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A photo of three undercoated but otherwise mostly unpainted miniatures, on the left is a positively huge Kosargi Night Guard, he's a hulking zombie-looking brute with rotting skin and wearing a torn-up knee-length cloak and a Mongolian-style fur hat. He's got a big long beard and is holding an absolutely massive axe. Next to him are the two Vyrkos Bloodborn vampires that aren't quite fully (or formerly) human because they've got clawed feet and one has fur on his thighs. The left one is holding onto the top of an (actually painted) ruined stone column with one hand and dangling off the side with his feet holding onto the column and he's holding a long thin sword. The other one is crouched low mid-sprint with one hand held out in front of her like she's about to grab someone's throat and her other hand is out behind her also holding a long thin sword.

I have started painting more of my Warhammer Quest miniatures (for the first time since January last year, oops)! 🎉

One of the friends I play Kill Team with on Sunday nights suggested we could do a "hobby and hang" over video call, and it was such a good idea, we had a good hour and a half chatting and painting, and I've made some progress on the two remaining Vyrkos Bloodborn (plus a tiny amount on the Kosargi Nightguard).

Posted on 20 July 2025, 22:00

A photo of a white dinner plate with two amazingly-delicious looking fried fillets of salmon that are crispy around the edges, sitting next to long-grain rice and sliced green beans.

Oh man, for dinner tonight @[email protected] did Ama-Shiozake (Japanese brined salmon) and it was EPIC! (Not pictured: the sriracha we added to it, which IMO is a requirement.)

our house darkroom food portrait mode salmon

Posted on 19 July 2025, 19:46

A photo of the inside of the music store Manny's, with rows and rows of shiny and differently-coloured guitars mounted on the walls.

We caught the Metro to Crows Nest today to drop two of my guitars off at Manny's for a restringing and full setup. Had coffee with @[email protected] then went back via Manny's again to ogle guitars. I also had a play on one of the serious business Roland V-Drums electronic drum kits that's fully five times the price of my one, and while it's neat I think it would take someone of significantly higher skill than me to actually warrant paying such a huge sum for it. 😅

darkroom crows nest guitar

Posted on 12 July 2025, 15:35

A wide-angle photo taking looking west over Sydney from our 30th floor office. There are a couple of buildings that are taller over to the right of frame but it's otherwise a straight view out west, with shorter but still tall office buildings close to ours then tapering down the further out you get. The sky is mostly blue but with fluffy clouds out in the distance towards the horizon. The sun is just in frame at the top-right.

In the office today for an after work team dinner, and while it looks very #GloriousSydney out there, holy shit is it windy. I'm sitting on the 30th floor and can hear the wind periodically blowing a gale out there.

darkroom buildings in the office

Posted on 10 July 2025, 15:02

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. Left of frame are the six hulking and putrid Plague Marines in large sci-fi-looking dull green amour with all sorts of tentacles and demon faces coming out of the armour. At the right are the extremely ramshackle-looking green Orks of the Wrecka Krew, all with mismatched armour plating on various parts of their bodies and holding all sorts of ridiculously oversized weapons.

In the office for Kill Team tonight, my Plague Marines versus the Ork Wrecka Krew, and despite a decent start it ended up completely falling over in a heap and we called it at the start of turn 3 when the score was 7-3 to the Orks and I was going to be completely unable to score anything more. 😞 I think I need to go back to my Angels of Death, I just cannot for the life of me keep everything they can do in my head and I'm constantly forgetting their rules. The Angels of Death are more self-contained, where each individual operative doesn't need to interact too much with the others.

darkroom gaming kill team games workshop death guard orks in the office

Posted on 7 July 2025, 17:53

A photo of a rainbow lorikeet sitting in amongst the leaves and branches of a big tree.

I am unreasonably excited to have spotted a rainbow lorikeet hanging out in the big tree in our backyard! They're such lovely birds and we don't see them around here. It was chirping away another one that I couldn't see.

our house darkroom birds

Posted on 23 June 2025, 13:38

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There's four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus two groups of hostile miniatures: two lithe vampires and three shambling zombies.

A photo of our four hero miniatures standing next to and being positively LOOMED over by the Vargskyr, which is a massive hunched over demon/bat hybrid thing twice the height of the heroes, with red skin and brown fur down its arms. It has blood around its mouth and dripping from its claws and there's a pile of skulls on its base. In the distance across several board sections there are a group of rat swarms and another group of bat swarms ready to overwhelm us.

We had @[email protected] over today to finally continue our Warhammer Quest adventure! This time it was the first half of the next Kill The Big Bad journey, it was pretty smooth sailing compared to some of our previous efforts and we managed to stay ahead of the suffocating gravetide without too much issue. Plus we even took down the mighty Vargskyr before got a chance to attack us when it showed up!

All four heroes are inspired and ready for the second half next time, which I expect is going to be quite nasty: the target is Gorslav the Gravekeeper and he'll be accompanied by all ten of the zombie miniatures that come in the Cursed City box, plus a batch of corpse rats and a batch of bat swarms. Gorslav has a number of nasty abilities and can bring zombies back after you've killed them, so it's going to be hectic.

our house darkroom gaming games workshop warhammer quest

Posted on 21 June 2025, 21:01

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, sitting on a cooling rack. There's a magnificent split along the top of both of them and I can confirm they taste as good as they look.

Yissss.

our house darkroom food portrait mode bread

Posted on 8 June 2025, 16:26

A view looking down a path between a good six or seven blocks of four- and five-storey units on either side, plus another one in the distance at the end. The sky is completely blue, and there's at least a bit of greenery along the sides of the path.

A photo looking across into the middle of a sports field where there is a cricket pitch set up and a number of players conferring in the middle. Beyond them is the sports field building which presumably has the toilets and I guess some sort of canteen in it, and just peeking out over the top of that building are the tops of the roofs of the houses beyond.

We went for a big walk this afternoon, you couldn't have asked for better weather. We went up towards the new areas they're building closer to the train station, there are SO MANY unit blocks going up, this all used to be farmland. At least there are a decent amount of trees, and we also stumbled across a big sports field nestled away where there was a very intense game of cricket going on!

schofields darkroom people buildings cricket

Posted on 1 June 2025, 15:28

A very wide angle panorama photo of a bunch of people sitting around a table in a pub, smiling at the camera.

Most excellent fedimeet! It was great to see @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected] again, and to meet @[email protected] (who won't actually see this toot because I have mastodon.social blocked on this instance, haha).

sydney kristina darkroom friends fediverse meet

Posted on 28 May 2025, 20:58