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A selfie of three people sitting around a dining table. There's me, a white man with a red beard and short brown hair, Pete, a white man with slightly longer brown hair and a much larger brown beard, and Kristina, a white woman with short brown hair. We're all smiling at the camera.

A photo of a big bowl of chicken katsu don sitting on top of rice. There's a small glass of sake just visible at the top of the frame.

Japanese for dinner with @[email protected]! Excellent food and excellent company, A++ would dinner again.

I got the chicken katsu don and have been thoroughly enjoying having sake with my Japanese dinners when I have them, it's such a nice accompaniment.

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Posted on 27 July 2023, 20:48

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. Closest to the camera are my forces, the Aeldari (think space elves) in elegant fuchsia-coloured armour, and facing them on the other side of the board are ten heavily-armoured human warrior women in black armour and red cloaks, all with striking white hair.

A close-up of one of the bits of action. One of my Aeldari, who has dark skin with a bald head and a cool top-knot ponytail thing going on and is wielding two nasty-looking pistols, is standing right between two of the Sisters of the Battle, while a third Sister looks on.

And after work, an introductory game of Kill Team for one of my co-workers! He'd never played before so we only got through two turns since I was explaining the rules as we went. Play of the match went to Adrenra Firewinter, my Starstorm Duellist, who ran into the teeth of the enemy and melted the enemy Sister with the meltagun and took the other one down to two wounds remaining. (She in turn was melted by the Sister Superior's combi-melta, but ah well.)

Next time I definitely need to remember to bring one of my own Compendium teams for introductory games though. Might be a good opportunity to break out the ol' Death Guard again.

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Posted on 26 July 2023, 20:37

A photo of painted four miniatures. Two are skeletons that have been clearly executed by hanging from fairly hastily-erected gallows but somewhat creepily they both have one arm up and are pointing at something. The bases look like dirt and have some greeny/brown grass tufts on them. The other two are crows that are standing on top of a ruined column, with a key hanging from their beaks. The bases of these look like some sort of yellow stone and have very dry-looking grass tufts on them.

Also finished tonight are the "mysterious object" markers. I used AK Interactive's "Neutral Earth" texture paint and just put a coat of Ratling Grime on it for the skeletons and Aggaros Dunes for the crows, and they came out looking vastly different despite being the same texture! (And I couldn't resist using some more of my tufts as well.)

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Posted on 25 July 2023, 21:53

A photo of four painted miniatures:
- A vampire hunter with the standard pointy hat and cool dark brown leather cloak holding a shotgun-looking thing, and with many wooden stakes about his person.
- A heavily-armoured warrior woman with white hair holding a large sword in front of her, with the head of a gryphon draped over her shoulders.
- A dwarf with steampunk-looking armour holding an axe and a steampunk-looking gun.
- A priest in long deep rich red robes with a black hood on and a big elaborate, uh... metallic thing on her back that a bunch of strips of fabric are hanging from. She holding a staff and has her hand out like she's about to cast a spell.

Next in my Warhammer Quest painting adventures, the first four heroes! I decided to paint the bases of these VERY differently from the hostiles so they're much more easily distinguishable when on the board. It doesn't really show through very well in this photo but I added the snow sparkle texture paint on top of the snow and it looks so good.

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer quest

Posted on 25 July 2023, 19:57

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 fantasy buildings. There's four hero miniatures at the top (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 four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (three skeletal warriors, three rat swarms, three bat swarms, and a lone vampire with a very long sword).

@yayKM and I played our first proper game of Warhammer Quest tonight! The miniatures were 95% painted (the heroes just need some finishing touches on their bases, and the "mysterious objects" weren't finished yet because I only started them this afternoon), and it looked great.

It was going to be just a "Get used to the rules" sort of game, but we played through a whole game and figured we might as well make it the first real game and we'll continue with the storyline next game. Unfortunately we didn't roll too well on the end-of-game event table and our heroes are all going to be starting the next game with one wound counter already because they were hurt fighting off the undead that were trying to overwhelm the airship that is our mobile base of operations.

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Posted on 23 July 2023, 23:00

A photo of a white non-binary person with black hair and white headphones on, holding a paintbrush and intently looking at the miniature they're painting. They're sitting at my painting table which has a wooden arch with LED strip lighting in the middle, and two levels of storage for my many many paint pots.

And now they asked if they could paint a miniature! I have a ton of primed-but-not-painted miniatures overall but not really that many spare ones as such, but they decided they liked the look of the Tyranid Warriors. I only have three which is exactly what I need for a fireteam in Kill Team, but realistically I’m not going to get around to painting them any time soon, so eh, it's for a good cause.

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Posted on 22 July 2023, 20:38

A photo of a white rectangular casserole dish with tuna mornay in it The top is covered in Panko breadcrumbs that have gone all golden and crispy and it looks amazing. (And it tasted amazing too.)

Awww yissss, made Nagi's tuna mornay with the sixteen year-old and it was GOOOOOOOOD.

I really need to look up how to make white sauce without it taking an eternity though, because jesus christ it was seriously half an hour of non-stop stirring and we ended up cheating and putting corn starch in anyway.

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Posted on 22 July 2023, 20:22

A selfie of me, a white man with an increasingly scruffy beard and brown hair. I'm smiling at the camera while a brown labradoodle is sitting with her butt and back legs on my lap, and a second tan one is mid-movement on my left.

Lovely to catch up with @ausfestivus today! One of his dogs spent most of the visit on me or attempting to get attention from me, including just straight-up using me as a seat.

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Posted on 16 July 2023, 17:25

A photo of ten miniatures from Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. We have three skeleton warriors with flowing red cloaks and battered and rusty looking armour, three bases of swarms of corpse rats all running over each other (some of them have their skulls visible and others have bits of innards visible), three bases of bat swarms (one is a dire bat and is huge and has a bloody mouth), and lastly the pièce de résistance of this group, a feral vampire with pale skin who's crouched on top of a ruined column. He's got a sword held out behind him like he's just sliced something in half, and the blood along the blade lends credence to that theory. His mouth is covered with blood as is the other hand that's on top of the column.

All of the bases are painted to look like they're in wet mud, and the dire bat and vampire both have pools of green swampy water as well.

That's the first batch of hostiles done! This is probably the fastest I've painted things for ages, but they came out looking pretty excellent nonetheless. Especially happy with the gross blood effects on the vampire in particular. 😁

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Posted on 13 July 2023, 22:22

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying upside-down with his legs in the air, on a tan-coloured lounge.

(Extremely David Attenborough voice) And here we have a magnificent example of the very rare lounge upside-down!

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Posted on 11 July 2023, 23:49