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A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side on the floor, fast asleep. The sun is shining in the window such that just his face and front legs are in sunshine.

It's important to have a warm face.

Posted on 6 June 2023, 12:46

A photo of the ten miniatures that are my Corsair Voidscarred squad. They're essentially space elf pirates, all their armour is elegant and flowing and a rich burgundy colour, and they have cool turquoise capes. They're branding various ranged and close-combat weapons, and several of them have brightly-coloured mohawks. They each have a personalised name plate attached to the front of their bases, with a smaller bit of text on top that gives the unit type ("Fate Dealer", "Soul Weaver", "Way Seeker", and other such cool-sounding things), and a larger piece of text along the bottom that gives the unit's actual name, which are all sort-of Celtic feeling.

There we go, the nameplates for my Corsair Voidscarred are done and attached!

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Posted on 29 May 2023, 21:43

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 Skittershank's Clawpack, which consists five ratmen in various dynamic poses (one of them is in the middle of leaping over a smoke bomb he's just set off). 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.

We played some more Warhammer Underworlds tonight, my sneaky tricksy Skaven versus @yayKM's filthy goatmen. I ended up winning 11-8 but MAN was it tight right up until my very last activation of the whole game. The attacks I made in my second last and last activations were absolutely critical, because had I flubbed them — or had @yayKM successfully defended — she would have won 8-5 instead. Fully SIX glory came from killing her leader (two for killing him because he was a Large fighter, and another four from three different objectives)!

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Posted on 28 May 2023, 22:06

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on a green fuzzy blanket exactly where my chair and feet go when I'm sitting at my computer desk.

I turned my chair around and moved it slightly out from my desk so I could talk to @yayKM (her desk is directly behind mine in our home office), and Beanie immediately manoeuvred his blanket in under my desk and made himself comfortable on it. 😑

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Posted on 23 May 2023, 20:58

A photo of ten rounded nameplates that attach to the front of the base of a Warhammer miniature. There's a big section around the base with the unit's actual name and then a smaller section on top with what type of unit they are. The unit names are sort-of Celtic as befits Aeldari, and the types include cool things like "Shade Runner", "Felarch", "Way Seeker", and "Fate Dealer".

A few weeks ago I came across a post where someone had taken photos of their Warhammer 40,000 Kill Teams squad that had little nameplates on the front. Turns out there's a place in the UK that 3D prints custom nameplates with your own text on them in a variety of styles and fonts (https://www.versatileterrain.co.uk) so I ordered some for my Voidscarred and they arrived today! They're very cleverly attached to the printing bases only at the very back of the plate, so I'm going to leave them as they are for ease of painting and only chop them off right at the end of the process once they're all done and ready to go onto the miniature bases.

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Posted on 23 May 2023, 15:36

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying completely upside-down in a patch of sunlight. Both of his back legs are sticking straight out and you can see his top row of teeth because his mouth is slightly open.

Best spot in the house.

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Posted on 22 May 2023, 13:07

A photo of an electric guitar and an electric bass guitar sitting in gig bags open on the floor. A small scruffy blonde dog is giving them a good sniff.

We're going over to a friend's place in a couple of weeks for a barbecue and some music-playing, which I'm very excited about because I haven't actually played guitar with anyone else before. I realised that I didn't actually have any safe way of transporting said guitars though, so ordered a couple of guitar gig bags. I got a properly nice official Ibanez one for my JIVA since that's the expensive one, and a cheap and cheerful $50 one for the bass guitar which ought to do the job sufficiently for that. Naturally Beanie had to give them a solid sniffing.

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Posted on 18 May 2023, 16:28

A photo of me, a white man with a beard and short hair who is in increasing need of a haircut, holding a bass guitar and smiling at the camera.

Current status: B A S S.

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Posted on 16 May 2023, 20:40

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog curled up on a green blanket that's been rolled-slash-balled up right in front of a doorway.

Beanie has very carefully moved his blanket to be EXACTLY in the way in the doorway.

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Posted on 14 May 2023, 20:18

A photo of three heavily-armoured fantasy-type warriors. One is holding a long staff behind her and looks like she's in the middle of flying just above the ground, the second has a cool hood/cloak thing going on and has one hand in front of him levitating a giant rock, and the third has a sword and staff and is pointing his staff forwards like he's about to cast some magic from it.

A photo of five miniatures. The leader is androgynous and skinny and has four arms and no eye sockets and is wearing a long robe, and the other four are smaller and... just really fucked up. It's hard to describe. One is like a starfish but with an eye in the middle and a fish body, the second is running on four legs but has like six eyes and a mouth that goes most of the way around its body, the third is a leaning back on its arms and has like a bird head, while its lower half of body is too short and its feet are holding up a swirling ball of magic, and the last one is also like a starfish with an eye in the middle but it has three-fingered hands at the end of each of its five arms and it's capering along the ground while holding magical flame above its "head".

There we go, Domitan's Stormcoven and Ephilim's Pandaemonium are both assembled! All of the Warhammer Underworlds warbands are push-fit — meaning you still need to chop them out of the sprue, but gluing them together isn't required if you're not actually going to paint them because there's little poles on some pieces that go into holes on other pieces inside the miniatures to keep them together — but holy FUCK were the Pandemonium irritating to put together, they would have been SO much easier if they hadn't been required to be push-fit. 😫

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Posted on 14 May 2023, 10:05