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A photo of our little homebrewed outdoor/indoor temperature sensor dashboard showing that it's currently 44.4˚C outside (and a delightful 24˚C inside thanks to our air conditioning).

Okay this is ridiculous.

Posted on 6 December 2025, 15:02

A photo of one of the wall pieces of the Tomb World terrain. The designs on the wall have a geometric alien-robotic look, and part of it is covered with cracked stone so it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath the stone. The stone is brown colour, and the alien-robotic walls are shaded white and grey, with white highlights, and really contrast with the crumbling stone. In the middle of the wall there's a misshapen section missing because there's another section that gets plugged in when you're playing and you can breach the wall at that point and blow it out, which means you need to take the missing piece out so it can act as a doorway.

SUCCESS!

The drybrushing didn't go as well as I'd hoped (it's already too light for it to really work), so I've had to manually highlight everything which means this is not going to be a quick project. 😅 But I'm really happy with how it's all come together. I really liked the hazard stripes above the doors on the top of my Into The Dark terrain as a really obvious way to highlight "HEY THERE'S A DOOR HERE, THE ENEMY MIGHT COME THROUGH IT" and I had been pondering how to do that here but without being yellow and black hazards stripes because that wouldn't really go. Turns out hazard stripes still work fine, you just need to theme them!

I'll need to tidy up the edges of the stripes and put a white highlight along the top wall edge, but these are going to look really sharp on the tabletop when I eventually get everything finished. I'm thinking I'll paint the Necrons themselves in a similar colour scheme as well.

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Posted on 4 December 2025, 21:47

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. There are three teams, at the bottom right are my six Angels of Death in their standard large Space Marine armour, painted in blood red with black trim. At the bottom left are more Space Marines, the five elite veterans of the Deathwatch team, which are in the same large armour but all black. Then finally at the top are the extremely alien Necrons of the Canoptek Circle, they're basically machines that are painted in silver and look like they're floating above the ground.

In the office for a game of Kill Team today! We did three-player, which I much prefer over 1v1 because I feel like there's less pressure since your opponents need to split their attention a bit.

It was the new Canoptek Circle and Deathwatch teams from the Tomb World box versus my Angels of Death, and unsurprisingly I came last, final score was 9-6-4 to the Necrons. The Necrons only got two victory points from objectives, everything else was from kills and their regenerating wounds is surely going to get nerfed in the next balance update because jesus christ. I got the leader down to 7 wounds (from a start of 14), and one of the Tomb Crawlers down to 9 (from a start of 21!) and both of them ended up healing all of the wounds later on. It's also worth noting that it ended up basically being the two Space Marine teams pincering into the middle towards the Necrons, so the Necrons were fighting on two fronts and they still ended up winning. The three Necron Warriors were annoying too because they don't count towards getting kills for victory points, and one of them comes back each turn if you kill them!

Granted, this wasn't helped by me forgetting my rules multiple times, and the Deathwatch having two melee operatives that did almost nothing the whole game. 😅 Still, it was overall a fun game though even though I lost horribly, there weren't any streaks of absolutely shockingly poor rolling for anyone.

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Posted on 1 December 2025, 21:16

A photo of ten serves of my Mexican lentil rice in individual tupperware containers. It's got rice, lentils, black beans, corn, and green beans in it, and there's some tomato paste and one of the spices is smoked paprika so it has a reddish hue.

A photo of an open-faced cheese and tomato toastie on two slices of my home-made bread. The cheese is golden-brown and looks delicious, and on top of the cheese is a bunch of chopped up capsicum. The bread is sitting on a white dinner plate.

A photo of fifty-four small round miso chocolate chip cookies sitting on two cooling racks.

The deliciousness continued today with a batch of my Mexican lentil rice for weekday leftovers, a toastie for lunch on my bread from yesterday, and then finally miso chocolate chip cookies to have with my afternoon coffee!

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Posted on 30 November 2025, 16:11

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 @[email protected]'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