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A photo of the start of our game of Kill Team. The terrain is all ruined industrial-looking concrete buildings with rusty pipes everywhere, and along the top of the ruins and in various spots down the sides there is snow that's fallen and collected so it looks extra desolate. Closest to the camera are my Corsair Voidscarred (think punk/pirate space elves) in elegant flowing fuchsia-coloured armour, and on the opposite side are the greenskinned orks. They're a very ramshackle bunch, wearing all sorts of differently-shaped armour that looks like it's been bashed together from whatever pieces of metal were available, and carrying weapons of very dubious quality.

It turns out that one of the people I play Kill Team in the office with actually lives just five minutes from us! So he came over today and we managed to get through a full game, my Corsair Voidscarred versus his Kommandos, and the Voidscarred actually won for once. 🎉 The final score was 11-7, I had five operatives left out of a starting total of nine, and the Kommandos only had their leader left out of a total of eleven.

Operative of the match definitely goes to my Starstorm Duellist Arendra Firewinter who accounted for three of the filthy Orks without getting killed herself (holy shit is her fusion pistol nasty). I also managed to position my Soul Weaver really well and she was able to heal my operatives on three separate occasions and give an extra APL on two. I'm sure I forgot a few things, but I think it was less than in the past, and I did remember the trick of charging into someone but not fighting them to completely negate the Rokkit Boy (he had to use both of his APL to fall back on one turn, then the next turn he was vaporised by Arendra's fusion pistol). This was also the first proper outing with my Hivestorm terrain and I'm absolutely stoked with how good it looked on the tabletop!

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Posted on 13 December 2025, 18:34

A photo of a bowl of ice cream, with Ice Magic, chopped up strawberries, and crushed peanuts on top.

At work for the past slightly under two weeks I've been drafted into getting the internal documentation for our new platform wrangled into a better state (where the current state is basically "it's been written by individual effort from a bunch of devs who've all been operating mostly independently and also the platform is changing almost week by week and nobody has had time to look at things with a customer-focused eye"). I'm pretty well known as The Documentation Guy and so bringing me in to help has been basically bringing in the big guns.

It's been really interesting and I'm learning lot, plus everyone is really nice and helpful and answers my endless questions, but man is it draining. So this is an extremely TGIF bowl of ice cream. One more week to go and then I have three weeks off and let me tell you I am very excited.

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Posted on 12 December 2025, 19:26

A photo of two of the wall pieces of the Tomb World terrain. The designs on the wall have a geometric alien-robotic look, and part of it is covered with cracked stone so it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath the stone. The stone is brown colour, and the alien-robotic walls are shaded white and grey, with white highlights, and really contrast with the crumbling stone. The right-hand piece is the one I'd previously finished, but the left-hand one has a cool almost Egyptian-feeling doorway in it where the top half of the doorway sides tilt inwards. It's got a big chunky door frame painted in dark green and the door has three gold-coloured Necron scarabs on its surface.

Wall piece number two is down, plus one of the connectors and a door! (And not pictured, another one of the "doors" that looks like a bunch of lightning).

I had briefly thought about painting Hexwraith Flame into the little gaps in the connector pieces to make it look like it was glowing but quickly decided that I cannot be fucked.

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Posted on 7 December 2025, 18:02

A photo of a big round table with the remnants of a bunch of food on it.

Aww yiss, yum cha with @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] (and another friend who isn't on the fedi anymore). 👌🏻

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Posted on 7 December 2025, 11:58

A photo of our little homebrewed outdoor/indoor temperature sensor dashboard showing that it's currently 44.4˚C outside (and a delightful 24˚C inside thanks to our air conditioning).

Okay this is ridiculous.

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Posted on 6 December 2025, 15:02

A photo of one of the wall pieces of the Tomb World terrain. The designs on the wall have a geometric alien-robotic look, and part of it is covered with cracked stone so it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath the stone. The stone is brown colour, and the alien-robotic walls are shaded white and grey, with white highlights, and really contrast with the crumbling stone. In the middle of the wall there's a misshapen section missing because there's another section that gets plugged in when you're playing and you can breach the wall at that point and blow it out, which means you need to take the missing piece out so it can act as a doorway.

SUCCESS!

