The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. - Fay Weldon Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! I hope you are all doing well, and I'm sending you loads of positive vibes, especially if you need them today! I know that I said this a month and a half ago , but I think this actually will be the last Hellboy post for a while. It has been a blast diving into these minis over the past few months. I was hoping to get the character busts painted while I rode this wave of Hellboy enthusiasm, but my painting cue is brimming over with other projects...one of which (the biggest one) I need to finish this year! So let's press the "pause" button on Hellboy for a bit after taking a look at today's creepy harbingers of doom! You can read about my painting process, including the large mistake that I  almost  made in  last week's post  (is that click-baity enough for you?). For now, let's look at these millions of frogs! Thank you, friend...

Welcome back to another amphibious episode of The Art of Caesura! I thought I was done with painting the miniatures from Hellboy: The Board Game several weeks ago when I painted Lobster Johnson , but then finding that old, incomplete post about the Frog Monsters reinvigorated me! As you have seen over the past few weeks, I actually completed a bunch of minis that I had started 5 years ago (which felt really good).  I mentioned, in my previous post about the Frog Monsters , that I had planned to airbrush them before changing my mind; well, that's all true, but before putting my airbrush away, I noticed these little Frog Swarm tokens in the box. I thought, well, I already have my airbrush station set-up, I might as well just prime these guys with the airbrush to save me heading out to the garage with the rattle cans. 1 hour later they were completely done! In Hellboy: The Board Game the Frog Swarms represent things getting increasingly crazy, and in terms of game mechanics, they down...

By the power of Sadu-Hem... Hellboy Wiki Greetings, once again, to The Art of Caesura! Aaaand we're back to frogs! After taking a little break last week to honour a few important birthdays, we're closing out the Frog Monsters from Hellboy: The Board Game that I had started 5 years ago! If you're interested in how these guys emerged, you can check out this post , or if you'd like to see the painting process, you will find it here .  Today we're looking at the finished product and, in my opinion, these are totally miniatures that benefit from been viewed as a big horde. Individually, the details are a bit soft, and lacking in some areas (not unlike my paint job for them), but seen altogether they do look quite horrifying - in a good way! Ultimately, I'm glad that I didn't totally repaint them as I was about to do. I think their various skin tones, while somewhat subtle, do add some nice variety to the group.  I'm now going to treat myself to painting a sm...

Word of the day: Ranidaphobia - the fear of frogs.   - Wikipedia Welcome back as we escape the event horizon here on The Art of Caesura! Whatever am I talking about? Well last week we went back in time to a post from 5 years ago that I had completely forgotten about! I had half painted the minis, and taken and edited the photos of  them, but never finished them nor wrote the post. Well, until now!  Now, we're back in present day and I'm trying to complete these 20 little buggers! As I mentioned last week, I was very tempted to just start over with the airbrush and give them a vibrant, sickly green from above and a deep violet from below and then paint in the details. I actually set my airbrush station up to do just this, but, with the first frog monster in hand, I aborted, deciding instead to stick to my original vision and Contrast the hell out of these guys! Above and below you can see the state in which these guys have been sitting for the last 5 years. So I divided t...

By the power of Sadu-Hem... - Seeds of Destruction Welcome one and all to The Art of Caesura! Fasten your seat-belts, because today we're going to hop in the time machine and travel ALLLLLLLL the way back to June 2019 (just over 5 years ago)! I have been painting a LOT of Hellboy on the blog of the past few months. But when I finished last week's Lobster Johnson (which was actually a few months ago at this point) my hobby attention was abruptly caught by something else (which shall appear on the blog at a later date). So I thought that would be the end of Hellboy content until I was next possessed by the urge to paint more paranormal agents.  I have been painting quite a bit in the meantime, but a lot of it isn't quite finished, so I was looking back through my blog drafts (posts that I had started at one stage or other, or had just written the title of as an aide memoir, but have never seen the light of day). AND I FOUND A COUPLE GEMS!! I found today's post, the photo...