Romans!

This is the Emperor Pompey and his Guard. They are foundry figs done in the traditional Roman colour scheme of Red and Bronze.

Dragon Titan 3

Well the big boy's finally complete.

Enjoy the pics and any questions I'll be happy to answer!

Dragon Titan 2

Well I've been slowly working my way up the Dragon and have reached the head. A good tip for painting such large models is to use a pre made paint as the top highlight to guarantee consistency of colour across the figure. With Dragon, I've used Snot Green as the top highlight, and given the entire green areas of the fig a tinit of green ink to blend the colour and make sure all those nooks and crannies of the skin are acknowledged!

On to the wings!

Dragon Titan

This will be the first of many posts regarding this monster I suspect, as he's a time consuming beast. After careful assembly involving drilling and pinning of the joints I painted up the base in simple colours and glued the dragon down. I had been considering whether to try and paint him in pieces and then assemble (as I did do with the wings, as yet unattached), but he's too tricky to do that way. He also need the base attached so I could literally hold him without rubbing paint of other sections.

Yep, that's a ordinary sized skeleton in the foreground for some scale!

He'll be a Dark Elf Dragon once finished (i"ve started sculpting a saddle for the rider on top), so the colour scheme has to be fairly dark. What I've gone for is actually a fairly bright top highlight of Snot Green (very un-elfy!), but am then tinting this with a darker green and black ink mix so it won't end up too bright. The base coat is the time saving Foundation colour Orkhide Shade, a deep green. This is then blended to black along the ridges of the back, and up to Stone Grey on the belly and palms of the claws. Thus far I've manged the tail and up to one of the legs, and there's still some highlighting to go!

Apologies: the beast is so huge my camera struggled to cope with the focus shift (i think it was fear!).

Pirates, Y'arr!

Avast me hearties!

These fabulous 40mm pirates sculpted by Mike Broadbent are done in as realistic colours as I could manage (red stripy trousers aside!).