The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

I tried following an Angel Giraldez wolfman guide on the fur here and it didn’t exactly work.  I can see what it’s trying to do but I didn’t pull it off properly.  Its a good learning experience though.  The rocks I like though.  This is from an Asset Drop guide and I’ve done it 3ish times now and I like it more and more.  Gonna have to keep using it.

Doktor Nachtbluten (name copy and pasted every time!) had a few issues.  One of his bag straps broke off and had to be replaced with green stuff.  I broke his lantern putting him together and that fix is less than ideal.  I also appear to have mistaken his walking stick for printer scaffold.  it was missing so was presumably clipped off and thrown away.  Oops.  I’ve replaced it carefully with a paperclip.  Looks good to me.

I first tried my hand at full OSL in my first year of painting.  I have someone out there with a big blue blob over half of their head and I still wake up screaming some nights from the memory.  I have a large sith lady with two red lightsabers to paint soon, and KD:M arriving in a couple of months so I have no choice to do OSL very soon.  I’ve used this model as a chance to try again.  I found this guide online which out it in terms I found aproachable but it was astill massivelt intimidating as I couldn’t tell if it had worked until I’d finished the entire model.  I couldn’t just test it on the coat before continuing so i was living in fear that all my work would get wasted right at the end.  I may have spent a day longer on this piece due to procrastination.  With him done I feel more confident for my next attempt.

If anyone has used this method with other colours I’d love to know if it works just as well and if there are any colours/tones I should favour or avoid.  This guide says yellow works best but doesn’t discuss other colours.  Dunno if theres a good reason for that.  I’m assuming I can just pick any bright saturated colour and so long as my highlights approach white I’ll be ok?  I don’t know how well this would look if I were to paint yellow light over blue though, for example?  Would the green look natural or just odd?

Here we see the model both before and after I applied the yellow light, which was pretty much the final stage.

This leaves me with one more model ready to paint before I fire up my 3D printer, deal with the intimidating Sith from Ritual Casting, or dive in to the Box of Undersireables, apart from Super Fantasy Brawl.  I washed, air dried, cleaned up (Minimal clean up but I may yet notice lots I missed), and primed the whole SFB set.

If anyone from Mythic or any of these big box kickstarters is reading this (I’m sure you all follow me closely!) I have a request.  Can you do a hobbyist’s option on these kickstarters please.  We check a box or order a specific version of the pledge and our models do not arrive pre-built.  Maybe we don’t get the fancy packaging and its all shoved in a brown box or something.  Pre built models create issues with access for clean up and for painting.  It’s also annoying when we spend out money and theres a huge gap in the model because someone in a factory didn’t care and had deadlines to meet and now we can’t fix it.

I know you can’t do this at retail, but maybe its more practical at KS as we are ordering pre-production and it won’t take up shelf space in stores?