Sunday, July 19, 2026

On The Go

On The Go

Full Thrust - Camerone Heavy Fighters 

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I’m trying to finish off my federal Stats Europa (FSE) space navy fleet for Full Thrust. It’s another project that has been around for many years. The larger vessels are finished except for a few in a box of models, FSE and others, I must have bought as a job lot. I’ll see how my enthusiasm holds up for those ones.

Anyway, here we’ve got a bunch of FSE Camerone class heavy fighters from Ground Zero Games. Most of the other fighters that I’ve painted have been in brighter colours but I decided to make these a bit on the dark side. 


Mid grey followed by Nuln Oil and some highlighting.


Above: This photo shows my starting steps. A black undercoat followed by a Mid grey base coat (Matisse Mars Grey). Nuln Oil wash x 2 and finally, a mid grey highlight of cockpit, fuselage and top of engine area.


Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 6
The mighty Honour Guard. 
More Marauder / Citadel figures.




Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 5
The Landwasters. Greybeards from Marauder / Citadel.





Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 4

Slayers of the Marauder / Citadel persuasion




Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 3

Some more Old Skool Harlequin slayer dwarfs.

Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 2

Some more Woad Warriors. These guys are vintage Harlequin Miniatures figures designed by Kev Adams in around 1994.






Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 1

The Dwarves are coming! Slightly retouched and finally photographed, the Dwarven army is on its way.



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The Green Dragon of Melnibone

Green Dragon of Melnibone


This is a photo essay for my model of a Green dragon of Melnibone.





There are links at the bottom of the page for the posts I made showing details of the steps I followed in painting the dragon.



I’ve had this dragon model for years. It was originally a blue dragon, then I decided to fit it in with an Elric of Melnibone theme for Hordes of the Things (HOTT), so I plonked an elf rider on its back. Unsurprisingly, I was never really happy with the result. So with the advent of De Bellis Fantaisae (DBF), I decided on a complete upgrade.


The model is meant to represent Elric’s cousin, Dyvim Slorm, so obviously he needed to be sitting on something more to his station! So, step one was to create a saddle for the rider out of Green Stuff. The photo shows some basic painting of the saddle and saddle cloth. I’ll return to this later.


The Elric stories mentions green skinned dragons so that had to be the next upgrade. This photo is at the same stage as the last. I’ve repainted the original blue scales black then applied a base coat of GW Caliban Green. I gave this a wash of GW Nuln Oil and then overpainted the scales with Caliban Green, leaving some areas of each scale the darker shade.










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Green Dragon of Melnibone - Painting Part 7

Green Dragon of Melnibone Part 7 - Painting the Under-wings


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I decided to paint the under-wing sections after the top parts for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the texture of the under-wing sections is very ribbed, so I assumed that I would probably need to paint them using a slightly different technique. Secondly, I figured that I might have sorted out a more streamlined process after winging it (sorry) for the upper wings. This indeed proved to be the case. 


Liquitex Sap Green ink

Above: I gave each section a base coat of Mid green (Matisse Alpine Green) followed by a 50% wash of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink.


Yellow Oxide

Above: I marked out the sections of the under-wings that are going to be the golden leather colour with yellow oxide (GW Overland Sunset would be close enough. I the blended some Vallejo Buff to help out with the later steps of blending into the green sections.


Raw sienna & light yellow
Above: Two steps here. I used a thin coat of raw sienna to make the yellow sections more golden. After giving the under-wings the ‘Eye Test,’ I decided that the yellow area needed extending. For this I used Vallejo Light Yellow.

Sap green ink wash
Above: It was now time to blend in the green into the yellow. I used a targeted wash using a 25% solution of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink.

A final sap green ink wash
Above: Another ‘Eye Test,’ followed by a final targeted wash using a 25% solution of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink. And I’m done!

So, apart from a coat of varnish, that's it for the dragon. I'll post final pictures in a separate post.

 



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Saturday, July 11, 2026

Green Dragon of Melnibone - Painting Part 6

Green Dragon of Melnibone - Part 6 
Painting Green Wings (Upper)


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The original blue wings certainly made for a striking contrast with the green body scales but they just didn’t tie together for me. So, it’s onto the last major painting step: green wings. I want the wings to have a base tone that matches the green scales but to then make the wings look a little more leathery. 

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Here are the steps I followed to paint the tops of the wings.



Above: The original blue wings

Mid grey base coat

Above: I started with a mid grey base coat - Matisse Mars Grey

A layer of dark green

Above: a coat of dark green - GW Caliban Green 


Nuln Oil wash

Above: a wash with Nuln Oil to to darken everything. I particularly want to make a shadow in the borders between the wings and the ‘fingers’. Hopefully this step will cover up any little mistakes in these areas.



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In the following steps I’m aiming to match the green of the wings with the green of the body scales.


Mid-dark green glaze
Above: Mid-dark green glaze - Matisse Background: Forest Green


Mid green glaze

Above: Mid green glaze - Matisse Alpine Green 


Light green glaze
Above: Light green glaze - Matisse Permanent Green Light


60 / 40 Light / Mid green glaze
Above: I’m happy that the wings now match the body in tone, so now I want to add highlights to the distinctive raised areas of the wings. I used a 60/40 Matisse Permanent Green Light / Matisse Alpine Green.


The photographs in this next section show the progression of the highlights of the raised areas of the wings. For each of these stages I started with the same 60/40 Matisse Permanent Green Light / Matisse Alpine Green mix from last photo to which I added progressively more GW Ogryn Camo. 


Light / Mid green / Ogryn Camo highlight

A tad more Ogryn Camo

Ogryn Camo
Above: In fact in this photo, I used almost pure Ogryn Camo. To be honest, this was a step too far, the effect looks too patchy. So...

Tamiya Clear green

Above: Time to blend the highlighted areas back a bit. Here I used a wash of Tamiya X-25 Clear Green. 


Sap Green Ink Wash

Above: I thought the wings needed to be a bit darker, so I washed them with a 25% solution of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink. You can also see on the centre section of the right wing where I trialed the next step.



In the Elric stories, the dragons have leathery wings. So, in a nod in that direction I want the wings to have an accent of golden leather.

The following steps show how I achieved the look I was after. 


The aim is to progressively lighten the central part of each wing section while increasingly changing the tone to a golden leather. The colour mixes are (mainly) in the captions.


10/90 Matisse Permanent Green Light / Vallejo Khaki

20/80 Vallejo Khaki / GW Ogryn Camo

50/50 GW Ogryn Camo / Vallejo Buff

50/50 GW Ogryn Camo / Vallejo Buff

20/80 GW Ogryn Camo / Vallejo Buff

Vallejo Buff

I'm still making the central parts of the wing sections lighter, I suspect with diminishing returns.

50/50 Vallejo Buff / Vallejo Light Yellow

In the step below, I used some light yellow to make sure that the shape and size of each section passed the eye test.

Vallejo Light Yellow

At this point I was happy enough with the general size, shape and colour graduation of the central section. So now I need to make of the tone more golden and to bring some of the green back.


Above: I gave the outer parts of the wing sections a 50/50 Vallejo light Yellow / Matisse Raw Sienna to give the golden tone that I was after. I followed this with a targeted wash of 25% solution of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink so that the golden leather would gradually blend into the green.


Above: In this final step I extended the  

Sap Green ink wash a bit. I gave the whole a bit of an eye test and tidied up the creamy yellow sections twith Vallejo Buff and Matisse Burnt Sienna. 


So that's it for the upper section of the wings. I'll do another post for the under wing painting.


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