From TeemuL: Professor S.N. Owl-Ord, Entry Fee (25 points)

Shellington Nils Owl-Ord, a professor of chemistry at the Miskatonic University, Swedish-English origin, which explains his strange name. Shellington, as any good professor, is absent-minded, which might be his salvation, since he seems to be lost in time and space, although he himself believes just to be lost in the lower floors of his beloved university. Also, he likes initials, so his badge reads S.N. Owl-Ord, but his colleagues call him simply - you guessed it - "Uggla".

 

 

Shellington is a Crooked Dice miniature and my Entry Fee for this year's Challenge. I painted a similar miniature last year and since this is a duplicate, I can send this to some one else. I painted him mostly with Contrast paints, but I tried to be neat and clean. I even painted a striped tie with bold colors to make him really look like a professor.

 

 

From this angle the bottle looks almost like a transparent, better than I hoped for. The basing is rather simple, just paint it black first, then use some white wooden glue and dip in to the sand. Let dry and soak with dark brown(ish) ink/wash, whatever you have, and once dried, drybrush with medium grey. Paint the trim black to cover all the mess. There are some drying times here, so I usually paint the boots quite soon, so that I can then start working on the base (I do glue the miniature to the base before painting it, old habits die hard).

 

 

I deliberately positioned him to the other edge of the base in order to create "artistic" appearance. It might not be that handy during game time, but miniatures in the middle of the base look some time very boring. Now it is almost like a mini diorama, the focus is more on the bottle, what kind of mystic (err scientific) liquid is there in the bottle, will it explode in the Hall of Traps or is it just for refreshment?

In the following entries we follow Uggla as he descends to the Chambers of Challenge, we even might learn a thing or two about the liquid...

One 28mm miniature for 5 points

Entry fee for 20 points

Total 25 points, no additions to my GW side duel from this

If Uggla confuses you, just refer to your Swedish-English dictionary...