Warhammer Red Dragon
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| PRICE: | $10.00 |
| DECALS: | No |
| REVIEWER: | Jack Bruno |
| NOTES: | Very easy to build and detail |
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ball looking as to the panzer being on fire.
Really. On to more shouting in the hallway from
the Romans playing Ben Hur complete with the
fish lap counters. Oh My! But the vendors,
here my friends lay the reason for my venture
into this Fantasy World where too fat girls
squeezed into too tight Mermaid outfits and too
fat guyzz over flowed to their knee's....with or
without the one bushy eyebrow and hairy back.
The vendor area was as interesting as the expo
and gaming rooms. People from California,
England and all parts East were there. the one
vendor that caught my eye had hundreds of
plastic tubs marked, $2....$3....$5.......I
perused these bins for an hour finding some
really cool figures that I plan on doing
sometime in the future. Orks with Battle Flags
and various poses that resemble my dead
father-in-law. BUT, there it was in the stand
up glass case.......The Dragon. No price. I
asked to look at this poorly built thing that
was unpainted and glued badly, literally, coming
apart at the seams. the guy replied to make him
an offer.........I said, 'Buddy, I'd like to
have it for free, but I'm interested. He said ,
"$10' and i couldn't get it out fast enough. I
was overjoyed as I had visions of it in my mind
already. Sam cackled as he announced to the
World that "he sucked me in.' Well, he did.
After a cool lunch in Harry's, we did one more
walk thru when I found a guy selling bases. Not
just any Bases, but rounds that had Skulls that
were calling me to put the Dragon on it. I bit
and for $15 I had all I needed.
I
got the boy and his buddies, The Orks, home and
called Vince. I perused his book called, "Dragonology"
and was inspired by The Red Dragon. Vinnie
thought it "was Balls" and in one evening I had
taken a tooth pick and putty and filled seams
and added texture. I needed a lot of this and
in most cases severed the limb and re glued it
and then remounted it adding putty . In no time
I felt that I had done all I could and it was
time to prime. I used flat black from the Tamiya
rattle can. I let it cure over night and with
my Grex i sprayed different shades of red on the
body. his under belly and inner hands were
sprayed white. Wanting a vinyl type wing, I used
Tamiya Gloss Red for the inner wing portion. I
was impressed by the amount of detail in the
kit. featured were horns, fangs and claws and
the before mentioned wings which were enhanced
by battle damage. I then glossed the Demon and
after it dried I opted for a oil wash of Dick
Van dyke Brown. This all came out really cool
and now set the stage for detailing. I started
the eyes by laying yellow inside and putting a
tooth pick dab of green. This was sealed with
Tamiya Gloss for the wet look. The inside of his
mouth was painted dark yellow for the fangs and
teeth a pink tongue and sealed with the same
gloss. His hand claws and toe claws, well
every claw on him were painted dark yellow and
dry brushed with a lighter shade. More wash was
applied to bring it out too. The next step in
this parade was to take a tooth pick and using
the paint bottle cap just grabbed a dabbb and
without pattern painted a scale on his body. I
used yellow, green, blue and
orange.
A little color went a long way but don't over do
it! Again, a little was and it was
done...........or was it........???? A trick I
learned from a fellow modeler who is in witness
protection showed me how to add drool with 5
minute epoxy......so i mixed some up and applied
to the fangs with a brush and pulled down. The
result was a realistic DROOL. Nasty!!!!If you would like your product reviewed fairly and fairly quickly, please contact the editor or see other details in the Note to Contributors.