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A photo of (most of) the terrain from the Kill Team: Tomb World box, it's a bunch of walls that all connect together with corner pieces. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves. The painting I've done is the brown stone that's covering the Necron walls so it looks like the stone is crumbling away and revealing the alien Necron technology underneath.

It's taken a while, but I've now got all of the base stonework done for my Tomb World terrain. 🫠 (The pieces off to the left are the fully-finished test ones I had done previously.)

The stone was definitely the largest job, theoretically it should be faster going now because there's much less left to paint in terms of surface area... various dark green bits like the archways built into some of the walls and a few other pieces, some glow effects, then it's just highlighting those various colours (including the base white of the Necron walls) to make them pop.

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Posted on 14 May 2026, 12:59

A photo of five adults and one child sitting (okay one of the adults is standing) around a dining table that has a bunch of paints and miniatures on it, all looking intently at what they're painting.

We went over to a friend's place today for a painting afternoon! My goal was to just put a dent in doing the base stone colour of my Tomb World terrain, I had half of one wall left and fifteen of the L-shaped wall connectors. I got the wall finished and two of the connectors, and did half of all the others (as in, one half of the L-shape: because they're a bit tricky to hold by only doing them half at a time it makes it easier to not put your fingers in wet paint). @[email protected] also painted her first miniature, a Tau Stealth Suit!

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Posted on 25 April 2026, 20:05

A photo of the original Deep Space Nine miniature before I painted it. In shape it looks very cool, it consists of a larger outer ring with another smaller ring in the middle, connected together with three equidistant arms, and three curved fang-like structures coming out both above and below the outer ring which give the station a bit of a predatory look. In colour though, it's a very bland grey/brown without very definition, and the yellow colour in the windows is misaligned with a lot of where the actual windows are.

And the same miniature but after painting! It's much darker now, with far more definition on all the edges where I've drybrushed it to a lighter grey, and the yellow on the windows is actually confined to the windows now.

@[email protected] has gotten really into Star Trek: Deep Space and a few weeks ago I remembered that I still had my collection of Star Trek Micro Machines miniatures that I got when I was in primary school, one of which was Deep Space Nine itself! From what I can tell the set was this limited edition collector's set, but the paint jobs on the ships aren't great, and the Deep Space Nine miniature in particular was quite bad.

I gave the miniature to @[email protected] to put on her desk but with it sitting on top of the monitor stand, it really blended in with the grey of the stand and yesterday she suggested I could repaint it, so I did! Black prime followed by a couple of layers of drybrushing, then just some yellow in the windows and bam, infinitely better. I didn't realise quite how munted it was until I was repainting it (the docking pylons are quite bent), but fortunately with the correct viewing angle you can manage to make it much less obvious. 😅

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Posted on 17 January 2026, 16:41

A photo of five fully-painted miniatures from Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. Four of them are fairly standard-looking skeleton warriors with battered and worn-looking armour and spears and swords, and red cloaks flying around in the breeze. The one in the middle is a Kosargi Night Guard, a hulking zombie-looking brute that's a good 50% taller than the skeleton warriors, with rotting skin and wearing a torn-up knee-length cloak and a Mongolian-style fur hat. He's got a big long beard and is holding an absolutely massive axe.

We are nearing the very end! Another five miniatures down, only five to go!

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Posted on 16 January 2026, 21:55

A photo of three fully-painted miniatures. In the middle is Radukar the Wolf, he's a pale vampire wearing red pants and a big gold waist buckle thing, with his chest bear and two HUGE wolf pelts complete with heads and legs draped over his shoulders. One of the wolves is white and the other is dark brown, and Radukar has two deep gashes in his chest that match the three gashes in the head one one of the wolves. At the left and right of Radukar are the two Vyrkos Bloodborn vampires that aren't quite fully (or formerly) human because they've got clawed feet and one has fur on his thighs. The left one is crouched low mid-sprint with one hand held out in front of her like she's about to grab someone's throat and her other hand is out behind her holding a long thin sword. The right one is holding onto the top of a ruined stone column with one hand and dangling off the side with his feet holding onto the column and he's also holding a long thin sword. Both the Bloodborn have their swords bloodied, as well as their hands and their swords.

