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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was due good rolls last night, after last week. It started off well, but didn't carry on that way... (Saving on 3+)

A wargames table with futuristic scenery and a group of goblins just entering the picture.

There are eight 6-sided dice, which have rolled two 1s, five 2s and a 3.

Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of these is not like the other... After a severe defeat at my last game I've reconsidered my life, or at least my list, so more painting needed. It turns out that this missile launcher had been "modified" by the school friend I acquired it from. I'm going to have to fix it now I've noticed...

A blue and a cream space marine missile launcher from the RTB01 plastic set. The rear portion of the former is separated from the main part, and is missing its fins. The latter is still on the sprue.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A week or so ago I was looking forward to finishing my current space marines project, but made the mistake of thinking about what I might do next. This was Not Sensible. On the plus side, this guy might finally get his shield and base finished after a _long_ delay.

Old Warhammer Fantasy miniature of an orc riding a boar. He's armed with a spear and shield, wearing a fur tunic and mail leggings

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Real life has kept me away from mini painting for ages, but I finally got the brushes out again this week. Finishing touches on some marine heavy weapons, although stuff like bases still to do 🤨 I need twice as many points on the table next weekend, so they'll be _very_ unfinished 😬

"Beakie" space marines take cover behind a building on a wargaming table.

Their bases are in varying states of completeness.

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Mini of the month - John Blanche Entry 17 by @mxhollyclara.bsky.social We Are Legion #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

A Skeleton Horde marches across a dark and foreboding countryside. A menacing, twisted tree looms in the background. The skeletons recede into the distance, like there is no end to their numbers. A very “Heavy Metal” banner of a skull with a rose in its mouth is being carried by one of the skeletons. The banner reads “We are Legion”. It’s more than apt, because those of us who have been inspired by John Blanche are Legion - and are always grateful for what he gave us.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I can't decide whether to go for the new Macrocosm space dwarves Kickstarter. They look like nice sculpts but: 1. Some would say that my lead pile (ok, these are resin) is too big already... www.kickstarter.com/projects/207...

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Space Dwarves Auto Rifles 2nd Squad

6 Hand Sculpted 28mm Sci-Fi Resin miniatures for table top games.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Tried out Space Marine (1989 "epic" scale WH40k) at my local club on Friday. My "opponent" brought everything that was needed, so I could just turn up and play! Enjoyed the game, despite my standard smattering of daft mistakes, and plenty of beginner's ones... #Oldhammer

A wargame table set up to play the 1989 game Space Marine. Around a dozen tower blocks, each about 6 inches high, provide objectives and cover. Small tanks and groups of infantry face each other across the table.

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Indelible Ink Studio @indelibleinkstudio.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Rogue Trader Characters - metal minis sculpted by Adam Frank, painted for L27's Metal Miniature Musings #roguetrader #roguetrader40k #retroscifi #retro #scifi #oldhammer #oldhammer40k #oldhammercommunity

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Mondo @mondo4.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Down in Devon. Started with the war memorial and to visit some of the business’ affected by the damage to the coastal road. For anyone who knows this from the history or with a heart please sign and share www.carolinevoaden.com/coastal-eros...

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Because mid-Feb is a good time to do a "last year" recap... 🧐 My target was 48 minis for the year, so that's a pretty big miss, but at least I got paint on a few. Emphasises how much I'm motivated by upcoming games: 3rd edition chaos, then BOYL warbands, then One Page Rules at my local club.

Twenty four 28mm miniatures from various genres: chaos beastmen and light cavalry, a werewolf, a handful of vikings, three space dwarfs and ten blue space marines

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Next up. I'm not sure how I acquired these, as my set of old second-hand beakies are dark blue plastic, and I only have a handful of these cream frames. I've had them since the late 1980s though, so maybe mail order sold individual frames? Either that or I must have split a set with a mate.

