After months of inactivity, I challenged myself to paint a mini in a day. So here's Splendid King Mydas, Giver of Golden Gifts.

Squires of the Everchosen ready for some priming.

This was good. Makes me want to read the first two. If you like military sci-fi, you could do a lot worse.

We did it team. Massive.

Team Aotearoa and Team Philippines ❤️

Trusting the recommendations sellotaped to the shelves at the second-hand bookstore for this one.

My cat is up to something

Infinity is a hell of a game.

Visiting parents in Auckland, a lot of pūkeko wandering around.

A photo of me genuinely having the time of my life at a one-dayer today. 0 wins, 3 losses with Archaon and his V-Guard, but great games none the less.

Checking the news today gave me quite the fright.

When an army wins Best Painted, having served its purpose, it should be destroyed by the TO with a hammer.

Citizens of Azyr are hereby instructed to dry puddles or spills on sight, in order to prevent mega-gargant infestation.

Mighty Ape you rascal. Does your evil know no bounds?

The game my wife has been working on has just launched on Steam. It's kind of a spiritual mix of This War of Mine and Dead of Winter. As a husband I am bound to recommend it, but as a gamer I have no qualms about it. I've played the demo a bunch and it's really good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKky...

Oh go on then

Doubling my Clanrat output to two at a time. The world is my warpstone nugget.

I have almost doubled my Clanrat regiment's numbers.

What a companion animal.

One done. 39 to go. Yikes.

Rat in Progress.

Took Spearhead for a spin for the first time, using Ironjawz. I get the hype. It's fun!

Revisiting my 2020-self by painting up some Infinity

READ A BOOK

Day one of a night school photography course tonight. Learnt that, rather than guessing every shot whether the shutter speed/f-value/ISO combo is right, there's a little bar that tells you whether your exposure is good automatically. I've been doing it wrong for years!

BlueSky is superior in so many ways to Twitter, but it has yet to match its ancestor's ad game.

Overheard one teenager explaining to another that Judas betrayed Jesus, he didn't stab him. Open the schools.

Happy Valentine's. My wife got me roses.

More progress on Gothmog. Skin is done, want to redo that eye.

Basecoating Gothmog

Gothmog's got some boys.

Put paint on some Chaos Familiars and assembled some Morranon Orcs.

A Gothmog for any occasion.

by age 30

Hobbling has been on the backburner for a while, but getting back into it by putting paint on this fellow.

It's hard going to work every day knowing that this guy coasts along just fine while acting like a muppet.

I recommend Nosferatu. Not as nasty as I thought it might be, and I really enjoyed Count Orlock's character. Lovely 'bad dream' feeling to a lot of scenes, which I really enjoyed.

I don't know why I decided to do Marines Malevolent for my Kill Team. This almost killed me, and there's another six to go!

End of the year means the start of a new Necromunda campaign. Chafing Shackles III: Under the Emperor's Gaze.

This Christmas, we've become illuminated.

I have a theory that the strength of a wargaming community is correlated with the level of discussion around the wargame, rather than its actual quality. Just waiting for James Workshop to sponsor a degree mill so that I can write my thesis.

Ensor's Exhilarating Estimations - December 2024 Battlescroll - Adding a list-building factor to compete against the one-drop is a great idea. Let's hope it's enough to actually compete. - The underdog/double turn changes are neat. Kinda just wish underdog wasn't a thing though?

Sometimes I consider trying out a WW2 system, but it makes me realise how much I value being able to paint my models gold or bright red.

The #hobbystreak survives. Day 33 and I've finally basecoated the skin twenty Clanrats, bar some tidy-ups. My soul is not built for infantry.

The reason the bed didn't get made this morning.

Ensor's Exhilarating Estimations: Heretic (2024) I enjoyed it, though I get why people wouldn't. The three leads were excellent. I don't think there were any "Whoah!" moments, but I still found the experience satisfying. 3 and a half Reddit atheists out of 5.

The Clanrat journey continues on day 24 of #hobbystreak. I'm going to start posting weekly, unless I have more productive days, just to save on bytes.

The lines are conga, the command points are stacking, it's second edition AoS baby.

Change of pace for day 23 of #hobbystreak. Tiny building.

Just 2.5 Clanrats' skin basecoated for #hobbystreak day 22. Definitely at a passion ebb, but that's 2.5 Clanrats that are a little bit closer to done.