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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9379878" data-attributes="member: 6790260">The old one. I find it quite elegant.Yes, I'm aware that it IS a bronze. But its patina, as shown in the concept art, is very specifically copper patina. Bronze statues patina differently. The patina on that one looks identical to the patina on the Statue of Liberty, which was clad in copper (and was, originally, extremely shiny.)The patina of bronze is almost always either <a href="https://randolphrose.com/blogs/blog/what-is-patina-and-how-it-is-used-with-bronze-sculptures" target="_blank">a dull brown or a dark brownish green</a>. It is essentially never that bright turquoise-blue color shown in the image.See above. The distinctly blue-green hue is copper. Bronze, because of its alloy materials (tin, in the case of bronze), darkens more heavily and has much more brown in its patina. It still forms a patina, no question, but the most you'll get out of it is a very dark green,<a href="https://www.reliance-foundry.com/wp-content/uploads/bronze-statue.jpg" target="_blank"> such as seen here</a>. The "verdigris" color, like that seen on the Statue of Liberty, is definitely not bronze. Furthermore, bronze in its natural state is supposed to look like gold. The dragon shown there is VERY clearly copper-colored, with a distinctly red hue. That's part of what makes it pop so much; the orangey-red of copper is nearly exactly opposite the cyan color of the verdigris patina that copper develops.</blockquote>

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