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!).
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