Lumbering, heavy-set creatures with furrowed brows and heavy armour, orruk Brutes are unconcerned with  the complex things in life. Their minds are filled with one thing only - Violence ~Games Workshop Website Hello all! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! I hope you're all doing well! We had few days of sun there last weekend and when that happens, there are few places better than this little corner of Ireland! By the way, I'll be heading to the Kerry Comic Con this weekend for a bit of craic. I might bring The World of Smog or Silver Tower for some evening gaming - give me a shout if anyone's interested in setting something up. Today we're shifting gears again. In my New Years post I teased some of the projects that would be coming down the pipeline this year. One of which was the fantastic box of Brutes that my fiance's mum (very thoughtfully, if not a bit embarrassingly) gave me for Christmas. I want to split them over a couple weeks, to zo...

Beer Speaks. People Mumble. ~ Lagunitas Brewing Top up your pint glasses as I welcome you back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! I hope you've all well recovered from the excitement of St. Paddy's Day. I went on a bracing 16km hike on Paddy's Day in the glorious pelting sideways rain and raging winds. A hike that led to one poor member of our party breaking her ankle! Yikes! Luckily we had something to numb the pain - whiskey! Following on from our ale-drenched post last week , comes the all-important Robber's Gold: Tasting and Judgment! Robber's Gold must have been reading last week's post, because it hits on a lot of the points that we talked about with golden ales in general. In colour it is more towards the lager end of the spectrum, but in taste it is still firmly rooted between a lager and an ale.  Colour : Golden Clarity : Clear Head : Full Aroma (hops) : Peppery Aroma (malt) : Biscuity Fruit flavours:  Citrus Floral fl...

Work is the curse of the drinking classes Oscar Wilde Happy Paddy's Day, lets grab a pint on The Art of Caesura! Over the past 6 weeks we've been looking at all of the full-body miniatures currently available for The World of Smog. I want to give a special go raibh maith agat  to those people over on the Kickstarter  forums who had nice things to say - that was great!  We'll be moving on this week, so those of you not into The World of Smog can breathe a huge sigh of relief, and those of you who are...don't worry, I've still got about half of the busts to paint (and that's before the new game arrives next year) so there will be plenty more World of Smog in our futures.  Many moons ago I started brewing a beer quite different to those that I had brewed before. Apart from the lighter colour, one of the craziest differences is that (as per the recipe) I didn't add ANY sugar for fermentation! This was a huge change for me, because the last re...

At 11:30am precisely every day, the Clockwork Guard changes in the courtard of Buckingham Palace under the calculating eye of their commander  Colonel Steel. Lord Babbage himself always said that the human element remained any army's  greatest weakness. Colonel Steel is designed to be the sole point of decision-making in the soulless legion in  Her Majesty's service. Once unleashed, the Colonel becomes a true juggernaut of  destruction.  The World of Smog: Rise of Moloch Thanks for tuning back into The Art of Caesura! All good things must come to an end, and this week marks the end of the past 6 weeks of looking at all of the full-body sculpts of the Gentlemen from The World of Smog. This has been such a fun project for me! Each miniature is jam-packed with character and they're all quite different from each other - diversity is the spice of life and all that! So, this week we end where it all started (the first m...

A survivor of the Bengal Suppression, young Parvin Khan was adopted by Countess Ada Lovelace, who taught the young girl all she knew of engineering, science and mekamancy. When the Countess passed, she left behind a brilliant young woman in command of a vast fortune and a burning  desire to see women everywhere in command of more than simply a well-kept house. The World of Smog: Rise of Moloch Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! This week I finished the other female character from The World of Smog, Parvin Khan.  Always eager to know more about these characters, I looked up Countess Ada Lovelace (from the Parvin's flavour text above) and it turns out she was quite a formidable real person (from Wikipedia): Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-pu...