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A photo of two disgusting Plague Marine miniatures, both just undercoated. The one on the left is mid-stride and has what looks like a huge flamethrower slung under one arm, and the one on the right is holding a gnarled staff up in one hand and has his other hand out in front of him casting some foul cloud of magic. Both of them are in pox-ridden Space Marine armour, with tentacles and pustules everywhere, and the one on the right with the staff has a huge mouth with massive teeth in the stomach of his armour.

Right, that's the two Plague Marines that I need to make a squad for the new edition of Kill Team ready for painting! The one on the left with the Plague Spewer is actually a conversion I kitbashed but never painted back when the previous 2021 edition of Kill Team came out, and the Malignant Plaguecaster on the right is even older than that: he dates from the Warhammer 40,000: Dark Imperium box that I bought back in 2018 or so.

I don't technically have a WYSIWYG Plague Champion to use as my leader because my Champion that has a plasma pistol has a powerfist instead of a plague sword. I'm going to use the old Noxious Blightbringer model that's also from the Dark Imperium because because he does have a plasma pistol and is holding a bell in his other hand, rather than having a specific weapon that someone might be confused by, plus it's just an AWESOME model and I've never had a chance to use it. He's on a 40mm base rather than 32mm but I can't be bothered trying to rebase him because he's already fully painted, and we just play casually anyway.

Posted on 24 December 2024, 22:11

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with a bass guitar sitting to the left of the desk, an electric guitar sitting to the right of the desk, a bass guitar multi-effects pedal with a whole ton of knobs and dials on it ON the desk, and Logic Pro showing on the main display.

Doing some more mucking around with my song, I've redone the bass line now. My problem is that each time I come back to the song and listen more I decide I'm not happy with something and need to change it. 😅

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Posted on 24 December 2024, 17:09

A photo of a wooden kitchen cutting board with half of a round golden brown loaf of bread and a slice of the bread with butter and jam on it. The jam has large chunks of fruit in it, and in the background sitting on a cooling rack behind the cutting board are the sliced up pieces of the first half of the loaf.

Holiday step two: home-made bread, and I had some of @[email protected]'s loquat and raspberry jam on it and oh my GOD, that might be one of the best jams I've ever had!

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Posted on 21 December 2024, 12:57

A photo of a bowl of ice cream, with Ice Magic, butterscotch sauce, chopped up strawberries, and crushed peanuts on top.

Right, holiday step one: celebratory trashy dessert.

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Posted on 20 December 2024, 20:32

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with a Yamaha BB-434 bass guitar sitting to the left of the desk, and Logic Pro showing on the main computer display.

Current status: totally ripping off @[email protected]'s chord progression from I'm Staying Home This Christmas for my own song I'm noodling around with. 😁

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Posted on 19 December 2024, 21:13

A photo of the little LCD display we have showing that the outdoor temperature is 42˚C.

I went outside to bring the bin up and I can confirm that it feels that hot.

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Posted on 17 December 2024, 15:04

A photo of four pieces of chicken thigh on a barbecue grill, they're quite yellow/orange because of the turmeric and they have big black crispy stripes across them because I just flipped them over.

Aw yiss, good barbecuing weather. Tumeric chicken marinade. 👌🏻

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Posted on 16 December 2024, 19:00

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 our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There are four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus ten skeleton warriors at various points on the board. They're wearing rusty armour and tattered red cloaks, though four are unpainted because I haven't gotten around to them yet. There's also Watch Captain Halgrim in the middle who is attired similarly but is carrying a massive halberd.

This afternoon with @wobin we finished off the next Big Bad in our Warhammer Quest adventures, the skeleton warrior Watch Captain Halgrim!

We were all inspired from the first half we did last time, but even so we absolutely destroyed everything, only to realise right at the end after we'd finished that there is a whole separate event table you're meant to roll on at the end of each turn and the bottom half of that is filled with things like "All the skeletons come back". 😬 So uh... oops! For the next game, it's the same sort of journey as this one (destroy another big bad) and we need to have done both before we get to level up to Level 3. I've made a note to remember the new event table, and it's going to be quite the fight because it's against Gorslav the Gravekeeper who not only hits like a truck but also makes zombies a lot nastier as well, and we'll be facing all ten of the zombie miniatures that come in the Cursed City box.

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Posted on 30 November 2024, 21:40

A photo looking along the very tall hedge that's between us and our neighbour. It's very overgrown and looks messy as hell. And when I say tall I mean well in excess of two metres.

The same view, but now the hedge is all neat and tidy.

Trimmed the hedge today before it got too hot.

If you need me, I'll be over here not lifting my arms above about waist level.

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Posted on 23 November 2024, 11:05