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
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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