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A photo of a BUNCH of assembled but unpainted miniatures in grey plastic. There are:

- 10 skeleton warriors in decaying armour.
- 10 zombies that are all hunched over and have gravestones and dirt on their backs like they've just risen from their graves.
- 6 individual bases that each have a horde of little rats on them, all running on top of each other in a wave.
- 6 bat swarms.
- 2 skeletons hanging from gallows.
- 2 squat little gargoyle things.
- 2 ravens perched atop ruined columns.
- 2 alarmingly large rats that upon closer inspection are rotting and you can see their rib cages.

And lastly, the horde has been assembled! I'm definitely not going to be getting into the woods with the details on these when I paint them though... I think I'll do my standard zenithal highlight and then some Contrast paints and a bit of a drybrush and call it done.

Posted on 2 July 2023, 21:48

A photo of ten assembled but unpainted miniatures in grey plastic. We have:
- 3 vampire things that are clearly feral, two are on top of columns and the the third is mid-charge, and all three have very long swords.
- 2 undead ogre things with massive axes, and they've got very Mongolian-looking fur hats on.
- A MASSIVE, uh... demon/werewolf thing that's towering over everyone else.
- A skeleton warrior in decaying armour holding a large axe, his cape blowing in the breeze.
- An extremely gaunt humanoid with a long cloak on, holding a large shovel that has a tall metal headdress thing that covers its eyes.
- A wizened old man who is bent over and has what looks like the remains of a pillory still around his neck. There's a crow on one end of it and a rat behind his head, he's holding a candle and a staff and there's a horrifyingly large rat rubbing itself up against his other leg.
- And lastly the leader of all of these, a heavily-armoured vampire holding a sword with two massive werewolf heads and pelts over his shoulders, and another Mongolian-looking fur hat.

And that's the primary enemy miniatures done! I think my favourite is to be the the freaky one second from the left with the headpiece covering its eyes. After this there's just the hordes of regular enemies left (zombies, skeletons, bat swarms, rat swarms, and various "mysterious objects", things like gravestones, skeletons hanging from gallows, etc.). There's a shit-ton of them but they all consist of only a couple of pieces each so they ought to be pretty quick to smash through I think.

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer quest

Posted on 30 June 2023, 22:10

A photo of eight assembled but unpainted miniatures in bone white. We have:
- An aristocratic-looking fellow with a goatee and holding a old timey-pistol and a sword, mid-swagger.
- A vampire hunter with the standard pointy hat and cool cloak holding a shotgun-looking thing, and with many wooden stakes about his person.
- A heavily-armoured warrior woman holding a large sword in front of her, with the head of a gryphon draped over her shoulders.
- A HUGE ogre that's a good couple of heads taller than anyone else, with a massive mace that he's about to swing.
- A dwarf with steampunk-looking armour holding an axe and a steampunk-looking gun.
- A priest in long robes with a hood on and a big elaborate, uh... 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.
- A wizened wizard who's hunched over in a big robe and has a like skull mask on and a MASSIVE long thing beard, he's holding a staff and clutching a very large tome under the other arm.
- And lastly, a elf with a bow who's mid-leap and also mid-shot, with her braids out behind her. She's got a bandana over her mouth and nose and her headdress is antlers.

I got all the Warhammer Quest hero miniatures assembled tonight and they're so good, I love how characterful they all are!

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer quest

Posted on 29 June 2023, 21:47

A photo of the box of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. The artwork on the front is done in a pencil style primarily in red tones, and has several fantasy heroes in the middle battling off the skeletons that are lurking in the shadows to the sides.

The game itself is a co-op dungeon crawler and the box weighs a TON.

Who has two thumbs and another sixty miniatures to paint now? THIS GUY.

our house darkroom games workshop new miniatures warhammer quest

Posted on 29 June 2023, 15:52

A photo of a split mechanical keyboard with two fabric-covered gel wrist rests attached at the bottom. It actually doesn't even look THAT dodgy.

I realised that I do actually need a wrist rest for my keyboard, and my old one had one that was screwed in to the bottom of it and as a bonus has two feet under the rests to give some raise. I unscrewed them and have extremely dodgily attached the wrist rests to the new Keychron with several pieces of double-sided sticky tape and it works an absolute treat! 😁 The wrist rests actually have TWO little extended feet on each so you can also get some tenting going if you have the outermost feet retracted and the inner ones extended, so my next project is going to be getting some wood cut to the right length so I can attach it under the new keyboard at the top so it doesn't immediately fall inwards when I have the wrist rest tenting set up.

our house darkroom mechanical keyboard

Posted on 28 June 2023, 20:23

A photo of a split mechanical keyboard. The primary keys are a nice grey/blue colour, the surrounding keys (Control, Shift, spacebar, etc.) are black, and the Escape and Return keys are red. There's an LED under each key and they're busily changing colours like a rainbow.

New keyboard day, Keychron Q11! I mostly blame @damonism for this. Also I didn't realise it had the hilariously tacky crazy RGB backlighting.

our house darkroom new toys mechanical keyboard

Posted on 28 June 2023, 16:29

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. It has hex tiles on it, and the artwork looks like the inside of a cave. Closest to the camera are Morgwaeth's Blade-coven, a five-fighter warband consisting of lithe female elves who aren't wearing a whole lot of armour. At the other end of the board are the six goatmen of Grashrak's Despoilers: two are larger and more intimidating looking, one is holding a giant axe in the air and is gripping the head of someone he just decapitated, and the other four are smaller and shabbier, wielding bows and spears.

More Warhammer Underworlds tonight, my murder-ladies versus @yayKM's filthy goatmen. We ended up calling it after the first activation of the third round because she had exactly one 2-wound character left and I was ahead 8-5. Unfortunately I think it might be time to retire the goatmen, or at least until I can get around to stealing someone's Championship format deck, they're just too weak. 😞

our house darkroom gaming games workshop warhammer underworlds beastgrave grashrak's despoilers morgwaeth's blade coven

Posted on 25 June 2023, 22:59

A photo of a Moka Pot, which is essentially a metal jug with a handle and lid and a wide base that you put on the stove. It pressurises the water in the base which forces it up through the coffee grounds in the middle, and the resulting espresso comes out a spout into the top section, and you then pour it out into your mug.

When I was living with my roommate prior to @yayKM moving over to Australia, he introduced me to Bialetti's Moka Pot for making coffee. I bought one and loved it, but unfortunately it was one of the very few casualties of our move to an induction cooktop when we had our kitchen redone in 2017. We were in Victoria's Basement today and it turns out they make an induction-specific model now! 🎉

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Posted on 24 June 2023, 12:40

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side mostly asleep in a batch of sunshine. It's taken from ground level looking directly at his face so his nose and snout look extra big.

Gotta keep the snoot warm.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 23 June 2023, 11:38

A photo of the box of a Raspberry Pi 4B+, a bare Pi Zero W, and power supplies and SD cards for the two.

So the other reason I've been learning how to use Ansible to set up our Raspberry Pis is because I wanted both easy software configuration AND to have backup hardware in case something died. I've fully automated the setup of the two Zero Ws at the front of the house and the 3B+ that runs our e-ink display in the office, the last thing remaining is the "main" 4B+ that runs the MQTT broker, dashboard hub, Powerwall usage-reader, Homebridge, and AirPort target that all the other Pis pull their data from. I ordered another 4B+ and Pi Zero W both for backup hardware and to be able to get the Ansible automation done without accidentally breaking "production" as it were, and it arrived today, woot. As a side note, it never ceases to astound me how SMALL micro SD cards are!

our house raspberry pi darkroom

Posted on 20 June 2023, 20:21