As anybody with even a passing familiarity with skaven doubtless knows, they are cowardly yet cunning creatures. Hence, the combat oriented heroes they have are all a bit crap.
They do, however have some nasty magic tricks up their voluminous wizards' sleeves. With this worthy arcane knowledge in mind, I obviously had to have a few spell casting rats in my army. Here are a couple of them now...
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| This is the grey seer from the screaming bell kit, to which I added a hand holding a grimoire from the plague monks accessories sprue |
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| In this shot, he looks like he's leaping over a fence. |
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| This one includes a poor attempt at free hand on the pages of his grimoire. |
Overall, I was reasonably happy with the job I did at the time. If I was to paint him again, I'd probably do a few things differently. For anybody that's remotely interested, a couple of those arcane symbols are recreations of some of the cave paintings in Twin Peaks.
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| The Grey Seer Thanquol model. Good fun, even these days, even though his hands and feet are well out of proportion. |
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| From another angle. Come to think of it, his staff has a fairly thick haft. Ah, the halcyon days when it was too difficult to do a thin spear or staff without it being too delicate to even consider... |
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| I called this plague priest the Stinking Bishop. I love this model. |
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| Mmmm, gelfling? |
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| I do like that they sculpted this model with a hunch back. |
