This article is another in the "Fleshing Out" series that will bring tiny bits of the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 universe to life. Throughout the Codexes, Army books, evocative Games Workshop imagery, and background material, countless individuals and champions have been mentioned. Some of these heroes have been given the royal treatment by the talented GW sculptors and realized in model form for the tabletop. Others have not.

These Fleshing Out articles will be all about the characters that may have a really interesting back story but never quite made it into official model form. To bring these characters out of the shadows, we'll challenge talented conversion artists and painters to model these characters and show us how they did it. Of course, none of these projects will be official in any way – each one will simply be an individual's interpretation of how a previously unmodeled character would look. We won't discuss stats or rules since the focus here is on modeling. We just want to provide a fun way to get folks thinking about and then building unique models.

Alright, now that we know what this article is about, let's have a look at a nasty critter named Quetch. On p. 48 of the Warhammer Realms: Lustria book, there's an inset about Skink Chief Poqenichi and how he gained a certain warbanner. The banner was made from the hide of Plague Pontifex Quetch (fancy title for a low-powered Grey Seer) after he was slain by the pesky Skink. Thus, I figured it'd be fun to make the doomed rat, if only for the fact that this type of Pestilens character can be mounted upon a Cauldron of a Thousand Poxes – which is kind of like a Screaming Bell. Since there is no official model for this weapon, it'll be a double challenge as I'll have to create both the Cauldron and Quetch himself.