“Skedaddle boys ... it’s the law!” Dredd - 2000AD Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Last week, we embarked on this journey through space and time to look at some models that I painted almost exactly 3 years ago but never showed you. They are from Zombicide: Invader but I plan to also use them in Space Station Zero. We're starting things off with a bang, with one of my favourite minis of the lot (though you're going to hear me say that a lot): Judge Dredd! <Ahem>...Excuse me, for legal reasons, this is NOT Judge Dredd but rather Preacher Karl. As an aside, it's always fun to try to figure out what the inspirations were for the official names that CMoN gave the characters. For this guy, I presume the "Preacher" part is: a reference to another profession where words carry power (Judge vs Preacher) and also perhaps to Garth Ennis - comic book writer best known for creating Preacher but he also wrote a significant amount of early Judge Dredd. And then the ...
Hello and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! I hope all is well! Today, we are picking up from last week where I acquainted you with Space Station Zero and the miniatures that I would be using for this game. Today, I was going to launch into to the first of those miniatures, but...I got sidetracked. I was looking at my crew roster that I created like 4 years ago and realised that I had done it all wrong (I thought you could give each crew member 3 pieces of equipment, but it is actually 3 total across your whole crew) anyway, that's beside the point. While I was revisiting this roster, I started thinking about the story of my crew. I knew that they were on an Exploratory vessel and that their edge (their special rule in the game) is the very awesome "Time Masters". As I mentioned last week, I had figured out the models that I will use to represent each crew member, but I hadn't named any of them - or their ship - or come up with background for them (not necessary -...