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Well, I'm finally done with this monster of a miniature. I didn't get pics as I was working on the base, so we kind of skip from "crew done" to "piece done".

So, first, I got the crew painted. I'm not all that happy with how they turned out: I've never painted 10mm figures before, and I think I relied a bit too much on drybrushing and washes and didn't really get a very clean job done. I wasn't able to do any "resets" since I'd mounted them before painting, but hopefully the final photos that I take will minimize the crew (since I'll have to keep the camera zoomed out pretty far to see the whole dragon).







After doing the crew, I built a cardboard spacer to fill the base; this would hold the "water" material in place at a depth of maybe half an inch instead of the 2-3 inch depth of the base.



Then, I did the following:
-Painted the interior of the base a dark blue, along with the support rod
-Filled the base with Vallejo "Water Effects" acrylic and used a cardboard square cutout to "sculpt" the wave pattern (making them fairly close together to simulate the dragon flying at a fairly high altitude)
-Waited ~10 hours
-Drybrushed the waves with a seagreen/white color
-Mounted the clouds (cotton batting, glued on with Elmer's)

The lightest blue in the water may still dry down to a deeper blue (the bottle says "24 hours to cure fully") so I'll wait until tomorrow to take the Final Pictures.

These images are at Dakka Board "Medium" size; click 'em for 1280-wide resolution shots in the gallery.

The first shot is probably going to be the "presentation standard" (where I'll take the primary shots for the contest from and how I'll position it in any local contests I enter it into).

Wow thats really good,

Im also a fan of the series .

Arran

Final photos have been taken; this completes this blog! Thanks everyone for their feedback... now I have to figure out where I can put it so that it won't fall over in the next earthquake.

The images are all scaled down by DakkaGallery; click through for full-size zoomable (and now, votable) goodness.

Looks awesome - well done!

I thought there was supposed to be a tiny ship on the base?