Aeon Trespass: Odyssey (base game, expansion and godform miniatures)

Ur-Fleece

Painting Aeon Trespass was a learning experience. One way to learn is to set certain challenges. With the Icarian Harpy for example I set the challenge to only use GW paints to see  if I could get something that I would be pleased with when limiting my paint options. This also required mixing some colors to get the colors I wanted.

Another example of a challenge is this miniature, where I set myself the challenge to not drybrush. Now drybrush is a great technique to get decent effects with minimal effort. However, it doesnt always look as good compared to doing everything by hand so to speak. So thats what I did with Ur-Fleece. I wanted to combine everything I had learned into painting this miniature, namely blending, layering, highlighting, etc. I also did a lot of mixing of colors to get the colors I wanted. And to be completely honest, this is one of my best painted miniatures. In my opinion it shows how far I have gotten. As such, the paint recipes for this one will be a bit complex, but it was well worth it.

Ocean floor (base)
• Base: AK Strong Dark Blue + Black (5/1)
• Heavy drybrush: GW Dark Reaper
• Light drybrush: GW Thunderhawk Blue

Ship (base)
• Base: GW Dryad Bark
• Drybrush: AK Dark Brown
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
• Drybrush: GW Baneblade Brown

Fish
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1)
• Layer (top half): AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (2/1)
• Layer (bottom half): GW Ogryn Camo + GW Elysian Green (50/50)
• Drybrush: GW Elysian Green+ GW Ogryn Camo + AK Deep Green (1/1/1)

Head (face)
• Base: AK Ducat Blue
• Layer: AK Deep Sky Blue + AK Snow Blue (2/1)
• Blend: GW Straken Green + AK Reflective Green (2/1)
• Highlight: GW Ogryn Camo + white (2/1)

Head (eyes)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1)
• Pupils: GW Celestra Grey

Head (crown)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1)
• Layer: AK Reflective Green + GW Straken Green (1/2)
• Highlight: GW Elysian Green + GW Ogryn Camo (50/50)

Body (blended base layers in different combinations)
• Base: AK Black Green (darkest areas)
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (2/1) blend with previous color in darkest areas
• Highlight: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (1/2) midtone
• Highlight: GW Elysian Green + AK Deep Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)
• Base: GW Elysian Green + AK Reflective Green (50/50) light areas
• Highlight: GW Ogryn Camo + GW Elysian Green (50/50)
• Base: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + AK Dark Green Grey (1/2/2) hands and area around the sword
• Highlight: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + AK Dark Green Grey + GW Screaming Skull (1/2/2/2)

Collar
• Base: AK Black Green (darkest areas)
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (2/1) blend with previous color in darkest areas
• Highlight: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (1/2) midtone
• Highlight: GW Elysian Green + AK Deep Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)
• Base: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + AK Dark Green Grey (1/2/2)
• Highlight: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + AK Dark Green Grey + GW Screaming Skull (1/2/2/2)

Chest (ball)
• Base: VAL Leather Brown + AK Japanese Brown (50/50)
• Highlight: GW Screaming Skull + VAL Leather Brown + AK Japanese Brown (2/2/1)

Chest (metal disks)
• Base: GW Leadbelcher
• Wash: GW Biel-Tan Green
• Wash: GW Coelia Greenshade
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil

Tentacles
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (3/1)
• Highlight: GW Ogryn Camo + GW Elysian Green+ AK Deep Green (1/1/1)

Sword
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green AK Dark Green Grey + GW Screaming Skull (2/1/2/2)
• Highlight: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green AK Dark Green Grey + GW Screaming Skull + white (2/1/2/2/2)

Meduketos

I like the art of this game, but not for painting. For painting the art sucks. The colors are desaturated, a lot of shadow is used and sometimes parts of the body are covered by text or is absent from the picture because of the pose of the titan or primordial. Someone of the ITU discord helped with providing a good picture of this primordial which helped. Pretty happy how this one turned out. Should have pushed the bulbs on the head with some lighter blue tones. Might still do that later.

