The terrain I posted a week or so ago finished with a vaguely concealed promise to paint up some dragons, so that the dreary ruined castles had something chirpy to brighten them up a bit.
So here's a Black Dragon, obviously.
This is a repainted bit of Reaper lead. Actual lead! I'd forgotten the weighty joy of hefting it in my non-painting hand! So much so that now I've got a mildly inflamed wrist. Got to stay in shape, man. Gotta hit the benches before I go back to lead.
It's being repainted not because it desperately needed it, as it's really not changed very much at all, more that I decided to base it. It was that or glue the wings back on for the twelfth time after it overbalanced again.
So now it's got a nice resin base, courtesy of that nice General Stylus. Everyone knows Black Dragons breath acid (60' line, if you want specifics, thank you DnD). This one has either just done that, or he's eaten something that disagreed with him.
Hurrrulllk! Splat. |
As well as the aesthetic of it, the base also gives me a useful monster proxy for WFB games. It's not inconceivable I might try and claim this was a Manticore or a Chaos Dragon, for example, with the rider using an invisibility cloak. Just in case there was a Woffboot coming up, and a chap happened to need such a thing, you know how it goes.
However! This is getting off the point. No ruined castle toppers so far, right? Well, look no further. Here's the second dragon, one for the Welsh Nationalist amongst our audience.
Draig Cymru |
Narthrax is the name of this dragon, according to Reaper. They should know, they sculpted him. I would quite like to have one of each Chromatic Dragon variant in my collection before I retire. Performing the classics is very much in my training, after all. With Black done, I moved on to Red.
Say ah. |
Reds are firebreathers. I wanted this one to look like he was about to vent, with a kind of build-up of heat in the chest and neck. It's not too bad - the first draft was a bit too pale, so I waited a d4 turns and tried again with a wash of red ink round the edges that helped a lot.
Narthrax is big. Very big. So big, that he's only the second biggest of the dragons in my Reaper box, and it's that one that actually fits on top of the towers from the last post, so this whole thing has been a great big waste of your reading time in terms of showing a completed diorama. But I haven't settled on the colour for that big one yet, so that's for another time.
In closing, then, a few snaps of the full model and a weak promise to do more later!
Scale comparison. The dragon has more. |
Y Ddraig Goch - dai iawn!
ReplyDeleteGoogle Translate renders this as 'Red Dragon - Proper Housing'. Is this correct?
ReplyDeleteDammo di, Jones the Google is a bit twp, isn't it?
DeleteTo translate into English: that red dragon is one awesome model, and your 'flame build-up' effect is off the scale.
ReplyDelete(except for the hollow beneath the left breast, which of course has no scales)
Wow, Welsh can do a lot with a few words, can't it?
DeleteYes, it's a language famous for its brevity.
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