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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

My Mercenaries Kickstarter came in. I'm ready for some Blåhatech. I desperately need Catalyst and HBS to figure out the licensing issue keeping the Bull Shark from having an official mini and record sheet...

Commemorative pin for the Battletech faction, Clan Diamond Shark.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild. The brushed steel aesthetic looks better on my dishwasher.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

This is your brain on sotn.io.

The Alchemy Laboratory in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night but instead of special weapons all of the tubes are filled with floor chicken.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Why is it never the artifact stealing Christofascists that get taken down? I'm not actually super interested in the answer. www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03...

Clip from Beauty and the Beast where Belle is selflessly asking to be taken in exchange for her father, but "me" is crossed out and "Hobby Lobby" is written below it.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Needed a drying rack and had a bunch of cardboard left over from an IKEA shelf. Look ma, no measurements!

A small drying rack for miniatures made of unpainted recycled cardboard.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Having seen this, I post a robot.

Custom painted Full Mechanics Gundam Bael from Iron Blooded Orphans, starkly lit with red light from the left, and blue light from the right.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Finished my take on Grant Abbitt's Dungeon Door tutorial. It was more time consuming than the other's I've worked on, but I really like the results. Pointiness-based procedural textures are fantastic. I do wish he had taken the tutorial all the way to the lighting stage, though.

A stylized dungeon door with dramatic lighting but no background. A demonic skull with ram's horns and glowing eyes sits on the keystone at the top.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Everything Everywhere All At Once is as good as the hype. Holy shit.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

The coloring begins! I'm digging this method of procedural colors for a couple reasons: 1) My brief foray into UV unwrapping wasn't great (room for improvement, for sure). 2) Using the sharpness modifier and gradients feels a lot like using washes and edge highlighting on minis. #b3d

A stylized 3D render of a dungeon door. The angry looking skull on top still does not have any color.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

8v8 classic BattleTech, tonight, on 4 adjacent hex maps. Finally taken this over-embellishes over-washed Griffin for a spin.

A Griffin battlemech that looks like it sat in a barn for the last 50 years, but was well loved before that. A pinup is painted on the shoulder pad, barely visible under the grime.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Part 1 of Grant Abbit's "Dungeon Door" tutorial done. Need to put it down for a bit to work on a different project but so far I'm really happy with it. I definitely overcomplicated it by sketching out ram horns and a latch/padlock rather than just a ring handle. (This is my third Blender tutorial).

Crude 3D model of a dungeon door with no textures in front of the sketch it's based on.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

We're about half way into Color Out of Space and it is way less campy than I expected from an HP Lovecraft movie starring Nicolas Cage with special guest Tommy Chong.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

When I say I got that dog in me this is the dog in question

Cú Chulainn from Irish mythology. I should note that I'm neither Irish, nor particularly heroic or fierce...but I am stubborn and will eat basically any food given to me.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Artorias the Abysswalker from the Dark Souls board game for @spockle.bsky.social.

Painted miniature of Artorias the Abysswalker from the Dark Souls board game by Steamforged games.

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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Anything piloted by a human that needs some reaction speed, and be flexible in use, makes sense with a human body plan. Our brains literally have a billion years of evolution to be good at piloting this body config and no others. Everything else is either more mental overhead, or less flexible.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Prescient of Bubblegum Crisis (1987) to call the #1 threat to public safety "boomers."

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

I wish I wasn't addicted to HoloCure. There's lots of other games I want to play. But between it, Vampire Survivors, and Death Must Die, I find it hard to let there be a bullet heaven game on Steam for which I haven't collected ALL of the achievements.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

I grew up on these streets

Screen capture of "Skitchin." An Electronic Arts game from 1994 (before we knew how toxic the industry would become) about rollerblade racing on busy highways, grabbing cars to pick up speed, and beating your opponents with pipes. True sportsmanship. Also it has a killer soundtrack.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

I understand the importance for brevity in our bios, but how else will I let people know I'm a graphic artist looking for work, a music loving radical left agnostic egg who plays games and paints miniatures, AND properly describe my PFP and banner since we can't give them alt text?

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Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

I read about this in the middle of the night, and went to see if it was real… I present- Christian ouija board! For only £44 you can talk directly to Jesus! Some people didn’t like the idea though…

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If you want your life to be filled with Terror Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2022
This is something that the Bible describes as detestable. Looking to contact the dead, or interacting with the spirit world in this way is one of the most dangerous things a person can do!
Countless witness reports of people whose lives were ruined by addiction and depression and suicide as a result of use this type of object.
Might be a revolutionary idea but why not pick up a bible instead?
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Sorin Anita
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Deception and mockery!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2022
What a deception! What a mockery!
What a blasphemy!
If you really want to know what Jesus says then read the Bible.
Playing with forbidden things has serious consequences! Stay away from this thing and the like.
"Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap."

