Dragaera

What does a jhereg nest look like?

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Wed Aug 25 09:50:47 PDT 2004

"paul" <paulw at videoideas.com> writes:

> I've got so many more assets to build still, that I don't want to
> jeopardize my momentum. I too thought Vlad should in some ways
> resemble Steven Brust, although the only picture I've seen of the
> man is on the Dreamcafe. Also, since this is all low poly, if it
> resembles a person at all, I'll be tickled pink. It's one thing to
> build a Jhereg that no one has actually seen before, it's another to
> build a convincing human.

All you really need to do is model the *hat* properly :-). 

(Sorry about some of the long URLs!)

<http://www.jointhesaga.com/otherviews/brust.htm>
<http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue224/brust1.jpg>
<http://www.plokta.com/plokta/issue8/image11.jpg>
<http://www.dd-b.net/perl/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2001/01050-Steven's%20Party?id=Ep850-20010105-022>
<http://www.dd-b.net/perl/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2001/01050-Steven's%20Party?id=Ep850-20010106-070>
<http://www.dd-b.net/perl/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2001/01050-Steven's%20Party?id=Ep850-20010106-061>
<http://www.dd-b.net/perl/picpage/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2004/04090-Minicon-39/04090-Friday?id=ddb%2020040409%20010-003>
<http://walden.mvp.net/~eriko/minicon/brustandben.jpg>
<http://www.dd-b.net/perl/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2001/01050-Steven's%20Party?id=Ep850-20010105-003>


>>and if you do Vlad, make sure he has facial hair.
>
> Shannon, I'm thinking this will be the 16 year old Vlad, so the facial hair
> might not be so evident quite yet. On this topic, I'm about to start
> dressing Vlad and wondered if anyone cared to weigh-in on the style of a 16
> year old human who has prepared for a hike through the jungle. I figured
> that the dress of these books is based on the 3 musketeers to some degree.
> It seems to be a common interest to Brust. Also, at that point in Vlad's
> life, he was poor and without his trusty rapier yet. I thought something
> with a little gypsy-ish fashion might add an interesting look to him. If you
> find any picture or photo references to clothes that might be used as
> reference, please send them my way. Thanx again everyone!

Oh, well, you'd better refer to these, too, then:

<http://www.dd-b.net/perl/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/1969-70?id=ddb-35-24a>
<http://www.dd-b.net/perl/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/1969-70?id=ddb-35-25a>
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