Painting Dragon Warriors

[Cynicus]

Hey folks,

 

I've been considering doing a small force of Dragon Warriors for the new edition, but not entirely sure how to go about painting them. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I thought I might ask for some suggestions and guidance first.

 

Currently my idea revolves around base-coating everything metal and then using Blood for the Bloodgod and/or spiritstone red over that to get it to red. For the scales, I'm thinking paint them in runefang steel over leadbelcher before the red to get a difference in tone. I've had some success painting scales by hand on alpha legion, but i'm not sure if the contrast will still come through properly after shading it red.

 

What do y'all think?

[Kinstryfe]

Assuming you're shooting for a metallic red armour? I did something recently for a metallic red Blood Angel and the best results I got were a leadbelcher base coat highlighted roughly with stormhost silver, then a light wash of black ink. Once dried I did a couple coats of the gw bloodletter red glaze. My first attempt I stopped there and got a dark red metallic, my second I used some layers of lamenter yellow with occasional rehighlighting the edges with silver to get closer to the Blood Angels red-orange. I've been playing with a lot of Metallics lately and that's the best way I've found to get a metallic color with GW's paints.

 

For the scales, you would likely need to paint them on before whatever the last step of glazing you take is for them to show much, and it'll take on the color of that glaze. If that's doable with the recipe you come up with, it should work.

 

I'll try to get a couple pictures taken tomorrow once I have some light to show you how my experiment turned out.

[Cynicus]

Cool, thanks for that!

[Kinstryfe]

Here's how it turned out so far. (sorry if it takes me a couple tries to get it showing right!)

 

http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q723/darkmythology1/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20170511_230233204_zpsclpsmgmr.jpg

Edited June 24, 2017 by Kinstryfe

[Cynicus]

That looks sweet! I'm looking for something with a bit more metal in it, though. I've been experimenting too and got something like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_8r2XwPGKW3U1h1MjZoS2ZCWFhPZUZtemtRNzhxMFZxdElz/view?usp=sharing which accidentally ended up looking very Christmassy.