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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

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog with a harness and lead on, looking away from the camera along a tree-lined cycle path with grass on the right of it. This was a bit after 8am so the sun was relatively low and there's plenty of shadows being cast, and the whole photo has quite a warm feeling to it.

Our oven died last week, we had a guy out to fix it this morning and rather than having Beanie in the house barking the entire time and deafening everyone, I took him out for a nice leafy walk while it was being done. And bonus, by 8:30am I'd closed the exercise ring on my Apple Watch. 😛

lightroom beanie dog

Posted on 29 February 2024, 8:53

A photo looking down a hallway of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on a green blanket, staring directly at the camera.

Beanie has very carefully manoeuvred his blanket out of the office and into the middle of the hallway.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 26 February 2024, 21:30

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like a bunch of alley at night, plus a couple that look like the inside of buildings. There's four hero miniatures in the middle (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (two groups of three rat swarms and two groups of three bat swarms).

A photo of two painted miniatures standing next to each other, one is a heavily armoured warrior woman with short hair holding a large sword, and positively LOOMING over her is the Vargskyr, which is a massive hunched over demon/bat hybrid thing twice the height of the warrior, with red skin and brown fur down its arms. It has blood around its mouth and dripping from its claws and there's a pile of skulls on its base.

We continued our Warhammer Quest campaign today with @wobin by defeating the mighty Vargskyr!

It was a very interesting variation on the standard journeys: instead of the hostiles we faced being randomly selected from the encounter deck, we started out with all six corpse rats and all six dire bats, divided into two groups, plus the Vargskyr itself. The Vargskyr didn't start on the battlefield and they represented it striking stealthily from the shadows by making its activation involve rolling the D12 and whichever of the lychgates (the red door things on the edges of the tiles) was on the die, the hero closest to that would just straight up take a damage, no saving throw or anything. To actually get it to come out in order to damage it, you had to get to the "mysterious objects", which are the skeletons and the columns with the raven on top, at which point it'd pop out and absolutely wallop the hero that activated it, then vanish as soon as any damage was done to it, and you'd have to get to the next mysterious object, and so on.

It started out looking VERY rough, almost everyone was at half health quite quickly, but thankfully we were able to rally and once we got through the initial hostiles that started on the battlefield we had some very lucky rolling where the hostiles didn't respawn when it was their turn to activate. After that it was a case of getting enough damage onto the Vargskyr which we were able to do (and once all the mysterious objects were gone it'd remain on the battlefield so we could really wail on it).

So now we're all at Level 2, so there'll be more hostiles to face, and the Vargskyr will actually potentially come back as one of the hostiles drawn from the encounter deck when we play our next regular game! 😬

our house darkroom gaming games workshop warhammer quest

Posted on 24 February 2024, 21:07

A photo taken from the 28th floor of our office building looking out over Sydney's CBD. Lots of tall buildings, with shorter ones directly below. The sky is a lovely blue colour and what I think is North Sydney is distantly visible through a gap between two of the buildings.

Man, the view from our office never gets old. (Though I also thoroughly enjoy NOT be required to come in, I should point out.)

We had a team dinner tonight at Long Chim and it was absolutely spectacular, and lots of fun conversations with co-workers. A++ would team dinner again.

sydney work buildings

Posted on 22 February 2024, 20:38

A photo of a bunch of pastries and sweets (croissants, big cookies, etc.) sitting on an office desk.

I'm in the office today for a team event, we ordered in a bunch of pastry-type stuff for a celebration in the morning and were originally planning on going to the beach but changed that plan yesterday after seeing the weather. So we managed to get a reservation to go indoor go-karting, got on the train at Wynyard and weren't even at Town Hall when the organiser got a call from the go-karting place saying it was cancelled because they were flooded. >_<

work darkroom food

Posted on 20 February 2024, 13:52