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erikcats

@erikcats@warhammer.social

Dad of 3, 1 of which #ActuallyAutistic; #ForeignLanguage teacher and author; #language nerd; #BloodBowl nerd; #MiniaturePainting nerd; #humanities nerd; I know everything better but really should know better.

Did you know teachers in the Netherlands get x-ray lenses, aural augmentation implants and eyes in the back of their heads?

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erikcats, to Warhammer
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day 911

More work on

Loving these models.

erikcats, to minipainting
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crew, I'm at a loss what to do with the inside of Jean's collar thing.

Do I make it dark grey like her boots? Yellow (the chest will be yellow too)? Purple (as the cult icon sash thing on her hip will be)? Leave it white? Other?

Taking suggestions!

erikcats,
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@DrH Really pale, with some purple shading on weird ridges

erikcats,
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@DrH hmmmm I haven't used that for a while

erikcats,
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@DrH that is incredibly clever! Cheers!

erikcats, to bloodbowl
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day 901

Made the first 7s league in my area a definitive fact, 21/5 kickoff evening! Haven't got a name yet but one came up with a gem.

Also added the last eye white to my elves, and applied ochre dry pigment to them, to varying degrees of success, and added lighter orange to the loin cloths. That's un- I guess.

Other angle of Wardancer with ochre on his skirt. Guess he didn't get fouled as he lay.
Woodie thrower with minor bits of ochre on boots
Frisian alliance of BB's underground Leeuwarder Operations Ultimate Shitshow (FABULOUS)

erikcats, to miniaturepainting
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#HobbyStreak day 900

Did a few arboreal things, such as making sure the leaves don't fall off, getting a better face on there and priming. Also basecoated the Wheelie Bin of Doom to go with my #CountBBFace team as a vargheist. Poll below about appearance.

All the eyes of my #Fedipaint elves have now been pre-whitened.

#MiniaturePainting #BloodBowl #OnTheBall #PaintingMinis #MiniPainting #PaintingMiniatures #Warhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Warmongers

Collage of four elf faces with the dead white eyes they should always have
Baobab tree with face I definitely did not sculpt. Thanks go out to Trish Carden

erikcats, to bloodbowl
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days 898+9

Well well well, let's see if i can make this work for

And built three models

And I felt inclined to sculpting a face on one for a treeman and I'm giving up immediately again 😬 may steal a Trish Carden face with oyamaru clay and stick that on.

And built v2 of my paint holder. Found out the 3mm plywood is 4mm and warped AF😬

Three baobab tree models
Plywood paint bottle rack construction site
Treeman looking angry about being sculpted by a talentless madafaka

erikcats, to bloodbowl
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days 894

Had some time to work on the giant, which is nearing completion. The entry I've had enough of so I'll wrap it up in the coming days and fuck it
On the up side, I've has the honour of playing an inaugural match in the school stadium.

Dumb ginger giant from the side
Blanche woodies
Gorgeous blood bowl 7s stadium

DrunkOnTea, to Warhammer
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The Greater Good - Aetherial Sakura from Wargame Exclusive. I really enjoyed painting this model, especially as it was a good excuse to use different colours than I normally paint minis.

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erikcats,
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@DrunkOnTea Chillin on her widdle wobot fwen 😍

erikcats,
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@DrunkOnTea To sit on. Now I know my name is Cats but I'm not thinking of a Roomba

erikcats, to random
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@roofuskit re: the upgraded electric flyswatter-to-static grass applicator conversion, has it worked?

erikcats, to bloodbowl
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#hobbystreak day 887

Started on a lazy tartan on the #BloodBowl sporting giant but am unsure: abort or continue?

Also built two #gaslands cars at the school #WarhammerAlliance. And the kids working on the stadium have finished it! Now to encourage students to have us print teams they can paint and use!

#OnTheBall #MiniaturePainting #MiniPainting #PaintingMiniatures #PaintingMinis #Warmongers #Warhammer #WarhammerCommunity

Hot rod with electromagnetic pulse weapon and rocket launchers; muscle car with mini gun sticking out windscreen and another mini gun on turret on its roof
Epic bloodbowl stadium with light Towers, water Towers, first aid tent, commentators Booth, spectator stands, weather station, scoreboard, shrine to nuffle, the Works

SunDancer, to random German
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Willkommen @clownskotze !

erikcats,
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@SunDancer @clownskotze schöne Nam 😂

erikcats, to bloodbowl
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day 880

Ya boy's back, bitches!

