Since the Faction of Rhun (known as Easterlings) has many things that use "dragon" in their name, and since it kinda makes sense, i d like to paint my Cave Drake in those Golden-bronze colours instead of the normal Green/white setup.
here s a guide i found for painting the Easterlings and was wondering if it could be aplied to the Cave Drake as well.
http://www.thepalantir.org/ca/miniature ... key001.htm


Any suggestions, on how to proceed ?

I like the idea of an Easterling dragon, but I wouldn't paint it gold. I would expect it to look unrealistic if it's scales appeared to be metal. Instead, I would paint it red, or perhaps black. Hmm, a black dragon, that sounds pretty cool...

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I painted my red dragon with gold highlights and I think it came out ok if thats any help?

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That sure is one nice dragon !

As for my Cave Drake, i was thinking of giving him that "shiny" metalic look of gold and Mithril. (drubrush and some washing), to give him that feeling of :
"Look at me i am a Cave Drake who sleeps on a pile of gold"
My first idea is to mix some type of red (nut sure which, but most likely something a bit darker, and two types of gold. This i would put on light mitrhill drybrush and after all of those things i woudl use one or another kind of wash and highlight some parts.

Somethign like this (dont mind the wings, just the core body with some darker gold)
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/gol_galle ... Dragon.jpg

Yeh that'll work

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Yeah it would be amazing.But the most difficult is to choose where to put gold and where red.

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I love your dragon ukfreddybear, it's the best I've seen!

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Cheers buddy. There are more pics back in my WIP thread. Page 13 I think.

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If you want gold as the base colour, I'd advise painting it silver to start as it goes on much nicer than gold paints in my experience. A nice brown wash would go over well too.

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