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A photo of my fully-assembled Wyrmblade (Genestealer Cults) squad for Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. There are twelve miniatures, they're all wearing industrial-looking armour that's painted in a dark green colour, but when you look closely they're clearly not human: their skin is too purple and their heads are too large, and some of them have claws or three arms or a freakishly-long lizard tongue. The Kelermorph I mentioned in the post has one pistol pointed off to the side like it's aiming something, its other arm is holding another one upwards, and it has a THIRD arm that's about to pull a third pistol out from a holster. It's got a red cloth mask around its nose and mouth, and its brown leather cloak is billowing out behind it as if it's actually in the middle of a gunfight. The leader's chainsword has been painting with black and yellow hazard stripes but I used a piece of microcell foam to dab dark grey primarily on the side where the teeth are, followed by the same for a light silver, and it absolutely looks like the paint has been coming off due to wear! All the bases are painted with muddy-looking texture paint and have swamp-looking grasses growing so it looks like they're wading through a swamp.

Three years after I bought them, and two years after I assembled and undercoated them and painted the first test miniature, I've finally finished my Wyrmblade squad for Kill Team. 😅

This has been a record pace for me, it took me under a week to finish them (although I'm cheating because I'm on holidays and have been spending hours at a time getting them done). The initial broad stages took maybe two and a half days, but then it was the same amount again spent on the details. Absolutely stoked with how they've come out though, the Kelermorph (the three-armed gun-slinging-looking fellow at the front) is such a cool miniature, and I did some weathering for the first time on the hazard stripes on the leader's chainsword and it came out absolutely perfectly!

Posted on 2 January 2026, 18:39

A photo of the full Hivestorm game board with all the terrain on it. It's all ruined industrial-looking concrete buildings with rusty pipes everywhere, and along the top of the ruins and in various spots down the sides there is snow that's fallen and collected so it looks extra desolate.

A close-up shot of the rear of the largest piece of ruined building terrain. There's a solid-looking red metal door at the bottom that's been partially smashed in, and pipes snaking along the outside going up that are broken off in various places. It used to be a three-storey building but the first floor has been completely blown apart and has just a relatively small section of flooring still showing, and the second storey is barely enough for a single miniature to fit on. There's snow on all of the tops of the ruin.

A close-up of the middle of the board where theres some of the smaller scatter terrain. There are some pieces of wall (or possibly floor) that have been blown into the ground vertically that are providing cover, and the very battered top off a large metal vat sitting on top of a small mound of other pieces of ruin. Two of my all-women Astra Militarum squad are in the middle facing off against three hulking and disgusting-looking Plague Marines who are clad in pustulant green armour.

In what might be a new record for me, I have a set of Kill Team terrain finished in slightly over a year since I bought the box. 😅 This is all from the Hivestorm box, and I'm really happy with how the weathering came out. I used Dirty Down's rust effect for the first time for this, it required a little trial and error before I got it looking how I wanted, but on the bright side it was easy enough to reactivate with water and just re-do it where I didn't like how it first came out.

Big props to @[email protected] for the underlying drybrushing technique, and I can't claim credit for the snow idea because I saw that, uh, somewhere else online, but I think I did a pretty excellent job of it.

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Posted on 19 November 2025, 18:45

A photo of the Kill Team: Tomb World box. There's nothing for scale but it's QUITE hefty. The artwork on the front has four Space Marines in their standard huge armour inside some sort of indistinct structure that's lit with a sickly green/blue glow, with a couple of robot/scarab looking things scuttling around.

Who has two thumbs and approximately three metric tons of new plastic that he really shouldn't start on until he's done with the Hivestorm terrain? THIS GUY!

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Posted on 19 September 2025, 11:21

A photo of the lake at Nurragingy Reserve. In the middle of the photo is a big ornate white Chinese arch bridge and on the right up the top of a set of big stones that has a waterfall coming down it is another traditional Chinese building. The whole lake is surrounded by trees, some have their leaves and some don't. It's completely sunny and the sky is blue, and the whole shot has a warm early-spring feel to it which matches exactly what it felt like being there.

