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A photo of a grassy area surrounded by trees, mostly Australian natives. The sky has just lightly overcast and the light is getting on towards sunset so it's fairly soft.

My left arm is definitely feeling sore now where the jab was so I figured doing my usual elliptical wouldn't be a great idea. Fortunately it's absolutely glorious outside now so I went for a walk amongst the greenery and it was a delight.

darkroom trees

Posted on 11 March 2024, 18:25

A photo of me, a white man with short brown hair wearing a mask.

It's yer man, me, with his shiny new bivalent COVID booster!

selfie me portrait mode covid stanhope

Posted on 11 March 2024, 11:59

A photo of a crêpe on a large plate, the edges of it have been folded over and inside is bacon, sliced potatoes, mushrooms, and a nicely runny egg on top. It looks delicious and was even better than it looks.

We went down to the Southern Highlands today to meet up with @[email protected] for lunch at this fancy this crêpe place. Excellent food and conversation, A++ would crêpe again. I also realised that until today, I'd never actually had a crêpe before.

food portrait mode bowral crepe

Posted on 10 March 2024, 18:21

A photo of Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors. They're all wearing standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads, the Assault Intercessors all look like they're mid-stride and are wielding got pistols and chainswords, and one has a grenade in her hand and looks like she's about to lob it. The other three are holding big boltguns, two look like they're in the middle of firing and the third had hers held upright in one hand while she points commandingly with the other. None of them have helmets and they've all got either mohawks or very short cropped hair and various cybernetic implants.

Making slow but steady progress on my Intercession ladies. The bit that's REALLY going to slow me down is when I get to doing the edge highlighting on their armour. 😬

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting space marines

Posted on 9 March 2024, 17:25

I got myself a vortex mixer, no more shaking paint pots like some sort of barbarian! You push the paint pot down into the middle of the blue silicon on the top of it and SOMETHING inside it apparently goes at 3000rpm and it generates a vortex inside the pot and mixes the paint. It's moving so quickly I can't actually tell what sort of movement it's making. It works incredibly well, though my hand feels weird afterwards from the vibration. 😛 It's pretty small but SURPRISINGLY heavy given its size.

our house darkroom painting

Posted on 9 March 2024, 14:13

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, sitting on a cooling rack.

Starting the weekend off deliciously. 😎

our house darkroom food portrait mode bread

Posted on 9 March 2024, 11:16

A photo of the three measuring gauges from Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. One is long and thin with stylised skulls and a red pentagon. The other two are two halves of an isosceles trapezoid with a white circle, blue square, and black triangle on three of their edges, and half of a large skull with a knife under it on either side. All three pieces fade from a dark metallic blue to a bright copper colour, on the dark blue side I've added rust pigment so it looks like it's been rusting, and on the copper side I added a verdigris effect.

The same three combat gauges as before, but without the rust and verdigris effects.

The "barricades" from the Into The Dark set. Instead of being actual barricades like in the original Octarius release of Kill Team, they consist of four stacks of large ammo crates, two things that look like a portable generator/engine on wheels, and two sets of what look like propane tanks and big lead battery type things. They're all dark and silvery.

With my week-long cold I unfortunately didn't manage to get much miniature painting done at all, but I DID paint up my second batch of combat gauges to match my Into The Dark terrain, with a dirtied-up rusted side and a clean side. Weirdly, on the dirty side where I did the rust pigment I actually went a bit too heavy-handed with the matte varnish and it actually dried white in places (or maybe it reacted with the pigment or something? All I know is that I didn't have this same problem when doing my actual ITD terrain) but it's totally worked fine anyway and just added some extra wear! I also made the ITD "barricades" look at least somewhat better with the application of some airbrushed silver, a dunk in The Army Painter's "Dark Tone", and some drybrushing.

our house darkroom kill team painting terrain into the dark

Posted on 3 March 2024, 19:17

Beepy Doof

And the finished product! (Full disclosure, this was done by way of Logic Pro's Live Loops and recording the performances as I switched scenes. The only instrument I'm actually playing here is the bass guitar, I used the keyboard to noodle around with initially and get a melody but put it into Logic Pro's step sequencer once I'd figured it out, and while I did a lot of tweaking to the drums to get them sounding how I wanted, they're ultimately the "Drummer" track.) Even with the caveats above, I'm super-happy with this one. As I was listening to it and fiddling, I realised I needed a "simple" and "complex" version of the melody so there was a bit more variation during the song, and I'm ALWAYS a sucker for a song with good build-up.

music audio bass guitar

Posted on 3 March 2024, 11:50

A photo taken from my perspective looking down towards my lap, I'm sitting in a single seat lounge chair with my legs reclined. On my lap is the novel Dune Messiah and wedged next to me between my left thigh and the arm of the chair is a small scruffy blonde dog.

And now it's time for some reading!

beanie books our house dog darkroom

Posted on 2 March 2024, 21:11

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with a bass guitar sitting to the left of the desk, a MIDI keyboard on the desk, and Logic Pro showing on the main display.

Yisssss.

our house music darkroom bass guitar

Posted on 2 March 2024, 19:39