I had the idea to do a Dragon Warriors CSM army after reading Salamander from the Black Library. And after looking into the Lexicanum entry for them & reading the Salamander I figured I would try and do some sort of scales on their armor. I never really progressed to far with the scales on the armor idea, but I started working on a Daemon Prince conversion for the army. Even thought the references that I've found don't suggest they have a Daemon Prince that is warped into a Dragon form, but it sounded cool to me. I also had inspiration from the last Grey Knight series book Hammer of Daemons, which had a Chaos guy that was a Dragon in Armor that sounded like a Daemon Prince.
So with those to go off of I got a metal GW Daemon Prince and some other bits to convert this Dragon Daemon Prince (DDP from here on out). I started off JB Welding the torso together, and pinning the hands together and JB Welding them into the arms too. For the head of the DDP I bought a Dark Elf Cold One bits from the Warstore, which the head bit is separate from the torso bit. So I cut all of the reigns from the head, but left the collar part around the neck. I was going to use that collar as the start of the suit the marines wear, and this would cover the joint between the head and the torso too. I used my Dremel to cut down some of the neck area of the torso so that the head could sit back into the torso without having to cut down any of the plastic neck on the Cold One. Then I joined the head and the torso together and used some Green Stuff to form up to the collar of the neck.
For the tail I just cut off the tail from the Cold One where it connects to the Cold One torso. Then I drew the outline of the area I would have to cut out of the back of the torso on the DDP, and used my Dremel to remove the metal from that area. Added some GS in the hole and stuck the tail on, this makes to tail look like it burst from the armor on the DDP. I JB Welded the arms on and the shoulder pads and the legs to the torso. Work of advise on the JB Weld is to take your time and try and do one part at a time, as the normal JB Weld takes some time to setup. I tried to put both arms on the torso at the same time with JB Weld, that was a pain in the butt for sure. I finally got the to work and had to use some temporary items to hold the arms on, same with the shoulder pads but I used some Blue Tac to hold these light items in place. I have tried JB Kwik before but I didn't think the bond was very good, and I was able to peel it off metal parts like it was tape. I still need to do some GS work to where the arm and torso meets to smooth out the transition between them.
The wings on the DDP are Ultraforge Daemon Wings, and I'm still working on them for the most part. I put pins in the bases of the wings and drilled holes for the pins in the torso. I built up the area on the back of the torso with GS, then pushed the wings into the pin holes and made imprints of the wing bases. Then I worked the GS from there to form a basic area for the wings to mount to. I tried to add magnets to hold the wings in place but that failed at that point cause they were under the GS and didn't have a good enough grip to hold the wings in place. I'm still working on figuring out if I want to make this DDP's wings permanent or removable, since a foam tray to hold him with wings on would take up a lot of space. But I might go ahead an go permanent on this one and use it for at home or local gaming, and then the all plastic DDP that I'll be working on soon will be able to break down into a small space (all magnetic).
I'm going to start working on the all plastic Daemon Prince this weekend and hope to get some pictures of it as I work on the magnetization of the kit. Until then here is two pics of the metal DDP, and you can find more views of him and some older WIP photos in this Photobucket Album. Comments & Suggestions are always welcome, and any ideas on the scales on armor would be appreciated too. I've got a few ideas on the armor that I'll post on here at some point down the road.
So with those to go off of I got a metal GW Daemon Prince and some other bits to convert this Dragon Daemon Prince (DDP from here on out). I started off JB Welding the torso together, and pinning the hands together and JB Welding them into the arms too. For the head of the DDP I bought a Dark Elf Cold One bits from the Warstore, which the head bit is separate from the torso bit. So I cut all of the reigns from the head, but left the collar part around the neck. I was going to use that collar as the start of the suit the marines wear, and this would cover the joint between the head and the torso too. I used my Dremel to cut down some of the neck area of the torso so that the head could sit back into the torso without having to cut down any of the plastic neck on the Cold One. Then I joined the head and the torso together and used some Green Stuff to form up to the collar of the neck.
For the tail I just cut off the tail from the Cold One where it connects to the Cold One torso. Then I drew the outline of the area I would have to cut out of the back of the torso on the DDP, and used my Dremel to remove the metal from that area. Added some GS in the hole and stuck the tail on, this makes to tail look like it burst from the armor on the DDP. I JB Welded the arms on and the shoulder pads and the legs to the torso. Work of advise on the JB Weld is to take your time and try and do one part at a time, as the normal JB Weld takes some time to setup. I tried to put both arms on the torso at the same time with JB Weld, that was a pain in the butt for sure. I finally got the to work and had to use some temporary items to hold the arms on, same with the shoulder pads but I used some Blue Tac to hold these light items in place. I have tried JB Kwik before but I didn't think the bond was very good, and I was able to peel it off metal parts like it was tape. I still need to do some GS work to where the arm and torso meets to smooth out the transition between them.
The wings on the DDP are Ultraforge Daemon Wings, and I'm still working on them for the most part. I put pins in the bases of the wings and drilled holes for the pins in the torso. I built up the area on the back of the torso with GS, then pushed the wings into the pin holes and made imprints of the wing bases. Then I worked the GS from there to form a basic area for the wings to mount to. I tried to add magnets to hold the wings in place but that failed at that point cause they were under the GS and didn't have a good enough grip to hold the wings in place. I'm still working on figuring out if I want to make this DDP's wings permanent or removable, since a foam tray to hold him with wings on would take up a lot of space. But I might go ahead an go permanent on this one and use it for at home or local gaming, and then the all plastic DDP that I'll be working on soon will be able to break down into a small space (all magnetic).
I'm going to start working on the all plastic Daemon Prince this weekend and hope to get some pictures of it as I work on the magnetization of the kit. Until then here is two pics of the metal DDP, and you can find more views of him and some older WIP photos in this Photobucket Album. Comments & Suggestions are always welcome, and any ideas on the scales on armor would be appreciated too. I've got a few ideas on the armor that I'll post on here at some point down the road.
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