First listen, my friend, And then you may shriek and bluster.  - Aristophanes Welcome back, one and all, to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Last week we celebrated the FIFTH BIRTHDAY of the blog - five years of posts every single Friday! If you didn't get a chance to attend, why not hop back and re-live the celebrations?  I mentioned in that post that I always paint my biggest model of the year as a birthday present to the blog, and we caught a glimpse of what that model was: Reichbuster's Shrieker! If you're wondering what excites me about Reichbusters, you can check out this post . Today we're going to look more closely at the painting process and next week we'll gaze at pretty pictures of the finished product. This is a huge model, and I was uncharacteristically good at taking work-in-progress pictures, so let's dive right in! I started by cleaning up this big bruiser: cutting off the (very minimal) mould lines and extra rivet that looked a bit silly o...

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ART OF CAESURA!! Cue the confetti-poppers, my weekly blog is FIVE YEARS OLD!! That's half a decade of posts every single Friday right here on The Art of Caesura! And what a year it's been. With these birthday celebrations, I don't want to dwell on the negative, but I will just acknowledge that this has - without a shadow of a doubt - been the hardest year of my life. And not just because of the pandemic, but that certainly exacerbated everything. So it's with some degree of pride that I managed to keep painting and posting despite it all. Your support, through comments and just tuning in, has been especially wonderful this year.  Five years is quite a long time to do anything. It's longer than I've been in my current career, it's over three times the length of time that my daughter has been alive, it's longer than I've been married, it's longer than most university / college degrees...that tenacity is another source of pri...