Here be dragons! 2013 paint challenge

[redambrosia 70890]

 

My local shop has "Dragons don't Share" still in the box, new. Maybe I'll go and get that and paint that up.

 

Oh get that one! It is a lot of fun and a total classic!

 

 

That is a cool one! If you don't want it I'll take it

[Exwilly 1600]

ill prolly paint up bones kaladrax and the kaladrax dire drake and pick up the other dragons at retail and paint them.

Edited February 7, 2013 by Exwilly

[MonkeySloth 9147]

Just a heads up that I'm hoping to have the contest rule thread up this weekend. We just got some of the final things decided on and I want to find an easy way to show off what the minimum size would be so there's no confusion.

 

How we've decided to run things is the single dragon entry is going to have laxer, more friendly rules and really only one or two prizes with the rest being random and the diorama is going to be along the lines of a traditional Painting Excuses competition with judge based prizes only but more then just 1st, 2nd and such but prizes for best painting best use of x number of dragons (we'll allow smaller ones if there's at least one large one), best composition, best over all and so on.

 

We realized we couldn't make everyone happy but this way there's an aspect of the competition that appeals to both the casual and more competitive painters here and I hope people will have fun.

Edited February 8, 2013 by MonkeySloth

[paintminion 291]

Okay, more inspiration...but a small small dragon. As promised, a quickpaint for daughter's D&D group.

 

 

And bonus dragonman which also doesn't count for the challenge.

[Inarah 32335]

Nicely done on both counts.

[Foxfire 1631]

Ok I think this guys is big enough, he's 10.5cm to his top so should hopefully cut the mustard. I couldn't find whether it was limited to Reaper mini's or not, so if it is, no sweat.

 

I'm treating this more in the nature of a challenge as in 'How many can I do?' then I'll pick the best if that's ok? If it's not I'll delete out this post.

 

WIP thread here - http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/47636-double-dragon/

 

Finished Dragon here - I don't actually have a lightbox, so I have a lot of trouble getting the images to equal size, sorry about that.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 18, 2013 by Foxfire

[Girot 8280]

looks great!! which one is that?

[recruittons 1160]

That would be Ashardalon from the board game Wrath of Ashardalon.

[Girot 8280]

LOL. What size is he? I'd guess Huge from the picture.

[recruittons 1160]

Here is a pic of the game's minis all together. Huge sized might be accurate.

 

 

[Girot 8280]

Yup. That's Huge. I don't quite recall what age that indicates but he's an old man. The REALLY old ones are Colossal and is one of my favorite minis!

[Sanwah 744]

I am very new to this concept....so sorry my questions are a little silly:

 

1. Should I be putting "year of the Dragon Participant" in my signature?

2. Did the contest thread go up?? If it has, where?? If it hasn't, would I look for it in the same place as this one??

3. I am planning on painting up Bile the Wyvern (at least to start), do we know if he is considered big enough to qualify?

[Inarah 32335]

1. that's entirely optional

2. not yet, it'll be in the contests part of the forum when it happens, probably much later this year

3. Bile looks big enough, yes

[Darius Glenwell 2873]

I've got the old Forest Dragon and of course the BONES stuff arriving soon. I'm in!

[ObsidianCrane 4075]

I hope to finish my first "dragon" this month and have finished the prep on the second one as well.

 

As far as the contest I would expect June at the earliest for its start, to give us all time to get our Bones KS ( given that some of us will not ship until the end of March and have a 2 week minimum shipping time).