Show us how big brother! - SDE Dragons

Well I finally finished up those Super dungeon explore dragons I started oh so long ago.  I went for something easy, silly and not too involved for this one. It was almost like instant satisfaction since I only had to do a small amount of painting and put them on a base.

Now i'm sure if you own SDE box you will notice my winged dragon is much larger than yours and no it's not available to the public. That is unless someone bugs soda pop enough for them to make it available but I don't see it happening, but I could be wrong. ;)   I should also include that my boyfriend sculpted these little buggers for Soda Pop,  ( Check out his Blog here ) which is why I have different sized dag-rons than everyone else.

Anyways this is my first entry for the Soda pop painting contest I posted about a few days ago. (scroll down for information)  Now I've started on my next one and she will take much longer to paint than this one.   I hope you enjoy these little dag-rons as much as I do. 

I call him Zorak

A couple more baby dragon WIP shots.

The blue one I call Zorak as his eyes were inspired by a suspicious Zorak from Cartoon Planet. 

WIP - Baby Dragon from Super Dungeon Explore

I'm working on something totally adorable!  I know some people have already seen them at or in pictures from Gen Con and PAX.... Here is the first of 4 baby dragons that will be available in Super Dungeon Explore  as far as I know you won't be able to get them anywhere else.  Once you see them in person you will want to paint them all.  [pimping]So seriously pre-order your copy today! [/pimping] ;)

But my little dragons won't be used in the board game, I'm working up a special scene for them on a scenic base.  I'm also planning on painting them all different colors because well I can!  I also plan on testing out some water effects that Jason bought for me from Japan.
Here is a preview WIP shot of my baby green dragon I still need to play around with his freckles, toes and eyes a bit.

Soda Pop - Sebastian Cross and Rook

Well I think I finished this bad boy in record time and let me tell you that is no easy feat! Sebastian is HUGE compared to the other soda pop miniatures i've painted.

So my boyfriend encouraged me to try to paint something with metallic paints. Now this is a big deal since i've been shying away from metallics since i've started playing around with NMM painting.  Just recently Miniature Mentor came out with a metallic painting tutorial and it was fabulous and helped push me in the direction with metallics I would be happy with and enjoy painting.  It was basically painting the same way I would with regular opaque paints and adding washes to enhance the colors and shading.
I had to take the miniature on one limb at a time due to the hugeness of him, which seemed to work out well.
I used all Vallejo paints both game and model colors combined and made washes out of the opaque paints I thought would work well.  I use PP mixing medium to make washes and while blending to prevent spot marks/rings and to release the surface tension of the paint so I don't have to press as hard when painting.
I used smokey ink for the browns, and a dark purple mixed with a dark silver for the shading.  For the highlights I used a light blue mixed in with a super light silver.  I avoided using any white to avoid making the metals look pastel.
As for the Gold I used 3 different golds and smokey ink as well as a bit of green to get the right look.

Little Rook was my testing grounds for the colors and you can see that I used some whites in with the silver to highlight and I think it worked fine on something as small as him but I didn't want to put it on the large mech.
I also experimented with glowing objects and I'm not sure i've got it yet i think i need to look at some more references and practice a bit more but I'll get there.
The base detail I sculpted right on top of the base he came with. I wanted to give it a tiled court yard feel so that the impression that he is protecting a sacred place.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the way he came out.