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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 17/10/2026

The USS Hucknall Master Systems Display for my #StarTrekAdventures #rpg game is now complete, and just in time. There's some fun easter eggs in it, and I had a blast working on it. #ttrpg #illustration

An illustration of a Master Systems Display from Star Trek for a non-canon starship called the USS Hucknall. It has four nacelles, a single hull, and is dedicated to diplomacy. To that end it has a theatre, a sports hall, a pool for whales and plenty of hangar space.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 16/10/2026

The USS Hucknall Master Systems Display for my #StarTrekAdventures game I'm starting tomorrow is nearly complete. It's been a real labour of love, and a lovely way to get myself out of a bit of an illustrative funk. #ttrpg #starTrek #illustration #rpg

A mostly complete illustration of a Master Systems Display from Star Trek: a cutaway line drawing of a spaceship within an LCARS interface. It is in the traditional yellows, ochres and purples. It is for the USS Hucknall, a Mercia-class, a design I created for my game.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 15/10/2026

The USS Hucknall master systems display is nearing completion. I hope my players in my Star Trek adventures game appreciate the work I’ve put into this. I need to figure out some Easter eggs to hide in the ship though. #rpg #starTrek #starTrekAdventures

A master systems display for a custom spaceship for my new Star Trek adventures campaign. It has the custom LCARS bars and buttons, and there are now some details inside the ship including two shuttle bays, two bars and the Arboretum at the top of the ship.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 14/10/2026

I am preparing for a new Star Trek Adventures game with a custom starship: the USS Hucknall, a Mercia-class rapid response diplomatic courier. What if you smushed four nacelles onto a Sovereign saucer, and then gave it a big hump to contain the biggest arbouretum in the fleet?

An unfinished illustration of a star trek style MSD of a mono-hull spacecraft

A 3D render of a kitbashed spaceship with four nacelles built from mostly Sovereign parts

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 10/10/2026

My RPG group will have been running for six years next month, which feels wild to me. I have been blessed to have had such a great group of players (and at times GMs, as @shinygames.uk has taken the reins at point points) for so long.

A discord channel list showing categories, one per game:

Star Trek: Mercia ›
Runequest: Mirrorsea ›
Dark Sun Portal - The Adventures of the Special Occul... ›
RuneQuest: Back to Balazar ›
Star Trek Soval >
BLB: Drifthaven >
The Expanse: The Pardoner's Tale ›
Cyberpunk: Highriders ›
Integrated Space >
Weird Original Planets >
Star Trek: Pholos Expanse ›
Runequest: Chaos Saga >
Star Trek Kapoor ›

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 10/10/2026

My work on my #Orktober project is coming to a middle. I have done most of the red and hazard striped panels now. Soon I will need to break out the enamels for rust effects. #nerdlings #warhammerCommunity #paintingWarhammer #warhammer40k

A Gorkanaut and Morkanaut, both now looking rather more painted than in previous skeets. They have red panels with white stripes, the morkanaut (right) has some energy weapon bits painted bright blue, and new for this skeet, both have a plethora of panels painted with hazard stripes. The stripes are asymmetrically applied, with litte rhyme or reason (the entire mech is hazardous).

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 09/10/2026

Should I have gone to bed an hour ago? Yes. Did I instead start painting in some of the details? Also, yes. It was absolutely worth it though to help push past my fear that I had painted too many bits red. Next step: hazard stripes.

The same models again, but this time there are even more details. Many of the red panels now sport white stripes, and the right hand model (the morkanaut) now has turquoise bits where the energy weapons glow.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 09/10/2026

I have the first non-airbrushed layers down, they are going to be more painted than the stompa but I am enjoying where the models are taking me.

