Draconis: Spring Clean 2026 (Fallout) and Onward

8th August 2026

Last two raiders from the box. These have followed the same painting process as the rest really.

The chap with very few straps was given a black jacket and blue grey jeans. The other chap had contrast flesh, then contrast for the lower straps and regular painting for the upper.

I also then went on and added more details, as usual 😊. For the hooded chap I went for an earthy red colour, to contrast against the green of the trousers.

I then used my standard agrax all over wash, followed by some sandy drybrushing to add a worn and dusty look.

Finally I added weathering to the armour and the bases, picked out what zips, buckles and buttons I could manage and tidied up some highlights. With that they were done 😊

4th August 2026

Worked on two more of the raiders. I noticed that these two have the same base torso and legs.

Since these have more bare flesh I decided to try flesh contrast on the top section, and brown contrast for the straps on the legs.

Doing it that way meant more work for all the straps etc on the torso and arms though… starting out by blocking them all in black, followed by painting them in three different brown colours.

One was given green trousers, the other black trousers.

They were given an overall drybrush of a pale sand colour, and I blocked in the metals and the bases.

I gave them an overall agrax wash, re highlighted sections, picked out some details and added rust and weathering to the metal armour plates.

Detailed the bases, also adding in some different tones to add interest, and they were done.

29th July 2026

Slow again, but I did get in some good progress on these two over the last few days.

Didn’t get many pictures.

They have a lot of straps and belts, so I thought that rather than painting the trousers first and then the straps over I would start out by just painting all the straps in. I used a couple of brown contrasts for this. Then I began to carefully paint in the trousers, in a couple of shades of blue grey.

I also painted in the sleeves, armour plates, boots etc. Then I covered them all with a wash of agrax.

Next up I added weathering to the straps and trousers with a light drybrush, and then repainted and highlighted one of the raiders trousers with lighter stages of blue grey (as the dry brush was untidy). The armour parts were weathered with a red/brown wash in places, followed by an orange wash, then stippling and highlighting with silver. Started on the pink hair on one too.

Close now, I added in detail on the gas mask, hair, other chaps hair, gun etc etc. Lots of little add on stages but eventually they were done….

For some further weathering I thinned down some Agrellan Earth and washed that over the waist area, some of the joints in the legs and onto the leg wheel things.

The guns and rest of the metal areas were looking a bit bland, so I picked out elements of them in Runelord Brass, washed with a strong tone. I also picked out the rear lamp with a bright yellow. To mark in the ‘grill’ on the lamp I used a pencil rubbed over it lightly rather than trying to paint it in…

I also spent quite a bit of time on the base, picking out caps, nuka cola bottles, plank wood grain etc… but didn’t take any in progress shots. I will probably add a couple of tufts once I can find them again 😊

16th July 2026

It has taken a while to get back into it, and I’m still not back up to speed, but the Sentry Bot is now finished.

First up I added in a gunmetal for the metallic areas, ‘guns and gears’. This was followed by some old WW2 tank transfers….

Then I added weathering to the transfers by stippling on some green then some brown. The brown was also applied to the armour at the same time.

Then it was on to weathering the armour. Started out by painting on areas of bare metal using ‘chainmail’.

To add some rust effect I then painted over the majority of the bare metal patches with a thinned Terracotta, adding some streaking by drawing it downwards.

Then I added some brighter rust using a light rust oxide thinned down.

Next I added back in some metallic chips to the rust areas, sparingly, but to act as areas that had taken fresh scrapes or damage.

This was followed by adding a glow effect to the helmet and surrounding armour. I painted in the visor gaps in ivory, and added some thinned ivory to the armour in front of the face. Then I painted over that with ‘Radiation Glow’, and blended it into the wider armour areas around the head.

7th July 2026

With work and other life blockers I have not been able to make much hobby headway of late.

I had started into the Sentry bot and it’s base….

Pic below.

17th June 2026

With the model primed black I overpainted the armour in Vallejo gunmetal. Then I applied a heavy wash of an orange/brown mix and added splotches of different red/browns across the model to give it the start of a weathered rusty look.

I then drybrushed over this with Leadbelcher and then chainmail to bring back some of the metal surface.

I was debating how to add more definition between the armour panels, so while I thought on that I worked on the base.

Trying to make the car wing look tarnished and rusty.

Then back to the armour. I picked out some pipes in blue and green, joints in rubber black and painted the wheel valve (?) on the back in red. I decided to give it an all over wash of (of course…) Agrax. I also used thinned rubber black to paint in panel lines between armour plates etc to help the definition further.

Next up it was the head and further details. First I re drybrushed the armour, taking some of the final highlights up to Mithril Silver. I added an orange glow effect to the backpack, picked out some rope straps around the left arm, painted a panel in a worn red and painted the face and hair.

I went for blue on the hair as a pop of colour. The box art has pink, but I wanted to use pink on a different raider. I gave the raider a band of black facepaint.

The eyes looked a bit stark at first, but just at the end I attempted to add some pupils. Still not great, but from play distance it works ok.

12th June 2026

Having decided on working on the Raiders and Sentry Bot it came time to put them together. These are resin minis, and I have to say that the detail is so much crisper and sharper than on the starter set minis. The sculpts look so much better in the resin.

I started out by carving sockets into the bases for magnetising, while they were still on the sprues.

Then I trimmed off a couple of minis at a time, cleaned up any flash or minor mold lines that I could find and glued them together.

The Sentry Bot came in quite a few pieces, with no instructions. So I just had to carefully test fit as I went.

Then I put them onto an old metal tin for priming. Usual zenithal prime for the majority, but the Power Armour Raider and the Sentry Bot were left at the black prime stage, for adding metal later.