Friskers Painted

If you've been keeping tabs on this blog, I probably don't need to tell you that over the last 9 months or so I've been steadily collecting Citadel's mid-1980s Eternal Champion range, based on Michael Moorcock's brilliant novels. It is my intention (eventually) to paint up the full range and do a bit of fantasy skirmish gaming.

As part of assembling the collection, I commissioned my friend and ace sculptor John Pickford to sculpt me a little winged cat (let's call him Friskers), who could represent a certain animal familiar to accompany Elric's companion Jhary a-Conel. Citadel's Jhary sculpt already had a very similar winged cat on his shoulder, representing Whiskers from the Elric books. But I foresaw the need for an independent winged cat, hence the Frisker sculpt.

I painted up my Friskers last night - here's the results:

Friskers hunting through the grass!

 

Feline eyes watching carefully

Isn't he cute?!

Just so you get a sense of how tiny Friskers is, here he is next to Jhary a-Conel and his cat-friend Whiskers:

I know, I need to paint Jhary!

I had a few copies of John's sculpt cast up by the very excellent Pete Brown (aka The Mouldmaker) - the casts are perfectly crisp. They really are tiny - look!

Finally, some gratuitous shots of John's original sculpt. Isn't the face adorable?!

If my black and white execution is a bit too dull for you, check out cheetor's pink sci-fi interpretation:

More pic's of cheetor's gyrinx over on his blog