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A photo of the four elven miniatures that make up The Shadeborn warband from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. They're all in very dynamic poses, all lithe and mid-leap. The painting is a black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top angles of the miniature so it really gives a sense of depth as all of the lower surfaces are darker, as they would be if they were lit up directly from above.

The five Skaven from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. Skaven are sneaky, tricksy ratmen, and these ones are in very dynamic poses as well and look like they're about to attack. The bases are sculpted to look like they're lurking in a sewer, and the painting has been done in the same way as the Shadeborn: black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top so it looks like they're being lit from above.

Well, I'm not remotely confident enough to do actual painting with my airbrush, but I reckon I've got the hang of this zenithal highlighting thing.

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Posted on 23 June 2022, 21:58

A photo of the Pokit Pro box, showing the multimeter itself which looks like REALLY FAT pencil that tapers down and ends in a metal point. The body is dark grey and red. Next to it in clear plastic box is the Arduino starter which has a TON of components visible: resistors, LEDs, cables, a breadboard for connecting the components to, a couple of segmented LED displays, and more stuff visible under that that you can't make out.

Yaaaay, the "Pokit Pro" multimeter I backed back at the end of 2019 finally arrived! I got the one that comes with the Arduino starter kit and holy crap is there a lot more stuff in it than I was expecting. 😮

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Posted on 23 June 2022, 12:38

A photo of a big shiny black wooden board with stars painting on it, with two B-wings, two A-wings, and an X-wing on one side and a TIE Punisher, two TIE Interceptors, and three TIE Fighters on the other.

A photo mid-game close-up with a bunch of the ships all close together facing every which way.

Mid-week gaming was X-wing again, but this time we had TOO much stuff going on! Definitely need to tone it back for next time, fewer ships and fewer upgrades. We only got two rounds in, and nobody actually blew anyone up. It was pretty chaotic, but also fun. On the plus side, my newly-starred board looked fantastic. 😁

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Posted on 22 June 2022, 23:17

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 game board, with painted miniatures and shamefully unpainted terrain that looks like a junkyard on it. (...the terrain itself looks like a junkyard, the fact that it's shamefully unpainted is unrelated to this.)

Tonight's game of Kill Team went very differently from the first one a few weeks ago! I ended up absolutely thrashing the friend I was playing against, 8 victory points to 3, and we didn't end up playing the fourth turn because he was down to one single unit at the end of the third.

Though he kindly pointed out after the game that my deployment was very bad and he held back a bit from just totally destroying my troops on the first turn so it wouldn't be a lopsided game. 😅

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Posted on 21 June 2022, 19:33

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, and white fluffy clouds in the sky.

I came into the office today to pick up the last of the personal belongings I'd left here from March of 2020 and to play some more Kill Team after work, and man, the views from here never get old.

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Posted on 21 June 2022, 12:45

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog that has just one of his eyes visible and none of his body while he stares at me from around the entrance to our hallway.

Beanie is on two different types of anti-anxiety medicine, which thankfully he's very happy to have with a piece of cheese, no questions asked. He knows the sound of the pill box and cutter and the rustle of the plastic around the sliced cheese and normally he'll wander down from wherever he is and come and sit in the kitchen while I prepare it.

Occasionally though, he decides he's going to be extremely creepy and will stare at me with just one eye from around the corner.

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Posted on 19 June 2022, 20:33

A screenshot of a notification from my Apple Watch saying I hit a 1000-day move streak.

And now, I've just hit a 1000-day move streak on my Apple Watch! That's every single full day since I got my Watch at the end of September in 2019. 😁

(It's also a thousand fully-closed exercise rings, and will be a thousand fully-closed standing rings in two hours time as well.)

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Posted on 19 June 2022, 17:11

A photo of two slices of rustic-looking bread lying open-faced on a plate, covered in slices of tomato with cooked mushrooms on top and little chunks of cheddar cheese on top of that.

A photo of two cooling racks with small-ish round golden-brown cookies on top.

What a delicious day that was. Mushrooms cooked in sage, rosemary, and garlic with cooked tomatoes on my home-made bread, with sharp cheddar cheese sprinkled on top for lunch, then I made miso chocolate chip cookies this afternoon.

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Posted on 19 June 2022, 17:05

A photo of four Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. They're all regular human troops with big armour and various guns, but the stock male heads have been replaced with third-party female ones from a company called Statuesque Miniatures. The skin colour is very dark but with really nice subtle shading, and the one I called out with the goggles has them pulled up on her forehead. The goggles have a really nice shade going from very dark green down to a lighter green so it looks like they're some sort of futuristic night vision or something.

It took far too long, but the first four Scions of my converted all-women Kill Team squad are done! Absolutely stoked with how well they came out, in particular the faces as well as the goggles on the one second from the left.

There was absolutely no drybrushing on these at all, but given how much time drybrushing saves and the fact that I've got another nine of these to paint, I'm definitely going back to drybrushing for the larger areas because I want to actually get the rest of these finished some time in the next five years. 😛

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Posted on 19 June 2022, 16:13

A photo of a metal contraption that has a skewer through multiple pieces of delicious-looking lamb and is hanging the skewer vertically above a plate of chips.

A photo of a big wine glass except instead of wine it has vanilla bean ice cream that's been blended with Kahlua, and has two straws in it.

A photo of a pale bluey/purpley McLaren supercar parked in a normal-looking concrete underground carpark. It's very low and wide, and is extremely aerodynamic-looking.

We went for our belated fancy anniversary dinner tonight at Meat & Wine Co., the one that was meant to be on our actual wedding anniversary last week but was postponed due to sickness. I got the lamb skewer and chips and followed it up with a Dom Pedro with Kahlua, which is basically just an alcoholic thickshake, and it was gooooooood.

Also, there was a McLaren parked in the carpark. 😳

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Posted on 15 June 2022, 21:06