The Ancient Guild of Dragon Research - part three

Having already built two plaques, I wanted to make a third. This time Dragon's Teeth. The new plaque has three specimens of Dragon's Teeth - a Serpent Dragon, a Pygmy Forest Dragon and a Black Dragon. Once painted they were hot glued on to the simple plaque and labelled following the same style as the earlier two posts and images found in the book DRAGONWORLD by S. A. Caldwell.

Two of the teeth are from the Horrible Histories Dangerous Dinosaur kit, while the third, the Pygmy Forest Dragon's tooth was sculpted from FIMO over a garden stone and then sanded smooth and painted. I've really enjoyed this modelling interlude and I can report that all three plaques have been very well received.

Tony

The Ancient Guild of Dragon Research - part two

With the first plaque finished and presented to Finley, I then made a second for Charlie. This time three models showing various Dragon's teeth - A Blue Dragon Incisor, a Swamp Dragon and an Ice Dragon Fang.

Once again the models were great fun to make - The Blue Dragon and Swamp Dragon teeth are carved and sanded resin (old resin figures I had in my 'spares box') while the Ice Dragon fang is a stone found on the road side while taking a walk. Then taking inspiration from DRAGONWORLD by S. A. Caldwell I labelled and mounted them on to the home-made plaque.

Tony

The Ancient Guild of Dragon Research

In an earlier post, I detailed some Magic Wands that I had made for my grandson's, but they are also interested in Dinosaurs and Dragons.

Today's post shows a plaque I made for Finley which has a Copper Dragon's Scale and a Talon.

The scale was hammered and polished before being mounted.

While the Talon was was simply glued in place and labelled.

They were great fun to make; The scale is a piece of crushed copper U bend that I picked up of the road and the talon was sculpted from a piece of blue foam before being clad with paper mache and modelling compound. Inspiration came from a children's illustrated book called DRAGONWORLD, Secrets of the Dragon Domain by S. A. Caldwell.

Tony

Flintloque/Silver Bayonet cross over - part thirty three

Today's update features this group of five Flintloque Undead which were picked up secondhand and re-painted in my house style.

These are not my first Flintloque/Deadloque Undead. In fact I have quite a few and I have included these links to show just some;

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I would expect to use the Witchlands Undead as Revenants or Ghosts.

Tony

Flintloque/Silver Bayonet cross over - part thirty two

Another Ghost for my Flintloque/Silver Bayonet cross over project. This time a Nazgul from Games Workshop which was bought second-hand from Worcester Wargames. Not my best paint job, but it is another miniature based and painted.....

The mini was already painted, but I wanted a white/eerie colour scheme rather than the more traditional black. In addition I gloss varnished the mini prior to painting as I wasn't too sure of the quality of the metal.

The finished Ghost next to the long-suffering Flintloque RifleOrc for comparison. Both are mounted on to 2p coins with the groundwork built up from Milliput.

Tony

A couple of magic wands

In a change from my usual posts, here are a couple of magic wands and wand boxes that I built for my grandson's.

The first was carved from a lump of scrap wood given to me by Mal. He used the rest to build his garden dome greenhouse. It has a green agate stone mounted in the handle and a lions head carving on the main body.

The second was carved from an old garden umbrella pole and has the body of a monkey idol from a collectors toy series called 'Monster in my Pocket' pinned and glued to the handle.

They were great fun to make and paint. Both boxes were built from scrap card and covered in samples of textured wallpaper picked up for free with the red padding coming from a 50p cushion purchased in a charity shop. The ribbon was cut from some ex-Christmas decoration material.

I can report that both were well received.

Tony

Flintloque/Silver Bayonet cross over - part thirty one

Another 'spares box' discovery. This time a plastic Owlbear miniature - I think from a Dungeons and Dragons play set and painted as a snowy owl.

The miniature was mounted on to a wooden disc with the groundwork built up from DAS then further textured with sieves stones and sand applied over PVA glue. I have also gloss varnished the model as I think this helps the acrylic paint to adhere better.

The final images shows the DnD Owlbear alongside a Flintloque RifleOrc for comparison. I'm not sure how I'll be using the finished Owlbear in my Flintloque/Silver Bayonet games, but enjoyed painting it.

Tony