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Haha yeah... It was probably the lighting on the "Wing Only" pictures... I tryed to get better lighting and not use the flash on these last pictures and it looks like it helped quite a bit... still need to get me a photo box or w/e they are called

Fantastic. It's already looking sooooooooooo much better than before. Now, one thing I would do is pick out the vein-like bits on his tail with a light pink or red. Something that will pop from the blue.

Keep it up.

Darth Bob wrote:Fantastic. It's already looking sooooooooooo much better than before.

I totally agree. I think the blue really brings out the detail of the model more.

Great work keep it up

Agreed, almost looks like a completely different model.

Darth Bob wrote:...Now, one thing I would do is pick out the vein-like bits on his tail with a light pink or red. Something that will pop from the blue.

Keep it up.

+1 to that.

Wow this is really a cool looking project. Keep it up

Over and out Avach

Ok so a small update... I started on the long second/endish part of the tail (and foolish me uploaded the wrong pictures... so you dont get to see the tail untill next time!) as well as starting the veins, all done is pink as suggested! I also worked on the base alot more... got most of the red done although its still has alot of odvious things that need doing. As you can see I have started to put a wash on the rocks to make them A) Not look horribly boring and take alot out of the model. B) Make them look better with the red gravel of the base. Sorry the update wasnt magnificant but C&C as always!

Oh... I also put on the other wing (which I finally primed) and arm for the picture... you can also see a tiny lil ork boy down there somewhere

Ok so another update. I got the blue done on the other wing and arm... so all I have left on the blue is highlighting it all. I have a few other things to do and Im near completion! This picture was taken a weak or so ago and I just forgot to update so Ill get new ones tonight or tomorrow... C&C please! Also, heres a comparison shot to the rest of my army

Makin' some headway.
Whats that big slimy thing beside the dragon?

Tis the Plague Carrier, the boat in which my army rides to battle in, I made it a while ago for my local GW but alas it still looks ok and I figured Id put it in the picture when I took it

Tis awesome.

Ill have an update for everyone tomorrow I think, but I had another question in mind for every today... A color scheme for the FW Chaos War Mammoth... Me thinks this is going to be my next buy and Im deciding on colors... Ive been thinking about Black fur with a very light grey (almost a white) skin along with bright red wounds (as this would show up and contrast very well with the light grey) and dark red armour to go along with my Khorne WoC... what do you all think of this as a choice of colors? Or what would you do color wise?

Some info on my army to make it ezier to pick colors to help match and what not.

Khorne- Red armour
Snow bases
All the fur on models is done black with grey highlights

Sounds awesome to me, but I think it'll need some extra wow-age like the blue on the dragon.

Hmmmm what would you suggest then? The black fur on the mamoth will show up alot more then the blue since Im highting with grey.

Not generally. It normally turns out fine as long as you make it an extreme highlight.

Sorry for the really late update... I havent worked on it a whole lot due to me starting to paint my WoC army and other various things... Im going to start work on it again tomorrow and will have some actuall pictures for ya. Might even through in some picks of the Giant Spined Chaos Beast (which is looking better than I thought it would >.< )

On the other hand, I ordered the War Mammoth today so I should get that hopefully by the end of next week. They are doing order tomorrow and said it takes between 3-10 days so we will see. Im going to try and get the dragon finished before than. Luckily it doesnt have a whole lot, Ive got some green to finish on the arms, the tail, and the wings. Some highlights on the blue, the claws and what not. The actual glueing and filling/greenstuff work of the pieces and then painting those things... Then Its pretty much done. Still deciding on skin color for the mamoth. The fur will definitely be black, the armor will be red and I think Im going to be doing the skin a brown since all my mounts have brown skin. ATM Im going for a FW model for every chaos god. The dragon is Tzeentch, the Giant Spined is Nurgle, the red armor on the mammoth shall maketh it Khorne, and when I order the Giant Spawn it will be a pink or puple for Slaanesh. I was really close to also ordering the Giant Spawn today but I decided Ill wait till after I finish the mammoth. I dont want to get too ahead of myself (Ive already got way too much unpainted stuff)

Anyhow... will post current pics, tomorrow!

I can't wait! I've enjoyed watching this.

