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"The Shuffling Dead" - Skeletons

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 hoard. 

Monolith Conan Boardgame

Seeing as how there are over 200 miniatures in the Conan boxes (and I still happily have a million other painting projects) I wanted to be quick and dirty with these guys. We're talking all over wash with Agrax Earthshade once all the colours were blocked in and then only minimal highlights. I feel the paint job captures the feel of these guys, and am happy with the result. 

Monolith Conan BoardgameMonolith Conan Boardgame


Monolith Conan BoardgameMonolith Conan Boardgame


Monolith Conan BoardgameMonolith Conan Boardgame

Monolith Conan Boardgame

Their bases took almost as long as the rest of them! I'll post a tutorial in the new year on how I'm creating relatively simple, unified bases for my Conan dudes. But the short version is: cover the base with sand, add patches of Agrellan Earth, paint the whole thing a light brown (I use Steel Legion Drab) ink with Agrax Earthshade and then highlight up to Ushabti Bone before added clumps of dried static grass. 

That's a wrap folks! I'm going to have some special projects over the coming weeks for Christmas, New Years and of course the one year birthday of this blog, so keep tuned in here on The Art of Caesura!


Watching: Rogue One (tomorrow)
Reading: Neonomicon - Alan Moore
Gaming: Fallout 4 - Bethesda


Next Week:

Holiday cheer!



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