Tom Pollard

@MarcusCVance Spatha.

Don't ask questions, just drop a type of sword in the comments. Doesn't matter if anyone has said it before. I'm doing a thing.

I finished this Dankhold Troggoth last week and took some photos today. Really pleased with how this one has come out, particularly the colours and base. #WarhammerCommunity #ageofsigmar #miniaturepainting

Still quite a bit to do, but I'm fairly happy with progress so far. #PaintingWarhammer #40K

Latest Red Corsair Raiders article on Patreon, including a wee rant about the Imperium's obsession with cloaks. #patreoncontent #PaintingMinis #RedCorsairs #40K patreon.com/posts/red-cors…

No idea why, but my gym workout was super hard today. Everything just felt harder than normal, and I had to put tonnes more effort into everything.

@opti_x @hy_wemmy Absolutely. When I started taking my fitness seriously I didn't have the money for the gym. I found a Calisthenics channel on YouTube and worked out in my living room. Yeah sure, food is expensive at the moment. But there's always something you can do.

@hy_wemmy YouTube + your house No need for gym. Just discipline. Plenty of YouTube channels out there with workout routines you can follow along with

I really can’t explain it but you need to be financially stable to be consistent in the gym.

If "Hollywood is cooked" then so is everyone peddling/making these kinds of AI videos. The natural sales funnel for something like this doesn't sustain itself with just "creators", especially when they are self cannibalizing their own skills. It's going to cut right to the end user. A monthly subscriber will type a prompt on their Disney Plus app "Action comedy, where Tom Cruise plays Iron Man and Sydney Sweeney is Black Widow"-- and they will get a full garbage movie on-demand that they can click play and watch after a five minute wait. And it's even more bleak than that. Because no one else will watch it. There will be no cultural conversation about it, no event, no interest, because everyone else who is lacking in taste will be making their own on demand nonsense. This is why it's very foolish for self-professed filmmakers to align themselves w this current marketing push from AI companies. They'll go down with the ship they are hitching a ride to, all while burning bridges with fellow creatives whose careers they ruined

I haven't plugged my Pinterest stuff for a while, so here it is, getting plugged. Loads of cool pictures and all it will cost is a wee bit of your time. uk.pinterest.com/WillboWorkshop/

There has been a lot of discussion about art and patronage here lately. I have strong opinions but let me say this. I have gathered three other people into a team to bring you the best non-academic essays relating to medieval history. Our goal is to pay authors to write for us. I would also like to pay the editors who are working with the authors to make sure our output is world-class. And we want to bring you a very high-quality print version before the year is out. All in service of revitalizing an interest and enthusiasm for medieval history. If you'd like to just subscribe for free, enjoy the essays, and comment/share, we will appreciate that. We want you to enjoy. While of course I appreciate yearly reader subscriptions, my goal is to find fifty people who can support this publication while we ramp up at the founder rate of $1,000 per year. Yes, that's $50,000 per year. Whether you are a casual reader or want to be a founding member, you can pledge at the substack (link in my bio) I will spend $11,000 over the next year on the authors who are writing for us. If I pay the editors at the same rate as the authors, that will be another $33,000. As you can see, this is not a get-rich-quick scheme for me but a project I believe in. Every day I see videos of OnlyFans or Crypto people who are raking in tens of millions. Surely there are fifty people out there who enjoy medieval history with plenty of resources who would like to support a noble project such as this? I guess we will see. Myself and the editors have put in the work on belief in the mission. Thank you for your support.

20 UK literary agents you can submit your novel to right now …ledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/02/20-uk-…

@MedievalScholar Absolutely, I'd read that.

Is this a book you guys would read? A compendium of some of the greatest warrior kings of the Middle Ages and their stories. Henry V, Richard I, Maximilian, Charles the Bold etc etc

Yep. One open tab, leads to another. Before you know it I'm on an epic journey of discovery that ends up with me reading about something totally unrelated to what I was looking for. Then I bookmark the tabs for later, then I forget about them.

Love this movie. Watched it so many times over the years. To my mind it's the best telling of Arthurian legend in film. The soundtrack was on point and kindled my interest in classical music. With a magnificent cast to boot, it's a classic.

@RetroMoviesDB Love this movie. Great visuals, soundtrack and cast. One of my all time favourite movies.

Excalibur (1981) Any fans?

Willbo's Workshop has a website. It went live yesterday and I don't mind admitting I've had a fair bit of anxiety about this post. It's quite modest at the moment, but there are a few busts that I've painted for sale there if you fancy taking a look. site-wmip2hvcn.godaddysites.com

New post on my Patreon, Willbo's Workshop. patreon.com/posts/willbos-…

New stuff on my Patreon. If you fancy a look, it's still super cheap, but there's some free content too. patreon.com/posts/tmnt-rap…

@2147mill To start. The number of people who never start for fear of losing their money is unreal. I can only imagine where I'd be now if I'd started in my twenties.

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Another bust, this time Cobra Commander. You'll find this and loads more on my Patreon. patreon.com/posts/cobra-co…

@idioticsynergy Might want to check out the indies. Alchemists Workshop still had 15 of them last I looked. alchemistsworkshops.com/product/kill-t…

Scalpers can rot in hell and I am aware that I could always 3d print the nightlords or something else but I was going to go halves on this box with a mate of mine but sod that plan I guess