We went and did a few laps of Nurragingy Reserve today, you absolutely could not have asked for better weather for it! There were quite a few families hanging out, we spotted at least three separate wedding parties having photos taken, and also got to say hello and give scritches to two Malteses and a Pomeranian.

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Posted on 6 September 2025, 17:00

A photo of the front of our house. It's a standard-looking single storey house in red brick, in the middle is a large box window with thick white PVC frames. To the left of the window is the front door also in white, and left of that the side of what is the garage extends out towards the camera and out of frame. In front of the window is a small garden with various trees and plants. The new guttering is the same dark grey as the roof and blends in nicely and looks very nice.

A photo of the side of our house that faces the backyard. Three windows are visible, all with the same thick white PVC window frames as the front, but on the two larger bedroom windows there are tracks for shutters to run down (right now the shutters themselves are fully hidden because they're open since it's GLORIOUS today), and there's a big box at the top of both where the shutter rolls up into. The tracks and shutter boxes are a cream colour and it looks really crap now.

And we're done! I didn't realise just how awful the old gutters looked until now, they had been painted (badly and unevenly) in a really drab-looking brown. Of course, now the frame of the shutters for the bedrooms looks really shit because it's a cream colour and it looks dingy next to the nice cleanness of the white window frames and dark grey guttering. 😛

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Posted on 2 September 2025, 13:37

A photo taken looking down a train platform towards a brick road bridge that goes over it. The sun is setting and casting yellow light through the underneath of the bridge.

A photo taken looking down the platform of the Sydney Metro at Central. The glass divider that separates the train tracks from the platform is at the right, and there are a bunch of people all the way down the platform waiting for the train, most of them looking down at their phones.

We took a trip to Newtown to visit @[email protected], had to take the Metro to Central because the usual train line was partially closed due to trackwork. No photos of us because we were just sitting around chatting but I got a good shot at Newtown Station, and I'm constantly surprised at how packed the Metro is at basically all hours of the day. This was at Central which is only the third stop on the line, and as I type this we're heading towards Victoria Cross Station and it is PACKED.

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Posted on 30 August 2025, 18:18

A photo of two golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, sitting on a cooling rack.

Starting off the holidays with some delicious bread. Sadly I ran out of @[email protected]'s amazing jam a couple of months ago.

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Posted on 13 April 2025, 12:22

A photo of some wispy clouds up in the sky that are rainbow coloured. The effect was brighter in person but the camera couldn't fully capture it.

Rainbow clouds just now!

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Posted on 17 February 2025, 14:22

Oh wow, I ordered a Lowen band hoodie from Bandcamp and received it today, with a personal note from the lead singer saying "Thanks so much for supporting Lowen, . Sorry it took a while to arrive, hope you enjoy the hoodie. Cheers, Nina"! 😮

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Posted on 4 December 2024, 15:31

A photo of Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors. They're all wearing standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads painted in a deep rich red, the Assault Intercessors all look like they're mid-stride and are wielding got pistols and chainswords, and one has a grenade in her hand and looks like she's about to lob it. The other three are holding big boltguns, two look like they're in the middle of firing and the third had hers held upright in one hand while she points commandingly with the other. None of them have helmets and they've all got either mohawks or very short cropped hair and various cybernetic implants. Their guns and chainswords are all black and they've got various brown leather pouches attached to their waists. The bases are done up to look like battlefield mud, it's all dark brown and wet-looking and splattered part-way up their shins, and there's some swampy-looking grasses and green goopy swamp water on the bases too.

And with that, the Intercession team is complete! So very happy with how these came out, but let me tell you, I am not doing this much edge highlighting ever again. 😂

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Posted on 28 March 2024, 21:22