Welcome back to The Art of Caesura!
Today we are continuing our celebrations for the Tenth birthday of The Art of Caesura! So far, we've been enthralled by the infographic, and we marvelled at minis from the past ten years. Today we're casting our net wider than just looking at minis, and, where last week was mostly about me and my favourite minis, today is all about YOU dear readers. Today we're going to do something that I've never done on the blog before: we're going to look at all of YOUR favourite posts.
To be honest with you, I really am not driven by views anymore. I always hope that my audience (you) will find something of interest and a have pleasant little diversion (a caesura, if you will) for a few minutes of a Friday, but I don't go back and check the blog analytics anymore. I just keep writing this blog for myself - and yourselves. There is one post, however, which holds a special place for me specifically because of how popular it became...but we'll get there.
I have set an arbitrary cut-off of 2000 views, so these are all the posts that (at time of writing) have more than 2000 views! It is a fun exercise imagining all these people (an auditorium's worth) reading my weekly posts! You would be forgiven for thinking (as I did) that surely this will be filled with old posts, because they have been around for longer to accumulate more views over time, but, compiling this list, I was surprised to see that posts that are going to be popular get popular straight away - so things are a bit more even (in terms of old vs new posts) than I expected.
You can click on the titles of each post to be magically whisked back to those posts (and to mess with these numbers).
Anyway, as a testament to the blog, and you, dear readers, here we have the blog's most popular posts - OF ALL TIME!
To start off, there are two posts which did not quite make the cut, but their current number of views was too appropriate not to include:
At 666 views each:
How could I resist, when their current number of views is the number of the beast.
Now, on to the list proper. I have organised them from least views (but still over 2000) to most.
The Most Popular Posts on The Art of Caesura
These are great models! They have a lot more textural variation than regular intercessors. It was fun separating the dark grey-black of the their combat pants from the dark grey-black of their combat armour. I also love when I get to paint faces!
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I think this was the first 40k short story that I wrote based on one of my games - I have written a few more since. I've just re-read it now, it's a fun little piece. Tyranids are a joy to write about - that unknowable horror. I remember struggling when writing this one, because I wanted to keep it as close to the events of our actual game as possible, and in this one I lost due to failing battleshock tests from "Shadows in the Warp" - not the most Space Marinely way to go for The Emperor's Finest. So it was a fun challenge trying to keep this loss lore-accurate.
I think big gribblies are always going to be eye-catching, so it's nice to see a couple of them spring up on this list. I remember being proud of how efficiently I painted this guy. It was largely airbrush and enamel wash, and - for the size of him - he was done in relatively no time at all!
I'm happy to see this one crop up. I've done loads of "Back to Bases" posts over the years - whether they be my Kharadron Overlord ocean bases, Blood Bowl wasteland bases, Oathsworn forest bases, or several iterations of my Black Templars bases. This basing style was a much sturdier iteration on how I did my bases for Silver Tower. I'm happy with how they turned out...now just two more Warhammer Quest games (Cursed City and Darkwater) to go!
Big red. This was specifically the post where I just talked about painting the Maw Krusha - not his rider. The model is great; dragon (-like creature)s are wildly fun to model and paint, so I guess it isn't much of a surprise that this one was popular.
Spoiler alert, this is the first of THREE Kharadron Overlords posts to make this list! I'm really surprised that they far outstrip many of my Space Marine posts in terms of popularity. Perhaps it has something to do with market saturation. When I released these posts there wasn't a ton of KO content out there. I still have a few boats to paint for this army, we'll have to see if the trend continues!
I think the reason that this one turned out to be so popular is because this was a relatively straightforward conversion of a model that everyone and their granny had the base miniature for (it was in the most popular launch box that Games Workshop has ever produced - Leviathan, and was also in some starter sets as well as Combat Patrol magazine. But at that point they hadn't upscaled the Terminator Chaplain yet (and when they did, it was...lacklustre).
So, I'm really happy with this model, and with the fact that it seems to have inspired (or at least resonated with) thousands of other hobbyists.
So, I'm really happy with this model, and with the fact that it seems to have inspired (or at least resonated with) thousands of other hobbyists.
Via posts like this, I can see how hobby news sites like Bell of Lost Souls and Spikey Bits get their traffic! I mean, I'm just a normal dude who wrote about upcoming releases that I was passionate about and it jettisoned to one of my most popular posts of all time!
I actually still remember playing this game. I think it was during COVID times when many were hunkered down in their own homes, that Games Workshop released rules for a single player version of Warhammer Underworlds. I remember playing it on my kitchen table one day when I was post-call and having an absolute riot! I never really took myself for a solo-gamer, but maybe I should give it another shot!
This is one of the posts that I am most proud has made this list; I am really happy to see that it has struck a chord with so many of you. I wrote it initially for my own sanity, as I found that I was spending the majority of each Black Templars post talking through the same process, so I wanted to create a resource that we can all refer to (whenever I'm returning to Black Templars after painting other things, I always just open this post and follow along!). It's also one of the few posts that I have returned to several times after first publishing it to edit it for readability and add new photos.
