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Title: Unboxing Vermithrax Pejoritive (7/20/15) new painted pictures
Post by: bandit86 on 12 July 2015, 08:26:03 AM

Every since 1981 the movie Dragon-slayer has been a favorite fantasy film of mine and still holds up really well today. the special effects then were just really, really cool for the time.  I just found that this figure was available and grabbed the last one off of Amazon for under $50, a good deal in my opinion. Check out my blog for more pictures and info.  Thanks
(http://i61.tinypic.com/2ecj2bl.jpg)
(http://i61.tinypic.com/25swufs.jpg)

Title: Re: Unboxing Vermithrax Pejoritive
Post by: Mick_in_Switzerland on 12 July 2015, 09:52:46 AM

I look forward to the finished model.
I like your Frostgrave project on your blog. :)

Title: Re: Unboxing Vermithrax Pejoritive
Post by: bandit86 on 18 July 2015, 10:26:40 AM

Started my painting on it today and noticed that if you wanted to use this figure for Smaug it would work great and it looks as though it has a small missing scale (enough for lets say a black arrow to get though) but I am still doing it as vermithrax

Title: Re: Unboxing Vermithrax Pejoritive 7/20/2015 new painted pictures)
Post by: bandit86 on 20 July 2015, 11:30:51 AM

Very cool Dragon to paint up (though with some difficulties)
(http://i59.tinypic.com/2hsc80k.jpg)
(http://i57.tinypic.com/1sl5vp.jpg)
More on the blog

http://bandit86.blogspot.com/

Title: Re: Unboxing Vermithrax Pejoritive (7/20/15) new painted pictures
Post by: Giger on 20 July 2015, 04:53:29 PM

Fantastic job, I have one of these to paint up myself at some point.

Title: Re: Unboxing Vermithrax Pejoritive (7/20/15) new painted pictures
Post by: DeafNala on 21 July 2015, 01:12:59 PM

That is a VERY IMPRESSIVE piece with an equally impressive paint job. VERY WELL DONE!
Dragonslayer was & is a favorite with moi also. Thinking about how long ago that came out makes me really feel old...even more so than normal.

Title: Re: Unboxing Vermithrax Pejoritive (7/20/15) new painted pictures
Post by: Connectamabob on 21 July 2015, 02:14:37 PM

Classic design, enough so that nearly every movie dragon since has taken liberal inspiration from it. And the model is both well sized and well priced for gaming. Glad to see it get more coverage.

Been a long time since I did a vinyl model. I do remember the ones I did back in the day being temperamental about paints. Enamels were right out, as the plasticizers in the vinyl would render them permanently tacky. Acrylics worked well, but varied hugely from brand to brand in terms of adhesion. Some were very permanent, others would flake right off. Wish I could remember which brands did which.

Title: Re: Unboxing Vermithrax Pejoritive (7/20/15) new painted pictures
Post by: ZeroTwentythree on 21 July 2015, 03:22:57 PM

Beautiful model and I love the painting. Thanks for sharing.

Quote from: Connectamabob on 21 July 2015, 02:14:37 PM

Acrylics worked well, but varied hugely from brand to brand in terms of adhesion. Some were very permanent, others would flake right off. Wish I could remember which brands did which.

I've had a lot of luck using a few thin coats of gesso on vinyl toys before painting with acrylics.