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A photo of five Space Marines, heavily-armoured warriors all wielding pistols and chainswords. They're painted a blue/grey colour, one shoulder pad is a rich yellow and the other is a dark red. The sergeant in the middle has no helmet on and I was able to paint his pupils, and for the other four with helmets on, their eye slits go from red on the outside to yellow on the inside. They're on snowy bases and the bases have little wintery grass tufts on them.

The decal-softening stuff arrived yesterday, and today it was low enough humidity and temperature that I could varnish them, so now my Space Wolves are all done! 🎉

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Posted on 3 February 2022, 13:02

A photo of five Space Marines, all wielding pistols and chainswords. They're painted a blue/grey colour, one shoulder pad is a rich yellow and the other is a dark red. The sergeant in the middle has no helmet on and I was able to paint his pupils, and for the other four with helmets on, their eye slits go from red on the outside to yellow on the inside.

Well, I need to wait until I can get some of this special decal-softening stuff so I can apply the Space Wolves logo to their shoulder pads before I varnish them and put the little wintery grassy tufts on the bases, but I'm so happy with how these Space Marines came out! I did full zenithal highlighting, and the sergeant's face isn't drybrushed, I actually painted the highlights on by hand. 😁 And check out his pupils, and the other Marines' eyes!

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Posted on 29 January 2022, 21:50

A photo of three miniatures, each of which consists of a swarm of seven little robotic scarab-looking things. Their carapace is a dark bronze colour, and in the middle of their backs is a hemisphere that I've painted such that it looks like it's a dark green gem reflecting the light.

I got the three Necron Scarab swarms done today, and I am fucking STOKED at how well the gems on their backs came out! They look like they're actually glass!

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Posted on 23 January 2022, 22:55

A photo of ten Necron Warriors from Warhammer 40,000. They're robotic and look very Terminator-esque, and are painted in a dark bronze and dark silver. They're all carrying guns, and are in poses very reminiscent of shambling zombies. The bases are done as cracked red earth like it's been extremely dry, and there's one to two little light brown grass tufts on each base as well.

BAM, that's the Necron Warriors from Fireteam fully done! That crackle paint on the bases is so freaking cool, and I love the little dry shrubs as well.

I've still got the three Scarab swarms to paint, but they'll be far faster to do. Then after that, five Space Marines, and that'll be the whole Fireteam box completely finished. 🎉

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Posted on 22 January 2022, 23:17

A photo of a Tyranid Genestealer. It's an Alien-esque creature with a long tongue and four arms with huge claws on it. Its skin is dark red and it's got a black carapace and all four arms have hands with huge yellow claws on them. The base looks like muddy ground with small swampy-looking grasses on it.

A photo of a Space Marine Reiver painted in Space Wolves colours (primarily blue-grey with a yellow shoulder pad). He's heavily-armoured with a helmet that has a skull design on the front, and is aiming a pistol and wielding a huge combat knife in the other hand.

I've been doing a bit of experimentation with my miniature painting! First was finding a good colour scheme for my Tyranids and also using the "Muddy Ground" texture paint and little grass tufts I bought back in October.

The second has been "zenithal highlighting" where you base coat in black and then do a second prime with a lighter colour just from above, where the light would be hitting it. Very pleased with both!

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Posted on 12 January 2022, 20:00

A photo of four vampire miniatures, all heavily armoured. One is bald and is holding a huge mace vertically in front of him, the second has long black hair and he's wielding a sword and has one hand up in front of him as if he's doing a Darth Vader-style Force crush. The third is a very buxom lady in an armoured corset wielding two swords, with CRAZY long purple hair. The last is hunched over and looks like he's hissing, he's got a one-handed mace and big bat wings.

I finished the leader of The Crimson Court back in September but hadn't been feeling in the painting mood apart from that. I finally got around to finishing the rest of the warband now! (Though as is becoming a theme lately, I need to wait for it to be not hot or humid in order to get the varnish done so I can then put the blood effects on top of that).

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Posted on 7 January 2022, 13:37

A photo of seven miniatures, all are painted in a purply-green zombie flesh-type colour. One of them is standing on the back of someone in armour who's lying face down, and has torn his arm off and is busily gnawing on it, another's holding a severed head. There's also two bats in mid-flight who are dragging a headless torso along the ground.

For the first time since May of last year, I've actually fully completed a painting project! This is the Warhammer Underworlds warband The Grymwatch, they're a band of ghouls who are completely insane and think they're a noble band of knights but they're actually just, well, flesh-eating ghouls.

(Technically they're not actually fully completed quite yet, I still need to varnish them and then apply blood effects, but that's going to have to wait until it's a) not above 25˚C and b) not humid).

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Posted on 2 January 2022, 23:21

A photo overlooking a lake with trees around it and a big Chinese-style gate and, uh, whatever a Chinese gazebo would be called, on the other side of the lake.

A photo of a white Chinese-style low stone bridge crossing over a lake. There's very little wind so there's a good reflection of the bridge on the surface of the water.

Kristina and I both have the day off today, so we went for a wander around Nurragingy Reserve (making a point to do it first thing in the morning before it got too warm). The wind was lovely but damn is that direct sun getting hot already.

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Posted on 24 September 2021, 12:14

A black and white selfie of me, a white man with a scruffy beard and, uh, let's say "large forehead" rather than "receding hairline", with my eyebrows furrowed looking intently at the camera.

Current status: hairy.

(I'm playing around in Lightroom on my iPhone. Actually quite happy with this photo, haha).

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Posted on 20 July 2021, 23:32

A photo of my DIY miniature painting table setup, it's made of wood and has a rectangular arch over it with a bunch of white LED strip lights attached to the inside of it. There's also two rows of the lights pointing directly forwards at the camera because of the aforementioned running out of room on the underside.

The LED strip lights on my painting table can be cut and connected together with this connector that comes in the package, but the connection is really flaky and my latest additions started cutting out (I'd used the leftover bit from one of the previous packages). 😞 So I decided I'd just go and get another full five metre pack and use it all without chopping it. It's come out pretty nicely and everything's noticeably brighter, though one downside is that I ran out of room along the underside of the arch. Some of it's facing directly forwards which means I'm not quite getting the full benefit of ALL of it pointing down at what I'm painting but ah well. It's fine as long as I don't look directly at it. 😛

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Posted on 7 May 2021, 20:52