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A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying half asleep on his side on two blue blankets in his bed. His front legs are crossed and his back legs are up in the air for some reason.

Beanie says goodnight.

Posted on 24 August 2023, 0:11

A selfie of me, a white man with short brown hair and an increasingly-scruffy-looking red beard, wearing a black Darth Vader t-shirt. I'm wearing a set of headphones and am holding an extremely handsome-looking bass guitar, a Yamaha BB-434 in Tabacco Sunburst (the colour starts in the middle of the body as a rich deep orange/red colour and fades to black as it gets towards the edge of the body). My iPad is sitting on the standing desk next to me, paused in the middle of a lesson from Josh Fossgreen's "Beginner to Badass" bass guitar course (highly recommended if you're interested in learning bass).

Current status: BASS.

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Posted on 20 August 2023, 22:09

A photo of painted miniature that's a humanoid monster... thing. It's extremely gaunt with sickly pale purple skin and has a bare torso, where you can see ritual scarring. It's wearing a deep purple robe on its lower half, and you can't see its eyes because they're covered by an elaborate metal faceplate that has a number of large bones coming out the top of it. In one hand is an elaborate shovel that's covered in mud, and in the other is a hook that's pulling up a coffin lid from the ground, under which a zombie with roots growing from it is emerging. The whole miniature is in a pose like it's leaning forward and screaming.

Tonight I finished my favourite miniature of the Cursed City box, Gorslav the Gravekeeper. I didn't realise until I was painting it that the headgear thing is actually a bunch of bones poking out of the top!

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Posted on 14 August 2023, 22:48

A photo of six painted miniatures, four are skeleton warriors and there's two gravestones sitting on their own bases too. The skeletons all have ripped and torn red cloaks and rusty-looking armour, one of the skeletons is holding a black banner on a long pole, and one is clearly a boss because he's larger with a bigger weapon. The gravestones have a pile of flowers sitting next to them, one blue, one purple.

A photo of four painted miniatures:
- A vampire hunter with the standard pointy hat and cool dark brown leather cloak holding a shotgun-looking thing, and with many wooden stakes about his person.
- A heavily-armoured warrior woman with white hair holding a large sword in front of her, with the head of a gryphon draped over her shoulders.
- A dwarf with steampunk-looking armour holding an axe and a steampunk-looking gun.
- A priest in long deep rich red robes with a black hood on and a big elaborate, uh... metallic thing on her back that a bunch of strips of fabric are hanging from. She holding a staff and has her hand out like she's about to cast a spell.

The bases are all painted to look like snow, complete with sparkles, and have icy blue grass tufts on them.

Got another set of skeleton warriors finished, plus the first of the bosses, Watch Captain Halgrim! The gravestones in the front are markers used in the game that the Deadwalker zombies can spawn from so you need make sure you destroy them quickly lest you be overwhelmed. I also took the opportunity to add some of the new blue/white grasses to the bases of the heroes for some more visual interest.

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Posted on 9 August 2023, 22:07

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 fantasy alleyways, all coloured a blue colour like it's night time. There's four hero miniatures at the top (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 four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (two skeletal warriors, three rat swarms, three bat swarms, and two zombies).

A close-up taken from my behind my dwarf hero, who is dressed in very steampunk-looking armour and has a big axe and a steampunk harpoon gun. Facing him through the doorway into the next tile are three zombies and another three skeleton warriors all standing right next to each other.

We played our second game of Warhammer Quest this afternoon! Another success, though it was looking a bit dicey at one point. The journey type we were playing was a "Hunt" where you need to kill ten hostile champions before you can finish it, but very thematically the zombies have no champion-type miniature in their groups so they just serve to slow you down. Play of the game went to my dwarf who single-handedly decimated a horde of hostiles (you'll have to excuse the lack of fully-painted miniatures because I ran out of the painted ones and had to resort to the half-painted ones I'd been working on earlier in the day). Once you achieve the completion condition for whatever journey type you're playing, you need to retreat to the extraction point and once your heroes are all there, THAT is when the game ends. Today we had a classic movie feel because one of the last hostiles to spawn was one of the really nasty boss types, we ended up being able to avoid fighting him but it was a rush to the extraction point before he caught up with us!

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Posted on 6 August 2023, 20:01

A top-down photo of nine individual Tupperware containers sitting on a white kitchen benchtop. The Persian seasoning has turmeric in it so the rice is VERY yellow.

Aww yeah, that's my workday lunches sorted for the next like two weeks. 😎 Medium grain rice, lentils, kale, corn, onion, garlic, and Persian spice mix. I have it with a healthy couple of dollops of Greek yoghurt and Mrs H.S. Balls chutney (yes, that's really the brand name, it's from South Africa). 👌🏻

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Posted on 5 August 2023, 12:06

A photo of two painted miniatures, on the left is a regular human-scale skeletal warrior, but standing next to him is the positively huge Kosargi Night Guard. He's a hulking brute that's close to twice the height of the skeleton, with rotting green skin and wearing a torn-up knee-length burgundy cloak and a Mongolian-style fur hat. He's got a big long grey beard and is holding an absolutely massive axe that itself is longer than the skeleton is tall. The base looks like mud with gross green swampy water in some of the hollows, and some swampy grass tufts scattered about.

Next in the seemingly never-ending flood of painting, we have a Kosargi Night Guard! He was surprisingly quick to paint since there's not too many little details, but I think my favourite part is the basing. Rather than trying to create a spot for a pool of swamp water, I just loaded up the base with the muddy ground texture as normal, painted it, and then carefully put the swamp water in the hollows where water would naturally collect anyway. (The skeleton warrior next to him is the one from a couple of weeks ago and is there for scale since there wasn't any other way to really show how large the Kosargi is!)

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Posted on 2 August 2023, 20:46

A photo of two packs of "Gamers Grass" grass tufts, one is a really dark red colour and the other is icy blue. There's also two tubs of basing material, one called "Neutral Texture for Rough Terrain" and the other one "Moss Texture".

I'm taking the opportunity with my Warhammer Quest miniatures to expand my collection of basing materials. 😁 The plan for the boss hostiles in particular is to use the Rough Terrain texture with a really dark grey colour over it then put those Blood Moon grasses on them. Should look pretty fantastic I reckon.

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Posted on 2 August 2023, 14:00

I picked this up on a whim while we were out at the shops and hot DAMN is it nice, really really smooth!

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Posted on 1 August 2023, 20:42

A photo of three hunched-over rotting zombies. They've got the usual decaying clothes, but all three have part of the lids of the coffins they were in on their backs, which are attached to them by way of stakes driven through the top of the lid and through their chests. They also have tree roots growing through their bodies.

Each one has a different thing on top of their coffin lid alongside a mound of dirt: the first has a gravestone and candles plus a tree stump, the second has a wooden memorial-looking thing plus tree stump and a crow holding what looks like someone's innards, and the third has part of a metal fence with a skull on the top and roses on it. The bases are all done up to look like fresh wet mud.

More hostiles join the ranks! This time, the first three Deadwalker Zombies. Pretty delighted at how revolting they are, haha.

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Posted on 29 July 2023, 16:05