Boondock Actual

@laochdua

Oldhammer and historical gaming fan. Lard appreciator. Occasional painter. Caffeine-based. Nicotine dependent. Maine Coon personal assistant. Moron wrangler. Boondock inhabitant and doer of boondock things.

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Boondock Actual@laochdua· 2d

Weekend daubage on some gorgeous Oldhammer Dwarfs: Dorin's Destroyers from @satyrart.bsky.social, reinforced by a couple of classic Citadel Imperial Dwarf figures, based on 25mm squares for The Old World and Dragon Rampant. Really enjoying these. #oldhammer #wip #theoldworld #warhammer #nerdlings

Ten partially painted mail armoured Dwarf miniatures on terrained bases, wearing red surcoats over their armour.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· 3d

Frey is somewhat unbothered by International Cat Day. Unphased, even. #InternationalCatDay

A Maine Coon, asleep on a packing envelope

Boondock Actual@laochdua· 5d

Stumbled across une affaire d'honneur in the Boondocks at lunchtime. Somebody clearly gave grave offence, and somebody else obviously asked for satisfaction.

Four wild turkeys face off in pairs in a field beneath the shadow of a tree.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· 7d

Exhibit 1: the Milky Way bar - US version.

Picture of a large Milky Way, otherwise known as a Mars Bar in the UK.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· 8d

That painting is on the cover of a very excellent book and I am very fortunate to have a copy of it:

The cover of "Galvez and Spain in the American Revolution", by Guillermo Calleja Leal and Gregorio Calleja Leal

Cover depicts white-coated Spanish troops in combat behind breastworks at the Siege of Pensacola. A blue-uniformed officer stands on the breastwork, sword in hand, staring into the distance

Boondock Actual@laochdua· 9d

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· 10d

Proof of (hobby) life: it's a very Foggy Isles kind of day here and I'm recovering after the professional shenanigans of the past fortnight, so the Oldhammer Rebasing Project commences while I listen to Patrick Tull read 'Master and Commander'. #oldhammer #theoldworld #wip #dragonrampant #warhammer

Classic Eighties Citadel Elves plus some Satyr Studios Beastmen and Sons of Crom being placed onto 25mm and 30mm slottabases for use with Warhammer: The Old World.

Classic Eighties Citadel Chaos Warrior with two axes (Slambo) on a new 30mm slottabase for use with Warhammer: The Old World.

Five classic Eighties Citadel Dwarfs on new 25mm slottabases for use with Warhammer: The Old World. The front four wield two-handed axes and hammers

Boondock Actual@laochdua· 12d

It isn't yet the end of the week, but who doesn't want some more good vibes around the place? Do me a little favour! Quote this post with something you've painted that you're proud of, or you just really like. Doesn't have to be your best, just something that makes you smile when you see it!

An old gunfighter, semi-submerged in a bathtub waving a large revolver.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jul 8

Nice one 👍

Grandpa from the Simpsons: So I painted the base Goblin Green, which was the style at the time.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jul 8

Proof of (hobby) life: Pickett-Hamilton disappearing pillbox from @warlordgames.com , OOP MG position from Architects of War, French Napoleonic wagon from @warbases.bsky.social, scratch built rough ground piece with @fenrisgames.com bits and a ruin made from some Mantic stuff. #nerdlings #terrain

A partially overgrown stone ruin, green Napoleonic French baggage wagon, a concrete circular pillbox, a log, earth and stone machine gun bunker a piece of rocky ground covered in brambles.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jul 7

I have the will to spray things. I have the necessary rattlecans. I have the appropriate miniatures. I also have humidity heading towards 94%.

Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom in "No Country for Old Men" looking up from his newspaper and frowning over the top of his spectacles.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jul 1

It begins. The heatening. The Fires of Mordor. The air is like porridge.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jun 24

Some WWII bits and pieces - Foundry Home Guard, USMC weapons teams (sniper, flamethrower, 60mm mortar and a bazooka) and figuring out some 101st Airborne.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jun 7

Couple of nice Bolt Action D-Day games yesterday. Good craic. Messing around with more bits for the Pacific - Japanese bunker on a @geekvillain.bsky.social "Sicily" mat, a test shellhole piece and a steel pillbox in a Company B emplacement. #spreadthelard #boltaction #terrain #wip #nerdlings

A wargame layout for the Normandy beaches on D-Day

A wargame layout for a US airborne parachute drop on D-Day

A camouflaged Japanese earth and coconut log bunkers on a greenish brown wargames mat

A large shellhole and a greenish Japanese WWII steel pillbox in a log and earth emplacement

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jun 6

I'll hopefully have one soon.

