Welcome and Happy New Year's Eve-eve to you all! Could it really be!? ANOTHER NEW YEAR!  It seems like only last year that we got one of those and the old thing still had some life in it yet!  Anyway, as is tradition on The Art of Caesura, today's post is just a quicky to wish you all a very Happy New Year and to show you my recent hobby-related loot haul! We will do our proper tear-filled retrospective in a few weeks' time for the blog's birthday. Kimera Kolors: Marco Frisoni was a huge proponent of these paints when I attended his workshop last year, I'm really looking forward to trying them out! What makes these paints somewhat unique is that they are heavy-bodied acrylics aimed at miniature painters that are mostly single-pigment - giving the painter ultimate control over colour mixing without running into muddy browns and greys due to neutal tones which are often added to other miniature paints.  Weathering Powders: I am not totally satisfied with the bases of ...

  Welcome to the annual Art of Caesura Christmas post! I hope you're all able to get a bit of time off to enjoy with family / get some rest! To get you in the spirit of the season, some of the miniatures that I painted in the past year have come back to wish you a very Merry Christmas! This year, I even took the extra step of making a new Santa hat to use in conjunction with the one that I sculpted six years ago for the blog's first Christmas (and have been using ever since). While I love the previous one, I wanted to have one more in scale of "human-sized" figures so that I would have more choice on who got to wear the hat! Enjoy! Okay Nurgle, we've had enough of your gifts over the past few years; off you go! "Chestnuts roasting on an open Pyre Pistol" "O come all ye faithful...join chaos!" "I'll have a blue Christmas without you..." "Away in a manger..." Oops, just a second... ...There, that's better! Can't h...

Happy Holidays! To get you in the mood for this festive season, I've got a holly jolly Christmas quiz for you today! I actually made it for a family Christmas party, but you're all very welcome to join in here! I compiled the questions from various online quizzes (and tried to fact-check the ones I was unsure of) and made up a few of them myself. I tried to hide the text like a "spoiler" button, but it involved editing code so I'm afraid you'll have to just use the old school method of scrolling slowly, or holding a piece of paper up to the screen to hide the answers! I hope you enjoy and feel free to use them for your own Christmas parties! -~- Round 1 - General Christmas Knowledge 1) Which current world leader celebrates his birthday on Christmas Day? Justin Trudeau 2) At what point in the Christmas celebrations are you likely to experience the effects of Silver Fulminate? When pulling a Christmas Cracker (it’s often the chemical used on the friction strip ...

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while -Malorie Blackman   Welcome readers to the fourth annual Autumn Reading List on The Art of Caesura! The books that I read this year made it much trickier than previous years for me to narrow into this shortlist hence the fact that I have posted it much later in autumn than would be my wont. In previous years, I would often know long before starting these posts which books made the cut. This year was trickier, and I can't put my finger on why. I think, perhaps, it might be because in previous years, books like A Gentleman in Moscow or The Lies of Locke Lamora were just so wonderfully enjoyable to read that I had that sensation of longing for more once I had finished them. This year I read more "serious" books, like 1984 and Animal Farm (neither of which, I'm semi-embarrassed to say, have made this list), which, while thought-provoking at times, did not keep me enthral...

The massive body of a Broodmother  steps into the clearing, her great head of rotten fur  and gnawing teeth  rolls toward you  with ravenous hunger as her eyes meet yours. ~ Oathsworn   Welcome back, one and all, to The Art of Caesura! I am well rested from a wonderful birthday last week . But, for today's post I ask you to cast your mind back to 2 weeks ago when we looked at painting the first boss in the epic board game Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood: The Broodmother! Today, we're going to look at an atmospheric showcase of The Broodmother and her baby Giant Rats! At this point, my wife and I have now beaten Chapter 1 and were fortunate to vanquish the Broodmother without taking any casualties. Don't worry, if you haven't had a chance to play it yet, I won't give any spoilers in this post. In fact, let's just let the pictures do the talking! There she is! The Broodmother! What an epic first boss to fight in this board game; and an appropriately epic "minia...

Howdy howdy howdy! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! And what an auspicious day you've joined me on: My Birthday! So, happy birthday to me! Last year was the first year that I actually marked my birthday on the blog with a dedicated post. After celebrating the blog's birthday for 7 years(!), and my daughters' in recent years, I though it was high time to mark mine with a wee post. For some Art of Caesura trivia: this year is only the second time since the blog's inaugeration ( back in 2016! ) that my birthday has fallen on a Friday - the day these posts come out! Plus, last week's MASSIVE post has me plum tuckered, so today let's just eat cake.  Thank you all for joining me for these birthday celebrations.  I'll see you next week for more hobby goodness on The Art of Caesura! Watching: 1899 (Netflix) Reading: 12 Red Herrings - Jeffrey Archer Next Week:  The last of the rats...

Great King Rat was a dirty old man And a dirty old man was he Great King Rat - Queen   Hello Oathsworn, Friends of the Caesura! Today's post is a monumental one. As I write this, I have just finished popping my logo on all FIFTY SEVEN photos! I would usually have split a post as mammoth as this one into 3 separate posts, so as not to overwhelm you, dear reader; but I want to keep the Oathsworn momentum going while the buzz from the recently funded Kickstarter is still active. So, today we're painting THE BROODMOTHER!! This model is one of the poster-boys of Oathsworn. It is the first boss in the game and as such is the only one that people can show off and discuss without the need for a spoiler warning. It is also on the game's box art.  Before we begin, I want to repeat what I had said about my painting goals for Oathsworn. I want to get these models done efficiently to a level that I am happy with . I got this lovely lady done in under 4 hours and I'm pretty happy wit...