"But if you've got my back, I'll go on" If I Ever Stray - Frank Turner Happy New Year from The Art of Caesura! It's going to be a super short one this week because I want to save all the resolutions and waxing lyrical for a few weeks' time when this blog turns one year old. I'm also working on kind of a big model for the one year anniversary too...so I can't show you that now either... So today I think I'll just give you a few sneak peaks about some of the projects I have for the year ahead.  Longtime readers already know that I have about half of The World of Smog: On Her Majesty's Service and Warhammer Quest Silver Tower left to paint. I also have a bunch of Malifaux and the Monolith Conan game that I just got - but you guys know about all that stuff. What you don't know is that between my time at Warhammer World and ebay, I've been making some sneaky purchases that have, until now, gone unannounced. I wan

The lamp is burning low upon my table top the snow is softly falling. The air is still in the silence of my room I hear your voice softly calling. Song for a Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot C'mon in for some Christmas cheer on The Art of Caesura! My good Caesurians, I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas / happy holiday / glad tidings for which ever holiday you celebrate or don't celebrate at this time of year! Not to be done out, a few of our friends from throughout the year wanted to spread the Christmas cheer, so without further ado: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... He sees you when you're sleeping... In his house at R'lyeh... ...dead Cthulhu gets into the Christmas punch. Sweet and twisted...like a candy cane. Like a Christmas tree...of skulls. So I hope you have a great Christmas everyone and I'll see you just before New Years for more on The Art of Caesura! Listenin

Shake thyself from the dust and ARISE! ~Isaiah 52:2 Hello one and all. Welcome back for your weekly hit of The Art of Caesura! It's hard to believe that we're in mid-December already! The largely crappy year (in terms of celebrity deaths and political happenings) is nearly over and The Art of Caesura is but a month shy of its first anniversary! So, what have I been painting this week? Skeletons! These skeletons are from the Conan board game Kickstarter and are really full of character! They remind me of the claymation skelies from the old Harryhausen movies (Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts etc).  Like the rest of the models in this box, they are resin and monopose, but with more detail than you notice at first glance. I liked how their (anatomically correct) skeletons show through their rags in places. It's been a while since I've done batch painting, so I tried to change up the colours of their rags to add a bit of diversity to this shambling h

Glad tidings all, and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! While my Guinness stew is simmering away I want to follow up on something I started into last week . You may recall that last week was one big nerdgasm over my time at Warhammer World. I had so much to talk about and so many pictures to show off that I didn't have time to go into any real depth about a topic that piqued my interest during one of the Black Library talks.  Something I really took away from the discussion between Guy Haley, Nick Kyme, and Josh Reynolds was about the intended tone of AoS. I have often heard the comparison that Warhammer Fantasy was "Low" fantasy and AoS is "High" fantasy, but Guy Haley took real exception to this. He said that he sees AoS as swords and sorcery fiction. I guess I've had some subliminal idea about what people were talking about with their highs and lows, but as an English Major and life-long fantasy reader I thought it would be fun to spend today delvin

Hey friends, welcome back to a special birthday edition of The Art of Caesura! My 30th birthday was technically last Friday, but I was away on a birthday surprise at the time, so had prepared that entry a couple weeks in advance. Now that we're back in real-time, I can tell you that my birthday surprise was both amazing and relevant to this blog... As you no doubt know by now I'm a big fan of Warhammer, and especially the lore. For me, rather than actually playing the game, the hobby is painting and reading about the guys I'm painting. So when we got to the airport a couple weeks ago and I saw our gate said "East Midlands" I knew it could mean only one thing: WARHAMMER WORLD!!! And what's more: THE BLACK LIBRARY LIVE event. My fiance? She's a keeper.  I'm from the West Coast of Canada, but have been living on Ireland's west coast for the past good bunch of years. As long as I've been into the hobby I've secretly dreame