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Here is a fairly large dragon from Mierce Miniatures. My client had me use a similar color scheme to the Visceralyn that I painted for a competition a few years ago.

I think he came out rather nice- I only wish I had photographed him with a dark background (since that tends to improve the look of OSL minis like this one).

I like it...but I definitely think the magma/lava pattern shouldn't have been carried onto the wings. Makes it busy and distracts from the body. Maybe a simpler grey/ashen look or something. Also - what's the grey gumdrop on the base?

Looks like Deathwing from World of Warcraft. Definitely a plus.

Wow, that's one hell of an eye-catching piece! Great stuff.

 Elbows wrote:
I like it...but I definitely think the magma/lava pattern shouldn't have been carried onto the wings. Makes it busy and distracts from the body. Maybe a simpler grey/ashen look or something. Also - what's the grey gumdrop on the base?

This color scheme is based on a different dragon- and one of the reasons I did it was because the grey/ash wings REALLY did not work (they both didn't fit with the rest of the piece, and provided a super bland center of interest that contrasted against a much more interesting dragon composition).

I didn't consider it as much on this dragon, since the color scheme was to match, but I likewise thing that bland wings wouldn't have worked well with this composition either. They'd probably have worked if I had more areas of pure black at the extremeties rather than going to a darker red (that's now the wings work on a balrog model- also the Balrog gets away with it because he doesn't present his wings as much- they're tilted purpendicular to the camera, while this dragon and the original magma dragon both feature wings as a strong center of interest).

Anyway, that's what I was thinking. Whether it is working for you is really up to you to decide.

Really very nice painting.
In my opnion the wings looks a bit like a leopard/tiger pattern. I agree with Elbow that lava pattern on wings is not the best, but honestly i do not know which coloring could work on that wings...maybe a fire scheme without the black rocks?

Probably seeing the model "live" would give me a different impresion.

Body is amazing, great job!

I agree with Bear leaving the wings a firey surface with no "rocks" would have perhaps looked good, but overall i love the OSL effect of the fire beneath.