Kitbash:Dragon vs Gryphon Done 2025-05-28

[barad_dur]

The bright colors were not working for me.

Going to try and do a brownish bird of prey type paint scheme

So I Reprimed the griffin and laid in some initial base colors

[bucketfoot-al]

Here's a photo that might give you some ideas -

I snapped these in our backyard last week of a Hawk, or Falcon, eating a bird he caught. Gory stuff!! Badass.

For that alone the paint job would be worthy!!!

[barad_dur]

Cool pics. Thanks !

[barad_dur]

Put on some stain .
I think going with the more natural brown color scheme was the right choice.
But still have Lots of detailing left to do.

I Will also have to rework skin details on the legs as the skin texture looks like wood instead of fur.
I just bought some fur texture stamps which I will try to use.

[tay666]

Really like the shots of the back. Such nice, natural color variation.

[barad_dur]

Thanks Tevor.
So far so good….trick will be to not overpaint

[bucketfoot-al]

Thanks Tevor.
So far so good….trick will be to not overpaint

Natural feather color patterns will always look more believable ...

[barad_dur]

Continuing to paint the griffin base colors
Plan to add some bird of prey color patterns to the wings and body
Included a water bottle in some of the pics to show scale and size

[tay666]

Man
That is gonna be huge!

[bucketfoot-al]

Damn that's gonna look sweet ... you have a castle piece to fit in the middle, right?

[barad_dur]

Thanks guys!
I have a shorter castle piece and 2 bridges to connect the two towers

[barad_dur]

Started putting some battle holes and tears in the wing webbing to show why dragon is falling out of sky
Also adding claws marks across upper chest

[bucketfoot-al]

Now that is masterful! The story develops! Perfect! Amazing! Takes it to a completely different level!

[barad_dur]

Thank you Vlad.
Continuing to create tears and rips in the wings

[barad_dur]

Added a few more tears
I need to refine some of the arm muscles and then on to painting

[bucketfoot-al]

[tay666]

[Squidy53]

Now that's some serious wear and and especially, tear.

[bucketfoot-al]

Now that's some serious wear and and especially, tear.

[barad_dur]

Refining some of the rips as they were too round and did not look like they were made by claws
Adding some texture and visual interest to the inner side webbing
I also beefed up the shoulders and all the arm segments , front and back