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I have been to Maine, only place in the US I have visited. Saw lots of trees. The flight stopover at Boston doesn't count.
Though in a way it does because it meant that my first glimpse of New World were the silhouettes of the towers of downtown Boston just after dusk, as the airliner banked to turn in to land.. Not quite Manhattan but the right shape for a proper "welcome to the USA".
I still remember that view.
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Good sculpt as usual, plainly done as a background miniature, nothing goofy which is more than ok.
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Orlanth wrote: I have been to Maine, only place in the US I have visited. Saw lots of trees.
Where about, I live in Maine ha ha. It's really great in the summer, can drive 10 minutes in about any direction and find a place to swim. Winter can be rough, but that's what painting models is for
Back when I was there, admittedly that was in the 80's. Supposedly Maine was the poorest state in the Union, yet there is actually less actual poverty there, just fewer ultra rich people.
I liked Maine a lot, though I never learned to appreciate lobster.
Anyway, back to Heroquest miniatures.
No new sculpts to show, but the YouTube channel has been showcasing painted miniatures. These are painted to gaming standard rather than studio. Why they specifically showcased them I don't know, as it obvious that the guy behind this YouTube channel has some hot painting skills which are not being used on this occasion. Maybe they were someone else's work, or Gamezone wanted to show studio and tabletop quality separately. Who knows.
Missed opportunity, I would have liked to see sheer fabrics painted by a studio, preferably with a tutorial.
Much better job. Extra filthy dungeon victims make sense. Even the mini looks like it needs a bath.
Two skellies, dont like the deep brown bone shading, and in fact the inking in general was a bit sloppy but likely a quick paint job.
I really want to see the mummies painted as its hard to judge what the miniatures actually look like, except that they don't look like regular mummies.
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The vampire bride is very Hammer horror as well, and needs a careful pristine paint job.
i like the foul and disheveled look of the prisoner and will recreate it, it looks more sacrifice victim and less pornslave.
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Thank you so much, its looks alot better now I can understand the sculpt.
I feel happier about the selection of undead now.
I was watching the channel daily, they must have uploaded two sessions of videos today, quiaff.
Earlier I saw a comparison between the two dwarves and other stuff we had seen before, as with th last few days and had stopped posting the links until new stuff emerged.
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I'm not a fan of the red coloured flesh for the mummy. I agree that it's much easier to make sense if the sculpt now we've seen it painted, but I'd be inclined to go for a greyish, more corpsey colour.
I will paint mine in traditional Egyptian mujmy colours, flesh a brown black and vomit brown cerement highlighted to dirty white.
While more accurate style (not that it means much to a fantasy game) I would rather have preferred classic muscular bound mummies as per the black and white cinema days.
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It's the female elf at 14 minutes. I heard 'elfa' mentioned several times. It's a very nice piece in a sexy slinky pose. Still she has an hourglass figure, and a large bottom and is more proportioned for human than elf.
She has a separate metal hand with a swordsword to go with the sword on her back.
Multiclass dual wielding fighter-mage?
Veteran barbarian is in three parts.
I don't think we saw the tomb lid before at 45 seconds as a model.
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Ok Gamezone minis fans and backers. We have genuine new content to add today.
First, a repaint on the vampiress, with less drybrush, and a very creepy style.
IMHO badly painted tracker, though it shows the miniature sculpt nicely.
New stuff.
First the zombies. Now these sculpts are different and shows that necromancers are an equal opportunity recruiter.
Liker the mummies this game doesnt go for the usual style at all, and am not so sure of the choices, but its definitely different and if you want ordinary zombies and mummies Mantic will provide.
And a third new miniature to show.
The Knight.
I liked the Knight artwork well enough, but this sculpt is gorgeous. Allowing for the pose though I would have preferred a pollaxe to spear, that is not any way to hold a spear
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You rest a spear with the butt on the ground or over shoulder, which you dont want to with those pauldrons.
Meanwhile the position is not good for at ease, which fro a separ is usually across the chest, the weapon is not readied in any way, yet is not in a restful pose.
It's very similar to the at ease position for a pollaxe though, it hangs on the arms but can be brought fro a swing quickly if needed. In fact some of the guard positions for pollaxe according to the Fechtbucher are not too dissimilar the pose here. Depending on the artwork in the game and assuming I even want the game as intended once I see the rules I might convert the weapon to a pollaxe.
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Wow, those are some massively different zombie designs. So much so that I couldn't buy into both of them having the same in-game stats. If they're using such varied designs I hope they're going to vary how the models behave in-game. That said, I don't dislike either design, it's just jarring to see such a contrast.
