Two thousand years ago these Vestals were chosen from among the first daughters of the highest patricians of ancient Tyr to serve as sacrifices to Great Moloch. - Cool Mini or Not Ooogie boogie booooo!! Welcome to a ghostly post on The Art of Caesura!! After Beefeater Zombies and then Dismembered Zombies , this week we're moving away from rotting flesh, but keeping in the undead spectrum. Today I have The World of Smog: Rise of Moloch's Lamias to show you. I was familiar with the term Lamia (or Lahmia) from Games Workshop's acrylic medium "Lahmian Medium", and figured it had ghostly connotations, but on further research (i.e. wikidoodle ) , it turns out: Lamia, in ancient Greek mythology, was a woman who became a child-eating monster after her children were destroyed by Hera, who learned of her husband Zeus' trysts with her. Hera also afflicted Lamia with sleeplessness so she would anguish constantly, but Zeus gave her the ability to remo...

In Rise of Moloch, archaeologists have discovered the means  to reanimate dead bodies,  quickly replacing mechanical inventions  with cheap, undead labour,  putting England in dire peril. - Kickstarter Well hello again and welcome to The Art of Caesura! I hope you and your loved ones are staying well through the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this virus takes up a lot of my professional life, I don't want too much of that to spill over onto my blog. I'll just leave you with the advice to seek reputable sources of information: WHO , CDC / ECDC and your local health authority (Ireland's HSE and Canada's Health Canada  for example). Okay, now on to some lads who aren't so healthy... Last week it was Zombie Royal Guards, this week it's Dismembered Zombies with animated intestines - all par for the course in The World of Smog! Although I've owned the game for over a year, and have painted a bunch of the individual characters for it , and ...

The changing of the guards... INTO ZOMBIES!! Welcome ladies and gentlemen to The Art of Caesura! This week we're leaving the video game miniatures behind us and heading into the foggy alternate London of The World of Smog.  I must be getting old. I actually painted these guys AGES ago, I think it was around last March - I believe I painted them just before we moved house !! Anyway I completely forgot about them until I was working on the 200th post  and found them as I was selecting pictures for the post! We'll blame it on the move...not senility! Sometimes I relish in lavishing details on one model, and sometimes, as with many of the multitude of mono-pose minis, I like to do a nice quick and dirty job on a bunch of miniatures at once.  And who doesn't want to paint a bunch of Beefeater Zombies!?  I painted these before Contrast Paints were released, otherwise I think they would have worked really well for these guys (a quick Bla...

It’s a funny thing, ambition.  It can take one to sublime heights  or harrowing depths. And sometimes  they are one and the same. – Emily Kaldwin, Dishonored Hello residents of Dunwall, I mean readers of The Art of Caesura! After Scorpion last week , we're continuing with another video game-inspired mini. A few weeks ago I beat Dishonored, the video game. I know, I know, it's only been out for eight years, but anyway I only got to it now. I really really loved it. I loved the steampunk atmosphere where the world runs on whale oil and you can literally see ships bringing the poor creatures in to be processed...The art direction (stylized) means that graphically, the game has aged very well too.  Anyway, this post isn't a review of the game, but rather about an interesting miniature that I recently bought. The main character of Dishonored is an assassin named Corvo.  If Ezio (from Assassin's Creed) existed in the Bioshock universe, you would have Cor...