Cultist of Sooty

@cultistofsooty

He/him. Old, slightly silly, and tired TTRPGer. Really quite gay.

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The postie's been. She apologised to me for scaring off my cats. And gave me a very funny look when I told her they're not my cats. They just like hanging out in my front yard.

Two books. Epidauros, by RA Tomlinson (an archaeological survey of the Sanctuary of Asklepios). And Aelian's Historical Miscellany (a lovely little green hardback book full of facts collected by Aelian which are Definitely Very Accurate).

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· 19d

On 2 of the miniatures, almost all the paint is gone apart from traces in the nooks and crannies. The glue that held the halves of one of them together has dissolved. The acetone has barely touched the paint on the last mini. Like the one I tested last week, I think it needs another day to soak.

A rear view of three old Ral Partha miniatures of giants, partly stripped of paint. On two, almost all the paint is gone.
On the third, the paint is just clearing off on a few patches. It needs more time to soak in acetone.

A front view of three old Ral Partha miniatures of giants, partly stripped of paint. On two, almost all the paint is gone.
On the third, the paint is just clearing off on a few patches. It needs more time to soak in acetone.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· 19d

After 24 hours, the jar looks lovely:

A photograph of three old Ral Partha wargames miniatures of giants in a jar of acetone, having been put in there to strip the old paint jobs from them.
They've been in there for 24 hours now. It's gone a very murky brown-ish colour. You can barely see the miniatures.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· 20d

2 hours in, it's looking murky:

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· 20d

Got a jar of acetone now. Here goes:

A photograph of three old Ral Partha wargames miniatures of giants in a jar of acetone, having just been put in there to strip the old paint jobs from them.
Mere seconds after putting them in, the acetone has turned a very... organic... colour. It makes this look like the world's worst urine sample.
If it matters to anyone, it was an empty pickled red cabbage jar.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· 23d

Look what arrived in the post. Mua ha ha ha ha! Yeeeesssss!

A picture of the Warhammer Realm of Chaos books. 2 books, each depicting demons of war and plague.
They are very grimdark.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Jul 14

The postie's been. Some people are saying that after getting the latest draft of QuestWorlds Glorantha, Cultist of Sooty is back on his "I want to run an ER: Glorantha game" nonsense again. But what would they know? I've hardly even been watching ER and The Pitt.

A photograph of three books on history:
Ancient Medicine From Mesopotamia to Rome, by Laura M. Zucconi.
Ancient Medicine, by Vivian Nutton.
Medicine, Health, & Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean 500 BCE - 600 BCE, by Kristi Upson-Saia, Heidi Marx, & Jared Secord.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Jun 19

Will it let you go to the the options and disable Copilot? (File Menu -> Options -> Copilot). If so, does it help? May still have to make a new notebook, but hopefully with Copilot disabled it would be without the nonsense. I have a licensed version; dunno if the free version will be the same.

A screenshot of the options in MS OneNote for enabling or, more usefully, disabling Copilot.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· May 26

More miniatures for the RuneQuest game at Chaosium Con. A gang of fire elementals this time - small, medium, and large:

Wargames miniatures of 7 fire elementals.
4 are small, about knee high to a human, shaped like fat little flames.
2 are medium. One of them looks like an angel made of fire. The other is a twisted fiery figure with a plume of black smoke emerging from its head and back.
The final one is large. A hulking humanoid figure made of fire.

They seem very burny.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· May 26

Now we've played our RuneQuest game at Chaosium Con UK, I can post the miniatures I painted for it with no worries on spoiling it for the players. I won't go mad and post everything in one go, just a few at a time. First, Venebain the fire demon. He is a big tall boy:

A fire demon. A tall giant with red skin. His beard and hair are made of fire and where his legs would be is just a pillar of flame.
He wears a gold breastplate covering a white tunic, and gold arm rings.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· May 23

Pictures of our RuneQuest PCs wouldn't be complete without Manuk, our Trickster priest, and his shield design - "badly drawn digitus impudicus". It took a few tries until I was happy it looked like it was badly drawn in character instead of like I did an inept job painting it.

A bronze age warrior shooting an arrow from a bow. He wears a long red tunic and has a shield sling on his back. The design on the shield is a crudely and badly drawn digitus impudicus, drawn in red on a white shield.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· May 23

I'm having a great time at Chaosium Con UK. My RuneQuest group seems infamous as "you're the ones who played till 03:00 to finish your game". When I get home I'll post pics of the miniatures we used. But here are the PCs. Mostly @fenrisgames.com with a backdrop by @handiworkgames.bsky.social

A group of miniatures of RuneQuest player characters in a ruined temple. 7 Bronze Age warriors armed with swords, spear, axes, and bows.
Mostly by the rather lovely Fenris Games.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· May 18

It's done. It's all done! (Apart from gluing sand and grass on the bases of the last two miniatures.) I've painted all the miniatures for our RuneQuest game at Chaosium Con UK.

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 71 completed, and no more left to do!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· May 12

I painted 2 more miniatures for the Chaosium Con UK project. That should leave 1 to go, but we added another player to the group, so now there are 2. This week's are, I think, my 2 favourite miniatures I have ever painted. I can't decide which is top favourite. I feel very lucky about that.

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 2 prepared, and 69 completed.
2 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· May 4

I've painted some more miniatures for our Chaosium Con UK RuneQuest game. Nearly there. Nearly there...

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 1 received, 2 prepared, and 67 completed.
3 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Apr 27

4 more miniatures completed for our Chaosium Con UK RuneQuest game - 2 SPOILERS and also 2 SPOILERS. I'm getting so close to the end of the project now. So close!

