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Hi all,
Looking for a bit of advice. I reciently recieved one of the large reaper dragons. I have everything filed away and unassembled but I am not sure on how to handle it while I am painting. The parts are neck and upper jaw, lower jaw, left and right body halfs, left and right wings, and rear leg loose. I am tempted to assemble and back the body and paint the rest seperate but I am honestly at a loss if this would be the best way of going about it. I would like to be handling the painted surfaces as little as possible. I would like to make this my winter project but need to get it in soon before it gets to cold to prime.

Thanks in advance,
Greg

Most of the time I see people working them on a spike stuck in a cork. Small bit of green stuff to cover the hole.

personally in most cases I assemble whole model beore painting it so the connections between sepatare parts are "hidden" as much as it's possible; besides there's always the risk of damaging painted element during assembling
not much constructive advice from me then

which dragon exactly do you have? I so love some of their dragons
As for your question - I tend to assemble all parts that do not hinder painting afterwards. I have never painted something as big as reaper dragon, mind you
Anyway, perhaps this article could be helpful: https://hot-lead.org/gallery/dragon/gauth.htm

I do it just like Nameless and Demi. First I look if there are big gaps between different parts. If there are g, I assemble those parts first and fill the gaps. Then I consider the ease of painting with the different parts attached. If there are parts that really obscure some areas I'll paint those seperatly.

And for holding the fig I usually pin my large figs in a bigger piece of wood for easier handling, but it depends on the pose.

I have Ebonwrath: https://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Bo ... test/10022

I was personally thinking of black scales highlighted out to a purple edge much like the old d&d manuals use to have it.

hmm I think I am going to have to come up with a base and pin every thing to it. I do have an extra tri-pod so that may be the trick I am looking for. I guess I am going to be playing mad scientist this weekend and trying to figure out how to get this done.

good luck

and don't forget to bring us pics of finished mad-results

Big project! Curious how you'll handle it a i got a big mini too to paint and am also at a loss of where to start.

Seeing the pic I'd probably leave off the wings for now and attach them later.

Good luck mate and post lots of wip pics.

Offtopic: Skrit, I know it's the big troll... give it to me I'll paint it for ya

On topic: that looks like a pretty big dragon. Take WIP pics please The colorscheme sounds good. Fitting for a dark dragon.