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.

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).

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

The House of Kessicas were extremely fortunate when the Cube-pox hit, their rivals consumed by the foul anomalous plague animating the dead, their estate on the coast was just outside the edge of the plague—all was good until they heard smashes and servants screaming—their family crypt was far deeper inland than they realised….

My entry to a miniature competition on Instagram called #yellowcube2023, using a lovely miniature from Badsquiddo Games who hand sculpts female miniatures without any of that male-gaze shit.