Fire Wings w/ mounted Beelphegor Part 18

Welcome back :) After setting this project aside last year, I have finally returned to making some progress on it.

This post is going to show the work that I did on the inside of the mouth. First of all, the mouth really consists of 3 pieces, the upper head, lower jaw and tongue. I painted each of these separately and they won't be completely finished until I do the final assembly. If it were not for the bit which actually goes under the tongue, I would do the assembly now.

On to the mouth...

The mouth was basecoated with Scale75 Harvester Flesh and then glazed with a couple of coats of GK US Transparent Dusty Pink. The GK transparents are airbrush paints and they dry rather glossy when you paint them with a brush by hand. To combat this, I mixed the transparents as 1 drop of paint, 2 drops of matte medium and two drops of a mixture flow improver, slow dry and water. I really liked the results of this formula as it removed the glossiness and also gave me a glaze that I could layer to my liking.

The teeth were painted in a similar fashion, using P3 Sickly Skin as the base and then glazing with GK US Transparent Nicotine Yellow.

And the following is a mock up of what it will look like assembled. The bit will go under the raised middle of the tongue.

I'm very happy with the results so far, but the next step will be basecoating the dragon scales which will give me a much better idea of how the mouth will really look in the end.

To be continued...