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Ready for Spring Smile

@guysmile

Gamer, Streamer, Writer, Goof, but not always in that order Also I paint Miniatures Co-Owner of Otto & Smile Creations - oandscreations.com email - james@oandscreations.com

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Been bad about getting things posted here a couple that I finished recently. Rupert Thorne for the Batman TAS Board Game and a Skelly Warrior

28.02.2026 01:59 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Let the sunshine in... please?

#warframecaptura #warframe @de-danielle.bsky.social @tadacharly.bsky.social @taylorking.bsky.social

22.01.2026 16:31 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Remember folks 2026 is what we make of it.

I propose we make it into a fancy hat

31.12.2025 17:58 👍 38 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 0
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Finished out 2025 wrapping up 2 squads that have been lingering .... the priest for the Necromunda Redemptionists, and the last Shadow Assassin for the Batman TAS board game.

#finalmini2025 #miniaturepainting #tabletopgaming #nye #nye2025

31.12.2025 18:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Last mini of 2025

#miniaturepainting #dnd

31.12.2025 17:32 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Meant to post this earlier .... happy anniversary to my forever player 2 and my arch-nemesis @ottofyre.bsky.social ... I can't believe she's put up with me for *does math* ... wow ... yeah 27 years .... and I wouldn't trade her for the world

14.12.2025 22:30 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
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Calling the Deacon for the Redemptionists done

#Necromunda #warhammercomunity #minaturepainting #tabletopgames

15.11.2025 20:50 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Been a bit but I decided to post my latest #wip here .... haven't been painting much as time has been at a premium. Just some touch ups here and get the arms on before the final highlights ... maybe get him finished next weekend

13.10.2025 19:25 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Now for another Week In Progress. We rolled into October and with Fall in the air we have a new batch of minis.

Otto is also teaming up with Warframe to raise money for cancer research in the Quest to Conquer Cancer: tiltify.com/@ottofyre/fu...

#miniatures #miniaturepainting #tabletopgames #wip

10.10.2025 02:22 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Tiltify - Made for Fundraisers We give you the tools to engage with your donors and raise more for your charity

Go check out Ottofyre's fundraiser for The Princess Margaret Quest Presented by AMD on
@Tiltify
tiltify.com/@ottofyre/fu...

Our own @ottofyre.bsky.social is helping @warframe.com raise money to fight cancer. Any donation helps and together we can make a difference.

01.10.2025 15:30 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

As much as I would like to do this as well ... I have little faith that '26 will be better .... I hope to everything that is good in the world that I'm wrong but .... *sigh*

26.09.2025 13:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Annnd we're back and even on schedule this week! Otto's still working on the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood of Venice board game and has a few Reaper Miniatures done as well. She's also started work on a character figure for Warhammer Age of Sigmar.

#miniatures #miniaturepainting #wip #tabletopgames

25.09.2025 02:01 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Welcome back for another Week In Progress. Otto has been hard at work while I've been hardly working. Some more Assassin's Creed mounted guards and a fine selection of Reaper Miniatures with an aquatic theme.

#miniatures #miniaturepainting #reaperminiatures #wip #boardgames #tabletopgames

20.09.2025 03:24 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Welcome back (again) to the Week In Progress for 9/10/25. Otto has finished the Crossbowmen and started a unit of armored guards on horseback. And adding in some smaller one-off models.

Thanks for your patience as we get our ducks back in a row ...

#miniatures #miniaturepainting #wip #boardgames

11.09.2025 02:03 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Cathay lantern model on a castle

Cathay lantern model on a castle

Off to pick up guys in our thot air balloon 🎈
#WarhammerCommunity

09.09.2025 09:54 👍 155 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 0
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@warframe.com @paizo.com okay I'm ready for the Warframe crossover adventure coming up .... oh wait I still need to find friends and time to play ... 😉HYPE anyway

09.09.2025 14:00 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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14.08.2025 13:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We're back in the studio and here is the Week In Progress:

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice board game will be long project. So we're still getting some one off Reaper Miniatures done along the way.

#wip #wipwednesday #miniatures #miniaturepainting #smallbusiness

13.08.2025 17:31 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

To be honest ... more stuff like this actually would save the world....

13.08.2025 13:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also @warframe.com ... minis when? 😉

07.08.2025 17:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Time to learn a new system while I wait for the @warframe.com crossover adventure to drop in Oct ... paizo.com/starfinder/w...

