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For hobbyist everywhere, to see its ok to not be great so long as you like the way it looks.

If anything strikes your fancy, feel free to message about pricing, but for the most part it's here for inspiration and your viewing pleasure.

05/01/2026

And Im back at the paint desk! Nothing fancy, but table ready mini to help warm the hands back up before jumping into other projects. Especially with Mecha May right around the corner.

03/11/2026

Given the several thousand entries and how amazing the competition was, Ill gladly take a Commended as win!

First year entering the Squidmar Open, and it was interesting to see how far the miniature community has come. Hoping theyll post a video on how they did the judging, because Id be lost in the sheer volume of stellar works. Its honestly awesome to even be noticed, and cool to see how much further I can take the art.

02/23/2026

Just a quick update of recent projects. Fair bit of skin tones, with some LOTRs, Battletech, and 40k.

12/29/2025

2025 in a pic!

I(once again) didn’t paint nearly enough, but this may be an all time low number of 30 odd models. I am happy with the quality of those models, playing around with batch painting squads for warhammer and really digging into OSL and advanced basing concepts for Battletech.

2026 is only going to continue to improve!

11/22/2025

Iden Versio Complete!

While not my best work, I did put more time and effort into her than other recent projects of mine. The skin tone in particular was sorta fun to try to remember how highlights work on the face and trying to achieve that smooth blending transition.

While not perfect, I think it’s a respectable finish result. Her face is a bit too dark compared to the reference picture, the black/blue highlights are a bit too bright and thick to convey the right concept, and the fatigue highlights could’ve blended better, but Id put it in a solid tabletop + category. And more importantly, its not gray plastic anymore!

As always, comments, critiques and questions are welcome.

10/29/2025

Last four units complete. While not fancy, the Warrior Vtol is an excellent scout and skirmisher, with almost all variants being long range strikers. Add in some Thumpers for them to spot for, and you can harass the enemy for days.

Not a super fancy paint job, but again these are supposed to be basic work. Fairly pleased with them in that regards, and the company will look solid in any learn to play games I run. Plus it’d be a solid Chaos Campaign group to run.

10/19/2025

Lance complete!

To finish this Heavy Cav lance, decided to add a Dervish and Merlin. Ive always liked the Dervish as a budget but effective mech, and the only named Merlin pilot I could find was for the ELH, so it fits! Can definitely tell Im starting to feel the tediousness of repainting the same scheme, lensing is not half as good as I normally do, but least Im getting lots of edge highlights in? Close to wrapping up this Eridani Light Horse cavalry company, one support lance to go!

10/13/2025

Just realized I never posted these here! The second half of the scout lance and vehicle support lance.

10/12/2025

Who doesn’t love a heavy cavalry lance?

Now that life has calmed down somewhat, it’s time to finish this ELH company. For the final lance, we’re doing a Heavy Calvary lance, ready to back up the previous scout lance if it finds itself in some trouble.

First up, we have the Grasshopper, a time honored heavy mech that never fails to perform. Being mostly energy based and able to move at speed, its a heavy that will either out gun or out run anything it encounters. And to back him up, another classic trooper mech, the Shadowhawk. Personally, the Shadowhawk gets significantly better once LBXs are wide spread, but even early models can scare off lighter mechs.

Have to admit, the olive drab is starting to bore me some, but after two months of not painting I can definitely tell my skills are rusty. Edge highlights are rough, layering is meh, and canopy can use some better glazing. But hey, they’re table ready!

And finally, shout out to for these epic background photos! The style really does lend itself to miniatures, and I’m extremely pleased with them. May have to redo some of my old pictures now. 😅

07/03/2025

Random Encounter #1-

Welcome to a new series Im working on, where each set is based on a mission scenario for players to work through. Each encounter will build to a reinforced company that can be used in a large scale classic game or your average Alpha Strike game!

Our first encounter is the Eridani Light Horse, Huntress edition, conducting a checkpoint operation. Scenario plays out with the Sentinel and Wasp conducting outer cordon patrols, with the Bulldogs holding the checkpoint. Had alot of fun thinking this one up, and painting olive drab is kinda relaxing. Those bulldog canopies are a challenge however!

Stay tuned for encounters 2, 3, and 4 to see the full Eridani combined arms company! And as always, comments, critiques and questions are welcome.

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