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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I had this Norn Emissary conversion in my head a long time and it was really fun to get it out into the real world. Who doesn’t love a psychic crown, tentacle mouth and Predator mandibles? #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #Warpshadow

A converted Tyranid Norn Emissary, posed with arms outstretched in challenge. It has a halo-like crown reaching above its head, which is also converted with tentacles and 6 mandibles. It is painted with pale white flesh and a black and turquoise carapace with yellow insect-like markings

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Getting started on the Norn Emissary with the head - carapace should be ready for the gloss coat #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #Warpshadow

A converted Tyranid Norn Emissary head with an adjusted neck and mouth replaced with tentacles and outspread mandibles. The carapace is painted in black and turquoise, with striking yellow markings and red horns

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’ve been wanting to do this conversion for a while - I absolutely love the ‘crown’ the Neurotyrant brought and I wanted to make the Norn feel more threatening since its main tabletop job is getting shot at and trying not to die #PaintingWarhammer #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Some non-Tyranids for a change! (I've actually mostly been painting T'au this year but ignore that) - half the Farstalkers! Insert meme of Marge holding a potato but it's me with a Kroot #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tau #40k #GreaterGood

4 Kroot and 2 Kroot hounds, half of the Farstalker Kinband. They are painted in various greens and turquoises with black-yellow quills, and adorned with various shades of leather and cloth and beaten up equipment

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I had my first ever (?) GW missing sprue piece recently, but thanks to the excellent customer service from my FLGS I soon ended up with a replacement - what better opportunity to get kitbashing and turn tragedy to uniqueness? #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow

A converted Tyranid Warrior Prime using a wide selection of medium sized Tyranid bits and lots of sculpting to fill the gaps

A converted Tyranid Warrior Prime using a Ravener crushing claw and the Ravener Wrecker split open lower jaws

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It’s been a while since I posted anything hey?!? But I have not been idle - Terrence the Red Terror is ready to surprise #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A Tyranid Red Terror miniature (a kind of horrible snake/centipede with six huge scythe claws) painted with a black and turquoise glossy carapace with yellow and red markings, black and red scratched claws and whitish-purple skin with dark red speckled markings

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Better pics of the Trygon Prime (and Mawloc) I converted and painted over #Nidvember - looking forward to getting it on the table next week! #MiniatureMonday #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A Trygon Prime bursting from the ground - it has a converted head with a raised crest and extended carapace at the back. It is painted with purple-white skin, black-blue glossy carapace and black-red claws

The same model bursting from the ground showing a magnetised Mawloc head - this angle is from above and shows it’s gaping red-pink jaw

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Sneaking in at the end of #Nidvember with the Trygon Prime (kitbashed using a spare Biovore cannon carapace and a Mawloc feeler-thing), and a Mawloc head converted using a spare Tervigon head :) #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A close-up of a Trygon Prime head converted to resemble the recent Ravener Prime, with a raised head crest and an extended carapace made from a Biovore cannon

A converted Mawloc head made from most of a regular Mawloc jaw and the top of a Tervigon head

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Starting #Nidvember on a fairly minor head modification and repurposing for a Trygon Prime (inspired by the new Ravener Prime of course) and a leftover-pieces-Mawloc head #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Kitbashing #WIPWednesday

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

A new unit of Raveners emerge for Hive Fleet Typhaeus - super fun to paint and very happy with how they turned out :) #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A group of five Tyranid Raveners with black and turquoise glossy carapace with yellow markings, glossy black and red talons and white/purple skin with dark red markings

A Tyranid Ravener with a black and turquoise glossy carapace with yellow markings, glossy black and red talons and white/purple skin with dark red markings

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

A trio of Zoanthropes added to Hive Fleet Typhaeus just in time to go away for two weeks! Cut it a bit fine on the deadline but they’re done :) #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A trio of Tyranid Zoanthropes with black and turquoise carapaces with yellow markings, whitish purple skin with red markings, and oversized glowing pink brains

A Tyranid Zoanthrope with black and turquoise carapaces with yellow markings, whitish purple skin with red markings, and oversized glowing pink brains

A Tyranid Neurothrope with black and turquoise carapaces with yellow markings, whitish purple skin with red markings, and oversized glowing pink brains. It has a large red horn at the front of its head

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Added a unit of Hyper-Adapted Raveners to Hive Fleet Typhaeus just in time for a game tomorrow. Absolutely gorgeous models, really looking forward to painting a regular unit too… #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A unit of Hyper-Adapted Raveners painted with glossy black/blue carapace with yellow markings, white/purple skin with red markings, and dark red claws and spikes.

