The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 14, Luxury: 7, Modular: 37, To Ship: 33+

I managed to resist playing KDM this weekend for the first time since I started playing.  My painting mojo was in full force and I made good progress.  My goal was to get the Gloomhaven minis done, and ideally Ronnie too.  I kept getting distracted by the KDM minis though.  Painting the lion fur is best done as airbrushing and a few washes.  It’s good after work painting.  It fits the time slot well, and the washes can take all night to dry.  As such I focused on them across the week, and didn’t really start on my target minis until Saturday.  Even then, I decided to paint their flesh next as I was going to have that paint out for the Diviner anyway.  Then I thought I may as well do the bone as that involves a couple of slow drying washes and I needed to go cook some chilli.  Once I’d finished my target minis I went back to them and started painting the cloth, hide, and leathers.  There’s a lot more work to be done.

Next up was Gloomhaven’s Aesther Nightshroud.  In the artwork he is ethereal; half in darkness, half made of purple and mint green glow.  I don’t know how to do that.  I started at the artwork for a while and came up with a plan.  I knew there was a good chance of it looking rubbish, but these minis are pretty basic and I don’t really care about them or have high expectations for them.  They’re fine for what they are, but they are not a painters dream.  It turned out that some of the detail my plan was based around wasn’t included on the model.

My thinking was lightly zenithal prime, 2-3 tone drybrush, wash, drybrush, repeat as needed.  It didn’t exactly work, but I’ve seen worse and it sort of matches the art if you squint hard.  He’s holding fire in his hand apparently.  I couldn’t find enough detail there to really work with, but I did what I could.  its done and table ready now, and that’s all that matters.

We’re not far of starting the expansion soon so I offered to get the expansion min The Diviner painted before we got there.  She was much more fun to work with.  She looks good, and a higher detail resin print of her at a slightly larger size (She feels more 25mm, than 28-32mm) could be a joy to work with and yield some really pretty results in the right hands.  She has what looks like a crab hanging off her bum, but I can’t work out why.  I’ve assumed its knots or a bow made of her dress so I’ve left it that colour.

Ronnie came in a goody bag a few years ago and I’ve been ignoring him ever since.  He took about a day.  He’s fine, if slightly softer in some detail than I’d like.  Still, that gave me an excuse to cut corners and rush him.  Painting him was an odd experience.  Despite him being washed and primed, some areas of him seemed to repel paint, and some colours more than others.  I’ve no idea why.  Persistence won out easily enough though.