As intruders steal into the prestigious Collegium of
Artistry, it’s headmaster Malcor summons forth the spirits of long-dead
teachers from the great staff room in the sky.
Soon the shades of these mighty wizards, each the foremost
proponents of their fields of lesser-known magic, sally forth to defend their
school from those who would loot it’s treasures…
I’ve sat upon these figures for ages, simply because I had
no idea how I was going to paint them!
The ‘official’ paintjobs on the Northstar website has them
fading from a normal-looking top half, into their wispy grey bottom half.
However I wasn’t sure I could pull off the blending and wanted to do something
different anyway.
After much deliberation and discussion with my mate Andy, I
decided to start off with a ghostly pale grey base colour (they are shades after
all), through which bleeds the colours they would have worn when alive (If you’ve
seen the Doctor Who episode ‘Under the Lake’ you might have some idea of what I’m getting at).
Cue lots of drybrushing.
I’m not sure if I’ve managed to pull this off – perhaps the
colouring is too subtle for the tabletop, making them look more like statues –
but if I don’t consider them finished now, they’ll be back in the painting
queue for ages! I’ll refine the technique for the next batch of figures…
Oh, while I was at it, I found this feather in amongst some old Playmobil stuff that was being thrown away. I thought it'd make a nice 'furious quill' spell marker.
