Here be dragon!

[tomrommel1]

very nice project

[has.been]

Well done. I am looking forward to:-
seeing it assembled & painted, also
the comparison photo (new to old)

[mikedemana]

Wow! Soldering and membranes - quite the craftsmen!! This is going to look great 

Mike Demana

[Hammers]

Thanks chaps, a bit early to say, but I am content with the result so far. Next step will be beefing upp the skeleton with joints, muscle and scales.

[Hammers]

Believe it or notI've made some proress.

First, someone asked me about the wings I dismissed as not being up to snuff. I hope these images will speak for themselves:








As I said, to stumpy and heavy.

You have already seenme soldering a new skelleton for the new wings, and here is the rough sculpts of the muscles which goes on it.





As I understand it a dragon as traditionally imagined would not be able to lift from the round, the chest muscles would be immense. Still, I used some online hypothtical references to dragon anatomy just to get some idea how to get about it.

As per usual nothing is done at Atellier Hammers without proper blood letting...





That over and done with I test fitted the wings...









Looks alright if you ask me. I do however plan to have the wings folded, mostly for practical wargaming and storage reasons.

The scales were sculpted by first rolling a thin sausage of green stuff which I then sliced and rolled into various sized balls.



These balls were then applied so they lined up in an increasing and decreasing size onteh muscled as they thicken and thin. The balls were pressed into a flattened slightly concave shape. Each line slighlty overlap the one behind towards the front edge of the wing.





Most of the wing scales work done I fixed the wings in place and glued the membranes in their appropriate place, i.e. under the edge of the back ridge of scales.

The equivalent of deltoids were then sculpted to as smooth a transition as possible.





Finally I sculpted the missing shoulder and back scales, much the same way as on the wings but with larger balls of GS.






Next on to painting. Airbrush, I think, although it is not my forte.

[snitcythedog]

Very nice.

[Pattus Magnus]

That’s a very impressive re-fit! I think it will look quite spectacular once it is complete and painted.

[Golgotha]

Loving that think the scales and wings look great...

[marianas_gamer]

Nice, the "scales" make everything come together well.

[OSHIROmodels]

Splendid 

[tomrommel1]

outstanding

[beefcake]

Loving that.

[Ragsta]

Formidably impressive work.

[LouieN]

impressive work and the blood sacrifice i guess was required. 

[AKULA]

Lovely looking dragon