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#SIGNALIS #warhammer40k
"Kaisaringard: Knightfall"

The Great Crusade has come to Eusan. Knights stalk the sands of Kitezh. Can the Grand Empress's elite royal guard turn rout into retreat? Avert greater slaughter?

Or...will they unleash something even darker?
archiveofourown.org/works/742273...
Warhammer 40,000 illustration of an Imperial Knight, shrouded in gloom, on a wartorn battlefield.
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#SIGNALIS #warhammer40K
"Where Laments the Bound and Bargained Soul" - Ch. 135

Wherein quality-of-life changes are pursued, a Blackshield is retasked, and a wolf in sheep's clothing plays shepherd.

Link:
archiveofourown.org/works/540547...
Illustration: Black and white drawing of Imperial underhive from Warhammer 40,000. By David Bell.
November 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#40k #SIGNALIS
Finally got around to "finishing" some sketches of Elster's dress uniform, from the whole "Grande Ball" arc of "Where Laments the Bound and Bargained Soul". W/ and w/out overcoat, and with Mindstealer Sphiranx fur cape.
Illustration: Colored pencil sketches of Elster from Signalis, wearing custom military uniforms. One without overcoat, one with overcoat, and one with blue fur cape. Illustration: With and without overcoat. Predominantly black, with red cuffs/collar, and ocher yellow accents. Wears sheathed power sword on belt, with white winged crossguard. Black hat with red band and sun visor, flat top. Illustration: With blue fur cape.
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#miniaturepainting #Spooktober #mtg
Champion for Dusk Legion style Blood Knights unit #2. Has the same white vertical stripes as unit 1's champion. Also like him, I glued this guy to the wrong horse.

Fuck my life.
Miniature: mounted Vampire Conquistador in gold armor, seen from left angle. Red cloth and black glove on left arm Miniature: Seen from right side. Lance leveled towards enemy. White helmet feather. Miniature: Seen from back right. Saddle decorated with gold, and saddle blanket has red trim. I spent 3 days sketching highlights on these horses skins, and I deeply regret it.
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#miniaturepainting #Spooktober #mtg
Dusk Legion style Blood Knights unit #2. More heavily armored (arms, legs), and with two shields for the fun of it. Painted their cloth red.
Miniature: Five mounted Vampire Conquistadors with full gold plate armor and lances. Seen head-on. Black horses. Champion's armor accented by vertical white stripes. Miniature: Seen from right angle. Miniature: Seen from left angle. Miniature: Seen from above back right. Once again, fancier horse flank barding is on the wrong horse. God dammit.
October 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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#miniaturepainting #Spooktober #mtg
The champion for Blood Knights unit #1.

I intended this rider to have a horse with a fancier flank decoration. But I forgot, and just glued riders mostly at random.

I am *positively livid*.
Miniature: mounted Vampire Conquistador champion, seen head-on. White helmet feather, lance, white vertical stripes on gold armor. Miniature: Seen from right angle. Ash grey face, long black beard. Black lance leveled in charge. Miniature: Seen from left angle. Miniature: Seen from behind. Prominent vertical white stripes on back and shoulder plates.
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#miniaturepainting #Spooktober #mtg
Dusk Legion style Blood Knight unit #1. Painted all of them with white cloth first. Liked it so much, I made the less armored squad keep that color.
Miniature: Head-on shot of five mounted Vampire Conquistadors, charging. Most have unarmored arms, exposing white, sliced sleeves. Ash grey skin, black facial hair. Miniature: Unit seen from left angle. Wield black lances. Champion has white helmet feather, and white accents on gold armor. Miniature: Unit seen from right angle. Black horses, matching gold armor of riders. Miniature: Unit seen from above back right. I just realized I glued the wrong rider to the horse with the fancier flank barding. My mortification is immeasurable.
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#miniaturepainting #Spooktober #mtg
Close-ups of my Dusk Legion style Vampire Lord on Horse. Naturally, gave him a scenic hill (layers of cork), covered in Renedra tombstones.
Miniature: Vampire Conquistador Lord on white-ish horse. Rides atop low hill, covered in tombstones. Miniature: Lord seen from right side. Wears bright gold armor, accented with vertical black stripes. Double white helmet feathers. Wields lance with black shaft and bright silver head. Miniature: Lord seen from back left. Horse wears decorative red barding and blanket. Lord wears white diagonal sash over breastplate. Miniature: Lord seen from back right.
October 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#miniaturepainting #Spooktober #mtg
Finally finished my Dusk Legion inspired Blood Knights (and accompanying Vampire Lord on Horse). Love me some Vampire Conquistadors (in fiction).

