Draconis: Spring Clean 2025 and Onward

6th April 2025

First up is some old school (or Oldhammer as the cool kids say nowadays) C23 Ogres.

I have quite a few of these scattered around, but for now I will just be selecting two to work on. The two I chose are (based on my old Citadel catalogue) ‘Pit Fighter’ and ‘Berserker’ (first and second on the top row).

First up they had a bath in brown Dettol, followed by a good scrubbing and a repeat bath, until they came up pretty clean. Then they were based on 40mm round (as I plan to use them for some skirmish games) and given a prme. Ended up priming Army Painter bone over black, as I had no Wraithbone left. I was going to try Barbarian Flesh over black, but as I went to spray it was just spitting out… ☹ (luckily I always start off the minis)

For the flesh I started with a wash over of Darkoath flesh. This was followed by two shades of my Foundry Flesh paints, first lightly drybrushed on, then highlighted. This was then followed by selective washing with Carroburg Crimson and Magos Purple into various recesses. Then additional highlighting with light flesh and a few more placements of the red/purple washes.

At this point I focussed on just the Pit Fighter Ogre. For the armour areas I used Vallejo gunmetal, washed with nuln oil, then highlighted up. On the metal leg (Yeah, you could say he is a bit more like a Pirate really) I applied some brown and orange washes, and a touch of green, just to change the tone up, followed by bright edge highlights.

For the cloth I decided to paint it in red, like I had it before. This was Flesh tearers Red, followed by Mephiston then Evil Sunz as the final highlight.

Quite happy with how this came out on the rear.

The leather parts were painted using my old Foundry leather triad, with Agrax washes to blend it in.