Stranger in a strange land - The give-away prize

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You're fine? Good, let's begin then.

You may remember, I organized a little give-away to celebrate my 100th follower?, Well you may also remember that Warlord Paul won it. The little challenge associated with this event was really simple, everyone who felt like participating only had to pick one model amongst those I submitted and give 2 flavours to go along.

And here is the result !

Oh but wait, "what were the model and flavours picked ?" I hear you say ! Very simple, Warlord Paul chose this Gary Morley wizard (released druing the 4th edition of Warhammer if I'm correct) :

And his 2 "flavors" were :

1) time-travelling
2) gunslinger

The very first ideas that came to me were immediately:

This...

How not to think about Stephen King's Dark Tower when reading "Gunslinger"

And this :

How not to think about these films when talking about time travel?

And I have to say there was some potential in it but it didn't please me enough, I was sure I could find better than this...

I loved the Dark Tower books though the end realy left me with a feeling of disappointment (my favourite book was definitely the 4th) and the idea of having a multiverse travelling cow-boy seemed cool, idea KEPT.

Back to the future... I have to say I kinda liked those when I was a child but let's face it nowadays, even the pink stained glasses of nostalgia can make me want to watch them again. Oh and if this is not reason enough for you, let's just say that Huey Lewis and the news is clearly not the soundtrack of my Rogue trader (however oldschool and all it might be). idea REJECTED.

No, let's be serious about it, where else did I get some 80's time travel... think, think...

Oh no, how could I even forget about THAT :

Eddie DOES travel in time and space !

Oh but wait ! when he does, he also looks like one bad-ass gunslinger !

Damn, those Derek Riggs drawings still rock, I love them now as much as I loved them back then ! I can remember the time spent searching for all the little details and easter eggs in the one above ! And how cool was it to have time travel, cyberpunk, bladerunner and some classic Iron Maiden in the same package ! 

For such a character I would normally write a little back story with a name and all but since this is a gift to Warlord Paul, I'm leaving this task to him. He has a real talent for coming up with solid and exciting stories so I won't make him the offense of writing the background for one of his characters !

You can see the elf has a bionic eyes like Eddie in the covers, this is direct reference and it also allowed me to give a more futuristic look to the model.

I am very happy Paul chose this Gary Morley wizard because to be honest, I would never have painted it otherwise and it felt so sad. I tried to keep as much of the original model I could and finally only severed the top of his head to give him a cowboy hat made of greenstuff and an automatic weapon to replace his magic sword. The gun is voluntarily a crude gun rather than a refined eldar shuriken pistol or lasgun, I wanted to show this fellow had to arm himslef with what he had to find. Not using eldar parts also enables me to leave a doubt about wether he is an elf from a distant past who has travelled into the future or a guy from the future going in the past to pick fancy old magic items...

I think the contrast between his cowboy/gunslinger attire (hat and coat) and his elegant elvish clothing works well and doesn't look too messy. To avoid any confusoin, I limited myself to my usual palette of reds and blues with white. the brown of the leather coat and hat being here to give the seoncd side of the coin.

Oh and just as a little detail, the colour of his hair had to be white and the colour of his weapon black, you guess why...

"oh now I get why Ulysses told me to go see Theseus..."

During all his journeys, he will encounter several dangerous threats...

"Damn, I might have gone too far in the past ! Don't worry about me guys !  Just act like I'm not here, gimme 3minutes to recover some mana and I'm out through another time portal, right?" 

And he will meet some fascinating people...


Now all I hope id that the model is to the liking of its future owner. For now I have to get back on my Rogue Trader space Orks and a gang of Squats who received some reinforcement some time ago and should take long to finish now...