iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 24/07/2026

Been a while! Have been making some beakier #Murderwing heads for my kid’s #KillTeam… We had our first game in a while the other day, his Muderwing vs. my #AngelsOfDeath — ended in a glorious draw, one unit left each ❤️‍🔥 #40k #Warhammer40k #3dSculpting

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 09/06/2026

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

A frog shaped like a petit fours. It is beyond sparkly.

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Geeky Lina @geekylina.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Lina's question of the week: What out of production kit or miniature did you wish you had bought more before it stopped being available? Like last week, my personal answer is in a reply 😊 #nerdlings

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Vae Victis Miniatures @vaevictisminis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

It's finally time, we're releasing the models done for Aetherpunk28! And because it's our anniversary month, we're adding it to May's release! You can get the set no matter the tier you're subscribed to!

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JimJambo @jimjambo.gay · 13/05/2026

When I started this mini it was going to be for synthwave month. Then I didn’t finish it. Now I did. Maybe the most painted mini I own. #minipainting #nerdling #warhammercommunity

A harlequin death jester painted with lots of vibrant colors

The same harlequin from behind showing off his galaxy cloak and jade marbled cloak

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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

committing a little bit of heresy for daddy

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I'M PRESSING Z OR R TWICE TO MOVE DIFFERENT FULLY GONE OFF THAT LYLAT SYSTEM LOUD ANDROSS GOTTA WAIT, THAT GAY TOAD'S GOT ME ROUTING THIS SPEEDRUN THROUGH SECTOR XXX I'M ENTERING ALL RANGE ATTACK MODE, YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT

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Tony Gibson @northentone.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Tried OSL for the first time. Absolutely terrifying! #warhammer40kpainting #ultramarines

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 09/05/2026

There's a #VanSaar shaped gap in an upcoming #Necromunda campaign, and one can never have enough projects... #3dSculpting #NomadSculpt

A scarred face with many cybernetic implants

A scarred head with many cybernetic implants

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Crippled Giraff Decals @crippledgiraff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

No... No... No... Angstrom... Angstrom was something else. Hunting and being hunted by the machine men through their factory labyrinths...

Red Scorpions Space Marine welding a rad flamer, decked out in their Angstrom Incident Pursuit Squad livery

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JewelKnightJess "R" Us 🎲🖌️🎮 @jewelknightjess.com · 05/05/2026

New Kill Team board just dropped

Mall Madness board game with a plastic mall scenery set on a cardboard base and figures on it

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grave // wishlist Trellis on Steam! @grilli.ad · 05/05/2026

I'm running a hobby challenge on my instagram if you're into that sort of thing! #inq28

MINI MACGUFFINS - a hobby challenge

MacGuffun, Noun

“an object in a story that drives the plot forward; usually a thing of great value, power, or personal significance that characters are driven to possess, or keep out of the hands of their enemies”

RULES

-Kitbash or sculpt a base, objective marker, or diorama featuring a MacGuffin
-Painting not required
-post your MacGuffin with #minimacguffin
-add some narrative flavor text
-No AI
-CHALLENGE ENDS JULY 1st!

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Vincent Knotley @vincentknotley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Nobody’s going to see the mistakes you can spot because you’re the only one looking for them.* We’re not here to scrutinise what you did. We here to see and enjoy what you did just as much as you do! *source: nearly every mini I’ve ever posted or had published has ‘glaring errors’ nobody sees

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 29/04/2026

Got to play some #KillTeam today – took Lucy and the Star Bastards (my Rogue Trader team) out of the house for the first time, and beat some Plague Marines by the narrowest margin possible... #SkirmishGaming #RogueTrader #Nerdlings

A Rogue Trader's retinue holds the high ground against advancing Plague Marines

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Pontergeistyus Hauntssis @ponyus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

End of the mordheim campaign today featured this epic dice roll! They just let it lay there after everyone gaped at it and played around it until it fell

Dice standing on a corner with six down and 2 and 3 up.

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 28/04/2026

My #Coalescense printed great! Going to attempt to actually get some painting done today after a weekend of making things then waiting for them to print... #Malstrain #Genestealers #Necromunda #Nerdlings

A melty, multi-limbed figure with many mismatched limbs

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Alastair @reetnortherner4.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

In hobby news, I sold my T'au army as got bored of 40k and decided to give Horus Heresy Mechanicum a go. Here's my first mini. #Nerdlings

Horus Heresy magos with green robes and staff.

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 26/04/2026

My first attempt at a digital kitbash – wanted a #Coalescence for my #Malstrain gang, but not fond of the GW model, so I made my own. A mix of my own sculpting and a bunch of Nid bits by much better sculptors... #necromunda #genestealers #nerdlings #3dSculpting #kitbash

It's basically a The Thing with a whole bunch of faces and claws.

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Ed Maxwell @edpaintskrieg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I finished Lucius "Slick" Devlan, really pleased with how he came out. A nice change of pace to put a bit more time into a single model. Particularly pleased with how the face came out.

A 54mm model of a gunslinger, dressed in battered clothes and firing two pistols.

He has grey thinning hair but a powerful frame.

Close up of the face, with narrowed eyes and a 5 o'clock shadow.

Close up of the highlights on the leather holster.

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gundeck.bsky.social @gundeck.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Put some colors on the 3rd free sample STL from @opensketchbook.bsky.social Scrungaloids! Maybe I'll try to get my pen out and do some Vietnam style graffiti on the armor. Still a ways to go. I do really like the Worst Aid one for some basing once I can buy more STLs.

