Slaying Dusty Boxes

I used a lot of the same colors and choices from my experience painting the Drune forces. Once again, I limited myself to using AP Speedpaints and Citadel Contrast paints.

I forgot to mention that I referenced a lot of the Slaine graphic novels for color choices. I was able to pick up a large digital set through Humble Bundle before I started the project. I’m currently reading Lord of Beasts.

Warped Slaine was probably my favorite miniature to paint for this project. Ukko, Nest, and Slaine were also a lot of fun. Slaine and Warped Slain were almost identical to paint. I think the only difference was adding leather colors. Ukko was a bit tough to lock down the best colors to use and his details are very small. I had some difficulty picking the best colors for Nest and also keeping her looking feminine.

One of the big tasks I took on was the Weirdstone. I primed it Citadel Greyseer, but went through the same process with a wash of diluted Basilicannum Grey. I tried using AP Pallid Bone on the skeleton fragments around the base, but that ended up not coming out the way I wanted. I messed around with a lot of different colors and chose to dry brush the rock with some standard paints to bring out the details. One thing I discovered was that the AP Desolate Brown really stood out to me as a great base color.

I ended up using AP Desolate Brown for all of my bases and added some green grass from a Warlord Games Northern European basing set.

I thought I was finished with my minis and shared pictures of them with a YouTuber I follow, MattsMiniatureProblem, and he gave me some feedback about the colors. I decided to give them some extra details and try to smooth out some colors.

Next up, I’ll share pictures of my finished base set of miniatures for Slaine: Kiss My Axe!