And because I've been bed-rider for too long, my bullshit is, too!

THE HAS BEGUN!

THE BLANCHENING: THE BASING DIP
THE BLANCHENING: PRIMED AND BASES INKED
THE BLANCHENING: BASE CLOSE UP

erikcats, to animals
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Okay fuck this for a game of soldiers.

Have been bed-ridden* since Tuesday afternoon incapacitated by fucking flu, and last night at 00:30 I woke up to an arrhythmia. Beta blockers worked a treat the way they usually do and I've now had enough of being ill.

Got mildly dressed, went downstairs, and am now tapping into that sweet sweet endorphins release.

  • Why is it bed-ridden? Was I covered in beds? sort your shit out
erikcats,
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@pidgeon_pete BUT SIR I get that for flea ridden dogs, who are generally scabby and be infested with whole clans riding them, but wouldn't I have to be doing the bed-riding?

I DEMAND CONSISTENCY (and knowing I'm demanding this of what is basically a greedy child's pocket equivalent of a language, I know this is futile)

erikcats,
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@roofuskit yes and as it turns out, I AM the bed-rider!

https://www.etymonline.com/word/bedridden#etymonline_v_26978

NinjaDebugger, to random
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ha ha ha fuck

Shipping on my battletech mercenaries pledge is $112. In the US.

erikcats,
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@NinjaDebugger what fuck

Are they delivering it to you in person?

tlacamazatl, to languagelearning
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/generative-ai-translation-education/677883/

This is nonsense, but hey, it's The Atlantic.

@languagelovers

erikcats,
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@tlacamazatl @languagelovers ... did AI write this?

erikcats, to ageofsigmar
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I have a highly specific question that I would like to ask to the

Which bands can very easily double for ?

In the school we are looking to diversify the range of games available to students. For both of the above games the max warband size is capped at around 15.

But do the rules reflect that? Do we have any grognards here who can help with this?

If you see this, please share widely!

Warcry art

erikcats, to bloodbowl
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day 864

Dug out a baobab tree for a project that stalled over 2 years back, and I gave it its first layer of colour.

Also did an image search for it. It's going to be wild.

Worked on the base markings of my warband. Tomorrow to get rid of the final spots of white.

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Collage of steels from die Antwoord's Fatty Boom Boom and their graffiti art
15cm high baobab tree sans foliage. Add 3 for that. It's ridiculous.

erikcats, to miniaturepainting
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Just as a reminder for all peeps, this 2 toot🧵, 1/2, feel free to share!

The ten commandments of Miniature Painting are:

  1. do not self-deprecate

  2. be proud of what you've made

  3. giving others a small compliment, even a thumbs up emoji, goes a long way

  4. if you can't find it in you to follow commandment 3, STFU

  5. do not offer advice or suggestions for improvement unprompted

erikcats,
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I started this thing with a Discord server reply when some people were talking about their painting habits. It's a lot more entertaining but not necessarily more legible. The latter is why I cut off a lot of the fat in the above.

DrH, to Warhammer40K
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'nids playing 40k.

As a refresher between projects I knocked out this silly little idea. And it's proven more popular than any of my other projects every time I've shared it, now it's Mastodon's turn.

Two rippers, sporting their army colours (Dark Angels Vs Chaos space marines), with a 1:56 scale 4x8 table and an impressive terrain layout. Plus a rule book.

Two tyranid rippers facing off over a 1:56 scale table filled with terrain. Side view.
Two tyranid rippers facing off over a 1:56 scale table filled with terrain. Top view.
Two tyranid rippers facing off over a 1:56 scale table filled with terrain.

erikcats,
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@DrH mate this is hilarious. And so fucking skillful

DrH, to Warhammer40K
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Pox Walkers.

2 squads of 'em. One lot as they came and only painted, the other squad (at the bottom) have been modified to make them unique.

Arm and weapon swaps, plus some additional putty work is what distances them from the vanilla mini's.

Had "fun" researching dead/diseased flesh in preparation for painting these.

erikcats,
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@DrH everyone needs a friend tentacle

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