Sunday, February 2, 2014

Beastman Chaos Champion of Tzeentch

So I finally finished the project I was doing before Xmas cards.  Yikes, this one's been a slow one!  Not really sure what I can ascribe that to, although complexity may have had a hand in it.

Anyhoo, I give you, Traegor Galdbuck, Beastman Chaos Champion of Tzeentch (I'll come on to the backstory in a bit).


The seed here was a skull of a blackbuck antelope from my big book of skulls, and to do a daintier beastman, one that wasn't extrapolated from a burlier ungulate.  Tzeentch was chosen as the patron as I could use my Realm of Chaos book for backstory / ideas, and Nurgle discounted as I'd be forever on the skin doing numerable diseases (yeah this post requires mad levels of knowledge of Games Workshop in the 90s)

I like:

  • Chestpiece - Fiddly, masses of detail, painted and sculpted, scratches, good result.
  • Face - Brief fulfilled.
  • Eyes - They're version four, and hand painted.
  • Horns - Just right.
  • Horror hand - Ludicrous but it works.
  • Legs musculature - Largely made up, but it's sensible enough.

I dislike:

  • Chainmail - It's too perfect, despite being sculpted geometry.
  • Hoof hair - I should've added more further up getting progressively shorter.
  • Photoshop composite - Wound up too saturated and not enough contrast, possibly, seems quite monitor dependent.  The 90s GW colour scheme didn't help there!
  • Symmetrical ears - It'd be simple to just adjust one, an oversight.

NERDY BIT:  Okay so this chap's a patron of the chaos God of change, Tzeentch, hence the blue and gold colour scheme, and the choice of decals.  He's been awarded the following visible gifts in service to his God:  Hand of Tzeentch (the pink one, it's a manifestation of one of the demons of the God), Rune of Tzeentch (but on his right shoulder so you can't see it, check the turntable), and a warpstone charm, fashioned into his watch-like bracelet.  The runes behind him are correct for spelling his name and title.  The colour scheme is VERY Games Workshop circa 1992, with its very saturated look.  Souce material - Realm of Chaos - The Lost and the Damned, Games Workshop, 1990.

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