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Bill Adcock

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I’m Bill (he/him, 🏳️‍🌈) and I’m a cat dad, occasional freelance TTRPG scenario author, and miniature painter. I like metal figures over plastic.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · Dec 15

Wrote myself up a post on my (often disused) painting and wargaming blog to organize my thoughts and lay our an actionable plan for responsible hobbying in 2025. TLDR: buy less, paint more, play more.

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Figuring Out 2025 Plans

So first thing's first - I haven't done any gaming lately. Haven't gotten my army to the game store for Warhammer: The Old World. Kind of.....

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 6h

I’m going to guess four kittens.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 7h

Jungle bases painted. Once that dries I’ll flock them, and then I can start hot-gluing various bits of plastic flora into place.

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 8h

That’s right, but it was someone different organizing it? Not Boldo?

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 10h

It’s not really a big wargaming con - I’ve seen a Frostgrave table do well, along with Burrows & Badgers and a little bit of Bolt Action. There used to be a 40K tournament hosted at the con but not in years. So a smaller demo, something that can be played fast, is probably a wiser option.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 10h

As much as I’d like to put on a game on a big, detailed table, I think I should probably prioritize something I can comfortably carry from my AirBnB to the student union regardless of weather.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 10h

Running GAGG, held at SUNY Geneseo, is my “home” gaming convention and 2026 marks 20 years since I started attending (I missed it in 2014 but otherwise have perfect attendance). I haven’t tried demoing a wargame there since 2006, but I’m burned out on TTRPGs at present.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 15h

Let me state this as clearly as I can:

It is not the job of a historian to make you feel good about your nation’s past.

We need to print this on t-shirts and bumper stickers.

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ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a very angry look on his face .

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 12h

I’m deeply, deeply grateful. I’ve learned so much following you, and I wouldn’t have gotten that if you were buttoned down.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve written two novels that while I’m proud of them both, I’ve chosen not to publish. First would smell of brimstone, sweat, leather, cheeseburgers and whiskey. Second would be bonfires, cinnamon, dark chocolate, rum and sweat.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 1d

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 13h

He wants to fight somebody, but that’s also the attitude that got him a case of FIV.

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 13h

Eternal vigilance against squirrels and the feral cats who wander through our garden.

Poppy, a brown and white cat, sits archly at attention, staring out through the sliding glass door at the porch beyond.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 13h

Poppy will stop, regard his tail for a moment, then attack it, pull himself over into a flip other, then stop to again stare at his tail contemplatively, and then launch a renewed assault. Or ass-ault, as the case may be.

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Wrecked cars and barricades finished!

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe more that I just wanna put a junkyard on the table?

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

I think just a final wash and doing the bases and that’ll be it for these.

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 1d

the Fenris co-pilot's in for surgery again tomorrow, bless his heart, so doesn't currently understand why theres absolutely *nothing* for him to eat.

thoughts, prayers, ko-fi, orders via the shop all very much appreciated!

bat-eared husky-cross puppy in the meeting room at Battersea Dogs Home the day I met him nearly 11 years ago. he's sitting skew-legged on a white linoleum floor looking up at the camera with his bright blue eyes.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Praising me for taking extra efforts to protect the immunocompromised while in the same breath proudly announcing that she won’t do the bare minimum to protect others is unfortunately pretty par for the course with her.

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Last time I attended one of these quarterly meetings, one of my coworkers commended me for masking to protect my wife, then launched into the story of how she refused the shingles vaccine, got a painful case of shingles, but still would not get any vaccinations going forward.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

It would be one thing if I was confident my coworkers washed their hands and covered their mouths when sneezing and if my wife wasn’t immunocompromised, but sadly I know they don’t and she is. And fuck three hours of bingo for mini candy bars.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible night’s sleep and the neighbor’s dogs goaded the local skunk into spraying again in the pre-dawn hours. So glad I scheduled myself off so I don’t need to make a two hour commute for a meeting that’s going to be 3 hours of forced socialization.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, pretty soon it’s going to be time to just prep for the winter months.

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Kev Dallimore @kevdallimore.bsky.social · 1d

298. ‘Big Tam’ Frazer, Department X veteran, from 7TV Crooked Dice. (my second paint of him, Fraser tartan) All done in Foundry paints. Mix of brushes.

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight’s painting efforts: wrecked cars are 3D prints, glued to MDF terrain bases and gussied up with some Mantic TerrainCrate bits. Barricades are Mantic. Not done but close!

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 2d

This is how he tries to convince me to share my peanut M&Ms with him.

Poppy, a brown and white cat, laying on his back with his back paws in the air and his front paws crossed.

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