Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org), page 14

#humor

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

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

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

Trying out some new materials and techniques for wargaming terrain. This is going to be the centerpiece of a 32"x48" battlefield, blocking line-of-sight through the center of the board and providing a strong firing position with cover in the center. I'm hoping that once it's finished it looks a bit less like a birthday cake 🎂

#warhammer #warhammer40k #wargaming #terrain #crafts #diy

I finally finished painting all of my current models, but I have seven new ones on the way.

#warhammer40k #warhammer #wargaming #miniatures #painting

Just put the final touches on the new Hügel. This is the first time I've done it the right way and built it in the fall so it can rest and settle over the winter before planting.

#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #gardening #permaculture

Looks like there are book 9 sample chapters out in the wild...

https://youtu.be/yUt0qgpmBDw

#theexpanse #scifi #fiction #jamessacorey #leviathanfalls

For me, the most interesting piece of future human technology in The Expanse is the ubiquitous “recycler”. It’s a mysterious contraption that you can throw basically anything into (food, utensils, clothing, guns) and it presumably “recycles” them. It works so efficiently that nobody seems to bother to clean or re-use most everyday items anymore. Dirty dishes? Throw 'em in the recycler. Skidmark in your underpants? Recycler. Need to get rid of a murder weapon? Recycler.

I don’t bother wondering how any of the alien tech works, because it’s meant to be incomprehensible… but I find myself spending a lot of time wondering how the hell the recycler works.

#theexpanse #scifi #fiction #jamessacorey

For me, the most interesting piece of future human technology in The Expanse is the ubiquitous "recycler". It's a mysterious contraption that you can throw basically anything into (food, utensils, clothing, guns) and it presumably "recycles" them. It works so efficiently that nobody seems to bother to clean or re-use most everyday items anymore. Dirty dishes? Throw 'em in the recycler. Skidmark in your underpants? Recycler. Need to get rid of a murder weapon? Recycler.

I don't bother wondering how any of the alien tech works, because it's meant to be incomprehensible... but I find myself spending a lot of time wondering how the hell the recycler works.

#theexpanse #scifi #fiction @jamessacorey

The latest (mostly) completed addition to my Death Guard army. This guy has a bit of an interesting story -- I bought a set of five pre-assembled but un-painted Blightlord Terminators, and this came with, probably by mistake. It appears to be a Lord of Contagion model that someone kitbashed by removing the plaguereaper axe and replacing it with a combi-melta and a chainfist. That's close enough to a Sorcerer in Terminator Armour and I need a psyker anyway, so that's what I went with. I thought he looked a little visually indistinct from the Terminators so I gave him and elevated base and made a staff/standard for him out of bits of junk and extra pieces from my bloat-drone kit.

Not too bad overall, I think. Now I need to get those Terminators finished up because I have seven new Plague Marines coming in the mail any day now...

#warhammer40k #warhammer #minatures #wargaming #hobby #deathguard

I started watching Y: The Last Man and I'm seriously underwhelmed. The show seems to have almost no interest in its own central mystery, and the titular character is a total disphit. Also, the last surviving man on Earth just happens to be the President's son, and also his name is Yorick, and also, he has a pet monkey? Who writes this trash?

#television #hulu #ythelastman

https://youtu.be/YDXc7MznYvY

#leomoracchioli #music #metal #cover #thedeadsouth

In the autumn, an old man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of of Hügelkultur

#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #permaculture #gardening #diy

Last night I finished re-reading Babylon's Ashes, I was initially pretty disappointed when I heard they were stopping The Expanse TV series there, but upon reflection I think it is a pretty decent spot to wrap up. It pretty much results in the functional end of the Earth/Mars/Belt paradigm that drives most of the series' drama and politics, and in that respect I think if forms a good "ending" to the story, albeit one that leaves some major unanswered mysteries behind.

#theexpanse #scifi #jamessacorey

I decided to catch up on The Good Place. The decision to set season 3 in Australia while obviously not actually being filmed in Australia, and with a lot of really terrible faux-Australian accents is a deeply weird one.

#thegoodplace #tv netflix #australia

This Machine Kills Astartes

#warhammer #warhammer40k #40k #deathguard #minatures #wargaming

I just found out about the retry library for python, and I don't know how I made it this far without it. 🤯🤯🤯

#python #programming #retry

This is the Plague Sorcerer conversion model I mentioned in my previous post. As it came, sitting on a plain base, it looked a whole lot like the Terminators, which is boring. Also, psyker units also usually have some kind of staff or banner. So, to make him a bit more interesting I made a raised base and pieced together a standard-type staff from leftover bits from my Bloat Drone kit. It will all look a lot less crappy when it's painted.

#warhammer #warhammer40k #gaming #tabletop #wargaming #miniatures #kitbashing