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A photo of two cans of Games Workshop undercoat spray paints, a box of Tyranid Warriors (four-armed Aliens-esque towering freaky alien things) and a box of Genestealers (also four-armed freaky alien things, but smaller and more hunched over).

I don't have a problem, I swear.

Posted on 30 August 2021, 15:22

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 Plague Marine, he has pock-marked heavy armour and spikes all over. He's in mid-stride and is holding a very large flamethrower-looking thing. His head, backpack, and both arms are unpainted bare plastic and are the new parts I added.

Another Warhammer 40,000 Plague Marine, this one has a tentacle for a left arm and is holding a meltagun. The gun and his right forearm are bare plastic and are the new parts I added.

And done, that's now one of every available operative type and weapon! Really happy with how the plague spewer guy came out. The guy with the meltagun was tricky as well because I had to hack the bolter he was carrying carefully around the tentacle so I could re-use it for the gun.

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Posted on 21 August 2021, 22:01

A photo of five miniatures (2 Tau, 2 Death Guard, 1 Space Marine Reiver) with an undercoat colour of white or black, with their weapons clearly newly-added because they're fully unpainted raw grey plastic. The miniature in the middle isn't fully assembled and is missing his head and both arms.

With the new edition of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team coming out and all the changes to squad composition (generally speaking you can only have a single type of special weapon in each squad), I'm doing some converting of my as-yet-unpainted miniatures!

Most of them I could just break the glue apart on the arm joints, but for the guy in the middle, his arms were one single piece connected to half the torso, so I had to hack through the whole arm at the shoulder.

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Posted on 21 August 2021, 13:27

A photo of a bunch of boxes of Games Workshop miniatures: for Warhammer Underworlds, two warbands (Hrothgorn's Mantrappers and the Crimson Court) and the "Primal Lair" terrain pieces from Beastgrave, and for Warhammer 40,000, Adeptus Mechanicus (two boxes of Skitarii and one box of Sicarians).

Birthday haul! This should keep me going for a while. And I'm getting another three Warhammer Underworlds warbands from my parents when we see them weekend after next. 😅

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Posted on 20 April 2021, 8:59

A photo of one of the old early 2000s Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine miniatures that's base-coated black but drybrushed in a gradient in blue-greys up to almost white in a lovely gradient.

I was having a bit of a struggle with my new drybrushes, you can't tell too much from my previous photos of Lady Harrow's Mournflight, but I couldn't get the drybrushing to come out properly all the time, it kept globbing and looking like crap. I decided to carefully watch Artis Opus' tutorial video and do some experimenting and, counterintuitively, it turns out I was actually taking TOO MUCH paint off the brush! Because the new brushes are so big and thick and soft compared to what I'm used to using (an EXTREMELY ratty old Games Workshop drybrush), you actually need to leave more paint on the brush and just really gently flick the end of the brush across the surface. Check out this gorgeous gradient I did tonight, I think I've got the hang of it now!

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Posted on 16 April 2021, 23:11

A photo of our dining room table with a bunch of crummy polystyrene terrain on it but also an enormous landing pad made out of cardboard, and lots of miniatures. My mum, a tall white woman with a very mid-90s short but poofy hairdo, is standing gesticulating at the table with a tape measure.

Another photo of our dining table with terrain on it, but this time I'm sitting beside it looking like I'm demonstrating something while mum watches what I'm doing.

A photo of me, a just-thirteen year-old white boy with short brown hair and a red (!) t-shirt on, looking extremely serious and with my hand in the position that indicates I've probably just rolled some dice.

I've been taking proper photos of my Games Workshop miniatures and posting them to Flickr, mum saw them and emailed to say she was very impressed and that I hadn't lost my touch. She ALSO mentioned that she had photos of me when I was much younger having a Warhammer 40,000 battle with her on the dining room table! She brought them over and I scanned them in and cleaned them up, and oh boy, check out the youth and the serious expression. 😂 There was a date on the back of July 1996, so I was 13!

I'm playing my Eldar, but I think I must have borrowed a friend's what looks like Orks because those miniatures at the far end of the table are definitely not mine!

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Posted on 21 February 2021, 11:24

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team board with three pieces of bit chunky industrial-looking terrain on it. Two have horizontal pipes going into chimney stacks, and the centrepiece is a massive two-storey thing with a wide platform on the first level and a smaller one in the middle on the second.

There we go, all the terrain is put together (miniatures included for scale)! Really happy with how it's ended up, the bits that are already silver are the pieces of the old terrain that I incorporated into the new bits. For the pipes I actually pulled them apart and reattached them in new ways, for the walkway at the left I just glued it as it was onto the side of the new one.

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Posted on 30 January 2021, 18:45

A photo of two boxes of Warhammer 40,000 terrain, the "Alchomite Stack" and "Ferratonic Incinerator". It's extremely industrial-looking, borderline steampunk.

Aw yeah, got two sets of more of the type of terrain that comes in the Kill Team box. I'm thinking of pulling apart a couple of the existing pieces that I have and attaching some of this to it (it's all interchangeable and I've only fully painted two pieces so far, the rest is just base-coated).

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Posted on 29 January 2021, 15:09

A photo of six Astra Militarum guardsmen from Warhammer 40,000. Their armour is very light grey bordering on white like they're ready for winter action. They're brandishing a variety of weapons, one is a sergeant holding a chainsword above his head, another has a sweet handlebar moustache.

And we're done!

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Posted on 23 January 2021, 20:47

A photo of six mostly-painted guardsmen from Warhammer 40,000. Their armour is very light blue/grey, three of them are wearing heavy armour and one has a helmet, another is a sergeant with a beret and brandishing a chainsword, two more are holding very large plasma guns, as is one of the heavily-armoured ones. One of the heavily-armoured ones has a beret and a sweet handlebar moustache.

I was batch-painting ten Astra Militarum guardsmen and it was getting a bit tedious and I wasn't feeling like I was making any progress, so I chopped it down to just the six I need for my squad. Feeling much better now, they're coming along excellently!

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Posted on 22 January 2021, 22:30