As you said, the knight looks brilliant. I see what you mean about the spear, I'll wait and see what it looks like in real life, but it looks like it should be simple enough to switch if it looks funny when I have it in my hands.
On an unrelated note, as was mentioned previously, can we go back to spoiler tagging the videos? It took me 5 attempts to get this page to load on my mobile phone!
While different I think zombification is a real leveller. Size however matters. So I think fat housewife zombie is probably more dangerous than the regular zombies we see.
On an unrelated note, as was mentioned previously, can we go back to spoiler tagging the videos? It took me 5 attempts to get this page to load on my mobile phone!
So that explains the spoiler tags, I thought it was to make image heavy posts more compact.
Ok, will do, though you will have to make to with earlier posts as they are.
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Orlanth wrote: You rest a spear with the butt on the ground or over shoulder, which you dont want to with those pauldrons.
Meanwhile the position is not good for at ease, which fro a separ is usually across the chest, the weapon is not readied in any way, yet is not in a restful pose.
It's very similar to the at ease position for a pollaxe though, it hangs on the arms but can be brought fro a swing quickly if needed. In fact some of the guard positions for pollaxe according to the Fechtbucher are not too dissimilar the pose here. Depending on the artwork in the game and assuming I even want the game as intended once I see the rules I might convert the weapon to a pollaxe.
I think that is new, at least not seen in individual close up. Though it was there on some of the long videos IIRC.
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On an unrelated note, as was mentioned previously, can we go back to spoiler tagging the videos? It took me 5 attempts to get this page to load on my mobile phone!
So that explains the spoiler tags, I thought it was to make image heavy posts more compact.
Ok, will do, though you will have to make to with earlier posts as they are.
Yep that's why I changed to Spoiler tags before and asked for them again the more videos on the page the slower and longer it takes to load. The page is taking ages to load for me now and that's on a laptop with 120MB broadband.
I don't recall seeing the Dwarf before looks good. There was a Hangout last night but I haven't seen any news from it yet.
Gorechild wrote: From BGG, translated by one of their users from a French Heroquest forum...
'I'm sorry of being late, I had to pass this weekend with my family and yes, I have had the chance to speak with Dionisio on Friday evening. I will start by telling you this, the official date is on May 14, 2015 for the stores to sell the boardgame. This means that the game will be delivered to them earlier and the pre-orders will be delivered to you on May 7. The backers even earlier than that but I have no idea for the pouet (*what is 'pouet'?). Just for the things to arrive little by little. Regarding the minatures, I have noticed that Rokror have already dropped the piece so I will not occupy myself with that. My translation FR has been reviewed by another fan FR and transmitted to a professional translator by one of the editors who are responsible for the finalization of the documents. I will not receive the prototype but only the boardgame. My only task from now on is the updates' translation of the official site (2 of them are already done but they are not online yet) or the online boutique (1 is still not on line).'
So if all goes to plan It sounds like the start of May is when backers will be getting their games (sod's law it will be the day I go on holiday for 2 weeks D: ). But most reassuringly, it sounds like the rules are being professionally translated. So no dodgey google translations like most of their updates have been!
Gamezone.de is reporting a release date now of mid-July.
I don't like her sculpt that much, it seems crude somehow. Are they rushing to finish?
Anyways I wish the female mage was better named. While wizard is sometimes unisex given the distinction wizard is a name term, 'mago' can translate to mage directly, but then so can 'hechicera'. However the latter more closely translates to sorceress.
Anyway they are starting to roll in again.
Automatically Appended Next Post: The other half of the vampiress set.
Spoiler:
[shrek]Dead girl off the table![/shrek]
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Very characterful piece, this model is very different. Craziness well emphasised, is his staff made up from a norse ship figurehead and a french horn?
The models are coming thick and fast now, on the home straight maybe.
Elfa
Spoiler:
I am really impressed with the two most recent releases. It's good to see the elf up close, the metal weapon isn't an issue to me, in fact its a bonus as I can hand prime the hand and wrist and 'paint' ther blade with brasso. But the eight core models ere supposedly all red resin, this knocks back the core aesthetic.
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I'm really impressed as well, the female elf is an especially good sculpt.
I hope that the female wizard and maybe the zombies will be a little more detailed when/if we see a final casting (rather than a 3d printed prototype), but if not, the games overall production quality has already exceeded my expectations.
Well, have to say both of those look absolutely fantastic.
The 'mad mage' especially, really like how GZ are braking out of the traditional fantasy tropes with a lot of the miniatures they have revealed so far.