It might be over six months since I last touched them, but that's three more Warhammer Quest miniatures down: the remaining two Vyrkos Bloodborn plus the big bad of the whole Cursed City box, Radukar the Wolf! It turns out I'd actually already done all the base colouring for Radukar over a year ago and had completely forgotten about him, so pretty much all that required was detailing and basing. Similarly the Bloodborn only needed their skin base colour done, then it was on to the detailing for them too.

With them down, I'm very much nearing the end... I've got another boss to go (Torgillius the Chamberlain), one more Kosargi Nightguard, then the last four of the skeleton warriors. Plus two tiny little gargoyle things and another two what look like zombie cats that I haven't actually seen mentioned anywhere in the rules or anything yet, so I don't know where they come into it. There's a sealed envelope that you only open once you're at the very end of the campaign so I'm assuming they show up there.

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Posted on 7 January 2026, 18:27

A photo of my fully-assembled Wyrmblade (Genestealer Cults) squad for Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. There are twelve miniatures, they're all wearing industrial-looking armour that's painted in a dark green colour, but when you look closely they're clearly not human: their skin is too purple and their heads are too large, and some of them have claws or three arms or a freakishly-long lizard tongue. The Kelermorph I mentioned in the post has one pistol pointed off to the side like it's aiming something, its other arm is holding another one upwards, and it has a THIRD arm that's about to pull a third pistol out from a holster. It's got a red cloth mask around its nose and mouth, and its brown leather cloak is billowing out behind it as if it's actually in the middle of a gunfight. The leader's chainsword has been painting with black and yellow hazard stripes but I used a piece of microcell foam to dab dark grey primarily on the side where the teeth are, followed by the same for a light silver, and it absolutely looks like the paint has been coming off due to wear! All the bases are painted with muddy-looking texture paint and have swamp-looking grasses growing so it looks like they're wading through a swamp.

Three years after I bought them, and two years after I assembled and undercoated them and painted the first test miniature, I've finally finished my Wyrmblade squad for Kill Team. 😅

This has been a record pace for me, it took me under a week to finish them (although I'm cheating because I'm on holidays and have been spending hours at a time getting them done). The initial broad stages took maybe two and a half days, but then it was the same amount again spent on the details. Absolutely stoked with how they've come out though, the Kelermorph (the three-armed gun-slinging-looking fellow at the front) is such a cool miniature, and I did some weathering for the first time on the hazard stripes on the leader's chainsword and it came out absolutely perfectly!

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Posted on 2 January 2026, 18:39

A photo of my rather messy table in the back room that has an airbrush sitting on it along with miniatures in various states of assembly. The new light is a wide panel mounted on two-segment metal arm that's attached to the left side of the table and hangs nicely over to the middle where I'll be doing the airbrushing.

I finally got sick of how dodgy my old lighting setup in the back room was and ordered a proper one, which arrived today!

With the old one it was a bit cramped at the right because where the "arm" was is around where the airbrush sits, with this I can attach it all the way at the left edge of the table and it reaches out nicely. My only complaints about the new one are that 2200 lumens is actually not as bright as I thought it was, and the LEDs in this are quite blue compared to the old switchable light. It's not a big deal though because I'm not doing any colour-critical airbrushing, I can pretty much count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've done anything except black and white.

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Posted on 29 December 2025, 11:26

A photo of a quite ornate Space Marine that's been primed in black and then had a zenithal highlight with white done from a high angle make it look like it's being lit from above. The body is in one piece, he's holding a tall staff that looks almost Egyptian, and he's pointing with his other hand. His head isn't attached (it's on the piece of cardboard that held everything down while I painted it), and nor is his backpack and cloak, which looks like it's blowing dramatically in the breeze.

A photo of Lhykhis the Warp Spider Phoenix Lord, sitting in several pieces. On her body she's wearing sleek armour and is partially crouched mid-jump with a large elegant sword in one hand and her other hand out for balance. Next is her backpack/back armour which has two mechanical arms coming out from it and pointing forwards above the shoulders, and another two coming out below where her arms would be when the backpack is attached, and the whole effect very much brings to mind a spider. After that is the curved ruin that the whole miniature sits on, then her helmet which has an additional two eyes above where her regular eyes would be, and then finally there's the lightning effect that goes underneath her when everything is assembled, it looks like the bottom section of what would be a curved sphere of lightning.

