Draconis: Spring Clean 2025 (Oldhammer) and Onward

9th June 2025

Continuing with my Oldhammer repaints the next up was an old giant from around 1986. Back then they cost £3.50 😊

I wanted to do a more pale skin tone for the giant, so started out with a mix of flesh contrast and medium.

I then added thinned crimson wash over the whole thing, followed by some thinned yellow contrast in and around the joint areas. Then I gave it all a drybrush with a mix of my palest flesh and ivory roughly 50:50. After that I repeated some thinned washes, and also applied a thinned turquoise to the prominent veins. The hair was also blocked in at this stage.

Next up it was on to the kilt.

I wanted to make him look a bit like the Porridge Oats man (red kilt, white shirt). The kilt was painted Mephiston red, then washed agrax. This was followed by a grid of an earthy brown, with thin ochre lines painted in the centre of that grid. After this I painted two vertical lines on the red areas in a lighter red, and horizontal green lines also in the red areas. After another wash of agrax to tie it together I needed to redo the lighter red and the green lines as they got lost a little. (Neglected to take pics during this as I was winging it a bit).

To give some more life to the face I also painted him as having a very snotty and dribbly nose, using some fluo green paint and a touch of yellow.

The shirt was painted white, washed with a contrast and given a few minor highlights.

From there it was finishing off by painting the pouch, shield, weapon etc, picking out finger and toe nails and suchlike.