Kingdom Death, Sorted By Monster & Armour Type

No idea what the king is, or even if its “The King” or “A King”.  There’s images of more than one together.  You can kill it and make armour out of it though.

My notes on painting King armour:

Main black steel armour

Undercoat back
base 2:1 Reaper MSP89556 Adamntium : Black
Pin wash Nuln Oil
Drybrush Adamantium
Lighter targeted drybrush P3 pig iron

Maroon cloth = P3 Forces of Menoth guide
Gold = P3 Forces of Cryx guide

Light steel = Vallejo metal colour Chrome.

Below, in order:

Glow (Glow Character pack): Female with Whip
Paladin (Echoes of Death 4): Female with spear (I think?  Lance isn’t a thing yet)
Oblouk Shield Arco: Female with Sword or Grand Weapon
Arco’s magic gateway

He’s not farmable for armour, but there are some models out there in his style I may one day pick up.

With Expansions of Death Vol 1 out of the way it’s on to the Gamblers Chest monsters.  First up, the Crimson Crocodile.  GC is still fairly new, so there’s not many models out there wearing armour made from these monster yet.

Below, in order:
Boxer (Echoes of Death 4): Female fist & tooth fighter (I didn’t realise she was wearing CC armour when I painted her.  I’ll make her robes more pink the next time I paint anyone in CC armour)

The final Expansions of Death Vol 1 model.  He cannot be farmed for armour, but there is a pinup or two inspired by him.

My painting notes:

The Sunstalker was painted following the Privateer Press Forces of Minions guide for Gatormen flesh tones, with some of the base colours swapped out as I’m running low on P3 paints and they’re becoming harder to get in the UK. I don’t have the full instructions to hand, but I’m documenting my colour choices here now so I can replicate them later with related models.

Belly base: VMC 70.884 Stone Grey mixed with VMC 70.928 Light Flesh and just a touch of P3 Mouldy ochre
Wash: VMC 70.894 Cam. Olive Green + P3 Armour Wash
Deep Shade: with a mix of Thornwood Green, Armor Wash, and Battlefield Brown on the undersides of the model. Add enough of the wash to tint it green

Green Flesh base: VMC 70.894 Cam. Olive Green
Wash: VMC 70.894 Cam. Olive Green + P3 Armour Wash
Deep Shade: with a mix of Thornwood Green, Armor Wash, and Battlefield Brown on the undersides of the model. Add enough of the wash to tint it green
Highlight: a mix of Cam. Olive Green, Wurm Green and Thrall Flesh for highlights.
High 2: add some P3 Sickly Skin for sharp edge highlights only

Red Tentacles

Tentacles base: GSW 1827 Blushing Flesh mixed with some P3 Sanguine base
Tentacles wash: Sanguine base mixed with p3 Battlefield Brown
Highlight: Blushing Flesh, then blushing Flesh mixed with GSW 1845 Elven Flesh, then perhaps pure Elven Flesh
The Ovipositor was given 2-3 coats of VGC Red Ink over the above

Teeth
Base P3 Menoth White Base
Wash GW Agrax
Reclaim with base
Highlight P3 Menoth White Highlight

Below, in order:

Cleric (Echoes of Death 2): Female with club (I’m told she’s wearing Gorm armour, but I painted her as Sunstalker before I found that out)
Miko, People of the Sun (Sunstalker): Female with bow, wearing Sunstalker Vestments
Shadow Stalker (Gamblers Chest): Female with Grand
Sniper (Echoes of Death 3): Female with Bow
The Priest, People of the Sun (Sunstalker): Male with Club
Tough Guy (Gamblers Chest): Male with Axe
Pinup Sunstalker Dancer (Pinups of Death 2): Female with Dagger
Gnostin Stonesmasher (Nukealope Vignette): Male with Club
Monday (Nukealope Vignette): Female with Grand Weapon (Wearing Shadowstalker armour.  Not yet released)
Pinup Sunstalker Dancer, modified (Pinups of Death 2): Female with Whip

Another Expansions of Death Vol 1 quarry with an armour sprue.  If a model appears to be wearing clothing I cannot assign to another armour type, I default to it passing for Spider Silk.

The Grovelling Survivor above comes with Spidicules, but i don’t think he has a purpose.  I think there was just space on the sprue.

My painting notes:

He was zenithally pre-shades as standard, but then I restored the black undersides with black paint. I want this guy dark and I know Inks are coming up. I next drybrushed with some pale blue and beige drybrush paints I had to hand. No idea if the colours made a difference, but it restored a few highlights to some peaks. Next I put thinned Liquitex Violet Ink through the airbrush and applied it over most of the model. I needed to thin it further, but I’m still learning. I then added a little Vallejo Purple Ink to it and added darker, richer purple areas. Finally, P3 Turquoise Ink was applied to all the joints, the palms, and any repeating areas that still looked like they may have primer showing through. I tried to brush highlight the face a little but it looked horrible and the limbs were in the way so I applied more of the Violet over it again, which looked good.