The same models as the previous post, but now with a series of panels painted red

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 08/10/2026

The ‘orkanauts have received their first coats of paint. Always a great step in a conversion, when you get to start to see the shape the model will take. #nerdlings #warhammerCommunity #warhammer40k #orks #paintingWarhammer #orktober

Two ‘orkanauts, gork on the left, mork on the right, heavily converted. Now sprayed various shades of metal.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 08/10/2026

If you were wondering how my day is going

A discord screenshot of me saying "I think I am going to break into the emergency chocolate biscuits
The ones that are more chocolate than biscuit"

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 04/10/2026

The Morkanaut is complete! Significantly uprated from the core kit, the kustom mega blasta has moved up to the top, giving it two arms to pick up and grab interesting scrap for the mek. #orktober #nerdlings #warhammerCommunity #warhammer40k

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 04/10/2026

Orktober continues apace. The Gorkanaut is (final greebling aside) complete. The Morkanaut build has started, and I've finished the motion platform, rebuilt the engine to look mekier, and started on some of the more incidental detail. #nerdlings #warhammerCommunity #orks #orktober #warhammer40k

The beginning of the morkanaut. From this angle, you can see that the horns traditional on an orkanaut have been replaced with I-beam spikes. A mek gun has been placed on top of the mech, with some pistons holding it up just visible below. A forest of tesla gubbins peak out from behind the mech.

Shown from behind, there are many more modifications for the morkanaut. The regular fuel tank has been replaced with a larger one. The engine has been almost completely rebuilt with a spread of tesla towers and power coils. From this position too the usual hatch has been removed and boxed in to provide additional support for the gun platform.

A heavily converted Gorkanaut, unpainted. It has two stubby arms with multi-barreled gatling guns, and rockets mounted to the outside of those. It has a small recessed machine gun turret on top, and more machine guns on one shoulder. In front, it has a spiked roller, which is attached to chain hoists to raise it so the front (which is a door to a troop compartment) may open.

The same gorkanaut, but from behind, showing that each arm gun has an ork piloting(?) it. THe engine has also been upgraded with more exhausts and more pipe.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 01/10/2026

It is October which means Orktober! This is part one of my Orktober project. #nerdlings #warhammerCommunity #orktober

A part assembled gorkanaut, except that a spiked roller has been attached to the front of the walker.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 22/09/2026

The latest Pikachu did arrive today, though. The 2026 spooky season Pikachu. She is wearing a poncho in autumnal colours with a pumpkin Pikachu broach and a fascinator that looks like a stack of pancakes (or maybe those weird soufflé pancakes you get in Japan).

A collection of plush Pikachus, all themed around autumn and Halloween. At the back is a mimiku costumed Pikachu, three pumpkin themed Pikachus, a witch and a wizard, a Pikachu wearing a spooky hat carrying an invite to a Halloween party, and the newest addition, a female Pikachu wearing a Halloween themed poncho wearing a fascinator in the shape of a stack of pancakes.

No, I don’t understand what the pancakes are about either.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 22/09/2026

I have been collecting Pikachus for at least five years now, I am going to be so incredibly sad if I miss out on these two. It is just the perfect intersection of two of my loves.

An image of the Pokémon Centre website showing their collaboration with the European space agency for two Pikachu plush. A male Pikachu on the left is wearing a mock space suit without a helmet., a female Pikachu on the right is wearing a flight suit.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 21/09/2026

Nearly finished with these knights. On the home stretch of final highlights and doodad painting (the musician's head is a doodad). #warhammerCommunity #paintingWarhammer #nerdlings #theOldWorld

Six Bretonian Knights, seen from the behind right quarter, showing the diagonal striped barding and each knight's individual heraldic device

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 20/09/2026

Oh no I am trapped forever now.

A black cat (actually a tuxedo cat) sat on the lap of the person taking the photo. She (the cat) is at about 45 degrees to the direction of the legs.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 03/09/2026

Hey, how did you know what was on my shelf?

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 30/08/2026

Continued working on my OTV spacecraft model, destined to be crashed into the moon for tiny astronauts and cosmonauts to fight over.

3D render of a partially detailed model of a spacecraft inspired by the NASA OTV concept

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 24/08/2026

Quick blockout of a model of the NASA OTV vehicle. Always fun to work on these speculative vehicle designs.

3D render of a large spacecraft, in a very rough WIP state. It's an interpretation of the proposed Orbital Transfer Vehicle

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 23/08/2026

I don’t know when this started, but apparently I’ve decided that my cat Tiamat speaks Belter. Or at least the voice that I use to speak to her as the comedy belter accent you get for background extras in the Expanse.

