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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Joe's Bretonnian's- The wizard Gibelin and the dragon Béatrice.

Perhaps unwisely, I've eaten my dessert first and instead of getting some rank and file done this month I've progressed directly to the big gribbly dragon. This is an old Grenadier copper dragon, still for sale probably from one of the companies who still produce old Grenadier stuff. I love the unique pose and the weird wings. 

The wizard Gibelin is widely mistrusted by just about everyone in the Duc's warband, not least by de Rainault himself. The knights are outraged by his refusal to address them with sufficient obsequiousness, and lament that a man without a family tree or even a surname should have risen so high in the Duc's employ. The peasants of the company, deeply superstitious to a man, whisper that his mother was a dwarf and his father half-daemon. This would certainly explain his stature, his beard and his otherworldly demeanour. No-one can deny his usefulness to the Chevauchée though- when you positively, absolutely have to burn every hovel in the village- accept no substitutes!

month 1 - monster month - level 20 wizard on a winged dragon: 540 points.


8 comments:

  1. Lovely backstory and great work! A classic model indeed

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  2. Love a Grenadier dragon, happy to see her up first

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  3. Nothing wrong with having dessert first! Really great job - and a really lovely story.

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  4. What a start - a dragon! And the backstory is great too, double whammy :)

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  5. Fantastic! The choice of dragon sculpt is spot on for this style of painting in my humble opinion.

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