While not officially a Condor Heroes Trilogy series, Jin Yong's "The Demi-Gods and Semi Devils" (Tian Long Ba Bu) has been considered widely as the Condor Heroes Trilogy prequel. It takes place roughly 45 years before the first Condor Heroes series and contains many of the characters and martial arts that would later shape the events of the Condor Heroes. It is also one of Jin Yong's better novels to date.
Qiao Feng (aka Sieu Fung), in one word is . . . UNSTOPPABLE. He is one of my favorite characters out of all of Jin Yong's novels. Bringing the Beggar's Clan (Gai Bang) to its height of glory only to see it being torn apart by power-hungry members, we see the rise and fall of one of China's greatest heroes. Born of Khitan decent, Qiao Feng is adopted by the former Beggar's Clan leader who taught him the infamous 18 Dragon Subduing Palms. Qiao Feng proves once and for all that it depends on the user of the art and not the art itself because we don't see another martial artist who can fully utilize the 18 Dragon Subduing Palms until another two decades, several stances of which were lost until the rise of Hong Chut Gong in The Condor Heroes, who created the new stances.
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Part of the reason I've been so hooked on making the Condor Heroes of late is because of the new China TV series that has been put out. A retelling of Jin Yong's new "remastered" novels, the new China TV shows has an awesome display of martial arts choreography, special effects, beautiful landscapes, and is excellently shot. While the new series does drag on a bit, it is very enjoyable nonetheless.
Finding a good sculpt for Qiao Feng was hard as hell to do. There aren't that many good headsculpts out there and I didn't want to rework a non-Asian looking head, so I decided to use the BBI Wang Hai head. Here's a big shout-out to Gary Pham for giving me the Wang Hai head. I had an extra one but destroyed it while rooting his hair so Gary saved Qiao Feng by offering his head to me. Gary, thank you very much!
Looking at many Chinese outfits, I started to see a pattern with most of their outfits. The outfit usually consists of a white undershirt and pants, a belt, a basic robe, plus an outer robe for extra warmth. His outfit wasn't very hard to do once I had the pattern down, but that cap of his was extra tormenting. Since I had no idea what a real cap looks like, I tried my best to duplicate the hat from the 1996 version of the Hong Kong TVB series. It's pretty similar to the cap worn by Felix Wong in the '96 series, except I added some rabbit fur to the front instead of regular fabric to achieve the Mongolian-type look.
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His wolf tattoo is hand-painted with acrylic paint. The wolf tattoos I've seen in the various TV shows didn't look anything like what you see here. I added some tribal designs plus a bunch of Chinese gibberish (since I can't really speak, read or write Chinese - except for the bad words of course!). His beard is sculpted on with Apoxie. Once and again, the awesome broadsword is a commission I put in with Weapons Lord Auret7. Seeing that little broadsword in person is just unreal. Terry made it from a steak knife so you could imagine how incredibly real that baby is. Here is Qiao Feng showing off the awesome broadsword.
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