Intro

What colours you use to paint your Dwarf waystone depend on what kind of caves you will be playing in. Many caves are limestone, especially those nearer to the surface. Browns and light tans will work best for these cave systems. Limestone caves also tend to have smoother stone and more rock formations that have been carved out naturally by the passage of water.

Caves deeper in the earth can still be limestone, but more often than not, you begin to run into harder stones such as granite. A granite colour scheme has a few subtle browns but mainly uses greys.

For this piece of scenery, I wanted to stick with the classic Dwarf greys. There are also a few other colours mixed in, so read on to find out how I painted this Dwarf waystone.

Step 1

First, hand paint any exposed areas of foam with Chaos Black paint. This will keep the foam from melting when the piece is primed with spray primer. Once this sealing paint dries, prime the entire model with Chaos Black Spray Primer.

Step 2

Drybrush the large rocks and the waystone with a heavy coat of Dark Flesh.

Step 3

Once the Dark Flesh dries, give the waystone and rocks another heavy drybrush of Codex Grey. Allow a little of the Dark Flesh to show through but not a whole lot.

Step 4

Next, lightly drybrush the rocks and waystone with Fortress Grey. Take care not to cover up the previous layers completely.

Step 5

Now, using Skull White, very lightly drybrush the edges of the Waystone and rocks. Try to keep most of the white on the edges of the details and away from the interior flat areas.

Step 6

Touch up the base with Chaos Black and drybrush Codex Grey over the piles of rubble and sand.

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Step 7

Finally, lightly drybrush Fortress Grey on the gravel base and patches of crushed stone. Click on the image (left) for different views of this piece.

Done

Well, that's how I put this Dwarf waystone together. When you build yours, try different patterns or runes, larger or smaller sizes, or maybe even some Night Goblin graffiti. If you need some help with that, check out the painting section of this 40K Ork Wall.