Andy Chambers a game designer who has worked for Games Workshop for over 25 years. He helped create 40k, among other games, and adores Skaven, Tyranids, and Orcs, which are also my favorite armies :) .
One of the things he is best remembered for is his Skaven army which was showcased in WD 137 in 1991. The army is a riot of colour, styles, and character. No two figures in it are alike - it is, legit, and all-character horde army. The army inspired many gamers to not only start collecting Skaven, but to also try and create their own Andy Chambers style army.
Our brief was to do one. Straightforward yes? Sure -- but which Andy Chambers army?
Which Andy Chambers SKAVEN army?
Lighting affects photos. How well a photograph captures the brightness and tones of something is very much a function of the amount and quality of the light at the time. Photography literally means "drawing with light," for a reason.
Then, there's printing. Even if someone takes a fantastic photograph, how well will that be translated, in print? Go look at any of the yellowed, saturated comics of the 1970s and 80s and compare that to the quality of any graphic novel, today, and you can see the problem. A photographer can do their best to capture what they’re seeing. The printer, however, will then just shrug and stamp on the photographer’s dreams.
Recall the outstanding and inspirational artwork by John Blanche in the Mordheim rulebook. He actually did all that in color. Blanche never intended for the Mordheim rulebook to be black and white. What we understand of the early years of GW art is constrained by the limits of the publishing tools available to GW at the time.
Herein was our first problem. What color are these minis below?