Parasitic carcasses of canines infested with maggots and flies. - Factory Fortress Hello everyone! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! The end of summer is a very busy time in our household! Two of my daughters have their birthdays in August, and school starts back (my middle daughter is just starting "big school" this year). So things have felt like a whirlwind for the past couple of months. Anyway, let us now turn our attention to these (not so) good lil' boys. We're deep in the trenches now! We've been looking at my Cult of the Black Grail warband over the past couple of weeks and today we're going to look at one of the speediest members of the crew: The Black Grail Hounds. Before we get started, I'll just address the elephant(iasis) in the room: I don't know what is up with their gigantic ball bags! I've looked it up (with regret), and I just dunno - I can't really find any reference as to why plague dogs would have enormous scrotums. So ...
Puddles and ponds of melted flesh are left in its wake, endless mouths left screaming in their agony, for the Black Grail destroys the body but leaves the mind intact to suffer. - Trench Crusade Welcome back, dear readers, to The Art of Caesura! Last week we looked at the first Trench Crusade miniatures that I've showcased on the blog: the horrible Black Grail Thralls. Those minis also laid the groundwork for how I paint all of the skin on my Black Grail guys. Well, this week's post is equally foundational; today we're looking at how I'm making all of my Black Grail bases. Before we get into the painting, I'll just say that I got these STLs off a Kickstarter by the designer SRS-studios and I 3D printed them myself. Judging by the blues and purples on the Kickstarter image, I think they were designed to be Tzeentch bases, but I actually think, with the appropriate colour-scheme, they work perfectly for these Black Grail guys! So, after spraying them b...