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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 game board for the full Warhammer 40,000 game. The board itself is red desert, and all the terrain on it is ramshackle Mad Max-esque junk terrain, or stepped hills that have been painted to look like they're in a desert. On the left are the so-called Tyranids (which are actually 3D-printed proxies that look kind of Tyranid-esque in that they're clearly xenomorph-type aliens but for legal reasons are not actual Tyranids) and on the right are the shameful Space Marines.

A photo of the much-smaller game board for the Combat Patrol game. The board itself is grey urban ruins, and the terrain is a mixture of Warhammer 40,000-looking ruined urban buildings, and a set of grey stone ruins that look like it might have come from some sort of fantasy game. On the left are the absurdly heavily armoured golden Custodes, of which there are all of eight in total, and on the right are the mechanical hunched-over zombie-looking Necrons.

Today I went over to a friend's place to hang out and watch a couple of games of Warhammer 40,000! (I have my mind full with Kill Team, plus I absolutely cannot be bothered painting that many miniatures to make a single full 40K army so I'm happy to just observe.)

The first game was a full-sized game of Tyranids versus absolutely shameful Space Marines, they were mostly unpainted and three-quarters of them were held together with Blu-tac. The second was an introductory game of 500-point Combat Patrol for a friend who hadn't played before, Adeptus Custodes versus Necrons, and both games were absolutely one-sided blow-outs. The Tyranids won 29 points to 4, and the Custodes wiped all but three of the Necrons off the board by turn 3, oof.

It's also hilarious how large the boards are versus Kill Team... the cut-down Combat Patrol game which was just two players is still double a regular Kill Team board, or the standard size you'd use for a three or four player game, and the full game board is just HUGE. I used to play 40K way back in the day and know it's a 60"x44" board but the vastly smaller scale of Kill Team has made me forget just how big that actually is. 😅

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Posted on 31 January 2026, 18:58

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 the battlefield at the beginning of the game. It's played on a roughly six-by-four foot play mat that's decorated like grass, and the terrain is almost fantasy-looking, there are some sections of hills and a bunch of various stone ruins. Closest to the camera are the orange-clad Space Marines, including two large walkers (the Dreadnaughts) and a gravtank with a big lasgun on its turret), and on the opposite side are the hordes of "Tyranids", which all look like a cross between crabs and the actual Tyranid models. There are a ton of small ones, and two HUGE ones that a towering over everything else.

A closeup photo of one of the large "Tyranid" units ( I don't remember what it was, but it's all chitin and huge claws and if it was actually alive and real size would scare the fuck out of you) towering over a squad of Space Marines.

Today started with me hopping on the Metro first thing after breakfast to go to Crows Nest to pick up my last two fully serviced and restrung guitars (the Ibanez JIVA10 and the Epiphone SG Standard), then I headed over to a friend's place for lunch (it was tuna mornay and it was gooooooood) and to hang out and watch a game of Warhammer 40,000! It was Space Marines versus "Tyranids", where the Tyranid miniatures were some custom 3D-printed alien crab things. They didn't end up doing the final turn because the Space Marines were already ahead 50-35 and it wasn't going to be possible to bridge that gap.

There was some hilarious dice rolling though, including a squad of 20 Termagaunts firing their Spinefist weapons at a squad of Space Marine Scouts, which involved rolling forty dice. 😂 (The Scouts ended up dead, unsurprisingly.)

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Posted on 8 November 2025, 18:38

A wide-angle photo taken looking down a long table of a bunch of people sitting and talking at a pub. There are empty plates scattered over the table, and a big window on the left looking out into some greenery.

A photo of the box of Lhykhis, a Warhammer 40,000 miniature. She's wearing sleek black armour and is partially crouched in mid-jump with a bunch of what looks like lightning underneath her in a partial globe shape like she's just finished teleporting from somewhere else. She has one hand out behind her, the other holding a big sword, two additional mechanical arms coming out from her back and pointing forwards above her shoulders, and ANOTHER two coming out underneath her real arms, and the whole effect very much brings to mind a spider.

I had a (belated) birthday lunch at our local pub today! Great to see friends, the food was delicious as always, and @[email protected] bought me a present, the new Warp Spider Phoenix Lord miniature for Warhammer 40,000!

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Posted on 10 May 2025, 16:19

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 miniature, he's wearing dark green armour and is holding a shotgun in one hand and has a big knife in the other, with the pose implying he's about to use it. He's wearing industrial-looking goggles and looks mostly human except his skin is a very light purple and his skull is just... slightly too big. The base of the miniature looks like it's completely muddy and there's lots of dark green and brown grasses growing, and the mud is splattered up his legs.

Just finished the test miniature for my colour scheme for the Genestealer Cults squad for Kill Team I have. Pretty happy with how it came out, the usual thing with the GSC is that they're all wearing industrial gear so I wanted to do something different and so made it look like they're wading through a swamp instead. There's also a pool of gross-looking green swampy water at his feet but you can't really see it at this angle due to the grass. I'll have to make a point of not covering that up so much next time, oops.

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Posted on 15 January 2023, 14:22

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 miniature wielding a plasma pistol and sword and standing in a very heroic pose. She's got a military cap on and her black stormcloak is billowing out behind her, and the base is a bunch of snow around a stone base that has a piece of gun-metal grey industrial equipment on it.

A photo of the full squad of Astra Militarum Tempestus Scions. In addition to the leader in the previous photos, there's another nine, they're all wearing big blue-grey armour and are wielding various guns, they've all got black or brown skin, and they all look extra bad-ass because they're wearing red berets and a couple of them have sunglasses on. The bases are done so they all look like they're standing in snow.

The entire Scion squad is finally done! 🎉 Absolutely stoked at how good they look, the base on the leader especially.

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Posted on 26 November 2022, 22:04

A photo of a mostly-painted Warhammer 40,000 miniature wielding a plasma pistol and sword and standing in a very heroic pose. She's got a military cap on and her black stormcloak is billowing out behind her.

We had another "refresh day" at work today, so I naturally I did more miniature painting. Extremely happy with how the leader for my Scions is coming along, she's very nearly done. Just need to do the plasma glow effect on the gun and put the snow around the base and then it's finished!

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Posted on 25 November 2022, 22:15

A photo of nine Warhammer 40,000 miniatures, they're fully-painted heavily armoured women troopers in very pale blue/grey armour wielding various guns. The four at the back have black skin and the new five have brown skin. Their bases are painted up to look like they're standing on snow, and there's wintery grass tufts on the bases too.

The unpainted leader in the middle is standing with one leg up on a piece of machinery, with her cloak billowing out behind her and pointing a plasma pistol in an imposing fashion.

That's my Scions done! The new ones are the five in the front, the back four painted ones are the ones I finished back in June.

I just need to paint my leader in the middle there, and my Kill Team squad will be fully complete!

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Posted on 20 November 2022, 18:40

A photo of five mostly-painted armoured troops. They've got light blue/grey armour and are all holding futuristic-looking guns. Their faces are brown with nice highlighting and I managed to do the eyes including the pupils.

Man, this is definitely getting to the slow part. Finally getting around to finishing the last five Astra Militarum Scions from my converted all-women squad, and it took me two hours just to do the eyes and faces.

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Posted on 14 November 2022, 21:56