CREATING PLAGUE PONTIFEX QUETCH
BY TY FINOCCHIARO
This article is one of the US Web Team's "Fleshing Out" series,
which bring tiny bits of the Warhammer world
to life.
Throughout the Codexes, Army books, evocative Games Workshop imagery, and background
material, countless individuals and champions have been mentioned. Some of
these heroes have been given the royal treatment by the talented GW sculptors
and realised in model form for the tabletop. Others have not.
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Ty Finnochiaro |
Ty: These Fleshing Out articles will be all about the characters
that may have a really interesting back story but never
quite made it into official model form. To bring these characters
out of the shadows, we'll challenge talented conversion
artists and painters to model these characters and show
us how they did it. Of course, none
of these projects will be official in any way
- each one will simply be an individual's interpretation
of how a previously unmodelled character would look. We won't
discuss stats or rules since the focus here is on modelling.
We just want to provide a fun way to get folks thinking
about and then building unique models.
Alright, now that we know what this article is about,
let's have a look at a nasty critter named Quetch. On page
48 of
the Warhammer Realms: Lustria book,
there's an inset about Skink Chief Poqenichi and how he
gained a certain
warbanner. The banner was made from the hide of Plague
Pontifex Quetch (fancy title for a low-powered Grey
Seer) after he
was slain by the pesky Skink.
Thus, I figured it'd be fun to make the doomed rat, if
only for the fact that this type
of Pestilens character can be mounted upon a Cauldron of
a Thousand Poxes – which is kind of like a Screaming
Bell. Since there is no official model for this weapon,
it'll be a double challenge as I'll have to create both
the Cauldron and Quetch himself.
Throughout
the tumultuous Age of Strife, Tehenhauin’s
armies always marched to war beneath the protection
of the Prophecy of Sotek, carved upon its
plaque and held aloft by the prophet himself
or by his attendant. Yet, many lesser totems
of the Serpent God accompanied his armies,
and the Red Crests and their chiefs carried
these icons. Some totems were serpent-forms
made of gleaming gold and studded with green
and red gems, while others bore inscriptions
of the words of Tehenhauin. One totem was
a hide cut from the back of the Plague Pontifex
Quetch, who was defeated by the Skink Chief
Poqenichi at the Battle of the Golden Stair.
Poqenichi mounted the plague-ridden hide upon
a pole and bore it into battle as the army’s
warbanner, and so revolting was its stink
that the entire army was driven into a murderous
rage by its very presence upon the field
of
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