The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

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I’ve been focussing on the Lion Knight next.  He’s technically one model, but he’s clearly worth 4 so doing him got the most plastic off my desk and leaves me with just 10 standard size characters to paint.  I was really happy with the trousers, but the cloak didn’t work out as well as I’d have hoped.

Gold Armour

Base: VMA 71066 Gold
Pinwash: GW Agrax Earthshade
Highlight 1: VMC 71.067 Bright Brass
Highlight 2: Darkstar Fine Gold

Dark Blue Trousers

Base: SC53 Cantabric Blue with a touch of P3 Thamar Black
Pinwash/targeted wash/glaze: GW Nuln Oil
Highlight 1: Cantabric Blue
Highlight 2: Cantabric Blue with some P3 Frostbite

Purple Cloak

Base: Reaper 9023 Royal Purple
Shade: Reaper 9022 Nightshade Purple with a touch of Royal Purple
Highlight 1: Royal Purple mixed with Reaper 9024 Amethyst Purple
Highlight 2: Amethyst Purple

The attendants sashes were shaded with GW Druchii Violet wash and highlighted as above as best as I can with a brush that should have been thrown out.  I’ve gone Vegan and I’ve yet to use a synthetic brush that doesn’t get hook tip quickly so I’m trying to make my sable brushes last as long as I can.  The Knights front sash was drybrushed with GW Genestealer Purple.  I tried this on the attendants but drybrushing would have made too big a mess.

I’m not a huge fan of this piece.  It’s a nice idea and others have done better work than me, for sure.  The attendants are a little annoying.  Due to their poses and the sloped base made of faces it’s really hard to line everyone up so every hand, foot, and bum that’s clearly supporting weight is actually touching the ground.  This could have done with being designed with clear connection points.  otherwise, it’s an interesting piece.

While working on him, I also painted the trousers for my Twilight Knight at the same time.  Same colour so why not.  I also got some prep work done on some Aeon Trespass minis.

For those not in the UK, I thought you might like to see the current state of things.  It’s the coldest it’s been in a very long time with temperatures solidly below 0C, sometimes dropping down to -8C in my area, but much lower in other parts.  This may be normal for this time of year, but due to corporate greed many of us are too scared to turn on the heating, at least as much as we would have this time last year.  Here’s what I look like at my painting desk.  I’m wearing 3 layers of clothing, with a fleece on over that, and a dressing gown over that.  I’ve got on jeans, 2 pairs of socks and my slippers, and a blanket wrapped around me for extra warmth and I’m wearing gloves, all to paint in my bed room!  It took a few hours for the heating to make a dent in the cold and during the week I was rarely home and out of my bed (Which has a duvet and 2 blankets on it) long enough for it to be cost effective to heat the place.  Every day the cycle to work has left me afraid my fingers were going to snap off if I touched anything.  It’s been bad, and it didn’t have to be.  The cold would be manageable if the cost of gas wasn’t extortionate right now.  If no one has died from the cold in their own home over the past week I’ll be very surprised.  I hope someone gets charged with corporate manslaughter, both at the fuel companies, and in the government who allowed this situation.

Anyway, rant over.  This is a hobby site, not a politics site.  The cold slowed me down, but I never let it stop me.  The temperature started to rise yesterday so it promises to be merely cold, and not freezing during the Christmas break.  I hope to get lots done, but I likely won’t update this until after my break is over.