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MN (Currently in WY)

Greetings all,

For Christmas, I got a nice, shiny, new Heroquest core set. In theory, I could have opened it up and started playing it that morning. However, I put two restrictions in myself as soon as I opened it up.

1. No playing it until it was ALL painted.

2. No expansions until Core Set was done

Sadly, I could not get to painting them right away, as I was still finishing up my Battle of Kadesh project.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/811053.page#11655668

However, with all being done, it was time to jump in and work on my Heroquest Core Set. I am documenting is all on the Blood and Spectacles blog as I power through the painting process. I will mostly be using Army Painter Speedpaints v1.0, Armypaint Washes, and Armypainter regular line. For prime I use Grey Seer from GW, and my Matte coat is a Krylon spray. There are a few departures, but when I use something different I call it out on the blog.
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/05/on-painting-desk-heroquest.html



For some odd reason, I started my painting journey with the Heroes! Normally, that is not the approach I would taking, saving them for last. In addition, I painted them all 1-at-a-time. Again, not my normal approach at all. For the minions, I got back to batch painting them in a group, but even then I tried to make them all individuals, but with a common theme.



That is the results after my first couple sessions with the Core Set. I was impressed by the models. They were way better than some Hellboy Board Game pieces I had painted early last year. In fact, I enjoyed painting them better than some Wizkids or Reaper Bones models. I will probably use these for D&D minis as well as Heroquest. The material is solid and the detail is mostly good. They take well to speed painting.

Have you painted up your Heroquest models? Feel free to share them here. Let's go on this quest together!





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Boosting Ultramarine Biker






Those came out well. There is a lot of nice detail on those minis.

I know that feeling of wanting to buy more before you have the first ones painted all too well.
   
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Powerful Spawning Champion





There is not this idea.

I've got a bunch painted from various random expansions, probably should have stuck to a plan like you're doing here, but too late for that, heh.

I like what you've done so far, bright colors work on the chaos (er, dread) warlock guy.
   
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MN (Currently in WY)

Thanks, that was some GW Contrast paint that is not normally in my arsenal. I think it popped really well and makes him look aligned to the Dread Changer of Ways.

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MN (Currently in WY)

I got a good start painting up the Heroes, the Dread Warlock, and the Goblins, but there is still a lot of miniatures to go. I had decided to start with the forces of Dread and the Greenskins first. Here was my progress so far...



Not a bad start, but there are still a lot of miniatures to paint. Almost a daunting amount. It took me a few weeks, but I eventually got all the Dread forces, Orcs, and Undead finished up. I mostly used ARmy Painter Speedpaint 1.0, Armypainter Washes and basic Armypainter paints for a few touch-ups here and there.

I ended up with the set looking like this....



That is the Heroquest Core Boxed set miniatures done. Now it is onto the furniture. Noting like painting some doors to get the heart pounding!

If you want to know more about how I painted any particular model, some close-ups, and group shots you can find them on the Blood and Spectacles blog here: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/06/on-painting-desk-back-on-quest.html

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MN (Currently in WY)

I picked up a set of the Armypainter Metallic Speedpaints.

Those will be making an appearance in this thread in the near future. Stay tuned!

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Master Engineer with a Brace of Pistols





Northumberland

Nice work Easy! Keep plucking away

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One and a half feet in the hobby


My Painting Log of various minis:
# Olthannon's Oscillating Orchard of Opportunity #

 
   
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Powerful Spawning Champion





There is not this idea.

Good work getting all those done. The bookcases I found fun to paint with all the little details, the doors... less so.
   
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






Great work, always good to finish a Boxset!

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
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That's really cool. Good luck finishing it all up!
   
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MN (Currently in WY)

Thanks all!

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.



Then I also did all the doors. That let me take a look at what it looked like when it all came together!



You can read and see all the gory details of the process on my blog, IF that is your thing.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/07/on-painting-desk-hq-core-set-complete.html

With the Core Set done, I went and got the Against the Ogres expansion. Review and painting coming soon. I decided on that one first because I wanted to add the ranged enemies.

Hoping to get this on the table soon, and will post the updates here as well.

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MN (Currently in WY)

ince the core set is done, I have picked up my first expansion. I chose Against the Ogres because I wanted the ranged attacker rules. That seemed like a decent change up to the original game.



You can read my review of it here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/07/review-against-ogre-horde-hasbro.html

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Alluring Mounted Daemonette





Australia

The terrain looks great on the board, perfect for HEROES to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge over and around!