07.08.2025 17:13 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Front view of the finished pride themed 'Scorpio' figure. It is sold by Scale75 as part of the 'Zodiac' model range. The character model is painted with brown skin, white hair and braid with a number of differently colored decorative beads, a pink and light blue scale armor painted in a irregular pattern (trans pride flag color theme) with three amber colored gemstones, dark teal and black patterned leather pants, a secondary worn out leather for belts and straps and lastly, the stippled tabbard fabric done in light pink, light blue and different, but also very bright grey tones in order to create a shimmering effect. The left hand weapon, a stinger-looking fistweapon also has been painted as scratched steel nmm, whereas the sword in his right hand is done in a rainbow color blend. The base piece is made up of one ground element with two broken off greek columns of different height behind and to the left and right of the model. The colums feature two freehanded grafittis, one being the trans symbol the other spelling "trans rights" in blue and pink color. Additionally I placed the four tiny scorpions that came with the kit, painted in black but each also having a different lgbtq+ pride flag on their bodies, and paired those up with four different tiny animal miniatures, one crab, a frog, a cat and a bird, which are painted based on real life references to sort of visualize non-lgbtq+ people connecting with people of the lgbtq+ community. In different ways and leading to different outcomes. I positioned it on a 10x10cm square plinth and photographed it in front of a black fabric background and placed my icon in the bottom left corner with low opacity settings. It was painted between june 7th and july 23rd during six 7-8 hour long streams and two 4 hour long streams. Accounting for the fact that the active painting times is between 3/4ths and half of those durations the rough summed up painting time adds up to about 35 hours.

Front view of the finished pride themed 'Scorpio' figure. It is sold by Scale75 as part of the 'Zodiac' model range. The character model is painted with brown skin, white hair and braid with a number of differently colored decorative beads, a pink and light blue scale armor painted in a irregular pattern (trans pride flag color theme) with three amber colored gemstones, dark teal and black patterned leather pants, a secondary worn out leather for belts and straps and lastly, the stippled tabbard fabric done in light pink, light blue and different, but also very bright grey tones in order to create a shimmering effect. The left hand weapon, a stinger-looking fistweapon also has been painted as scratched steel nmm, whereas the sword in his right hand is done in a rainbow color blend. The base piece is made up of one ground element with two broken off greek columns of different height behind and to the left and right of the model. The colums feature two freehanded grafittis, one being the trans symbol the other spelling "trans rights" in blue and pink color. Additionally I placed the four tiny scorpions that came with the kit, painted in black but each also having a different lgbtq+ pride flag on their bodies, and paired those up with four different tiny animal miniatures, one crab, a frog, a cat and a bird, which are painted based on real life references to sort of visualize non-lgbtq+ people connecting with people of the lgbtq+ community. In different ways and leading to different outcomes. I positioned it on a 10x10cm square plinth and photographed it in front of a black fabric background and placed my icon in the bottom left corner with low opacity settings. It was painted between june 7th and july 23rd during six 7-8 hour long streams and two 4 hour long streams. Accounting for the fact that the active painting times is between 3/4ths and half of those durations the rough summed up painting time adds up to about 35 hours.

Side view of the finished pride themed 'Scorpio' figure. It is sold by Scale75 as part of the 'Zodiac' model range. The character model is painted with brown skin, white hair and braid with a number of differently colored decorative beads, a pink and light blue scale armor painted in a irregular pattern (trans pride flag color theme) with three amber colored gemstones, dark teal and black patterned leather pants, a secondary worn out leather for belts and straps and lastly, the stippled tabbard fabric done in light pink, light blue and different, but also very bright grey tones in order to create a shimmering effect. The left hand weapon, a stinger-looking fistweapon also has been painted as scratched steel nmm, whereas the sword in his right hand is done in a rainbow color blend. The base piece is made up of one ground element with two broken off greek columns of different height behind and to the left and right of the model. Additionally I placed the four tiny scorpions that came with the kit, painted in black but each also having a different lgbtq+ pride flag on their bodies, and paired those up with four different tiny animal miniatures, one crab, a frog, a cat and a bird, which are painted based on real life references to sort of visualize non-lgbtq+ people connecting with people of the lgbtq+ community. In different ways and leading to different outcomes. I positioned it on a 10x10cm square plinth and photographed it in front of a black fabric background and placed a CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner on low opacity settings. (fyi: I usually use the black bg for finished pieces and the grey one for WIP updates) It was painted between june 7th and july 23rd during six 7-8 hour long streams and two 4 hour long streams. Accounting for the fact that the active painting times is between 3/4ths and half of those durations the rough summed up painting time adds up to about 35 hours.

