Aether

Aether

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He/Him. I play a lot of TTRPGs and a smattering of wargames. I'm not good at painting but I try. I'm sorry for what I'll do to your timeline when the next Fire Emblem comes out, good or bad.

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Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

Painted a BUNCH of primed #mcp thats sat in my display cabinet sadly for years in some cases - sentinel and core2 gas stations plus accessories - Core2 Ultron + Drones, Doctors Ock - Avalanche & Exodus - Sandman&constructs - Cars - Red Guardian, Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar - Ulik

Assembled an Eldar combat patrol to start a Iyaden list. I haven't worked with 40k scale for a decade and don't like painting yellow this will go great

Finding bleak amusement that I discover the Iran hostilities through F1 nerds earnestly asking if this will affect the years schedule Like aye laddie the airspace is closed there might be a few wee problems. Also wtf how's this your main concern.

I'd intended to start a #HobbyStreak on January 1st but then I remembered I work in digital retail and the holiday season is a nightmare. So a month late is fine, lol I'm not a great painter (arguably not even serviceable) but it's still rewarding and I'll be damned if I let the dyspraxia win.

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I'd intended to start a #HobbyStreak on January 1st but then I remembered I work in digital retail and the holiday season is a nightmare. So a month late is fine, lol I'm not a great painter (arguably not even serviceable) but it's still rewarding and I'll be damned if I let the dyspraxia win.

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#HobbyStreak Day 16 Started working on the crashed gas station, and pulled Red Guardian from the shelf of despair as my random guy to do a little bit on each day this week ...taking him out of the shelf of despair counts for today

I'd intended to start a #HobbyStreak on January 1st but then I remembered I work in digital retail and the holiday season is a nightmare. So a month late is fine, lol I'm not a great painter (arguably not even serviceable) but it's still rewarding and I'll be damned if I let the dyspraxia win.

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Coming back to #40k after a decade I've realized two things 1 - I love these new(i think) warp spider sculpts 2 - Thank god they're not metal my fingers would never have survived trying to get the exarch's blades into his backpack

I'd intended to start a #HobbyStreak on January 1st but then I remembered I work in digital retail and the holiday season is a nightmare. So a month late is fine, lol I'm not a great painter (arguably not even serviceable) but it's still rewarding and I'll be damned if I let the dyspraxia win.

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#HobbyStreak Day 10 Just some more basecoats and a bit of cleanup today. We'll do detailing/shading tomorrow and hopefully grab another one from the box of despair this week

#HobbyStreak Days 11 & 12 I forgot to post yesterday rip Home sick so didn't get much done; Settled for a bunch of #FabulaUltima campaign prep and starting to build my eldar combat patrol. It is WEIRD working with 40k scale again after a decade with other game systems. But Yriel calls to me.

I'd intended to start a #HobbyStreak on January 1st but then I remembered I work in digital retail and the holiday season is a nightmare. So a month late is fine, lol I'm not a great painter (arguably not even serviceable) but it's still rewarding and I'll be damned if I let the dyspraxia win.

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Darren Aronofsky running out of Satoshi Kon footage to copy so he turns to the other, more literal plagiarism machine is deeply hysterical to me

I'd intended to start a #HobbyStreak on January 1st but then I remembered I work in digital retail and the holiday season is a nightmare. So a month late is fine, lol I'm not a great painter (arguably not even serviceable) but it's still rewarding and I'll be damned if I let the dyspraxia win.

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I'd intended to start a #HobbyStreak on January 1st but then I remembered I work in digital retail and the holiday season is a nightmare. So a month late is fine, lol I'm not a great painter (arguably not even serviceable) but it's still rewarding and I'll be damned if I let the dyspraxia win.

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#HobbyStreak Day 5 -- had the energy to finish up Marco. Actually a lot happier with how he turned out than I thought I would be earlier which is fun Silver Sable next!

I'd intended to start a #HobbyStreak on January 1st but then I remembered I work in digital retail and the holiday season is a nightmare. So a month late is fine, lol I'm not a great painter (arguably not even serviceable) but it's still rewarding and I'll be damned if I let the dyspraxia win.

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#HobbyStreak Day 3 -- Continued Sandman Pokery. Went over the construct with another brown and a nuln wash and it...still kinda just looks like it's primed brown Gonna give it a lighter brown dry brush tomorrow and see if that helps before doing the main guy

##HobbyStreak Day 4 -- Even More Pokery after an Even Worse Shift Got more basic blocking down on Marco and the other construct. Shoulder area definitely needs topped up.

I'd intended to start a #HobbyStreak on January 1st but then I remembered I work in digital retail and the holiday season is a nightmare. So a month late is fine, lol I'm not a great painter (arguably not even serviceable) but it's still rewarding and I'll be damned if I let the dyspraxia win.

#HobbyStreak Day 1 -- Finished up an Exodus and Avalanche for #CrisisProtocol that I'd started four months ago during my mass priming batch assuming that I wouldn't get to spraypaint anything for a while since, well, Canada Moment.

#HobbyStreak Day 2 -- Work is gonna be a lot this week, so I'll be slowly poking at Sandman each day for it. Got some basecoats down on some bits of his constructs & body; Tomorrow (hopefully) we'll get a dry brush on the sandy bits so it's not just Brown Primer

grabbing all of my unpainted MCP models out of my display cabinet to put them in a 'work in progress' drawer, realize halfway through i just accidentally added moon knight to the pile since from a distance he looks like he's just been primed white, sheepishly putting him back in the display cabinet,

I haven't played #40k since 5th edition, I'm getting curious about getting back in again, and boy do I feel like Robin Williams in jumanji or some shit What happened to the force org chart? There's a warp spider Phoenix lord now? The dire avengers sculpt still kinda sucks?

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Ugh, I have enough money set aside for a switch 2, but there's nothing I actually want it for until the FE comes out so it'd be a waste of 800$CAD for like six months, especially if there's a bundle But I also don't want screwed over by another random tarrif or AI induced price hike

booting age of mythology retold up for the first time, hearing the menu music, and immediately getting thrown back 20 years and three countries of my life ago

This time last year i was joking about how my brain couldn't handle seeing lewis "the enemy" hamilton win a race in a Ferrari I'd like to thank the team for making sure there's no chance of that