As you all recall loyal readers, I have been working on the Heroquest core box I got for Christmas. There was a decent amount of miniatures in the box, including heroes, baddies, furniture and doorways. I made myself two promises when I saw the boxed set at Christmas time:
1. I would not play until it was all painted!
2. No new expansions until it was all painted!
Therefore, I had incentive to paint it all up. However, as you know this was a daunting task. Thankfully, I had some Armypainter Speedpaints ready to go. That would make the job a little bit quicker and easier.
I got started after finishing up my Battle of Kadesh forces. To make matters more interesting, the seasons were changing and summer time it is much harder to paint. My family is out of school and suddenly they want to do things with me! Plus, the heat can make painting a bit more challenging. However, I got to work and managed to hammer through the miniatures.
Now, it was time to move onto the less interesting pieces. Furniture and doors. I won't lie, it was tough to get started on these. I mean, how excited could I get about painting a chest, a stone archway, or a desk? Well, I girded my loins and got to work. After all, this was a quest for HEROES not lesser beings.
I tackled the furniture first. I used my usual tricks to prepare the undercoats and then got to work on the Speedpaints. I thankfully had a few types of brown. I had Hardened Leather, Dark Wood, and Sand Golem for most of the heavy lifting. I wanted to make each piece somewhat unique so those three main colors helped a lot. For stone I tended to use either Runic Grey or Gravelord Grey. I also used Zealot Yellow when I wanted a more "golden" look to a piece. An Armypainter Light Tone wash finished the look off.
Those darn bookcases took forever and a day! I knew that these were going to go back into the "gripping" plastic tray so gave them a triple coat of Matte Varnish to help protect them. They were going to be up against some serious wear-and-tear from use and storage.
Then, I turned my attention to the doors. There were a lot of doors, with a surprising amount of details. Much cooler than the old cardboard door frames from Classic HQ. Each one had a bunch of vines on them, and a little skull thing in the stone. Therefore, I painted the vines with Malignant Green and the stone skulls with Palid Bone to help them pop a bit. The rest got painted with Gravelord Grey. The closed doors got Zealot Yellow hinges and Hardened Leather surfaces. Then, another coat of Light Tone wash to finish it all off.
So, who has two thumbs and a fully painted Heroquest core box? This guy!
My FLGS owner pointed out that Hasbro had a starting quest online called .... "The New Beginning" or something. Therefore, I went and downloaded that. Afterall, I had a fully painted set so now I could start to get playing!
Here is a mock-up shot of one of the rooms from the new quest. I have not had time to play it yet, but I knew I wanted some "action" shots with everything all painted up!
As I organize a time to get playing with my family and friends, I have been able to use my painted Heroquest (and others) in my weekly RPG games. There we use an overhead projector to project an image onto the tabletop. Then, we can place the minis on the projection. The key thing is that these minis have all ready seen a decent amount of use!
Anyway, until next time!
