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Indeed, I still have details to do on the heads/necks but the body will have some different colors since theres so many random bits! I need to buy some kind of pink paint for alot of the random veiny looking spots around the body... Theres so many things Im not sure how exactly Im going to paint it all

Wow. Lookin good so far.
Gunna watch for this one

Looks good.

Thanks for the comments! And sorry I havent posted in a while... got a tad bit lazy and was getting like, one step of green on the neck done then calling it a night... I primed the base and Im quite please with the results... What do you guys (and girls ) think? Anyhow, was just showing yall the base! Gotta go paint some more on the main body... I also was trying to do some parts on the body using only paints I had and kind of experimented on the veins... did a Baal red wash over Hormagaunt purple... I LIKE IT! It made a pinkish red look that looks rather good... will post pics later!

Ewww look at all dem nasty areas I missed... Will have to go back and get those... no biggie!

The base looks better now that it's primed. How far are you on the body?

Again, not a big update :( as I have still been rather lazy... however tomorrow Im going down to my local Gw and getting a quick game on then will spend the rest of the day painting! a good 5-7 hours of painting without distraction... well unless something happens... In which case I come home and post on the Model Molester Horror Story thread, or the Best/worste sportsmanship... WOO!

Anyhow... I got the base started... The rocks will be a dark grey (they arent as bright as in the picture) and the ground is a redish black type thing... It should go well once its all done... The body I havent got far on still.. only the neck is done and I noticed its a tad bit lighter then the necks... its really hard to tell irl actually but It should be a rather easy fix... Anythoughts? What yall think about colors for the main body? I NEED IDEAS!

Sorry for the late update again, I got home last night and was wiped... didnt feel much like taking pictures and posting them... But now I can! Anyhow... I went to my local GW yesterday, played a game against Warmonger33 and got a minor win off by 20 victory points... WOO! It was very lucky actually got a spell off that took out a skink priest on a Stegadon and exalted took a Stegadon last turn of combat... so It would have been a draw but I got lucky

Anyways, I spent the rest of the day painting and thought I would get the entire main body done and start on some other stuf... NO SIR! I started off with some work on the base, got bored and decided to do the body before going back... So I spent almost FIVE HOURS! on the tail alone... All them little green dots... I would say about 200 of them, and a bunch Ive missed... Still need to go back and put the wash on the to It was quite irritating, but It will be worth it

You might be thinking... eh thems be some rather sloppy dots you got going there mate... But once the wash is on, it actually cleans up really well... So thats the next step...

Theres the base so far... Need to make the rocks much darker and the feet were really easy... they were all scales so it was just a drybrush of enchanted blue... they came out pretty good I think...

Oh and there some pictures of the table we played on... just cause I think it was cool

That is a cool table. Good luck on more dots.

Ok sorry for the really late update as Ive been kind of busy (ok... so I started playing WoW again and yeah... ADDICTION ) but heres a small update... I finished alot of the main dot type areas, any only have the little ones going up the back and middle of tail... I also started some blue highlighting on the skin... theres parts that are like kind of underthe skin but its still skin? Im not sure if that makes any sense or if you can identify them in the picture, but I plan on making them more blue-ish to add some color, since it still looks like the skin it just wouldnt make much sense to make it a totally different color... Any thoughts? Suggestions on colors? Anything? C&C please

I see what you mean. I think it should be a slightly different colour than the skin.

I dont know but the blue skin is missing something and I don't know what. It's really bothering me.

person person wrote:I see what you mean. I think it should be a slightly different colour than the skin.

Yeah I agree... im just not sure what... all I can think of is a really dark blue... the veins are purple so it cant be that... and not alot of other colors will fit in well aye?

WarMonger33 wrote:I dont know but the blue skin is missing something and I don't know what. It's really bothering me.

Probably the fact that like half of that picture didnt have the skin even done lol?

Sorry for yet ANOTHER long off update...I have an excuse however! I did not end up going to GW on saturday which is usually when I get most of the painting done for this bad boy, and rather I played WoW for 19 hours strait and am wiped out of the game except for a few hours a day (compared to my normal 10-12 hours a day... im addicted lol) so Im starting to paint it more... although I keep painting my Soul Drinkers and its very distracting...

So anyways... I got alot of the veins painted purple and will probably throw a baal red wash on them. I painted the entire crotch mouth purple and will have a baal red wash on that as well as the other much smaller mouth right next to it. I put a heavier blue on the under skin areas that I was talking about and I still got to put alot of gloss varnish on the little dots strait down the back... Any ideas/suggestions? Will try to start updating every other day if not every day since I would like to get this piece done before monday...

