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A photo of the subwoofer, it's a glossy black box about 29cm square, with no ornamentation on it at all except for a silver plate in the middle of the top face that says "REL" on it. There are four short silver legs, and it's sitting in a corner next to our TV stand in front of the window.

We have FINALLY upgraded our lounge room stereo system and added a subwoofer! It's a teensy little REL Acoustics Tzero MkIII (sealed box, 6.5" driver) but damn does it add some excellent punch. The bookshelf speakers we have are twenty year-old Wharfedale ones and still sound fantastic, but the HomePod definitely shows them up in terms of bass so I decided to finally do something about it.

Posted on 2 November 2024, 13:50

A photo of a magpie lark, a medium-sized black and white bird with a pointy yellow beak, walking around in our back lawn.

Unexpected benefit of the 120mm (5x) lens in my new iPhone: I can take better photos of the interesting birds we get bopping around in our backyard!

our house birds photos.app

Posted on 30 October 2024, 10:47

A photo of Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors, all of them have a metal-looking nameplate attached to the front of their bases with a gothic-looking font for their names: Sister Miraïs, Sister Lucena, Sister Sarine, Sister Genevane, Sister Arabeth, and Sister Dominea.

They're all wearing standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads painted in a deep rich red, the Assault Intercessors all look like they're mid-stride and are wielding got pistols and chainswords, and one has a grenade in her hand and looks like she's about to lob it. The other three are holding big boltguns, two look like they're in the middle of firing and the third had hers held upright in one hand while she points commandingly with the other. None of them have helmets and they've all got either mohawks or very short cropped hair and various cybernetic implants. Their guns and chainswords are all black and they've got various brown leather pouches attached to their waists. The bases are done up to look like battlefield mud, it's all dark brown and wet-looking and splattered part-way up their shins, and there's some swampy-looking grasses and green goopy swamp water on the bases too.

It's taken like six months but I finally attached the nameplates to my Intercession squad! ...though I guess now with the release of KT24 it's my "Angels of Death" squad now. 😛

our house kill team games workshop photos.app painting space marines

Posted on 26 October 2024, 21:52

A photo looking out from the patio into our backyard prior to mowing. You can see a bit of the patio at the bottom where there are weeds growing in between the bricks, the edges of the lawn are quite long, and the grass in general looks very scruffy. The side of our house is visible at the left, with two trees in large pots next to it. Behind us is a very dodgy wooden fence that has a distinct lean, with a two-storey red brick house with all its blinds closed behind it looming over everything. To the very right is our little hobby room, a small standalone structure that's sitting alongside the fence. At the very top-right are the big tree in the corner of our yard and the trees from the neighbour's yard poking over.

Exactly the same view as the previous photo, except the lawn is neat and tidy and the patio has had the weeds whippersnipped, and the sun is significantly further into its afternoon arc and the shadow from the house behind us is reaching about half-way into the yard now.

✅ Laundry: washed. ✅ Lawns: mowed. ✅ Edges: edged. ✅ Patio: de-weeded. ✅ Me: ded.

our house gardening photos.app

Posted on 26 October 2024, 16:46

A photo of the box of a 10TB Seagate external hard disk. The enclosure is basically a big featureless black box with a little white bit going over where the front USB port is.

This should keep us going for a while! Good upgrade from 4TB. 😛

our house nerd shit photos.app

Posted on 26 October 2024, 10:05

A photo of the box of a Boss ME-90B bass guitar multi-effects pedal. The "pedal" is more of a board, it's very large and a dark blue colour and is absolutely festooned with dials.

Huzzah, the last bit of my order arrived! Very excited to be able to get significantly more interesting bass tones now.

our house darkroom new toys bass guitar

Posted on 23 October 2024, 12:21

A photo looking directly up at the sky with six black and yellow helicopters mid-flight. The three at the front are in triangle formation and the three at the rear are in the same formation but a bit further back. The sky is blue and filled with wispy clouds.

Very weird thing just earlier this evening as I was leaving the house to pick @yayKM up from the station: I heard this unusually noisy helicopter sound, looked around and it wasn't a single helicopter but SIX, all flying in formation! They kept that exact formation the whole way until I lost sight of them behind the trees.

our house darkroom helicopers

Posted on 22 October 2024, 19:13

Right, I think I'm calling my first piece done! (Miniatures on top for scale.) I might go back and add some rust or otherwise general weathering, but I'll get the rest of the terrain finished first.

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting terrain hivestorm

Posted on 20 October 2024, 20:15

A photo of the two corner pieces of the Kill Team: Hivestorm terrain. They're simultaneously gothic and also sort of steampunk, with pipes running over them and two huge skulls designs. The pieces have been heavily drybrushed in grey, the metal doors and barred windows are an orange/red colour and the pipes are a rich brown. They're not fully finished yet, but look absolutely striking even in their partially completed state!

For a handful of hours work, this is coming along absolutely smashingly!

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting terrain hivestorm

Posted on 19 October 2024, 22:11

A photo of several different pieces of gothic-looking yet somewhat futuristic ruins of varying sizes sitting on my painting table.

Right, that's the terrain assembled and undercoated! Next stop, attempting to replicate @[email protected]'s method with minimal effort via the magic of drybrushing.

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting terrain hivestorm

Posted on 19 October 2024, 13:55