I would never have thought of drybrushing as the first step. Great looking model and the acid green effect really works. Again a colour I wouldn’t have considered for a black dragon. I really need to look at more art for inspiration. Now you have the awesome mini you to give it a stat-block worthy of the paint job so your players don’t stomp all over it and finish it off in a couple of rounds.
My black dragon came from Rescale as well, from the Legendary Chromatics line they redid last year. Went black with grey uppertones, and used a sickly Nurgling Green on the wings and membrane parts on the spine, that model had bulging around its cheeks like it had acid sacs up there, so i used tesseract glow and it made it look like the acid was glowing through the thin skin of its cheeks. Had the same color leaking around its mouth and tounge, practically dripping with deadly substances.
Yeah! I'm liking some of their Legendary Chromatics, its cool to see their own take on the dragons - But I do love this Black Dragon and their Original Blue dragon a ton
It's interesting that you did green webbing for the Dragon, but went with purple eyes. I tend to prefer purple webbing for black dragons, as I feel it keeps them closer to truly being a 'black' dragon, and avoids potential crossover with green dragons aesthetically.
For sure! I did consider purple for the webbing, and tossed up the options for a while. I ended up going with the green to try and pull some of the Acidic nature of a black dragon into the color scheme.
I might not be the keenest on the new redesign for the 2024 black dragon (specifically the spiral shape of the horns), but WOW that paintwork is seriously amazing! Great job!
My biggest tip is to use PrusaSlicer and enable its organic supports - But if you want a more detailed answer to that question I actually have a video on the channel showing how I print minis in FDM - the only difference to the settings shown in that video is that this was printed at 0.12mm layer height (due its size) and possibly slightly thicker diameters on the organic supports settings!
I'm wondering if cutting off the horns and swapping them would have been better, as you wouldn't end up with that tight turn when getting them forward facing?
Awesome looking! Im painting a Local Legends green dragon, thats similar but not exact to D&D greens, not evil even just prankster😂. ❗️Keep in mind new designs of a race of dragons ( dragons a species ) like black, does NOT need to mean replacement of older designs. Think of it as phenotypes. Not all black dragons look exactly the same. And many more monsters in the new MM? Remember 1 dragon = 4 monsters due to 4 life stages. Also wish they add GEM dragons aaand missing second 5 of true dragons from Chromatics, Gem and Metallic families. I want to see yellow coastal salt dragons with win setup like a brass or coppers. Orange jungle dragons and purple mid-upper Underdark dragons in which the deep dragons are a lower underdark sub-species of.
The new Gold dragon is taking its inspiration from Chinese origins, giving it a Lung Dragon figure. Rescale is reprinting their metallic dragons line and have already redone their Silver Dragon and Brass Dragons with a new look. In the wake of the 2024 changes they might be updating their gold design to fit the new look! Im really excited for the coastal oceanbound bronze dragon, easily my favorite of the metallics.
