Champions of Law season 2 - The titan of Solkan

Alright people, now I hope you're not tired of the champions of Law because I've decided to start the new season of the show !

I've been able to come up with a solid group that enabled me to play warband based games like Mordheim and Frostgrave. Now I've loved painting this group and I have loved playing with them too. There's still plenty of ideas I had that haven't seen the light of day though so I thought after a break I could start a new season of their story and see where this leads.

One of the concepts that I was th emost eager to do was to have a beastman or even a greater demon. Well let's say I scratched both itches on one go !

First of all, I needed to have something cool and which would bring back a lot of energy into this project along with a new scale. That's why I thought about doing a Greater demon or Titan.

With very little material to work from like with everything related to the gods of Law (something which is both annoying and pleasant to be honest) , I tried to base my creation on the old concept of titans of Law :

Extract from the Citadel journal - Autumn 85, picture from Solegends

Tall warrior : perfect ! Perfect and hunky body ? well sort of ! I only changed the head and wings to give the model a more regal look. My first idea was actually to give him a baby fat face but I just couldn't find the right model.

The model has been done with parts coming exclusively from my brother James from the funky Wenis Rodeo. The most knowledgeable of you will have recognised the Nick Bibby minotaur as a base with a Jes Goodwin eagle head on top and a pair of wings I just can't remember the origin of.

I had to sculpt some leather straps and a bit of armour just to be able to get the Law symbol and some gold parts on the guy. It also reinforces the martial look I want amongst my lawful warriors.

Painting wise, I've kept the same usual palette with the addition of Kemhri brown for the skin. I needed something richer on such a large creature so I added marine blue in the recesses and some reddish glazes in some parts (veins, nipples and all) to give a richer look. 

The colours are voluntarily natural because the way I see, Chaos has to be openly weird. Law is just as unnatural as chaos in essence but it's all about the idea of thinking you're right. Natural colours on such a creature makes it look creepier than if it has pink skin and yellow wings.

Now if you want to know the whole truth about this model, I have to give you one final information about it. All the sources of inspiration I've talked about are genuine. But see, as I mentioned earlier, all the parts come from my beloved Crooks and we just happen to talk a lot via messenger. Amongst all the silly things we say, theres usually quite a load of stupid stickers and these have to be the most frequent I use :

I know, it's ruining the oldschool cred of the whole post... But you have to know it all started when we agreed I had to make a model of that stupid eagle. I first thought I'd do a mexican wrestler with spandex and all but the concept evolved to a greater demon of Law in the twisted process that was mine...
The name remains though, he is the Cheagle aka DON CHEAGLE...

One final information is that I hesitated a long time to give the clenched fist a snake whip or some OSL to represent an inner glow. I let both ideas aside because 1) I'm lazy and 2) I thought the idea of the demon using blunt force was more intersting than magic or something which could very well become a tiring joke.

So here he is, the first model of the 2nd season of the champions of Law ! There are many more to come (about 15 I'd say), this should bring the warband to the status of small contingent and it should also open the doors for new games like Warhammer and especially Dragon Rampant.