Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. - Dr. Stephen Hawking Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! This Friday is a little bittersweet because my parents, who have been visiting from Canada for the past month and a half are leaving tomorrow. We've had such a wonderful time with them, and my kids have adored having them too! Now, let us turn our attentions back to Stephen Hawking...I mean Doctor Falconer, or Chief Engineer Boros, as he's known in my Space Station Zero crew.    In Space Station Zero, a Chief Engineer is a souped-up version of the Engineer who is only available to be taken on my ship type (Exploration vessel). He has +1 Intelligence and Reaction (both of which will be very useful for disabling bombs and any other tricks the Space Station might try to throw at me). To further improve his chances of success in these tests, he has an ability called "Bypass", which, once per challenge, allows him to reduce the target number on such a...

I'm an engineer. If it's not broken, I don't fix it.    B'elanna Torres (Voyager) If it's Friday, it's time for the The Art of Caesura! Hello fellow Caesurians, I hope you are well! While I show you these pictures of the Zombicide Invader minis that I'm using for my Space Station Zero crew, I'm secretly ferreting away on other exciting hobby projects that I can't wait to show you...but wait I must, for today we're looking at the very brilliant Doctor Falconer / Stephen Hawking / Chief Engineer Boros Another fun and characterful model from Zombicide Invader. The name this time is obvious (Dr HAWKing vs Dr FALCONer). With his super-smarts and souped-up mobility assistance rig, he can definitely fulfill the roll of Chief Engineer Boros in my Space Station Zero crew.  In terms of painting this guy, I sprayed him black (leaving the areas that would be metallic black) and I painted his jumpsuit Deathworld Forest, and all the areas that would be industr...

Sometime science is more art than science.  - Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty) Hello again and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! We're deep into my crew from Space Station Zero, based on the miniatures from Zombicide Invader. Today it's Dr. Richard Morton AKA Rick Sanchez (from Rick and Morty) AKA Dr. Ilyen Quist, the scientist in my crew.  When I wrote the story about my Space Station Zero crew , I had actually planned Quist as female, inspired by  Tali'Zorah's character from Mass Effect. In preparing this post though, I went back and read my story and I realise that I never actually gendered Quist in the narrative. So this model, clearly based on Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty, still works as the scientist for my crew. Just to remind you of the convoluted history of these miniatures, I painted them soon after they first came out with Zombicide Invader in 2023, but they never quite made it onto the blog. Now, 3 years later, I'm righting that wrong.  I'm really...

I'm a scientist because I invent,  transform, create,  and destroy for a living.  And when I don't like something about the world,  I change it. Rick Sanchez - Rick and Morty Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! It's an awesome one this week! I know I keep saying it, but the Zombicide: Invader minis are awesome! It's Rick Sanchez (from Rick and Morty)... IN SPAAACE !!! In Zombicide, he's actually called "Dr. Richard Morton" (an obvious homage to both Rick and Morty in the name) in my Space Station Zero crew, this is my scientist, Dr. Ilyen Quist. Like the rest of the models for my crew, I had an absolute blast painting this guy, and he came together really quickly! From a zenithal undercoat, I painted his pants with Contrast Wyldwood. For his turtleneck, I watered down some Incubi Darkness and applied it fairly dilute. His boots were simply Contrast Black Templar. I shaded his lab coat with Contrast Apothecary White, and used this quite st...

“Even through the medication, my head is killing me.  And I hate using my mouth to speak." - Dorian the Grey (Zombicide: Invader)   Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Last week we started looking at Dorian the Grey / Dr. Sera Vale - the medic on my Space Station Zero team today we're going to look at how she fits into that team.  As I mentioned last week, from everything I've seen and read, Space Station Zero is a really lethal game. Your guys can just fall through the floor in a mission and then have to roll on a table after the battle where they might just die. There are many other things that can kill you: poison gas, bombs, station security gone haywire - and these are without even mentioning the enemies you face - who are trying to kill you! All this being said, having a medic is kind of essential (and with an Explorer vessle, like mine - The Relentless Astryx - it actually is a requirement).  In the game, the Medical Officer can heal your guys - shocking, I kn...

Please state the nature of your medical emergency. - Star Craft   Welcome back one and all to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! This week we're back with my Space Station Zero gang, and this time we're looking at the Medic.  In Zombicide: Invader parlance, he's Dorian the Grey (get it? Get it? Like Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Grey" because he's a grey-style alien . Good, we got it). In my crew and short story from a few weeks ago , he's a she, and she's called Sera Vale.  I started with a Grey Seer zenithal undercoat. I carefully painted Contrast Space Wolves Grey (lots of greys in this post...) just over her skin.  I painted the kind of undersuit with Apothecary White (which, keeping with the grey theme, is basically just a pale grey).  Then out came The White to highlight and define the harder armoured areas.  White was followed with black. I painted the iconic alien pistol (maybe in my crew it's a medical tricorder or dermal reg...