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A photo of two cardboard takeaway boxes, one has hot chips, the other has slices of beef brisket, some potato chips, pickles, and a container of barbecue sauce in it.

Yasssss, Black Bear Barbecue time again.

Posted on 1 April 2021, 12:46

A photo of the warband Morgwaeth's Blade-coven from Warhammer Underworlds. Five female aelf miniatures, the one in the middle is holding a spear with a goblet raised in triumph and has long pale blue hair. The two on either side of her have long pale pink hair and are both holding swords like they're about to use them. The one on the left's bottom half of body is a snake and she's holding a bow. The right one has a whip and is mid-leap over a broken statue. They're all not wearing much armour.

Oh man, I just did my first ever glaze for miniature painting (I thinned out Flesh Tearers Red with Contrast Medium in a 1:8 ratio), and hot damn am I a convert. Look at how rich that red looks now!

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Posted on 30 March 2021, 20:33

A photo of the box of Apogee's "Jam" guitar input, an unassuming silver rectangle with a dial on the front as well as a button and some lights.

Woohoo, my new guitar input arrived! I took it for a quick spin and the sound quality is noticeably improved over the old one, everything sounds crisper and clearer (old was 16-bit/44.1KHz, new one is 24-bit/96KHz).

This was paid for by selling some of that funny money that Keybase gave everyone a few years back, turns out it's actually worth something now!

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Posted on 23 March 2021, 13:08

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying underneath a dining table and chairs.

We're currently at my parents' place on the Northern Beaches because there was an SES flood evacuation warning late last night that said we might need to evacuate before 3am. We figured we'd get ahead and just leave and get a decent-ish sleep rather than waiting and worrying. Unsurprisingly Beanie has taken this turn of events in stride and is currently resting under their dining table.

I doubt we're in any danger of the house being flooded, didn't want to be potentially cut off with no power though!

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Posted on 22 March 2021, 10:17

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. The board design is the inside of a cave and has hexagonal tiles on it. The three miniatures on my side of the table are bulky and slow-moving, and the three on Kristina's side are lithe and elegant aelves.

We played another game of Warhammer Underworlds tonight, the vile Wurmspat versus Myari's Purifiers. I was coming first right up until the very last end phase, then Kristina scored two objectives to put her ahead by ONE glory, and she'd killed one of my fighters thus rendering six additional glory out of reach for me!

I'm not sure how I feel about the Wurmspat's current deck, I think I want to make it a bit more mobile and combat-focused.

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Posted on 21 March 2021, 22:32

A photo of three fully painted "orruks" (Games Workshop speak for orks). They're all in battered-looking dark metal and bronze armour, the leader is pointing a sword and roaring, and the other two are mid-weapon swing. One mid-swing one is holding two metal clubs with spikes coming out of them, and the other's is the same club-looking things but joined together in a nunchuck-like fashion. Their bases are pale blue and white like snow.

And that's Morgok's Krushas done! Proper DSLR photos will be coming on Wednesday once it's not actively raining so I can varnish them.

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Posted on 21 March 2021, 14:49

A photo of a bowl of porridge with brown sugar and a dollop of butter on top.

Well, the temperature might not be quite right (it's 20˚C outside), but I think two days of unceasing dark and raininess qualifies for good porridge weather.

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Posted on 21 March 2021, 9:31

Three round miniature bases, with really pale blue icy-looking areas and some chunks of rugged white rock/snow, with skulls and bones scattered about.

I know the bases of miniatures aren't the most exciting things, but I'm seriously stoked with how these came out and wanted to photograph them separately before the miniatures themselves are glued on. I immediately thought of snow and ice when I saw the bases, rather than dirt and rubble, and it's excellent to have something a bit different! (The feet are molded to the bases if you're wondering).

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Posted on 20 March 2021, 23:24

Two pencil drawings of the elf woman Sera from Dragon Age: Inquisition. Mine on the left is direct-on and extremely munted-looking, Lily's is from 3/4 perspective and stylised but very clean and tidy.

A single pencil drawing just by me of Iron Bull, who is a large bearded male character with big horns, an eyepatch, and a large neck and shoulders. There's no shading, it's just a sketch, but he's actually pretty recognisably Iron Bull I reckon.

Lily is UTTERLY obsessed with the Dragon Age games, and is also quite the budding artist. She, Kristina, and I all sat down at the table tonight and drew some characters from the game. Compare Lily's to mine. 😂 Mine on the left, hers on the right. (Her rendition of Iron Bull is missing because we can't actually work out what happened to it, the drawing has just... vanished, but I was quite pleased with mine).

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Posted on 20 March 2021, 22:28

A photo of three partially painted "orruks" (Games Workshop speak for orks), the Morgok's Krushas warband from Warhammer Underworlds. They're all in battered-looking dark metal and bronze armour, the leader is pointing a sword and roaring, and the other two are mid-weapon swing. Two of the three have their green skin painted.

My creative refresh day was a success! I always forget how much slower it is painting with regular paints as opposed to the Contrast ones though... the brown metallic-looking bits are the same darker silver underneath, I started at 9am and it look me until about 2:45pm to finish doing just those silver bits. All the rest of the colours were done from then until I finished at 5:30pm! I'll finish them off over the weekend.

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Posted on 19 March 2021, 18:51