Reaper Miniatures - Young Forest Dragon

 This weekend I managed to bang out a few miniatures, odds and ends I had lying around.  This one in particular was overdue to be completed: a Reaper Miniatures Young Forest Dragon.  

I picked this up for my wife awhile ago, do add to her growing dragon collection.  He was smaller than the usual ones I paint, but no less detailed.

Reaper Miniatures Young Forest Dragon

There were several color choices on the table for this fellow, but in the end I settled on a muted green color, similar to lichen or a forest moss.  

• Vallejo NATO Green Primer
• Vallejo Model Air Black Green
• Vallejo Model Air Camo Green
• Vallejo Model Air Light Camo Green (just a light highlight)
• Reaper Master Series Camo Green for the lower scales.  Highlighted with a mix of Camo Green and Vallejo Dead Flesh.
• Drybrushed Vallejo Model Color Gunship Green, Reaper Master Series Highland Moss and Pale Lichen
• Reaper Master Series Stained Ivory, Yellowed Bone, Creamy Ivory and Vallejo Model Color Ivory for the horns and teeth.  Horns washed in Army Painter Soft Tone.
• Vallejo Old Brown Rose for the Tongue, with the whole mouth then washed GW Crimson Wash and GW Reikshade Flesh.  Then highlighted with Ivory and Pink.
• Eyes received a black lining with Vallejo Model Color Light Yellow for the eye, followed by a dot of black.

Notice I do not use a lot of washes...especially an overall wash.  The effect is usually ruinous to my airbrushing technique.  Washes are only used in selected areas....very sparingly.

I mounted him on a 50mm square base.  This lets him fit a number of small monster roles on the battlefield, or as a large unit filler to infantry on 25mm square bases.  Perhaps a tamed monster?

"Down boy!  Down!"

He was not difficult at all to paint really, and makes a nice addition to my wife's brood.