I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass... Meghan Trainor Welcome to another happy Friday on the Art of Caesura! I must have jinxed myself at the end of last week's post by questioning whether I'd be able to complete this Wyvern and basing project. At the final hurdle, disaster struck! I was in the process of trying to pin the wyvern to the base and I usually try to drill at right angles for strength, but for the wyvern's foot, I had to drill at a very oblique angle so I could run the rod up his lower leg to add support. Well, my bloody drill bit snapped and what's more, it broke off lodged in the hole.  For some people this wouldn't be much of an issue, but I live 2.5 hours away from the nearest hobby or robust hardware store and I don't have a car. I know there's this thing called the internet, but even shipping on that takes about 10 days...So it'll be a couple weeks until I'll be able to get a replacement - and at that stag...

A cry above - the wyvern dies Blind eyes have broken the oath so far away... The Hidden Quest ~ SuidAkrA Hello and welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Okay, okay, I know those in the know will be getting after me over the title ('Eavy Metal is the name of the group of Games Workshop's premier painters) but hey, I'm using it in the literal sense - this is one heavy metal miniature!! It's a classic: The Orc (Orruk) Warboss on Wyvern. Until the Maw-Krusha came out, I thought that the wyvern was surly the perfect mount for an Orc Warboss. It's like an evil dragon with only 4 limbs (as opposed to 6 of "normal" dragons) and a venomous scorpion tail! Now thinking more about it, I wonder if a wyvern wouldn't be more suited to a grot boss what with their evil love of poisoned weapons.  Today we'll look at building this beast and modelling the base! Get your pin vice, paperclips and green stuff ready...'ere we go! ...

Grot Shamans are especially sneaky, often concocting outrageous lies about being personally chosen by Gorkamorka for greatness, and zapping anyone that says otherwise Games Workshop And we're back for another Friday filled with joy, laughter, and fun minis over here on The Art of Caesura! So friends, through the vagaries of the warp (as the White Dwarf folks would put it) this is the model that has existed the longest in the limbo state between being painted, getting photographed and then getting posted on here. I usually keep pretty "live" with this stuff - posting the minis that I have completed in the previous week, but sometimes I try to build up a bit of a backlog if I anticipate busy times ahead. After I painted this guy I went to Warhammer World and then started painting models from the Conan board game and presenting this poor little goblin to you kept getting pushed further and further back.  I painted this guy BACK IN NOVEMBER - so the poor...

Thanks for tuning back in for another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Last week  I took you through my adventures with trying to magnetize these guys, but this week we'll look at them all painted up! My image of orcs (and orruks) has always been one of a disparate mob; a ragtag band of like-minded brutal greenskins. I have always painted them accordingly. I like them to look like they cobbled their armour together from any old place, and I intentionally rarely paint two adjacent pieces of armour the same colour. I know this look isn't for everyone, and I have often read articles about creating this kind of ramshackle look while retaining a coherent colour-scheme. To that I kind of say poo poo!    I feel that their green skin (for which I also like to vary the tones) and bare metal weapons provide enough cohesive elements. My style, of painting the various sheets of metal (pig-metal) that make up their armour brass and silver and black and red a...