A pair of Hyper-Adapted Raveners painted with glossy black/blue carapace with yellow markings, white/purple skin with red markings, and dark red claws and spikes. One has a split lower jaw, heavier armour and crab-like upper claws, while the other has distended acid-filled sacs on its back, which it can spray from its face

The leader of the Hyper-Adapted Raveners painted with glossy black/blue carapace with yellow markings, white/purple skin with red markings, and dark red claws and spikes. It has glowing pink/white eyes and a raised crest protruding from its head

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

A second floaty Maleceptor finished for Hive Fleet Typhaeus - this one has a lot more work in the conversion and I had fun finding bits to get the flying-insect/deep-sea-drifter feel (plus the psychic crown!) #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A converted Tyranid Maleceptor with a distinctive psychic head and crown, floating over a ruin with limbs and tentacles drifting below it, reminiscent of a deep-sea predator lazily searching for prey

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Captain Aurora completes the Novamarines Kill Team - it was inspired by the old Space Crusade art of four Marines and I think she rounds out the team well! #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab

A Novamarine Space Marine Captain equipped with a Power Fist and Plasma Pistol. She is wearing quartered bone and blue power armour, a red and cream cloak and is adorned with a lot of decoration and heraldry. She has black hair with a white stripe falling over one eye. All her equipment is battered and worn.

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Malaeceptor conversion completed! This definitely got a bit out of hand, but I really enjoyed the process - I’ve primed it now and can see more imperfections than I’d ideally like but hey that’s the process! #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A kitbashed/converted Tyranid Maleceptor, seemingly floating above ruined Imperial architecture - it has a completely new head made from a Zoanthrope crest, a Harpy face and a sculpted brain, a custom sculpted bone crown framing a new neck cavity, and a set of limbs from various other Tyranid monsters

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Good progress today, got the crown almost finished, carapace edge detailed and new shoulders added to the dangly arms

Various parts of a Tyranid Maleceptor with a custom built ‘crown’ and Screamer Killer arms. Putty is drying on the newly added bits (carapace edge on the torso, the whole crown and the shoulders)

A closeup of the almost-finished crown piece made from putty and plasticard

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Neck mostly completed (it’ll need blending once the head is attached), carapace edge blocked in, and crown front started

A Tyranid Maleceptor with lots of putty added to create a new neck cavity and a new Neurotyrant-style crown

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Work progresses - the neck cavity has been filled and detailed, and a new neck has been blocked in. I also added putty to the back of the crown piece - really enjoying the process but it’s very hard

Detail sculpting started on the neck cavity of a Maleceptor which has been cut away to hold a new head (which you can see in the background). Next to the torso you can see a semicircular crenelated organic crown structure made from plasticard, with putty bulking out the back

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I’ve been working on a second Maleceptor with a bit of a different feel to the previous Scriv inspired version - I mainly wanted to change the original head and get it floating because that’s great for the psychic Nids #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow

A blutacked, kitbashed Tyranid Maleceptor with a new head, a Neurotyrant-style crown/crest, and long drifting limbs and tentacles

A converted Tyranid monster head made from a Harpy head with a Zoanthrope crest and a sculpted exposed brain

The back view of the exposed brain showing the mirrored folds of its grey matter

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Back once again with a Novamarine Sniper (it tracks to the song and you can’t tell me it doesn’t) - the Eliminator was lots of fun. I enjoyed making semi-plausible but very stupid camo #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab

A Novamarine Space Marine Eliminator equipped with a large sniper rifle. They have quartered blue and bone armour and are wearing a black, turquoise, grey and orange camo cloak

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s been a while since I posted but I have been painting! A tactical Intercessor for my Novamarine Kill Team is ready to go (with kitbashed auxiliary grenade launcher) #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab

A Novamarine Space Marine in quartered blue and bonewhite armour, armed with a bolter they are raising to fire

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s got to be the classic Space Hulk hasn’t it

A lineup of all 13 Blood Angels terminators from the 2009 edition of Space Hulk

A squad of Blood Angels terminators from the 2009 edition of Space Hulk

A dead Blood Angels terminator, sat on a throne, from the 2009 edition of Space Hulk

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Novamarine Assault Intercessor grenadier finished and ready to throw grenades or whatever it is they’re supposed to do in Kill Team, I dunno #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab #miniaturesmonday

A space marine painted in quartered bone and blue, with painted battle damage across their equipment. They’re holding a black pistol and throwing a grenade with a bionic arm, which is trailing a cloud of red smoke

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

So last year an acquaintance sent me a whole bunch of their spare Nid bits - it took a little while but I painted them a thank you & with help snuck it into their queue… #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k #MiniatureMonday

A tray of half-painted Tyranids with a painted Neurolictor hiding amongst them

A Tyranid Neurolictor painted in black and white with red accents

A Tyranid Neurolictor painted in black and white with red accents - it’s ’photographed’ on a dusty red planet with grey Imperial ruins behind them. Dust swirls around them and their exposed brain glows with psychic power

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Working through the Kill Team we have a Heavy Intercessor gunner! Gravis armour has such excellent shapes :) #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab

A Space Marine Heavy Intercessor with a Heavy Bolter. They are wearing blue and bone quartered power armour decorated with decals showing their Imperial and Novamarine allegiance. Their armour and equipment is battered and scratched.

