Aeon Trespass: Odyssey (ATO) by Lawnor

Flesh
Base: P3 Khardic Flesh
Wash: P3 Thornwood Greed and Khardic Flesh
Wash: P3 Skorne Red and Khardic Flesh
Targeted wash: Skorne Red and Thornwood Green
Highlight: Khardic Flesh
Highlight: Khardic Flesh and P3 Midlund Flesh
Highlight: P3 Midlund Flesh

Flamethrower Fuel bag
Zenithally primed, and caught some overspray of the flesh base colour
Drybrush: Scalecolour Iroko
Wash: Thinned Scalecolour Inktense Chesnut
Drybrush: Iroko
Wash: Inktense Chesnut thinned further
Wash: above Inktense Chesnut mix, dried out a little and applied around the edges only

Warkeeper Cloth
Base: P3 Hammerfal Khaki
Wash: Agrax Earthshade
Drybrush: Hammerfall Khaki
Drybrush: P3 Jack Bone

Firestarter Green Leather
Base: P3 Battledress Green
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
Drybrush: P3 Thrall Flesh
Wash: GW Athonian Camoshade

Piping
Base: P3 Greatcoat Grey
Drybrush: P3 Underbelly Blue
Drybrush Lighter: P3 Pig Iron
Wash: GW Nuln Oil

Ball Stone & Punch Globves
This is my basing scheme from KDM
Base: Mission Models MMW006 Transparent Dust (I’d usually use P3 Trollblood Highlight, but I’m running low and this was the closest colour I already own)
Heavy Drybrush: GW Karak Stone
Medium Drybrush: GW Screaming Skull
Light Drybrush: P3 Menoth White Highlight

Truthbearer Steel
Base: Mission Models MMM-002 Cold Rolled Steel
Pin Wash: GW Nuln Oil
Highlight: P3 Cold Steel
Highlight: P3 Quick Silver

Bronze: 
Base: Darkstar Blackened Bronze
Drybrush: Darkstar Bronze
Wash all over: Secret Weapon Sewer Water
Drybrush: Darkstar Bronze

Gold Chain
Base: Darkstar Royal Gold
Targeted Wash GW Seraphim Sepia
Drybrush: Darkstar Royal Gold
Drybrush: Darkstar Pale Gold

Leather Straps
Base: P3 Bootstrap Leather
Drybrush: P3 Hammerfall Khaki
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade

Iron Nodes
Base: P3 Pig Iron
Wash: Targeted Italeri Wash Oiled Earth 4953AP
Highlight: P3 Quick Silver

Clay Pots
Base: Colours of War 383 Motherland Earth
Shade 1: Colours of War 322 Dark Leather mixed with Motherland Earth over bottom 3rd
Shade 3: Dark Leather in darkest regions only
Highlight 1: Motherland Earth and Colours of War 362 Sicily Yellow over top 3rd
Highlight 2: Sicily Yellow as glint colour

Fire
Undercoat white
Base: Mr Paint MRP-F005 Deep Yellow
Highlight: Deep Yellow and Mr Paint MRP-F008 Fire Orange
Highlight: Fire Orange
Highlight: Fire Orange and Mr paint MRP-F013 Deep Red
Highlight: Deep Red
Apply Coat d’Arms Ink Wash Yellow to recesses to brighten further
Just before varnishing I got some Kromlech Soot Black pigment on a finger and touched it gently to the model to add some just to the high points.  The varnish then sealed this in.

Rope
Base: P3 Rucksack Tan
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
High: Rucksack Tan
High: P3 Hammerfall Khaki

Grey Stone
Base: VMC 70.869  Basalt Grey Airbrushed on for transition.  Do after flesh base colour but before detail so you can fix unwanted overspray
Drybrush: P3 Jack Bone, maybe even P3 Menoth White Base
Wash: GW Nuln Oil
Revisit drybrushing if desired

Yellow Stone
Painted the same as the bases including extra pigment steps, which I carried down over the grey stone too.  I meant to glue some bushes up here but I think I forgot.

As far as I can tell a Godform is a bit like going Super Saiyan.  A more powerful version of an existing character.  Any Titan can do it under the right circumstances, and there are multiple different Godforms.  This is the only one in the core box, though.

