Hello everyone.
I'm Wallack, from Spain, although now I'm living in Ireland.
I collected
WH since 2008-2009 but never really played. Never had the time to paint all my minis and didn't want to play with unpainted ones. Anyways, long story short, I like
AoS because the rules are simpler and plan to play only the base box with my wife, but I love, more than that, dungeon crawlers.
I had a copy (no minis, and bad condition) of Warhammer Quest, the spanish edition (which was worse than the normal edition, less minis-content). I own Descent 2nd with a lots of its expansions, even made custom content (new classes and stuff), kickstarted dungeon saga (although I sold it) and got a copy of
WHQ normal edition with everything but the heroes and some counters.
Anyways, everytime I decided to play any kind of game I was always houseruling the **** out of it apart from changing the minis the game uses, might be descent and the non-hobby minis (although they are top quality for a board game, if you are a wargammer they are low quality) might be
WHQ and the old style ... or just that I didn't get the mini I wanted for my mighty hero!
That said I started working on Freequest, a set of rules (for now in Spanish, but will translate once I test them) for a dungeon crawler. I have worked on it for about 2 months. The rules are pretty simple but also long to cover a lot of aspects. The idea is to have a lot of cards with the items, abilities and everything and also supply the photoshop template so everyone can create new stuff.
The main idea behind the game is to allow a lot of customization but not only with the rules but also playing, the main difference (I think) is that there are no classes, instead you build your character getting abilities. If you want to be a wizard, get the abilitie to cast spells and buy some of them. You want to be a paladin? get some big ass sword and some holy spells ... anyways that would come later when I game test it and translate everything.
Anyways, here are some of my painted stuff, I'm not a good painter but some minis are really easy to paint with a good result, however don't like/know/want to paint faces, hence this results:
As you can see the face is too dark but I will try to light it up a bit on another session. Here is another elf hero I wanted to paint:
Both swords are pretty simple, I tried to wet blend them but wasn't really able, but once I have more swords to paint will do a nice gradient with the airbrush, just that don't want to start with it now, and also afraid of not masking right the mini and making a mess.
As this is a dungeon crawler I went and painted some skeletons, this are from Otherworld miniatures and are full metal:
Also wanted a bit of nostalgia in my games and painted some of the old skeletons from vampire counts:
Then painted some of the furniture for the Dungeon:
The furniture is from Dungeon Saga but after I sold it I kept some of it as the stretch goals came with tons of them and the buyer was ok.
For the tiles I wanted the approach a lot people did with styrofoam (xps) and carving the tiles, but takes time and is more messy. I saw some
MDF tiles that one guy (darkops.co.
uk) did for dungeon saga and ordered some custom quantity of them. Is a very easy and fast way to make tiles. Just cut some foam or wood to use as base and then glue the tiles. This are my tiles now, unpainted
ofc.
First my work area, is just the kitchen table, it always start with two paints but as I'm needing more and more I end up with this mess:
Here in Ireland is hard to get blue xps but I managed to buy 6 a3 sheets via eBay. It was around 40 euro but it was worth it.
Here you can see the
MDF tiles, I started with a 8x2 halway with simple tiles (yes, I used a kitchen knife):
Then I made a 4x4 room:
Then a 5x7. This one is weird because the odd number I can never fit the hallway at the middle of the entrance, but anyways, this one ended bigger because there are more space between some of the tiles to place some columns:
You can also place them on an adjacent tile so you have two different positions for each column. Here the first three "rooms":
I ended up adding some sand and some small stones that I later (can't see in the pictures) removed to keep just the sand, as the stones might make hard for the models to stand. Also you can see a pic with a chaos warrior that I use to test some stuff, was a quick paint job (20-30 min) and the glue to the base was a bit spilled hence you see the "fog".
Made also more rooms:
The small 2x2 is pretty neat because it allows to make a corner as a T junction or a small hallway a bit longer. More rooms and a picture of everything, you can see here what I meant about the columns:
Then I worked on some stairs for the entrance. This will always be the starting point. This took me a whole weekend because even if making the stairs was easy, covering them with pva glue and paper to make it seem like a full piece was hard. My foam is 1" thick so I wanted the high area to be 2" so I couldn't just carve the stairs, I had to build them and then cover them with pva and paper and then some gesso, but the result is pretty neat, it seems like a single piece:
And now I'm working on the entrance of the dungeon, also again, the hard part is to make it look like one piece, but is going ok I think. This will be used mainly for pictures and to start the dungeon and have the feeling of entering one, not really used in the game:
The entrance was covered with gesso and then with more pva glue and paper and then more gesso ... so is a bit of a pain to work with it because everytime you have to wait at least 12 hours to continue with it.
I painted 6 skeletons archers... not a lot of things to say here as they are plain simple, is just that again, those skelis take time, you have to glue the pelvis with the two legs to the torso, then each feet to each leg, then each arm, then the head and then each weapon as the hand is open ... so they are very fragile (no drybrush!)
The paint scheme is very simple but I like them and is on par with the other skeletons I have (white undercoat and then a wash of agrax earthshade).
Two more heroes, a human warrior (although might be bellow average height) and a human chaos knight that left the chaos armies to become an adventurer but keeping all the power the chaos gods gave him, therefore his huge size:
Again, the paintjob looks sloppy but on the table look really good, I always hate zooming my miniatures :(
Anyways, I keep painting more stuff, I have the freequest stuff I'm working on and also I want to play
AoS so here are some of the pics from the starter set:
Also some work from silver tower that is still in my queue
One acolyte:
Some skavens from the Spires of Dawn or island of blood that I painted to have for my freequest system:
I painted them very quickly, I primed them in white, heavly washed them with black shade and then drybrushed in white. Then used shades or washed to paint the mini except for the armor parts that are metal and the eyes that had a small yellow point once they were dried. Used also some rust textured paint from
GW to make them look better.
Also here some wraiths that painted as well really quick because I wanted them ready. Got them for free from otherworld miniatures when an order took a while to arrive. Top guys
Some columns of the moria set because a dungeon needs columns.
The paint job was really quick and really like the result!
Now going back to the 2.5 board, I decided to make it bigger, 35mm for each square instead of 25mm. My idea is that I wanted to recreate silver tower and they use 34 but also that if I use a 35mm square a monster that uses a 50mm base can still fit in one using only a few of the adjacent squares and considering that the heroes will use 25mm leaves space for them.
I contacted a guy from Spain that runs an ebay store called Modular Terrain, I got the bases from him and he cuts them at any size. I talked with him and we got some really nice design for the dungeon tiles.
Some broken tiles:
Some normal tiles, plain, but with a broken border:
Here is how they look out of the sprue:
So I have a lot of freedom. Also ordered some of the plains but instead of 35mm in 17mm so I can make the squares made from 4 small tiles.
This is still work in progress and will take a while.
I went back then to work on the small starter set from age of sigmar, storm of sigmar is called? because I want to play with my wife and the small scenarios are a great way to introduce us both to the rules.
I painted the 3 blood warriors that will also be part of the dungeon game.
