Duellists, Dragons & Demons - Spring Clean Miscellany 2026

With my demon and duellists done, there’s just some dragons to go. There are 14 of these figures, all sculpted by Andrew May from Meridian Miniatures, based on medieval marginalia. The figures are beautifully simple in design.

My plan is to keep things quite simple. 2 to 3 bright colours for each figure. No wash required, as there isn’t that much recessed detail on the sculpts. Just a base coat and then a couple of layered highlights.

14 models is a bit much when not painting things in a uniform scheme, so I’m breaking them into two batches. That way I have the mental bandwidth to think about colour schemes as I go.

Below are the base coated and then finished models. The base coat pictures are a little dark, but give a reasonable general impression of the process.

Rather than write about each dragon figure in turn, it probably makes more sense to just write about each colour, as they repeat across the different dragons.

Red. Base of Citadel Khorne Red, followed by Vallejo Model Colour Flat Red, then Vallejo Model Colour Orange Red.

Green. Base coated with Vallejo Model Colour German Camo Extra Dark Green. Highlighted with Vallejo Model Colour Flat Green, then Two Thin Coats Ethereal Green. Finally, a thin coat of Vallejo Game Colour Sun Yellow.

Blue. Vallejo Model Colour Prussian Blue as a base, with a 1:1 mix with Vallejo Model Colour Pastel Blue highlight, followed by just Pastel Blue.

Yellow. Vallejo Game Colour Bronze Fleshtone as the base, then Vallejo Game Colour Sun Yellow, with final highlights using Vallejo Model Colour Flat Yellow.

Pink. Started with a base of Vallejo Model Colour Violet Red, then Citadel Emperor’s Children, with a final highlight of 1:1 Emperor’s Children and Vallejo Model Colour Off-White.

Purple. A base of Citadel Naggaroth Night, followed by Citadel Xereus Purple, and then Xereus Purple 1:1 mix with Off-White.

Brown. Vallejo Model Colour Burnt Umber as a base, then Vallejo Model Colour Flat Earth followed by Vallejo Model Colour Light Brown.

Orange. Based with Vallejo Model Colour Orange Brown, then highlighted with Vallejo Game Colour Orange Fire, followed by Orange Fire 1:1 mix with Off-White.

Teal. Citadel Thousand Sons Blue base, then Vallejo Model Colour Blue Green, with 1:1 Blue Green and Off-White to finish.

Grey. Vallejo Model Colour Medium Sea Grey as a base, with two progressively lighter highlights made by mixing with Off-White.

White/ Off-White. Citadel Deepkin Flesh as a base, followed by Vallejo Model Colour Off-White and then Vallejo Model Colour Ivory.

Cream/ Buff. Vallejo Model Colour Middlestone to start,  followed by Vallejo Model Colour Buff, and finally Vallejo Model Colour Ivory.

(Big wall of text there, go back and look at the pictures, they’re probably more interesting!)