Kess’ Arts & Missives

As Magical Warfare became mechanised, and Mages Towers’ fell far behind established lines and combat zones, those powerful Wizards needed to be moved up into the fight with something that’ll house their great magicks and be just as defensible.

I’ve finally made a Tonk! I had told Apocrypha Now in the past I’d do one but I never got around to it, and it’s been a a while now but I’ve been constantly thinking about Narcoleptic Wizard‘s Aethertonk challenge. Welp, finally decided todo it and I’m super happy with the results, it’s not as silly as most tonks are which is a bit of a shame but I definitely think it’s badass atleast—and I’m very happy that the turret AND wheels fully function, no need to pretend it moves across the board I can just push it and it goes.

The 🟨Cube had been waiting for Eons in that Tomb, dust created from organic matter neatly avoiding it’s faces—debris and rock that have collapsed from above somehow not burying it—waiting and waiting for the right mortal fool to see such a bright ‘treasure’ for the taking.

I still have a bunch of Apocrypha Now’s Yellow Cube heads laying around, was fiddling with random pieces, Badsquiddo minis and anything really off and on for the last year. I came across that interesting base piece and immediately I started thinking of a temple thing, literally every single piece (including the base) are leftover bits from my bits box and I glued together this eldritch horror pretty quickly—with only a little bit of fine tuning. Really happy todo another Yellow Cube

Arcane Officers and Logi-Priests are often times seen accompanied by the Infernos Artillery in the most magically bombarded sections of the trenches, their magiks unrefined and explosive, most of No Wizards’ Land has been because of their scorching.

This project is finally complete I feel like, really explored the Aetherpunk28 potential and played around with a lot of really cool kitbashing and painting techniques. They look awesome as a group and I’m very proud of them.

While many effective enchantments are used in the trenches to empower bullets and bayonet alike, behind the lines the logi-priests use the efficient power of Speed Magiks; dashing up and down supply lines with great haste on their broomsticks. Some snipers guarding the ways have learned well from those rituals, and now can deliver the rounds addressed to the other side with almost as much efficiency

Got some more Aetherpunk28 minis on the way but I’m close to calling this fun project finished.

This posse is a kind of wild-west meets classic fantasy necromancy. From left to right; a big boned farmer, a vampiric mayor, the priest who found the old gods’ bones to revive them, a Frankensteined Undertaker, and an animated set of armour possessed by the town’s blacksmith.

I wanted a proper grimdark set of minis for Forbidden Psalm, a game that’s compatible with Mork Borg that I’ve been getting really into.

One of the darkest sets of miniatures I’ve ever painted, here’s an example of the colour balance;

(As you can see here how small my miniatures usually are, Northstar on left, Gamesworkshop on right).

I was contacted via Instagram by one of the 28mag editors to participate in their latest ‘zine, one dedicated for International Women’s Day.

While my feature is probably the least interesting lol, if you want to see more more female miniature artists it’s definitely worth a look, you can find it here, there’s lots of amazing miniature art inside https://28-mag.com

In the trenches of no-man’s-land, you can hardly focus on your rituals under the cacophony of magiks and fireballs.

Another awesome Aetherpunk28 mini I whipped up, set in a WWI inspired fantasy setting, love her and her cool spell circle

While I much prefer to make brighter minis, I’ve always wanted a go at trying todo a Turnip28 mini. While it’s still brighter than most lol, I’m really happy with it’s style and basing.

Turnip28 is a grimdark setting where root-vegetable people fight each other in muddy lands, he’s a carrot man!