High Elf dragon

[The Man Called Chong]

Took me a while to get round to doing this figure. Assembly was an absolute pain and really made me question why a dragon woudl be cast in metal.

 

[Eric]

Very nice, I like the contrasts you have, the white/blue and the red(orange)/blue. They make for a really nice model. I have a love/hate relationship with metal myself having spent the last few nights filing and trying to clean up mold lines on models! I do like the heft however!

 

[The Man Called Chong]

here is how this started

Keep Our Teeth Bright and Clean

We are young, we run greenKeep our teeth nice and cleanSee our friends, see the sightsAnd feel alright Way back in the distant mist of time when I was a youth beardless and of less than 18 sum…

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[ManicMan]

nice, interested colour choices for it, work well.

 

[Fimm McCool]

Nice work. In answer to your metal question, it was much easier and cheaper for GW at the time to cast in metal. The plastic dragon came along shortly after in the form Talisman Dragon King and was instantly taken up for making assembly easier, with metal head and body parts to customise the basic kit. Injection moulding, especially then, was insanely expensive to tool up for so the required sale quantity was massive. That's why you get the plastics from AHQ, Blood Bowl etc. reused in different kits and the Talisman plastics released in boxes for toy shops.

 

[The Man Called Chong]

thank you for the explanation. As it happens I have the Talisman dragon albeit with a few pieces missing.