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 1 received, 6 prepared, and 63 completed.
7 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Apr 23

These aren't among the miniatures I prepped for our RuneQuest game at Chaosium Con UK. But I have the week off, and I've painted a couple of the upcoming Rubble City trolls from @fenrisgames.com. They were a delight to paint. And I have a few more that I'm working on.

Two wargames miniatures of trolls, armed with spears and large shields.
The one on the left is female, wearing partial bronze armour in the style of a gladiator. She has long black hair.
The one on the right is male. He wears a bronze scale mail hauberk and a helmet with horns and a black crest. He's got his mouth open, looks like he's shouting aggressively.
I wouldn't like to get into a fight with either of them, to be honest.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Apr 20

3 more miniatures painted this week for the Chaosium Con UK RuneQuest game. I've also been working on a couple of the ones that have bigger/more complex paint jobs. Nearly there now.

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 3 received, 8 prepared, and 59 completed.
11 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Apr 17

This is a giant from @fenrisgames.com - painted to be a merchant and initiate of the god of trade in Glorantha. He's Hen Cik, one of the giants in Griffin Mountain.

A wargames miniature of a giant, standing upright and leaning his hand on a big club bound with strips of bronze.
He wears a bright yellow knee length robe with a blue cape over his shoulders.
He has a silver belt with a rune of Issaries, the god of merchants,on the buckle.
His long hair is dark brown, kept back by an ornate silver circlet.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Apr 15

I painted him for Glorantha, so not really "clouds and sky", but as a merchant and initiate of Issaries. I went for yellow and blue. Painting him contributed to me needing to order more yellow paint not long afterwards.

A rear view of a wargames miniature of a giant, standing upright and leaning his hand on a big club bound with strips of bronze.
He wears a bright yellow knee length robe with a blue cape over his shoulders.
He has a red purse at his belt, easily big enough to be a belt buckle for a human.
His long hair is dark brown, kept back by an ornate silver circlet and bands of silver to hold some of it in a pony tail.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Apr 13

I can post a couple of the last few miniatures I painted with no worries for spoilers for our RuneQuest players, as they're PCs. Even *we* know our PCs are going to be in the game! Here are Flesso and Amalda, both from @fenrisgames.com

Wargames miniatures of two warriors in Greek-style bronze armour. They're both facing the camera with shields and swords raised.
The woman on the left has a yellow crest on her helmet and a white shield with a fish painted on it.
The man on the right has a grey helmet crest and a dark red shield with a triskele. He has a crossbow slung on his back.

Wargames miniatures of two warriors in Greek-style bronze armour. They're both facing to the right with shields and swords raised.
The woman on the left has a yellow crest on her helmet.
The man on the right has a grey helmet crest. He has a crossbow slung on his back.
They both wear linen armour and bronze greaves.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Apr 13

I only finished 1 miniature for our Chaosium Con RuneQuest game last week. I was away visiting friends for the weekend, so didn't have much painting time.

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 5 received, 9 prepared, and 56 completed.
14 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Apr 6

Some more miniatures done for the Chaosium Con RuneQuest game. I painted 4 SPOILERS and 1 SPOILER yesterday. 15 more to go...

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 6 received, 9 prepared, and 55 completed.
15 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Mar 30

Still working on miniatures for the Chaosium Con UK RuneQuest game. 50 done now! This week I painted a big SPOILER and 5 quite big SPOILERS.

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 12 received, 8 prepared, and 50 completed.
20 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Mar 23

I keep working away on miniatures to use for our RuneQuest game at Chaosium Con UK. I've painted 5 SPOILERS now, and I'm working on a big SPOILER.

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 1 ordered, 15 received, 10 prepared, and 44 completed.
26 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Mar 16

I've painted more stuff for my Chaosium Con UK RuneQuest project. 10 SPOILERS and 1 SPOILER. This is the "eating my greens" stage. Painting groups of the same thing is something I don't enjoy. I find it boring and repetitive. Still, it keeps me ahead of target. 31 more to go!

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 2 ordered, 20 received, 9 prepared, and 39 completed.
31 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Mar 8

Painting for our RuneQuest game at Chaosium Con UK continues. This week painted a SPOILER and her SPOILER, 6 SPOILERS, and a great big SPOILER. And I do mean big. Big!

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 2 ordered, 30 received, 10 prepared, and 28 completed.
42 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Mar 2

The "paint miniatures for our RuneQuest game at Chaosium Con" project continues. Here's how it stands today, after I painted a SPOILER and some SPOILERS.

A chart showing progress on painting miniatures. The newest column shows 4 needed, 11 ordered, 22 received, 13 prepared, and 19 completed.
50 more to go before 21 May!

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Feb 22

My project to paint a load of miniatures for our group's RuneQuest game at Chaosum Con UK has begun. I won't post any pictures of most of them until after the convention as I don't want to spoil it for the other players. But I have a tracker for how I'm getting along:

A chart showing progress week by week on painting miniatures to use in a RuneQuest game at Chaosium Con UK in May.
The column for how it stands for the week beginning 23 February 2026 shows: 7 needed, 9 ordered, 28 received, 14 prepped, 11 painted.

Cultist of Sooty@cultistofsooty· Feb 17

This week I have been painting air elementals for RuneQuest. The medium one's from Diehard Miniatures, the large one's from Reaper. I tried to put an extra bit of grey in the fist of Mr Punchy there, so it would like he was going to hit you like thunder.