblin green, perfect for some dwarfen artillery

A unit of 10 hammerers getting basecoated,with silver armour and red gloves

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That's a good idea, recentlymgot a coffee machine so have spare grounds! My bases are the classic: pva+sand, painted Warboss green and drybrushed yellow.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 998 With a big enough hammer everything looks like a nail! First couple of colours have been applied to my hammerers. Mostly though, today was a 2k game of #OldWorld vs Ogres, the longbeards have since been grumbling that Ogres used to be tougher! Also, more base sand!

10 hammmerers with green bases and silver armour

A unit of longbeards fighting against a unit of Ironguts

A Gorger screams at a unit of Dwarf warriors

4 sandy bases ready for painting for.my war machines

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I heard someone saying that warhammer has gradually lost the whimsy. The classic flame cannons are great examples of that, this one with the giant ale barrel. And the even older one where the crew are blatantly terrified of it exploding!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My current project pile is very exciting right now! More gyrocopters are always good. Hammerers are absolutely iconic. And then my full-metal dwarf army needs a king on shieldbearers. As far as I know theres only 1 metal choice! Gotrek, Bugman and Grombrindal join the throng!

A selection of classic metal dwarf sculpts on a paint tray

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ive got 7, plus the full 3 command set, bought myself treat when my club started leaning towards old world! Not sure a unit of 10 is big enough, but maybe if you throw in a king on shieldbearers to fill them out?

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Working on collecting the full metal 80s great weapon unit, I have about 9 of them so far! Next up is a bit more modern with these guys:

5 metal dwarf hammerers from the Grudge of Drong era

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 994 With 6 new warriors added to the unit, my 80s metal dwarf warriors are complete! Sure this unit has been complete before, but I had used some great weapon sculpts and plastixs to fill it out. It's now all metal, all sword, all board, and all dwarf!

6 classic dwarf warriors in a karak Norn scheme

A full unit of hand weapon and shield dwarf warriors

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 989 Played battle march last night it's an excellent system for mini stories to unfold. The goblins were routed by the dwarven engineer army, the 11 dwarven deaths will all be recorded as grudges in the book! Basecoats begin on 6 replacements and I'm working on my Vanq turret.

Two units of dwarf warriors prepare to fight the goblin hordes

The Thunderers and artillery hammer the goblin left flank

6 dwarf warriors with hand weapons and shields, currently only basecoated silver

An imperial guard Vanquisher leman ruas tureet about half painted

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 984 A bitty few days, finished my Dwarf engineer for Old World. Finished assembling my rogal dorn, hopefully built to pass as both a commander and not. And then i cleaned and assembled 6 dwarf warriors from the late 80s/early 90s to bring my unit to 20.

6 classic metal dwarfs with hand weapons and shields

A close up on the stubber gunner/tank commander

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Its an awesome model, thats definitely why ita in. Not sure throwing flame templates around is the most effective in battle march where units are likely to be even smaller!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gods painting Old world is fun. Here's my planned battle march list. Is it good? No, but it does have a flame cannon! Are they good? I mean... aesthetically they are top tier and that has to count for something!

A dwarf engineer with handgun, great weapon, brace of pistols, hand weapons and eyes that need a second pass

The same engineer from behind showing his weapon pack

A 7t0 point dwarf battle marchlist with 2 units of warriors, a unit of thunderers, a gyrocopter, a flame cannon and a cannon, all lead by an engineer

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 980 With my 40k league over, it's time to look at something other than my Guard army. My local club is starting to get pretty interested in Old World, so my all-metal Dwarf army is getting some reinforcements ready for a battle march game!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Still building, they will come in time!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 978 Rather than finishing my fob crew, I've been assembling, and magnetising my first big tank. My league games have shown both a lack of punch, and a lack of mid table brawling. So hopefully a Rogal dorn will hope answer those issues.

A rogal dorn with big cannons for big shots

A rogal dorn with smaller cannons for many shots

A rogal dorn next to my leman russ tank commander.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hard to know what's the more satisfying hobby moment: Putting a fresh blade onto the hobby knife. Or getting to the end of a painting session and finally getting to enjoy your drink!

A hobby knife with a fresh sharp blade next to the old dirty blade

A painting desk with a straw sticking out of the paint water cup.

**Do not drink the forbidden juice**

No matter how tasty!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Doing the finishing touches for prep for tonight's miniature show, with @tabletoprescue.bsky.social. I'm going to be doing my best to sell through all these boxes of warhammer and other modern miniature makers from.80m tonight. Should be loads of fun! www.ebay.co.uk/ebaylive/eve...

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 974 They're done! Enough to play in tomorrow's game! Still have 2 part painted crew and the gun operators need camo, but these are ready enough to hit the table and hopefully kill some knights!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 971 The FOBs themselves are done, so its time to work on the crew, fortunately i'm fairly experienced at painting catachans now, so this is going a bit quicker. All basecoats done, onto the highlights! Should have these finished after a couple more good painting sessions!

2 field ordinance batteries in a orange black and red scheme

A close up on the first gun, the weapo itself is highlighted but the crew are half finshed

Both guns from above showing the fully painted magnetised options.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 967 Life is still proving busy, so painting time remains limited. Still making some nice progress on the FOBs. Metals and reds are highlighted, the camo has been tidied up and just needs edge highlights now, the bases are finished. So it is mostly crew and details left.

