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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mostly there to chat to the demo game organisers, and see if any of them fancy bringing a game to #Britcon in Leicester August next year

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Franks are creeping towards “done” now - waiting for the wood stain to dry before finishing basing. Probably won’t get it done before I head off to #Partizan though

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

28mm @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social Frankish palette cleanser after a lot of 15mm cavalry …

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It was wven worse with metal casting and hard plastic “kits” - the figures need to be designed differently for each manufacturing process. If snipping off supports is the “price” of being able to get 3D prints of “OOP” metal ranges “from a mate, for pennies” then I bet many will happily pay it.

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’ve also heard that in the “GW” world there are AI programs that can create a 3D STL from a single photo - so new GW model releases are being “almost-copied” before they are released for sale. With that sort of tech you could soon be making “new-poses” STLs in the style of existing metal ranges!

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And once scanning to STL becomes easy enough to do at scale, it’s also easy enough for “your mate with a scanner” to copy a few figures for you as a favour - and if the range is no longer cast in lead or sold many gamers may not even feel guilt about a bit of light scan+print action anyway …

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Its almost a catch 22. If a range can still make money by casting its figures in lead, that’s what its valuation will be based on. But if it’s not commercially viable to cast in lead .. the that range probably doesn’t have enough legacy customers to make converting to STLs viable anyway ..,

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

.. which probably means it will be tried first with a fairly weak and unloved range …

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Easy scan-to-STL software and scanners will get there soon - so we will find out the answers soon too. But no one knows how to value a set of STLs of an old metal range .. so it may take a proper last-resort fire sale event before a range comes up at a price that allows this gamble to be taken

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Two things, maybe three.. - scanning tech isn’t “quite” there yet, especially for small scales - 3D prints look “finer” (and I say that as someone who loves many metal ranges), so is there really a market for “clunky” 3D prints? - metal casters want to recoup the capex on moulds when they sell up

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The FiB Sarmatian-fest continues with some "Medium" cavalry - aka "unarmoured", "standard", "generic" or whatever. I'm not even sure which packs they came from, they are mostly armed with short spears, no shield, and a bowcase and bow on their hips madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2026/09/sarm...

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Sarmatian Medium Cavalry Bowmen

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GB plastic infantry box is a bit of a must-have for 28mm Arab armies I reckon - they are so ubiquitous that the main downside is you almost always see the same guys fighting for the other side too! Hard to imagine someone won’t pick that one up - but with 40-odd figures 1 box will do you anyway

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-... here are my metals, with a very straightforward paint job that IMO looks much better than the amount of skill and effort needed to achieve it !

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The Black (Templar) Abbasid Guard

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yep, thats just straight Enchanted Steel. The wash really helps ...

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here’s a WiP shot showing exactly why it’s worth adding a layer of Armypainter Dark Tone wash on top of their Enchanted Steel metallic Speedpaint when doing armour #15mm #Alans

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sat watching TV wondering who out there can still be interested enough in Princess Diana’s death to want to buy a book about it … and then realising that I have many mates who are still interested enough in the death of Emperor Claudius in 54 CE to go and buy any number of books about it even today

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here’s some more FiB 15mm Sarmatian cavalry - these with spears and (behind their backs) bow cases

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

open.spotify.com/track/7rOGy2... I was yesterday years old when I discovered that Candlebox are a real band #mountaingoats

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Possibly my best ever 15mm face (I think it’s more a case of Monkeys, Keyboards and Shakespeare rather than being down to practice, care and skill mind you…! )

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I dabble with Nauk Nauk very, very occasionally, mainly to check in on how quickly it's improving - this certainly isn't the start of a wave of regular animated content though, I'll still be inflicting you with my "average tabletop-standard painting" static images for the foreseeable future!

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

5 new battle reports from the 15mm ADLG event at Devizes earlier this year: www.madaxeman.com/reports/Devi...

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ADLG, The Year 1106 Match Reports

Battle Report from Devizes, Christian Nubian vs Ghaznavid

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Some almost-finished Skythian Nobles in 15mm from Forged in Battle. Deffo their nicest ancient horses too

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

5 new battle reports from the 15mm ADLG event at Devizes earlier this year: www.madaxeman.com/reports/Devi...

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ADLG, The Year 1106 Match Reports

Battle Report from Devizes, Christian Nubian vs Ghaznavid

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Belem Tower, one day after I was supposed no longer to be here …

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A handful of horse archers : madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2026/08/hors...

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Paignton railway station (for the steam train to/from Dartmouth).. which makes it even more bizzarre!

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tell me the book buyer for your gift shop doesn’t know what they are doing, without telling me the book buyer for your gift shop doesn’t know what they are doing …

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So… the latest McDonalds Happy Meal toys in the US are apprently Hello Kitty characters wearing Godzilla costumes .. They have surely gotta be appearing in all sorts of game systems in the near future !

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s “every” ruleset with bases and measurements once you get into the weeds of them I reckon !

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The opposite - I usually ignore these pseudo-viral things tbh, but this one seemed to open a goal to miss !

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty Ancients wargamer: yes, but is the glass being “exactly at” half full the same as it being “within” half empty? And does the half way mark itself have a nominal thickness ?

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So now I don’t know if that entire train of thought says more about GW or me, and I’m also now completely paranoid I’ve accidentally started a whole other thing about “woke” war games paints in the process too!

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

.. but no, it’s just the 6-times-folded ingredients, compliance and legal rights label that’s now stuck to the back of all of these pots that needed cutting off first !

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So… a few years back I bought this 3d printed GW pot holder-open thingy from eBay.. and today I buy a brand new pot of Contrast.. which is “just” a little too fat to fit in it. So immediately I think “Are GW really upsizing all their paint pots just to undermine a 3rd party 3D print eBay seller?”

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I bought a printed ship complete with sails… this will be interesting seeing how close I can get it to look like a Warlord one !

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

These FiB lancers have been painted with leather armour instead of metal - the figures are the same as some of the "heavy cavalry" I posted last week, just the paint is different!

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You’ve also got Stonehenge and Avebury in that neck of the woods too !

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Does this mean somewhere out there it’s possible to buy Nuclear, Chemical and Biological toilet paper ? #bogroll #NBC

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just rebased some old Xyston “15mm Rep Roman” range peltasts - seen here next to some Essex 15mm bowmen, and I had forgotten what absolute monsters these guys were. They are so out of scale that they could almost have been the inspiration for Homers Medieval Foot Knights in The Odessey ! #Odessey

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Madaxeman @madaxeman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“280 page rulebook” is where it lost me tbh.,,

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