Ghost Blood

Here´s an Old Blood Lizard man that I painted for my friend "Pasiaani". I think it´s my best work yet. "Me very happy" :) But I´m going to be sad when I give it away :( So next time I see the miniature, it will probably be on the opposite side of the battle table, riding towards my sorry ass, pointy eared High Elves...



I remember asking my friend about the color theme... What "spawning" should the lizard man belong to... Never got the answer (or I forgot it :)) So in a middle of a brain storm I decided to make it albino. What the hell, it´s a hero figure you know... it don´t have to fit to the rest of the army´s color theme. ( and it´s not my army :D)


At the time I started to paint the figure, I had just bought the latest issue of White Dwarf, that had very good battle report in it. It was Lizzies against Chaos set in a jungle environment. Forces of Chaos appeared to the jungle through some kind of portal (surprise) and filled it with slimy blobs and drooling deamons... Anyway... There was allso a unit of my favorite Daemonettes. Daemonettes are usually painted very pale, allmost... albino... Nice, that´s how I´m going to do it!

So I got the color theme from the Daemonettes on the battle report. But I allso got the storyline for the figure from there... I think it´s nice that the figures tell stories. It makes them more personal... So while I was painting, I tried to make a good excuse for the Old Blood and the Cold one he´s riding being albinos... ( I´m going to have to explain it, when I hand over the miniature to my confused friend... It´s better to be a good story, for he´s a very hairy and big man, allmost monkey-like )


So the story goes... "In the frenzy of the battle, this Old Blood hero followed a unit of fleeing Daemonettes in to the portal... Some how, before the portal closed, the hero found he´s way back to the jungle... but he wasn´t the same anymore. Inside the portal he and he´s ride got mixed with the Daemonettes that they were fighting. So now he´s half deamon and half Lizard... And he´s now called as... the Ghost Blood..." Boooooo.... Hoooooooo ... Hooooooo (scary music)...




Hope he buys that story line. He might turn me in to kebab. He´s a chef, you know...
Back to the miniature itself... I only converted the hand weapon to look little more like great weapon. I used bitz from chaos marines and orcs for it. Rest of the figure is all original. Have to say, that this project took long time to finnish. I thought that the High Elf miniatures had lots of details in them... Not any more. I really feel sorry for all you Lizard Men players out there, who have to paint whole army of these reptiles...