Tiamat, a tuxedo cat, sat on a windowsill looking out to her right next to a dead plant in a decorative plant pot.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 21/08/2026

Oh to be Tiamat in a sunbeam

Tiamat, a tuxedo cat, sleeping on a windowsill behind a typewriter and a globe.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 14/08/2026

This is fine? Right? Two derailments in a single day. It's safe, right? Right?

Two headlines. Below: "Operator boss insists UK trains are safe in heatwave after Lewes derailment", then above "BREAKING NEWS Train derails near Essex town of Wickford" dated as 28m ago.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 11/08/2026

Pushing through to get the first six knights complete. Almost done with base coats. #warhammerCommunity #paintingWarhammer #nerdlings #theOldWorld

Six Bretonnian knights half way through painting. They are purple and off white striped, with a purple downwards triangle shield.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 10/08/2026

What is the difference between transport packaging and sales packaging? Basically, would you put the packaging on the shelf in a shop or is the packaging purely for the purpose of protecting the item in transit? So a cardboard box, an unbranded grab seal bag, a bubble mailer, all transport.

Sales packaging is defined in the PPWR as “packaging conceived so as to constitute a sales unit
consisting of products and packaging to the end user at the point of sale”, whereas transport
packaging is defined as “packaging conceived so as to facilitate the handling and transport of one
or more sales units or a grouping of sales units, in order to prevent damage to the product from
handling and transport”.
By definition, transport packaging therefore serves to transport one or more sales units and does
not replace the underlying sales packaging. If sales packaging is also used for transportation
purposes, the packaging remains part of the packaged product supplied to the end user, and it is not
placed on the market as empty transport packaging.
Therefore, even if the packaging also performs a transport function, the packaging is still sales
packaging for the purposes of establishing who the producer is. The producer would be the
economic operator that fills the packaging and makes the packaged product available for the first
time in the Member State concerned. Nevertheless, the assessment should always be carried out on
a case-by-case basis, taking into account the packaging's design, intended use and the specific
circumstances of the supply chain.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 08/08/2026

This is the final PPWR posting from me (I hope, today at least) but dear reader, the government promised to produce guidance for UK exporters "in good time" for the Entry Into Force date so that UK exporters could understand their obligations. They come into force on Wednesday. There is no guidance

28. When can we expect finalised UK guidance to be published?
Guidance will be published in good time to ensure compliance. We are working to finalise
timelines and will provide further information following publication of the implementing
act.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 08/08/2026

Anyway, Tiamat does not care about the EU or shipping regulations and she has a decidedly positive outlook on cardboard boxes. I am going to give her a cuddle and feed her her lunch and all things will be better.

Tiamat, a tuxedo cat, curled up on my duvet last night

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 07/08/2026

Sound up for Tiamat. You will not be disappointed.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 06/08/2026

The base coats for the striped barding is complete! Onward to base coating the riders. #warhammerCommunity #paintingWarhammer #nerdlings #theOldWorld

Eleven Bretonnian warhorses, with ivory and purple striped barding

Three Bretonnian barded pegasi with irovy and purple striped barding

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 04/08/2026

The test knight is complete, so now I am batching out the mounts for the remaining knights. #paintingWarhammer #warhammerCommunity #nerdlings #theOldWorld

Three games workshop barded horses base coated in a dark ivory colour with purple stripes and a downward pointing purple triangle on the heraldic shields

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 31/07/2026

Nearly finished with the first Bretonnian model. I have gone all out here, with stripes, custom decals, painting over the decals. The works. #paintingWarhammer #theOldWorld #nerdlings

A Bretonnian knight, mostly painted now. Riding a chestnut horse, with purple and cream diagonal striped barding, and a shield of a downward purple triangle on a cream field with a heraldic Pegasus.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 30/07/2026

Starting on the test model for my Bretonian Exiles army. Still need to print some custom transfers for heraldry. #paintingWarhammer #theOldWorld #nerdlings #warhammerCommunity

A barded horse and an armoured knight. The barding is purple on white diagonal stripes (carried over to the knights tabard), and the heraldry is currently a downward pointing purple triangle.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 29/07/2026

Tiamat comes into the bedroom most mornings when my alarm goes off for cuddles, which as been the loveliest thing.

