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Air-drying clay, acrylics. 2007.Related content
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Did a Monitor Lizard help inspire the design of this Dragon at all?
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perhaps unconsciouslyβ¦.
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Ah, your avatar up close. And it's beautiful!Β
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Thanks! bout time i change my avatar though.
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I use DAS brand. When i was working with air-drying clay, i normally do them in the cooler times of the year. but i am not sure if weather has anything to do with the cracking. which brand do you use?
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I've used black jack clay. I've only had a couple of sculpts not crack on me atleast a little bit. Id like to use it again because it's so easy to work with. I've used it at any time of year and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
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Ive never heard of black jack clay.
have you tried super sculpy?
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Actually I've only just gotten acquainted with super sculpey. I kinda like it but I have yet to finish a sculpt with it. I have used aves apoxie sculpt before but it starts to firm up with in a couple of hours. I've tried non drying clay too but I plan on molding and casting my sculpts and I'm sure there would be issues of the detailing staying clean.
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WOW!!! May I ask how you painted this? Brush or airbrush? Those colors look so real... like the drake is alive! Did you undercoat the scales with another color? I wish I could paint my sculptures as perfect as this...
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Its hand painted, using brush. then a lot of dry brushing techniques.
thank you. i remember priming it with white, but i am not sure. there been numerous times i didnt do undercoats, and sometimes worked well.
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I'm fascinated of the effects that can be done with brushes - If you can 
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Ur welcome.
also consider the kind of paint your using and the brush quality. i used tamiya acrylic model paints. their awesome.
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Yes, yes, allways choose the right tools
I use acrylics, too. But they're from another company.
I still need to get a good "feeling" for the color schemes...
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any acrylic model paints would do. i'd use airbrush if i had a proper one.
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I'd use airbrush if I had the know-how 
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combination of the 2 is awesome...
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This is great, aboslutely wonderful texture, cool design, looks like what a drake should, could any dragon/drake lover ask for more?
Wonderful job.
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I want to take it home and name it something cool-sounding in Latin!
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Yeah, really, like in the Temeraire series.
(if you dont know about the Temeraire series, look it up!)
You know, how the dragons all have names like Excidium (which means either War or Destruction) Volitalius, Maximus, etc, etc.
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Isn't Temeraire that one series with the awful first sentence? "The deck of the French ship was slippery with blood; heaving in the choppy sea."
My dad read--well, tried to read--the first of those books. I may get around to reading them eventually. . .
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I think so.
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thanks. hmmm...... vermithrax pejorative..... (sounds familiar)
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scary
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thanks man. mcfarlanes dragons are actually one of my inspirations for doing these stuff.
couldnt afford those toys anymore, so decided to do my own.
salamat ulit man. mabuhay ka!
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panalo sa pasensiya! not to mention brutal ang kinalabasan!
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