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Title: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: Admiral Benbow on June 01, 2014, 06:03:59 PM: In 2010 I posted most of my warbeasts and some dioramas from the eighties and announced to post my dragons and dragon dioramas here as well. The old thread can be found here:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18262.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18262.0)

So, let's start with the "Rattenkönig" (King of the rats). With inspiration drawn from many sources, among them The Lord of the Rings, Rodney Matthews, Patrick Woodroffe and other artists, it's settled somewhere in the dark wastes around Mordor.

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_55_00_1.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_55_00_0.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_53_40_4.jpg)

Some very early miniatures were used:

Two of the very first Citadel dragons, painted in oils ...

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_53_40_3.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_53_39_0.jpg)

one of the Citadel LotR-range eagles ...

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_53_40_2.jpg)

Citadel Hobgoblin, Chaos jester, Uruk Hai, Oger on a modified Ral Partha war machine ...

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_53_39_1.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_51_59_3.jpg)

... and a hooded assassin at the back ...

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_51_58_0.jpg)

... and of course lots of rats:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_51_59_4.jpg)

Some smaller guests appear in the back: the first Gollum miniature, a frog and a snake around the swamp:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_51_59_2.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/93_01_06_14_5_51_58_1.jpg)

Nostalgia. Enjoy!

:)
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Steam Flunky on June 01, 2014, 06:10:19 PM: I dont think i have ever seen this diorama of yours Michael.
Super!
Looking forward to some more.
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on June 01, 2014, 06:42:21 PM: I also can't remember seeing this ever before! Another piece of art :-* Amazing creaton, Michael, thanks for sharing it with us.
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Legion1963 on June 01, 2014, 06:57:30 PM: This is the stuff of dreams. Pure gold. And one of the main reasons i started painting miniatures myself. I too cannot live without creativity. Thanks for sharing. 8)
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Diakon on June 01, 2014, 07:45:52 PM: Beautiful. Love every detail. :-*
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Post by: OSHIROmodels on June 01, 2014, 08:14:16 PM: Excellent work Michael :-* :-*

Nostalgia at it's best 8)

cheers

James
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: DeafNala on June 01, 2014, 08:37:38 PM: WONDERFULLY DONE & HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE...like so many of your LOVELY creations. This is the stuff of PURE INSPIRATION.
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Timotl on June 02, 2014, 08:06:41 AM: The Golden Age is right! That is some seriously old skool goodness right there! Thanks for posting these pics up for us to enjoy! Keep 'em comin' in you got more!!!
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Michka on June 02, 2014, 09:28:23 AM: Thank you for adding the link to your other golden age thread. I have to admit I didn't read many of the posts because I was too busy looking for the next photo. These are the kind of images that got me into the hobby. Amazing dioramas and paintings that drove you to grab a brush. It was an inspiration to not just mimic the work of others, but to create something personal.
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Quendil on June 02, 2014, 09:32:07 AM: Lovely :-*
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: phreedh on June 02, 2014, 01:51:50 PM: Great stuff Michael, as always! Totally and utterly insane, but great! ;D Love the organic pieces used. Have it survived intact over the years? I imagine all the lichen and stuff to go a bit brittle with time...
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Admiral Benbow on June 02, 2014, 08:48:54 PM: Quote from: phreedh on June 02, 2014, 01:51:50 PM
Great stuff Michael, as always! Totally and utterly insane, but great! ;D Love the organic pieces used. Have it survived intact over the years? I imagine all the lichen and stuff to go a bit brittle with time...

Well, it's pretty much in good shape. And what does time mean ... the organic shapes at the sides of the warmachine are pieces of fossil starfish shells I collected in Tuscany many years ago. They are some million years old and will stand a couple more, I'm sure ... lol

Quote from: Prof.Witchheimer on June 01, 2014, 06:42:21 PM
I also can't remember seeing this ever before! Another piece of art :-* Amazing creaton, Michael, thanks for sharing it with us.

