Green Dragon's WIP (UPDATE: 27/05/13 - Radagast,Grinnah)

greendragon · **Posted:** Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:24 pm

So I took @Dead Marsh Spectre's advise and started a work in progress thread! Some of you may know that myself and my team at Green Dragon, work on a model painting service here: http://www.greendragongames.co.uk/painting/
I intend to post a few works-in-progress from our painting service as and when they come up, so keep an eye on the thread

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First up, I was working on a High Elf Prince mounted on Griffin for Warhammer Fantasy as a showcase model. Here is some photos as we jump in halfway through, the rider himself is complete minus the banner, and the Griffin only has wings complete. I love how his white lance shines
in the photographs, true High Elf magic at work!

IMAGES DELETED DUE TO OVERWHELMING HUGE SIZE! SEE REST OF THREAD FOR GOODIES.

Bartelomeus · **Posted:** Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:12 pm

A WIP thread of a retailer, now that you dont see everyday

Looking good so far

greendragon · **Posted:** Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:43 pm

Ah ignore the myths dear barthelomues, I am mere human just like all of you lol!

Constantine · **Posted:** Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:39 pm

He sure looks noble. I like the combination of colours, are they the default (same as GW's)?

I always thought that fantasy miniatures would take more time to complete due to all the paraphernalia and the little excessive touches on most minis.

greendragon · **Posted:** Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:46 pm

I designed my own colors for my High Elves army

gold vallejo paint and the rest are GW citadel paints, just chose ones that I liked the shades of. Generally speaking you are correct, a space marine to a high elf is no comparison. Warhammer I think takes maybe double the time to paint thank 40k. LotR varies alot.

greendragon · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:27 pm

We interrupt this regularly scheduled programming to bring you images of Emma's (our head painter) Rat Ogre complete and finished for your enjoyment!

The Ogre in his full glory.

Here you can see the detail in his purple warpstone embedded cruely in his arm by his packmaster.

A shot of our beasty friend from behind...

Here you can see the detail on the scratches caused by endless whipping as these dumb creatures are forced into battle...

Finally, a chance to take a look at his face. Note the blood of a fresh victim on his teeth...

drougole · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:28 pm

looks pretty cool, i really like the bright purples and reds, very contrasting

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:52 pm

Green Dragon wrote:

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Here you can see the detail on the scratches caused by endless whipping as these dumb creatures are forced into battle...

Such a terrible way to treat shop staff...

greendragon · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:04 pm

Heh, Dorth... Would you rather I sambuca them? =P

A couple more finished pieces today

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Some Urban bases for a 15mm game

Lord of the Rings: Gollum on a Rock

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:14 pm

That gollum's looking nice

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:06 pm

I really like your Gollum, makes me want to dig out my own version of Gollum and repaint it

Grungehog · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:56 pm

Nice to see your crunching down on that massive backlog of yours Steve, i'll keep an eye on this thread, I very much want to see how you paint all those isengard models up.
Tell you what as soon as I get my new camera batteries I will issue you a challenge...

greendragon · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:18 pm

Thanks grungehog

. Back to the original project High Elf on Griffin...

Now for part two with some not-so-massive images!

A wash of good old Devlan Mud was applied to the underside of the wings (yes we will continue to use it until there is none left, only then will we turn to the new paints!) this helped give that textured natural look that I wanted to achieve for the whole beast. Meanwhile I basecoated the rear of the beast, which was to be a lion/cheetah hybrid type body with Iyanden Darksun, the most "liony" color I could find.

Next up I took some time to give his coats of armour another wash of Devlan Mud, just to bring out the nooks and crannys. I then painted the final piece of the rider, his scabbard. I do plan to come back to the rider at the end just to perfect a few bits.

Following on from the last post, I finished off the banner and gave the look another go. The Banner was highlighted and I picked out the symbol afterwards for that extra detail.

Next up, I moved down to his Talons and gave them a basecoat of Iyanden Darksun, I'll come back to these in the next post when its dry.

After that I returned to the rear of the beast, using a mix of Tallern Flesh and Devlan Mud (again, old paint names) I managed to create a realistic looking fur effect, not bad for a piece of plastic! I followed this up with some Bestial Brown Cheetah spots as the creature lunges forward.

Final image for this update, just a look at the other side completed with spots.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:54 pm

To say that I dont like Warhammer would be an large understatement but that does look like very neat painting GD

nice work

greendragon · **Posted:** Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:19 pm

Thank you Sid =D... A small update today then...
A little work on the front half of the creature, Iyanden Darksun base layers x 2 followed by a wash of Devlan Mud to bring out the bumps.

I based the talons black and then brought out the highlights with some chainmail to emphasize the sharp danger of it's claws.

greendragon · **Posted:** Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:04 pm

The last post of this thread then as it gives me great pleasure to loudly announce the two words at the bottom of this post. First of all we went back to finish the rear of the hybrid beast and carefully paint the pads of his paws.

We then move to the front to finish the eagle part of the creature, first step was a layer of Rhinox Hide over the Black basecoat.

We then add a layer of Balor Brown to blend the lighter feathers on his head in with the rest of his front half.

Finally, we touch up the beak with some Abaddon Black before carefully filling in the eyes and the tongue as our Griffin screeches at his foes. I think this stage really brings it to life.

Last but not least, the basing. I wanted to depict our hero flying over a muddy, festering swamp land as its something I've seen a lot of with the recent pre-winter rainfall here in south-west England, not that you would ever so a High Elven Prince on Griffin in Devon anyway...

And of course, the pictures of all the parts as one - the complete model.

PROJECT COMPLETE.

Next up, I'm thinking of starting an on-going Hobbit work-in-progress, starting with Escape from Goblin Town and likely continuing on with Radagast and some of the new releases in the new year. Watch this forum for details

greendragon · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:36 pm

Now that my Griffin is complete, its time to get stuck into the Hobbit box set! I got a bit carried away with this and bought a goblin platform from the second box set I own, I then made the following picture, complete with Radagast being chased by 5 Goblins and a ladder made from broken matchsticks painted black to mirror the ladder used in the film by the company

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greendragon · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2012 7:46 pm

Much more Hobbity goodness, first up then, everything assembled and ready to go

Goblin Hordes

Thorin's Company

Everything!

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2012 7:52 pm

Looks great steve!
All those goboes must 'ave taken ages to de-moldline.

greendragon · **Posted:** Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:36 pm

Oh yes! But with two of us we got through it in an afternoon as we really wanted to game with them

Green Dragon's WIP (UPDATE: 27/05/13 - Radagast,Grinnah)

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