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A photo of a painted Aeldari miniature (think "space elf"). She's wearing elegant fuchsia-coloured armour with a dark turquoise cape flowing behind her and a bunch of dark leather pouches across her chest, and is holding two bone-coloured alien-looking pistols, one pointing like she's about to shoot and the other one behind her pointing upwards. She's got a cool-looking rebreather on that has an integrated targeting set up over one eye, and she's got a bald head except for a big tall top knot, and her skin is dark brown.

My first Corsair Voidscarred is finished! Now to actually paint the rest of the squad, given I finished my test Genestealer Cults miniature back in January (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2270) and still haven't done any more of those either... 😅

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Posted on 14 March 2023, 22:15

A selfie of me, a white man with brown hair and a red beard and a... let's say "large forehead", looking at the camera. My beard is very scruffy-looking and my hair isn't much better.

Me again, but this time the hair and beard have been gone over with a #2 razor attachment and it's all wonderfully short and neat.

It always amazes me just how hairy I am when I compare the pre- to post- head shave photos. So gloriously neat and tidy right now.

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Posted on 9 March 2023, 20:28

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying completely upside-down fast asleep, his back legs are up in the air and his head is off to one side.

Beanie is thoroughly enjoying our new aircon.

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Posted on 9 March 2023, 17:26

A photo of a small Android tablet attached to the wall, showing two zones "Living" and "Beds" with separate temperature settings for each.

We've had a problem with our aircon system where it'll cool things down really quickly, the compressor turns off but the fans remains running to keep air circulating, and at that point the system starts blowing humid air and making it absolutely disgusting inside. I've got all sorts of data from our temperature sensor and power usage setup showing that that's what was going on, but when we had the people who installed the aircon out, they'd never heard of that problem before and didn't know what to do. We gave up for a year (mostly because we stopped needing the aircon because summer had finished), but earlier this year I called someone else, he came out and immediately pinpointed the issue as poor temperature control (the only temperature sensor was on the aircon panel that's directly underneath the air intake). He recommended a new control system with separate sensors and more fine-grained control, and we had it installed today. It lets us have separate temperatures set for the lounge room and office, and early signs are looking promising! The only thing I don't like is that it's basically a glorified Android tablet, but I've done the responsible thing and set up a separate isolated wireless network for it to live on. 😛

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Posted on 7 March 2023, 13:12

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying half curled up on the floor, fast asleep.

Hot weather makes for a sleepy Beanie.

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Posted on 6 March 2023, 16:12

A photo of a partially painted Aeldari miniature (think "space elf"). She's wearing elegant fuchsia-coloured armour with a dark turquoise cape flowing behind her and a bunch of dark leather pouches across her chest, and is holding two bone-coloured alien-looking pistols, one pointing like she's about to shoot and the other one behind her pointing upwards. She's got a cool-looking rebreather on that has an integrated targeting set up over one eye, and she's got a bald head except for a big tall top knot.

Definitely happy with this colour scheme I settled on for my Corsair Voidscarred! Not bad at all for an hour and a half's work so far. She's not finished obviously, and I still need to get some more paints to do the highlights with, but I think I'll be able to get her done this weekend.

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Posted on 1 March 2023, 22:14

A photo of ten undercoated miniatures. Their armour is all quite elegant-looking as befits space elves, but they've got a lot of little details that make them look more like pirates. Everyone has a cool cloak, and the majority of them have very punk-looking haircuts (undercuts, mohawks, topknot ponytails) and are wearing rebreathers. Their poses are all mid-action.

The cover of the Warhammer 40,000 Second Edition army rulebook for the Eldar. The artwork on the front is classic Games Workshop, an exquisitely-armoured Eldar warrior standing atop a piece of rock, wielding a sword above his head. There's TONS of warriors in the background and all sorts of tanks and guns being shot, though they're all similarly elegant-looking Eldar warriors and tanks.

Got my Kill Team Corsair Voidscarred all assembled and undercoated! They're such great miniatures, and I've always had a soft spot for the Aeldari (previously known as the Eldar until Games Workshop did their Great Renaming a number of years ago). They were my very first Warhammer 40,000 army when I first got into it back in 1995, and I still have the Second Edition Codex: Eldar. All the Aeldari are basically space elves, and the Corsair Voidscarred are pirate space elves which is even more fun. (There's also the cousins of the Aeldari, the Drukhari — previously known as the Dark Eldar — who are BDSM space elves. I painted a Kill Team squad of them back in November last year: https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2205.)

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Posted on 27 February 2023, 21:49

A photo of the end game state of a Scrabble board.

And tonight we continued with the board games by playing Scrabble for the first time in... I'm not even sure how many years. I won 312 to 253, though was extremely helped by getting both the only Q and the only Z.

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Posted on 25 February 2023, 22:17

A photo of a dinner plate with a bed of golden mashed potato with a layer of beef mince on top, covered in chopped-up red capsicum and with a healthy dose of chipotle Tabasco sauce on top, and a big dollop of sour cream next to the mash.

Oh man, @yayKM made a nacho... mash... thing for dinner and it was SO GOOD.

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Posted on 23 February 2023, 19:44

A photo of a pizza in a open pizza box, with garlic bread behind it. On top of the pizza there's meatballs covered in bolognese sauce, fresh basil, onion, and strips of parmesan cheese.

@yayKM was in the office today and stayed back late, I was all excited to treat myself to some Indian for dinner until I went to order it and remembered that they're closed on Tuesday. 😤 So plan B: pizza and garlic bread (and enough of it that I'm also having it for lunch tomorrow).

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Posted on 21 February 2023, 19:43