Welcome one and all to the 300th post on The Art of Caesura!!! Yes indeed, three hundred consecutive weeks of (mostly) hobby-related action over the past five and a half years! It's kind of hard to imagine - by any metric (number of photos per post or number of words per post or number of hours put into each post, multiplied by 300 is quite a lot no matter which way you cut it).  As a tribute to the blog, we're going to celebrate by looking at one hundred photos spanning from now back to the 200th post . And, as an Easter egg for those regular readers, you'll find some images from the future, that haven't yet been posted on the blog. As always, you can click on each picture for a high resolution version.  So sit back, and enjoy these snapshots from the blog as we celebrate 300 posts! Wow! Time flies! It was wonderful to look back and revel again in some of my most beloved miniatures and also to recall some of the miniatures that, frankly, I had forgotten about! Thank yo

I am not a machine as you would understand.  I am not a slave. I am not a thing.  I am beyond and above you.  I am a man of iron. And I am free. - Blackstone Fortress Hello and welcome to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Since last we met , I've been working away on a big stompy robot in the form of the Man of Iron: UR-025.  I've said it before, but UR is another Blackstone Fortress miniature that is quite unlike anything we'd seen from Games Workshop before.  I really love the kind of retro-chic look of UR - he kind of looks like an old refrigerator or bathtub - very "Fallout". I adore how GW leaned into that aesthetic with the mint green colour scheme that they used on their studio version. In addition to Amallyn , UR-025 is the other character that my wife plays. She has had moderate success tearing traitors to shreds with UR's Gatling canon and even more success ripping Spindle Drones in half with his orange claw (thus scoring his secret agenda). Man

Some time after the Great Rift's creation,  the Servants of the Abyss's Dread Cruiser Impaler,  was struck by a empyric cataclysm,  that fused it to a new Blackstone Fortress  that has appeared in the Galaxy.  - Lexicanum Hi everyone, thanks for joining me for another Friday on The Art of Caesura! We're making our way through Blackstone Fortress. I'm loving the opportunity to paint models that I would never otherwise have painted; for example: Chaos Space Marines.  Now we're really getting close. With these two chaos marines complete, I only have two more adversaries to paint aside from the big boss himself! It's a theme in the Games Workshop painting community that most people feel the pull to chaos at some point in their mini painting hobby. Strangely, I've never really felt that pull (maybe it's the old Black Templar in me), but I can fully acknowledge that these "new" Black Legion minis are awesome!! I was interested to learn some of the hi