Banished from Faerie by Master Crow
for a breach of confidence, Master Fox
found London to his liking, although
the reverse was not always true...
Hello friends, and welcome back to another week of The Art of Caesura!
The first few models that I posted on this blog were from a board game called The World of Smog: On Her Majesty's Service. While the models in this game are mostly busts of steam-punk Victorian "gentlemen" and "agents of the Shadow master," they also released full body sculpts. The model of the week is just such a sculpt, and timely too because these minis are making a huge resurgence with the Kickstarter for the follow up game (The World of Smog: Rise of Moloch) just having closed earlier this week. Back in October I had already started gushing about this follow-up Kickstarter, so you can rest assured that I have backed the follow-up as well.
On to the model of the week, Master Fox. I enjoyed the change in scale from all the huge models that I've been painting recently. This guy is much closer to Malifaux scale, which I find challenging, but really enjoyable.
He's just such a relatively basic, fun model to paint. I had a bunch of fox pictures open to get the colouration right, and ended up going back at the end with an extra layer of almost yellow super-highlights to give his fur a little more depth.
After finishing his paint-job, I cut him off his base then tried to ground his setting in the Victorian Era by pressing different sized small spheres of green stuff into the base to make cobble stones.
I then used a shell to add texture, by pressing it into the greenstuff once it had hardened a tiny bit.
To add a bit more texture and grit I glued some sand into the cracks. I then thinned some PVA (white) glue with water and painted it all over to seal the whole thing.
When it came to painting the base I worked my way up from black to some typical greys, but it was still appearing a bit too "rocky" instead of "cobblestoney". I tried a few focused washes into the cracks, but still wasn't getting the look I was going for. Then I used an all over wash of a sepia ink to change the colour register from grey to brown and instantly I felt it looked a lot more authentic.
As a final touch I made a splatter of Blood for the Blood God coming from one side of the base and had Master Fox facing that direction as if he's just come across a grisly murder on the streets of Victorian London!
I hope you liked Master Fox! He's really inspired me to get back to my World of Smog Ladies and Gents.
Have a great week, and we'll see you right back here on The Art of Caesura!
Reading: Asking for It - Louise O'Neill
Watching: Trollhunters - Guillermo del Toro
Listening: The Parting Glass - The Clancy Brothers
Next Week:
Going Home.
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