The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

This week I’ve been working towards finishing off the 5 remaining models that have been on hold since Christmas.  I’ve finished one, and have been picking out colours on the others.  What’s slowing me down here is making decisions about which colour to use.  Committing to a starting colour is helping get me moving.

I’ve also been doing prep work on the models for after.  I’ve built, based, and primed the Warpath minis I have: 10 Plague and 10 Asterians.  I already have a Plague force and these guys will be based with GW Astrogranite once they’re painted to match the others.  The Asterians wanted a new base scheme that worked for Sci-fi and didn’t just feel like generic, fantasy applicable “In a field” basing.  I didn’t want to buy anything new, or get any resin for my printer, so I pulled out my old Basius Imperial pad and went with bombed and broken concrete.

By next week I hope to finish 1-2 more models, and get a base colour applied on these new 20 models while the airbrush is already out to varnish the finished pieces.

Slathos’s Base

Base Vallejo 70.340 Panzer Aces Highlight Afrika Tank Korps
Wash P3 beast hide
Drybrush P3 Menoth White Base
Drybrush P3 Menoth White Highlight

Slathos’s Armour

Base Vallejo 70.309 Panzer Aces Periscopes mixed with a little Black
Wash GW Nuln Oil
Highlight with base
Highlight 2 is base with more Periscopes
Highlight 3 is as above but with added VMC 70.966 Turquoise
Highlight 4 is as above but more Turquoise
Highlight 5 is as above but with a little VMC 70.918 Ivory

It’s odd that this was painted with black and shades of turquoise, and yet it just looks blue.  Not what I was aiming for, but I’ll go with it.

Slathos’s Cloak

Base Miniature Paints MRP 13 Deep Bronze Green mixed with MRP 17 Aquamarine, mixed 1:3ish.  The green dominates at 1:1
Shade with heavier green mixes and pure green
Reclaim with base
Highlight 1 with almost pure Aquamarine
Highlight 2 with Aquamarine
Highlight 3 Aquamarine mixed with increasing amounts of Miniature Paints MRP 21 Arctic Blue
Highlight 4 As above, but add a little VMC 70.918 Ivory

Lets play some games with those number as 113 is a lot of models, and it’s not the whole truth as to what my goal here is, and we all know the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.  So what do I have?

KoW Skeletons x20
Busts and display pieces x8
3D printed regular models x7
Ronaldo the Bard
Loka Fire set x8
KD:M Modular warriors etc x29
Stargrave Troops x20
Asterians x10
Plague x10
Masons (Not arrived yet) x6
Aeon Trespass Odyssey Wave 1 (Not arrived yet) x27
Aeon Trespass Odyssey Wave 2 (Not arrived yet) x??

They can be broken down in to categories, based on when and how I want to paint them:

Batch Paintables to be rushed: 
KoW Skeletons x20
Asterians x10
Plague x10

Regular Paintables, worth putting  regular effort in to:
3D printed regular models x7
Ronaldo the Bard
Loka Fire set x8

Luxury Paint jobs to be savoured: 
Busts and display pieces x8

Modular stuff, not to be built until I’m ready to be put on the table: 
KD:M Modular warriors etc x29
Stargrave Troops x20

Not arrived yet: 
Masons (Not arrived yet) x6
Aeon Trespass Odyssey Wave 1 (Not arrived yet) x27
Aeon Trespass Odyssey Wave 2 (Not arrived yet) x??

This gives me:

Batch: 40, Normal: 16, Luxury: 8, Modular: 49, To Ship: 33+

My real goal is to clear out Batch and Normal (56) so I can enjoy Luxury (8), and handle everything else (82) at my own pace when it needs attention.  I’m already not counting the To Ships in my Models To Go total.

If anyone is interested, I have gone back to the first post in this project and added an index, complete with links.  It should make it easier for me to find things later, even if no one else cares.