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A photo of the board at the start of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is Ork-style and the structures look like like a junkyard and are very ramshackle. Closest to the camera are my Coirsair Voidscarred, basically lithe space elves in fuchsia armour and turquoise cloaks. I was facing Space Marines but you can't see them in the photo because they're all in cover and not visible from this point.

Had another game of Kill Team at @[email protected]'s place tonight. In news that will surprise nobody, we only got through two rounds, and I lost. The first round started well, but it all fell apart in the second. I'm pretty sure the only time I've won with the Voidscarred is when I've played a horrendously imbalanced game against one of the not-very-good Compendium teams. 😕

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Posted on 26 November 2023, 23:14

A photo of a fully set up game board of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all very ramshackle and looks like it's straight from a junkyard.

We had a four-player game of Kill Team today! Turns out I'm pretty shit at playing my team (Imperial Guard) and I barely did anything and got mostly shot off the board. I came third and that was because the fourth guy was having fun just blowing shit up and wasn't actually playing objectives, heh. Though in retrospect, I don't think the terrain was really set up very well, there was a lack of heavy cover around the deployment zones which meant I had to be bunched up and in conceal to avoid being murdered on the first turn.

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Posted on 1 April 2023, 18:17

A photo of entire set of EXTREMELY ramshackle pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box from Games Workshop. At the back are four parts of an Ork fort that look like they belong in a junk yard, the walls and platform on top are made up of a whole ton of pieces of metal scrap, like big plates, corrugated pieces, massive beams, there's a door in there, and a couple of empty gas cylinders. There's also an old rig thing with the big pumping arm in the same ramshackle style, and scattered in front of these larger pieces are piles of scrap metal and chest-high walls also made out of all sorts of pieces of scrap.

All the big pieces are on cut-out pieces of cardboard that are covered in a texture paint that makes it look like sand, and there's various tufts of dry grasses growing around the base of the walls.

IT. IS. DONE. All of the Kill Team Octarius terrain, fully painted!

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Posted on 19 February 2023, 10:56

A photo of two of the EXTREMELY ramshackle pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box from Games Workshop. They're parts of an Ork fort and look like they belong in a junk yard, the walls and platform on top are made up of a whole ton of pieces of metal scrap, like big plates, corrugated pieces, massive beams, there's a door in there, and a couple of empty gas cylinders. Both pieces are on cut-out pieces of cardboard that are covered in a texture paint that makes it look like sand, and there's various tufts of dry grasses growing around the base of the walls.

There we go, all finished. Absolutely stoked with how they came out, and I'm really glad I got some of the big tufts as well, it looks so much more natural. (Plague Marines and Poxwalkers for scale.)

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Posted on 8 February 2023, 20:11

A photo of what looks like an old-style oil rig with the big weight that goes up and down. There's two tanks covered in metal plating of various colours with all sorts of pipes going everywhere, and it's all brown and rusty-looking. It's glued onto a piece of cardboard that's been painted with sandy texture paint, and there's little tufts of various colours of dry grass around the base of the rig.

The same oil rig but from the opposite side, you can see the grasses growing underneath the raised platform that connects the tanks to the big pumping weight thing.

I decided to do some basing on my Octarius oil rig terrain piece, pretty happy with how it's come out!

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Posted on 1 February 2023, 21:14

Two pieces of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team terrain. They're parts of an Ork fort and look like they belong in a junk yard, the walls and platform on top are made up of a whole ton of pieces of metal scrap, like big plates, corrugated pieces, massive beams, there's a door in there, and a couple of empty gas cylinders. They're EXTREMELY ramshackle.

Two more pieces of the Kill Team Octarius terrain nearly done! I just need to wait a few days for the wash to dry, then drybrushing and varnishing, and then only two more identical pieces to these and I will be FINISHED!

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Posted on 28 January 2023, 14:50

I wish I'd gotten onto this airbrushing thing earlier. It's SO much faster to paint terrain, I'm actually going to finish all of the Kill Team stuff from Octarius! These aren't finished yet, but there's two more identical pieces to go, then it'll just need a splash of colour, a coat of quickshade and then some drybrushing, and it'll be 100% done. And then I might even try to make a dent in the Sector Mechanicus terrain from my old Kill Team starter box from 2019 that I've assembled and undercoated and then done absolutely nothing else with. 😮

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Posted on 25 January 2023, 22:05

I decided that I should really bite the bullet and actually get started on the large pieces of the Kill Team terrain from the Octarius box that I bought in the middle of 2021. Figured it'd be a good opportunity to actually try doing some airbrushing in a fashion other than a zenithal highlight base coat, and I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming out! I'm less worried about obviously sticking within the lines because a) it's terrain and I don't care nearly as much, and b) in this case it's Ork terrain which is completely ramshackle anyway. It's weirdly shiny because I'm using Army Painter's "Strong Tone" shade paint, which is sort of like Citadel's washes but oil-based and far thicker, and for some reason they thought a glossy finish would be the go. Once it's dry (which takes a good 24-48 hours 😮) I'm going to give it a drybrushing with some gunmetal silver and then will hit it with a matte varnish to get rid of the shine, and I reckon it's going to look pretty tops.

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Posted on 22 January 2023, 16:39

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. It's on a gaming board with a bunch of junkyard-looking terrain, and on my side of the board are six green Death Guard Space Marines looking all gross and mutated.

In news that will shock nobody, the only reason I was in the office today was for after-work Kill Team. 😛 Sadly didn't win this time, it was obvious how it was going to turn out by the end of the third round so we called it.

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Posted on 6 September 2022, 19:40

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.

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Posted on 7 July 2022, 22:13