Fire Wings w/ mounted Beelphegor Part 17

Painting continued...

I actually had got a good bit of painting done last week, so we get a double post :)

Picking up where we left off, this time around we are going to focus on the belly scales. In case you don't remember, the belly scales were base coated in P3 Hammerfall Khaki. And like all of the blocking in for the scales this took a good bit of time, since I had to move slowly lining around all of the nicely airbrushed skin. The following photos show the belly scales after they were glazed in entirety in P3 Traitor Green and then washed with Citdael Agrax Earthshade. The glaze shifted the color slightly all while knocking back the brightness of the base coat and the wash brought out all of the detail. I made a couple passes in order to separate all of the scale. The last thing I did was use Citadel Asurmen Blue just along the edges of the scales where the skin and scales meet.

And a close up...

To be continued...

Fire Wings w/ mounted Beelphegor Part 16

Painting continued...

So, last time we base coated and drybrushed the dragons skin, all leading up to applying some transparents. In the following two photos you can see what the skin looks like after a couple of passes with Garage Kits US Transparent Ultramarine Blue.  Additionally, I base coated all of the scales in Andrea Black and the belly scales were base coated in P3 Hammerfall Khaki. I combined these two steps in order to get a good better idea of what the end result would look like due to the fact that the airbrush base coat on the skin kind of made everything all blend together.

And a close up...

To be continued...

Fire Wings w/ mounted Beelphegor Part 15

It's Dragon time!

Today we are going to look at the first couple steps of painting the dragon. The dragon was started in the same fashion as the base, using DupliColor gray primer. After that the first thing that needed to be done was to get a basecoat down for the dragons skin. For this, I decided to go with Minitaire Nautilus Blue which was airbrushed on the skin and overlapping into some of the scales to ensure that we didn't miss anywhere. This is a pretty murky blue color, but it is meant to be the shadow for the skin tone, so a darker color was desired. After that I applied a drybrush over the entire skin portion with Privateer Press Underbelly Blue.

As you can see in the photo below, we have a nice contract between the lighter and darker color that really makes the detail of the sculpt pop. All of this is leading up to some transparent airbrush work, but for that we will have to wait for another day.

And a close up...

To be continued...