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Saturday 7 December 2013

Barbarian Libby + Sabre-tooth Tigress

A lovely miniature from Hasslefree; Barbarian Libby & Sabre-tooth Tigress. I spent some time admiring this one before putting her together and applying paint.

Libby the Barbarian Queen comes in bits as white metal (her right arm/axe arm and helmet wings on a separate sprue). Her mount is resin (blue/grey) in four pieces, with a superbly sculpted resin base.

Painting this pair was a joy. I went for bright, warm tones with subtle washes. The stripes involved some research, including a visit with the kids to the local zoo.

 







This brings to mind a wonderful poem...

The Tiger

By William Blake (1757–1827)
 
TIGER, tiger, burning bright 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 
 
In what distant deeps or skies 
Burnt the fire of thine eyes? 
On what wings dare he aspire? 
What the hand dare seize the fire? 
 
And what shoulder and what art 
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat, 
What dread hand and what dread feet? 
 
What the hammer? what the chain? 
In what furnace was thy brain? 
What the anvil? What dread grasp 
Dare its deadly terrors clasp? 
 
When the stars threw down their spears, 
And water'd heaven with their tears, 
Did He smile His work to see? 
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
 
Tiger, tiger, burning bright 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye 
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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