With great power, comes great responsibility. - Uncle Ben / Voltaire Hi everyone, welcome back to another Friday on the Art of Caesura! I'm sending you loads of positive vibes, especially if you need them today. Over the past two weeks we have begun our coverage of Marvel Zombiecide by looking at Black Panther. Today we'll look at the work-in-progress of my favorite superhero: Spider-Man! I laid down all the base colors with contrast paints starting with Flesh Tearers Red and then Talassar Blue. I gave extra vibrancy to the blue by highlighting with Magic Blue and then Electric Blue - both from Vallejo.  I then brought the red up to a bright near-orange using Mephiston Red and adding in Evil Sun Scarlet and Kimera's Warm Yellow. Although I liked the volumes that this produced, it had pushed things a little too far into the orange spectrum, so I brought it all back to red with an all-over layer of diluted Contrast Baal Red. Much better.  At this point I really considered try...

Every breath you take is mercy from me. - Black Panther   Welcome back to The Art of Caesura, Last week we looked at painting black panther and this week will let him leap out of the shadows in these atmospheric photos. I'm happy that, while he looks like he belongs in that natural jungle environment, there is still a good degree of separation between his smooth airbrushed suit and the stippled foliage of the jungle. Thank you for joining me for this look at Black Panther, I'll see you next week for more on The Art of Caesura! Reading: The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune Watching: the last episodes of VEEP Next Week: Your friendly neighborhood...

For Honor, For Legacy, For Wakanda! - Black Panther   Hello friends of the Caesura, welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! After a deep dive into 3D printing over the past month and a bit, it's time to return to our bread and butter: miniature painting! Back in November, I had the very great joy of painting a few of the very awesome minis from Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game (One of the more clunky IP-sparing naming conventions - right up there with Total War: Warhammer - which I shall henceforth be referring to as "Marvel Zombicide".) It is now time to share these cool dudes with you, starting with Black Panther! I have been looking forward to painting the models from this game (as well as Marvel Crisis Protocol) literally for years. I kind of knew that the fun, exaggerated musculature of the superheroes, as well as the (often) vibrant colours of their garb would be a nice step away from the drab colours that I usually favour. Okay, today's model (lik...

  The taste for resin can be acquired, but there's no need to acquire it.  - Raymond Postgate Hey gang, welcome back to another Friday on the Art of Caesura! We've been going pretty strong with the 3D printing content for the past few weeks. From our contemplative meditation on 3D printing , to a more functional approach ; we've explored the why of 3D printing and then looked at everything you need to get into it, before looking, last week, at the digital side of 3D printing . Today, I thought we would finish out our coverage of 3D printing (sort of) by putting it altogether, walking you through my workflow - the practical steps that I take to actually do the 3D printing.  Three small caveats: while this will mark the end of consecutive weeks of coverage of 3D printing, it only opens the doors to many future posts of looking at the fruits of my labours; looking at the models that I've printed, painted and plan to play with! Secondly, the workflow that I describe today...