Two frames of cream coloured "beakie" space marines

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Grandfunk @grandfunk.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

First game of 40k in a while was very lopsided. Even at 1k points the alpha strike potential is so crazy. I'll have to see if I can marry my terrain and how I like a board to look with their prescribed layouts for balance. While overly complicated the rules are flavourful compared to OPR #nerdlings

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My brother is doing a bit of a clear-out of his childhood so has a number of old minis (mostly Bo Olley Iron Claw squats) up on eBay at the moment, in case anyone who follows me is interested in that sort of thing 😃 An example: ebay.us/m/RRnWkd

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Pardon our interruption...

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Progressing on a couple of the marines I started last month, plus another flamer, a heavy weapon guy and the big unit on the right. Blimey but the terminator armour is detailed 😬 Hopefully the end result will be worth it, but it won't be in time for last Friday (2nd deadline missed 😐)! #Oldhammer

Work in progress picture of four old "beakie" space marines and one in terminator armour, base coated in dark blue

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My circles here are fairly tightly curated to be Warhammer-adjacent but I'm hoping there's enough crossover to ask: WW2 model kits (tanks / AFVs) - who are good manufacturers at around an Airfix budget level?

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Properly surprised to find these in a 30+ year old box of assorted junk earlier, along with my deodorant tank... Blister is still sealed, so they're probably the most valuable minis I own. Going to have to open it though!

Blister pack of two Warhammer 40k Ork Nobz from 1989. Price sticker says £3.99

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Last batch is going slowly, but I need to get one of them and this guy ready for Friday. The right arm was a pain to strip, I'm not sure what paint had been used on it but it had been there since 1988...

Old plastic space marine undercoated in grey. His arms are blue plastic and not yet attached. The right arm is a power glove, the left arm has been modified to hold a bolt pistol.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Back onto marines - heavier weapons this time. My plastic marines have had a rough life, with various bubbles from plastic cement and the odd lump carved out either by me or the old school friend that I bought them from many years ago. Hoping to get these complete by the end of the month... 😬

Four old space marines - one plastic, and without arms and three in metal. They are partly undercoated in a medium grey. One of the metal marines has a heavy bolter, the other two are posed to hold a separate weapon.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

So this guy needs to be table-ready by Friday, and I'm modifying both arms... #Oldhammer

Pieces of an RTB01 space marine: a head and torso (in blue plastic), most of two left arms and a right arm holding a bolt pistol (in biege plastic)

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Next mini project. These three space dwarfs (two #Oldhammer Citadel and one from @diehardminiatures.bsky.social ), plus three others that needed a second go in the stripping jar, need to be finished by the end of Oct.

Three bare metal space dwarfs. One in the middle is notably larger than the others. The left one is smallest but has a similar pose to the middle one.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I'm very pleased with how she's turned out, but getting this mounted thug finished has been a complete slog, and blew through my 31 August goal. Lovely minis but fiddly and multi-part. Plus the first horse I've painted since my very early days, before the idea of photo references occurred to me!

Mounted chaos thug miniature. She has dark blue skin, gold armour and a skull-faced, crested helm. She is armed with a spear and a shield with a skull motif, and rides a dun horse with a dark green harness.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

In an effort to keep myself focused / honest, here's my painting target for the rest of August: - Shields and final details for 6 vikings - Finish 4 "nearly" complete Crimson Fist beakies - 2 mounted ravengers from @diehardminiatures.bsky.social

Various 28mm wargaming figures: 6 vikings and 4 space marines, mostly painted; 2 chaos cavalry which are bare metal and in need of assembly

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

One of my other highlights of BOYL was seeing the recreation of the WFB table from the 3rd Ed rulebook (clearly a labour of love)

A heavily populated Warhammer Fantasy Battle table, including a (slightly larger) recreation of the Maisontaal monastery. They even found some of the 80mm Fighting Fantasy ogres from 1985

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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man! www.badsquiddogames.com

advert for Bad Squiddo Games showing Annie (me!), an artwork of a Pulp explorer by maritn whitmore, a shieldmaiden, soviet spotter, vampire queen and jeanne de clisson on a horse.