Sorry to disapoint but I have no pictures of the dragon for you. I started to do greenstuff for the rather large gap on the wings and its not pretty to say the least. So until I get paint over it and it looks ok Ill hold off on pics. I have pictures of the Giant Spined however so enjoy

That's looking alot better now, what base did you use for it?

The Angron base I picked up at Bazaar Bazaar. Just added snow to it after doing the grey... Still need to do another lighter drybrush of grey on the base though <.<

That's great; the picture really conveys how grotesque the beast is.

Beast looks great, love the green, vivid and bright, yet sickening.

Thank you So I worked more on the Dragon today... Painted the greenstuffed wing gap and O.o its still not really pretty but unless you look upclose to it you cant really tell so thats ok... I started on the other wing and wow... the gap was like 1/4 the size of the other wing so that made it really easy... also did the tail and that was easy too so those shouldnt come out too bad.

(assuming the mammoth doesnt arrive tomorrow) I will go ahead and paint those tomorrow and start on the heads and post pictures for sure. Sorry to keep the pictures of my terrible greenstuff work waiting... I will eventually go back and fix it when I get better at it but for now it will do.

I never really mentioned this, but a few weeks ago while I was painting the dragon at my local GW, I started talking to another person there who does commision work for painting (and building I assume) models and he mentioned how terribly casted the dragon is. So apparently it wasnt just my dragon that didnt line up and was just a bad cast over all but all of them. He said he had done two (well one of them he ended up not doing) so that was interesting to hear about. Amazing model regardless, just poor quality.

On the other hand I saw a Mammoth at Bazaar Bazaar and that model didnt seem to have a bad cast what so ever and should even be relitively easy to put together... Will probably go with a snow themed base with it to fit my khorne army...probably do it like I did with the spawn... Do to thinking about this It occured to me that my dragons base is quite off in terms of my army... So I suppose all I can say is the powers of Tzeentch is drifting about the dragon and warping the earth around it into a molten wasteland... sounds fluffy enough to me

Ok so heres the full body progress... you can see I have started GS work on the right head... Everything is glued in now and after GS is done I can finish painting... I am always saying how Im going to work hard and finish next week or over the break or etc etc... so Im not going to this time Ill get it done when I get it done... while its comming together ok, it still needs alot of work... C&C welcome... sorry for the bad pics.

Look at that tiny little chaos warrior down there >.< How cute. I dont think that tail is long enough by the way... and the wings definitely arent big enough




In this last picture you can see a lighter blue strip between wing and body.... thats how badly this model came... that was literally the size of the game... and dont worry the blue isnt done yet in that spot >.<

Damn thats a big gap, good luck with the Mammoth and dragon. Sounds like lots of work.

Happy New Year!

looks nice, maybe a little more work on details..

O.o Sorry about not responding... I hadnt noticed anyone commented... What details are you specifically talking about Rose_Mountainz? Theres still quite a few I need to do of coarse and the pictures dont show alot of them... that plus bad lighting makes it hard to see... On the next picture Ill try to get better lighting and do some close ups... however my mammoth should finally arrive tomorrow so I might be a little occupied with that for a while O.o

Looks quite good, the lighting is messing with the paintjob though.

I look forward to seeing it finished.

Well then, I am sorry for not updating for so long, over 5 months now. I kind of got caught up in painting my army for some tournies and other stuff, got my FW Mammoth which was my main work for a while, and also started Hordes so thats been keeping my busy. But I am finally back to finish this bad boy as well as my Forge World War Mammoth(whos thread I shall also update) and my Giant Chaos Spawn. So, Hopefully sometime during the weak I will give an actualy update on the Dragon/Mammoth! In the meantime, here is a shot of my WIP WoC army thats been keeping me so busy... and a close up shot of the dragon.

Sorry for the picture being so far away, kind of hard to make out certain things, but hell, it makes a good comparison shot for the FW Stuff

Sorry for the picture being out of focus, Ill need to make a bigger picture box to use for this guy lol, he wont fit in the one I normally use for other stuff >.>


If you havent seen the thread on my War Mammoth, make sure to go check it out, as I plan to be updating it during the week too!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/273762.page

Dude, your 1st picture post on page one of the grey non painted thingy NEEDS to be your display picture! Its extremely awesome! Also Love your work ^_^