Having flicked through the Warhammer Online collectors edition art book, I think that I’ve come up with a potential concept for my Golden Demon entry next year. Within the book (and indeed the game), there is a Tzeentch bridge, simply put it has a path leading upto and out of what can only be described as an upturned pyramid, which is floating in the air. At the top of this structure is a large Tzeentch eyeball, surveying all that come and go.
What strikes me about this as a project is that it’s going to be pretty unique. It’s a massive modelling project in it’s own right and lends itself to a significant portion being airbrushed. For me it’s quite cool as I enjoyed and spent far more time on the modeling element of my Dreadnought than I did on the painting element. One of the pretty cool things about Tzeentch is that the structure has to look impossible, unstable and slightly disturbed. The pyramid is in essence composed of ‘layers’ in a similar design to a flower’s petals. What I’d love to do, is to have parts of the model floating with the use of magnets (a bit like those levitating pens you can buy). Some kind of movement would also be pretty cool, but would have to think about both of these items as it could add unecessary weight onto the floating element.
I need to sketch out some sizes, but it would be good to be able to have the paths able to take three or four mounted miniatures – i.e. 4 inches across. This would likely make the eyeball huge – at least 3 inches in diameter – providing I can paint it well it will make a fantastic feature centre piece of the model. Once I’ve done a sketch or two, I’ll create a mock out of card and artboard to see what it looks like and it I’ll carry on with it. I’ll also add some miniatures onto it – probably chaos warriors as they can be painted in the purple hues of the actual structure. What would be really cool would be to sculpt the bridge over a valley and somehow model false perspective to make it seem like the valley bottom is far away. In addition to the large eye on the top of the structure, there are also two eye like spheres set in the walls of structure (on either side). What I want to do is to try and paint them so that they appear to follow you within a relativly wide arc. If you’ve not already guessed I have plans to make the whole model slightly disturbing, but equally fascinating at the same time. Now obviously I actually need to work out how and indeed if some of these ideas are actually possible within a modelled world, but fingers crossed and this will become a reality 
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– which was my goal. However the fault lies squarly on my shoulders as I should have spent more time on it when I had the opportunity and for not being able to take more time on the finishing elements.