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Georcs Workbench @georcdamn.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Just finished this Champion of Nurgle designed by Jes Godwin in the late 80s. The shield was sculpted from scratch. Final pics soon. #warhammer #warhammercommunit #oldhammer #paintingwarhammer

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Not sure that Sandor from @badsquiddogames.bsky.social likes being confined to a 20mm base. Used my rudimentary Green Stuff skills to add a tunic hem as I needed to norse him up a bit. Basically need to get him and his mates painted this weekend... 😮

Bare metal model of a werewolf with open jaws and his arms outstretched

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Strawfoot @strawfoot.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I built this kit from BMT miniatures. It’s based on an illustration from the original Rogue Trader book. I have to have ALL the tanks for my guard! I green stuffed in the gaps, now it just needs paint. Anyone know what this tank is called? I can’t find any information other than the illustration.

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Redmanphill @redmanphill.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I need to bulk up my Throng to 2500 points for the end of the month. After getting blasted aptly by a Hellblaster in the last campaign game I thought I’d return the compliment in the follow up one! One old school (best school for Dwarves) Organ Gun done! #theOldWorld #nerdlings #warhammer #wargaming

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A nasty case of lead rot on one of my favourite beastmen. I'm not quite sure what to do and whether he'll recover. Paint strip (Dettol) carefully, then oven cleaner to neutralise, then all-over undercoat (including slotta tab) and see...? Maybe a question for @delaneyking.bsky.social #Oldhammer

1980s Citadel beastman, painted but overcome by white growths of what I assume is lead rot, especially on the left hoof and lower back

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A great game of #Oldhammer in Exeter yesterday. My chaos force and skaven facing off against a force of dwarves. The goal was to control the middle of the field, with a ruined tower and church splitting the table into clear thirds. Despite a last minute painting splurge my choices were limited.

A wargaming table set up for a game of Warhammer Battle 3rd edition. Minotaurs, a troll and chaos hounds are in the foreground, with large units of skaven towards the middle of the table. A ruined tower dominates the centre-right of the picture.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It's worth tidying sometimes. Box of bubble wrap had not only the orc standard bearer I was pretty sure was in there, but also the troll I was missing, the minotaur I could have done with finding a few weeks ago, ...

A small cardboard box filled with bubble wrap

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Tankred von Tarent @tankredvontarent.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I followed @mogsymakes.bsky.social tutorial on multibases for magnetized single miniatures and he released me from a 20 years curse of decision making. Looks so good. Thank you!!

Rohirrim models on a magnetic multi base.

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Alice Lastname @jonerbones.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Been awhile since I posted some of my minis. Here is one I finished recently for the Oldendemon competition on insta. God painting black is hard 🤣. #oldhammer #bloodangels #oldendemon #warhammer40k

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Pandaemonium Miniatures @pandaemoniumminiatures.com · 18/05/2025

I'm making a scratch-built house in-between projects and I'll be incorporating the Blacksmith forge set I bought from Iron Gate Scenery a couple of UKGEs ago - build thread incoming over the course of the next couple of weeks 🙂 1/ #nerdlings #miniaturepainting #wargaming #wepaintminis

3d printed Blacksmith forge and lean-to roof

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Florian Stitz @florianstitz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The second piece I did for the High Elves book for Warhammer Fantasy Rpg: High Elf Traders. Cubicle 7 Entertainment © Games Workshop 2024 Acrylics on 300g brisotl paper with some digital tweaking. NFS. #warhammer #fantasy #rpg #highelves #trader #elf #port #city #tilea

Noble high elves walking down docks in the city of Lothern where traders from Tilea offer them all kinds of fruit and fine cloth. Lothern Sea Guard patrol behind them and on the walls above. Tall spires reach into the sky.

