And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it; and he that killeth a man  shall be put  to death ~ Leviticus 24:21 Happy Friday here on The Art of Caesura! Welcome to another Malifaux themed week, our last for a little while. It's a bit of a special one today, the boss of the box: Leveticus! Before I started painting this miniature I was already getting excited about it. I knew I was going to have fun splattering his lab coat with blood, gore and other unidentifiable smudges. This was indeed fun, and was achieved by flicking Blood for the Blood God and Seraphim Sepia from the bristles of a stippling brush close to the finished model. It's always a tense moment, because you have the finished model before you looking quite clean and neat and you don't know where exactly the drops are going to fly. I once had a little drop of Blood for the Blood God zoom into the eye of a model which I had painstakingly painted an iris and pupil!  ...

The Illuminated are those who manifest Brilliance in their bodies; twisting themselves into inhuman monsters. ~ Wyrd Hey chums, welcome back to The Art of Caesura! This week we have the second of Jakob Lynch's drug-wracked Illuminated. The first Illuminated I painted was quite some time ago. I tried to keep some of the colour cues the same between them (normal skin tone, white shirt and then creepy alien extremities that darken to glossy blackness).  It's fun to compare my painting from one year ago (of the other Illuminated ) to this guy who's hot off the press. While there's some, but not a massive difference in skill level, something I definitely have noticed by painting a different model every week for the past year an a half is the speed and consistency with which I can get the same results that used to take me much longer. I totally recognize that to really ramp up my skill at painting I would have to devote more time to experimenting w...

A creation of steam and sinew that is at once living and dead, Abominations can be created by almost any bits of metal and machinery and flesh that a skilled necromancer may have lying around. Wyrd Welcome to another abomination on The Art of Caesura! This week's model completes our quartet of horror, it's the final abomination of Leveticus.  Another tiny, highly detailed mini from Wyrd. As I've said before, they really knock it out of the ballpark with some of their miniatures. I must say, I found this abomination especially horrifying (and that's coming off the back of a guy with his rib-cage splayed open!) I think it's the way that when you look at it carefully, it's actually a snake-shaped robot (with a glowing red lens in it's head) wearing the remains of a human head with jawbones still attached! Delightful. I pulled in some colours from the previous abominations to tie them together: I painted the tips of all of their...

Experimentation with machinery and dead bodies has existed in Malifaux since before the first Breach to Earth opened. Wyrd Hey folks! You're in the right place for another Friday on The Art of Caesura! I'll preface this post by saying, some Malifaux miniatures are pretty twisted! Personally I love it! Don't get me wrong, I know that Games Workshop has models with their guts hanging out, bodies impaled on spikes, cannibals and scantily clad folks; but the way their miniatures are stylized makes them not seem quite as dark as Wyrd's Malifaux miniatures. That's my opinion anyway.  Without turning this into the whole crux of this post, I totally understand GW's marketing plan - they still heavily utilize brick and mortar shops, and while their games may not specifically be marketed at kids, they want to create an environment where parents feel comfortable bringing their kids. Having boxes of abominations with open metal rib-cages of gore (which w...

...Any locked into one of these boxes suffer horrific visions whilst finding their link to Malifaux's magic severed (furthering their torment). Wyrd Hello, and welcome new comers and old timers to The Art of Caesura! Following on from last week's post, we're again looking at Malifaux's Death Marshals. As I mentioned last week, these are the properly dynamic sculpts! Just check out that negative space (the empty space around the various bits of the model)!! It was difficult to capture in the photos, so I compensated by taking heaps of pictures.  Don't forget to click on the images for better quality versions.    I painted them all the same to emphasize the "faceless henchmen of the law" role these guys play.    Something that I was able to do with these two was dip my toe in to object source lighting on their bases. I painted their base using my normal desserty recipe but then used dark brown (Agrax Earthsha...