I really wanted it to be an "evergreen" post, and I'm happy that it has achieved that status.
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Like the Black Templars armour above, I always strive to make my "Question Point" posts (which are my name for my tutorial posts) universally useful. I apply decals to my models relatively infrequently, so when I do, I bust out this post and follow along.
As I mentioned above, I was really surprised by how popular my Kharadron Overlords posts are. I had no idea that so many of them (the Thunderers above, the Profiteers here, and another lot below) have reached such heights in popularity on my blog!
Now we're getting to the real heavy hitters, this post and the next couple on this list have over 5000 views! I imagine that much of the popularity of this post comes from its "click-baity" title, but who knows, maybe my "list-building 101" content kept folks coming back for more.
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My goodness me! In 4th place for most popular post of all time is the one about my Arkanauts! They are my favourite models in the KO army (as I mentioned on my "favourite models of all time" post last week) and it seems many of you feel the same way!
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When I get interested in something, I like to really deep dive into it. These "Full Stop" posts became an extension of that, looking at all of the things that keep me excited about a certain topic. I have done a bunch of them now over the years: Mortal Kombat, Hellboy, Descent, Reichbusters...and more...including these two here.
I got deep into The Deepwood and I look forward to continuing that journey.
This is where things get really bonkers! My Full Stop Trench Crusade post has almost 10 000 views at time of writing. Even in the past few days since I compiled this list, until now when I'm actually writing it, it has received another 200 views!
This time last year, this post was my People's Choice Award for the most popular post of 2025 and it's popularity has persisted and grown - it is now the second most popular post on my whole blog! This excites me greatly because, as I mentioned two weeks ago, I plan for 2026 to be the year of Trench Crusade (and Malediction) content on The Art of Caesura.
And the most popular post in the history of my entire blog...
...will have to wait for a few minutes. Hahaha - the tease!
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Let's quickly pop down to the other end of the spectrum and look at the 5 LEAST popular posts on the Art of Caesura. Before we do, I'll just caveat this by saying that this is all in good fun. I have a good sense of humour with these things, and I literally chuckled out loud when I was compiling this list. So don't worry, no hard feelings.
This time we'll start with the post that has the most least views and work our way down to the post that genuinely has the fewest views in the history of the blog.
The 5 Least Popular Posts on The Art of Caesura
This one really made me laugh. I think it has 73 views at time of writing! Hahaha. Oh man. I spent over a month agonising over this guy, painting him following Marco Frisoni's video, and then re-painting him when I wasn't happy with my result! Anyway, I'm really happy with how he looks now, and just today, I've entered him in an online painting competition! I guess the algorithm just wasn't feeling it on the day I released this post.
This post was meant to put the prior 5 weeks of 3D printing content together and walk a novice through my daily 3D printing process. I intended for it to be exactly the post that I would have wanted when I was starting out, and I thought that it might be another of those "evergreen" posts that I could direct people to if they showed an interest in getting into 3D printing. Not so. Perhaps I'll take another look at it and see if I can make it more "high yield" in the future.
Yeah that's fine, he's not my fave either.
Yeah, it's perplexing. My other Grimaldus posts got a ton of views, as have some of my "building bases" posts. I guess the two forces were equal and opposite.
Aaaaand the wooden spoon for the least popular post in 10 years of The Art of Caesura goes to...
The madness tokens from Hellboy, with a whopping 60 views. I mean honestly, 60 people reading about me painting tokens for a board game isn't too bad when you think about it that way!
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Now, the moment we've all been waiting for...the post from the past 10 years of The Art of Caesura that has the very most views is...
I love this post. I am so so proud of it. It was a case of all the stars aligning. I happened to be at the Warhammer Fest where they were first revealing Contrast Paints. I also happened to run a blog on miniature painting so talking about this kind of content was right up my alley. I came out of the first day of the Fest so jubilant that I stayed up till about 3am in my AirBnB room immediately writing up everything there was to know about Contrast Paint - and because they had only been revealed that day, my post was pretty much everything there was to know.
By the next morning, that post already had about 10 000 views (more than any other post my blog had received to that point)! It was being shared on Bell of Lost Souls, Bolter & Chainsword, Dakka Dakka, The Grand Alliance, Warhammer Forum, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit...and it was getting tons of engagement - it is also my post with the most comments!
I was just so proud that my little hobby blog had made the big leagues! That people found my content worthy of sharing and that it seemed genuinely helpful to people. I had gone viral.
That post currently sits at 86 221 views, with more coming in all the time. I'll have to have a little party when it hits 100k, but that might require looking at my analytics more than once every 10 years ;)
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Thank you for joining me today, and for any part of the past ten years. While I don't fixate on views, it is nice to see that so many of you find my blog interesting enough to check out.
Join us next week for the Grand Finale of The Art of Caesura's tenth birthday celebrations!
Reading: In Ascension - Martin McInnes
Watching: One Battle After Another (2025)
Next Week:
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