Ocean floor (base)
• Base: AK Strong Dark Blue + Black (5/1)
• Heavy drybrush: GW Dark Reaper
• Light drybrush: GW Thunderhawk Blue

Ship (base)
• Base: GW Dryad Bark
• Drybrush: AK Dark Brown
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
• Drybrush: GW Baneblade Brown

Head
• Base: AK Ducat Blue + AK Dark Blue (50/50)
• Wash: GW Tyran Blue
• Layer: AK Ducat blue
• Layer: AK Deep Sky Blue

Eyes
• Base: AK Russian Green + black (3/1)
• Highlight: AK Reflective Green

Mouth
• Base: AK Dirty Red
• Wash: GW Berserker Bloodshade
• Layer: AK Dirty Red
• Layer: AK Deep Red

Body
• Base: AK Purple + GW Daemonette Hide + black (3/3/1)
• Drybrush: AK Purple
• Drybrush: AK Purple + AK Pastel Violet (1/2)
• Highlight: GW Daemonette Hide + AK Deep Sky Blue (1/4)
• Drybrush: AK Emerald + AK Blue Green (6/1) – Drybrush under the head and at the sides of the head
• Highlight: AK Russian Green + black (4/1) – spot on the body

Body (hair backside)
• Base: AK Emerald + AK Blue Green (6/1)
• Highlight: AK Emerald + AK Blue Green (6/1/4)

Body (middle sides)
• Base: GW Rhinox Hide – blend with purple base of the body
• Drybrush: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (1/2)
• Highlight: GW Elysian Green + AK Deep Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)

Body (middle)
• Base: GW Rhinox Hide
• Base: GW Rhinox Hide + VAL Leather Brown (1/3) – blend with previous color
• Drybrush: GW Jokaero Orange
• Drybrush: AK Ochre

Claws
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1) – blend with purple base of the body
• Drybrush: AK Purple – blend where the claws start from the body
• Drybrush: AK Emerald + GW Straken Green + GW Elysian Green (3/1/2)
• Highlight: AK Blue Green
• Highlight: GW Daemonette Hide + AK Deep Sky Blue (1/4)

Tentacles
• Base: GW Dark Reaper
• Highlight: GW Thunderhawk Blue
• Highlight: GW Thunderhawk Blue + AK Snow Blue (4/1)

Tentacle feathers (?)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1)
• Drybrush: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (2/1)
• Highlight: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (50/50)

Bulbs
• Base: GW Daemonette Hide
• Layer: AK Purple + AK Sky Blue (1/8)
• Layer: AK Buff + AK Ivory (1/2)
• Drybrush: AK Buff
• Highlight: AK Purple + AK Sky Blue (1/8)

Dragon of Phobos

Not my best work to be honest. The art had some OSL and I tried to recreate it without searching for techniques on how to do OSL. I didnt care enough and it shows. Not my best work, but it still doesnt look to bad in my opinion.

Ocean floor (base)
• Base: AK Strong Dark Blue + Black (5/1)
• Heavy drybrush: GW Dark Reaper
• Light drybrush: GW Thunderhawk Blue

Skin (body and beginning of tentacles)
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (2/1)
• Drybrush (lighter green parts): AK Alga Green + AK Reflective Green (50/50)
• Drybrush (darker green parts): AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (1/4)
• Blend (blue parts): GW Lothern Blue
• Drybrush (blue parts): AK Sky Blue
• Drybrush (blue parts): AK Snow Blue

Tentacles (mid part)
• Base: AK Dark Prussian Blue + GW Lothern Blue (2/1)
• Drybrush: GW Lothern Blue

Tentacles (glowing part)
• Base: AK Deep Sky blue + AK Ducat Blue (50/50)
• Layer 1: AK Sky Blue
• Layer 2: AK Snow Blue
• Layer 3: white

Claws and tusks
• Base: skin color recipe
• Highlight: AK Ochre Orange

Head (different combinations of layers and highlights)
• Layer 1.1: AK Black Green + AK Russian Green (2/1)
• Layer 1.2: AK Russian Green + AK Reflective Green (2/1)
• Layer 1.3: AK Alga Green + AK Reflective Green (50/50)
• Layer 2.1: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (2/1)
• Drybrush 2.2: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (1/4)

Mouth
• Flesh: GW Screamer Pink
• Tongue: AK Purple + AK Pastel Violet (25/75)
• Teeth: GW Screaming Skull