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...

Fire Wings w/ mounted Beelphegor Part 14

Base continued...

Last time we saw the base the icicles and the bones were base coated and in need of some paint.

The photo below shows the base in its almost finished state. I used some FW Prussian Blue and White inks on the icicles in combination with Citadel Baal Red and Leviathan purple. Essentially I did some wet blending of all of the inks and washes with all of the colors thinned down. It was a back and forth process until I was happy with how they looked. The bones then received a couple of passes of Citadel Agrax Earthshade to adds some depth and weathering to the bones.

The base is not 100% complete, but it is done for now. I will be adding the water effects and snow at the end once the dragon has been painted and mounted on the base.

To be continued...

Fire Wings w/ mounted Beelphegor Part 13

Base continued...

Last time we posted the start of the painting of the base for this project which detailed the priming, washing and drybrushing of what is ultimately the undercoat for the rest of the painting.

The photo below shows couple passes with a couple of Garage Kits US transparent paints sprayed through my airbrush. I used Giger Aqua, Bruise Purple and Smoke. The primary highlight color is the Giger Aqua with the Bruise Purple being the primary shadow color. I sprayed a couple passes to build up the transparents to achieve the look that I was going for. After getting a good foundation of the colors I did another more targeted drybrush highlight with P3 Morrow White in certain area to provide more interest. All of these highlights were then sprayed over with the transparents again to blend then into the existing paint scheme. The last thing that I did was use some Smoke in some of the deeper recesses to reinforce the shadows more.

Once I was done with any airbrush work, I base coated the icicles with P3 Morrow White and the bones with Vallejo Game Color Bone White.

To be continued...

Fire Wings w/ mounted Beelphegor Part 12

Time to start painting...

So for this project, I decided to start with the base. I have a specific vision in mind for how I want the base to look, so I'm going to begin here to ensure that I can tie everything in together in the end. And as far as the theme of the project goes, the base is a pretty important element in the story.

I started with the base primed in gray using DupliColor automotive primer. After getting a nice even base using a couple of coats of the primer, I then washed the entire base with the Nuln Oil shade from Citadel. The whole washing process took a little bit of time so that I could makes sure that I got everywhere and that it covered pretty evenly.

Next I did a couple drybrush passes using Frostbite from P3, as seen below:

And another drybrush pass using Morrow White from P3 and you can see the results below:

The initial drybrush passes were meant primarily to pull out the detail after the wash and the final drybrush pass was meant to reinforce the overall highlights even more. Overall these were just the initial set up steps for the base and all of this will soon be covered up with the actual colors that will make up the final base.

To be continued...

Fire Wings w/ mounted Beelphegor Part 11

Assembly continued...

And now we get to the rider. The pic below shows the head attached to the cloak and the legs still separate. This is the final sub assembly for the rider as he will be paints as is. The rider fits together flawlessly and also attaches to the dragon seamlessly. He will be painted separately and attached at the very end.

The photo below shows all of the left over pieces which include the saddle, bridle reins, tongue and face for the dragon. Additionally included are the rider's arm, sword and lance. All of these pieces will be assembled after certain parts of the paint process are complete.

And there we have it, the assembly process is as complete as it is going to get until some painting phases are complete. I will include pictures as we progress through the paint process that will detail as things are assembled.

I know it has been a rather long road to get here and this set of photos is rather lackluster for the final assembly post, so in order to end on a high note I'm including the following pic of the dragon primed and as it would look if the wings were attached.

To be continued...