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Need a break from painting... the little tainted areas on the barely intact side is annoying as feth... Still have to do a goblin green on them all then a thraka green in them all to add the depth... anyhow. Heres the progress... The pics are all funky for some reason... The bone in the neck is a tan color with a very light thraka green wash (it makes sense to me... a fleshly ripped open head... im assuming some goo from the organs and what not would get on it eh?) and a devlan mud wash in little areas of the bone to make it more bone like... The pic made it look rather crappy though... :(

Gotta finish the red in the mouth... mechrite red all around then probably a devlan mud wash or two... Im extremely anxious to put on the ard coat (you can see a very small part at the bottom with it... it looks so grotesque! so anyhow... Me thinking about making the whole face green... The jaw looks like its decaying like the other side but it looks wierd to me... that entire side is ripped but the jaw it not... hmmmm...

What do you think? Make the jaw like the rest or keep it decaying but intact? Still looking for opinions on highlighting the black! Let me know... Ive just seen too many ways to do it and I never reall painted a black model... so yeah

The green is looking beast. All I can say would to make the bone more white and put a gloss varnish on the greens and mouth when your done. As for the black skin, I would do a blueish highlight because the grey would kinda look a little less natural to me.

Have you based the other head yet or are you painting this one up completely first? Can't wait to see the body.

I'm not sure what to do with the jaw, but for highlighting black 50/50 codex grey and chaos black or codex grey drybrush. Judging by its size, the 2nd way is the way to go.

Damn, got ninja'd

I like the blue idea.

Is the whole thing magnetized Pug?

wow o_o if you ever get tired of painting it , i wouldnt mind giving it a try!

Ah yeah, person. Im talkin to monger on the phone actually... we decided blue is the way to go... way more natural looking.... the grey would look awkward O.o

Its not magnatized luna but theres brass rods in everything sooo they just pull in and out... the pieces are rather heavy and magnets frightened me for holding it together.

EDIT: Necron Abyss work you think or too dark? I think if its any lighter it will look just as wierd as the grey though D:

Necron abyss would look good I think, can't be sure until I see it though. Can you paint up a small part with it real quick?

Just a little update... I tried NEcron abyss and it was too dark... there was another blue i used... mordian blue... it was much lighter and I did an extremely extremely light dry brush of it to the black areas that needed *highlighting* and it also gives some areas (like the decaying but still normal...ish... side of the face where its really flat on top) a bluish taint which I dont mind actually... I added the thraka wash to the little holey areas and Im going to finish up the details of green and finish the *highlighting* on the black then do all the udder fun stuff... horns, teef, tounge action... wow..., eyes, etc... then once its all done Ill do the gloss varnish and post some pictures :O

Well then.... Sooooo as Im painting I apparently have horrid light cause the pics show a blueish tainted chaos dragon... I LOVE IT! It looks rather good compared to the solid black... So I have put the gloss varnish on all the green areas and mouth however its much more "slimy" looking in person.. the pics fail to show that aspect... What you think? Im personally digging the blue skin tone... Ive actually had it in my head that black would be rather boring but I didnt want to change my mind on colors... IT WORKED OUT THOUGH!

ON TO THE PICTURES!

EDIT: the bone/teeth/spikes is not done
EDIT EDIT: Warmonger made a point to me... I was saying that the jaw on the ripped open side still seems out of place... but I also need to make that blue too and not just outlined eh?

Looking good, the blue came out pretty nice.

FRIGGIN NUTZ!!!

Well time to start on another head... I has prepped it up with gap filling and what not... Still need to trim down some teeth... But its pretty near done... Will finish it up and Prime/start painting tommorow night!

Oh and this piece had a TERRIFYING mold line on the bottom part of the neck... I could trim it down other wise it would have ruined the model... So, I green stuffed a giant battle scar... I figured hey... this dragon just got its head cut in half... a freaking cut wont matter much eh? Oh and my damn shadow made the pic all... shadowy at the end... still can see it though!

EDIT: and yes... that wound was the length of the freaking mold line that was 'uge and terrible... and untrimmable

Are you gonna use more colours than some greens on the innards?