2 field ordinance batteries including all magnetised options.

A close up on a rocket launcher battery.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The second they see you they'll charge at you and rip your throat out! Since they have to see your this put them clearly in the bottom 10% of lethality on that Emperor-forsaken planet.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you see this, post your riders... Catachan rough riders on the closest thing they can find to horses. Plus their 'Lord Solar' Colonel on aggradon. #warhammer #catachan #nerdlings #warhammer40k

5 converted rough riders: catachan bodies on cold one mounts

The rough riders assisting an armoured advance

A converted Lord Solar proxy made with the catachan colonel mini on top of an aggradon from AoS

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Every now and then I've asked for mini ID help as I've slowly sorted through a large cabinet of retro minis. Now we're going to be doing three huge eBay Live auctions over the bank Holiday! Please share so we can get the news out to lead lovers everywhere! www.ebay.co.uk/ebaylive/eve...

3 drawers of retro RPG/wargaming miniatures

A close up one one drawer, with a chariot, and lots of adventurers and cultists

A close up on a second drawer containing monsters, lizardmen and others

A third drawer with monsters, genestealers, and a large RAFM box

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Side note: one of the underlying silly things I love about 40k: A custodian guard, personal bodyguard to humanities greatest (and deadest) ever leader. Gene altered to be humanity perfected: move 6" Standard guardsman thats been yelled at: move 9"

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 963 'New orders from command lads, let's move, move, move!' Finished an order token. Using milliput & blue stuff to clone running legs and lamps, I will be able to make plenty of these! The 'light beams' are cut up bits of paper clips. All painted light blue and drybrushed white.

A unit of catachan troops with holographic running legs marking thier current order.

Before priming, milliput parts with paper clips stuck in the.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 961 I've spent the last few nights doing the bases for my field ordinance teams. And what massive bases they are! Just a few crates left to do on one. In the background I've also been doing some casting. Using blue stuff and milliput to clone parts to make some fun order tokens.

Two huge lava bases done with various orange shades with cracked black paint on top.

The same bases with the currently wip ordinance batteries on top

Some milliput clones of warhammer parts. The running catachan legs will be used to make holographic 'move move move' order tokens. The little lamp cover will act as the projector.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ebay live has become a really fun part of my work. Look at all the games @tabletoprescue.bsky.social is selling today! So much marvel and starwars! We're even going to be doing some mini streams later in the month! If any UK folks want to tune in for board games tonight at 9pm: ebay.io/m/1ung2r

A large pile of games, making up about half of what's being auctioned tonight.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I know the feeling, terrain always ends up at the bottom of the priorities!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 958 The camo pattern does a lot to make my catachan theme work. Being bright orange next to black it also takes a fair bit of work! I may do the bases next, it would be a nice way to feel the unit is approaching tabletop ready!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Looks like a lovely game with great armies!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 956 If you want to get bang for your hobby buck then fully magnetise and paint some FOBs. There's 3 weapon options, but the minis are 50% guns so including the carraige thats 200% painting per mini! Inked the metals and got the first highlights on the reds. Good steady progress.

A pair of field ordinance batteries with missile launchers. Other options are scattered nearby.

The same 2 minis with the guns swapped to the heavy lascannons

A close up on one model, it is painted black silver and red, plenty left to do.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 954 Basecoating my FOBs today. Its clear that this will be a slog! I'm doing the right thing and painting all the magnetised weapons at once, so I'm not adding to my weapon backlog. With each platform having 3 guns, 2 shields, 3 crew, and a huge base theres a lot to do!

2 field ordinance batteries with all options. Sprayed black, with silver areas basecoated and red areas done on all bar 2 guns.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

They can mostly be tamed. So long as you never let them get hungry. And have a flexible understanding of the word tame.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Its from the age of Sigmar Seraphon range. The leader on aggradon.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Thanks, it was one of the main things I had in mind when it came to doing the full catachan army, very proud of how the kitbash came together!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Continuing on revisiting my slightly unfinished guard minis. 'Lord solar' here was finished up for a tournament, but still had some unpainted details. Fixed up a few little issues and now I can call him done!

A catachan colonel riding a seraphon aggradon to act as a lord solar proxy

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 942 Sick days = slow work on sentinel weapons. Don't know if I'll be using flamers, but autocannons are becoming a favourite weapon. Also played my second league game and secured a win. Highlight was ramming a banesword with a chimera. It exploded destroying a whole table quarter.

A leman russ squares off against a rogal dorn

A unit of rough riders bring their melta lances to bear against the rear armour of an enemy vehicle.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 939 Thanks to my son having a lie-in I was able to get an early bit of painting in and finish off the classic metal Ogryn squad. Ready to jump in a chimera with 'big hat man' and cause havoc in tonight's game! Hoping they don't suffer the newly painted minis curse!

A metal ogryn with ripper gun and grenate painted in lava world camo

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 936 With a game coming up I should be painting Ogryn. So anyway I built and magnetised 2 FOBs. I don't know how to use this unit, the indirect option, the rocket that has dakka, or the heavy lascannons that just dare your opponents vehicles to say hi. Im leaning that way atm.

A pair of field ordinace guns with catachan crew

The same team swapped to the artillery gun

The same team swapped to the rocket launcher. The magnetised pieces sir nearby

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Definitely enjoy the results, they do look a bit silly while WIP though!

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