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A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of an inside of a ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style. On one side are ten heavily-armoured human warriors in light blue/grey armour, and on the other are VERY LARGE Space Marines in orange armour.

First game of Kill Team: Into The Dark! Heavy Intercessors vs. Astra Militarum Scions. Really enjoying this format, it was a hell of a close game, sadly I lost 6-7, mostly due to a couple of mistakes on my part.

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Posted on 26 January 2023, 17:07

Two pieces of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team terrain. They're parts of an Ork fort and look like they belong in a junk yard, the walls and platform on top are made up of a whole ton of pieces of metal scrap, like big plates, corrugated pieces, massive beams, there's a door in there, and a couple of empty gas cylinders. They're EXTREMELY ramshackle.

I wish I'd gotten onto this airbrushing thing earlier. It's SO much faster to paint terrain, I'm actually going to finish all of the Kill Team stuff from Octarius! These aren't finished yet, but there's two more identical pieces to go, then it'll just need a splash of colour, a coat of quickshade and then some drybrushing, and it'll be 100% done.

And then I might even try to make a dent in the Sector Mechanicus terrain from my old Kill Team starter box from 2019 that I've assembled and undercoated and then done absolutely nothing else with. 😮

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Posted on 25 January 2023, 22:05

A photo taken from my point of view of a small scruffy blonde dog that's wedged himself into the very small gap between my leg and the arm of the lounge. There's a laptop on my lap and his head is resting up on the arm of the lounge.

Beanie does NOT like this thunderstorm, he's currently extremely wedged next to me on the lounge even though it's far too warm for wedging. On the bright side, he seems to be calm and isn't panting or shaking anymore, so that's good.

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Posted on 24 January 2023, 21:28

A photo of a very messy desk with an airbrush sitting on it, a piece of junkyard-looking terrain from Warhammer 40,000, all of which is being brightly lit from above by an long narrow LED light that's pointing downwards. The light is being held in place by a gooseneck phone holder that's attached to the side of the desk.

I've had my painting table inside because it's been mostly too hot in the back room to paint, but I need to do my airbrushing out there because I can't do it in the house, which in turn means I'm back to using the extremely dim LED side lamp when I'm airbrushing at night.

Solution: LED light from Bunnings held up with a phone holder that is far stronger than it has any right to be!

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Posted on 24 January 2023, 18:44

A photo of a beef burger with bacon, cheese, pickles, and lettuce on it, alongside a big pile of hot chips.

Treated myself to a burger and chips today, and what an excellent decision that was.

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Posted on 24 January 2023, 13:05

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side on a green blanket, which is hard against a bookshelf that has a printer and various books on it.

Having a snoozy afternoon. He sure does like his blanket.

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Posted on 23 January 2023, 16:42

A photo of what looks like an old-style oil rig with the big weight that goes up and down. There's two tanks covered in metal plating of various colours with all sorts of pipes going everywhere, and it's all brown and rusty-looking.

I decided that I should really bite the bullet and actually get started on the large pieces of the Kill Team terrain from the Octarius box that I bought in the middle of 2021. Figured it'd be a good opportunity to actually try doing some airbrushing in a fashion other than a zenithal highlight base coat, and I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming out! I'm less worried about obviously sticking within the lines because a) it's terrain and I don't care nearly as much, and b) in this case it's Ork terrain which is completely ramshackle anyway.

It's weirdly shiny because I'm using Army Painter's "Strong Tone" shade paint, which is sort of like Citadel's washes but oil-based and far thicker, and for some reason they thought a glossy finish would be the go. Once it's dry (which takes a good 24-48 hours 😮) I'm going to give it a drybrushing with some gunmetal silver and then will hit it with a matte varnish to get rid of the shine, and I reckon it's going to look pretty tops.

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Posted on 22 January 2023, 16:39

A photo looking out over Sydney CBD from the 29th floor of our office. Lots of tall buildings, and it's all cloudy and miserable-looking.

Four churros on a plate with a small saucer of dulche de leche.

Four black plastic human skulls sitting on a narrow shelf.

Aw yeah, in the office again for a team lunch! We went to Mejico, forgot to take photos of my mains but the churros were excellent. Also slightly unnerving to sit down on the toilet and have four black skulls staring at you.

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Posted on 20 January 2023, 14:53

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side on a lounge. His body is at at 45-degree angle jammed between the back of the lounge and the armrest, and his neck is craned way back.

This... doesn't seem comfortable.

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Posted on 19 January 2023, 23:41

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying with his chin on top of an iPad that's open and sitting nearly vertically on a Magic Keyboard case.

Apparently an iPad is a comfortable place to put your head.

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Posted on 15 January 2023, 22:27