Also, I plan on doing the greenstuff work between the neck/body gaps and feet-legs/body gaps after the body is finished being painted (I know I probably should have done this before painting but I would have missed SO MUCH detail!!!!! So Ill get it to work...

I need ideas for the wings!!! I cant leave the giant flappy part (membrane i think its called? I have no idea lol) black as well as the black arms for the wing... But I dont know what color to paint it? Help much appreciated... C&C asked for and much welcomed!

-Sorry for the bad pictures... will get better ones after I paint some more!

So much detail...

Im not sure what to do with your wing dilemna.

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Looking really good. The model is huge and very detailed but at least there is a lot of texture to make life a bit easier.

looking great but please say your going to gap fill between the heads and the body .

Empchild wrote:looking great but please say your going to gap fill between the heads and the body .

Yes... I will have to gap fill EVERY piece... I got a poorly casted model sadly but it will make me feel more accomplished in the end haha

So I started looking at the painted pictures of the Chaos Dragon on the FW sight to get some ideas (mainly with the wings) and after going back and forth looking at their painted version and mine (to see the details) I realized theres SO MANY raised areas and stuff, that it actually will work find leaving it black with highlights (although maybe a heavier highlight?) and it also occured to me that the areas I was questioning erlier about it being part of the skin but under it, its not really like that at all... its just like all the little decaying parts, its totally the insides but has some skin coming out of it kind of.... So I decided to paint them green as well (this is going to make the main body ALOT less boring actually)

Between those areas being green and the countless dots I have left on the upper legs and around the body as well as veins/mouths/etc it will come together quite nicely I think! So heres how the areas look with the green... much much better IMO....

After I finish my soul drinkers assault squad this week I plan to work alot harder at finishing the dragon before I start anything else.!

C&C Please!!

Palette is great.

It's weird... but is it just me or does the green look like greenstuff? I know green is green but they're so so similar!

Alrighty so like I said last week, this week I WILL finish the body, and the base, and if I am moving at a fast rate whilst still maintaining a good job, I might try and do the green stuff work between the legs, and necks. Next week I will tackle the arms. I am making progress on the body and hope to have quite a bit done by the time I update next, however I have finished most of the large front areas where I decided to go with the green insides. It looks WAY better and definitely pulls alot of the boring from the model and just looks good overall. So heres some picstures!

Looks great, black should needs a bit more blue drybrush, but hey, its a WIP.

the forgeworld chaos dragon is one of the most beautiful models i have ever seen and with the amount of talent i see from your wip i can already tell that this model is going to turn out great. keep up the good work

SCHWEEET! If I ever get a FW model, it'll be a Revenant Titan. Mind you, I'd need three of those to take down that beast! Once again: SCHWEET!

@ person person- Yeah, It will get another blue dry brush after I get done with everything else, I will end up actually highlighting alot of it rather then "drybrush highlighting" I think.

@Kizzay- Thanks for the encouragement!

@ The Shrieker- I dont think it has 40k rules ahah! But Ive made some although I need to revise them again

Ok so I constantly look back the Painted FW Chaos Dragon and this one picture really changed my mind about the legs and Im now doing what they did... It still needs alot of work but there it is so far... I also started on all the decaying areas in the legs and they need alot of work too... but ATM all this extra stuff is REALLY bringing out the main body from the rather dull areas it was in before.

C&C welcomed!

I had a feeling this model was gonna need more than a drybrush for highlighting.

Just a quick little update of how the current painted/WIP pieces are together... Still needs alot of work but its coming together aight I suppose. C&C as always!

Sorry about the pics not being the best, they were quick pictures while waiting for some paint to dry

I think that the problem you're unable to put your finger on is two-fold.

1) You're not painting enough of the details. Hos body has multiple payers of torn skin and membrane and... God knows what... but you've painted it all black. Some of that stuff needs different colors... Maybe purple, like your mouths?

2) Your black... it's so dull. Your green is striking and vibrant, but the black with blue highlights is very muted and dull. the contrast is too great.

That being said, it's coming along VERY nicely, and I'm looking forward to seeing it when it's completed.

Eric

Sorry for the late update yet again, I just wasnt too much into painting (its a thing I do... I paint then dont paint for short-long periods of time... but now Im out to finish this beast of a model!!) so I didnt get anything done... Id like to finish the main body as well as greenstuffing it to the legs and painting that... by tomorrow. The pics are better then the previous ones so you can see more of whats done... I have mainly started to do green on the other leg as well as adding the gloss varnish to alot of places (the first leg, the croch mouth, few other places) and finally start on the random spikes and teeth (its not chaos without way to many spikes right?)... So here it is... will update tomorrow I promise!!!

Look at that tiny little chaos warrior... how cute!