Dragon of Melnibone - The Wings
The Wings Part 8
Here are the final two steps in painting the upper sections of the wings. Next will, not surprisingly, be the under-wing sections.
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.
The Wings Part 7
I'm still making the central parts of the wing sections lighter, I suspect with diminishing returns.
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| 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.
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| 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.
The Wings Part 6
The journey continues! I'm trying to make the central parts of the wings lighter while blending into the green of the outer sections
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| 20/80 GW Ogryn Camo / Vallejo Buff |
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| Vallejo Buff |
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| 50/50 Vallejo Buff / Vallejo Light Yellow |
The Wings Part 5
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 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 in the captions.
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| 10/90 Matisse Permanent Green Light / Vallejo Khaki |
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| 20/80 Vallejo Khaki / GW Ogryn Camo |
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| 50/50 GW Ogryn Camo / Vallejo Buff |
Not there yet, but it's a good start.
The Wings Part 4
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.
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| Light / Mid green / Ogryn Camo highlight |
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| A tad more Ogryn Camo |
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| 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...
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| Tamiya Clear green |
Above: Time to blend the highlighted areas back a bit. Here I used a wash of Tamiya X-25 Clear Green.
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| 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.
The Wings Part 3
In these steps I'm aiming to match the green of the wings with the green of the body scales.
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| Mid-dark green glaze |
Above: Mid-dark green glaze with Matisse Background - Forest Green
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| Mid green glaze |
Above: Mid green glaze with Matisse Alpine Green
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| Light green glaze |
Above: Light green glaze with Matisse Permanent Green Light
| 60/40 Mid / Light green glaz |
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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.
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The Wings Part 2
This is simply painting the base coat of dark green (GW Caliban Green) followed by a wash of Nuln Oil to darken everything.
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| Caliban Green basecoat |
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.
The Wings Part 1
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The original blue wings |
The original blue wings certainly made for a striking contrast with the green body scales but they just didn’t tie it all 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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| Stage 1 A mid-grey base coat |
Part 6
The mighty Honour Guard.
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Doughty Dwarfs
Part 5
The Landwasters. Greybeards from Marauder / Citadel.
Doughty Dwarfs
Part 4
Slayers of the Marauder / Citadel persuasion
Doughty Dwarfs
Part 3
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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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