“…it is very possible that Henry Kissinger has played a role in the mass murder of more people than anyone else in human history.”
Henry Kissinger was a vile, evil man through and through. And while good people are justifiably rejoicing at his long overdue death, please never forget that his evil brand of warmongering, unending “defensive” wars, and colonialism lives on in far too many media pundits, Hollywood + media influencers, and powerful politicians.
Kissinger is dead, but his cruel, cold-blooded, sadistic brand of militarism still lives on, and that is what we must bring an end to.
While it obviously did not happen during Karl Franz's reign, the fact that Vlad Von Carstein, aka the big grandaddy of all Vampire Counts is/was legally an Elector Count will never not be funny to me.
Just imagine Vlad Von Fucking Carstein engaging in normal Imperial politics, making deals in the senate and all those "normal" stuff.
Vlad, in his blood-red vampiric armour, leaving his literally blood-drinking sword, the Wailing Blade to a footman at the door and sitting down to discuss the impact of the current agricultural tax politics on Sylvania's peasant farmers.
oh yeah baby it's giant goblin spider time. The scheme is based on golden orb weavers but it's kinda turning out like a death metal ronald mcdonald which is fine too
I finally got my Flying Circus diorama finished up!
It it perfect? Absolutely not. There are several things I'd change if I did it again. But I am happy with the end result. Especially the contrast between the monochrome buildings and the bright planes and toxic gas.
Here it is:
A poor Goth ace is trying to shake the planes of the flying circus Morgenthau's Minnows by diving through one of the cursed cities, trying to use his agility to lose the heavier planes among the buildings
Wulf and Minna Hammerl are trying to flank the Goth as tendrils of toxic gas reach up amoeba-like after them.
The heavier Geisterhaj with Isa and Arren brings up the rear.
I tried to make the gas look not as light as real gas would be but more amorphous and grasping, like the tendrils of a amoeba or a octopus as the city-killing gas of the Flying Circus setting is far from normal, being a semi-sentient production of technology and dark magic, created with the help of dragons. It is not nice. And it is hungry.
I tried to make it look like the gas normally lurks inside buildings and have come reaching out from its lair by the intrusion of new prey.
Closeup of the planes
Also tagging @open-sketchbook because It would he terrible of my to not.
*Muffled explosion in the distance*
"Hah, told you I could shoot a grenade into the mouth of a greenskin. Now watch me dome that grot over there with this next one."
Trooper Zarowe, being very enthusiastic about blowing up Orks.
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When I said I was done with painting Guard, I was very much in the wrong. Because here's another one.
One of the quickest things I've painted. Had to strip it because of bad shading, but the second attempt with down in just a few scant hours during the same evening.
Honestly don't like painting metal minis, for various reasons (and yet I still have a bunch of metal Kasrkin to paint). But this one was sent to me by a friend a few years ago and I suddenly remembered I had it in a box.