Beauty is a fading flower,
Truth is but a wizard's tower
Where a solemn deth-bell tolls,
And a forest round it rolls.
Epilogue from "The Flower of Old Japan"
Alfred Noyes
Welcome back one and all to another week of The Art of Caesura!
I hope you all had great weeks! Mine was excellent, especially Tuesday when everything arrived at once...
Last week I was getting pretty excited about Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower and Total War: Warhammer and now their both here. Many people have been doing unboxings and early access game-play previews for Silver Tower. Some photos of assembled and painted minis are already making the rounds. Unfortunately I don't have the luxury at the moment of having much free time, but I do hope to clean and assemble a good bunch of minis this weekend in hopes that I'll have a test mini (Maybe a fun little Brimstone Horror) ready for you next week.
I'm already starting to think about how I'll base these bad boys. I know GW has gone with fairly traditional, banal "gravel-style" basing (though way better than when we used to base our dudes with goblin green and flock!). I have read about a guy who suggested making a green stuff press-mold (put a thin layer of greenstuff on the base, let it half harden before pressing the piece in) using a Tzaangor's shield.
Press-mold the top guy's shield? (I do not own this image) |
I do, however love the secret weapon bases and there are a lot of ones that could be painted up to fit the wild Tzeenchian theme. I've also heard of people talking about mirrors on bases which could be pretty aptly psychedelic.
Secret Weapon Bases |
I don't think I'll go into impressions on the models yet. I'll save the talks about each model for when I devote a week's focus on them. I will just say that they all look pretty great with heaps of variety!
As I mentioned, I've also started playing Totalwar: Warhammer. It's a blast! And, having never played a Totalwar game before, it's not as brutally complex as I'd been made to believe. I'm currently trouncing The Old World with Grimgor Ironhide (though Thorgrim Grudgebearer did best Grimgor in battle (disgrace!) which was a disastrous setback but I sense a grudge-match coming up.
I'll leave you with another pic of some of my old Warhammer dudes:
Have a brilliant weekend, I'll be going to the Killarney Beerfest, and will be sure to let you know of any memorable drams.
Listening: The Bad Dice Podcast
Gaming: Totalwar: Warhammer
Drinking: Armagh Craft Cider
Next Week:
Hopefully a little Silver Tower buddy
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