Excited to see what you do with the ogres.

t z you are k 
   
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MN (Currently in WY)

Wow, the character Ogres in this Against the Ogres box are huge!



This set is taking me much longer to paint than I expected!

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Alluring Mounted Daemonette





Australia

Lovely retro-looking sculpts!

I might have to try get my hands on these boxes...

t z you are k 
   
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Brigadier General






Chicago

Those new ogre figs look great. Looking forward to seeing some paint on them.

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My Project Log, mostly revolving around custom "Toybashed" terrain.
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MN (Currently in WY)

Dang, Hasbro has been making content faster than I can paint it up!

I have some progress on the Against the Ogre Hordes box on my blog. If you want to see all of it, that is the best place to go.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/08/on-painting-desk-against-ogres-heroquest.html

Here is a taste.....



I picked up a Speed Paints Metallic set, and have been playing around with those as well. However, I still have about half the set to paint! So, more to come on that front soon!

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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






Looking good Easy, the different tabard colours work well on the skeletons

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
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Antwerp

The archers look great! Great job on the furniture too.

'The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.' -- The Duke of Wellington

My hobby log: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/770007.page

 
   
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MN (Currently in WY)

Thanks all! I do love me some Speedpaints.

Finishing up the Ogres, and they are some big dudes!

This gave me some space to pick-up my next HQ Quest pack..... Kellar's Keep. More info on that soon.

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Deep in the Outer Boroughs of NYC

Nice paint jobs on those archers. Looking forward to seeing more from you.

Waaazag da Kan't Stoppable (ORKS) ~6,000 points
Orks-in-Progress, Finished Orks.
Terrain I'm making.
The Darion Sector War Campaign.
Into the Jaws of Hell 40k campaign. 
   
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MN (Currently in WY)

I finished off Against the Ogre Horde boxed set. I was pretty happy with all the new miniatures in the game. The character Ogres are amazing and fun to paint.

Lot's of details at my blog, but here are some photos too.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/09/on-painting-desk-finishing-off-against.html

So, here are the Greenskin missile troops. I love that the Goblins have boomerangs.



and then some actual Ogres. I wanted to make sure that they had a unique "look" to them. Therefore I used a Sand Golem color for their skin-tone and a Absolution Green for their hair. That made them look unique from the Orcs, Goblins, and other Undead troopers.



These two are a couple of character models. An Ogre champion and an Ogre General. They play a pretty big role in the Quests. The unpainted guy is a Reaper Weasel-mancer for scale. These guys are huge.

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Deep in the Outer Boroughs of NYC

Wow, yeah, those Ogres are enormous. Thise green skin archers look great, too.

Waaazag da Kan't Stoppable (ORKS) ~6,000 points
Orks-in-Progress, Finished Orks.
Terrain I'm making.
The Darion Sector War Campaign.
Into the Jaws of Hell 40k campaign. 
   
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MN (Currently in WY)

Downloaded the App for solo-play.

I am having trouble getting folks to play locally. They either want to wargame or RPG, not dungeon-crawl board game.

I will let you know what that is like.

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Bristol, UK

Hell yeah! my favourite board game. Classic or the modern release. Both excellent games and your paint jobs are really grand.

   
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MN (Currently in WY)

I picked up Kellar's Keep and Return of the Witchlord so more updates coming soon. That will round out the re-prints of the OG stuff.

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MN (Currently in WY)

For those following along at home, I added some thoughts on the blog about the Kellar's Keep expansion.



I have photos of the contents and some thoughts on the Quests as well. I will get to painting them all up soon! More to come there.....

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-kellars-keep-hasbroavalon-hill.html

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MN (Currently in WY)

I finished painting up the Kellar's Keep supplement for Heroquest.

Kellar's Keep is focused on saving the King and his army from being besieged by Zargon's forces. The besiegers are tribes of Orcs and Goblins along with the occasional henchmen and the forces of Dread. Therefore, the miniatures in this pack are basically re-treads of some of the sculpts from the Core box. You get 8 more orcs, 6 more goblins, 3 more Abominations, a wooden door and an iron door. Not that much to paint really.

Can you see what is newly painted and what was from the Core set?



You can read all about it on the blog here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/10/on-painting-desk-heroquest-kellars-keep.html

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MN (Currently in WY)

I picked up Return of the Witchlord and put a few thoughts up on the blog......



https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/11/review-return-of-witch-lord.html

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MN (Currently in WY)

I went and painted up all the Return of the Witchlord expansion for Heroquest. Lot's of undead baddies in this one.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/12/on-painting-desk-return-of-witchlord.html



More on the blog....

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