Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! One of my hobby goals for this year is to submit photos of my dudes to White Dwarf. To do that I realized that I would have to re-photograph my stuff - they ask for a plain white background. Anyway, all this got me thinking that someone out there might find it helpful to know how I photograph my miniatures. Well fasten your seat belt, 'cause you're about to find out! When I was first thinking about photographing minis for my blog there were a few practicalities that I considered: Accessibility: I wanted my set up to be: Cheap : using only equipment / programs that I already had or were freely available. Quick : to set up and take down - the main part of the hobby for me is the painting, so I didn't want the photography to be a huge production that took loads of time away from painting. Also, we don't have a ton of room in our house, so I didn't want a set up that would be onerous to disassemble / stow away. Porta...

Friends, Romans, and Caesurians, welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Long time fans might not have recognized the place immediately, but I assure you, you are in the right spot; this is still the Art of Caesura you know and love!  I'm doing some pre-spring cleaning and with the third birthday just past, I thought it was about time to spruce up the blog a bit.  I'm always looking for ways to improve The Art of Caesura, and in the past, have created a logo , added a search bar, and re-titled all of my posts to be more descriptive! If you have any other ideas for improvements, please feel encouraged to leave them in the comments section below.  Today is the first of two "behind the scenes" things that I've been wanting to do for a while: the first is to update the look of the blog! The second thing will be the topic of next week's post. In regards to the "look of the blog," from the get-go I had always wanted a "landing page" f...

The “Knights of Saint-George”,  said to be to oldest club in London, is composed exclusively of retired soldiers  who share a belief in traditional definitions  of valor and an extreme loyalty to the crown. - CMoN Welcome back, gentles all, to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! After a break of a couple weeks, while we reveled in blog birthday festivities , we're back with the last few models from The World of Smog: On Her Majesty's Service. And today, we're looking at John Brown. I mentioned, when I was talking about Parvin a few weeks ago, that painting the busts of the heroes in this game provides another fun challenge; I'm trying to match their paint schemes to the full-body ones that I've previously posted.  Painting John Brown's bust was much easier than his full body sculpt was for one main reason: tartan (or lack thereof)! His bust doesn't display any of the tartan bits (bagpipe and kilt) that were on his ...

With their circular mouths, studded with rows of sickle-shaped teeth, Dread Maws can seize and devour a fully armoured man in seconds . - Forge World Welcome back to the post-birthday glow on The Art of Caesura! If you didn't get a chance to join us for The Art of Caesura's 3rd birthday last week , I urge you to now. I always have great fun looking back over the past year: the goals, the models...and then ahead to the future! At the end of last week's post, the special birthday "miniature" was revealed to be the dreaded DREAD MAW!! I have been quietly resisting building and painting Blackstone Fortress for the past couple weeks while I ferrited away on this guy. And what a great model it is! There is just so much detail on this big miniature. You can see the veins pulsating out of his body and the chitinous plates and skin and scale texture is excellent! And that's without even mentioning the carefully sculpted (and care...