I had hopes for this model.  I was going to paint the lightning a vibrant but pale blue, but couldn’t quite figure out what that looked like or how to make it.  I wanted to then highlight the middle all the way up to white so the whole thing glowed and looked like real lightning.  I couldn’t make or identify the colours I wanted, the brushes and paint didn’t cooperate on the model, and the lighting is so amorphous that it doesn’t have a consistent and meaningful middle.  Rather than go crazy trying and retrying, I accepted what I had.  I then got pigment stuck to the lightning just before varnishing, but didn’t notice until it was sealed in.  It’s done now and I’m on to the next project.  I may come back and fix the lightning later.

Flesh
Base: P3 Midlund Flesh
Wash: Midlund Flesh and P3 Skorne Red
Wash: Midlund Flesh and P3 Battledress Green
Wash: Skorne Red and battledress Green
Highlight: Midlund Flesh
Highlight: Midlund Flesh and P3 Ryn Flesh

Tan Skirt
Base: P3 Rucksack Tan
Wash: P3 Gun Corps Brown
Deep Wash Only: P3 Battlefield Brown
Drybrush: Rucksack Tan
Drybrush: Rucksack Tan and P3 Menoth White Base
Drybrush: Previous, and P3 Menoth White Highlight

Iron
Base: P3 Pig Iron
Highlight: P3 Quicksilver
Wash: Targeted Italeri Wash Oiled Earth 4953AP (I found it on my paint rack and didn’t know owned it.  Time to test it.  It’s a oily brown.  Gotta try it later on a larger area)

Bronze: 
Base: Darkstar Blackened Bronze
Drybrush: Darkstar Bronze
Wash all over: Secret Weapon Sewer Water
Drybrush: Darkstar Bronze
Drybrush: Darkstar Polished Copper
Drybrush: Darkstar Pale Gold

Hair
Base: P3 Morrow White and Reaper 09148 Ghoul Skin
Wash: Ghoul Skin
Highlight with base and then add more and more white for further highlights

Lightning
I just threw a bunch of different blues, P3 Morrow White and P3 Menoth White Highlight together to see what I could come up with.  I couldn’t replicate this again if I tried.  It ended up similar to GW Fenris Grey, but perhaps a little lighter?  I added more and more (Menoth?) white to it for the highlights.

I’m not 100% sure where this guy goes.  I’m told he’s a cycle 2 model, but there’s some suggestion that he can turn up in any of the first three cycles.  He also comes with a battle and map scale mini.  He’s a nice crisp clean sculpt and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with him.  I took him from primed to varnished in about 24 hours and I don’t feel like I rushed.

Ball Stone
This is my basing scheme from KDM
Base: Mission Models MMW006 Transparent Dust (I’d usually use P3 Trollblood Highlight, but I’m running low and this was the closest colour I already own)
Heavy Drybrush: GW Karak Stone
Medium Drybrush: GW Screaming Skull
Light Drybrush: P3 Menoth White Highlight

Gold Legs
Base: P3 Blighted Gold
Wash: p3 Cryx Bane base mixed with P3 Brown Ink
Targeted Wash: P3 Umbral Umber mixed with P3 Coal Black
Drybrush: P3 Brass Balls
Post varnish Highlight: P3 Brass Balls mixed with P3 Radiant Platinum

Black Ooze
Base: Revell Aqua Colour 36106 Tar Black
Highlight: Tar Black with a little Revell Aqua Colour 36174 Gunship Grey
Highlight: Above mix with a little Revell Aqua Colour 36176 Light Grey
Highlight: above with more Light Grey
Glaze with GW Nuln Oil to smooth the transition out
I didn’t push the highlights far enough so the two glazed needed to blur the transitions took the highlights down a little too far.
Gloss varnish when all is finished

This model makes me think one thing, and one thing only:  “Feed him to the Sharkticons!”

I’ve got the rest of the Cycle 2 models on my painting table ready to go and it’s made it apparent that these models don’t have a fixed scale.  Look at this pic below of two humans.  One is twice the size of the other.  I suppose he could be a giant or something.  I’ve not read anything yet.  I know it doesn’t affect the gameplay, but a lack of consistent scale bothers me.

Update 10/2/23:

I asked on the discord and here’s the responses I’ve gotten about the big little human.  Seems he is a character and might well be larger on purpose:

I think the Gamechanger is a cross cycle titan valid for the first three cycles, but I really can’t say for certain.  I’m putting off reading anything until I’m ready to begin playing.  There’s some good designs in this batch, but I’m starting to feel the softness of detail I’ve experienced in other big box KS pre assembled minis that are functionally high end board game models, and not wargaming pieces.

I’ve noticed a trend in the concept art.  They tend to be more muted or dark colours.  This works for moody art pieces, but its hard to replicate in models and still have them look interesting.  I’ll be going for stronger colours where I feel appropriate from now on, but still taking my inspiration from the art.