Danny
Blasphemous!! Do NOT buy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2023
If you believe in Jesus and Hid you know that the only way to speak with them is through prayer, reading the bible and going to church. This is a demonic trap which no one should fall into.
Stay away, stay safe and pray instead O&VE
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Tricia Booth
NOT the Holy Spirit but another spirit - beware
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2023
This board is encouraging 'speaking to the dead' which is expressly forbidden by God. It's dangerous and deceptive because you might think you are hearing from 'someone' but it won't be God. Jesus NEVER said he would communicate in this way, in fact it's condemned in the...
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Mrs. C. Kingham
Offensive to all Christians.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2023
Amazon - please remove this product. It is very offensive to Christians.
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Dangerous!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2023
I am concerned that children are being introduced to a realm of evil without being old enough to know what they are accessing. If adults want to play with fire that's a different matter. This kind of spiritual filth is wrecking lives.
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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

And now for something completely different.

Sif and Artorias miniatures from the Dark Souls Board Game arranged around and in a bowl using chop sticks to suspend Artorias upside down. It's about to have near boiling water poured into it in the interest of straightening their swords.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2024?

Screen cap from Fate/Grand Order of Gareth wearing full plate armor on a picturesque beach, screaming at the camera in incoherent indignation.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Embrace your inner cozycore holiday gremlin. Mix egg nog in your hot chocolate. Nog chocolate rules.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Current progress on my first round of mechs meant to have a place in canon BattleTech. Just locked the paint in with a coat of future polish. Next step is black and brown wash, matte varnish, gloss for the windshields, then basing.

A Wolverine, Rifleman, Shadowhawk, and Marauder painted in the Grey Death Legion grey camo and (in this case a little too much) red detailing.

Jaime Wolf's Archer and Natasha Kerensky's Dire Wolf.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Sometimes I forget how bright this 20+ year old pot of Citadel Mithril Silver is. Grey Death camo done with two layers of Army Painter Gravelord Grey Speed paint 1.0 over Ash Grey primer. Next will be some Tin Bitz and something bright for the canopy glass, red details, future polish, then washes.

BattleTech miniatures. Left to right: Shadowhawk, Marauder, Rifleman, Wolverine.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

10 video games to get to know me Vector Man N20: Nitrous Oxide Gris Parasite Eve Symphony of the Night Sonic Adventure Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Hades Ninja Baseball Bat Man Vampire Survivors Runners up (that I haven't finished): Transistor, The Guides, Moon Hunters, Mechwarrior 5, Celes-

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Been a while since I used sticky tack, but it's passing the blizzard test with a chonky PVC Dire Wolf. Don't know if I would trust it with metal. I'm using Aleene's, from Michael's. $4 gets enough for like 80 minis and it's reusable.

BattleTech Dire Wolf turned upside down while affixed to a medicine bottle with sticky tack.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Next batch of BattleTech minis. Actually going for canon 'mechs on this go around.

Unpainted BattleTech minis. From left to right: Wolverine, Rifleman, Dire Wolf, Marauder, Archer, Shadowhawk.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

John Trent from In The Mouth of Madness sitting alone in a theater with a bowl of popcorn.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I had an ICP / Kottonmouth Kings phase in highschool and my stepdad asked if I'd started doing drugs. I was the (self) designated square of my friend circle, that admittedly included at least one dealer.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

If you're cold, they're cold. Remember to bring your rattle friends inside this winter.

An array of rattle can spray paint left in an unheated garage. They'll need to warm up before they get used again.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I found zen in the soundtracks for FTL and Into the Breach, especially when thinking about The Expanse RPG I was running. Still, I didn't see this coming.

Spotify Wrapped summary. Top artists are Ben Prunty, TV On The Radio, Puscifer, Arctic Monkeys, and The Black Keys. Top songs are "fight!" by Sophie Hunter, "The Hunter" by SIE Sound Team from the Bloodborne OST, "Happy Idiot" and "Wolf Like Me" by TVOTR, and "Guiotine" by Mansionair and NoMBe.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I didn't expect to have two posts in a row reference Castlevania, but here we are. I blame @poncle.bsky.social

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Four fictional characters that represent you

Entrapta from She-Ra because ADHD and the need to tinker can override reason.

David from Camp Camp because he means well and is insufferably naive except for when he isn't.

Sypha from Castlevania because she knows a ton about religion and still finds herself on the opposite sides from both God and the Devil. Without being near as edgy as that sounds.

