Puddles and ponds of melted flesh  are left in its wake,  endless mouths left screaming in their agony,  for the Black Grail destroys the body  but leaves the mind intact to suffer. - Trench Crusade Welcome back, dear readers, to The Art of Caesura! Last week we looked at the first Trench Crusade miniatures that I've showcased on the blog: the horrible Black Grail Thralls. Those minis also laid the groundwork for how I paint all of the skin on my Black Grail guys.  Well, this week's post is equally foundational; today we're looking at how I'm making all of my Black Grail bases.  Before we get into the painting, I'll just say that I got these STLs off a Kickstarter by the designer SRS-studios and I 3D printed them myself.  So, after spraying them black, I gave them a heavy drybrush of Bugman's Glow. The Bugman's Glow was followed by a further drybrush of Cadian Fleshtone.  The final layer of drybrush was Ushabti Bone.  To create a horrible ic...

Plague jokes...they're infectious! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura Today, we're picking up immediately where we left off last week ...well, almost immediately, first I just want to say a big Happy Birthday to my eldest daughter, Saoirse, who turned 7 yesterday. This totally doesn't feel like an appropriate post to be affiliated with her birthday so we'll keep her birthday in the physical world and leave these little horrors in the virtual one.  As always, to hear me blether on about how I painted these guys, you can check out last week's post .  Unfortunately the dude above didn't get a nice base to walk on - it got lost somewhere in the printing process, but I shall print him another one at some point.  All the other guys did get bases, however, between last week's post and today. But we'll go into the bases in more detail next week.  If possible, I think these guys look even more gruesome leering out of the dark in these photos than they did last we...

The boons of the Black Grail lead slowly  but surely down the path of utter corruption.  Only very few of the chosen can withstand  the blessings of the Lord of the Flies.  Most are turned into Grail Thralls,  and join the endless legions of empty,  hollowed-out and diseased husks who  must obey the whims of the Black Grail nobles for all eternity,  while suffering the torment  of their countless supernatural infections. - Trench Crusade Wiki Hello one and all and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Before I start, I want to say Happy Birthday to my mum today, but I'm afraid you're going to hate this post... Last week I regaled you with photos from our summer holiday. I end the post telling you about the foetid mess that was our fridge/freezer when we got back (it had lost power for several weeks). Well, that proved to be a nice segue into today's post... Almost 2 years ago , I first started getting hyped for Trench Crusade on this blog. I t...