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...

Madame Singleton’s work as an archaeologist  and preserver of ancient cultures has led her  to many strange places in the galaxy. - Zombicide Hello one and all! Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Today we're picking right up from where we left off last week with the Ace Pilot for my Space Station Zero crew, Rhea Sol (AKA Aunty Entity (Mad Max), AKA Madame Singleton (Zombicide: Invader).  The Explorer vessel has access to two specialist units: Chief Engineer (better than a normal engineer) and Ace Pilot (better than regular pilot) so obviously I took one. The Ace Pilot has excellent Reaction (noticing things and dodging damage) with special abilities that let her role extra dice for Reaction tests and re-roll 1s. Not bad.  Wanting to capitalise on her Reaction I gave her one of the 3 coveted pieces of equipment that I have across my whole team: a Hyper-scanner. Like her Awareness ability (giving her two extra dice for Reaction tests), the Hyper-scan...

  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 ...