Introducing Sharkie the Sharkjack

A few weeks ago I was looking at my partially assembled Devastator and imagining terrorizing women and children my opponents while pushing around a jack with a shark fin and teeth painted on it. In my minds eye, these faceless foes cowered in abject terror as a uttered such battle cries as “LAND SHARK!” and chanted the theme from Jaws. A few hours later, I was describing my day dream to some of the folks who were assembled at Connection games. I wasn’t there to play, but rather shoot the breeze for a while before running off to do other things. One of the professional painters of the area, Chad (profile on Vancouver Gamers: http://www.vancouvergamers.com/index.php?action=profile;u=36 – blog: http://chadspaint.wordpress.com/) just happened to be making an appearance while I was blathering on.

Luckily for me a small spot opened up in his painting schedule – long enough for a tabletop quality job on a jack, and Chad pinged me with an offer to mod and paint up Sharkie for me. As a birthday gift for myself, I decided to take him up on the offer, particularly since Chad’s brush skills would do the angry-jaws art much more justice than mine would. I have now in my hot little hands the finished product. Without further ado, I give you Sharkie the Devastator.

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I can’t wait to get Sharkie out on the table. I’m pretty pleased with the way the jack turned out. I know I’ll be using the piece as a visual reference as I work on my highlighting and shading techniques. Thanks Chad!

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