"FACEPLOSION!!" - The Hybrid

“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”

~H.P. Lovecraft

Hello hello! Come on in for another dose of The Art of Caesura!

Easter’s just around the corner so happy hunting (for eggs, not bunnies!)

Hope you enjoyed the last week’s musical interlude. At the end of last week’s post, I teased that I’d be painting up and showing off my favourite World of Smog mini this week. And well, here he / it is:

The Hybrid

"Sir Robert Ball, the Royal Astronomer, became the first listed victim of the celestial visitors when they began waking up. Pushed by a larval instinct that knew no humanity or morals, the creatures sought a living host to understand their environment..."

The World of Smog: On Her Majesty's Service

I recently read H.P. Lovecraft’s complete works, and am currently consuming Alan Moore’s Providence, plus I just have a baseline love for Victorian Steam-punk Horror so, suffice to say, this guy pushes all the right buttons for me. He’s a larval alien bursting out of some poor Victorian sod’s mouth.

It’s funny. After spending the past bunch of years on and off painting little else aside from hordes of Orcs and Goblins I thought that one of the challenges of this current project would be returning to human flesh tones. But now looking back at The World of Smog models I’ve already painted (and ahead to the one who’s on my painting table for next week) I’ve only done one “normal” human skin tone and that was on the Mad Scientist.

I really love this model, and I must admit to being pretty happy with how he turned out. The green ink and heaps of gloss varnish really tie the model together. I’m actually thinking of using this technique on my next painting project involving gribblies, which I will discuss more in a few weeks’ time…

I’ll have to double check, but I think I’m approaching halfway through The World of Smog minis and I hope you can tell that I’m SERIOUSLY enjoying painting them. I’ve said it before but it’s nice painting in a larger scale than I have been used to in the past (less time spent redoing errant pupils or other details). And, for me anyway, they take a nice amount of time to complete really unique, individual models – as opposed to batch painting five orcs, say.

As always, thanks for coming by The Art of Caesura.

Reading: When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi

Gaming: Pillars of Eternity – Obsidian

Watching: 10 Cloverfield Lane

Listening: Those awesome bands from last week ;)

Next Week:

A mini that seems inspired by R.L. Stine...

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