Welcome back, one and all, to The Art of Caesura! Today is a brief but special post to wish a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my wonderful wife (it's kind of a big one this year).  This one's for you Jules, we all love you! Happy birthday! And I'll see the rest of you back here next week!

A thousand xenos enter. No xenos leave. - Zombicide Website Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Today, we're continuing our coverage of Space Station Zero / Zombicide: Invader! We've already had "Time Masters" (my short story) and then looked at the NOT Judge Dredd character and today we have NOT Aunty Entity (Tina Turner's character from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome). In Zombicide she's called Madame Singleton and in my Space Station Zero crew and short story, she is Rhea Sol, my Ace Pilot. If you're not totally sold on the idea that she was modelled after Entity, check out the promo image that had to be reworked for NOT IP infringement reasons:  No, you're right, there's no resemblance whatsoever! And the reworked (and final) version: Anyway, the aspect of this paint scheme that I am most happy with is the skin tone. It looks a little reddy in the image below against white-primed rest of the model, but with the rest of the details in, I think it ...

  Gaze into the fist of Dredd - Brian Bolland, Judge Death Lives (1981) Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! We're just entering Space Station Zero in terms of our coverage here on The Art of Caesura. Three weeks ago we looked at inspiration I drew regarding the miniatures for this game. Two weeks ago, we set the scene with my narrative about my crew, and last week we took a look at the painting process of today's miniature: Preacher Karl / Judge Dredd (or Soldier Garrick Thorne as he is known in my crew).  As the only Soldier in my crew (as an Exploration ship, I'm only allowed to have one of each crew-type until I've fulfilled every role), he better be ready to kill some stuff...and survive!  The Soldier's innate ability ( Combat Specialist - Once per turn, when the Soldier makes a Combat Challenge Test, they may select any two dice from the results and reroll those dice) will make him more reliable at killing. He will use his free Side Arm fo...

“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 -...