I don't generally blog on here much anymore — moved the whole operation (and then some) to http://BrinksChaosTheory.com — but I thought I'd repost my dragons here.  This was my hobby blog for a very long time, after all.

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After starting them in July, I finally wrapped up my "Black Phoenix" Aeldari Fire Dragons.  And I'm pleasantly surprised at how well they turned out!

This probably doesn't look like 3 months of work.  Because it isn't.  I stuck to a very basic concept: base colors, wash, highlight, DONE.  And I decided not to get bogged down in the fine details, like painting every little gadget on their belts a different color or whatever.  Kept it simple.  It just took forever because I went weeks between painting sessions.  Still spent plenty of hours on them, but as I did a whole squad, one color at a time, I made pretty good progress.

Still didn't master dry brushing, which I seem to think would make all this way easier, but hitting the highlights very deliberately instead still worked out well.

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I also considered trying to lay some green plasma looking stuff into the grills of their fusion gun muzzles to match their eyes and give the guns a cool look.  (And tie in another color to bring them together.)  It's still tempting to try, but I'm also afraid of screwing them up in the process…

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It's funny that they're done now, because I swam laps yesterday and had a flashback to 2009 or 2010 when I used to think about "How am I going to paint those fire dragons?" to keep my mind occupied while I swam.  And now, like 8 years (!) later, they're done!  (Actually, I don't think I had my "dark" aspect warriors built then—it was classic Eldar dragon models at that time.)
Almost finished with my custom Fuegan.  I hollowed out a cloak for him that I have to paint and attach.  His sword I might just keep simple too rather than try to pull off some great magical effect that doesn't turn out how I want.  We'll see.