(Models from Wargames Atlantic. Tombstones from Renedra.)
Miniature: Ten vampire Conquistador cavalry in bright gold plate armor. Riding in formation, with hill-mounted vampire lord behind them. Seen from head-on. Miniature: Same formation, seen from their left. Vampire sleeves sliced, Landsknecht style, colored red or white. Cavalry wield lances, two have gold shields. Miniature: Same formation, seen from their right. Horses sport similar gold plate armor, and red harnesses. Miniature: Same formation, seen side-on. Vampire Lord's hill covered in tombstones.
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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#miniaturepainting #spooktober
Finished my skeleton chariots (manufacturer: Wargames Atlantic).

I added some spooky "hood ornaments", mostly from spare skulls and parts from Pete the Wargamer's "Dead Animal Bits" kit.
Miniature: Skeleton chariot #1. Crew carries sword, spear bundle, and warhorn. Front adorned w/ grisly trophies. Miniature: Skeleton chariot #2. Driver wears corroded bronze helmet with red and white crest, and prepares to throw spear. Other crew skeleton holds spare spears, and holds sword aloft. Miniature: Skeleton chariot #1, seen from behind and to the side. Skull with antlers and ribcage mounted on forward horse mount bar. Miniature: Skeleton chariot #2, behind and to the side. Forward skull with curved ram horns. Bronze wheels corroded by verdigris.
October 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#miniaturepainting #spooktober
Close-ups of skeleton cavalry. Mounted captain (black & white plume) prepares to vault off leaning headstone.
Miniature: Skeleton cavalry captain. Rearing skeleton horse atop fallen headstone. Black and white helmet plume. Corroded bronze breastplate and helmet. Miniature: Cavalry sergeant, spear held straight up. Red spear shaft, verdigris tip. Corroded bronze breastplate and helmet. Miniature: Skeleton cavalry musician, leaning back to blare warhorn. Left hand carries two spare spears. Horse rearing back. Miniature: Skeleton cavalrymen, spear resting over shoulders.
October 15, 2025 at 5:06 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#miniaturepainting #spooktober
Close-ups of select infantry, including the archer sergeant, the only archer whose arrow didn't snap getting it off the sprue, and the baller skeleton commander to lead my skeleton spearmen. (I decided that officer skeletons have white & black plumes).
Miniature: Skeleton spearmen leader, at rest. Clad in carroded bronze breastplate and helmet. Black & white striped plume. Made from cavalry rider body, modeled sitting atop a cluster of gravestones. Miniature: Reverse shot of skeleton spear leader. Text etched into back of headstone visible, illegible. Miniature: Archer sergeant, standing on fallen headstone, pointing. Corroded bronze helmet, red and white plume, denoting unit officer rank. Miniature: Archer skeleton, drawing bow, seen from behind. Leather quiver, red-fletcher arrows. Nocked arrow has corroded bronze arrowhead.
October 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#miniaturepainting #spooktober
Forgot to post photos of the skeleton models I painted in the first half of October. Skeleton archers, cavalry, and officers (mounted & on foot).

Models from Wargames Atlantic. Tombstone bits from Renedra.
October 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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#SIGNALIS #warhammer40K
"Where Laments the Bound and Bargained Soul" - Ch. 134

Wherein reports are made, and what was thought lost is rediscovered.