Cycle 1 Titan Skin
Base with a mix of P3 Ryn Flesh and P3 Menoth White Highlight
Wash with mix of base and P3 Sanguine Highlight
Wash with mix of base and P3 Battledress Green
Wash with P3 Sanguine Highlight in deep shadows only
Highlight with base
Highlight with base with extra Menoth White Highlight

Mazerunner Trousers & Gamechanger Cloak
Base VMC 70.994 Dark Grey
Drybrush P3 hammerfal Khaki
Wash GW Nuln Oil

Gamechanger Red Robe
Base GW Khorne Red
Wash GW Carroburg Crimson mixed with GW Agrax Earthshade
Highlight with Base mixed with GW Wild Rider Red
Highlight with GW Wild Rider Red

Logicbreaker Stone Armour
Base with VMC 70.869 Basalt Grey
Drybrush P3 Jack bone
Wash Jan’s Magimix (6-8 Parts GW Nuln Oil, 6-8 Parts GW Agrax Earthshade, 5-6 Parts Lahmium Medium, 2 parts Athonian Camoshade.  Thanks, Januinevision)
Drybrush with Jack Bone and P3 Menoth White Base to taste

Bronze: 
Base: Darkstar Blackened Bronze
Drybrush: Darkstar Bronze
Wash all over: Secret Weapon Sewer Water
Drybrush: Darkstar Bronze
Drybrush: Darkstar Polished Copper
Drybrush: Darkstar Pale Gold
Targeted wash of Sewer Water to only the deepest regions.
Gem: Mission Models Pearl Red

Gold Gamechanger Armour
Base GW Retributor Armour
Wash GW Seraphim Sepia
Highlight P3 Solid Gold

Dark Leather
Base Vallejo 302 Dark Rust
Drybrush/Highlight P3 Beast Hide
Wash GW Nuln Oil

Light Leather
Base P3 Bootstrap Leather
Drybrush/Highlight P3 Hammerfal Khaki
Wash GW Agrax Earthshade

Iron
Base P3 Pig Iron
Wash Jan’s Magimix (6-8 Parts GW Nuln Oil, 6-8 Parts GW Agrax Earthshade, 5-6 Parts Lahmium Medium, 2 parts Athonian Camoshade.  Thanks, Januinevision)
If rusty: Apply GW Typhous Corrosion, then drybrush GW Ryza Rust
Drybrush/Highlight P3 Cold Steel
Highlight P3 Quick Silver

Gamechager Red Frills
Base P3 Khador Red base
Wash GW Caroburg Crimson
Drybrush P3 Khador Red Highlight Didn’t work
Drybrush GW Wild Rider Red (Worked better, but not great.

Mazerunner Dark Grey Hair
Base P3 Greatcoat Grey
Drybrush P3 Cryx bane Highlight
Wash GW Nuln Oil

Logicbreaker Red-brown Beard
Base P3 Bloodstone
Drybrush P3 Bogrin Brown
Wash GW Agrax Earthshade

Logicbreaker Helemt Tail
Base Reaper 09150 Bloodless Skin
Wash Reaper 09148 Ghoul Skin
Drybrush p3 Morrow White

That’s Cycle 1 done.  That should give me a few weeks of play before I need Cycle 2 stuff done and ready.  There are 3 more models (I think) that can appear in any cycle so they’re my next mission: The Burden (Battle and map scale, and the Zeus Godform.  I think godforms are like going Super Saiyan and any Titan can do it if the right things happen at the right time.

This guy comes with two models for the different elements of the game.  most monsters don’t.  he’s a nice model that really conveys a sense of scale.  His mini me is a little soft on the detail though.

Wings
Airbrush Secret Weapon Tire Black all over
Airbrush VMC 309 Periscopes from the sides and above, trying to leave the base colour more prominent near the stem of each feather
Airbrush VMC 70.966 Turquoise mixed with periscopes mainly from above and leaving more of the base/stem end of each feather untouched
Airbrush pure Turquoise just from above and more towards the tips of each wing
Wash with GW Nuln Oil
Drybrush purely downwards with the two VMC paints to taste
This creates an almost colour shirt affect where the wings look dark from below, but bright from above.

