The head is white with a wash of gold (gold paint diluted with a lot of water). The beak is solid gold, the tongue is gold mixed with red. The overall effect is a bald eagle touched with gold like he's straight out of the celestial planes.
This mini came with a clear plastic spike base that fit into the underside of the mini, but I found that this was an unstable configuration (probably because the exact angle of the wings would vary depending on how you attached them). Instead, I decided to create a "swirling column of air," which I accomplished with a pillar of Sculpey, which I twisted several times to make a series of circular striations. I then pushed the mini into the top to make an impression of its lower parts, then removed the mini and baked the Sculpey. The wind colum is bright blue with several drybrushes of lighter blue and white. The result is a mini that's pretty stable despite having a big wingspan and a high center of mass.
This mini suffers by being one of the early D&D minis from WotC. The grooves for the wings aren't very deep, which means they tend to pop off if not pinned. The right foot is a separate piece, and the left leg is a separate piece, which means you have to pin them in very small places for them to stay on (why they didn't make both of the legs separate pieces, instead of one leg and one foot, I don't know). Once I got it all glued and pinned it turned out pretty stable, but it was a pain getting it there (especially as I couldn't really set it down while it dried without it tipping over and putting pressure on the hardening glue.