Shadespire journey continued (Spring Clean)

This is as far as I got before abandoning the project.

I could not decide and still haven’t fully decided on the colour scheme.

Still unsure how to tackle the bases. I will look to the box art and try to take them closer to the Stealheart’s Champions bases. Trouble is, the Sigmar bases look like ruins and the Chosen Axes bases look like a desert or lava scape.

The base is a grey colour just mixed roughly with Abaddon Black and Army Painter Barbarian Flesh just to see what it looks like grey. For consistency I will probably use some Mechanicus Standard Grey on the others with some Zandri Dust skulls and grey and Zandri mix as a dry brush.

The loin cloth red is Mephiston Red.

The belts are Army Painter leather brown with some Abaddon Black added. (I need to find a nice dark rich brown in my collection somewhere, but I just darkened the leather brown until I was happy.)

I have used Vallejo Bronze for the runes and bronze pieces, but I will probably use some Balthasar Gold as a highlight.

The metal of the weapons etc is painted in Leadbelcher, then washed with Nulin Oil and then highlighted back up with Leadbelcher.

The hair is Jokaero Orange with Casandora Yellow shade. I might get some Troll Slayer Orange to see whether I prefer it or not.

I used Abaddon Black for what I decided was probably a leather covered shaft of the axes. Being all metal coloured looked wrong to me somehow. I might add some leather brown damage marks to the black leather.

Got Tefk in the photo booth after a tidy up of some details.

Happy and probably won’t tamper with him any more.

Looking forward to taking this scheme to the other models.

Might choose different colours for the loin cloth to make them easier to tell apart when playing the game. In fact I will see if I can add the name to the bevelled base without it looking rubbish.

Fjul-Grimnir was fun the paint. I especially enjoyed the base.

I will keep the loin clothes all the one colour for now and worry about identifying them from one another later.

I know that the press fit speedy build is a good thing generally, but when it puts odd breaks in flow through fleshy thighs etc. it is a little annoying. I could just Greenstuff the gap, but the boardgame nature of Shadespire makes it feel excessive or wasteful to commit that effort to it.

From a painting perspective this feels like an odd attitude to take, because regardless of what you play you still want your efforts to look as good as they can be, but the feeling is still there. My mind rationalises thus… “the line is there and I will not fill it and I will not pretend it is a scar and make a feature of it, because even though it is a very detailed, high quality miniature, it is still a boardgame mini” . ?

I got some Trollslayer Orange paint and went back over all the warband and I can see why lots of people use it.

I am glad I painted them and enjoyed it, after initially falling out of love with them after picking a primer that probably wasn’t quite right.

I am calling these done.

The Trollslayer paint really helped get the hair to pop.

I can understand why BoW Ben went for the off the norm skin tones if he has painted lots of dwarves before, but as these are my first ever Slayers I was happy to go a traditional route.

These guys suffered the same fate of being disliked because I was struggling with the skin tones and as they are majority covered in flesh, mostly their own, and I got distracted by other games and miniatures.

I am hoping to try something different skin tone wise than I did for the Chosen Axes.

Wish me luck. ?