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A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain bluetacked onto pieces of cardboard so I could airbrush the primer onto them. 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 whole lot has been undercoated in black then a white applied from a high angle so it catches the tops of all the surfaces and fades down darker as it goes down.

Definitely making progress here, the terrain — sans the scatter pieces — has been primed and zenithalled (yes that's now a word)!

My plan is to drybrush some pure white to bring out the details a bit more, then hopefully I can get away with painting just the crumbling wall parts that are covering the Necron walls and I can leave the Necron walls themselves as they are, just with some details picked out, and it'll look cool and clean and futuristic behind the crumbling. I'm not sure how it'll work in practice, it might still look unfinished, I'll have to try a test piece first.

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Posted on 30 November 2025, 13:42

A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain sitting attached together on my painting table. 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.

Right, the Tomb World terrain has been liberated from its sprues, next stop is priming!

The new connection method Games Workshop has for this terrain seems to be pretty improved over what they did for Into The Dark, I didn't do any filing or sanding for the Tomb World terrain here and everything has mostly fit together without issue.

(Necrons in the middle for scale.)

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Posted on 23 November 2025, 10:02

A photo of the full Hivestorm game board with all the terrain on it. It's all ruined industrial-looking concrete buildings with rusty pipes everywhere, and along the top of the ruins and in various spots down the sides there is snow that's fallen and collected so it looks extra desolate.

A close-up shot of the rear of the largest piece of ruined building terrain. There's a solid-looking red metal door at the bottom that's been partially smashed in, and pipes snaking along the outside going up that are broken off in various places. It used to be a three-storey building but the first floor has been completely blown apart and has just a relatively small section of flooring still showing, and the second storey is barely enough for a single miniature to fit on. There's snow on all of the tops of the ruin.

A close-up of the middle of the board where theres some of the smaller scatter terrain. There are some pieces of wall (or possibly floor) that have been blown into the ground vertically that are providing cover, and the very battered top off a large metal vat sitting on top of a small mound of other pieces of ruin. Two of my all-women Astra Militarum squad are in the middle facing off against three hulking and disgusting-looking Plague Marines who are clad in pustulant green armour.

In what might be a new record for me, I have a set of Kill Team terrain finished in slightly over a year since I bought the box. 😅 This is all from the Hivestorm box, and I'm really happy with how the weathering came out. I used Dirty Down's rust effect for the first time for this, it required a little trial and error before I got it looking how I wanted, but on the bright side it was easy enough to reactivate with water and just re-do it where I didn't like how it first came out.

Big props to @[email protected] for the underlying drybrushing technique, and I can't claim credit for the snow idea because I saw that, uh, somewhere else online, but I think I did a pretty excellent job of it.

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Posted on 19 November 2025, 18:45

A photo of one of the two larger pieces of terrain that comes with the Kill Team: Hivestorm box. It's made to look like a ruined gothic-looking building made out of metal concrete with steel reinforcements with rivets everywhere, enclosed on all four sides but the two sides facing the camera have been blown clean away down to a bit below shoulder height and it's completely open in the middle. At the rear is the second level of the building with twisted metal coming out from where the floor ends, and there are tall thick gothic-looking barred iron windows that end part-way up the wall where the roof also has been blown off. Three ordinary human-sized miniatures are standing on and in the terrain for scale, showing that it'd be a somewhat high-ceilinged building if it was fully intact.

I have finally gotten another piece of the Hivestorm terrain done (sans rust effects and weathering)! 🥳 Now there's just the really big piece left, plus the small pieces of scatter terrain. I'm quite looking forward to having a go at the single-player mode on an open board, even though Into The Dark is my favourite way to play Kill Team.

(All this just in time for the Tomb World box to arrive next week. 😅)

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Posted on 16 September 2025, 21:50

A photo of three undercoated but otherwise mostly unpainted miniatures, on the left is a positively huge Kosargi Night Guard, he's a hulking zombie-looking brute 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. Next to him 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 holding onto the top of an (actually painted) ruined stone column with one hand and dangling off the side with his feet holding onto the column and he's holding a long thin sword. The other 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 also holding a long thin sword.

I have started painting more of my Warhammer Quest miniatures (for the first time since January last year, oops)! 🎉

One of the friends I play Kill Team with on Sunday nights suggested we could do a "hobby and hang" over video call, and it was such a good idea, we had a good hour and a half chatting and painting, and I've made some progress on the two remaining Vyrkos Bloodborn (plus a tiny amount on the Kosargi Nightguard).

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Posted on 20 July 2025, 22:00

A photo of one of the Vespid Stingwing miniatures from the Kill Team: Hivestorm box. It's very insect-like with an exoskeleton and two pairs of almost dragonfly-esque wings extending out from its back. It has both arms out, one is holding a gun, and it's crouched on a piece of ruined wall like it's above to leap up and take flight. The whole thing is painted in a muted grey/blue colour, with a set of horns in a darker richer blue, and it has six red eyes positioned in pairs on above the other. The base is covered in snow.

