The Final Push – Lawnor approaches 100% painted

I finally finished my Slaanesh last night.  13 days between priming and varnish, and 2 of those days I didn’t pick up a brush as I was prepping for D&D (2 sessions in so far and chapter 1 has been all but completed).  Not as fast as the Khorne half of the box, but these ladies gents individuals have a lot more going on.

I fired up the 3D printer to run off some bases for my Amazons and a couple of solos, and while I was at it I also printed 2 more models off:

I also had one of my 3 remaining Kickstartes turn up.  My 10 model starter set for Warcaster.  This just leaves the cor set for Super Fantasy Brawl, due this year, and Aeon Tresspass: Oddessey due early next year, assuming no delays.  So thats 12 more models to paint.  I’ve also just had this months Asset Drop box turn up with 2 more Tutorial Tiles which I might decide to paint.

I need to get my Slaanesh ladies as I currently have more models to paint than I did when I started this project.

I’ve been prepping for this week.  I plan in painting my Slaanesh half of Wrath and Rapture that I got in the Iron Arena at the 2018 BonesCon.  Over the past week I have built them, decorated the bases to match my Khorne half, primed them and left them a couple of days to dry.  Friday evening and saturday I was applying a wash, then putting them on one side for 6+ hours while I painted something else.  I picked up Vallejos “Non-Death Chaos” paint set for this project as I want to follow the guide to see what I can learn.  Its near the end of Saturday, I’m 3 washes in and I have 2 side solos finished.  I’ve also got the base and 3 shades down on the harp flesh.

Hecate, Goddess of Magic and Witchcraft, the Chillcon 2019 event exclusive mini.  She’s a bit of a dissapointment in quality.  2018s mini was a rather nice metal viking lady on a decorative base.  This lady is a bit of a rough sculpt.  Painted up OK in the end.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt by Belt Fed Gaming.  She came in the same goody bag.  She is a pretty basic sculpt.

I have my first roleplay session in over a decade tomorrow.  I’m running the game (Lost Mines of Phandelver) and I haven’t played D&D since 3.5 ed.  Back when I last ran a session video chat wasn’t a thing.  D&D was only done in person and now we are playing over roll20.  We don’t start until 7.30 pm but I imagine I won’t get as much painting done tomorrow as I’d like.  I expect I’ll be procrastinating all day. Not quite painting.  Not quite prepping for the session.  Moderately stressing but not really doing anything about it.

I’ve not got much painting done as I’ve offered to DM for my friends and I haven’t done any roleplay since 3.5 ed so thats a lot of reading and learning to be done.  We start sunday so fingers crossed its not a horiffic mess.

Since I found I can do my planning by watching youtube videos while I paint I’ve gotten 2 models finished and built a few more.  I’ve one more week at work, then I have a week all to myself.  I plan on painting all my Slaanesh then so I’m busy getting them built, based and primed before then.

Here we have Kerub the Armoured Griffon by Cadwallon miniatures.  She’s my second of their models and my second miscast.  The first had huge mold slip I had to fight against and lacked pegs due to where they had placed the vents.  This is easier to work with but far more pronounced.  You see that tail?  Its got a flat underside where it is supposed to rest on the base.  is it resting on the base?  Is it anywhere near the fudging base?  You could park 2 cars in that gap!

I didn’t enjoy this model much.  Limbs and wings were in the way at all times, but really wanted to be attached before painting.  I kept getting paint in the wrong places and nothing quite worked as it should, even if ive gotten it to work well in the past.  He looks OK now he’s done though, but not my finest.

I need a better method of painting white wings.  If anyone has any guides please share some links.  These are functional but I wish to do better next time.

I also painted Reapers Moor Troll, which I won from Monkeys With Fire earlier this year in the Before Times (Stay Inside!  Do not think about The Event!)

I have not glued him on to the display base as this means if I ever need a polearm wielding armoured gorilla for a game (Comes up more often than you’d think) I can still use him.

The spear head has some yellow on it.  I’ve had some yellows untested since november last year that came from Asset Drop with a Tutorial Tile for them so I thought I’d fish it back out of my bits box and test them out on that before using them here.  Glad I did.  2 out of the three were not great, but I did use the base paint (Instar Pure Ocide Yellow) and mix/layer it with some Scale Colours.

This is Warlord Kong by ScaleBro who I got as part of a Monster Box from Asset Drop and came with the display base and extras, which they had cusom made especially.  I did not use the supplied camp fire because I’m not brave enough to try OSL yet.

I finished my tank project and also the three Tutorial Tiles I had started.  A new Asset Drop Discovery box turned up with the standard 2 more tiles in it.  I usually just chuck them in my bits box as 40mm square bases are no use to me, and typically they’re a little flat and out of scale anyway.  I can’t even chop them off the bases and add them as base decorations as their bases are too thick to do much with safely.  However, both these tiles are to demonstrate paints and schemes I wanted to try out without risking a model I care about.

So thats 5 models done, but 2 more added to the queue.

The Pumpking, used to show off some oranges form the AK 3rd gen range and teach us a few other things along the way.  Not really sure what game he would be suitable for, but would be cool to get him on the table one day.

Panther Ausf G and Pak 40 all finished.

Help, guides, tutorials, recipes, and videos wanted, if you can help:

• Sheer black stockings
• White Wings
• Gorilla flesh and hair (I know its not black.  I’ve seen shades of purple?)
• Old Rope

If I want to google for those pillars on Warlord Kongs base what exactly am I looking for?  What search terms should I use?  Aztec Poles or pillars isn’t being helpful.  Or are they a new creation?  Right now I’m likely to paint as stone with rope around them.

Right now I’m working on the Rubicon tank and Pak 40 on a project over HERE.  Once thats done I’ll move over to this project full time. I’ve made a little start on 3 Asset Drop Tutorial Tiles I wanted to test some paints on, and done a little prep work on the last few models I need to do for my 2020 Hobby Pledge.  I always like to have the next project ready to paint before I finish the current project.  Plau the heat over the past week has made painting, especially airbrushing really hard, therefore building and prep got done instead.

Help, guides, tutorials, recipes, and videos wanted, if you can help:

• Sheer black stockings
• White Wings
• Gorilla flesh and hair (I know its not black.  I’ve seen shades of purple?)
• Old Rope

If I want to google for those pillars on Kongs base what exactly am I looking for ?  What search terms should I use?  Aztec Poles or pillars isn’t being helpful.  Or are they a new creation?  Right now I’m likely to paint as stone with rope around them.