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Chris, Ontos Games

@ontosgames.co.uk

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Sculptor, painter and graphic designer in the wargames and TTRPG space. Specialises in Space Dwarfs. Based in North East England. Always pretending it's 1994. https://ontosgames.co.uk/

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 5m

Hey Blokees fans, am I right that the range has focussed exclusively on G1 & One, and the closest that Uncron Trilogy gets to a look-in is SG Sideswipe?

An evil car robot, in a menacing black and teal, red eyes glowering down at you from atop a pile of rubble.

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 13m

I'm sending this video to my family to see if they get as excited as the time Cousin Gavin got in NME.

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 2h

Finally, ages after other people started getting theirs our main shipment of mags made it through customs, cheers Brexit! The gift that keeps on giving

Anyway, here’s some low effort marketing for an incredibly high effort magazine, buy a copy today, you get a cool magazine & we get to make more

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 12h

Red Alert! Awoowoowoo!

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 1d

(Actually, that is quite helpful.)

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 1d

Guessing you've backed a project there that fell apart?

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 1d

Gamefound looks a lot easier to use behind-the-scenes, with fulfillment and keepng a track of who gets sent what.

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 1d

What d'you prefer, peeps? Kickstarter or Gamefound?

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · 2d

Do you work with Roman finds? Got a Cool Thing you want to share with the world? Found something in the ground or in the stores that puzzles you? Looking for parallels? Want to shout about your event, museum or book? Lucerna, the newsletter of the Roman Finds Group, needs you! #roman #archaeology🏺

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 2d

Giving this a like specifically for the Vince Diamond.

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 2d

Aaaah. I'm surprised the UK Pulse cost is as low as it is!

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 2d

But idtoys is more expensive than Pulse?

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 2d

Oooh, nice. You a Premium Pulse member then?

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 4d

They're cracking! Picking out all the rivets in the different colours must've taken you ages!

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 4d

Those suits look epic!

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DiaBrave Sid @diabrave.bsky.social · 4d

So, this here is a special one - G2 Soundwave

@asorohanart did this amazing design a few years back before he passed, and I've worked with the amazing Shins of the Wreckers and @camzilla51 to make it a reality.

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 4d

Fixed the bathroom sink taps this week. I've got these cool decayed internal bits now that are crying out to be reworking into weird wargaming terrain.

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 5d

Wahey! Over a hundred of you following now! Thanks! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cur...

Coming soon: Exö-Squad Röknaut Space Dwarfs 28mm Sci-Fi Wargame RPG Minis

Finely detailed resin cast miniatures for collectors, painters, wargamers and roleplayers

www.kickstarter.com

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 5d

First glimpse of an Exö-Squad mini is going out in today's email newsletter. If you're not signed up there's still time...

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 6d

They're looking great! I can't wait for them to pop up at retail. Love your Golden Lion camo.

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 6d

Peter Brian painted a squad of Space Dwarfs and he kinda just snowballed into a full review and mad pining for the first CD he ever bought (until I sent round Rambo).

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Nostalgic painting

wargamer, painter, blogger, biscuit connoisseur

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 7d

74 minutes to go!!!

Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · 7d

It's the final couple hours now of the Trench Crusade Official Backdrop Books KS by @handiworkgames.bsky.social

It's been a blast getting to play with them the last fortnight and use THE TEETH by @somnderian.bsky.social so much.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/han...

pic of out BITCH CYBORG walking along with erm, foreground teeth. Shes very shiny metallic.

Mary the Knight, converted with a cross and candles on her back and a pistol, barbed wire in front and crucifix trench in the background

A sniper with a bleeding crucifix, in front of a nice valley. foreground teeth.

A sniper with foreground toes and fingers. They're not realy toes and fingers. allegedly.

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 7d

"I like the, er, fifth book mostest? I like the other books too. Terry Pritchard is my favourite author."

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 8d

Aaaaaannnnndddd, they've given a whole page AT THE START NO LESS to writing nice things about the Röknauts!

A wooden table with a magazine lying open all casual like on it, with a big splash image of the Space Dwarf Röknaut miniatures, resplendent in their scarlet and olive space armour.

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 8d

(Pst, you can get your copy at: shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr... )

Wyrd Science Vol.1 / Issue 7 [Print]

IF YOU WANT A SUBSCRIPTION, AND TO SAVE 10% ON THE COVER PRICE, PLEASE GO HERE Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop games... In this issue......

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 8d

The new issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social has arrived! Best issue yet! That Alexey Gorboot cover's just the perfect colours, with the techno-barbarians lit in lime green.

Cover of the new issue of @wyrd.science, with two techno-barbarians and their weird hairy magic goblin thing lit in lime green brandishing their glowy probabaly-laser swords in a skull and alien filled cavern.

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