First Stingwing is done! I wasn't sure about that base colour to start with, it turns out it's one of the Contrast paints that is REALLY pigmented and so the underlying zenithal highlighting doesn't really show through very much. Additionally on the rest of the squad I think I'm going to make the feet and hands the same darker blue colour that the horn things (?) are, but otherwise I'm actually quite happy with how it's turned out!

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Posted on 6 March 2025, 21:24

A photo of two disgusting Plague Marine miniatures, their armour is painted a khaki green and the trim has been done in a bronze colour. The one on the left is holding a gnarled staff up in one hand and has his other hand out in front of him casting some foul cloud of magic, and the one on the right is mid-stride and has what looks like a huge flamethrower slung under one arm. Both of them are in green pox-ridden Space Marine armour, with tentacles and pustules everywhere, and the one on the left with the staff has a huge mouth with massive teeth in the stomach of his armour, and some sort of fleshy/tentacley guts coming out of it.

And that's my two Plague Marines finished! I'm very pleased with how the plague cloud thing that the Malignant Plaguecaster is blowing came out, and it's not super-obvious in the photo but I painted all the tentacles and the guts on the Plaguecaster with gloss varnish so it looks all wet and extra gross.

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Posted on 2 March 2025, 14:59

A photo looking directly down into a stainless steel lunchbox, showing a 5x3 grid of magnets evenly spaced on the base of the box plus another row of five on the two long vertical sides and three on the short vertical sides.

The lunchbox again, this time with my Blood Angels Space Marines and Plague Marines magnetised inside. Two of the Blood Angels are attached vertically to one of the sides.

I realised after I assembled my Vespid Stingwings that my existing method of miniature transport (foam trays) wasn't going to work because they're QUITE large in overall dimensions and wouldn't fit into any of the trays I have, and their wings make them fairly delicate too.

A friend of my has an extremely DIY case he made out of a plastic lunchbox with a piece of metal drilled into the bottom and neodymium magnets glued onto the bottom of the miniatures and it works really well. I figured I could skip the metal-drilling bit by ordering a stainless steel lunchbox and then I'd only need to deal with attaching magnets underneath my miniatures' bases. Well, it arrived earlier in the week and somehow despite being supposedly stainless steel, it's not even slightly magnetic. 😑 I had bought a bunch of 5x2mm magnets so I figured I'd just superglue them into a grid pattern on the bottom and sides of the lunchbox, making sure I attached the magnets in pairs to ensure I wasn't going to be putting them around the wrong way and having the miniature repel itself from the lunchbox mount (I needed magnets up the sides because a couple of the tallest Stingwings won't actually fit sitting vertically in the lunchbox and so will need to be horizontal).

After a bunch of measuring and glueing, it's come out a treat! Unfortunately, while my plan to ensure I didn't put the magnets on in a such a way that they'd repel was in theory a good idea, I neglected to realise that the PAIRS of magnets I'd used to attach to the sides and the miniatures weren't ever going to be always in the same place, and I hadn't made sure that the pairs of magnets themselves were ALL in the same direction as each other, so it's a bit of a crapshoot as to which miniatures properly attach to which magnets in the lunchbox. Thankfully I seem to have fucked it up at about a 50/50 ratio so if one miniature doesn't attach to the magnet I put it on, I can just move it one or two and over and it'll be fine.

So now I can just throw my miniatures onto their magnetic mounts, put the lid on, and drop it into my backpack without worrying about breaking anything, and I also don't need to worry about the more delicate features like spikes or staves being ripped off as I'm trying to pull them out of a foam tray!

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Posted on 21 February 2025, 21:17

A photo of the eleven miniatures from the Vespid Stingwing squad from the Kill Team Hivestorm box, undercoated but otherwise not painted. There's one drone off the side, but the other ten miniatures are all insectoid aliens with six eyes, exoskeletons, and big wings. They're holding and pointing various guns and are in very dynamic poses like they're mid-flight.

Huzzah, that's the Vespid Stingwings from the Hivestorm box finally assembled and undercoated! Next, I need to actually finish painting the entire squad. 😅 Given how organic they are, I'm hoping a judicious deployment of Contrast Paints will make it pretty quick and painless.

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Posted on 19 February 2025, 20:18

Well, it might not be fast (I have way too many hobbies competing for way too little time), but I'm finally making some progress on my Plague Marines! As with almost all of Games Workshop's miniatures, the further along with painting I get, the more of the little details I notice (and in this case those details are all gross, haha).

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Posted on 20 January 2025, 21:29