I spent yesterday painting the red dragon miniature from the D&D board game Wrath of Ashardalon.

For the record the D&D board games are a cheap way to pick up miniatures for use within D&D itself. Although I don’t think the figures are 28mm but a little larger. Or that’s what I thought when I looked at the skeletons in the Ravenloft edition. They looked larger than the ones I already have from elsewhere.

Back to Ashardalon the red dragon. The previous day I had applied white primer to the model. I’m not sure I’m a big fan of painting on primer. But it’s all I have at the moment so I have to lump it.

Naturally after the primer was dried it was time to base coat the dragon. I did a little research online before hand looking at how others had painted their red dragons. There were a couple of photos of the same model that I had. I did like the idea of painting the breast/chest plates a different colour. So the majority of the model was base coated with a flat red, the rocks/stones were a dungeon grey, and the claws and horns with skeleton bone. Then finally I used lava orange for the breast/chest plates.

After they had dried I used a red tone shader for everything apart from the stones/rocks and claws/horns. For those I used Nuln Oil.

Finally I used a pure red to dry brush the dragon. Followed by dry brushing with the same colours used for the breast/chest plates and claws/horn. For the stones/rocks I used a stone grey. And I really liked how that turned out on them.

The final step as always is to flock the base.

My plans are to use the miniature to be Hoondarrh the red dragon within my campaign. The players will bump into him at some point.

The Wizkids Gelatinous Cube arrived yesterday.

I’m looking forward to putting that on the table. And for those that watched the Jim Murphy video on the Undead Lair, it’s an interesting complication. It’d be nice to get some of the other oozes as miniatures, but that’s a project for another day.