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"Where Does it Hurt?" - Dorian the Grey - Part 1

Please state the nature of your medical emergency. - Star Craft   Welcome back one and all to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! This week we're back with my Space Station Zero gang, and this time we're looking at the Medic.  In Zombicide: Invader parlance, he's Dorian the Grey (get it? Get it? Like Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Grey" because he's a grey-style alien . Good, we got it). In my crew and short story from a few weeks ago , he's a she, and she's called Sera Vale.  I started with a Grey Seer zenithal undercoat. I carefully painted Contrast Space Wolves Grey (lots of greys in this post...) just over her skin.  I painted the kind of undersuit with Apothecary White (which, keeping with the grey theme, is basically just a pale grey).  Then out came The White to highlight and define the harder armoured areas.  White was followed with black. I painted the iconic alien pistol (maybe in my crew it's a medical tricorder or dermal reg...

"Ace in the Hole" - Madame Singleton (Aunty Entity) - Part 2

Madame Singleton’s work as an archaeologist  and preserver of ancient cultures has led her  to many strange places in the galaxy. - Zombicide Hello one and all! Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Today we're picking right up from where we left off last week with the Ace Pilot for my Space Station Zero crew, Rhea Sol (AKA Aunty Entity (Mad Max), AKA Madame Singleton (Zombicide: Invader).  The Explorer vessel has access to two specialist units: Chief Engineer (better than a normal engineer) and Ace Pilot (better than regular pilot) so obviously I took one. The Ace Pilot has excellent Reaction (noticing things and dodging damage) with special abilities that let her role extra dice for Reaction tests and re-roll 1s. Not bad.  Wanting to capitalise on her Reaction I gave her one of the 3 coveted pieces of equipment that I have across my whole team: a Hyper-scanner. Like her Awareness ability (giving her two extra dice for Reaction tests), the Hyper-scan...

Happy Birthday to My Wife!

  Welcome back, one and all, to The Art of Caesura! Today is a brief but special post to wish a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my wonderful wife (it's kind of a big one this year).  This one's for you Jules, we all love you! Happy birthday! And I'll see the rest of you back here next week!