Veins and Knuckles

My dragon construction is entering the final stretch.  I finished most of the beading. The tops of both wings are done, as are all the fins on his back. All his claws are sculpted from Aves Apoxy, which is fine on the ends of his fingers and toes, but I needed something more forgiving (and pliable) to shape his knuckles - after all I can't have his knuckles popping off if he bends his fingers - and I wanted to add 3-D wing veins. Which meant 3-D fabric paint. We went to Michael's twice before I finally settled on some bright dark blue 3-D fabric paint with my weekly 50% off coupon (I know, 50% off $1.99 isn't exactly 'big savings', but I will take it where I can) and the blue wasn't the perfect colour choice, but our Michaels has extremely little choice. 

However, after thinking about it some more, I decided I wanted lighter wing veins. I intended to paint over them anyways, and it would be easier to paint a light colour over a lighter base, so back to Michaels we went again - this time without a coupon (I was lazy). They only have very limited colours at our Michaels (it's a very small store) so in the end I chose the 'Glow-in-the-Dark 3-D fabric paint.  It was a light pale yellow-green colour, so should work well. I don't know if the 'glow-in-the-dark still works under paint, not that it really matters, but it would be nice if the dragon didn't need a flashlight to see what he was doing in the dark.

With the final Apoxie additions cured, and the 3-D paint dried, today's job is to
​finish painting everything. Then I can put him together!  Can't wait!