Arcworlde 2nd Edition Halflings
How to paint your dragon
This isn’t a guide on how to paint your dragon, I hasten to add! It was a terrible pun on the book name ‘How to Train your Dragon’ This post is about how I painted my dragons.
Some of the pictures were in the earlier post ‘Here be Dragons’ but shhhhh, no one will know if we don’t tell them. I’ve also edited the pictures so they are now in the correct format (for your knowledge, the OTT forum doesn’t like portrait pictures much).
All of the dragons were given a Rhinox Hide spray undercoat, for two reasons, one This resin likes rattle cans better than the vallejo airbrush primer and two, I wanted a dark brown colour to give a more earthy look
Anyhoo, enough rambling, time for some pictures
The bellies for all 3 were done the same way. They were basecoated Vallejo brown earth, then heavily drybrushed with gold brown. Then an Agrax earthshade wash and finally a drybrush of Vallejo Game Air Bonewhite
A picture of the paints used and an ickle babby dragon. You can see on the left the basecolour and wash for the green. Vallejo Russian Green and then Contrast Greed Camo as an inkwash, it gives a lovely rich dark green. The only drawback is that it has a bit of a sheen
Here are the two juvenile dragons with completed bellies and the green done, bar highlighting
The big guy, human for scale, but you can see the fur around the legs and neck done. This was gorgrunta fur contrast then drybrushed bone before a sepia wash
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