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

These Raveners are feeling very old all of a sudden 😂

Three Tyranid Raveners, painted in black and white with turquoise, yellow and red accents. They’re writhing in a red desert surrounded by imperial ruins

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

…thanks to hive_delta for the second body and claws! - to max out my sneaking quotient for Hive Fleet Typhaeus

A Tyranid Lictor, painted in black and turquoise carapace with yellow markings, and purplish white skin with red markings, standing on rusty Martian looking ground

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Not been posting much but have managed some painting this month - a pair of Lictors… #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A crouching Tyranid Lictor, painted in black and turquoise carapace with yellow markings, and purplish white skin with red markings, standing on rusty Martian looking ground

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

What could be sneakier than a brace of Lictors? Surely no one will spot the white and black against the… red dust? Oh no

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Feeling a bit like the Novamarine squad is cursed since something always messes up my painting mojo with them bug getting stuck into the next member of the Kill Team #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab #WIP

A work-in-progress Novamarines Intercessor, painted in quartered blue and bone with various transfers applied for their military markings. The bone has some dark chipping painted across the surface, while the rest of the model is still flat or plain black

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Anyone know what this thing is supposed to be? It’s on a Space Marine’s belt

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Three Raveners added to Hive Fleet Typhaeus! Slightly old minis but still some excellent motion in them (and excellently featured in Space Marine 2!) #MiniatureMonday #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

Three Tyranid Raveners, painted with pale white/purple skin with red markings around the face and shoulders, glossy black and turquoise carapace with yellow markings, and glossy red and black claws

A Tyranid Ravener, painted with pale white/purple skin with red markings around the face and shoulders, glossy black and turquoise carapace with yellow markings, and glossy red and black claws

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Starting on the Kill Team (from the starter set) with a Novamarine Assault Intercessor! Still having problems with varnish (you can see this on the blue leg especially) but getting better! #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab

A Novamarine space marine in quarteeed blue and bone power armour, showing lots of wear and tear. They are armed with a chainsword and a bolt pistol.

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Painting another Novamarine as a little refresher between Nids - very satisfied with the scheme and enjoying the process again (hopefully this time with less varnish clouding!) #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab #WIP

A Novamarine assault Intercessor in pieces, with blue and cream quartered armour, currently glossy, with transfers applied and shaded with oils

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Back to work today but starting the year off with some Von Ryan’s Leapers because you cannot stop me from painting Tyranids even if you tried #WIP #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A selection of bodies, skulls, helmets and rubble in red dusty earth, on the bases of six Tyranid models

Six Tyranid Von Ryan’s Leapers with red dusty bases and disassembled upper arms, painted in white and almost black blue

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Finished the converted Tyrannofex for Hive Fleet Typhaeus just before the holidays started - really happy to get a bit of a personal/barbgaunt spin on this iconic beasty #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A converted Tyranid Tyrannofex - a gigantic 6-limbed walking artillery piece. Two of its right-side limbs are fused into a very large gun, while the left-side arms provide support. It is painted with red-patterned white flesh and a black and turquoise carapace with yellow markings.

A close-up of the Tyrannofex’s gun, showing several unpleasant looking biological sacs and tubes, claws and overlapping carapace pieces. It has three yellow eyes, each with distinct black pupils: one round, one vertical slit like a cat and one a wobbly horizontal line like an octopus

A close-up of the Thrannofex’s head, showing red markings across it’s face, a long pink tongue and a scratched red horn on top of it’s head, like a rhino

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Keeping on with the Tyrannofex - carapace and claws all done, and markings finished on the skin. Retouching and details next, then it’s stain time #WIP #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A Tyranid Tyrannofex with converted Rupture Cannon, painted with a glossy black and blue carapace with yellow markings. The skin is plain white primer with some red markings at the top of the limbs and around the face

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Getting stuck in to the Tyrannofex gun for my conversion - it sure is a big beasty! Sculpting isn’t my strongest suit but I think it looks fine enough primed (and hopefully better painted!) #MiniatureMonday #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A converted Tyranid bioweapon with two reverse-jointed arms supporting it from underneath

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

If you see this, post something toothy! Nice to eat you 😬

A close-up of a converted Tyranid Old One Eye showing cracked carapace with a skull and empty eye socket. A pink tongue pokes between sharp teeth

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Finished the Infernus Marine sergeant - despite some varnish issues this was very fun and I’m looking forward to sprinkling some more in around the Nids (who I’m sure they hate) #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab

A Novamarines Infernus sergeant standing on a burning Tyranid. His armour is quartered bone and blue, and he’s holding a large flamer nonchalantly. His tilt shield has a half halo, half skull design, and he has an imperial aquilla tattooed on the side of his head.

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like (if you’re a weird lopsided Tyrannofex) #MiniatureMonday #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #40k #Warpshadow #Leviathan #Painting40k

A converted Tyranid Tyrannofex, with extra chunky back legs made using Exocrine arms.

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Common or garden Tom @minustom.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Been picking away at the Novamarine Sergeant alongside the Tyrannofex, and having a great time - just metallics, a purity seal and the face to go #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #40k #Painting40k #KillTeam #SpaceMarines #Novamarines #KillTeam #Badab #WIP

A Novamarine space marine, in pieces, painted in quartered blue and bonewhite, with chipping across the armour. It is not complete yet.

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