The eyes were painted GW Khorne Red, washed with GW Nuln Oil, and then highlighted with P3 Khador Red and finally given a small dot of white.

The Teeth were based with P3 Thrall Flesh, washed with GW Athonian Camoshade, drybrushed with Thrall Flesh, and then with p3 Menoth White Base

Below, in order:

Leyline Walker (Gamblers Chest): Female with Sword
Mage (Echoes of Death 1): Female with Sword
Pinup Architect (Pinups of Death 1): Female with Scythe
Pinup Spider Silk Assassin (Pinups of Death 2): Female with Dagger
Pinup Warrior of the Sun (White Box): Female with sword (Technically a People of the Sun character, but passes for silk)
Pinup preacher (PoD1): Female with Club
Pinup Spider Silk Assassin, modified (Pinups of Death 2): Female with Katars
Toxiscimitar Badar: Male with Scimitar
Poison Partisan Ritika: Female with Spear
Snow The Savior Age 3: Female with Club

A hunt event or a random terrain draw can allow you to trigger an encounter with the Lonely Tree.  So far, I’d have to say the risk doesn’t seem like it’s worth the reward.  Perhaps that’ll change in the upcoming update?

The Lonely lady has no purpose at this time.  She could be used for a Fist & Tooth unarmoured survivor, but she is very very naked.

My painting notes:

Wood

Base 72.145 VGC Heavy Grey or Thornwood Green or Hakata B021 Medium Green
3.18 AP Strong Tone Wash
4mins 28 VGC 72.035 Dead Flesh SC-27 Iroko
6.02: Wash with GW Druchii Violet. Used thinned AP Purple Tone
6.52: Drachenhoff nighshade (I used Hataka A001 Dark Sea Blue) and Seraphim Sepia
7.28: coelia Greenshade
7:50 Drybrush Vallejo Dead Flesh

Lantern Glow

8.25: VGC 72.037 Filthy Brown where the lanterns would shine (I used MP 88 Golden Brown)
9.05: SC Aldebaran Red. I used Khador Red Base
9.40 VMC 72.008 Orange Fire UPDATE 14/6/24 Killennium: Drybrush closer to the light source
10.12 VMC Sun Yellow, then Sun yellow and Dead White mixed. Sun yellow = P3 Sulfuric Yellow)
14.50 Glaze dark shadows with Agrax Earthshade on surfaces away from light/osl – DID NOT DO

Leaves

10.47 Vallejo GA 72.711 Gory Red
12.15 Nuln Oil Wash
12.55 Drybrush Vallejo Blood Red
14.04 Glaze with VGC Red Ink

Lanterns

15.54: Vallejo Hot Orange solid base all over
16.54: Scale75 Sol Yellow to centre areas only. I used P3 Cygnus Yellow
17.47: White hotspot in middle

Metals
18.22: Black through to metals
31.10 Wash with Nuln Oil – DID NOT DO
40.00 Re-highlight

Leather
23.20: Base SC Black Leather
25.02 OSL via SC Mars Hot Orange mixed with Valejo Hot Orange. I swapped Mars orange for p3 meaty Ochre (All OSL steps apply to everything)
25.40 Highlight with SC Brown Leather
30.46 Wash Agrax Earthshade
32.10 More OSL with GW Fuegan Orange
43.20 GW Casandora Yellow

Skulls
27.20 Start
29.23 OSL Vallejo Hot Orange

Vines
42.45 Base Vallejo Heavy green and black primer (I used Heavy Black Green with Black)
Vallejo Lime Green (I mixed 50/50 with above, and then 90/10 with HBG)

Final OSL pass
Drybrush P3 Meaty Ochre
Drybrush P3 Sulfuric Yellow

Fruit

46.18: VGC 72.045 Charred Brown. Im trying VMA 71.040 Burnt Umber
47.10: 2.5 x Drybrush SC Mars Orange and vallejo Hot Orange mixed 50/50. I swapped Mars orange for p3 meaty Ochre
48.36 watered down glazes of red, orange and yellow – I skipped this
I drybrushed P3 Rucksack Tan, then P3 Bog Moss on the domed and bubbly parts only, missing hard edges
Wash with thinned AP Purple Tone
Pick out bumps with VMC 70.827 Lime Green
Wash with GW Athinian Camoshade over Lime Green part and domed protrusion
pick out teeth with P3 Menoth White highlight