A photo of the fully-assembled five Ork Nobz (and one gretchin) that make up the Fire Team, well, team. They're all hulking, bestial-looking brutes with lowered heads, massive jawlines and are all wearing extremely ramshackle armour that looks like it's been pieced together from whatever scrap metal they could find. Two of them have giant mechanical claws that look like what you'd find at a car wrecker and another has a flamethrower that's had a machine gun welded to the top of it. The gretchin looks like a tiny goblin and barely comes up to the waists of the full-size Orks, in one hand it's holding a stick grenade that's taller than it is, and the other is dragging a box filled with bullets.

I took a break from painting the Tomb World terrain to assemble and prime Ahriman! I'm going to try painting him in separate pieces, hopefully it'll make things a bit easier. 🤞🏻I also assembled and primed my Warp Spider Phoenix Lord that a friend gave me for my birthday back in April (also being done in pieces because ye gods).

And I spent most of yesterday assembling and magnetising the weapons on my box of Ork Nobz that I got nigh-on four years ago now. 😅 Realistically I'm not going to be swapping weapons out because these were just purchased for Fire Team, but I wanted to try it because I'm going to need to do it for the Deathwatch that came in the Tomb World box and I wanted to have something low-stakes to practice magnetising on (I've never done it before). It started out slowly but everything went off without too many hitches, until the very last miniature where I got myself turned around and put the wrong polarity magnets in and so they didn't attach to him. 😑 Fortunately I was able to push the magnets that were in his shoulders into the hollow cavity inside the body, with rather a lot of effort mind you, and then put a fresh set of correctly-facing magnets in to replace them.

I definitely need to make sure I pay extremely careful attention when I'm doing it for real with my Deathwatch, and I've also ordered a set of 3x1mm magnets because these 3x2mm ones turned out to be a bit too deep for a couple of the arms and I ended up drilling out the other side of the arm, oops.

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Posted on 27 December 2025, 18:28

A photo of two of the wall pieces of the Tomb World terrain. The designs on the wall have a geometric alien-robotic look, and part of it is covered with cracked stone so it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath the stone. The stone is brown colour, and the alien-robotic walls are shaded white and grey, with white highlights, and really contrast with the crumbling stone. The right-hand piece is the one I'd previously finished, but the left-hand one has a cool almost Egyptian-feeling doorway in it where the top half of the doorway sides tilt inwards. It's got a big chunky door frame painted in dark green and the door has three gold-coloured Necron scarabs on its surface.

Wall piece number two is down, plus one of the connectors and a door! (And not pictured, another one of the "doors" that looks like a bunch of lightning).

I had briefly thought about painting Hexwraith Flame into the little gaps in the connector pieces to make it look like it was glowing but quickly decided that I cannot be fucked.

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Posted on 7 December 2025, 18:02

A photo of one of the wall pieces of the Tomb World terrain. The designs on the wall have a geometric alien-robotic look, and part of it is covered with cracked stone so it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath the stone. The stone is brown colour, and the alien-robotic walls are shaded white and grey, with white highlights, and really contrast with the crumbling stone. In the middle of the wall there's a misshapen section missing because there's another section that gets plugged in when you're playing and you can breach the wall at that point and blow it out, which means you need to take the missing piece out so it can act as a doorway.

SUCCESS!

The drybrushing didn't go as well as I'd hoped (it's already too light for it to really work), so I've had to manually highlight everything which means this is not going to be a quick project. 😅 But I'm really happy with how it's all come together. I really liked the hazard stripes above the doors on the top of my Into The Dark terrain as a really obvious way to highlight "HEY THERE'S A DOOR HERE, THE ENEMY MIGHT COME THROUGH IT" and I had been pondering how to do that here but without being yellow and black hazards stripes because that wouldn't really go. Turns out hazard stripes still work fine, you just need to theme them!

I'll need to tidy up the edges of the stripes and put a white highlight along the top wall edge, but these are going to look really sharp on the tabletop when I eventually get everything finished. I'm thinking I'll paint the Necrons themselves in a similar colour scheme as well.

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Posted on 4 December 2025, 21:47