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A photo of a golden-looking drink in a fancy whisky glass.

Not sure I've ever had one before, but it's pretty delicious. I used 8-year Ratu spiced rum and Venezuelan "Diplomatico" rum in place of the two in the recipe. (Yes I'm aware it's not remotely the right glass, but this is all we have.)

Posted on 16 July 2022, 20:07

A photo of two cooling racks full of flat, golden-brown cookies. On some of them, there's chunks of chocolate sitting up in the cookie and they look very neat and tidy. On most of the others, the chocolate has totally melted and turned into more of a chocolate coating.

Well, that's annoying. I decided to make another batch of rosemary chocolate chunk cookies but didn't have enough left of the block of chocolate I use (Darrell Lee's dark chocolate) so bought another at the shops the other day. Apparently they've changed their formulation because the chocolate from the new block COMPLETELY melted, versus the older block that stayed pretty much intact in chunks. I guess it won't really change the flavour, but it's going to be significantly messier to eat!

our house cookies darkroom food portrait mode

Posted on 16 July 2022, 15:17

A photo looking over a grassy field/hill with massive sewer pipe segments visible at the left, a big digger in the middle of it, and a bunch of chonky unit blocks in various states of construction beyond it.

RIP the pony club that used to be here. 😞

clouds schofields darkroom construction

Posted on 11 July 2022, 16:30

A photo of the "Ferratonic Incinerator" terrain from Warhammer 40,000. It's a massive rusty-looking cylindrical furnace with a platform on top and a gantry that extends across to the right. There's all sorts of pipes and wires and controls all over the whole thing and it's borderline steampunk but also very industrial.

I decided to mix it up a bit and today completed one of the huge pieces of terrain that I got in the old Kill Team box back in 2019. Pretty pleased with how it came out, given I only started it last night! I think the trick is to ignore all the crazy fine detail and just do broad colours, and just pick out a few key details at the end.

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting terrain

Posted on 9 July 2022, 23:29

A photo of six barricades that come up to about chest height on the miniature that's standing behind them. They're all segmented and gears and teethed tracks on the inside that makes it looks like they can be expanded or collapsed in width. They're all painted in brown and look like they're completely rusty.

That's the barricades done, and with that, all the small bits of the terrain! Next stop, the full size pieces.

our house darkroom kill team painting terrain octarius

Posted on 7 July 2022, 22:13

A photo of an A3-sized piece panel of MDF wood with rounded corners and a textured graffiti-looking pattern on the front, with a large drybrush sitting on top of it (think almost a makeup brush, it's got big and soft bristles).

How's that for perfect timing, my texture pad and extra-large drybrush from Artis Opus just arrived, exactly when I'm about to start doing the larger Kill Team: Octarius terrain pieces!

our house darkroom painting

Posted on 7 July 2022, 11:43

Two pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box. They're both walls but EXTREMELY ramshackle made from scrap, like corrugated metal and panels and part what looks like the door from a vehicle and so on. It's all totally worn and rusted-out.

Another piece of scrap wall in the same fashion as the first, this one has what looks like part of a big tank (the container not the vehicle) and rather incongruously has several coloured lights strung along the top of the wall.

Got the scrap walls finished too! I tried doing some lighting effects with the globes, with varying degrees of success. This was a little bit more work than the last terrain bits, but not by too much, and it was mostly mucking around trying to get the globes looking decent.

our house darkroom kill team painting terrain octarius

Posted on 6 July 2022, 21:07

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying upside-down with his legs in the air, on top of a green blanket.

(Extremely David Attenborough voice) And here we have the rare winter upside-down!

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 6 July 2022, 11:32

A photo of a big frying pan with absolutely chockers with what looks like bolognaise sauce with green beans and carrots in it, except it's actually not beef.

My department at work had another one of our quarterly "refresh days" (a free day off without having to use up a day of annual leave), so I spent part of the day putting in some seals to fix the last of the draughty doors, and another part making a huge serve of Quorn-based tomato pasta sauce to have for lunches. Tons of onion, tons of garlic. 👌🏻

our house diy darkroom food portrait mode quorn

Posted on 4 July 2022, 17:52

A photo looking down at a the top of a mug of coffee, the foam in the top has what looks like a stylised ghost that looks like it's in motion.

I made a ghost in my coffee! Much better than my previous attempt at coffee art, though that's a very low bar.

our house darkroom coffee drink portrait mode

Posted on 4 July 2022, 16:14