Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)

The 9th and final novel in The Expanse series, Leviathan Falls, will be released tomorrow. Can't wait.

#theexpanse #jamessacorey #scifi #fiction

I wanted to create an explicitly Death Guard themed piece of terrain for Warhammer, so I've been working on this piece. The concept is a depot for re-fueling units and vehicles with the liquefied corruption they spew from their various weapons. That stuff is, of course, highly mutagenic, so the tank itself is growing and festering.

Anyway, there' still a lot of paint work to be done on it, but now that it has a base coat you can really see how it's going to ultimately look. I'm pretty happy with it.

#warhammer #warhammer40k #grimdarkfuture #wargaming #terrain #artsandcrafts #painting #diy #mywork

I stumbled on a rock cover artist in a similar (but less polished) vein to someone like Leo Moracchioli. Anyway, she has a really unusual voice for a female vocalist. Check out the cover of Pantera's "Walk" for an example.

https://youtu.be/hA6Z4UwQPLY

#iragreen #acdc #metal #cover

As a book reader, I'm a little confused as to what they're up to. Despite the fact that they've decided not to continue the show and adapt books 7-9, they keep setting up stuff for it. Given that this final season is only 6 episodes it will have to run pretty lean, yet they're bringing in stuff about Laconia from the novellas that won't pay off. Why would they do this?

https://youtu.be/fb01ds-4IC4

#theexpanse #jamessacorey #scifi #tv

Finished my final plague marine model. I now have a complete army.

#warhammer #warhammer40k #grimdarkfuture #wargaming #games #miniatures #painting #mywork

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I've finally collected 10 models so I can field a legal Poxwalkers unit. May they die as slowly as possible.

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I just finished another plague marine. I named this one "Goldface Killah".

#warhammer #warhammer40k #deathguard #wargaming #miniatures #painting

Finally finished with this guy. I can't wait to play with him, he's a real bastard.

#warhammer40k #warhammer #deathguard #nurgle #wargaming #kitbashing #painting #diy

When a plague marine eats his vegetables and says his prayers, he can grow up to be a daemon prince of Nurgle 🙏

#warhammer40k #warhammer #deathguard #nurgle #wargaming #kitbashing #diy

I worked up a sweat this 4°C morning moving this season's household compost from the pile beside the house to one of the new bays beside the garden.

#gardening #composting #dirt

I cracked open the last bottle of my first attempt at mead, which I've saved for a year. It's cloudy because I used bread yeast, and I don;t know the ABV because I lacked a hydrometer at the time. It's not fantastic, but it's not too bad either.

#mead #homebrewing #fermentation #wine #honey #booze #diy

Respect tombstones in locally known rooms for Space children

#matrix #element #changelog

The official Nurgle/Death Guard Daemon Prince is a really uncharacteristically terrible model in my opinion. It looks really amateurish and dumb. I decided to kitbash my own using a Plague Drone kit I bought off of eBay and a bunch of random bits from other kits. I have it all stuck together with poster putty to get an idea of how I want it to look, but ultimately I'm going to blend it all with modelling putty so it will (hopefully) look pretty seemless.

I may be biased, but I think this guy looks WAY cooler than the "real" one.

#warhammer40k #warhammer #deathguard #nurgle #wargaming #kitbashing #diy

Just hit this with my homemade sawdust flock. I think it came out pretty well as a base, but I think I need to go in with some washes and dry brushing to darken some areas, lighten others, and smooth the transitions between the greens and browns. No bad so far for being made mostly from stuff I had lying around the house.

#warhammer #warhammer40k #wargaming #terrain #crafts #painting #flocking #diy

#humor

Still not a birthday cake, but now it's specifically not a chocolate cake.

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7 more plague marines built. Now I can have two full-strength units of 5.

#warhammer #warhammer40k #deathguard #miniatures #wargaming

I made my first test batch of DIY flock (material to create foliage color/texture in gaming/modelling terrain) and it seems to have come out pretty well. This is sieved sawdust, acrylic paint, and a little bit of dish soap mixed thoroughly. I'm not exactly sure what the soap is for, but all of the tutorials I watched used it. I assume it's to prevent clumping, or perhaps to lower the viscosity of the paint to get better coverage? This was pretty easy and cheap to do. I'll need to make a lot more of it, and in different shades to create a blend so it's not all monotone.

#wargaming #crafts #diy #flock #terrain

More progress on the not-a-birthday-cake. I'm happy with the way the basic stone effect is coming, but when looking at reference photos of European megaliths they're very often heavily encrusted with various shades of moss and lichen. I don't have any experience painting this kind of effect, so I'm wondering what might work best. Stippling with a sponge perhaps?

#warhammer #warhammer40k #terrain #crafts #painting #diy #megalith #moss #lichen