There’s an ant’s nest somewhere in the front garden and so we’re having problems with the damn things coming into the house. I haven’t been able to track down the source as yet, though I have taken a few pot shots with kettles of boiling water, so this is a bit of an issue. I seem to have cut down the incursions, though I’m not really sure how. So ( Read more... )

The last ones for a while I think, since I've got an army to paint as well as a moot to get ready for (and real life to run too, obviously). These are my necron ones, and make more sense if you're aware that my Necron warlord is Trazyn the Collector, who pops in up fics and fluff text collecting anything from random bits of tech to entire armies. ( Read more... )

These are a gift that I sent Dessie, so they were finished a while ago but not posted until now. I’d never tried reposing models and I figured SM were a good place to start since the armour gave obvious cutting points and being smooth and bulky it avoided issues such as folds of material or trying to make spindly figures stay in shape. Maybe that’s ( Read more... )

A little bit late today because of the bank holiday. I was up in Glasgow which was nice and a much needed break, and now I don’t want to be back at work ( Read more... )

Quite a busy week this week, culminating in a lovely holiday with Alan in Durham. Coming back to work this morning to the standard situation of taking another hit has been a downer obviously, but I’m just getting so used to it that I don’t care enough for it to really affect me. I’m just going to keep applying elsewhere and hopefully get something ( Read more... )

I’m feeling weird without the girls around - it’s wonderful to be able to take my time going home of an evening, or even go out after 7 without worrying about who’s babysitting - but after six years it’s rather strange not having a piping little voice come and interrupt me in the shower to tell me her thoughts or ask a random question ranging in ( Read more... )

Quite a busy week last week, leading up to Ceri’s birthday party on Sunday. She wanted an ice skating party, so I themed the party bags to the film Frozen - badges, snowflake necklaces and cotton wool snowman sets. It was nice to do something a bit more personal than the standard pile of sweets and generic plastic toys. Ceri absolutely loved it and ( Read more... )

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I had a real push at organising the GW stuff this week and have taken approximately one million models off the sprues and into little plastic bags, thus greatly decreasing the space they take up. Jenny brought up another two boxes we had missed though, so it felt like an exercise in futility since the pile just kept getting bigger. But the pile of ( Read more... )

A full event report will probably follow at some point when I get time and my head together, but for now it’s hots, nots and quotes

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