I have some purple for the various veins on the insides but other then that Im going to keep it green... I think If I add anymore It will look too cluttered and too rainbow like... Just my oppinion though

Didnt have time to start painting today as I just got home and I actually have to finish painting my Nurgle boat for a Boat Painting Contest at my local GW tomorow (still got to paint the krew... BAH) But Ill have all day tommorow while Im at GW, to paint so Ill post pics when I get home!

Yay For updates... So I got the second head nearly done... although When I got home and just as Im taking pics I finally realie I forgot to highlight bottom jaw on one side... woops... Oh and I started on the base... was going to have random areas of rubble ended up being mostly rubble... I like it though! Oh and the pics a little dark... forgot to turn flash on... woops

Are you going to be doing a lava base?

lookin sick bro!

Nope... but the ground will be a red with dark grey rocks like my giant spined chaos beast somewhere in my gallery... a model that needs repainting actually However the base is done! I threw some chaos bits around... Got a few shields lying about, a giant chaos slab rock thing, a warrior helmet, a broken wheel thing, an a chaos icon... I was going to add more but it was just the right amount I think. Didnt look to overdone but it had the touch of chaos to the base... hope you like it... the sand looks kinda odd in the pictures but yeah... and I added the talons to the feet!

This is not my next painting task however... Im going for the main body next :O I know right... lets just say I was not happy at all while preping the body for paint... like 7 spikes from the back/tail were broken off (I broke a few while building the model but many were like that when I got it) and like 3 different mold lines! One strait in the middle, going up its crotch mouth... and one on the underside of each leg! And I looked through the other pieces... THERES A MOLD LINE ON BOTH ARMS! BAHHH and there was 3 total mold line between the two necks/heads... The feth... thats like... 7 major mold lines on this guy so far... bloody hell.

Well enough ranting on my behalf... THE BASE!

I love the base, I'd say maybe make a wrecked wagon or something there as well

The Base is looking good!

Actually Im thinking about putting someone under the arm that will be comming down on something... Maybe an empire guy laying on the ground with one arm on his chest, the other reaching towards the sky... all dramatic like... Not to sure yet.

Wagon I might do... Anyone else got some ideas on if I should add something to the base?

Well... I talked to Romeo at Battlefoam and Im going to get a custom tray for the model... Rather a huge block of foam for the model (as it is far too big) And lets just say its to terribly hard to freaking trace... I did a poor job and am still foaming at the mouth since Ive done it like 7 times... It stands 13" high, 16" from wing to wing, and 14" from base to tail.... That should tell you have big this model is hehe... So heres some pictures of outline... Oh that a Chaos warrior... tiny little fella aye? Its the best outline I could get some Imma fax it over and see if it will work or if I should redo the outline... Anyhow, I need to go prime the main body of the Chaos Dragon and get painting so I can update you guys!

Nice looking base, the plaster rocks turned out good.

Your just saying that cause you gave them too me haha

Pug , how many lvls of foam would be cut for the dragon?

Well It was just out of size for a normal custom foam cut from Battlefoam so it seems as though they are ordering a big block of foam... So I would assume just one giant foam case for it... odviosly it wont be going in any army bags/cases... Im not sure on the details yet but hopefully I can find out today or tommorow so Ill let you all know what the foams actually be like... And hopefully Ill have the model fully painted and together when the foam arrives

Buttlerthepug wrote:Well It was just out of size for a normal custom foam cut from Battlefoam so it seems as though they are ordering a big block of foam... So I would assume just one giant foam case for it... odviosly it wont be going in any army bags/cases... Im not sure on the details yet but hopefully I can find out today or tommorow so Ill let you all know what the foams actually be like... And hopefully Ill have the model fully painted and together when the foam arrives

Becareful about the foam though, because horizontal layers will not protect the dragon or anything fragile that size.

I've allways liked this model. I cant wait for this...

Didnt update yesterday since I didnt do anything except dark angels green on the main body neck, but I got nothing to do for 15 minutes before Im off to school <.<

So here it is with heads on. Also decided to add klaws to hands they looks more vicious now!

Needs some more colours ATM.