Demonsub's Dragon Diorama

Time to paint the dragon, the bit I’ve been looking forward to as I love dragons.
First I started with a coat of model color violet red to provide the darkest shading of the scales. This was followed by a heavy drybrush, almost an overbrush of carmine red.
Drybrushes of flat red then scarlet then amaranth red were done to mostly finish off the scales.

Since I would be handling the model a lot I varnished the top of the model after all that red had been painted. Now for the underside.
First I painted the underside of the wing and belly scales in Army Painter leather brown for the shading. The was followed by a model color khaki grey.
Buff was used to highlight the scales further, followed by dark sand then pale sand. The belly scales were then given a wash of Army Painter soft tone.

For the wings I used very thinned down Army Painter Tanned Flesh, then model color sunny skin tone and finally game color amarillo yellow. I painted very narrow strokes to get the sense of taught or folded skin painting less area than the previous for increased highlights.

Sadly the last stages I didn’t take any photos of since I painted them during a hobby hangout with some friends so my phone camera was in use the whole time.

The spikes along to top of the dragon were painted first in Nuln oil to darken them down and to give the spines a separation to the rest of the dragon. Then I went back over with the same colours from each of the previous stages for the scales, the purple, the various shades of red, and highlights to a bright orange.

The eyes and teeth were painted white than the eyes given a yellow paint before the dot of black was added. The claws were just painted black and the inside of the mouth given a coat of Army Painter Dwarf flesh followed by a wash of light tone from the Army Painter.

That’s the dragon all painted. Once varnished he was glued into place in the terrain.

Now I just have to paint the three adventures and their pack horse.