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Happy New Year - 2024!


Hello one and all and welcome to this special New Years Eve-Eve-Eve post on The Art of Caesura!

Regulars 'round these parts know that I save all the schmultzy New Yearsy stuff for the blog's birthday in a few weeks' time, so today we get to revel in hobby past, present and future. 


Airbrush


Last year at this time I had just got an air compressor for my crappy "Wish" airbrush. I threatened, at that point, to get a 'proper' airbrush later in the year, and two weeks ago I did! 


I will devote a whole post to talking about this bad boy (Harder and Steenbeck's new Ultra 2024) once I've had a bit more experience with it but so far I'm in love! I have always said that I don't adore the look of overly airbrushed minis (when they're too smooth and lacking any texture) so don't worry, that's not in my future. I am happy to use it to quickly apply smooth and interesting basecoat blends, as well as some special effects (Object Source Lighting and the like). 


Marvel Zombicide


Man, CMoN run their Kickstarter campaigns like a military operation. Say what you will about them (and of course no company is perfect) but when you back a CMoN campaign, you know what you're getting - loads and loads of plastic! And their quality has continued to improve - for preassembled PVC minis, the ones in this game are DYNAMITE! I think the large muscle volumes will really lend themselves to airbrushing and the vibrancy of Contrast Paints. I have already played a few games of both Zombie and Hero mode, as well as adding in some of the gang from The Sinister Six - it's a blast!


Dungeon Saga Origins


This was a weird one for me. It seems like most people who backed this game did so out of a sense of nostalgia for the old Dungeon Sagas. I never played any of the old Dungeon Saga games - It looks like a fairly generic dungeon crawler, but it was marketed as being very accessible and family friendly. Even with no history with this game, I trust Mantic (loved their Hellboy game), and I think I was feeling overly sentimental when this campaign came out - imagining playing it with my daughters in a few years. In fact, we have already played with it! My 4-year old and I got all the furniture out and played princesses. Money well spent. 



These are just some of the newer hobby things to enter my life. I am still plugging away at my Black Templars, and then there is: Descent (which I have finally started to paint), Oathsworn (keep your eyes peeled...), and all my Gallowdark terrain that I really want to get to. My pile of potential doth overfloweth!

I hope you have many exciting hobby ventures planned for this year - let us know in the comments below, and feel free to link your blogs / Youtube channels / other sosh meeds. 

See you in 2024!


Gaming: Warhammer 40 000: Rogue Trader


Next Week:

Come away, O, human child...
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