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"The Wanting Comes in Waves" - Arkanaut Company (How to Make Wave Bases)

...Array the rocks around the hull before we're sinking, A million stones, a million bones, a million holes within the chinking . The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) - The Decemberists Hi friends, welcome to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Over the past couple of weeks we've been chugging along with my first forays into my next Age of Sigmar army: The Kharadron Overlords. We've seen them come together , fired some basecoats on them and looked at all their cool details , now it's time to finish them off with equally awesome bases.  One of the things that really got me jazzed for this army in the first place was seeing what one person had done on instagram with the bases of their Fyreslayers and Kharadron Overlords. I was really inspired by the water effects and so decided to give 'em a whirl! I started by gathering appropriately-sized pebbles from the beach, looking for ones that were angular with a nice flat surface and s

"Aether Optics" - Arkanaut Company (Painting - Part 2)

The guile of those who hail from the City of Shadow  is legendary among the Kharadron Overlords.  Tales abound of their use of optics that alter  the colour of their ships, and of surprise attacks  launched suddenly by their fleets from the blackest of clouds. - Games Workshop Ahoy-hoy! Join The Company for our continued adventures on The Art of Caesura! You may recall that we left our intrepid sky-dwarves all undercoated and shaded, today we'll lighten things up and finish things off.  The next bit was fun: the "special effects", all of their eyes, lenses and aether-bits! To be honest, I probably could have done this after the highlighting stage, but after painting metal and armour panels for a week, I just wanted to mix things up for myself.  I started by using white to undercoat all of their eyes and bits that I wanted to look mystical and aether-infused (baubles on their armour, the inverted dome and tubing going into the pressure gauge on