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A photo of a very messy desk with an airbrush sitting on it, a piece of junkyard-looking terrain from Warhammer 40,000, all of which is being brightly lit from above by an long narrow LED light that's pointing downwards. The light is being held in place by a gooseneck phone holder that's attached to the side of the desk.

I've had my painting table inside because it's been mostly too hot in the back room to paint, but I need to do my airbrushing out there because I can't do it in the house, which in turn means I'm back to using the extremely dim LED side lamp when I'm airbrushing at night.

Solution: LED light from Bunnings held up with a phone holder that is far stronger than it has any right to be!

our house darkroom painting airbrush

Posted on 24 January 2023, 18:44

A photo of a beef burger with bacon, cheese, pickles, and lettuce on it, alongside a big pile of hot chips.

Treated myself to a burger and chips today, and what an excellent decision that was.

our house darkroom food portrait mode burger

Posted on 24 January 2023, 13:05

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying down on the pavers that are under our pergola. His head is up and he's staring directly at the camera.

Today is Beanie's tenth birthday!

@yayKM is in the office today, and whenever that's the case, rather than snoozing with us at the back of the house in our home office, he spends most of his time outside sniffing the breeze and listening to all the neighbourhood noises. He just absolutely does not care what I'm up to if @yayKM isn't home, heh.

lightroom beanie our house dog

Posted on 24 January 2023, 8:39

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side on a green blanket, which is hard against a bookshelf that has a printer and various books on it.

Having a snoozy afternoon. He sure does like his blanket.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 23 January 2023, 16:42

A photo of what looks like an old-style oil rig with the big weight that goes up and down. There's two tanks covered in metal plating of various colours with all sorts of pipes going everywhere, and it's all brown and rusty-looking.

I decided that I should really bite the bullet and actually get started on the large pieces of the Kill Team terrain from the Octarius box that I bought in the middle of 2021. Figured it'd be a good opportunity to actually try doing some airbrushing in a fashion other than a zenithal highlight base coat, and I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming out! I'm less worried about obviously sticking within the lines because a) it's terrain and I don't care nearly as much, and b) in this case it's Ork terrain which is completely ramshackle anyway.

It's weirdly shiny because I'm using Army Painter's "Strong Tone" shade paint, which is sort of like Citadel's washes but oil-based and far thicker, and for some reason they thought a glossy finish would be the go. Once it's dry (which takes a good 24-48 hours 😮) I'm going to give it a drybrushing with some gunmetal silver and then will hit it with a matte varnish to get rid of the shine, and I reckon it's going to look pretty tops.

our house darkroom kill team painting terrain airbrush octarius

Posted on 22 January 2023, 16:39

A photo looking out over Sydney CBD from the 29th floor of our office. Lots of tall buildings, and it's all cloudy and miserable-looking.

Four churros on a plate with a small saucer of dulche de leche.

Four black plastic human skulls sitting on a narrow shelf.

Aw yeah, in the office again for a team lunch! We went to Mejico, forgot to take photos of my mains but the churros were excellent. Also slightly unnerving to sit down on the toilet and have four black skulls staring at you.

sydney darkroom food buildings churros

Posted on 20 January 2023, 14:53

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side on a lounge. His body is at at 45-degree angle jammed between the back of the lounge and the armrest, and his neck is craned way back.

This... doesn't seem comfortable.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 19 January 2023, 23:41

A very large plate half covered in a thick brown sauce, with rice and sliced up fried chicken on the other side.

Yessss, Mikazuki again, this time with @wobin. Got the chicken katsu curry don and it was EPIC. I made the mistake of also getting the same Brussels sprouts as I got last time and it was far too much food and oh god I'm so full.

chatswood food portrait mode curry

Posted on 17 January 2023, 20:20

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying with his chin on top of an iPad that's open and sitting nearly vertically on a Magic Keyboard case.

Apparently an iPad is a comfortable place to put your head.

beanie our house dog darkroom beanie lying on or under things

Posted on 15 January 2023, 22:27

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 miniature, he's wearing dark green armour and is holding a shotgun in one hand and has a big knife in the other, with the pose implying he's about to use it. He's wearing industrial-looking goggles and looks mostly human except his skin is a very light purple and his skull is just... slightly too big. The base of the miniature looks like it's completely muddy and there's lots of dark green and brown grasses growing, and the mud is splattered up his legs.

Just finished the test miniature for my colour scheme for the Genestealer Cults squad for Kill Team I have. Pretty happy with how it came out, the usual thing with the GSC is that they're all wearing industrial gear so I wanted to do something different and so made it look like they're wading through a swamp instead. There's also a pool of gross-looking green swampy water at his feet but you can't really see it at this angle due to the grass. I'll have to make a point of not covering that up so much next time, oops.

our house warhammer 40k darkroom games workshop painting genestealer cults

Posted on 15 January 2023, 14:22