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Lizardmen - Hy'Li'Spy'Qui Forgeworld Temple Guard

Hy'Li'Spy'Qui Forgeworld Temple Guard

This was my entry for the 2003 Golden Demon competition at Games Day UK. He made it through first cut, but didn't place in the top 3. This model took ages to sculpt and paint. He's had a fair amount of conversion work, (and there are some work in progress shots below) particularly on the base, weapon and skull. The base has a scratch built anaconda and all the plants and flowers are made of green stuff. I used some snakes and lizards from the jungle swarms pack. If you look closely at the back shot, there is a Chameleon who is mimicing the glyph behind him.

The spikes on his weapon and head are fossilised shark teeth :D I replaced the original pommal of the weapon with a cold one head (the old style ones) and painted this in a bone effect. I used the old pommal for a hilt of a dagger at the back. I also added extra scales (the ones painted red), as well as bringing out some more scaly skin on his arms and legs using green stuff. The glyphs around the base spell out his name in Lizard speak. All the feathers are sculpted from greenstuff too.

This photograph was taken by Orclord for his GD coverage over at The Stuff of Legends

Another shot of the back this time, taken by Orclord

One Further shot, again by Orclord

This is a shot taken by me

The yellow areas are over-exposed and don't show off the subtle shading as well as the above pictures.

The following are all WIP shots

You can see here the fossilised sharks teeth used for the spikes on his skull and on the pirahna blade.

Another WIP

Here you can see the greenstuff leaves and flowers (some of the leaves were replaced at a later stage with thinner ones), and the underside of the cold one head.

Another WIP from the other side this time

Here you can see all the vines and flowers that I sculpted. I also used the golden rod that the old Slann Mage carries as an extra bit of embellishment. I also added a huge shark tooth as a shoulder pad and added some detail to the amulets hanging off his belt.

Another WIP shot of the back this time

More vines here and the detail of the shoulder pad.

Close- up of the pirahna blade

I added a double row of shark teeth here and scuplted on some snakes for detail. The blade is very sharp in real life, because of the teeth! I hope the judges on the day were careful when touching it!!

Well thats it, I hope it gives you an idea as to how I converted this figure!