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The Purple Orchid
“The Purple Orchid? She’s as true as any myth and as real as any legend. There are tales about her from Cold Lasvannger all the way to the Harashy ports. They say she’s the coldest, hardest assassin ever to draw blade or slip poison. Once her price is paid, her mark should get himself measured for his shroud. Himself lad? Aye, she never takes a female mark or harms a child. No one knows why. But there’s only been one woman's death ever blamed on her, and that was through a broken heart. What’s she like you ask? Heh, well no one rightly knows whether she’s one woman or many. A band of female assassins who work together. Scares you, right? See, she could be that travelling lady over there, or the sells-word by the fire or even the serving wench you’ve been eyeing up half the night. There’s never been a one who’s seen her face, known her and lived to tell. Is she real? Aye laddie she’s real enough, leaves a scrap of paper on her victims, with her mark, A Purple Orchid, drawn on it. Why purple? Mayhap she favours the colour. I do not know and I care not to speculate. My throat’s too dry with this talking, it’s your turn to buy….” I thought I’d add a little bit of fiction to go with this figure. She’s originally “Skarre, Pirate Queen” from Privateer Press’s Warmachine range. Which, while I like the basic posture, I really disliked the horns, so off they came. I hadn’t realised that the Warmachine characters wore backpacks so that too was removed. I’ve re-sculpted the hair back onto the figure where the horns had been and extended the tresses down both back and front. I’ve also reworked where the backpack had been and repaired the armour on the shoulder guards. The paint is a mixture of Vallejo and GW to get the purples Starting with the classic Liche Purple mixed with a tiny amount of Chaos Black, then worked up through pure Liche Purple Vallejo’s Royal Purple and then Citadel’s Worm purple. A tiny bit of Vallejo Ivory was added to the mix for some of the key highlights.. Hope you like her and as always comments are more than welcome.
Posted: 19 Sep 2004
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