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A photo of entire set of EXTREMELY ramshackle pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box from Games Workshop. At the back are four parts of an Ork fort that look like they belong in a junk yard, the walls and platform on top are made up of a whole ton of pieces of metal scrap, like big plates, corrugated pieces, massive beams, there's a door in there, and a couple of empty gas cylinders. There's also an old rig thing with the big pumping arm in the same ramshackle style, and scattered in front of these larger pieces are piles of scrap metal and chest-high walls also made out of all sorts of pieces of scrap.

All the big pieces are on cut-out pieces of cardboard that are covered in a texture paint that makes it look like sand, and there's various tufts of dry grasses growing around the base of the walls.

IT. IS. DONE. All of the Kill Team Octarius terrain, fully painted!

Posted on 19 February 2023, 10:56

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side on the bottom self of a side table, with sun pouring in on him. His butt is jammed against a shoe, and his head is resting against a thong.

Beanie's certainly made himself comfortable this morning. ...in fact, I just realised that we've had him for nine years as of today! (We got him as a rescue dog when he was just over a year old.)

beanie our house dog darkroom beanie lying on or under things

Posted on 16 February 2023, 8:24

I recorded a thing on the drums!! 😁 (The backing track isn't mine, full credit to Jack Curtis of https://drumdrumdrum.org; all his stuff is up on Bandcamp, highly recommended: https://drumlessbackingtracks.bandcamp.com). I screwed up slightly in a couple of places because I'm used to watching the iPad in front of me and knowing when time changes are coming from there but I kept having to look over at the computer to my left instead. I've subsequently realised that I can use the iPad as an extended monitor for the laptop and can move the track time display over to that. I also discovered the fun* of getting audio and video synced up, and how despite the fact that the iPhone says it's shooting video at 60 frames per second, it's ACTUALLY 59.94 and so by the end of the song the audio I recorded directly in Logic Pro had drifted significantly from the video. Thankfully iMovie has a "Speed Editor" where you can get it all lined back up again. But eeeee! Absolutely stoked with this!

our house music video drums logic pro

Posted on 12 February 2023, 18:56

A photo of two of the EXTREMELY ramshackle pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box from Games Workshop. They're parts of an Ork fort and look like they belong in a junk yard, the walls and platform on top are made up of a whole ton of pieces of metal scrap, like big plates, corrugated pieces, massive beams, there's a door in there, and a couple of empty gas cylinders. Both pieces are on cut-out pieces of cardboard that are covered in a texture paint that makes it look like sand, and there's various tufts of dry grasses growing around the base of the walls.

There we go, all finished. Absolutely stoked with how they came out, and I'm really glad I got some of the big tufts as well, it looks so much more natural. (Plague Marines and Poxwalkers for scale.)

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting terrain octarius

Posted on 8 February 2023, 20:11

A photo of four sets of little dry grass tufts to use on miniature bases, plus some tools (Green Stuff sculpting tool, a hobby knife, and some rubber brushes).

Woohoo, more basing bits! I'll be finishing two of my pieces of Kill Team: Octarius terrain with these tonight (it's surprising how quickly you go through the small tufts when you're putting them on a whole terrain pieces, rather than just one or two on a miniature's base).

our house darkroom painting

Posted on 8 February 2023, 15:01

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting upright with his front legs on the arms of our lounge, looking intently in the direction of the front door.

Beanie is very patiently waiting for @yayKM to get home.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 7 February 2023, 20:26

A photo of two thick pieces of bread with a fried-up combination of onion and capsicum underneath, along with some halloumi and Maltese sausage, and two perfectly-done fried eggs on top.

I treated myself to an all-day breakfast for lunch today, and it was gooooood.

our house darkroom food portrait mode eggs sausages breakfast

Posted on 7 February 2023, 13:01

A photo of the box of a Fender "Mustang Micro" headphone guitar amp. It's a little box with a volume dial on the front and some buttons on the side that plugs directly into the output of the guitar. You plug headphones into the amp, and off you go!

Yesss, very excited about this! All the reviews have been glowing and it'll be wonderful to just plug into the guitar, pop headphones on, and not be tethered to one place when I just feel like doing a bit of guitar noodling rather than anything serious that'd warrant the full tube amp setup.

our house music darkroom new toys guitar

Posted on 7 February 2023, 11:05

A photo of what looks like an old-style oil rig with the big weight that goes up and down. There's two tanks covered in metal plating of various colours with all sorts of pipes going everywhere, and it's all brown and rusty-looking. It's glued onto a piece of cardboard that's been painted with sandy texture paint, and there's little tufts of various colours of dry grass around the base of the rig.

The same oil rig but from the opposite side, you can see the grasses growing underneath the raised platform that connects the tanks to the big pumping weight thing.

I decided to do some basing on my Octarius oil rig terrain piece, pretty happy with how it's come out!

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting terrain octarius

Posted on 1 February 2023, 21:14

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting in a small line of sunshine on a somewhat weedy patio outside.

When you want sunshine, but just a bit.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 1 February 2023, 11:16