The drybrushing didn't go as well as I'd hoped (it's already too light for it to really work), so I've had to manually highlight everything which means this is not going to be a quick project. 😅 But I'm really happy with how it's all come together. I really liked the hazard stripes above the doors on the top of my Into The Dark terrain as a really obvious way to highlight "HEY THERE'S A DOOR HERE, THE ENEMY MIGHT COME THROUGH IT" and I had been pondering how to do that here but without being yellow and black hazards stripes because that wouldn't really go. Turns out hazard stripes still work fine, you just need to theme them!

I'll need to tidy up the edges of the stripes and put a white highlight along the top wall edge, but these are going to look really sharp on the tabletop when I eventually get everything finished. I'm thinking I'll paint the Necrons themselves in a similar colour scheme as well.

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Posted on 4 December 2025, 21:47

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. There are three teams, at the bottom right are my six Angels of Death in their standard large Space Marine armour, painted in blood red with black trim. At the bottom left are more Space Marines, the five elite veterans of the Deathwatch team, which are in the same large armour but all black. Then finally at the top are the extremely alien Necrons of the Canoptek Circle, they're basically machines that are painted in silver and look like they're floating above the ground.

In the office for a game of Kill Team today! We did three-player, which I much prefer over 1v1 because I feel like there's less pressure since your opponents need to split their attention a bit.

It was the new Canoptek Circle and Deathwatch teams from the Tomb World box versus my Angels of Death, and unsurprisingly I came last, final score was 9-6-4 to the Necrons. The Necrons only got two victory points from objectives, everything else was from kills and their regenerating wounds is surely going to get nerfed in the next balance update because jesus christ. I got the leader down to 7 wounds (from a start of 14), and one of the Tomb Crawlers down to 9 (from a start of 21!) and both of them ended up healing all of the wounds later on. It's also worth noting that it ended up basically being the two Space Marine teams pincering into the middle towards the Necrons, so the Necrons were fighting on two fronts and they still ended up winning. The three Necron Warriors were annoying too because they don't count towards getting kills for victory points, and one of them comes back each turn if you kill them!

Granted, this wasn't helped by me forgetting my rules multiple times, and the Deathwatch having two melee operatives that did almost nothing the whole game. 😅 Still, it was overall a fun game though even though I lost horribly, there weren't any streaks of absolutely shockingly poor rolling for anyone.

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Posted on 1 December 2025, 21:16

A photo of ten serves of my Mexican lentil rice in individual tupperware containers. It's got rice, lentils, black beans, corn, and green beans in it, and there's some tomato paste and one of the spices is smoked paprika so it has a reddish hue.

A photo of an open-faced cheese and tomato toastie on two slices of my home-made bread. The cheese is golden-brown and looks delicious, and on top of the cheese is a bunch of chopped up capsicum. The bread is sitting on a white dinner plate.

A photo of fifty-four small round miso chocolate chip cookies sitting on two cooling racks.

The deliciousness continued today with a batch of my Mexican lentil rice for weekday leftovers, a toastie for lunch on my bread from yesterday, and then finally miso chocolate chip cookies to have with my afternoon coffee!

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Posted on 30 November 2025, 16:11

A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain bluetacked onto pieces of cardboard so I could airbrush the primer onto them. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves. The whole lot has been undercoated in black then a white applied from a high angle so it catches the tops of all the surfaces and fades down darker as it goes down.

Definitely making progress here, the terrain — sans the scatter pieces — has been primed and zenithalled (yes that's now a word)!

My plan is to drybrush some pure white to bring out the details a bit more, then hopefully I can get away with painting just the crumbling wall parts that are covering the Necron walls and I can leave the Necron walls themselves as they are, just with some details picked out, and it'll look cool and clean and futuristic behind the crumbling. I'm not sure how it'll work in practice, it might still look unfinished, I'll have to try a test piece first.

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Posted on 30 November 2025, 13:42

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread dusted with flour sitting on a cooling rack.

A photo of an outdoor table with various foods on it: sliced up steak, sausages, and several varieties of salads.

A photo of a light brown Cocker Spaniel (I think? I forgot to ask) sitting on a low lounge and partially atop a cushion.

Today has been a day of deliciousness, it started with bread and then we went over to a friend's place for a barbecue and got to hang out with their dog. 🎉 Then we finished off the barbecue with cake (not pictured), and I am very full right now.

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Posted on 29 November 2025, 21:51