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straight from the shop. It was a very respectable paint job (one of the
things that attracted me to the piece) however I wanted to give the
object a personal touch and as I was planning to give it away for a
Christmas present I thought that I would repaint it to match the room
that it would (hopefully) be displayed in. The full item is
approximately 9 inches tall and is made of resin with a silver foil
candle holder at the top.
After a bit of clean up I undercoated the entire model in Humbrol Matt Grey (neither stage shown here) and then sat down to determine the colour scheme that I would use. |
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Looking at the original colour scheme I liked the two-tone wing membranes and decided that I would use a similarly blended pattern. The room is decorated blue and silver and so I decided to keep the colour scheme a rather simple mix of blues for the dragon and silver for the candlestick. The dragon body was base coated using Humbrol Gloss Dark Blue, it's underside and spines were Citadel Enchanted Blue, it's mouth was painted Citadel Worm Purple and the candlestick CItadel Chaos Black. |
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In order to block in the areas of the wings that I wanted blending I decided to split the wings into three parts and used Humbrol Gloss Dark Blue, Citadel Enchanted Blue and Citadel Electric Blue. These divisions wouldn't be visible in the finished product but would help with the highlights stage. |
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I applied a wash of a thinned down mixture of Humbrol
Gloss Dark Blue and Citadel Black (approximately 1 part blue and black
to 9 parts water) to the entire dragon, including inside of its mouth, and then dry-brushed on some
highlights with Citadel Enchanted Blue.
The horns were painted black and Citadel Orc Brown was added to the talons and teeth. |
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The ridges running down its back and lower half of the wings were highlighted with Citadel Electric Blue to emphasize the highlights. |
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Further Electric Blue highlights were applied to the underside of the dragon and the mouth was highlighted with Worm Purple. The teeth and claws were picked out with an equal mix of Citadel Orc Brown and Citadel Bleached Bone. The candlestick was then drybrushed with Humbrol Gunmetal. At this stage I removed the foil candle holder that was stuck into the top of the candlestick as it wasn't seated correctly. |
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After searching around for a replacement candle holder I came across a Christmas decoration in a pound shop that had exactly what I needed. I bought it, removed the candle holder and fitted it into the candlestick. Rather than just being a foil like metal the new one was steel but unfortunately was slightly too tall. I considered grinding out some of the resin from the candlestick but in the end decided that the easiest thing to do would be to build up the candlestick to the required height. |
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At this stage I also painted the candlestick with Humbrol Aluminium and added a green eye as a slight contrast to the multi blue hued dragon. The horns were also painted Humbrol Aluminium to tie the dragon and candlestick together. |
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I finished building up the height of the candlestick and glued the new candle holder in place using Araldite 2 part epoxy glue. |
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To give an extra sparkle to the dragon I obtained some Dulux KidZone Glitter Paint (this is basically PVA Glue with glitter added). It goes onto the surface white but dries clear leaving the glitter showing and, as a side-effect, it makes the painted areas very glossy and leathery looking. I varnished the entire model in Humbrol Satin Cote and then applied several coats of this paint to the wings to get an even coat of glitter. |
