Demonsub goes all in with Sláine

I’m looking forward to my first game tomorrow evening with some friends who expressed an interest and suggested we try a game. At first I was unsure. I wanted at least all of the models from the starter set painted before I thought about playing, and maybe a few games solo to learn the rules before I tried to teach others how to play. 

But then I realised I should be able to get a good start on the miniatures, maybe not finish them entirely but make them somewhat table ready. I could always go back to them later and finish them off, and besides, painting to a deadline, even if I wasn’t going to finish the models, is always inspiring.

I’m pretty happy with what I have so far. I’m impressed with how easy it is to show the detail of the sculpts. 

For each of the models the colours were blocked in, then the whole model was given a drybrush of a light bone colour (I used Vallejo Game Colour bone white). 

After that the skin was washed with Army Painter flesh wash, the silver metals washed with Citadel nuln oil, and everything else washed with Citadel agrax earthshade.

I’ve then started picking out the details, highlighting some of the metals, and bones.

I did fully paint the weirdstone.

I decided to put this on a spare 60mm mdf base. It’s a chunky piece of resin and has a nice weight.

I also based two other pieces of terrain I already had, from Frostgrave.

The two stones were from the North Star resin set for the Ulterior Motives cards for Frostgrave and I think work quite well for Sláine.

I’ve got a few more standing stones on their way from Scotia Grendel which I discovered thanks to this project here by @zoidpinhead.

I did a quick solo run through of the first scenario Treasures of Crom from the starter set booklet. I don’t think I’ll use that scenario with my friends but go on to the next one, A God’s Favour as I think it’s a little too easy for Sláine to win the first scenario.

When this game was announced and preorders went live I jumped in and ordered the lot. The miniatures looked great and I’d heard good things about the Strontium Dogs and Judge Dredd miniatures games both developed by Andy Chambers and Gav Thorpe. Sláine was to follow in those games footsteps with similar rules and developed by the same people. I also figured that the miniatures would come in useful for other games like Frostgrave and Five Leagues From The Borderlands. I could also use them to add to my celts in SPQR (the miniatures are a little too big to fit in with my Celt force, I later found out but oh well).

Recently I took delivery and can finally get to work reading the rules and assembling and painting the miniatures.

The miniatures are slightly larger than 28mm, more 32mm to eye level so stand quite tall. Most are single piece but one or two need their weapons and hands glued in place. Being Warlord resin or Siocast there are a few bendy weapons but it’s not a big deal.

To start off I’m going to work on the miniatures from the starter box first. Then from there I’ll paint each of the add on boxes. I already have a few ideas for terrain as there is a list of blessed and spoiled terrain in the rulebook but that will be a while off yet. I will however build the two mdf roundhouses that come in the starter set once I’ve painted the first lot of miniatures, this will act as a nice pallet cleanser.

Between waiting for stuff to dry with the miniatures I sleeved all of the cards, and bagged up the variety of tokens from the starter set. I’d also got some extra 2000AD dice which the game uses and a pouch which tokens can be drawn from to determine who activates next (Similar to Bolt Action). I like to keep things organised.

Next time I hope to show off some of my painted miniatures.