Nethyrmaul the Undyings (FINALLY painted! :) )

[bojesphob]

So, even though I've been painting the other guys in my kickstarter pledge, I've been trying to come up with a paint scheme I liked for Nethyrmaul and Kaladrax. Kaladrax, I'm still thinking through, but Nethyrmaul I just finished painting up, and I think he turned out pretty well :) I've got some spots that I see that I missed painting (mainly in the mouth, and in a few spots that the angle of painting was odd enough that I couldn't see that I missed them in normal light... Anyhow, he's still glossy at the moment, I gloss varnished him, and still have do a matte varnish. I'll probably gloss varnish the bloody flesh though afterwards :)

 

Anyhow, without much further ado, my Nethyrmaul the Undying. Sorry for the poor lighting.

 

 

Edited August 7, 2013 by bojesphob

[naponatom]

Nice! A fresh corpse...

[smokingwreckage]

Awesome. And the meat looks so..... fresh....

 

EDIT: beaten to the punch...

Edited August 7, 2013 by smokingwreckage

[Thrym]

The adventuring party really did a number on him. But he'll show them by rising up in all his glossy finish and vanquishing them with his Dullcote Breath.

 

 

Overall, nicely done.

 

The colors are vibrant, especially the raw red meat of the dragon. That said, perhaps going back in with some darker red around the edges would give the meat less of a "coated in blood" look. The eyes are what struck me most when I saw it, they look like the lids were torn away. Freaky cool.

Given that he looks like "the party just won the fight only to have him rise from the dead right as they celebrate" ... I think he needs some blast damage from what the mages did to him to blow chunks of him away. Add in some seared edges to the scales, skin and bone visible. Perhaps also some blackened streaks on his scales from the lightning bolts the druid piled on him from above.

 

Post a photo of the matte finish when you get it done. It'll be a huge difference from shiny Nethy to matte Nethyrmaul.

 

Bring on Kaladrax!

[bojesphob]

The adventuring party really did a number on him. But he'll show them by rising up in all his glossy finish and vanquishing them with his Dullcote Breath.

 

 

Overall, nicely done.

 

The colors are vibrant, especially the raw red meat of the dragon. That said, perhaps going back in with some darker red around the edges would give the meat less of a "coated in blood" look. The eyes are what struck me most when I saw it, they look like the lids were torn away. Freaky cool.

Given that he looks like "the party just won the fight only to have him rise from the dead right as they celebrate" ... I think he needs some blast damage from what the mages did to him to blow chunks of him away. Add in some seared edges to the scales, skin and bone visible. Perhaps also some blackened streaks on his scales from the lightning bolts the druid piled on him from above.

 

Post a photo of the matte finish when you get it done. It'll be a huge difference from shiny Nethy to matte Nethyrmaul.

 

Bring on Kaladrax!

 

Yeah, the gloss is a bit much, but I gloss coat to protect the paint. For some reason, I had issues with the paint rubbing off in a few places as I painted, which didn't happen much on the smaller guys.

 

Anyhow, not sure if I'd be able to do much justice with doing battle damage, though I might think about it.

 

As to the eyes, yeah, I think those are my favorite details! It was an extremely easy effect to do, as well. Painted the eyeball white, then put in green for the iris, then black and then gray over that for a glazed over pupil look. Of course, the areas around it were green. I then took the Baal Red glaze from GW (not the current glaze, but the previous one), and glazed around the outside edge of the eyeball. Once it dried, I knew it was the right way to go!

Edited August 7, 2013 by bojesphob

[youwashock]

Gargantuan and grotesque. Nicely done.

[ub3r_n3rd]

Very nicely done! Thanks for sharing Nethyrmaul in all his undying glory.

[Goblyn]

Nice! A fresh corpse...

 

really really fresh

[Pingo]

Well. That's a nice piece of nightmare fuel. Good job.

 

I think the shine on the muscle enhances the look; you may want to keep the gloss there.

[scorpio616]

Is my ad blocker screwing the links up? The photos are kinda small given how huge the mini is..

[bojesphob]

I scaled them down to around 800x600, so that they weren't too big on normal screens. If they don't show up big enough, I can always make the matte varnished pictures to ~1024x768 when I take them.

 

If they don't even look to be about 800x600, try the direct files:

 

http://www.bojesphob.com/Army/Nethyrmaul1.jpg

 

http://www.bojesphob.com/Army/Nethyrmaul2.jpg

 

http://www.bojesphob.com/Army/Nethyrmaul3.jpg

 

http://www.bojesphob.com/Army/Nethyrmaul4.jpg

[bojesphob]

I made this picture a little bigger... Anyhow, I was able to get Nethy matte varnished, and thought I'd forward on the results per request! I did re gloss coat the fleshy areas to make that part at least shiny Though, I did just notice that the inside of the wing there still has a little bit of gloss showing through, so I may have to hit that part again with the matte...

 

Edited August 9, 2013 by bojesphob

[Thrym]

His innards are still nice and juicy.