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A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying completely upside-down, with the top of his head against the carpet.

Current Beanie status: melted.

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Posted on 16 January 2024, 11:38

A selfie of me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair, and my friend, a darker-skinned man with short hair wearing a collared shirt. I'm holding my bass guitar (though you can't see much of it beyond the neck strap), and my friend is holding a black electric guitar. We're both smiling at the camera.

A photo of a big white dish with smoked pulled pork in it that's been all pulled apart. There's an absolutely magnificent-looking pink smoke ring in the pieces of meat.

Awww yeah, had a friend over for music and pulled pork today! Haven't lost the knack, the pork was in for a bit under seven hours and came out gooooooood. I also didn't realise that it'd been an entire year since I'd last used the smoker, oops. Related, I am EXTREMELY full right now.

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Posted on 13 January 2024, 21:27

A photo of two miniatures side-by-side. One is a standard human-sized skeleton warrior, the other is an ogre who is head and shoulders taller than the skeleton. The ogre is wearing chainmail and a big helmet that leaves his face exposed, and has a big mace held out in one hand behind him like he's either about to hit something or has just finished doing a big backhand swing with it. In his other hand is clenched a big blade that's attached to a leather glove and that arm looks like he's about to stab someone with it.

And the final hero is completed, say hello to Brutogg Corpse-Eater! (As before, skeleton for scale.)

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Posted on 9 January 2024, 20:23

A photo of an aristocratic-looking miniature mid-stride. He's got a magnificent beard and mustache that's curled up at the ends, plus a long top-knot of hair and the rest of his head is bald. He's holding a steampunk-looking pistol upright and has a red jacket edged with white fur billowing out behind him, and his other hand is on the pommel of his sword. His robe thing is lined with armour plates and he's wearing an armoured chestpiece as well.

Glaurio ven Alten III is ready to avenge his family's deaths! One more hero to go (who is actually mostly done but the base texture paint is currently drying) and I'll have the full eight completed, woot.

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Posted on 7 January 2024, 21:06

A photo of two painted miniatures. One is a wizened old man with an EXTRAORDINARILY long and thin beard that reaches down to the ground, wearing a black cloak and carrying several large books along with a tall wooden staff. Standing next to him is a lithe wood elf all dressed in greens and browns with a pair of antlers on her head. She's in the middle of aiming a bow an arrow and is simultaneously launching herself off a broken piece of stone on the ground. There's snow at the base of the stone and next to it, but the left half of the base is rich earth with grass tufts on it.

Qulathis the Exile is now finished, and I've done Octren Glimscry too! I'm particularly happy with how the base for Qulathis came out. I've been putting snowy bases on all the heroes to make them REALLY stand out on the board compared to the hostiles (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2443), but given Qulathis is a wood elf and is all done in greens and browns like you'd expect, it felt sort of weird for her to be on a fully snowy base, so I decided to split the difference and have partially half-melted snow instead. I think it gets the point across, and looks terrific to boot.

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Posted on 5 January 2024, 18:29

A photo of a very large combination demon/bat monster thing. It's hard to describe but it's got red leathery-looking skin like a demon, brown fur on various parts of its body, and running along the inside of its arms are what look like vestigial wings. It's face looks like a bat and the whole thing is hunched over, and it's standing next to a normal-sized skeleton warrior that is less than half its height, even crouched like it is. On the base is a pile of skulls, mostly humanoid but with a very large ogre skull sitting in the middle of the pile. Its face and hands are covered in blood.

Standing next to it is a partially-painted lithe wood elf all dressed in greens and browns with a pair of antlers on her head. She's in the middle of aiming a bow an arrow and is simultaneously launching herself off a broken piece of stone on the ground.

The big lad is done! I added some extra highlighting to his face and the highest points on his body, and of course no self-respecting bat-demon-thing would be complete without some blood effects. Plus, I started Qulathis the Exile, one of the other heroes, before dinner and have made this much progress on her already.

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Posted on 2 January 2024, 22:18

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting in the back seat of a car. His lip is slightly stuck so it looks like he's smirking.

This is the face of someone who was SUCH a good boy at the vet that they didn't even need to sedate him at all to give him his chemo drip.

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Posted on 2 January 2024, 16:48

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting on a lounge watching the fireworks go off on the Sydney Harbour Bridge on TV.

Happy New Year from Sydney, fediverse! Beanie was enjoying watching the fireworks on TV.

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Posted on 1 January 2024, 0:19

FINALLY did some more painting tonight! I'm working on the Vargskyr from Warhammer Quest, the huge bat/demon thing that's the first of the big bads we need to kill in the campaign and I want to make sure it's actually properly painted before we kill it. 😅 The Vargskyr itself is done, I just need to do the basing for it. I'm making good use of the box of skulls I got for Christmas to make a much more interesting-looking base, and I've included one of the skeleton warriors to give a sense of scale of just how enormous this thing actually is. I also didn't realise I hadn't done any of the Warhammer Quest miniatures since August. 😬 Just haven't been in the painting headspace I guess, but hopefully this'll get me back.

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Posted on 30 December 2023, 22:17

A photo taken from my perspective looking straight down towards the floor. I'm standing in front of the kitchen counter where there's a partially sliced round loaf of bread on the cutting board, and standing right by my feet looking directly upwards is a very hopeful-looking small scruffy blonde dog.

The SECOND I start cutting into the bread, Beanie is over like a shot waiting for fallout and the inevitably scrappy end piece I give him. Related, my kingdom for some sort of household-sized automatic bread slicing machine like Coles and Woolies have in their bakeries.

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Posted on 28 December 2023, 12:24