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A photo of four vampire miniatures, all heavily armoured. One is bald and is holding a huge mace vertically in front of him, the second has long black hair and he's wielding a sword and has one hand up in front of him as if he's doing a Darth Vader-style Force crush. The third is a very buxom lady in an armoured corset wielding two swords, with CRAZY long purple hair. The last is hunched over and looks like he's hissing, he's got a one-handed mace and big bat wings.

I finished the leader of The Crimson Court back in September but hadn't been feeling in the painting mood apart from that. I finally got around to finishing the rest of the warband now! (Though as is becoming a theme lately, I need to wait for it to be not hot or humid in order to get the varnish done so I can then put the blood effects on top of that).

lightroom our house games workshop painting warhammer underworlds direchasm the crimson court

Posted on 7 January 2022, 13:37

A photo of four boxes of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. Kabalite Warriors and Wyches for the Drukhari (think sadistic space elves), and Neophyte Hybrids and Acolyte Hybrids for the Genestealer Cults (the Neophytes are broadly human but with heads that are slightly too bulbous and alien-looking, the Acolytes are humanoid but with 3 arms and heads more like the alien from the movie Alien).

I think my favourite thing about Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is that you you can dip your toes into ALL the factions without having to spend an arm and a leg making a full army (plus the subsequent time expenditure of painting them). It's pretty much, "Buy a couple of boxes of the basic troops and bam, you've got a squad."

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Posted on 5 January 2022, 10:17

A photo of the board of Warhammer 40,000: Fireteam with miniatures on it. The board consists of hexagonal tiles and has industrial-looking artwork on it, and the miniatures are five Space Marines (big power-armoured warriors wielding chainswords and bolt pistols) and thirteen Necrons (Terminator-esque robotic warriors with guns but in poses like they're shambling like zombies). All the miniatures are shamefully unpainted.

I played a game of Fireteam against myself tonight, just to get a hang of the rules. I really like it! It's pretty straightforwards and nice and fast-paced.

our house darkroom gaming games workshop necrons fireteam space marines

Posted on 3 January 2022, 23:51

A photo of seven miniatures, all are painted in a purple/green zombie flesh-type colour. One of them is standing on the back of someone in armour who's lying face down, and has torn his arm off and is busily gnawing on it, another's holding a severed head. There's also two bats in mid-flight who are dragging a headless torso along the ground. All seven ghouls' mouths, hands, and feet are all covered in what looks like fresh blood like they've just fed.

Oh man, this blood effect paint (called appropriately enough "Blood for the Blood God") is amazing/horrific.

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer underworlds beastgrave the grymwatch

Posted on 3 January 2022, 14:31

A photo of a white metal outdoor table with various tools on it (drill, square, screws, pencil, etc.) and my painting table sitting on its side with its bottom exposed. There's a number of shiny new screws visible where I've drilled in from the bottom to reinforce the base to the dividing sections that are on top.

Doing some reinforcing on my painting table this morning. The original solution of Liquid Nails and some small actual nails wasn't holding up in places (I have no idea why I didn't just use screws to begin with, but anyway, it's definitely rock-solid now).

our house diy darkroom painting table

Posted on 3 January 2022, 11:56

A photo of seven miniatures, all are painted in a purply-green zombie flesh-type colour. One of them is standing on the back of someone in armour who's lying face down, and has torn his arm off and is busily gnawing on it, another's holding a severed head. There's also two bats in mid-flight who are dragging a headless torso along the ground.

For the first time since May of last year, I've actually fully completed a painting project! This is the Warhammer Underworlds warband The Grymwatch, they're a band of ghouls who are completely insane and think they're a noble band of knights but they're actually just, well, flesh-eating ghouls.

(Technically they're not actually fully completed quite yet, I still need to varnish them and then apply blood effects, but that's going to have to wait until it's a) not above 25˚C and b) not humid).

lightroom our house games workshop painting warhammer underworlds beastgrave the grymwatch

Posted on 2 January 2022, 23:21

A photo of me, a white 30-something man with blue eyes, cropped short brown hair, a red beard, and a forehead that could be classified as a fivehead.

Hahah, the strip lighting on my painting desk makes for a surprisingly decent key light for taking portraits. 😛

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Posted on 1 January 2022, 10:21

A photo of a small cooked pork roast sitting in a white casserole dish.

Well, unfortunately the pork was mostly a fail. Some parts were really dry and others were okay but tasted like nothing. I've got a list of things to do differently and try next time, so we can only improve from here!

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Posted on 31 December 2021, 21:40

A photo of a small rolled pork shoulder on a spit roaster.

We're giving our spot roaster its first go! Starting with a babby pork.

our house darkroom food spit roast

Posted on 31 December 2021, 18:25

A photo of my DIY painting table that sits on the dining room table. There's a section at the back that all the paints live in, and there's now a second level above it so I can spread the paints out now.

And done! Super-happy with how this came out.

our house diy darkroom painting table

Posted on 31 December 2021, 17:47