And by circumstance, or perhaps by divine will,  it has fallen to me, Captain Janus Draik,  Rogue Trader and first son of House Draik,  to codify the myriad threats aligned against us. - Games Workshop Hello, welcome to your weekly Friday fix of The Art of Caesura! We're working our way through all the goodies and baddies of Blackstone Fortress. After last week's Beastmen , I only have a few villains left to paint, but I still have most of the heroes from the core box...speaking of which (of whom)...Today we're looking at Janus Draik! Janus Draik is my main man when my wife and I play (and, while I believe his name is pronounced Yah-nis (as in the two-faced Roman god), she insists on pronouncing it Ja-nis (like a middle-aged female Walmart employee) just to irk me. Love ya, babe.  He's also kind of the poster boy of the game: he's prominent on the cover, and is the protagonist of the tie-in novel that I really enjoyed. You get to learn a lot about his back story in

  Hello one and all! Now today should be a very special post because it is my daughter, Saoirse's, second birthday today - HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAOIRSE!! But unfortunately she's a little under the weather and we've had to postpone her party so I'll share a party photo with you once we've been able to properly mark the momentous occasion of her second spin around the sun! So instead, we'll keep things grim and dark and stay within the foreboding confines of the Blackstone Fortress.  Beastmen are destined to become  the outcasts of Imperial society.  They are shunned and are often hunted down  and killed as the Imperium has little tolerance  for any who deviate from the perfection  of the baseline human form in mind or body. - Lexicanum Today we're looking at the Chaos Beastmen. Like many of the models in Blackstone Fortress, these ones were clearly an opportunity for the sculptor to have a bit of fun delving into the parts of Warhammer 40k that haven't been vis

Hailing originally from the  now-shattered Craftworld of Biel-Tan,  Amallyn Shadowguide has traveled  the webway for centuries. - Lexicanum Hello again one and all, and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! After pausing last week to welcome my second daughter, Freya, to the world; we're now launching back into the Blackstone Fortress. Today we have the lithe space-elf, Amallyn Shadowguide! Amallyn is one of the characters that my wife controls when we play Blackstone Fortress. As a sniper, she does a great job of pew pewing enemies off the board from a distance, but is surprisingly handy up close with her blade! I started by painting Amallyn's white armour with Contrast Apothecary White. This colour is such a saviour for shading white! Buoyed by how well the white Contrast paint had gone, I set off painting the rest of her with Contrast Paints: Militarum Green for the inside of her cloak and Creed Camo for the outside... ...aaaand it looked like crap. Even with careful applicat