Dark Souls - The Board Game

The real heavy hitters of this expansion are the Stone Knights.

As with all of the models to date, I used very simple washing and dry brushing, in this case over an Army Painter green primer. I used Vallejo Green Grey followed by a mix of Green Grey and Uniform Grey to create the stone armour look. A wash of Agrax was applied before I worked back into the mossy clumps across the figure using a thin layer of German Uniform Green. The sword blades were dry brushed with a little silver over the grey to give the impression of petrified steel.

For the Stone Guardians I worked over a Khaki Primer, first picking out the few details that would not be sandstone in colour. For the Axe head I used German Green Grey again. I used Vallejo Dark Brown, slightly thinned down, over the tree root that makes up the handle of the axe. The bulk of the model was dry brushed German Camo Beige, followed by Wraithbone.

Just as with the earlier expansions, I used Army painter Soft tone dip applied with a brush, followed by a coat of Vallejo mat varnish to finish and protect the models.

Now we move on to the most obscure antagonists in the Dark Souls universe, the Mushroom Parent and Child. I can’t begin to explain the presence of an anthropomorphic fungi family in this realm of the undead. The random nature of some enemies in this game certainly serves as a reminder of the Japanese origins of the series!

For the Mushroom parent and child I again used a Khaki primer. I first painted the mushroom tops with Vallejo Medium Camo Brown, before washing the rest of the model with Agrax (standard). I washed the cap of the mushroom with my old pot of Ogryn flesh to bring out the reds. The body (or stalk!), of the model was dry brushed German Camo Beige, followed by Wraithbone.