"The Boss of the Badlands" - Orruk Wyvern

I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass...

Meghan Trainor

Welcome to another happy Friday on the Art of Caesura!

I must have jinxed myself at the end of last week's post by questioning whether I'd be able to complete this Wyvern and basing project. At the final hurdle, disaster struck! I was in the process of trying to pin the wyvern to the base and I usually try to drill at right angles for strength, but for the wyvern's foot, I had to drill at a very oblique angle so I could run the rod up his lower leg to add support. Well, my bloody drill bit snapped and what's more, it broke off lodged in the hole. 

For some people this wouldn't be much of an issue, but I live 2.5 hours away from the nearest hobby or robust hardware store and I don't have a car. I know there's this thing called the internet, but even shipping on that takes about 10 days...So it'll be a couple weeks until I'll be able to get a replacement - and at that stage I'll have to figure out if I have enough room left to drill alongside my previous hole. 


Oh well.

I'll be sure to post updated pics once I have the whole mess sorted out, for now here's a "band-aid" solution:

 In good news I'm happy with how they turned out. I tried to keep the base very monochromatic with muted colours so as not to take away from the Orc and Wyvern. The dry badlandsy dirt contrasts the blue-greens of the wyvern hide. After leaving off with last week's Agrax Earthshade, I then drybrushed it up through to Ushabti Bone. 

I employed some techniques that I'd learned from painting the Maw-Krusha to modernise the classic green paint scheme for the wyvern. For example, I painted the striations on the horns in the same manner. I also darkened the scales running down the middle of the wyvern's spine in a similar fashion and I painted the wing membranes in exactly the same way as I had for the Maw-Krusha.

To draw some attention to the wyvern's venomous tail, I painted the buldging venom sac a lighter tone before washing it with toxic purples. I line-highlighted the actual tail spike to make it look sharp, almost like obsidian. And finished off the venom droplets on the tail with Nurgle's Rot before splattering his mouth and face with its red vis-a-vis. 

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And at long last, here are some updated pics once I re-drilled the holes and pinned him to his base:

Aaaaannnd...the base in all its glory:

With the Maw-Krusha, that's two dragon-like creatures completed now, but not yet a "real dragon"! I might have picked one up when I was at Warhammer World, but that's a tale for another time!

Thanks for joining me with this wyvern, we'll see you next Friday on The Art of Caesura!


Reading: Tales from the Loop - Fria Ligan
Gaming: Starcraft (now free!) - Blizzard 


Next Week:

"Strength of a different kind..."