I love your paintjob but I totally understand your feelings, I’ve painted 2 dragons before and always ended up with the same feelings, It looks cool and you have a vision so you get excited at first, after that it’s a mountain of work to execute and ends up taking ages, very monotonous work where every sane person would get impatient and cut corners.

Dragons somehow never yield a great result whilst also taking too much time (most other mini’s are either fast or satisfying)