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A photo taken from the 30th floor of our office building, looking west across Sydney and Darling Harbour. There's lots of buildings lower than us, it's all overcast and dreary-looking.

I went into the city today for an in-person farewell lunch for our intern, but it turns out she came down sick and couldn't make it. 😞 Completely miserable day too, cold and dreary and rainy. On the bright, the views are still decent and we got Schnitz for lunch!

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Posted on 11 July 2022, 15:20

A photo of the "Ferratonic Incinerator" terrain from Warhammer 40,000. It's a massive rusty-looking cylindrical furnace with a platform on top and a gantry that extends across to the right. There's all sorts of pipes and wires and controls all over the whole thing and it's borderline steampunk but also very industrial.

I decided to mix it up a bit and today completed one of the huge pieces of terrain that I got in the old Kill Team box back in 2019. Pretty pleased with how it came out, given I only started it last night! I think the trick is to ignore all the crazy fine detail and just do broad colours, and just pick out a few key details at the end.

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Posted on 9 July 2022, 23:29

A photo of six barricades that come up to about chest height on the miniature that's standing behind them. They're all segmented and gears and teethed tracks on the inside that makes it looks like they can be expanded or collapsed in width. They're all painted in brown and look like they're completely rusty.

That's the barricades done, and with that, all the small bits of the terrain! Next stop, the full size pieces.

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Posted on 7 July 2022, 22:13

A photo of an A3-sized piece panel of MDF wood with rounded corners and a textured graffiti-looking pattern on the front, with a large drybrush sitting on top of it (think almost a makeup brush, it's got big and soft bristles).

How's that for perfect timing, my texture pad and extra-large drybrush from Artis Opus just arrived, exactly when I'm about to start doing the larger Kill Team: Octarius terrain pieces!

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Posted on 7 July 2022, 11:43

Two pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box. They're both walls but EXTREMELY ramshackle made from scrap, like corrugated metal and panels and part what looks like the door from a vehicle and so on. It's all totally worn and rusted-out.

Another piece of scrap wall in the same fashion as the first, this one has what looks like part of a big tank (the container not the vehicle) and rather incongruously has several coloured lights strung along the top of the wall.

Got the scrap walls finished too! I tried doing some lighting effects with the globes, with varying degrees of success. This was a little bit more work than the last terrain bits, but not by too much, and it was mostly mucking around trying to get the globes looking decent.

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Posted on 6 July 2022, 21:07

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying upside-down with his legs in the air, on top of a green blanket.

(Extremely David Attenborough voice) And here we have the rare winter upside-down!

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Posted on 6 July 2022, 11:32

A photo of a big frying pan with absolutely chockers with what looks like bolognaise sauce with green beans and carrots in it, except it's actually not beef.

My department at work had another one of our quarterly "refresh days" (a free day off without having to use up a day of annual leave), so I spent part of the day putting in some seals to fix the last of the draughty doors, and another part making a huge serve of Quorn-based tomato pasta sauce to have for lunches. Tons of onion, tons of garlic. 👌🏻

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Posted on 4 July 2022, 17:52

A photo looking down at a the top of a mug of coffee, the foam in the top has what looks like a stylised ghost that looks like it's in motion.

I made a ghost in my coffee! Much better than my previous attempt at coffee art, though that's a very low bar.

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Posted on 4 July 2022, 16:14

A photo of three of the terrain scrap/junk piles from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box that came out in July last year and has remained shamefully unpainted until now. They're all just a jumble of pipes and scraps of metal and fans and fuel tank and gears and such, and all are brown and worn and rusty-looking.

Well, they're not going to win any awards, but I reckon that's a pretty decent result for about two and a half hours work. A friend pointed out that I should really just drybrush my damn Kill Team: Octarius terrain and get it over with, and it turns out he's not wrong! I'm going to wait to do the really large pieces until my extra-large drybrush arrives though.

(High Elf for scale.)

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Posted on 3 July 2022, 18:48

A photo of a thick slice of rye bread covered in smashed avocado with two poached eggs on one side and something that looks like corned beef (but isn't, I'm not entirely sure what it was but it was delicious) on the other, and hot chips sitting behind it.

Aw yeah, having a remote farewell lunch for our intern, I hit up our local café and it was goooooood.

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Posted on 1 July 2022, 12:24