CJ Shearwood

@cj.shearwood.games

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Wargamer, Software Engineer, Game & Miniature Designer, owner of @epigram.games, Mad Scientist. Blogs infrequently at https://improbable.solutions they/them, photo by Mark Hawkins for PyCon UK

A black and white Tuxedo cat named Tiamat getting scritches. She is purring loudly.
Eleven Bretonnian warhorses, with ivory and purple striped barding
Even more barded warhorses (five now) painted dark ivory with purple stripes. Two pegasi also have barding on their hindquarters, now also striped. Six more horses can be seen in the background, plus a pegasus off screen.
Three games workshop barded horses base coated in a dark ivory colour with purple stripes and a downward pointing purple triangle on the heraldic shields
A Bretonnian knight, mostly painted now. Riding a chestnut horse, with purple and cream diagonal striped barding, and a shield of a downward purple triangle on a cream field with a heraldic Pegasus.
A barded horse and an armoured knight. The barding is purple on white diagonal stripes (carried over to the knights tabard), and the heraldry is currently a downward pointing purple triangle.
Tiamat, a tuxedo cat, sat on a William Morris duvet cover, looking alert because I stopped petting her to take a photo.
Tiamat sat on a Warhammer bag on a titan box
Tiamat, a female tuxedo cat, sat on a sofa with a red blanket on it, looking at the camera.
A cannon, sitting in a naval carriage, sitting on a second larger wheeled carriage, with many plasticard additions.
Tiamat, a black and white cat, sat on a blanket next to a cushion on a sofa
An illustration of a cosmonaut brandishing a pistol on a dark brown background covered in stylised stars. At the top it reads "Epigram Games presents Able Artemis Playtest Pack" with the a modified Epigram Games logo (with a lunar lander in the place of the usual tank) and the new Able Artmeis logo featuring a smashed helmet.
A fortified manor tower with both renovations and a pitched tile roof, converted from the GW fantasy kit with a new roof and reusing the small shed as an extension. Additionally, the windows on the right hand side have been blocked in with mesh used to emulate leaded windows.
A miniature of a wildcat wearing a green cloak carrying a bronze sword.
11 small glass pots, filled with clear liquid
A black and white portion of a map of the moon with contour lines, and altitude markings on those contour lines.
Yours truly, trying no to look like they’re being held hostage, I’m front of my UKGE stand
My stand at UKGE
A chaos knight carrying a lance, to which is tied a skeleton. One arm is braced outward, to which two smaller penants are tied.
A spread showing a reaver titan and several closeup shots
A GW harlequin with a colourful diamond pattern jacket, a rainbow Mohawk and a blue power sword
An eldar falcon, mostly covered in coloured diamonds in a harlequin pattern
A GW eldar falcon turret, painted in a harlequin pattern on the turret body
Two wave serpents and a falcon on a messy desk.
Me! Stood behind the Epigram Games stand at Salute 53
O12 space cops from Infinity painted pink
A large pile of thin hardback books
A 3D render of several vehicles and turrets set up on sprues
A screenshot showing an order of the ringfort
A man and woman cover behind a small ruined wall and a shelled out tank as a large bipedial robot with a mace looks on menacingly.
A diorama of a beach defended by razor wire and bunkers being defended by a bunch of sand coloured tanks with chaos markings from a group of hover tanks supported by elfin infantry
A large model of the Zaku II from mobile suit gundam, painted in a brown and tan camo pattern
A 1:48 scale Zaku II kit, now fully textured and fully primed, with the mono-eye painted
A group of five armed vehicles, including two tanks, two scout cars and a large self-propelled gun
A large model kit of the Zaku II, partially assembled. Both feet and both shins, as well as the right thigh and all of the hip armour have been covered in a grey texture. The left thigh and the chest as well as the pile of spare parts in the bottom right of the picture are all still bare plastic.
Twenty eldar guardians, two support weapons, two on foot warlocks, five windriders, one jetbike warlock, one farseer, all primed grey
Three unpainted Warhammer 40,000 Eldar warlocks
A 1/48 scale Zaku II model kit on my bench, assembled but unpainted. It is large. Very large. Over a foot tall. One might say it's even a bigature.
Three Games Workshop Eldar Guardians, painted grey and orange in the scheme of Yme-Loc, with white weapons on a snowy base. The front guardian is carrying a shuriken catapult. The rear left guardian is carrying a fusion gun, which has a fiery red tip. The rear right guardian is carrying a sword and shuriken pistol, the sword is flaming. They are also not wearing a helmet.
Thirty six 6mm scale miniatures, three sets of twelve of (clockwise from bottom) eldar, renegade guard and mechanicum, all from Vanguard Miniatures
A group of Vanguard Miniatures Eloi Federation infantry, who are painted grey and orange with white guns. They are very much not eldar, why would you say such a thing?
A Christmas tree decorated with baubles and stuffed Pikachu toys in the theme of Christmas.
A group of very rusty chaos space marines
A 2 foot wide model of a shoreline with some sand, some dirt, and some patches of grass with two bunkers in the middle and the shoreline is dotted with sections of razor wire. The tide is a little way up the sand with white foam caps criss-crossing the water.
An IKEA Skäddis pegboard with mounts for paint pots. The paints are ordered thusly: Metallics, going from dark silver, through bronze, copper, gold to silver Back to white, then washes A zigzag of colours by hue, starting at red and continuing down three rows Skin tones and ivories Browns
A heavily converted GW Stompa
A heavily converted GW stompa, now mostly painted
A heavily converted GW Stompa
An image spread of a reaver titan, with various closeup images.
A model of a trench, with several unpainted plastic models of french and germain soldiers in it
A GW ork stompa with extensive modification: - The chainsaw arm has been replaced with a large circular saw. - The head has had its jaw replaced with the ram from the battlewagon, and the horns have been replaced with portholes. - The shoulder turret has been replaced with the battlewagon turrets, and the gun in the turret has been replaced with a zappa. - The gun arm has been extended signficantly, the main gun replaced with a zapper, the sub-guns have been rearranged. - The left shoulder has been replaced with part of the chest icon - A belly gun has been added
A GW ork stompa partially built but heavily converted. The right arm has had the chainsaw swapped for a gaunt circular saw, and the left arm has been lengthened so it is carrying the gun vertically. It also has a belly gun and a new jaw on its head.
Three Thallax on a spaceship, the thallax are very heavily damaged, showing the skulls behind the visors
It's a map of the moon, annotated with locations of moon bases (and the line of contact between the US and Soviets)
The whole game board, it's only 2ft by 2ft, and the miniatures are 10-15mm tall.
Another view of the game board, showing two more fireteams of marines next to a construction rover.
Photos of a game board, where two groups of cosmonauts attack some US marines guarding a half finished moon base constructed from a spent rocket stage.