Most of my dioramas and vignettes have been published through the years here and there, but this one has never been before (as far as I remember ...). But it's nice to have some surprise treasures laying around. :D
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Mason on June 02, 2014, 08:52:30 PM: Seriously stunning.
A real blast from the past with some of those classic miniatures.
:-* 8) :-*

What else are you hiding from us?
:D
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: thebinmann on June 02, 2014, 08:55:05 PM: Stunning!

Thanks a lot
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Post by: Funghy-Fipps on June 02, 2014, 10:49:08 PM: Awe-inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
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Post by: The Dozing Dragon on June 02, 2014, 11:26:11 PM: Lovely work, right up my street!
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: jthomlin on June 03, 2014, 03:52:07 AM: Wonderful work :-* :-* :-*

Cheers!
Joe Thomlinson
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: carlos13th on June 03, 2014, 05:31:42 AM: Looks great. The dragons especially
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age
Post by: Admiral Benbow on July 06, 2014, 08:34:35 PM: Time for another one. And this should be one of the most extremely rare miniatures around, I couldn't find a single picture on the net or on collector's sides like "Lost mini wiki" or "Stuff of legends". It was one of my earliest dragon miniatures I bought from Tabletop Games in the very early eighties, and it was only shortly on the market:

Asgard miniatures, from their "Great Lizards" range, ASD1 "The Great Emerald Dragon"

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/93_06_07_14_8_53_40_4.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/93_06_07_14_8_53_40_3.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/93_06_07_14_8_53_40_2.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/93_06_07_14_8_53_39_1.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/93_06_07_14_8_53_39_0.jpg)

The fallen knight and horse came from Essex miniatures.

The vignette was created around 1980/1 and reflects my standard of painting at that time, but please keep in mind: at that time no colour ranges for miniature painting were available, no one would usually shade miniatures, and I used to paint with thick acrylic paint from Lukas, 6 large pots with just the main colours plus black and white. That were the times ... 8)
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: thebinmann on July 06, 2014, 10:57:36 PM: Stunning
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: warburton on July 07, 2014, 02:59:30 AM: Beautiful. Amazing that, given the limitations of the time, it still holds up so well today.
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: Mason on July 07, 2014, 06:13:52 AM: Quote from: warburton on July 07, 2014, 02:59:30 AM
Beautiful. Amazing that, given the limitations of the time, it still holds up so well today.

It certainly does!
:-* :-*

I am amazed that you have managed to keep hold of such gems in such great condition, I am sure they would not have survived as over the intervening years had they been mine.
8) 8)
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: Mr Brown on July 07, 2014, 12:45:40 PM: Wonderful.

Images like these are what brought me and my friends into the hobby many moons ago and I'm glad you shared them with us.

Regards
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: The Dozing Dragon on July 07, 2014, 04:48:54 PM: Wonderful work. I have that half made up...same state it has been since I bought when it was released...nothing changes....It's a Nick Bibby sculpt - he now does bronze sculpting - well worth a look here on Facebook;

https://www.facebook.com/NickBibby.Sculpture.Bronze (https://www.facebook.com/NickBibby.Sculpture.Bronze)
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: Vermis on July 08, 2014, 03:19:21 PM: Well done on the painting and dio-making, great job there; but holy moley... I can't share the same opinion as the others on the models.
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: bridgend_steve on July 08, 2014, 03:50:06 PM: Wonderful stuff! :-* Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: Vongoosewink on July 09, 2014, 06:25:55 AM: Thank you for posting these! I love seeing your amazing dioramas, they are everything that the miniature hobby should be! :-*

--Fitz
Title: Re: Dragons from the Golden Age (New - Asgard Great Emerald Dragon)
Post by: Dr. Zombie on July 09, 2014, 09:13:51 AM: These are simply superb! And Awesome! And Brilliant! And, and every other positive word you can think of. thank you for sharing.