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A photo of my painting desk setup, with an arch of LED strip lights illuminating the working area, five Skaven (rat-men) miniatures ready to be painted, and a bunch of little pots of paint spread over two shelves.

Friday night status: A Drambuie, a piece of 85% dark chocolate, and finally starting to paint one of the warbands that came in the Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze box.

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Posted on 30 September 2022, 20:35

A photo of twelve individual Skaven miniatures (little armed and armour warrior rats, essentially, from Games Workshop's Warhammer fantasy world) sitting on individual pieces of round wooden dowel. They're all undercoated black and have a different coloured paint sprayed from around the top of them so it looks like the light is hitting them from the top. In front of them are three Post-It notes with the colour of each paint written in each corner.

I might be overthinking this. (Though to be fair I've never used anything but Vallejo's black and white primer paints so I had no idea what the new ones would look like.)

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Posted on 26 September 2022, 20:55

A photo of box of eight Vallejo metallic airbrush paints in various shades, plus a medium grey, blue grey, rust, and orange rust.

Woohoo, my airbrush paints arrived! Now to hopefully not fuck it up while I'm using them to paint my Kill Team terrain...

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Posted on 26 September 2022, 13:11

A photo of all of the assembled grey plastic terrain from Kill Team: Into The Dark. It consists of a heap of interconnecting walls, all extremely detailed and steam punk-looking, with pipes and gothic-looking features and skulls. There's also extra bits like ammo boxes and little generators. The whole lot takes up almost the entire width of my painting table, which is 90cm wide.

IT IS DONE. (Miniature at the front for scale.)

::collapses in a heap::

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Posted on 17 September 2022, 21:20

A photo of my painting desk with a bunch of industrial-looking walls in grey plastic already assembled at the right, a sprue with more walls on it in the middle, and the assembly instruction booklet at the left. The desk is covered in the little bits of plastic I've chopped off the terrain to tidy it up.

Current status: Assembling the seemingly endless amounts of terrain from the new Kill Team box.

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Posted on 17 September 2022, 15:21

A photo of seventeen little pots of miniature paint, plus a roll of "Green Stuff" which is used for modelling and filling gaps in miniatures.

PAINTS FOR THE PAINT GOD! SHADES FOR THE SHADE THRONE!

Games Workshop brought out a new selection of their "Contrast" line of paints in new colours and with new some formulations, very excited to start using them. They've really been a game-changer in terms of giving excellent results but also being really fast to paint. And you can make some sweet effects with them too, by thinning them out and painting them atop other colours, especially metallics.

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Posted on 18 July 2022, 13:17

A photo of the "Ferratonic Incinerator" terrain from Warhammer 40,000. It's a massive rusty-looking cylindrical furnace with a platform on top and a gantry that extends across to the right. There's all sorts of pipes and wires and controls all over the whole thing and it's borderline steampunk but also very industrial.

I decided to mix it up a bit and today completed one of the huge pieces of terrain that I got in the old Kill Team box back in 2019. Pretty pleased with how it came out, given I only started it last night! I think the trick is to ignore all the crazy fine detail and just do broad colours, and just pick out a few key details at the end.

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Posted on 9 July 2022, 23:29

A photo of six barricades that come up to about chest height on the miniature that's standing behind them. They're all segmented and gears and teethed tracks on the inside that makes it looks like they can be expanded or collapsed in width. They're all painted in brown and look like they're completely rusty.

That's the barricades done, and with that, all the small bits of the terrain! Next stop, the full size pieces.

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Posted on 7 July 2022, 22:13

A photo of an A3-sized piece panel of MDF wood with rounded corners and a textured graffiti-looking pattern on the front, with a large drybrush sitting on top of it (think almost a makeup brush, it's got big and soft bristles).

How's that for perfect timing, my texture pad and extra-large drybrush from Artis Opus just arrived, exactly when I'm about to start doing the larger Kill Team: Octarius terrain pieces!

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Posted on 7 July 2022, 11:43

Two pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box. They're both walls but EXTREMELY ramshackle made from scrap, like corrugated metal and panels and part what looks like the door from a vehicle and so on. It's all totally worn and rusted-out.

Another piece of scrap wall in the same fashion as the first, this one has what looks like part of a big tank (the container not the vehicle) and rather incongruously has several coloured lights strung along the top of the wall.

Got the scrap walls finished too! I tried doing some lighting effects with the globes, with varying degrees of success. This was a little bit more work than the last terrain bits, but not by too much, and it was mostly mucking around trying to get the globes looking decent.

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Posted on 6 July 2022, 21:07