Shoulder and Belly Feather Tufts
Base with P3 Cryx bane Highlight
Wash with a mix of P3 Thornwood Green and P3 Beast Hide, with just a touch of P3 Traitor Green (Optional)
Drybrush P3 Jack Bone
Drybrush P3 Menoth White Highlight

Flesh
(All paints from Nocturna Malefic Flesh paint set)
Base with Vallejo 74.013 Forest Skin
Wash Vallejo 74.009 Deep Forest Skin
Reclaim base
Highlight Vallejo 74.015 Pale Flesh
Highlight Vallejo 74.016 White Flesh

Beak and Claws
Base p3 Cryx Bane Base
Drybrush P3 Battledress Green
Drybrush P3 Hammerfall Khaki
Drybrush P3 Sickly Skin
Wash Jan’s magimix (6-8 Parts GW Nuln Oil, 6-8 Parts GW Agrax Earthshade, 5-6 Parts Lahmium Medium, 2 parts Athonian Camoshade.  Thanks, Januinevision)

The ships sails were painted using the Andrea colour white recipe used at the start of this project.  The eyes were just painted with an off-white.

This weekend I primed up the 7 Cycle 1 models and got to work on Alpha Temenos.  Brush access was clearly going to be an issue, so I used the airbrush to lay down the dominant colour and then brushed on the other base colours manually.  I normally like to complete one colour before starting a second, but I knew it would be a lot easier to fix mistakes if I based before anything was shaded or highlighted.  Once it was all based, I finished the skin, then the pyramids, and finally the base, glow, and then teeth.

Skin

(Using colours from the Blue Flesh recipe from Vallejo/Nocturna Malefic Flesh paint set.  Actual original recipe below))
Base: VMC 74.014 Cold Flesh
Wash: VMC 74010 Frozen Flesh
Drybrush: Base
Drybrush VMC74.015 Pale Flesh
Drybrush: VMC 74.016 White Flesh

Grey Stone
Base: VMC 70.869  Basalt Grey
Drybrush: P3 Jack Bone, maybe even P3 Menoth White Base
Wash: GW Nuln Oil
Revisit drybrushing if desired

Fire Glow
Undercoat White
Base (Airbrushed): MRP-F008 Fire Orange.  Allow for overspray down tunnel
Highlight (Airbrushed): Base + MRP-F005 Deep Yellow.  Less overspray.  Try to only hit centre of circle, leaving a more orange border
Highlight (Airbrushed): Just Deep yellow, again leaving a visible border

Teeth
Base: P3 Menoth White Base
Wash around base: GW Agrax Earthshade
Highlight: with base
Highlight: P3 Menoth White Highlight

As I was painting the base (See earlier post) with the solution of water, Lahmium medium, and Brokentoad’s Grimy Dirt pigment I thought I may as well apply some over Temenos.  He’s just burst out of the ground, so I gave him some residual dirt.

Temenos can be climbed upon, grating different options to anyone on his back.  As such, one of those pyramids can be removed and a platform put in its place.

The titans look like standard 30mm models, but they’re huge guys on 30mm bases.  A Human comes up to their ankle.  There is a human on Philoctera’s base.  look by her foot on the pic facing your right.

I painted all 7 models so far at the same time.  I sat down to varnish them all.  Glossed them up, and airbrush primed something while that dried.  I then applied 2 more coats of matt varnish (It takes 3 to de-gloss them) and noticed 2 black spots on someone’s leg.  On inspection I’ve got black primer overspray on 3 Titans AND coated it in 2 layers of varnish!  Gah!

Thankfully all their clothes and gear are dark so it can only really be seen on the flesh and the base.  The bases are already a little dirty and spotty by design, thanks to the final pigment stage.  I’m willing to call it dirt on the bases, meaning I only had to repaint the affected areas of flesh.  I was annoyed and frustrated and knew I only had myself to blame.  I rushed the repairs through and everyone is done now.

Flesh: 
Base: Reaper 9044 Tanned Skin
Shade: Reaper 9043 Tanned Shadow
Highlight: Reaper 9045 Tanned Highlight

Herodotus Flesh: 
Airbrush Base: Reaper 29828 Woodland Brown
Airbrush: Base with increasing amounts of Reaper 09150 Bloodless Skin
Airbrush: Above with increasing amounts of VMC 70.951 White
Pin Wash/Lining: Base thinned down (Possibly a darker brown, or mixed with a darker brown.  Apparently I didn’t take as many photos of my paint pot recipes as I thought I did)

Wood: 
Base: P3 Battlefield Brown
Layer: VMC 70.921 English Uniform
Drybrush: GW Karak Stone
Drybrush: P3 Menoth White Base
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
Drybrush: P3 Menoth White Base
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade, but lighter
Wash: GW Seraphim Sepia

