Painting time!  I have started to paint the Rear of the torso and the pauldrons, check it out:

 This is the base coat colors i have added so far.

The idea i want to do is instead of dragon scale, i decided since the dragon theme for this armor is a red dragon, and they live in volcano's and bathe in lava, is to simulate a cracked lava look all throughout the armor, i figure that will be an awesome and very cool look!