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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

A photo of a wooden tabletop with a handful of cards on it (one for each of the three players). They have old Japanese-style illustrations on them, and the cards are named "Clown", "Soldier", "Wizard", "Priestess", etc.

We went over to @oysta@oysta.au's for some games this afternoon! First was Love Letter which was pretty simple but I quite enjoyed (and apparently there's a Cthulhu-themed version 😈), and second was Ra which is of the "auction" game mechanic variety and it turns out I don't like that type of game and am not good at it. 😅

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Posted on 23 November 2025, 19:46

A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain sitting attached together on my painting table. 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.

Right, the Tomb World terrain has been liberated from its sprues, next stop is priming!

The new connection method Games Workshop has for this terrain seems to be pretty improved over what they did for Into The Dark, I didn't do any filing or sanding for the Tomb World terrain here and everything has mostly fit together without issue.

(Necrons in the middle for scale.)

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Posted on 23 November 2025, 10:02

A selfie of me, a white man with a short red (and very rapidly greying) beard and short (and receeding) hair, sitting in front of the babby model of Roland's electronic drum kit range. Behind me are two people busily still playing music, one on bass guitar and the other on a full-size keyboard.

A photo of the MASSIVE Christmas tree in the middle of Martin Place in Sydney's CBD, it'd have to be at least two storeys high. There's a barrier around the bottom of it and a cherry picker part-way up it to the right. It's lit up though, primarily in tiny purple lights.

Jam session success! We mostly did improvisation and got some seriously excellent grooves going. I asked how my drumming was afterwards (one of the people there is actually in a band, though I have no idea how serious an endeavour it is) and they said "Really good!" 😁 Feels good, man.

And you can tell we're getting into Christmas season, the enormous Christmas tree in Martin Place is very nearly finished. We were out getting a coffee after lunch and there was a guy up in a cherry picker putting the huge balls on that were a significant fraction the height of him.

Also one of the people started playing the intro riff to Tool's Schism so now I'm listening to Lateralus on the trip home.

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Posted on 20 November 2025, 20:15

A photo of a rather mangy-looking sheep tucking into a big bunch of scraggly-looking bushes. Directly behind it is the wire fence at the front of the yard, and I'm probably all of a metre and a half or so away from the sheep.

On way in to the office today for a dentist appointment after work and hopefully also a jam session, and I came across a sheep that was really enjoying its nomming. It was just utterly unconcerned about me standing right next to it.

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Posted on 20 November 2025, 9:16

A photo of the full Hivestorm game board with all the terrain on it. It's 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.

A close-up shot of the rear of the largest piece of ruined building terrain. There's a solid-looking red metal door at the bottom that's been partially smashed in, and pipes snaking along the outside going up that are broken off in various places. It used to be a three-storey building but the first floor has been completely blown apart and has just a relatively small section of flooring still showing, and the second storey is barely enough for a single miniature to fit on. There's snow on all of the tops of the ruin.

A close-up of the middle of the board where theres some of the smaller scatter terrain. There are some pieces of wall (or possibly floor) that have been blown into the ground vertically that are providing cover, and the very battered top off a large metal vat sitting on top of a small mound of other pieces of ruin. Two of my all-women Astra Militarum squad are in the middle facing off against three hulking and disgusting-looking Plague Marines who are clad in pustulant green armour.

In what might be a new record for me, I have a set of Kill Team terrain finished in slightly over a year since I bought the box. 😅 This is all from the Hivestorm box, and I'm really happy with how the weathering came out. I used Dirty Down's rust effect for the first time for this, it required a little trial and error before I got it looking how I wanted, but on the bright side it was easy enough to reactivate with water and just re-do it where I didn't like how it first came out.

Big props to @RollleafD@dice.camp for the underlying drybrushing technique, and I can't claim credit for the snow idea because I saw that, uh, somewhere else online, but I think I did a pretty excellent job of it.

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Posted on 19 November 2025, 18:45

A photo taken looking down at the stage of the Sydney Opera House with Opeth playing. There is the guitar/vocalist, lead guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer, and hidden away there's also a keyboardist. It's lit with primarily lurid red lighting from behind the band and above, and there are some purple lights in the mix too.

THAT WAS SO GOOD. They played mostly either their older stuff (the heavier songs), and a few off their latest album (which is also on the heavier side of things), and I think there was one song from their proggy middle era right at the start. And they finished with Deliverance as is tradition, and fuck me that is a excellent song to end on.

I'd also forgotten how hilarious the frontman is, haha. I'll need to write up a blog post with some of his quotes, and I took a bunch of RAW photos I need to process tomorrow too.

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Posted on 17 November 2025, 23:40

A photo taken with the lights on looking in the same general direction as the last photo, but with the ultra-wide lens. There are quite angled seating boxes at the extreme left and right of the stage, and a bunch of people in seats in front of where I'm sitting. The ceiling has a geometric pattern going in towards the stage, and there are four massive slightly angled panels that are almost in the shape of a guitar pick way up above the stage.

Gotta say, the Sydney Opera House is a pretty neat venue inside. I also didn't realise they'd gotten rid of the doughnut things up near the ceiling!

(And I'm impressed that my internet connection is holding up fine despite how many people there are here.)

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Posted on 17 November 2025, 21:00

A photo taken looking down at the stage of the Sydney Opera House with a four-piece band playing. It's lit solely in blue lights from above and looks very moody.

I'm at the Opera House to see Opeth, first time I've seen them since 2013, and it's a pretty excellent view! (This is just the opening band, Caligula's Horse, but they're very good.)

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Posted on 17 November 2025, 20:23