Draconis: Spring Clean 2024 and onward

15th June 2024

This chap is a spare from Dreadball, and got sprayed white last year with the intention of being painted for the previous spring clean challenge.

It didn’t get done….. but with me finishing the Walking dead starter, and the deadline of the Spring Clean Challenge fast approaching I thought I would give it a go.

I’m not sure what it may be used for yet, but I planned to give it at least one gun, and think I may use it in Deadzone or something like Stargrave etc. Messaged some friends about the model, and one suggested going for a bright green colour …. So, taking up that challenge I fired up the airbrush and painted it with Lime Green Fluor paint ? (like a Japanese import car)

I then gave it a thinned green wash (green shade and medium.

Next up I painted all the skin areas with black contrast, followed by Fenris grey (a blue grey) and a darker grey wash.

Gave it a few thin highlights with the Fenris grey again to bring it back up a little. The head was painted in the same way, but with white underneath and stippled around the top at the front.

At this point I also decide to paint its shorts in pink. Sadly I don’t have a bright fluor pink (☹) but mixed up the brightest I could.

Then it was adding some detailing, picking out metal piping, gloves, the big roundels on the shoulders, the backplate etc. Drilled a hole in its left hand so that I could fit a dagger there, and painted up the dagger and an old boltgun. Put it onto a clear base and calling it done.

I know the paint job is just ‘okay’, and I finished it quicker than I thought. But I kind of really like this guy – he has some presence about him ?