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Looking good so far. I can't help but notice a big gap between the neck/body, though.


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Just looked back at the ForgeWorld photos. It looks like they filled in gaps with Milliput or similar on theirs.

Looks great as always.

Well bit of an update... no pictures though as its not a giant update... I just finished the body (for the most part... odviously theres some parts I can finish due to other pieces [arms/heads/wings] not being attatched yet. I did most of the highlighting (I still have the top of the tail though... DOH!) and I did it by hand rather than dry brush and it came out better me thinks.

I already glued it to the base/legs and greenstuffed the horrid gap between the two (partially horrid casting and partially my imperfact placing of pieces... Im only human ) and it looks fine... just got to let it dry then paint it up . Not much else except that the arms should go much much faster then the body (hopefully done by friday... I would assume so) I still have a little bit on the base to do that I mite try to finish tonight.

Then on to the wings which Im honestly not too sure about... time wise that is... It looks like it will be an easy piece to paint although intimidating... just green cuts and gashes with a lot of highlighting...

Will send another update by Saturday! Thanks for all the comments!! Really does keep me going on this haha... Im actually determined to get this finished out of no where... wish I would have had this determinationg like in July when I got the model and I wasnt swamped with school.

Wow! Keep going!!! This is looking really good

One word.... WOW!

Nearly finished with one of the arms and started on one of wings... Im really hoping to be done with this model by the end of next week since I dont have school... Im trying to figure out what to do with the base... The rocks arent looking to good at all so Ill have to figure out something... How do you think they would look if I painted them black with red highlights so that looked more together with the rest of the base? as currently they are just way to bright and hard to highlight.

Sorry if the pictures werent amazing... I did them sort of quick.

Looks good, but have a feeling the wings are gonna need a little extra.

looking good, and I agree think it may need a little extra, but we will have too see. Question for you are those two little prongs comming out of the wing from the mold or are they for pinning?

The wings arent nearly done Still got alot to do to them since theyre so massive and a major part of the model. The two prongs are brass rods for pinning

Buttlerthepug wrote:The wings arent nearly done Still got alot to do to them since theyre so massive and a major part of the model. The two prongs are brass rods for pinning

excellent, was just curious as I couldnt tell through the pic thats all. Looking good though I have really been enjoying this thread.

Now don't take this as me bashing your painting, or flaming, as I'm just giving you my honest opinion in a friendly, constructive format:

I'm not digging the blue at all. It's far too dull compared to the green (it looks like you just drybrushed some blue on the black primer and called it a day, which, in my opinion, is making the model look sub-par at best.)The reason the one on the FW is so striking to look at is that they took two contrasting bright colors that just pop out at you. If you contrast a vibrant, bright color with a dull blue-black (that, I'm sorry to say, looks more like straight primer with some blue drybrushed on) it really kills the overall look of the model. Here's my reccomendation if you want to go with a dark blue: give the skin a basecoat of a dark indigo/blue paint and THEN drybrush a lighter blue. Follow that up with a Devlan Mud wash, followed by some highlights of that same light blue (or some drybrushing in places that got to dark from the wash). This will make it not only less dull, but it will also make it a brighter and more striking contrast to the green.

I'm really not trying to sound like a dick. You're green looks incredibly cool, as does the purple, but I'm sorry to say the blue looks rather bad. It just looks like some quick drybrushes (of one color to bat). Do what you want, it's your model, but I just thought I'd give you some feedback other than "OH WOW THAT'S AWESOME!!!!!" .

Good luck, and I love the base .

It actually helps alot Darth Bob! Ill definitely try that out on one of the other pieces cause in all honesty Ive been trying to find a better way to the skin as the skin on the legs constantly pops out more and makes the skin on the body look bad and undone, no matter what I do... and I was almost tempted to just change the skin altogether (since all Ive done is the dry brush on most places, I wouldnt look any detail in doing this) but I will definitely give your aproach a go and see how it turns out! Thanks for the suggestion/honesty!

Buttlerthepug wrote:It actually helps alot Darth Bob! Ill definitely try that out on one of the other pieces cause in all honesty Ive been trying to find a better way to the skin as the skin on the legs constantly pops out more and makes the skin on the body look bad and undone, no matter what I do... and I was almost tempted to just change the skin altogether (since all Ive done is the dry brush on most places, I wouldnt look any detail in doing this) but I will definitely give your aproach a go and see how it turns out! Thanks for the suggestion/honesty!

Well that's great! I'm glad I helped rather than offended (as that was my intention). To be honest I felt kind of bad for what I said, but oh well, no harm no foul. Be sure to post pics of a test model (try to find a test model with a similar texture to the dragon for a full effect).

Yeah, Id like to srip the paint off my Giant Spined Chaos Beast and repaint it (it looks terrible right now!!!!! and it needs to have a fantasy base... why I put it on a sqaure base with 40k stuff on it I have no idea..) so I might try it on that!

Buttlerthepug wrote:Yeah, Id like to srip the paint off my Giant Spined Chaos Beast and repaint it (it looks terrible right now!!!!! and it needs to have a fantasy base... why I put it on a sqaure base with 40k stuff on it I have no idea..) so I might try it on that!

Ooooh I love that model! If any model's close to the texture of the Dragon it's that one. What you should do is (since you plan to strip it anyways) do some test on the model with its current paintjob, see if you can get the right effect, then do it on the dragon.

