Base - part 2

Back from a one-week vacation, back to the hobby.

The tree is an interesting addition to the model: I decided to make it a dead tree, hinting that the temple it grew from is really old.
Problem: the lead tree is a bit cheap: poorly sculpted, it is rather flat, with showing molding lines. Plus it will easily bend, then break. Solution : giving it a "green stuff treatment" should overcome these shortcomings, or so I thought. More on this later.

Another discreet addition to the  ruined-temple-themed plastic base: the broken torso of a statue. It is made from an age-old Games Workshop beast man.  My friend Frédéric gave me a bunch of these ten-ish years ago, and now I have found an employment for one of them. Never ever empty your bits box!

One little correction from an earlier post: I now know that "pinning" is the English for "tigeage". And pinning I do:

This kit is starting to look like a dragon. It is about time.

Base - part 1

This kit comes with a rectangular plastic base. Since I'm not so sure of the efficiency of superglue between resin and plastic parts, I add a metal string (Tigeage is the French verb for that). Anyway, here is how it looks like:

The protruding wire then gets bent back on the plastic base, and secured with more superglue.

Now, the resin base really is gorgeous, but its plastic counterpart is rather large and totally bare. We need to dress it up a little.  Earth and grass would do fine for a vulgar grunt, but this dragon deserves an extra effort, so what to do?

The resin base is basically a huge ruined pilar, suggesting an old, derelict pagan temple. Let's catch on this theme. I added some tiles made of plasticard:

Now, the mysterious temple has been laying in ruins for centuries, so the flora has been a little bit invasive:

The tree is a lead-made piece of scenery for model trains. I had bought a bunch of these -oh god- in another century, in Bordeaux, in another life. Now I'm happy to put one tree to use.
In the distance, one can see a female zombie from the Zombicide game. I may show more of this in later posts.

A New Hope

This is a new start for this blog.

- First, out of consideration for the odd English-speaking hobbyist stumbling on this blog (after googling for “carmine dragon” I presume), I shall now write in English.

- Second, there was a lull as I moved from Paris to Toulouse last year. After much moving box frenzy, it seems that I can resume feeding this blog.

- Last but not least, it is a new start, coz’ we shall now follow the assembly and painting of… a Warpfire Dragon.

‘What about the Carmine Dragon of the title?’ cries the crowd. Long story short: 1) Carmine thingy got lost in some moving cardboard box, 2) got myself a shiny Warpfire Dragon for Christmas (thanks Mum and Bro, who are now reading this in English –Ah!).

So, here we go again. My objective is to complete this kit by end of April. That’s ambitious, given that I am a slow hobbyist without much spare time (you know the story: job, family, other hobbies, life). In the meantime, I’ll try to update this blog on a relatively regular basis, depending on what I have to show you. Some appraisal from the viewers along the way is rather unlikely, but would be highly appreciated nonetheless.

First things first: the beast has it appears on the –crude- instruction sheet from Warhammer Forge:

…The kit itself: resin upgrade of a plastic kit. That will make for an interesting assembly...

…And the usual cleaning of resin parts with dish washing detergent.

See you for the next episode of this not-so thrilling adventure!