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 25/04/2026

First batch of test minis for my #Malstrain #BroodScum – really happy so far, but want to get some paint on them so I can see what they really look like. Might need to dig some more detail out of the faces... #Necromunda #3dSculpting #Nerdlings

A bug-eyed, definitely human figure, with a plasma rifle

A bug-eyed, definitely human figure, with some kind of gun..?

A bug-eyed, definitely human figure, who came packing

A wide shot of a bunch of bug-eyed, definitely human figures

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Random: it’s really important to make things, and be ok with doing it badly. I was looking at some photos I took yesterday that I think are a step forward in quality. But also some deeply flawed and messy attempts to pour resin. Both are good? It’s a cliche, but you really gotta mess stuff up.

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Doctor Spork @doctorspork.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Does anyone know where I might find the pattern for this jumper? Not asking for a friend, asking for me, I want one and will wear it proudly. Please spread far and wide for maximum chance of my future happiness.

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TheHobbyHobo @nehemiahhobby.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Bandersnatch is the Phantom for my Necromunda gang. I started work on converting her first, but because she required more greenstuff sculptimg sculpting than the rest, so she ended up being the last finished.

Front view of a Delaque ganger holding a long rifle across her body as her long coat billows open around her feet.
Her body was built off of a deamonette from a much older Necromunda gang which was never finished. Her long coat and pants were sculpted put of greenstuff.

Back view of converted mini. The football shaped oxygen tank was sculpted for her resperator rather than using the bit from the Delaque kit.

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Finished this enthusiastic little beast of nurgle and I’m really quite taken with him #warmongers

Photo of a miniature. It’s a sort of slug like demon with long red tentacles on its head (got ‘em off a D&D mini) and a big brimming mouth (upside-down squig). It’s waving its little arms around, and - crucially - instead of a tail it has a giant foot

Unpainted miniature. I made the body out of magic sculpt, which is great for larger minis like these coz it’s cheap

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Vae Victis Miniatures @vaevictisminis.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We have the best community.

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mageworks.bsky.social @mageworks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Took a short trip to space and met these funky characters on a nearby moon. #kitbash #miniatures #minipainting #stargrave

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Mary May Paint @marymaypaint.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

One homunculi painted up. This is the first model all year that I've painted without any kitbashing, and it was a nice quick single day project.

A hunched figure with bruised purple skin, a machine gun attached to the lower arm

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 22/04/2026

Batch 2 of the #Malstrain #BroodScum. With this batch I've tried to exaggerate features, and throw some weirder ones in there – whole point was wanting the Malstrain scum to look less like hybrids and more like a horrible DNA breakdown in progress. In the printer now! #3dSculpting #Genestealers

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Corey Press @coreypress.com · 20/04/2026

"Sergeant, what inspires you?" Walking Tank from @westfaliaminis.bsky.social for @trenchcrusade.bsky.social Never start a project hungry. #miniaturepainting #trenchcrusade #beans #nerdlings #minipainting

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Sasha @n13e86.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Some more of the minis primed long ago. I think, these are from Empress. They are, likewise, for sale at pay what you want. #miniatures

Four figures of pulp aviators, in dark brown, slightly shiny leather.
There's snow on the bases.

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Johnny Atomic @johnnyatomic.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Got a bunch done today, including this guy. I love the proto ad-mech vibe. Feels good to be pushing a brush again! #nerdlings #wargaming #slapchop

A man in semi-religious looking red robes and a gas mask holding a weathered sandwich board that says "where is Johnny"

The back of A man in semi-religious looking red robes and a gas mask holding a weathered sandwich board that says "kick me"

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 20/04/2026

To my utter surprise these #BroodScum seem to have printed pretty well! Will have to find some bodies for them and get a bit of paint on to see if they're actually any good – feel like the next iteration I will follow @jonathanllinares.bsky.social advice and exaggerate the shit out of everything...

A bunch of nasty little bug-eyed heads that are *definitely* human

A single bug-eyed head, my pudgey fingers for scale

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 20/04/2026

Wanted more Malstrainy heads for some Brood Scum — not done any digital sculpting before so I have zero idea if/how they will print, but that’s how we learn eh #necromunda #BroodScum #3dSculpting #genestealers #malstrain

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sad little men. @sadlittle.men · 18/04/2026

Aaaaand that’s a wrap on Tod — who I started because I had a chance to play #Turnip28 this week, and took long enough that I totally missed it. Seems appropriate! #Folly #Skulls #MiniatureBasing #Nerdlings

A terrible little toad man running through tentacles and skulls

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Mary May Paint @marymaypaint.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

One more Naval Heretic Legionnaire done for Trench Crusade.

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Witty Volkova @wittlegoblin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you don’t drink, you can recreate the stupidity by playing Space Gits exhausted on the last day of Adepticon! I really enjoyed this game!!

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Goose Minis @gooseminis.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Had some fun with emerald flames and an old copper patina on this one, a beautiful sculpt by Goetia Miniatures - the Vessel of the Truth. #paintingminiatures #minipainting #dndminiatures #nerdlings

A woman holding a flaming torch. The flames are green. The woman is dressed in armour with a copper patina.

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josiador.bsky.social @josiador.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Made this Eire Warrior Priest for a new Trench Crusade warband. Sculpted the cheeks and chin on the face, to match the body better and add some character. So many minis are skinny. Yes I know he looks kind of like Peter Griffon and Dr. Octopus. #trenchcrusade

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