It will cut. It will KEAl ( K eep E veryone Al ive). - Doug Marcaida Welcome one and all to the first post of 2025 on The Art of Caesura! I hope you have had peaceful and happy Christmases and New Yearses! Today, we're picking up from where we were a couple of weeks ago: painting my Sword Brethren. We've already looked at sculpting their hair , painting their armour, cloaks and faces . Today we're going to look at painting the Castellan's Power Sword! Above you can see where we'll end up, but let's look at starting off. I had never painted a sword like this before. With my previous power weapons, I would paint them silver and then maybe paint a bit of blue lightening around the power node. I wanted to make this guy's weapon stand out a bit more, he is a SWORD brother after all! I loosely followed the technique from Warhammer Plus' video on painting power weapons. I adapted it to the colours that I already had. I started with a couple thin coats of Stag...
Hello hello fellow Caesurians! Welcome back to your Fridayly fix of The Art of Caesura! Okay after that lexicographically questionable salutation, I'll stop making up words. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! (in a few days). 2025. Man, the years are flying by! I remember back in my day, yadda yadda yadda... Having kids, while making your body feel older, does help to make your soul feel younger. It's fulfilling to reminisce about Christmases and New Yearses of my youth through their eyes. Wait a minute, what's with all this sappy sentimentality!? I haven't even hit 40 yet, and longtime readers will know that, here on The Art of Caesura, we save the sappiness for a few weeks' time when we celebrate the blog's birthday! Today is supposed to be about materialism - past, present and future!! Namely, sharing some of the loot that is likely to turn up on the blog. So, the big hobby news is that a few weeks ago I bought a 3D Resin Printer! A Saturn 4 Ultra, to be precise! My long-term...