Side view of the finished pride themed 'Scorpio' figure. It is sold by Scale75 as part of the 'Zodiac' model range. The character model is painted with brown skin, white hair and braid with a number of differently colored decorative beads, a pink and light blue scale armor painted in a irregular pattern (trans pride flag color theme) with three amber colored gemstones, dark teal and black patterned leather pants, a secondary worn out leather for belts and straps and lastly, the stippled tabbard fabric done in light pink, light blue and different, but also very bright grey tones in order to create a shimmering effect. The left hand weapon, a stinger-looking fistweapon also has been painted as scratched steel nmm, whereas the sword in his right hand is done in a rainbow color blend. The base piece is made up of one ground element with two broken off greek columns of different height behind and to the left and right of the model. Additionally I placed the four tiny scorpions that came with the kit, painted in black but each also having a different lgbtq+ pride flag on their bodies, and paired those up with four different tiny animal miniatures, one crab, a frog, a cat and a bird, which are painted based on real life references to sort of visualize non-lgbtq+ people connecting with people of the lgbtq+ community. In different ways and leading to different outcomes. I positioned it on a 10x10cm square plinth and photographed it in front of a black fabric background and placed a CryoCheese icon in the bottom left corner on low opacity settings. (fyi: I usually use the black bg for finished pieces and the grey one for WIP updates) It was painted between june 7th and july 23rd during six 7-8 hour long streams and two 4 hour long streams. Accounting for the fact that the active painting times is between 3/4ths and half of those durations the rough summed up painting time adds up to about 35 hours.

Side view of the finished pride themed 'Scorpio' figure. It is sold by Scale75 as part of the 'Zodiac' model range. The character model is painted with brown skin, white hair and braid with a number of differently colored decorative beads, a pink and light blue scale armor painted in a irregular pattern (trans pride flag color theme) with three amber colored gemstones, dark teal and black patterned leather pants, a secondary worn out leather for belts and straps and lastly, the stippled tabbard fabric done in light pink, light blue and different, but also very bright grey tones in order to create a shimmering effect. The left hand weapon, a stinger-looking fistweapon also has been painted as scratched steel nmm, whereas the sword in his right hand is done in a rainbow color blend. The base piece is made up of one ground element with two broken off greek columns of different height behind and to the left and right of the model. The colums feature two freehanded grafittis, one being the trans symbol the other spelling "trans rights" in blue and pink color. Additionally I placed the four tiny scorpions that came with the kit, painted in black but each also having a different lgbtq+ pride flag on their bodies, and paired those up with four different tiny animal miniatures, one crab, a frog, a cat and a bird, which are painted based on real life references to sort of visualize non-lgbtq+ people connecting with people of the lgbtq+ community. In different ways and leading to different outcomes. I positioned it on a 10x10cm square plinth and photographed it in front of a black fabric background and placed my icon in the bottom left corner with low opacity settings. It was painted between june 7th and july 23rd during six 7-8 hour long streams and two 4 hour long streams. Accounting for the fact that the active painting times is between 3/4ths and half of those durations the rough summed up painting time adds up to about 35 hours.

Side view of the finished pride themed 'Scorpio' figure. It is sold by Scale75 as part of the 'Zodiac' model range. The character model is painted with brown skin, white hair and braid with a number of differently colored decorative beads, a pink and light blue scale armor painted in a irregular pattern (trans pride flag color theme) with three amber colored gemstones, dark teal and black patterned leather pants, a secondary worn out leather for belts and straps and lastly, the stippled tabbard fabric done in light pink, light blue and different, but also very bright grey tones in order to create a shimmering effect. The left hand weapon, a stinger-looking fistweapon also has been painted as scratched steel nmm, whereas the sword in his right hand is done in a rainbow color blend. The base piece is made up of one ground element with two broken off greek columns of different height behind and to the left and right of the model. The colums feature two freehanded grafittis, one being the trans symbol the other spelling "trans rights" in blue and pink color. Additionally I placed the four tiny scorpions that came with the kit, painted in black but each also having a different lgbtq+ pride flag on their bodies, and paired those up with four different tiny animal miniatures, one crab, a frog, a cat and a bird, which are painted based on real life references to sort of visualize non-lgbtq+ people connecting with people of the lgbtq+ community. In different ways and leading to different outcomes. I positioned it on a 10x10cm square plinth and photographed it in front of a black fabric background and placed my icon in the bottom left corner with low opacity settings. It was painted between june 7th and july 23rd during six 7-8 hour long streams and two 4 hour long streams. Accounting for the fact that the active painting times is between 3/4ths and half of those durations the rough summed up painting time adds up to about 35 hours.

