The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 84, Luxury: 7, Modular: 0, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 9, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, KDM GCE+COD

EDIT 10/1/2023: In response to Gerry’s comments on the XLBS: These numbers are what’s left in my collection, not just what’s left for KDM.  It’s everything from every system until I’m out of unpainted models.  

The Christmas break has just happened and I’ve had almost two weeks to sit at home and paint.  Unfortunately it’s been cold enough to really mess with drying times so I didn’t get as much done as I’d have liked.  I did spend that time wisely and complete my solo playthrough of the Gloomhaven JotL campaign.  There are still 6 more missions left for me to play that I did not unlock.  Once that’s done I think I’m going to try ATO next, as there’s talk of another KS this year for some Expandalones.  I want to know if I want to throw more money at this before that happens.  Otherwise I might have waited for Wave 2 before starting.

I’ve had the four survivors from the White Gigalion box, the 4 survivors from the Lion Knight box, a Twilight Knight and a White Speaker on my desk.  I have delayed painting the Gigalion survivor in Gorm armour until I paint the Gorm, as I wanted to do him at the same time, once I’ve worked out how I’m painting the Gorm.  I also had some ATO models primed and ready to start.  Work has begun on the ATO minis, but there’s nothing finished yet.  I’m painting all 7 Prelude minis at the same time so I don’t think anything will be done until they are all done.

I had that Gorm armour guy sat on my desk and I wanted him done so I went off to look for Gorm colour schemes and I found the video here. It has techniques I hadn’t tried before that were going to force me to do new things and learn stuff and hopefully improve and push myself.  I got eager to try it, so I built and painted the Gorm, and did the armour of the missing Gigalion survivor at the same time.  I’m still working on him though.

I didn’t have the exact paints used in that video, so here’s the ones I did use:

Body
VMA 72.735 Dead Flesh
GW Athonian Camoshade
VMC Game Ink 720.86 Red
Warcolours Violet 4 Translucent (Thinned down further)
Warcolours Pink 1 mixed with Pink 3 for the mouth base and highlights
GW Carroburg Crimson

Orb
Base Greenstuffworld Fluor Pigment 2366 Yellow
Shade Greenstuffworld Fluor Pigment 2364 Green Lime
Highlight with base with some added P3 Morrow White

Eyes
Undercoat P3 Thamar Black
Base P3 Trollblood Highlight, leaving an outer rim of black visible
Mix in more and more P3 Morrow White, painting smaller and smaller areas, until it’s just pure white.