Four Warlord Games WWII US Marines: a .30 cal machinegun team moving, a flamethrower operator and an NCO with a slung Thompson SMG pulling the pin on a grenade.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jun 6

A few more bits for the Pacific WWII project. Not really sure what else to do with or to these: two Japanese steel pill boxes and a pair of small coconut log bunkers, produced by Company B/ @brigadegames.bsky.social #spreadthelard #boltaction #wargaming #terrain #nerdlings

Two hexagonally-shaped Japanese steel pill boxes from WWII, painted an olive green

Two small Japanese bunkers, covered in grass, dirt and coconut logs.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jun 4

Ladies, gentlemen and undecided, it is - once again - That Time of Year. The banjos are very loud and very thrashy. And also quite trashy.

A screengrab from the Jerry Springer show depicting a shirtless man with a mustache, adopting a wack-ass martial arts stance captioned "Kung Fu Hillbilly".

His parents are very likely at least first cousins.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jun 3

This is the John Blanche that got me hooked. First spotted in a White Dwarf ad for WFRP. That and WFB 3rd edition. For me, that's pure Oldhammer. RIP, sir. #warhammer #oldhammer #wargaming #nerdlings

John Blanche's painting of "The Enemy Within".

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jun 3

Not a whole lot achieved with the Pacific project since the weekend beyond some progressive daubage on a USMC dismounted tank crew (from @brigadegames.bsky.social and @hicksy.bsky.social) and a *very* lost RIC constable. #spreadthelard #boltaction #wargaming #wipwednesday #fistfuloflead #nerdlings

Five WWII US Marine tank crew, armed with pistols and submachine guns and a Royal Irish Constable with a Lee Enfield rifle.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jun 3

Finally started the latest from @jconnollybooks.bsky.social last night after some.... interruptions. It is, frankly, unreasonable that I can't stay up all night reading because I have to go to work in the morning. *kicks rocks* #booksky

The cover of John Connolly's "A River Red With Blood".

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jun 1

USMC platoon starting to look somewhat cohesive. Squad on the left was finished last night, squad on the right next. Few other Marine bits underway but not pictured. Made a start on the opposition with some snipers. #spreadthelard #wip #boltaction #wargaming #nerdlings #miniaturemonday

Boondock Actual@laochdua· May 31

Trundling on with my Pacific USMC from @brigadegames.bsky.social and @hicksy.bsky.social First squad plus some command and support finished, second and third squads progressing Experimentation on some opposition in between batch washes etc. on the Marines #wip #spreadthelard #nerdlings #boltaction

A squad of Pacific Theatre WWII US Marines with a bazooka team, a medic and a radio operator. Marines wear faded greenish dungarees and sandy camouflage helmet covers.

Four Japanese WWII snipers, wearing camouflage nets, some covered in foliage.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· May 28

No, the ambulance chasers sounds like a plan. Here's what's going on mine.

Two lawyers on a billboard, with a question: Injured?

And response: Good

Boondock Actual@laochdua· May 19

Very nearly there: test figure to work out a paint scheme for my PTO USMC. Navy corpsman from @brigadegames.bsky.social range of excellent WWII Pacific Theatre figures, sculpted by @hicksy.bsky.social #spreadthelard #miniaturemonday #wip #boltaction #wargaming

A 28mm miniature of a US Navy Corpsman, crotched and running while carrying medical supplies.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· May 9

Tonight's vidding after quite a week. I haven't seen this in quite a while, but it's holding up.

Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle on the cover of the "Ravenous" DVD

Boondock Actual@laochdua· May 8

Fairly sure he doesn't have a driver's license. Big guilty head on him too.

A large white-ish dog looking through the driver's side window of a motor vehicle.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· May 6

Boondock Actual@laochdua· May 4

The current read while I'm instructed to stay off my feet and heal* for a bit. It has been quite a few decades since I last read it, but it's definitely been enjoyable to revisit it. Finished "Over Sea, Under Stone" earlier, now on to the next one. *minor-ish procedure, nothing dramatic #booksky

The cover of Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising' sequence - a dark moody sky with tree branches and a rook in flight silhouetted.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Apr 10

Vito Corleone in "The Godfather": Look how they massacred my boy.

Boondock Actual@laochdua· Jan 12

The emails started at 0545, lads. Feckin' retained attorneys who fail to do something until the last minute and are now having a panic attack because they failed to do something and are blowing up my bleedin' phone. Setting caffeine and nicotine levels to "hurt somebody's feelings".