Eternal Champions - Elric, Moonglum & Jagreen Lern

It had been some time since I last thought about painting up any figures for my Citadel Eternal Champion collection. However when the 28 Mag team asked if I was interested in writing an article about gaming in the multiverse, I thought it was a great opportunity to add some new figures and characters. As the photos of newly painted figures in the article are just illustrative, I thought it would be good to give the figures a little more airtime here on the blog!

Elric was a glaring omission from my painted Eternal Champion figures, so I quickly rectified that, painting his Eternal Moonglum at the same time.

I decided to use a colour palette for Elric inspired by the classic 1977 Stormbringer cover by Michael Whelan. I need to find a stormy green sky for him to stand in front of for the full effect!

Elric decided to forgo his yellow jerkin in favour of the matching leggings.

For Moonglum I selected largely earthier tones and gave him his distinctive red hair. The blue jerkin was an attempt to tie the pair together a little.

Of course every Eternal Champion needs a big, bad villain to face off against. Although I'd painted up a few Pan Tangians in the past, I hadn't got round to painting Jagreen Lern, Theocrat of Pan Tang. Citadel's version of Jagreen Lern might lack the presence that you might expect given his status as an arch-sorceror of chaos who brings about the end of the world. But he does at least wear his distinctive burning armour that glows red-hot. At least, that's how I chose to paint it (well, orange at least!).

The leaders of Pan Tang.

I really enjoyed diving back into Moorcock's creations. It's actually been over a year since I painted up the figures for the article, so it's probably about time I did it again! In the meantime, you can check out the article at the link below:

'Lifting the lid on the Multiverse' is available for download in 28 Mag, volume 5