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Doctor Spork @doctorspork.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Can I recommend the art of sponge painting? It's quick, looks good and does a great job of hiding the layer lines. I did a post over on dakkadakka about how I did some on my ruins. www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/p...

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Holly 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mxhollyclara.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

New stuff (but small)! I’ve always wanted to do an eyes shield, and finally decided to give it a go. I should probably have left the eyelashes off though! A lot of effort for what will only be seen from the back of the miniature!

Metal Chaos Warrior (unpainted) with his round shield painted to look like eyes and skin.

A round plastic shield painted to look like eyes and skin.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

These guys are getting pretty close to being finished (although I'm probably not allowing for how long the missile launcher guy will take). But...

Work in progress picture of four RTB01 Warhammer 40k space marines, in the blue of the Crimson Fists chapter. Edge highlighting is finished on two but still very rough on the others

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Work has been pretty overwhelming for the last couple of months but I finally got some hobby time! Decent progress on these beakies, highlights and details next... #oldhammer #warhammer40k

Four RT101 space marines assembled, painted blue and shaded. The bases are a mess of black plastic and undercoat

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Day 2 sharing teaser #HistoryPix for "Inventing the Renaissance" (out in one month!). Often in Florence one sees buildings like this, where one section is rough stone standing out amid stucco neighbors. It's actually a remnant of the old Guelph-Ghibelline feuds that so long rocked Medieval Italy 1/?

A photo of a street in Florence. Many tourists walk along and the buildings are all shops and eateries. In the center, conspicuous between buildings of yellow or beige stucco, is one building made of crude-looking yellowish stone, very rough and undecorated, with few windows and all small compared to its neighbors. A couple doors down, a second conspicuous stone section like this sticks up, also strangely blank and rough amid its yellow neighbors. Both stop about half a story above the roofs of the three-story buildings on either side of them.

An orange book cover showing Cellini's statue of Perseus holding aloft the severed head of Medusa, her neck streaming gore. The title "Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age" is superimposed over the statue, with the word "the" pierced by the sword. The author's name "Ada Palmer" appears below.

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

So it looks like my plan for the start of the year is - 1) Finish up the Crimson Fist squad that I'm working on 2) Chaos sorcerer that I've wanted to paint for ages 3) 4 points of Saga vikings, properly based, shields, etc. 4) Something something Praag, something something Mordheim for BOYL

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Dave 🇨🇦 @indaveslife.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I think fittingly I'll toss up my Mountain King as a first post here. This is one of the figures I'm most proud of. #miniatures #painting #wargaming

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Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

By John Peake’s reckoning today is the 50th anniversary of Games Workshop! It was founded in London on Tuesday 7th January 1975. From 3 friends making wooden games to a FTSE100 firm with £4.4bn. Its an incredible story and this year I aim to explore as much of it as I can. #WarhammerCommunity

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Mighty Lancer Games @mightylancergames.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

As part of our January Great MLG Brush Off discord challenge Mrs MLG painted this Games Workshop Demon from the 80s #warhammer #flgs #GamesWorkshop #paintingwarhammer

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Stalled Gamer @stalledgamer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

A year's worth of painting. When I started out in October I hoped to get all of these finished in the year but it wasn't to be. Still, it's infinitely more than I painted the year before...! #warhammer40k #nerdlings

Warhammer 40k miniatures: there are two orks and four space marines painted, and four more space marines that are partly painted although only partly assembled. The unpainted parts are mostly dark blue but one arm is a cream colour

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Dr Biggles @blacklabel666.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I should say for those interested that this has been the solution I’ve settled on for enjoying playing 40K: www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/p... We’ve genuinely gone for a blend of these basic rules with the 5th edition Battle Missions scenario book which gives a nice variety

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ProHammer Classic - An Awesomely Unified 40K Ruleset for 3rd - 7th Edition - Forum - DakkaDakka

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