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A photo of a bunch of chocolate chip cookies sitting on a cooling rack.

Made another batch of miso chocolate chip cookies and they are goooooood.

Posted on 29 January 2023, 12:30

Two pieces of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team terrain. 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. They're EXTREMELY ramshackle.

Two more pieces of the Kill Team Octarius terrain nearly done! I just need to wait a few days for the wash to dry, then drybrushing and varnishing, and then only two more identical pieces to these and I will be FINISHED!

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting terrain octarius

Posted on 28 January 2023, 14:50

The box of a small metal stove-top kettle that has a very thin curved neck that the water comes out from. The neck is attached to the kettle towards the bottom of the kettle body.

@yayKM was making pour-over coffee with a V60 setup for a while and it made the house smell absolutely AMAZING, but pouring coffee slowly and carefully out of the regular large kettle was a bit tricky (and also she's stopped making pour-overs anyway). I wanted to expand my coffee horizons a touch so I ordered a gooseneck kettle from the same people that make the V60 itself so I can start making some!

our house darkroom coffee

Posted on 27 January 2023, 10:50

I wish I'd gotten onto this airbrushing thing earlier. It's SO much faster to paint terrain, I'm actually going to finish all of the Kill Team stuff from Octarius! These aren't finished yet, but there's two more identical pieces to go, then it'll just need a splash of colour, a coat of quickshade and then some drybrushing, and it'll be 100% done. And then I might even try to make a dent in the Sector Mechanicus terrain from my old Kill Team starter box from 2019 that I've assembled and undercoated and then done absolutely nothing else with. 😮

our house darkroom kill team painting terrain octarius

Posted on 25 January 2023, 22:05

A photo taken from my point of view of a small scruffy blonde dog that's wedged himself into the very small gap between my leg and the arm of the lounge. There's a laptop on my lap and his head is resting up on the arm of the lounge.

Beanie does NOT like this thunderstorm, he's currently extremely wedged next to me on the lounge even though it's far too warm for wedging. On the bright side, he seems to be calm and isn't panting or shaking anymore, so that's good.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 24 January 2023, 21:28

A photo of a very messy desk with an airbrush sitting on it, a piece of junkyard-looking terrain from Warhammer 40,000, all of which is being brightly lit from above by an long narrow LED light that's pointing downwards. The light is being held in place by a gooseneck phone holder that's attached to the side of the desk.

I've had my painting table inside because it's been mostly too hot in the back room to paint, but I need to do my airbrushing out there because I can't do it in the house, which in turn means I'm back to using the extremely dim LED side lamp when I'm airbrushing at night. Solution: LED light from Bunnings held up with a phone holder that is far stronger than it has any right to be!

our house darkroom painting airbrush

Posted on 24 January 2023, 18:44

A photo of a beef burger with bacon, cheese, pickles, and lettuce on it, alongside a big pile of hot chips.

Treated myself to a burger and chips today, and what an excellent decision that was.

our house darkroom food portrait mode burger

Posted on 24 January 2023, 13:05

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying down on the pavers that are under our pergola. His head is up and he's staring directly at the camera.

Today is Beanie's tenth birthday! @yayKM is in the office today, and whenever that's the case, rather than snoozing with us at the back of the house in our home office, he spends most of his time outside sniffing the breeze and listening to all the neighbourhood noises. He just absolutely does not care what I'm up to if @yayKM isn't home, heh.

lightroom beanie our house dog

Posted on 24 January 2023, 8:39

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side on a green blanket, which is hard against a bookshelf that has a printer and various books on it.

Having a snoozy afternoon. He sure does like his blanket.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 23 January 2023, 16:42

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.

I decided that I should really bite the bullet and actually get started on the large pieces of the Kill Team terrain from the Octarius box that I bought in the middle of 2021. Figured it'd be a good opportunity to actually try doing some airbrushing in a fashion other than a zenithal highlight base coat, and I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming out! I'm less worried about obviously sticking within the lines because a) it's terrain and I don't care nearly as much, and b) in this case it's Ork terrain which is completely ramshackle anyway. It's weirdly shiny because I'm using Army Painter's "Strong Tone" shade paint, which is sort of like Citadel's washes but oil-based and far thicker, and for some reason they thought a glossy finish would be the go. Once it's dry (which takes a good 24-48 hours 😮) I'm going to give it a drybrushing with some gunmetal silver and then will hit it with a matte varnish to get rid of the shine, and I reckon it's going to look pretty tops.

our house darkroom kill team painting terrain airbrush octarius

Posted on 22 January 2023, 16:39