Link:
archiveofourown.org/works/540547...
September 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
bluecho4.bsky.social
What's better is, the show is VERY sympathetic to Disney Adults. But in a "your love for Disney is being exploited by a corporation for their own profit, please wake up" way.

The show loves Frankie. We all do. But it doesn't pull its punches about how fucked this all is, including for HER.
Frankie from Knights of Guinevere being a happy little goober.
September 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
Fuck. It really IS just 1930s Germany all over again. Except the over-the-counter Meth is a chatbot.

I didn't think I'd need to use these images within minutes of the last time, but...
Still from The Amazing Digital Circus, Episode 4. Caption: "I'd like to order the Stupid Burger." Caption: "...they forgot to add the sauce that makes you stupid."
September 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
Jesus wept. I didn't think it was possible for someone in Real Life to really, actually embrace Bimbofication as a positive.

We found the Sauce That Makes You Stupid, and it's ChatGPT.
Still image from The Amazing Digital Circus, Episode 4. An NPC speaks to Pomni from across the counter, saying, "I'd like to order the Stupid Burger." NPC continues, saying, "they forgot to add the sauce that makes you stupid." Pomni gives the NPC a wary look.
September 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#SIGNALIS #warhammer40K
"Where Laments the Bound and Bargained Soul" - Ch. 133

Wherein a Eule contemplates her role, a new High King consolidates power, and Rebecca Liang receives a dubious honor.

Link:
archiveofourown.org/works/540547...
September 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
Screenshot from Silksong, of Hornet's hunter's journal. Relevant passage: "To pair with another is a base instinct, and one that brings some bugs great joy. I once sought similar union, but of my own mates none could match my lifespan."
September 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
Caption reads: "SOCIAL MURDER is a term coined by Friedrich Engels in 1845 and used to describe murder committed by the political and social elite where they knowingly permit conditions to exists where the poorest and most vulnerable in society are deprived of the necessities of life and are placed in a position in which they cannot reasonably be expected to live and will inevitably meet and early and unnatural death."
September 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Reaction image of Kharn the Betrayer from Warhammer 40K. Caption reads: "LOL" said Kharn the Betrayer, "LMAO".
September 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
bluecho4.bsky.social
My haul from Smash Bash came today. Including Nick Borelli's book "Mold Mold Mold", one of (likely) Ana P's random freaks, and Miscast Trent's quartet of models (including the Permadeath one).
Photo of a book ("Mold Mold Mold" by Nick Borelli), and two open boxes containing metal miniatures.
September 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#SIGNALIS #warhammer40k
"Where Laments the Bound and Bargained Soul" - Ch. 131

"Traitors die ignominious deaths. Always."

Link:
archiveofourown.org/works/540547...
Illustration of a Callidus Assassin clinging to the faceplate of an Imperial Knight. From the cover of "Assassinorum: Kingmaker".
September 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#SIGNALIS #warhammer40K
"Where Laments the Bound and Bargained Soul" - Ch. 130

"And the man in the back said, 'Everyone Attack!'"

Link:
archiveofourown.org/works/540547...
Image of an Adamus Assassin, from Warhammer The Horus Heresy. A ninja looking dude in a black bodysuit, firing a combination bolter and needle gun, while reaching for a katana on his back.
August 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
bluecho4.bsky.social
#SIGNALIS #warhammer40k
"Where Laments the Bound and Bargained Soul" - Ch. 124

Wherein Elster et al. meet a King, a Prince has a blast from the past, and an unexpected delivery rumbles closer.

(Image Credit: "Pickle Ball" (2023) by Travis Chapman)

Link:
archiveofourown.org/works/540547...
"Pickle Ball" (2023), by Travis Chapman; oil painting. Depicts Victorian-style ballroom dance. Except all guests have pickle heads.
July 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM