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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

almost done with my HG gqux! tomorrow i do enamel weathering and then it's topcoat time

Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

also painting the hg gqux and thankfully didn't burn myself out this time. creamy off-white suits this design way better than the pale blue it comes in

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

still not dead yadayada. i bought the logitech pebble for my laptop and the magnetically removable faceplate screamed "PAINT ME" so here we are

logitech pebble computer mouse painted bright-red with assorted gundam & wipeout-style sponsor decals

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

for a long time i was so inoculated to the modern art & presentation of wh40k i pretty much entirely dismissed it as boring sci-fi. rediscovering early 40k through john blanche's eyes helped me learn to love it and reminded me that personal vision makes all the difference. rip to a legend

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

if by airbrush that's trickier since you need distance and can't really hold your palms together like you do with a brush, but from my experience airbrush steadiness is sort of like drawing where you want to use your arms instead of your wrists. the slower you go the more shakes you get. YMMV tho!

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

by airbrush or by-hand? if by-hand you can mitigate shakiness by pushing the bottoms of both palms together. generally having the painting hand stabilize itself against something greatly reduces shakes. some people paint by holding their hands to their chest but that may not be viable for gunpla

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"america's ass" jokes aside i'm actually converting this cap mini into a US agent since i like my printed proxy more and i think the militarized look suits that character more

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

sorry i'm busy objectifying everyone in the marvel universe rn #kitbashing #minipainting

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

finally getting my way thru my crisis protocol box set guys. after crossbone the cabal is all painted up #minipainting #marvel

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

that really cool diamond pattern is from this nasty banana-flavored confection my friends got from h-mart that came in plastic trays. tasted terrible but gives me cool plastic texture sheets so it's impossible to say whether it's good or bad

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

making a trench crusade pillbox bunker out of a cardboard packaging piece and some bits/bobs i've had lying around. also a perfect excuse to use up some old milliput i've had lying around #terrainbuilding #minipainting #trenchcrusade

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Space Leech @spaceleech.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

NIRASAWA

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

crackin away on my heretic boys 😈 have a fun idea for an artillery witch kitbash i might do soon

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

still still not dead 🥴 getting out of a funk. here's a WIP trench crusade sin eater kitbash inspired by keita amemiya's work

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

still not dead and will resume video making probably early next year. here's a heretic trooper to tide you over

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WᐰRFORGED @warforged.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Niki Vashmarl from Wares Blade finished. #gunpla #plamo

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

it was really frustrating welcoming these new players into the fold, helping them brainstorm characters, make it fit the lore, be accommodating, etc only for them to play for 2 sessions and go "oh fuck this is boring nerd shit i hate it" and dip. doesn't happen anymore lol i'm guarded who i let play

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

thankfully this has abated a little bit because d&d isn't really in vogue anymore but it got to the point i had to tell aspiring players "you know you're going to be sitting around for 4 hours mostly talking to goblins and asking about the thickness of stone walls right"

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

i think one of the most aggravating experiences i ran into when getting into ttrpgs is learning to parse the difference between people who wanted to play d&d from the people who wanted To Play D&D™ as a cultural activity but then immediately tuned out when you started describing tavern interiors

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

this is an fdm print and other than a few blemished areas (i had to manually paint back in the thigh panel lines because they failed to fully render) this is fantastic when painted up

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

i'm not dead 🥴 been too busy with life to paint lately but here's a crisis protocol iron man for your troubles #minipainting #ironman #marvel #3dprint #nmm #mvc #gonnatakeyouforaride

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

this is my first time making a mask with eva and i'm sure i probably made like 5-6 mistakes doing this but thankfully it's all pretty rock solid

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

i may or may not be making a mask of schwarzwald from big o 😬 nosehole cuz it was too tight and im gonna add a slight bump for room

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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 03/11/2025

Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys. Thankyou 💔

me in a red tee (white guy with mohawk, dreads and tattoos) cuddling Oz (black, breindle & white husky-staffie cross sitting on wooden table, leaning against me).

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

been spending the past few days de-marveling this crisis protocol building, adding air ducts, cables, etc. still gotta paint the newspapers and lights. if you recognize the mami on the sign you get a kiss #wh40k #marvelcrisisprotocol #wargaming #kitbashing #minipainting

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Dumb Robot Stuff @dumbrobotstuff.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Wanted to try a small build inspired by this ghost in the shell poster. GitS in general is something I often think back on and it's transhumanism is very appropriate for admech, so I made this sicarian, maybe in the process of being made/initialised/(re)programmed

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

youtu.be/yPK96igtEXQ just in time before #orktober is up! check out me painting some pink orks and reminiscing on childhood. check it out! #minipainting #wh40k #orks #rugrats #reptar #kitbashing #wargaming #warhammer

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Painting Pink Orks Because Rugrats Forced Me To #orktober

YouTube video by Apollo Geist

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

i 3d printed this tv for my orks but decided it didn't quite fit so i turned it into a persona 4-inspired objective marker. space marines fighting over a haunted tv 👻

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

there are people who play d&d whose games are exactly like this (i know because i've met them) and they have fun and more power to them. i think for those people these systems are secondary to everything else so "play another game"-ing them is fruitless

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

i'm not sure if i exactly fall in line with the rhetoric that d&d is only good for slaughtering monsters & exploring ruins (it is certainly best at those things) but i will say as a queer person i just find this type of marketing cynical & overdone. but also lots of people eat it up so lol

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

very funny seeing everyone collectively scoff & roll their eyes at right-wingers fuming over that pinkwashed d&d art only for everyone to pause and go "wait, this does suck but for totally different reasons"

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

people usually use unwanted tcgs for this sort of thing (which is a great option too) but if you keep an eye out you'll find really nice sources for tokens elsewhere too

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

if you think these are too specific to ever use for a game you'd be surprised. always nice when your players do something unexpected and you have a token that Kinda Sorta looks like an npc you never thought you'd need for an encounter

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

before i ever toss out excess packaging to blurays/video games/etc i always take a quick look to see if i can repurpose some of the nice art as tokens for d&d/ttrpgs. since they're from industrial-grade printers the quality is always nicer tok. try it!

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

3d printing's low accessibility, GW's relatively consistent quality compared to 3d modelers who have wildly different standards/tastes, and likely also that the entire ritual of buying a GW kit, unboxing it, and snipping it off the runner is simply more satisfying than cleaning up resin/FDM models

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Sarah @mixuen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

> wanted to draw fih (the one wearing Converses) > draws nid in Converse shoes

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

frankly incredible. games work chop is in shambles they didn't do this first

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

i used it with some contrast paint for added transparency but i'm wondering if that had something to do with it. "for best results use with our brand of paint" is pretty standard marketing verbiage and i can't imagine it really makes that much a difference with this medium... right? lol

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

hmm i tried newsh on these minis after all the hubbub i heard and ngl i'm pretty underwhelmed. paint did not remove easily from the minis at all and there was a lot more staining than i expected. might as well have just used a regular wash. anyone else had issues with it?

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Apollo Geist @apollogeist.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

next vid filming underway... i'm making these jeaned-up orks pink for highly specific weird reasons that will be revealed in due time #minipainting #orks #wh40k #warhammer #kitbashing

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