Biscuit from Iron Blooded Orphans because he's just trying to keep everyone together and seems in over his head but still manages to make it work.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Inspired by a Halo joke on X née Twitter.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Took my push-fit Nightengale apart and glued it back together. It'll make it harder to paint if I ever get around to that but for now it VASTLY improves the feel of the kit. I did keep the two points of articulation in each shoulder and the shield is removable.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

210 is an awkward tonnage for a lance, but that's what happens when your collection consists of the Beginner Box and the Essentials box. Some theming/fiction is brewing in my head. Will probably post it when I get around to doing a proper photo shoot.

#BattleTech minis from left to right: Centurion, Griffin, Vindicator, and Rifleman.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

My bases for the last couple posts were printed by a friend using these STLs: www.thingiverse.com/thing:4912529 Some tweaking may need done if you want to use them on BattleTech maps and have the same base-to-line gap as BattleTech minis. The modern plastic ones, anyway.

Miniatures and bases set on a BattleTech map featuring a hex grid. Left to right, top to bottom: Gundam Artifact Nightingale on size 3 base, empty size 2 base, BattleTech Rifleman, and an empty size 4 base.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

That escalated quickly. Gundam Assault Kingdom figures seem to work well for size 4 Lancer bases. They're truly enormous compared to every size beneath them. I feel like Gundam 1/144 would be size 5 and 1/100 would be size 6(!). That's getting into Armored Core boss scale encounters, for sure.

Miniatures placed on various sizes of multi-hex bases. Left to right: Gundam Artifact Nightingale (size 3), BattleTech Vindicator (size 1), Gundam Assault Kingdom Mk-2 Titan (size 4), BattleTech Centurion (size 1), Gundam Artifact Hi-v (size 2).

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

I'm experimenting with Gundam Artifact as miniatures for Lancer by @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social. Hi-v on the left needs a flying peg to keep funnels from blocking adjacent models. Byarlant Custom (whose head is still in the couch) in the middle almost doesn't need the third hex of a size 2 base.

3 Gundam Artifact mini kits standing on various sizes of multi-hex bases.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

If you see this post any photo in your gallery with no explanation

Post-apocalyptic diorama of a mud-covered 30 Minute Missions Portanova kneeling before a statue of Anna from Frozen, surrounded by junk.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

When I was a kid, I looked forward to being an adult because it was when I could start building new things. But now I’m starting to see that 90% of the real work of being an adult is just keeping things from falling apart. So I’m trying to do that too, and so should all of us.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

I severely underestimated the translucency of this fingernail decal. I knew there wasn't any white pigment, but I'd assumed that the pigment that *was* there was more opaque. Still looks neat, just way more subtle than intended.

Miniature of a BattleTech Griffin painted grimy red and off-white with a pinup model decal on the left pauldron.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Ok. The work is paying off. I love these Army Painter Speed Paints. Next steps will be some solid metallics, followed by decals (which inspired the color scheme), weathering, base, topcoat.

BattleTech miniatures standing in front of Army Painter Speed Paint bottles. The 'mechs are, clockwork from top: Vindicator, Centurion, Griffin, and Rifleman. The paints are, from left to right, Plaid Bone, Blood Red, and Gravelord Grey.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

First test with speed paint and I chose the worst subject for it, but I'm learning a lot about how it works. Also, next time it would save time to not worry about the white top-spray and stick with the grey primer as a base.

Miniature painting progress picture. In the back is a Star Blazers White Comet Empire Battleship sloppily painted green. In the front, left to right, BattleTech Griffin, Rifleman, Centurion, and Vindicator, still in grey scale.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

The plan is something like this: Krylon primer ✅, Krylon white from the top for general shading ✅, black wash to deepen eventual shadows, dry brush some highlights, THEN color in the form of Army Painter Speed Paints. I'll figure out where to go from there...

BattleTech minis. Clockwork from back: Centurion, Vindicator, Rifleman, Griffin.

An array of miniatures mounted on prescription bottles which are taped to the inside of a box lid for easy handling. Large ship on the left is a White Comet Empire Battlecruiser from Star Blazers. BattleTech mecha in background are, clockwise from top: Griffin, Centurion, Vindicator, and Rifleman.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I love that medication comes with a complementary paint handle. Also great for storing bits!

Primed minis stuck to the caps of prescription bottles. Back: 1979 Star Blazers White Comet Empire Battleship. Front, left to right: modern Battletech Centurion, Griffin, Rifleman, and Vindicator.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

I've put together a couple of Gundam Artifacts kits and thought this would be pretty similar...even when I didn't think it was a Bandai kit (I somehow completely missed the red square logo on the side of the box). It was not something to put together casually on the couch!

Completed space battleship model. Quarter for scale.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Found this in one of those bargain bin places. I'm not familiar at all with the series but it looks like a fun little kit and might make for an interesting proxy in some game or another.

Box and small model kit for an Imperial Army White Comet Battleship from Space Cruiser Yamato.

Instructions printed on the inside of the box lid.

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