Will definitely try that. Another alternative I was thinking about was highlighting it red since Ive seen quite a few dragons done black with red highlights that look really good... and that would be alot more contrasting aye?

Buttlerthepug wrote:Will definitely try that. Another alternative I was thinking about was highlighting it red since Ive seen quite a few dragons done black with red highlights that look really good... and that would be alot more contrasting aye?

Make sure you have a good red formula if you want to try that. With the green he can come out looking like something out of walmart around christmas time.

Darth Bob wrote:Make sure you have a good red formula if you want to try that. With the green he can come out looking like something out of walmart around christmas time.

Well, it is meant to be chaos...

nice!

Ok so its not much of an update... I havent gotten anymore work done on the dragon (this past week has been really rough) but I started stripping the giant spined chaos beast a few days ago and it still in progress... about 30 minutes ago I took a good look at the base and realized just how much I had skrewed it up... so I spent about 30 minutes prying it from its base without snapping off arms... Finally got it off and it still looks gawd awful so Its back in simple green to finish stripping (although I might have to change it over to that other stuff... drawling a blank... I made the mistake of watering down the simple green <.< )

Ill probably try out a few different things for skin tomorrow and see what I can do. Sorry for the not so exciting update :(


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Ok so its not much of an update... I havent gotten anymore work done on the dragon (this past week has been really rough) but I started stripping the giant spined chaos beast a few days ago and it still in progress... about 30 minutes ago I took a good look at the base and realized just how much I had skrewed it up... so I spent about 30 minutes prying it from its base without snapping off arms... Finally got it off and it still looks gawd awful so Its back in simple green to finish stripping (although I might have to change it over to that other stuff... drawling a blank... I made the mistake of watering down the simple green <.< )

Ill probably try out a few different things for skin tomorrow and see what I can do. Sorry for the not so exciting update :(

Cant wait.

Alright time for pictures... so heres the thing... Theres good news and theres bad news... Bad news first: Im stuck on the look... of blue!!!! My thanks to you Darth Bob as I would never have honestly attempted fully painting the skin without your advice... The good news is: It looks better than the black!!!! And hopefully it isnt a terrible paint job... but Ill let you guys decide that!

So as I said, I took your advice Bob, I started off with a base coat of Mordian Blue, followed by a fairly heavy wash of devlan mud, then a light dry brush of enchanted blue for highlights (might do this a little more, possibly not since I like the darker blue...)

Odviously the only part of the wing that has these three steps done is the very end... Im thinking of doing another light wash followed by another highlight of enchanted blue... but Im not positive yet... What do you guys think? Suggestion, Tips, Comments? Really want to improve this if possible and willing to take the time to do so...

So if you havent noticed... I didnt really do any test jobs on the giant spined (I need to get some more simple green as I mistakenly watered it down and not all the paint came off due to this). After its fully stripped however I think Im going to try for a nurgle beasty! Anyways, since I didnt have proper model to test schemes on I just went ahead and did it on the wing since it would have been pretty easy to strip and gave me a nice big area to test the skin...

So what do you guys think? Like it better then the black? Like it overall? Needs more? Needs less? etc etc... C&C PLEASE!

*Guess its going to be Tzeentch after all
EDIT: I can use it as the specail dragon character for WoC too! I dont rememer its name cause Im drawling a blank but yeah... Galruch or something I think...

Also... as I look at the pictures... my biggest worry was that the green wouldnt pop out as much... but its seems to do so even more imo! especially when I finish the rest!

So little update, did the wash and drybrush highlight on most of the other parts that were only blue before. Put a pic without flash in there too as it shows it a little differently. What you all think?

The blue is a huge step up. Looks alot better.

But which pic is closer to how it looks in person. You might wanna try taking pic.s out side/ near window during the day.

Will do... I would guess that the picture with the flash on is closer... just cause the lighting in my house is... well terrible lol. I need to get me a light box and propper lighting.

The washroom is a great place to take pics. Its big and the white tiles/tub is almost like a white backdrop LOL.

Wow, the blue looks really cool!

OH my gosh. That looks 150x better. You did very good contrasting the green and the blue. It's a defenite improvement, and I'd love to see it put on the Dragon's head.

Cheers

Darth Bob wrote:OH my gosh. That looks 150x better. You did very good contrasting the green and the blue. It's a defenite improvement, and I'd love to see it put on the Dragon's head.

Cheers

Haha well thank you! Its cause of your suggestion I did this anyways... so I decided the next part to finish would be the head! Now in all honestly... doing the blue isnt very time consuming at all... it takes very little time... mainly cause Im purposely not doing 100% coverage with the blue and im using a really big brush.... and the usage of a foundation paint helps as wel... and the wash is very quick too! Anyways... here progress at the moment... Odviously nothing is fully done but its getting there! Im going to try and work really hard this week so I can try and get it finished for the most part. But we'll see what happens...

Oh also forgot to mention that the blue makes the giant purple croch mount pop out ALOT more... also I spent like and hour or so deleting every image (I think it was like 300) in my Dakka Gallery since I had been uploading them by attatchments on threads (bad idea... no organization at all!) and I am re uploading the properly now... so feel free to rate/comment them on the gallery if you want! C&C as always!

On the picture of just the wing i didn't think it would look that good. But, now that I have seen it as a whole I'm a believer. Looks great, keep it up!