The Final Push – Lawnor approaches 100% painted

God damned double posts!  I check this time too.  There was nothing here so I posted again, and now this is here and I can’t delete it.  Grrrr.

Ah well.  may as well use the space to test if Gif’s work here

Nope.  Not as a .webp file uploaded as a file or an embed.  Lets try as a .gif.

Nope.  Nothing.  Ah well.

I’ve had very little free time over the past fortnight, but I’ve finally found time to sit down and finish off the four special survivors for KD:M.  I am currently building the last 3 models needed for the game (The Kings Man, The Watcher and the Phoenix).

My housemate has ben moving out very slowly (Very!  We’re 14 months in and still going!) and recently uncovered 2 20 man boxes for Kings of War, which he doesn’t remember owning and doesn’t want.  He gave me the skeletons to add to my unplayed undead force, but I had no use for the elves.

I want to get Kingdom Death and ideally the other models I’ve already got paint on finished before the Spring Cleaning Challenge starts.  I’ve a project in mind for that I want to throw myself in to (A massive Dreadball catch up).

I got the butcher finished this weekend, and returned to work on the 4 special survivors.  I’ve picked out cloth colours for them and work continues.

The butcher looks good i my hand.  Not amazing, but fine.  However, he looks awful in photos.  I hate it when that happens.  He looks like a mess here

My computer blew up last sunday morning and it’s thrown everything off, otherwise I’d have got these guys done last weekend.  My new computer is built and running without a graphics card because theres one on the CPU!  When did that start being a thing??

Work has started on the butcher today, then I might go work on the remaining four survivors.

White Lion recipe, for reference later, when I come to paint armours made from bits of him:

Zenithal Preshade
Airbrush from under with VMC 70.884 Stone Grey
Airbrush from side and above with VMC 70.986 Deck tan
Airbrush above and diagonally with VMC 70.918 Ivory
Airbrush from above only with mix of ivory and white
Allow to dry

Shade hair with thinned Stone grey and VMC 70.988 Khaki
Shade everything with 2:1 ish mix of VMC 70.990Light Grey : Khaki

Highlight with thinned mix of Ivory and white

Screamin antelope paint scheme:

Flesh

Zenithal preshade
2x glaize with 2:1:2 Vallejo 72.086 Red Ink: Vallejo 72.091 Sepia Ink: water
Drybrush with P3 Ryn Flesh or VMC 72.003Pale Flesh
Glaze again as above

Fur

Base Vallejo 70.867 Dark Blue Grey
Highlight P3 Thornwood Green
Highlight P3 Trollblood Highlight
Wash Jan’s Magimix (6 GW Agrax Earthshade, 6 GW Nuln Oil, 2ish GW Athonian Camoshade, 6-8 GW Lahmium Medium, no water.  I always keep a bottle mixed up)

Kingdom Death actually arrived!  it turned up between Christmas and new year.  it was almost 11kg and huge.  There looks like 10-15 sprues inside.  I’ve taken out the first 3 I want and it’s let me build 13 models so far so who knows for sure what’s on the rest.  I think there’s about 45 models in the box, so I’ve added that to my MTG total for now.

While waiting for it to arrive I started work on the last 28mm 3D prints I had, but I ditched them to focus on the big black box.  So far I’ve finished 4 survivors and I’ve begun work on more.

Here’s my progress on the rest of the stuff on my table.  I could use opinions on the red lady.  She’s a red Tiefling wearing a red dress which will have gold trim.  The leather is a black-green.  I thought perhaps I could get away with that front sash thing being white, but it looks all wrong.  I don’t know what colour to make it.  Any suggestions?

I’ve finished the final model I wanted to get done this year.  DPD are telling me KDM is ready for them to pick up and have sent me a tracking number.  Will it get here before January 1st?  We will see.  I’d like it to not be held against next years numbers.  I’m looking to play KD:M painted only so I’ll likely hold off starting another model until it arrives, or I decide it’s not comming.

If anyone knows what order the minis are likely to be needed in so i can paint them in that order, please let me know.  I know its the 4 base survivors and the lion, and then the antelope, but I don’t know about the rest.  I won’t be touching some of the optional models until I either need them, or I’ve played through the campaign and have decided I want to play again and know what I want to do with them.

Right.  I’m off to push through the current season of Diablo 3.

I’ve finished 7 more adventurers.  Only 1 more model to go this year and I’ll have painted more than I’ve gained, even if KDM turns up this year.  Its supposed to arrive at the distribution hub today, but no word yet and I think the EU cores were two days behind schedule.

Just a reminder that this 13 MTG is not the whole story.  I’ve 2 kickstarters and a Guildball team not arrived that aren’t in that number yet.  There’s also the Box of Undesireables which I’m ignoring still.  Its stuff I was trying to sell on ebay but I’ll probably end up painting next year.  There’s hopefully less than 80 models in there, but I’m not 100% sure.  I’m looking to do most of it as part of the Spring Clean Challenge so I’ll do a better catalogue at the time.

These models look better in person.  I cut corners and used speed techniques where I could and the camera is showing all my sins.

Monkeys With Fire’s final community challenge piece arrived recently.  A dwarf from Kromlech.  Something of a casual piece compared to most of the other challenges and it was nice to relax with this one.  I also finished of four more of my 3D prints while working on him.  This leaves me with 8 more minis to paint before 2022 to have painted more than i gain, assuming KD:M arrives.  Mr Poots says its on it was to distribution hubs, but we will see.