The Venerable Weed

Probably due for a new intro post… I'm a professional tabletop games writer, podcaster, & hobbyist. I’m the war gaming news writer at @belloflostsouls.net I run the brushwieldersunion.com an organization of miniatures painters of all skill levels! And I publish weird books at strixpublishing.com

Further attendees have arrived just in time to get painted up for my inaugural Halloween night Sun Rot game.

You know, I keep saying "I think Silicon Valley people think AI is good at everything because it's good at code and they think code is the most intellectually challenging task in existence", and then they just go ahead and skeet it out

Play a dead game this Halloween.

Remi Dekker, son of resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen has this to say about our minis! 😍 I am blown away! Also pic of when we met up recently, he got a special painted one by John Morris. (KS on now www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...)

All the new miniatures in our Heroes of the Dutch Resistance Kickstarter - look at them there. Each figure is based on a real person who risked it all to fight fascism. Please help me spread the word. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad... All hand sculpted & hand cast in pewter

Kicking off CRITcon day 3 with my presentation on army painting.

Another CRITcon score, FROGS from @jonbrodsky.bsky.social

Snagged some seasonal weirdos from the @myconoid.com free minis table here at CRITcon in Portland.

Looking to get in to Baron’s War? We’ve got ready made retinues for you to get straight in to the action! paulhicksminiatures.com/collections/... Paul! #baronswar #28mmmedieval #robinhood #retinues

Robert De Niro in ANGEL HEART

Come find me all weekend at CRITcon in Portland, OR where I’m vending for Brush Wielders Union and Primaeval Press. And there are still slots for my Sunday morning presentation on army painting, Quantity Is its Own Quality!

Oops I also painted Yesterday’s Empress…

Painted another charming Sun Rot fellow: the Negation Titan.

Final hours to pledge!

Oops I also painted Yesterday’s Empress…

Painted another charming Sun Rot fellow: the Negation Titan.

laser gun that sends you to hell

Urrgh...I need it so bad.

Another picture from Monday Night at the Hemel hempstead Wargaming Club, this time from the Trench Crusade campaign. @trenchcrusade.bsky.social #nerdlings #trenchcrusade #minipainting #miniaturepainting #tabletopgames #wargaming #tabletop

"Kraillach grimaced. He had been only a child when Imperial Space Marines smashed through his family’s quarter of High Commorragh, but he recalled the night all too well" (Path of the Renegade)

Every few years @muskratjohn.bsky.social and I get a chance to bust out Man O’ War and use his lovely painted fleets. Fun game but alas, there was something wrong my bloody ironclads yesterday and many dwarf sailors were consigned to the depths.

The posts about this project are getting so suppressed on Facebook, can you give me a hand? Launching Wed 21st October, 20 brand new miniatures - hand sculpted and hand cast. Deeply researched non conventional members of the Dutch Resistance! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...

That was a great way to spend a couple of hours.

That was a great way to spend a couple of hours.

Drew a bunch of guys

Giant project for a friend complete, time to Get Weird.

They are unemployed

Here’s a 3up of the old Heroquest Bloodthirster with some of the other sculpts in the background. We used Chavant clay to sculpt these and they became plastic figures. A few of us sat around a table and worked on these together. We would pick one up, work on it and then move onto a different one.

#gamesworkshop #warhammer #spacemarines #nerdlings

Next up at @thegrandcinema.bsky.social

This was a fun one, but really, any excuse to talk about Roger Dean.

We're in the final few days for Herd of Horns and I'm excited to share that we've unlocked the Book of Laramidia stretch goal! This will be our first supplement, essentially a world guide to the continent of Laramidia and the Rangelands as they existed in the late Cretaceous. #ttrpg #dinosaurs

The Big Dark is almost here and I cannot wait.

Come find me and @nikolking.bsky.social all afternoon vending for Primaeval Press here in Tacoma! facebook.com/events/s/3rd...

The Superman No Smoking Ad, but I lost the audio track and dubbed it from memory

If you see this, post a skeleton💀

Some kind of weasel or furred snake

Sadly, I think you all know the drill. Go help out this legendary artist and get some cool stuff for your troubles.

When I first came across the Hazelands last month I knew I wanted to talk to its creator, @tinefieldling.bsky.social. Fortunately, Tine was happy to make the time to talk to me all about her unique setting for 5e and the whimsical miniatures she's sculpted to go along with it. #ttrpg #miniatures

One of Warhammer 40,000's greatest artists, Karl Kopinski, needs help: "Trench Crusade reveals medical crowdfunder for Warhammer art legend Karl Kopinski 24 miniature creators are teaming up to raise funds for Kopinski, whose work defined Warhammer 40k and fantasy in the early 2000s..."

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Time to See Everything.

This is the only social media that is allowing links, so I'll be posting this one a lot! Coming Wednesday, my year of research and design on the Dutch Resistance of WW2 is coming to life! With your help! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...

Turns out that The Damned female infantry from @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social are every bit as fun to assemble and paint as the blokes. In a double shout-out, these are entirely John Blanche Masterclass paints from @thearmypainter.bsky.social - I don't think I quite channeled him yet! #jhbackdrops