Green Gelatinous Cube

A Gelatinous Cube painted like a green slime rather than the usual bluish clear in Dungeons & Dragons.

I’ve owned a clear gelatinous cube pre-painted D&D mini for a while now, but I saw the mini again at my local game store when I was looking for new minis. Since I haven’t used my Tesseract Glow paint yet and rarely use my inks, I thought it’d be cool to make the iconic green slime out of the mini. So, I bought it.

First, I painted the dissolved corpses on the inside of the mini. I used simple metallics and tans to paint the bones and equipment. Nothing fancy.

I then mixed up yellow and green inks with the Tesseract Glow, and added Lahmian Medium as necessary, until I was happy with the color and consistency. I then just painted the whole miniature. I made sure to paint over the corpses a little, to show that they’re filled with and covered in slime. To make the miniature more durable, I only painted the inside of the cube. It isn’t necessary, but it makes a slight visual difference and it removes the chance of paint scratching off the corners (since this is a low-effort mini meant for tabletop play).

Finally, I finished it off with a satin clear coat to protect the paint and to give it a fairly shiny finish to look like wet slime.

Overall, it was a fair but quick paint job. It’s not the best, and I’d barely even consider it to my own standards. It was just a quick table-readyTable-ready is a term to describe a miniature that may not look as good as the painter would like, but looks good enough that it’s ready to be played with on in tabletop games. mini for D&D, and not an art piece like my usual miniatures.