Uthuk berserkers scorn anything  that might slow their headlong charge  into the fray. - Fantasy Flight Games Hi everyone, it's time for another post of The Art of Caesura! If you haven't had a chance to already, check out last week's post where we looked at the painting process for these berserkers. Today we'll take a look at some better shots of the completed miniatures.    From the official artwork below, you can see that I was heavily influenced in my colour choices. I think the red rags suit the savage and rage-fuelled berserker well.  As in the artwork, I kept my skintone especially light to provide enough tonal variety against the light bones and strange horny growths.  One casuality of my adherance to the artwork is that I brought my skin highlights up even brighter on the face to draw the eye to that area, but this did not leave enough range to paint on the white war paint on the forehead in the artwork. I tried it once, but it just looked like an ...

Touched by the demonic darkness of the Ru and frothing with murderous frenzy,  Uthuk berserkers have forsaken drill  and formation as well as armor and shield. - Fantasy Flight Games Before these recent exciting birthdays ( my daughter's , and the blog's ), I had started to paint some of the very awesome miniatures from Descent: Legends of the Dark. Today, we're looking at the Berserkers! Because models do not necessarily appear on the blog in the order that I paint them, I am starting to lose track of exactly when I painted these guys. It was a couple of months ago anyway, and I believe they were the last miniatures that I painted with my old airbrush. That being said, I only zenithalled them with the airbrush (bringing them up to the level seen above) before pulling out the hairy brush.  In the official artwork, these guys are illustrated with pallid skin, to stick to that I mixed Contrast Guilliman Flesh with Contrast Medium.  I then painted all of the bone elemen...

Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping  than you can understand. - W.B. Yeats Greetings and salutations and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Today, we're taking a closer look at the completed Fae from Descent: Legends of the Dark - whom we first met in last week's post .  BUT  Even more exciting than that (sorry little guys), is that next week is the blog's EIGHTH BIRTHDAY! Can you believe it? No, no you cannot. Nor can I, nor anyone else for that matter. But that does not change the fact that it is true! So be sure to tune in then for our annual party in celebration of 2023 on The Art of Caesura! Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.  I mentioned last week that these little Fae dudes painted up very quickly and easily for me. The airbrush is ideally suited to the colour blends that I envisioned on these guys. The other details (stars on their "wings", details on faces...

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame. - W.B. Yeats Hello hello!! Welcome to 2024, and to a whole new year of The Art of Caesura, the internet's favourite weekly hobby blog* (your mileage may vary) It's been a rip-roaring season, what with many minis from the past year coming out to wish us well a few weeks ago , and then last week we had a little peak at some of the things that might be coming to the blog in the year ahead.  Today we're picking up right where we left off a few weeks ago - back into the realm of Terrinoth with more enemies from Descent: Legends of the Dark. Before we get into it, if you'd like to read some of my thoughts about this game and its aesthetic, you can check them out here .  The Fae in focus today, are some of the early enemies you meet in Descent and the miniatures are totally crazy! I have read many dissenters online (see what I did there) who aren...

‘Tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon. – William Shakespeare, As You Like It , Act 5, Scene 2.   Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! My goodness, we're getting close to the end of the year, but we still have a couple of juicy posts before we bid farewell to 2023.  While today's post (the Friday before Christmas) would typically be my Christmas post, I'm actually going to schedule that post to come out on Christmas Day so that you'll have a little bit of The Art of Caesura in your life while comatose on turkey and merging with the couch.  Today is the second parter to last week's post. We're looking at the first minis that I have painted from Descent: Legends of the Dark : Wolves! I went through my whole painting process in last week's post . I explained how I am trying to use the airbrush more and I even used oils for the first time!  With their large, exaggerated details, these wolves not only painted up quickly, but were ...

Always be yourself, unless you can be a wolf, then be a wolf. - Unknown Good day fellow Caesurians! Last week we started diving into Descent: Legends of the Dark, a beautiful game from a couple of years ago from Fantasy Flight Games. You can check out that post for my overview of the game and some thoughts about the minis and app.  Today, we're looking at the first of the denizens of Terrinoth that you fight in this game: Wolves! I spoke last week about how incredible the quality of the miniatures that come with this game are. They are equal in quality to the HIPs plastic used by GW and their posing is dynamic and characterful. While aesthetic preferences will vary, these are undoubtedly the highest quality board game miniatures that I have come across.  While my preferences typically tend towards the grittier (Oathsworn, Reichbusters, etc) these Descent minis are really appealing to me. They look straight out of Disney's Hercules (a film I loved as a kid) - they can go the d...

Across the gripping quests of an unfolding campaign,  you and your fellow heroes will venture across the realm,  battling terrifying monsters, unlocking new skills,  and exploring a wondrous fantasy world.  - Fantasy Flight Games Hello one and all! Welcome to The Art of Caesura! Today marks something of an excursion. I painted a miniature (or three) from a game that I've never done before and haven't really mentioned on the blog before either. Now, this in itself is nothing too out of the ordinary (as long-time followers of my Kickstarter exploits will know). But what is different about the subject of today post is that it's an aesthetic that I shouldn't love, but I do.  Now, the game is Descent: Legends of the Dark - Act 1. A couple of months ago I saw Act 2 (The Betrayer's War) in a Friendly Local Gaming Store and remembered how excited I was about Act 1 when I got it a couple years ago - I had opened it, looked at all the minis, read all the rules, and then.....