Draconis: Spring Clean 2025 (Oldhammer) and Onward

Onto the rest of the crew. These all had contrast paints to block out their core colours. Flesh on the whip dude was Guilliman flesh, whereas for the pushers I went with a grey tone, Space wolf grey. This was followed with magos purple to give some warmth to the grey.

I didn’t get many pics through this process tbh, but will chuck some up later.

All the models had a shoulder pad, so I painted them all in green, with gold trim.

The pushers had their skull faces picked out, got different coloured trousers and sores painted onto their swollen left legs.

Whip dude had his waist covering painted in cow hide style to tie in with some of the roof plates.

Some washes, pale sand drybrush and they were done.

And the finished crew….

8th May 2025

For the basing I started marking out the wheel locations on the ‘wooden’ (turned out to be MDF) plinth base I bought on Amazon. Then I marked locations for the crew.

Next up I used my rotary tool to make small dips for the wheels and carve out slots for the base tabs on the crew.

Then I drilled a number of shallow holes across the base area to be covered, to give the Milliput something more to key to.

This was followed by mixing up a lot of Milliput and laying it out across the middle of the base area, being careful not to fill in the base slots I had created. Then I added texture to the surface by using a small stone I found in the garden, and pressing it into the surface all over.

Once cured I got out a number of brown paints and painted all of the surface area, giving it a brown wash at the end to tie it in – even though I would cover most of it in the next stage.

Next up was flocking. I laid down several different flock types before gluing the ram and most of the crew in place. After marking up the position for the wheel demon I used my rotary tool to grind some flat area. Then it was more Milliput – filling the gaps around the slotta bases and creating the setting for the wheels.

All the bare Milliput was painted up, then more flock was laid down. This was followed by a few different types of tufts, clump foliage and finally some old parsley sprinkled in places.

8th May 2025

Last up was to glue on the roof plates now that the basing was complete.

This ancient (and heavy!) beast from 1985 is now complete, after being started well over 30 years ago (then just put away).

Not a perfect paint job by any means, but it is together and has paint applied, so is finally where it should be.

This was my main focus for the Spring Clean Challenge, and I am glad that I was able to do it.

Hope you like it.

12th May 2025

This is another mini that was on my mind when it came to the spring clean challenge.

After seeking it out among my old stuff I gave it a clean up, found a shield and primed him black.

The shield was plain on the back, so I marked out some plank and woodgrain lines then scored them in with a hobby knife, and painted the back brown followed by a wash.

The dwarf was drybrushed with an off white so that I could better pick out the details on it.

I decided that I wanted to paint the shield like the one found at Sutton Hoo (I know, Anglo Saxon) so found an image online I tried to replicate it.

I used a few different metallics to paint the dwarf’s mail and helm. For the clothing I chose to go with an earthy yellow, so built up the colour using my foundry Ochre triad finishing off by adding white for the final highlights.

The large pouch at the rear was painted green, highlighted up in several stages.

For the boots I initially went with a contrast but wasn’t happy with the result. So I went back in with my foundry spearshaft triad, with a Nuln oil wash after the first layer so that I could better see where to lay down the highlights.

Skin and other sundry bits were painted and highlighted, and then it was done.

Didn’t come out quite how I had wanted, and the shield does cover a lot of him from the front (doing it’s job then I guess), but I am happy to have got him done.

13th May 2025

Another even older mini here, this time from 1984. I probably purchased it around 1986 I would guess, and painted it around then.

He had the brown Dettol bath, a scrub and clean up, then got based onto a 20mm square, milliput’ed in, some gravel on the base and then primed white.

I wanted a lighter skin tone for him, so went with the same method I used on my Ork Madboyz in a previous project. Contrast Plaguebearer Flesh, followed up with a green wash.

I also wanted to give him a pink(ish) nose, lip and inner ears. I started out by drybrushing on pink horror, followed by layering it on towards the tip of the nose, and a line for the lip. Then I mixed in increasing amounts of ivory and took the end of the nose up a couple of stages. Also put down some brown on the base.

At this stage I wanted to get some colour down on the rest of the mini, so laid down some contrast Snakebite leather for his fur clothing, and Wyldwood for his club. Also picked out the teeth and eyes with black, followed by ivory.

Following this I did a light drybrush on the fur clothing, then gave it an agrax wash. Highlighted the wood pattern on the club and added metal studs.

I also added a thin glaze of yellow over the ear tips (a few layers here) and on the fingers and knees.

A bit of basing and he was done. (I may risk a varnish though since he is metal).

27th May 2025

This year I took the two small chaps away with us. Last year the ‘story’ with ‘Tom’ Sellork took quite a bit of effort, and I don’t think anyone really saw it.

So I thought I would keep it simpler, and just have the pics themselves really, so here they come…

Continuation…..

That’s it for their journeys,  thanks for looking.

3rd June 2025

Finally back at it after our short break.

I stripped, cleaned a prepped a few more Oldhammer minis, and the next in line for paint was this old Chaos Dwarf.

Known as Stunty Sven on the catalogue page and Thorimbo on the base he is clearly based on an iconic 1980’s era character.

Started out with the skin tone. Blocking in with contrast flesh, followed with washes of crimson and a thinned purple contrast. Then it was a drybrush of foundry flesh and some thinned higlhlights of the same.

The rest of it rolled out quite quickly tbh.

The iconic black hair and red headband began to bring the very characterful mini to life 80’s style.

The chest straps were picked out with my foundry leather triad. Chainmail painted up, boots picked out in foundry spearshaft.

Many areas given an Agrax or Nuln wash, then the boots were highlighted up with all three of the spearshaft triad.

The crossbow was painted with Peaty Brown, then given some strong edge highlights (and some hatching on the crossbow limb) in the lightest Peaty brown. Ropes were painted ivory then this was followed by a wash over the whole crossbow to tie it together.

The scabbard was painted blue grey, washed and drybrushed. Sword hilt picked out in silver, black wrapping, then washed. The shield was rimmed in brass, front painted in Mephiston red. All washed Agrax, then the red was given a stippled highlight.

Finally I painted in the eyes, trying to capture a Stallone-esque look (think it works).

Some basing work and he was finished. Ready to get revenge for First Blood….