Tiamat, a tuxedo cat, sat on a William Morris duvet cover, looking alert because I stopped petting her to take a photo.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 28/07/2026

Tiamat is very polite this evening

Tiamat sat on a Warhammer bag on a titan box

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 25/07/2026

It’s my first time away since adopting Tiamat, and goodness I miss my cat :( (Yes I’ve only had her less than two weeks but she is adorable)

Tiamat, a female tuxedo cat, sat on a sofa with a red blanket on it, looking at the camera.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 15/07/2026

Bretonian exiles get a bombard, so obviously I need two. Converted from the Ironweld Great Cannon, mostly by chopping bits off. #warhammerCommunity #theOldWorld #nerdlings

A cannon, sitting in a naval carriage, sitting on a second larger wheeled carriage, with many plasticard additions.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 02/07/2026

The next phase of @epigram.games is nearly here. I'll be putting out more information very shortly alongside a revamped website about Able Artemis, my cold war gone hot on the moon wargame. It is going to be incredible.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 24/06/2026

Finished construction of a Warhammer Fantasy fort tower today, reasonably heavily modified from the stock kit as to give it some individuality compared to the full fortified manor. The styrene tiles from @fenrisgames.com really came in clutch here for the roof. #warhammerCommunity #warhammerFantasy

A fortified manor tower with both renovations and a pitched tile roof, converted from the GW fantasy kit with a new roof and reusing the small shed as an extension. Additionally, the windows on the right hand side have been blocked in with mesh used to emulate leaded windows.

The same model, but from behind, showing additional windows blocked in to make them leaded, as well as the extension to the rear with a small patch of flagstones around it

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 16/06/2026

First fully painted model in too long, from @fenrisgames.com’s Wyrdworld range. Painted in an evening. Still needs basing but that will come later.

A miniature of a wildcat wearing a green cloak carrying a bronze sword.

The same miniature from behind showing the variegated/camo cloak

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 14/06/2026

Operation Solvent has been a success. 11 pots of plastic glue prepared, this should keep me and my friends well stocked for several years (this was about 1/8th the total supply)

11 small glass pots, filled with clear liquid

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 11/06/2026

Sometimes you sit down and you put some icons on a map. Sometimes you realise there's no good maps of the moon for what you want to do and you spend like a week of evenings writing a software stack to make an accurate topographical contour map of the moon. Oops.

A black and white portion of a map of the moon with contour lines, and altitude markings on those contour lines.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 30/05/2026

#UKGE stand 2-905, come get your tiny sci-fi skirmish and tiny sci-fi skirmish accessories. Except between 1030 and 1130 where you should be at the AI in games seminar where I’ll be channelling my inner Ludd

Yours truly, trying no to look like they’re being held hostage, I’m front of my UKGE stand

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 29/05/2026

All set up at #UKGE this morning at 2-905, here to spread the good word of tiny tank combat

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 10/05/2026

I've been working on a new Old World army, with some Chaos Warriors. I've christened them The Cult of the Welcoming Death, and their sign is that of a carried skeleton. One of their champions even carries the skeleton of a Sigmarite Warrior priest. #paintingWarhammer #nerdlings #oldWorld

A chaos knight carrying a lance, to which is tied a skeleton. One arm is braced outward, to which two smaller penants are tied.

A chaos champion, stood on a Tactical Rock™, carrying a banner. Skulls act as finnials on the banner pole, and a dead sigmarite priest is strung up on the pole.

A chaos warrior in a formation of warriors holding a banner pole. The pole holds up a spiked cage, inside of which is a skeleton.

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 10/05/2026

Drop something destructive (More info can be found here: improbable.solutions/2025/10/25/y...)

A spread showing a reaver titan and several closeup shots

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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 26/04/2026

Harlequin progress! I hate working over white primer, but I’m very happy with my progress so far. #paintingMiniatures #warhammerCommunity #warhammer40k #nerdlings

A GW harlequin with a colourful diamond pattern jacket, a rainbow Mohawk and a blue power sword

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