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A selfie, I guess, of my character in Starfield. She has dark brown skin and brown eyes and has faint crows feet around the eyes. She has multiple piercings in ears, and her hair is completely shaved up the sides but the top is a big mop of black hair. She looks pretty much exactly like Naomi Nagata from the TV show "The Expanse".

And speaking of Starfield, dear LORD can you spend a lot of time in the character creator! As always I made a Black woman, you can't tell from this shot but I went with the heavy/muscular side of things for the body type, but as soon as I came across that haircut I was like "Oh, I've just made Naomi Nagata." 😅

Posted on 9 September 2023, 22:02

A photo of our lounge room. There's a box window towards the middle of the photo with a wooden TV stand and TV in front of it and bookshelf speakers flanking the TV, a round table with a lamp and various doodads in the corner to the left of the TV stand, plus a couple of other little side tables. The middle of the room is completely empty now due to the lack of lounge.

We're getting a new lounge delivered tomorrow (the old one is eight years old and has gone completely saggy because it was a comparatively cheap one) so this afternoon we moved the old lounge out to under the patio to make space for the new one, and MAN does everything echo in here now, christ!

our house darkroom tidying and rearranging

Posted on 8 September 2023, 14:07

A photo of twelve armed and armoured human soldier miniatures assembled and undercoated. Apart from the leader who is (as is traditional in the Warhammer 40,000 universe) not wearing a helmet, all the rest have cool-looking helmets on that are very reminiscent of old diving bell helmets, just with a regular visor instead of a narrow round window. They all have tanks on their backs and pipes leading from them to the masks, and have a variety of guns. One of them has a huge riot-shield-type thing and is aiming a futuristic shotgun through a slot in the top of it.

A top-down view of twelve round bases that the miniatures will be glued onto. They've been painted in a copper colour and the bases are sculpted to look like decking from like a steampunk starship, lots of pipes and things going everywhere, and a few of the requisite skull logos that are a requirement in any Warhammer 40,000 miniature or terrain.

I needed a bit of a palette cleanser (pun not entirely unintended) after painting 32 of the 60 miniatures in the Warhammer Quest: Cursed City box, so I decided to finally assemble and start painting the Navis Breachers from the Kill Team Into The Dark box! (Actually that's not entirely true as it's not JUST the Breachers from the ITD box: I bought a second set of Breachers from one of the people at work who'd bought, uh, one of the boxes that came with two sets of Breachers in it and he didn't need the second set, so I'm able to field a full team without needing to use the C.A.T Unit and the Gheistskull.) The miniatures are temporarily superglued onto the wooden dowels for painting rather than going directly onto their bases immediately because I'm using the very cool-looking "Void War" set of pages that Games Workshop sells instead and need to be able to paint them separately to be able to do the bases justice. The plan is to do a wash over them after what you see here and then a few layers of drybrushing, which I can't do if the miniatures are already glued onto the bases.

our house darkroom games workshop painting into the dark navis breachers

Posted on 3 September 2023, 22:00

A selfie of me and five other people sitting around a table with a bunch of empty plates and bowls on it. Everyone is smiling the camera.

Aww yeahhhhh, work-paid-for team lunch at New Shanghai in Westfield. 😎

sydney selfie me new shanghai work people

Posted on 26 July 2023, 13:17

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of fantasy buildings. There's four hero miniatures at the top (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (three skeletal warriors, three rat swarms, three bat swarms, and a lone vampire with a very long sword).

@yayKM and I played our first proper game of Warhammer Quest tonight! The miniatures were 95% painted (the heroes just need some finishing touches on their bases, and the "mysterious objects" weren't finished yet because I only started them this afternoon), and it looked great. It was going to be just a "Get used to the rules" sort of game, but we played through a whole game and figured we might as well make it the first real game and we'll continue with the storyline next game. Unfortunately we didn't roll too well on the end-of-game event table and our heroes are all going to be starting the next game with one wound counter already because they were hurt fighting off the undead that were trying to overwhelm the airship that is our mobile base of operations.

our house darkroom gaming games workshop warhammer quest

Posted on 23 July 2023, 23:00

A photo of a white rectangular casserole dish with tuna mornay in it The top is covered in Panko breadcrumbs that have gone all golden and crispy and it looks amazing. (And it tasted amazing too.)

Awww yissss, made Nagi's tuna mornay (https://www.recipetineats.com/tuna-mornay-casserole-pasta-bake/) with the sixteen year-old and it was GOOOOOOOOD. I really need to look up how to make white sauce without it taking an eternity though, because jesus christ it was seriously half an hour of non-stop stirring and we ended up cheating and putting corn starch in anyway.

our house darkroom food portrait mode tuna mornay

Posted on 22 July 2023, 20:22

A photo of the box of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. The artwork on the front is done in a pencil style primarily in red tones, and has several fantasy heroes in the middle battling off the skeletons that are lurking in the shadows to the sides.

The game itself is a co-op dungeon crawler and the box weighs a TON.

Who has two thumbs and another sixty miniatures to paint now? THIS GUY.

our house darkroom games workshop new miniatures warhammer quest

Posted on 29 June 2023, 15:52

A photo of a split mechanical keyboard. The primary keys are a nice grey/blue colour, the surrounding keys (Control, Shift, spacebar, etc.) are black, and the Escape and Return keys are red. There's an LED under each key and they're busily changing colours like a rainbow.

New keyboard day, Keychron Q11! I mostly blame @damonism for this. Also I didn't realise it had the hilariously tacky crazy RGB backlighting.

our house darkroom new toys mechanical keyboard

Posted on 28 June 2023, 16:29

A photo of the Sydney Harbour Bridge taken from a boat. The sky is grey and mostly overcast.

I am on a boat! Had to get up at 7am to get into the office for it, which was a bit of a shock though.

darkroom sydney harbour bridge boat

Posted on 22 June 2023, 10:26

A photo of a very large burger with lettuce, cheese, and onion visible from the side. A big bowl of chips is visible behind it.

A photo of a stylised sculpture of a black and white whale, it's short and stubby and has big teeth for some reason.

We are in Canberra! First order of business was lunch at Brodburger. Pretty delicious, though not the BEST burger I've had. We went to check in at the Hyatt and they weren't able to give us the room we asked for, and also they weren't ready for early check-in like they said it should have been so we went to the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. They were both pretty dinky, and fully half the National Gallery was closed. I took a handful of photos which I've uploaded to Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualwolf/albums/72177720309063596), and I loved this little whale sculpture by Horace Wikmunea. The Portrait Gallery was actually significantly more interesting, though still far smaller that I was expecting. Then we got back to the Hyatt and waited for ages for someone to actually come to reception to check us in, got our room key and went to the room, and realised it was directly overlooking the breakfast area despite us having specifically requested a quiet room. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Went back to reception and got moved to ANOTHER room, this one actually quiet, and now we're killing time until we head out for dinner with @[email protected].

food portrait mode burger canberra sculpture

Posted on 15 June 2023, 16:30