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A photo of three miniatures in plain grey plastic, all heavily armoured. One has a chunky telephone handset and is yelling into it (she's the comms woman), one is holding a giant flag that is the regimental standard, and the third has a medkit bag in one hand and a pistol in the other. The heads of all three are shiny pewter instead of being plastic and are wearing berets, and they're all clearly female.

Woo, the first three members of my all-women Astra Militarum Scions squad are assembled!

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Posted on 28 March 2022, 21:56

A photo of three heavily armoured warriors in full green armour. They're all grotesque, the left is holding an axe and a mace and has a grinning and fleshy demon face on his right shoulder pad, and he has a long purple tongue and fly eyes. The middle has a screaming daemon face on his knee pad and three tentacles bursting out from his left side. The last has a huge mouth in his abdomen with a long purple tongue coming out of it, and some sort of tentacle coming out from the left eye of his helmet.

Finished the last three members of my Death Guard squad for Kill Team! I'm really happy with how these came out, I tried some new techniques (much less dry brushing and more building up in thin layers, particularly in the daemon faces in the armour), and I used my airbrush to varnish them rather than having to wait for the weather to cooperate to use the spray can.

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Posted on 27 March 2022, 20:22

A photo of a big boxy stompy green Chaos Dreadnaught being overrun by eight purple, four-armed Alien-esque Genestealers.

My Dreadnaught got, uh, slightly swarmed. (We lost due to not paying enough attention to objectives, though we also didn't actually finish all the turns before my teammate had to get back home so technically it could have gone either way.)

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Posted on 26 February 2022, 15:47

A photo of a table with lots of home-made terrain on it, all either rocky or scrap-looking metal constructs. On this side are Chaos Space Marines, painted in green, next to regular Space Marines which are shamefully unpainted (and also held together with Blu-tac). On the other are Tyranids and Necrons.

Look out, we're playing Warhammer 40,000! Pretty sure this is the first time in seven years...

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Posted on 26 February 2022, 15:15

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine, a big heavily-armoured warrior holding a big gun, that's been undercoated in black and has a zenithal highlight of white done from the angles on the top so it looks like the light is shining on him from above. The gradient is smoooooth.

We were over at a friend's place today and he has an airbrush. I had a play around with it, and that's it, I'm getting one. Look at the damned smoothness of this zenithal highlighting!

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Posted on 12 February 2022, 19:00

A photo of my painting table with paints all at the back, a miniature in a little holder in the middle, a wet palette at the right, and two jars of water for rinsing the brushes in at the left. There's also a glass of rum and a piece of dark chocolate at the left.

Friday night status: a rum Old Fashioned, some dark chocolate, and painting. 👌🏻

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Posted on 11 February 2022, 19:47

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). There's also tall industrial/steampunk-looking pieces of terrain on the blocked hexes.

We played another game of Fireteam today, this time with fully-painted miniatures, and I added some (not fully-painted) terrain pieces on the blocked hexes for visual interest! Lots of fun, the mechanics and flow are good, but given the mission we did was the introductory mission, I don't understand how the Necrons can possibly win. I guess I'll need to do some research.

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Posted on 6 February 2022, 18:47

A photo of a bulky-looking robot suit, almost anime-style I guess, with a huge gun on one arm. (Yes, they _are_ called Stealthsuits despite being the least stealthy-looking things you could think of!) It's painted in a sandy desert kind of colour with black accents, and the base is also a sandy desert with a tuft of a bright red alien grass on it.

Over two years since I put my Tau Stealthsuits together, and I've FINALLY decided on a paint scheme and actually painted one of them, haha.

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Posted on 5 February 2022, 18:29

A photo of five Space Marines, heavily-armoured warriors all wielding pistols and chainswords. They're painted a blue/grey colour, one shoulder pad is a rich yellow and the other is a dark red. The sergeant in the middle has no helmet on and I was able to paint his pupils, and for the other four with helmets on, their eye slits go from red on the outside to yellow on the inside. They're on snowy bases and the bases have little wintery grass tufts on them.

The decal-softening stuff arrived yesterday, and today it was low enough humidity and temperature that I could varnish them, so now my Space Wolves are all done! 🎉

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Posted on 3 February 2022, 13:02

A photo of five Space Marines, all wielding pistols and chainswords. They're painted a blue/grey colour, one shoulder pad is a rich yellow and the other is a dark red. The sergeant in the middle has no helmet on and I was able to paint his pupils, and for the other four with helmets on, their eye slits go from red on the outside to yellow on the inside.

Well, I need to wait until I can get some of this special decal-softening stuff so I can apply the Space Wolves logo to their shoulder pads before I varnish them and put the little wintery grassy tufts on the bases, but I'm so happy with how these Space Marines came out! I did full zenithal highlighting, and the sergeant's face isn't drybrushed, I actually painted the highlights on by hand. 😁 And check out his pupils, and the other Marines' eyes!

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Posted on 29 January 2022, 21:50