In Rise of Moloch, archaeologists have discovered the means  to reanimate dead bodies,  quickly replacing mechanical inventions  with cheap, undead labour,  putting England in dire peril. - Kickstarter Well hello again and welcome to The Art of Caesura! I hope you and your loved ones are staying well through the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this virus takes up a lot of my professional life, I don't want too much of that to spill over onto my blog. I'll just leave you with the advice to seek reputable sources of information: WHO , CDC / ECDC and your local health authority (Ireland's HSE and Canada's Health Canada  for example). Okay, now on to some lads who aren't so healthy... Last week it was Zombie Royal Guards, this week it's Dismembered Zombies with animated intestines - all par for the course in The World of Smog! Although I've owned the game for over a year, and have painted a bunch of the individual characters for it , and ...

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. - Alan Moore Welcome to Friday on The Art of Caesura! Long time Caesurians will know that I'm quite an Alan Moore fan. I've read most of his comics (including his early stuff with Marvel and DC upto his recent "Providence") but have yet to tackle his genetic mythology "Jerusalem". I think Alan Moore would like much of the world of The World of Smog. The adventures of the Gentlemen in The World of Smog, are not unlike those of Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Also, the occult themes and eerie sense of foreboding of something monstrous lying just below the surface of society is a theme that is present in Rise of Moloch and most of Moore's works.  So I wonder if he knows that he has a model made of him in this game. How do we know it's him? Well aside from looking like him, the backwards name thing kind of gives it away! Knowing that this is Alan Moore I p...

" Thou livest upon that which Ra lives. " - Sir Edward Budge Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! We're picking up from last week, and looking at more creepy characters (or creatures) from The World of Smog: Rise of Moloch. This week we have The Canopic Beast! This image belongs to CMoN A mummified zombie crocodile!! How cool is that!? This was a great model to paint, something of a study in washes.  I started by painting the whole model in Steel Legion Drab, a nice neutral brown. This provided the perfect base for both the skin and the wrappings. From here I washed the skin with a mix of Agrax Earthshade and Biel-Tan Green (about 1:2) with a bit of Lahmian Medium, to help it really pull out the details.  After a few thin coats of this wash, I started on the wrappings. I painted them Ushabti Bone and then washed them heavily with Agrax.  Now came the fun part of picking out the details! Something I've really noticed sinc...

Two thousand years ago these Vestals were chosen from among the first daughters of the highest patricians of ancient Tyr to serve as sacrifices to Great Moloch. - Cool Mini or Not Ooogie boogie booooo!! Welcome to a ghostly post on The Art of Caesura!! After Beefeater Zombies and then Dismembered Zombies , this week we're moving away from rotting flesh, but keeping in the undead spectrum. Today I have The World of Smog: Rise of Moloch's Lamias to show you. I was familiar with the term Lamia (or Lahmia) from Games Workshop's acrylic medium "Lahmian Medium", and figured it had ghostly connotations, but on further research (i.e. wikidoodle ) , it turns out: Lamia, in ancient Greek mythology, was a woman who became a child-eating monster after her children were destroyed by Hera, who learned of her husband Zeus' trysts with her. Hera also afflicted Lamia with sleeplessness so she would anguish constantly, but Zeus gave her the ability to remo...

The changing of the guards... INTO ZOMBIES!! Welcome ladies and gentlemen to The Art of Caesura! This week we're leaving the video game miniatures behind us and heading into the foggy alternate London of The World of Smog.  I must be getting old. I actually painted these guys AGES ago, I think it was around last March - I believe I painted them just before we moved house !! Anyway I completely forgot about them until I was working on the 200th post  and found them as I was selecting pictures for the post! We'll blame it on the move...not senility! Sometimes I relish in lavishing details on one model, and sometimes, as with many of the multitude of mono-pose minis, I like to do a nice quick and dirty job on a bunch of miniatures at once.  And who doesn't want to paint a bunch of Beefeater Zombies!?  I painted these before Contrast Paints were released, otherwise I think they would have worked really well for these guys (a quick Bla...