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My children are aged 5 and 10 - and a few weeks ago I brought my Warhammer stuff down from the loft.

They loved Heroquest - the little one was glued to it for the duration, counting the squares to move, rolling the dice. Brought a tear to the eyes.

But what they prefer is Space Crusade without the board. The board and the missions are very limiting.
So this is I guess like kiddified WH40k - a skirmish game using the space crusade dice.



(The picture shows the end of a fight where they have advanced under cover, used the buildings to make a killzone, ambushed a dreadnought, and brought their heavy weapons to bear on a Chaos guard post)

Although I can recommend Warhammer to younger children, they must absolutely not be allowed to paint them.

Especially not with old pots of Humbrol and car paint and gloss enamel that their parents happened to have in the garage. As I did.

It's taken about 2 weeks to strip the paint from the Space Crusade models (of which there are about 100 as I added to them as White Dwarf added to the rules).
The worst ones had an "undercoat" of white Dulux woodwork gloss, followed by copious Humbrol, followed by Citadel spray primer, followed by patches of Dark Angel Green where I'd hoped to repurpose the collection as a small WH40k army.

I bathed the minis in isopropyl alcohol for ~2 hours: the citadel paint dissolved nicely; some of the enamel and gloss came off with a toothbrush; some of the enamel and gloss turned rubbery and could be picked off with a sewing-needle (about 15-30 minutes per figure, done under a magnifying glass); and a little of it seemed to be mysteriously bonded to the plastic. It seems to depend on the paint colour, the plastic, and perhaps even the consistency of the paint when it was applied.

They are pretty complete: with even things like a missing tyranid claw and a red space marine assault cannon, and the end of a gretchin's gun turning up in the bottom of another box.

Space Marines


Terminators + Chaos


Orks + Tyranids


Unless anyone has urgent advice, I plan to zenithal prime them all today with citadel spray cans. And then gradually get them to - not an expert's or a youtube restorer's paint job - but the paint job that I should have been able to do if I'd had parental help, brushes that didn't come from paint-by-numbers sets, electric light in the garage (etc).

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Southampton, UK

I'm very slowly doing exactly the same as you, with both Hero Quest and Space Crusade. It's slow going, but I'm enjoying it immensely!
   
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Hi @Crispy78 - the Heroquest heroes and chaos androids are looking good and I'm the exact age to have wanted a Skeletor-themed Chaos sorceror

Well, there is no need for 3 pics of models being primed - but I really noticed the difference on these gretchin



Being able to see their impish facial expressions again after 25 years makes all the time I spent rummaging around in their nether regions with a sewing needle worthwhile.

I was worried priming might add too much paint when there was already the stubborn Humbrol layer underneath it - but I think these show the lost detail isn't as bad as it looked.
And these miniatures after all were sculpted for kids to paint, and one of the great things about them is the way they introduce a range of different simple techniques.
So they are somewhat forgiving.

But what I found more interesting was that the Terminator captain has his detail back in areas that I'm sure I didn't get all the old paint out of. (the tiny skulls on his sword + the shoulderpad insignia)
I wonder if the black primer's thinning agent could have managed to dissolve the enamel paint better than alcohol?







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Tangentville, New Jersey

I'm loving seeing all these old models.


 
   
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21/06/2022 - Heroquest Elf



I painted the elf ahead of the other Heroquest stuff. At some point he got crushed under an adult's foot, which broke him off at both ankles, and I lost most of the sword.
Due to the repair, he ended up in my work area rather than going back in the box with the others.

But then I remembered this was my first character for an RPG. At school when I was 9-10 I had behaviour problems so I had to come home at lunchtime - and I used to play Heroquest by myself until it was time to go back for lessons.
Therefore he is probably also the RPG character I spent the longest "being". I would have solo'd the whole of Heroquest and 3 of the expansions with this elf. I reasoned he was better than the Barbarian or the Dwarf because he could take the fire spells.

I'd read LotR in full by that age, and a simplified Mabinogion, so I gave him a Welsh-y sounding name: Geladwyn
I didn't remember the elf had been my character until I was halfway through painting him. I'd have said I played the Barbarian, or the Dwarf (who I look most like now)

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