WARHAMMER QUEST: RE-CREATING MIDDLE-HAMMER'S FINEST DUNGEON CRAWLER
MINIATURES: ADVENTURERS & MONSTERS
I was lucky enough to find my original WHQ Adventurer minis from 1995 - I'd thought they were long gone, but they were lurking amongst an old bits-box of stuff. I had painted them when I first got the box and matched the original 'Eavy Metal Adventurers - apart from the Dwarf's beard! I opted for black because the wizard already has a grey beard. I had a few of the extra warrior packs, but although the cards were still there for a few of them, the only one I could find the miniature for was the Troll Slayer. The Elf had a snapped bow, which I have replaced with a similar bow from my bits box. I also repainted the bases grey. The original 'Eavy Metal minis were all Goblin Green. I never really understood this for a dungeon crawler, but vaguely remember hearing one of the GW Old Guard talking about this in an interview. The guidelines were that all bases were Goblin Green, so even minis for games like WHQ and Necromunda got the same treatment, regardless of practicalities
I was also lucky enough to find 6 Goblin Spearmen - not all the spears survived so another hunt through the bits box for spares was needed. I also wanted all the Orcs and Goblins to have the same shields, so after looking through my old collection I scrounged enough moon-face shields to suit my purposes. These minis hadn't been painted in 1995, so I was free to choose a colour scheme. I departed a little form the bright '95 reds though. I wanted something a bit more grounded and authentic, so I went with brown leather
Unfortunately I wasn't as lucky with my Orcs - I had one original mono-pose plastic mini, plus another couple of Oldhammer Orcs that had been lurking in my bits box for a while. I had a search on-line and found some armoured Orcs on Black Tree Designs website and as they were sold in a pack of 3 I thought I'd give them a try. They're a little smaller in stature than the old Citadel sculpts, but for the purposes of this game I thought they would fit quite well. Again I went with blacks and browns for the colours
And I also used the Moon Face shields with grey bases
Black Tree also had some nice Orc Archer sculpts, so I stuck with them for the 6 Orc Archers
I did manage to find a lone '95 spider amongst my collection
But as I needed 12, I had to do a bit of searching on the internet and found these Baboon Spiders on Ebay. I quite liked the realistic sculpts, and again went with a more natural paint scheme, rather than the bright red and black of the old minis 
Another Ebay purchase for Giant Rats - this time from Reaper I believe. 
For the Minotaurs I went to Heresy Miniatures. It's a much bigger sculpt than the original WHQ minis, but it's also a bit more dynamic with a warrior's half-dismembered body in one hand 
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