Dark Green Cloth:
Base: P3 Cryx bane Base
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
Drybrush: P3 Traitor Green

Lighter Green Cloth:
Base: P3 Traitor Green
Wash: GW Athonian Camoshade
Drybrush: P3 Thrall Flesh

Purple Cloth: 
Base: Reaper 09023 Imperial Purple with just enough P3 Ironhull Grey to desaturate it
Wash: Base with a little P3 Thamar Black, mixed with water and Lahmium medium
Drybrush: Base with a little more Ironhull Grey and some Reaper 09124 Amethyst Purple

Dirty Sail Cloth: 
Base: Reaper 09148 Ghoul Skin
Wash: Handcraft Tabletop Terrain Wash 267.01 Dunkelschatten (Dark Brown Grey)
Highlight: Reaper 09149 Moldy Skin

Helmets: 
Base: Darkstar Silver Verde
Wash: Handcraft Tabletop Terrain Wash267.03 Algenmoos (Yellow Greenish)
Drybrush: Darkstar Old Silver

Iron Weapons: 
Base: P3 Pig Iron
Wash Jan’s Magimix (6-8 Parts GW Nuln Oil, 6-8 Parts GW Agrax Earthshade, 5-6 Parts Lahmium Medium, 2 parts Athonian Camoshade.  Thanks, Januinevision)
Drybrush and some edge highlighting: P3 Cold Steel

Flexible Tubing: 
Base: P3 Ironhull Grey
Drybrush: P3 Underbelly Blue
Rings: P3 Pig Iron
Wash: GW Nuln Oil
Highlight with previous colours if wanted

White Beard: 
Base: Reaper 09150 Bloodless Skin
Wash: Reaper 09145 Ghoul Skin
Highlight with base, and then base with added P3 Morrow White

Red Hair: 
Base: P3 Bogwin brown
Highlight: P3 Ember Orange
Highlight: P3 Heartfire

Blonde Hair: 
Base: Reaper 09256 Blond Shadow
Wash: Coat d’Arms Flesh Ink
Drybrush: Reaper 09257 Blond Hair
Drybrush: Reaper 09258 Blond Highlight
This works better if you paint it instead of drybrushing.

Wood Arrow Shafts: 
Base: VMC 70.310 Old Wood
Drybrush: P3 Jack Bone
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
Light Drybrush: Jack Bone

Arrow Flights: 
Base: Reaper 08148 Ghoul Skin
Highlight: Reaper 09150 Bloodless Skin
Highlight: Bloodless Skin with added P3 Morrow White

Brown Leather: 
Base: P3 Bootstrap Leather
Highlight: P3 Beast Hide
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade

Wood Bark: 
Base: Scalecolour Brown Leather
Wash: Scalecolour Inktense Wash
Drybrush: Coat d’Arms Horse Tone Bay

Grey Stone: 
Base: P3 Cryx Bane Highlight
Drybrush: P3 Jack Bone
Wash: Jan’s Magimix (6-8 Parts GW Nuln Oil, 6-8 Parts GW Agrax Earthshade, 5-6 Parts Lahmium Medium, 2 parts Athonian Camoshade.)

That’s everything for the Prologue done.  I think that can be completed in a weekend so I want all the Cycle 1 models done before I start playing.  That means next is 4 more Titans, Temenos, and a big and small scale Hermesian Persuer

This ship is the size of a city.  It’s made at a different scale to everything else.  The Titans fit comfortably onboard.  This goes on the world map tiles, and not on the game board.

Wood:
Base: P3 Battlefield Brown
Layer: VMC 70.921 English Uniform
Drybrush: GW Karak Stone
Drybrush: P3 Menoth White Base
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
Drybrush: P3 Menoth White Base
Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade, but lighter
Wash: GW Seraphim Sepia

Buildings: 
Base: Army Painter Troll Claws Mixed With Army Painter Arid Earth
Drybrush: Arid Earth
Wash: Troll Claws
Repeat drybrush

White Plating: 
Base: Reaper 9148 Ghoul Skin
Highlight: Reaper 9150 Bloodless Skin

Bronze:
Base: Darkstar Blackened Bronze
Drybrush: Darkstar Bronze
Wash: Secret Weapon Sewer Water
Drybrush: Darkstar Bronze
Drybrush: Darkstar Polished Copper

Tree Canopy: 
Base: P3 Gnarls Green
Wash: AP Green Tone Wash
Highlight: P3 Bog Moss
Highlight: P3 Wyrm Green