"A Masterful Medium" - Sir Daniel Home

Uncanny entities and events abound in London—some

stranger than others—and the effects of their passing show

like scars on the city

-CMoN

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's a momentous occasion today on The Art of Caesura!

Today I present the final miniature from The World of Smog On Her Majesty's Service board game (including all kickstarter stretch goals!). I'm going to celebrate this achievement more next week so today we'll focus on the final mini. 

Today's miniature is my favourite of the whole lot! My avatar whenever I play the game: Sir Daniel Home!

What a cool and archetypically steam punk miniature - a bald dude (with a wicked moustache, no doubt) wearing a gas-mask emanating some fantastical aetheric vapour. 

When painting Home, I wanted to challenge myself with a limited palette (mostly browns) and work on emphasizing texture. I hope you can tell that the overcoat is a softer leather than the gas-mask for example. 

I used Sir Daniel Home's full-body miniature as my reference for this bust, but with the larger scale I was able to push some of the elements a little further. I tried to accentuate the contrast between the dark leather of his gas-mask and his pale skin. This detail helps with the narrative that he is more at home in his indoor laboratory or at nocturnal goings on; making him altogether more sinister. 

It was with some trepidation that I decided to match the vapour pouring from his mask with the plume that his other miniature is rising on. I followed my old recipe: 

starting with a base of Ushabti Bone, washing with Seraphim Sepia and Agrax Earthshade in the crevices before highlighting up through to Skull White. Finally, I gave it multiple thin washes of Biel-tan Green.

And am pretty satisfied with the match. 

Conveniently, I had originally painted his under-coat (in this miniature, his vest) the same blue as I used for Master Fox. I say this was convenient, because my wife and I most commonly play these two characters, so using the same blue across them lends continuity when these models are on the board at the same time.

Finally, his eye lenses. This is actually the FOURTH time I have done these lenses on this blog! I first painted them like this on the blog's very first miniature: the bust of Colonel Steel, then on Sir Daniel Home's full-body sculpt, then on Colonel Steel's full-body mini. If you ask me, this is the best version yet! Oh and also if you ask me, the recipe is basically 50:50 Doombull brown and black in the upper left transitioning through Yriel Yellow to pure white in the lower right corner. Ye standarde gem technique. 

Egads! That's the last World of Smog: On Her Majesty's Service miniature! We'll save the dewy eyes for next week when we look at them altogether, right here on The Art of Caesura!!

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