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Genestealer Patriarch / Tyranid Broodlord
Here's an OOP GW figure from the early 90's I've had sitting in a dusty drawer for years, painted for a competition over at the Relicnews Warhammer 40K Painting & Modeling Forum. I was aiming for a combination of the old-school blue/purple Genestealer color scheme and the newer GW Hive Fleet Leviathan style. The purple skin is much lighter in tone than the older scheme, worked up to a significant amount of grey/white, whereas the chitin armor color is a dark indigo shade worked up to mid-blue highlights. The claws and spines are painted in a striated pattern worked out from bone to a greyish shade and then back towards the body in a darker reddish-brown stripes. Although somewhat subdued in the pictures, the tongue is a vivid reddish-pink and the eyes are a glowing yellow color. I'm imagining the figure as prowling a recent battlefield with empty shell casings and blood spatters all over, pausing a moment to taste some blood off its fingertips. Although the backstory behind the Genestealer Patriarch is different from the newer Tyranid Broodlord, I think this 14+ year-old figure has a lot more "personality" and would make an excellent substitute. Comments and constructive criticism appreciated!
Posted: 10 Apr 2007
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