Back view of the finished pride themed 'Scorpio' figure. It is sold by Scale75 as part of the 'Zodiac' model range. The character model is painted with brown skin, white hair and braid with a number of differently colored decorative beads, a pink and light blue scale armor painted in a irregular pattern (trans pride flag color theme) with three amber colored gemstones, dark teal and black patterned leather pants, a secondary worn out leather for belts and straps and lastly, the stippled tabbard fabric done in light pink, light blue and different, but also very bright grey tones in order to create a shimmering effect. The left hand weapon, a stinger-looking fistweapon also has been painted as scratched steel nmm, whereas the sword in his right hand is done in a rainbow color blend. The base piece is made up of one ground element with two broken off greek columns of different height behind and to the left and right of the model. The left colum features a freehanded grafitti spelling "FCK NZS" with each letter being a different color of the rainbow. Additionally I placed the four tiny scorpions that came with the kit, painted in black but each also having a different lgbtq+ pride flag on their bodies, and paired those up with four different tiny animal miniatures, one crab, a frog, a cat and a bird, which are painted based on real life references to sort of visualize non-lgbtq+ people connecting with people of the lgbtq+ community. In different ways and leading to different outcomes. I positioned it on a 10x10cm square plinth and photographed it in front of a black fabric background and placed my icon in the bottom left corner with low opacity settings. It was painted between june 7th and july 23rd during six 7-8 hour long streams and two 4 hour long streams. Accounting for the fact that the active painting times is between 3/4ths and half of those durations the rough summed up painting time adds up to about 35 hours.

Back view of the finished pride themed 'Scorpio' figure. It is sold by Scale75 as part of the 'Zodiac' model range. The character model is painted with brown skin, white hair and braid with a number of differently colored decorative beads, a pink and light blue scale armor painted in a irregular pattern (trans pride flag color theme) with three amber colored gemstones, dark teal and black patterned leather pants, a secondary worn out leather for belts and straps and lastly, the stippled tabbard fabric done in light pink, light blue and different, but also very bright grey tones in order to create a shimmering effect. The left hand weapon, a stinger-looking fistweapon also has been painted as scratched steel nmm, whereas the sword in his right hand is done in a rainbow color blend. The base piece is made up of one ground element with two broken off greek columns of different height behind and to the left and right of the model. The left colum features a freehanded grafitti spelling "FCK NZS" with each letter being a different color of the rainbow. Additionally I placed the four tiny scorpions that came with the kit, painted in black but each also having a different lgbtq+ pride flag on their bodies, and paired those up with four different tiny animal miniatures, one crab, a frog, a cat and a bird, which are painted based on real life references to sort of visualize non-lgbtq+ people connecting with people of the lgbtq+ community. In different ways and leading to different outcomes. I positioned it on a 10x10cm square plinth and photographed it in front of a black fabric background and placed my icon in the bottom left corner with low opacity settings. It was painted between june 7th and july 23rd during six 7-8 hour long streams and two 4 hour long streams. Accounting for the fact that the active painting times is between 3/4ths and half of those durations the rough summed up painting time adds up to about 35 hours.

This years pride project is complete! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

In the final step I finished painting and decorating the base.
-> Close-ups below!

I'm so proud & happy of the result, fundraiser and how lovely everyone was through all of this! Tysm 🥰

#pride #transrights #miniature #scale75 #scorpio #figurepainting

25.07.2025 12:22 👍 77 🔁 21 💬 9 📌 0
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Three Brothers for a Redemptionist Necromunda gang I'm working on ... Space Marine NOT for scale ;)

26.07.2025 03:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As long as you had a nice time. <3

26.07.2025 03:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A little rainy today, but that isn't dampening the TennoCon hype!

#TennoCon #tennocon2025

17.07.2025 15:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@ottofyre.bsky.social is back with another Week In Progress - This week we have more Marvel United, some Batman: TAS and Assassin's Creed Board Game minis as well as some Reaper Miniatures models.

#tabletopgames #miniaturepainting #smallbusiness #boardgames

10.07.2025 18:24 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The first two of the six Shadow Assassins for the Batman: The Animated Series board game are done and ready to square off against The Batman for the League.

#BatmanTAS #boardgame #miniaturepainting #tabletopgames

07.07.2025 20:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Warframe | TennoConcert 2025 Rehearsals Sneak Peek - Watch Live on July 18!
Warframe | TennoConcert 2025 Rehearsals Sneak Peek - Watch Live on July 18! YouTube video by PlayWarframe

With less than a month to go before the first-ever TennoConcert on July 18, the Warframe band converges for final rehearsals!

With new arrangements of iconic Warframe music, Tenno won't want to miss this incredible show. youtu.be/q6HkwWNysl4

04.07.2025 19:05 👍 126 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 4

And as a business owner now ... he's right. No one is going to hand you anything, no one owes you anything. There is no chill, no real shortcuts ... blood, sweat, and tears are the cost ... you'll know you're an influencer when brands come to you, not the other way around.

26.06.2025 16:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

well your viewers really. But viewers only matter in quantity and reliability ... and to get that takes work.

My uncle told me when I was young and was impressed that he owned his own business 'you know the best part of owning your own business? YOU get to choose what 24/7 shift you work.' (2/3)

26.06.2025 16:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0