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.