Oldhammer Adventures
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About the Project
Revisiting some old games and bringing them back to life and seeing if they are as good as I remember. This includes a bit of painting and modeling as well was forcing folk to play them.
Related Genre: Fantasy
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2026
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Steps up or down
Another problem is stairs. I can't really do stairs going down to the next level unless I elevate the rest of the board so they will always go upstairs.
Another problem are the doors. The original plastic kits had very flimsy hinges that would break. I don't think we have solved this with 3dprints. The doors in the game do need ho open and close. The other option is to do whole prints of open doors and empty doorways. At least we could add some variation in door styles.Size problems
A slight problem presented itself with the rooms size. The squares on the tile were made the same as the ones on the corridor sections but they aren't. Once printed I realised they are smaller.
They are smaller because they have an outer wall where doors are placed. So as you can see my room didn't fit beside the corridor sections
A quick fix in scale and I was back in business Returning to the dungeon
A friend of mine has been producing 3d Files for creating board pieces for warhammer quest. I asked if he could fo the same for advanced heroquest which is my dungeon crawler of choice. I sent him images of the board pieces znd he got to work recreating them, right down to the broken flagstones
Tricky making sure the jigsaw pieces work. I did say he dint need to go that far as flat pieces can just rest beside each other but he carried on
3d printing squats
I have a soft spot for old-school squats and have a few metals but browsing 3d printing websites I found some squat lookalikes in cults. They came unsupported but printed ok. I painted them up in the style of the old plastic box set art. I also found some files for trikes and bikes so might have a go at printing them.
Squares or round
What are these old squats doing on square bases?
That's better 
Fantasy on round bases, nnoooooo. I did a video on Advanced Heroquest and realised having round bases on a square grid board is a bit odd. I felt bad rebasing these old minis but it works better in my mind.
Olhammer 40k army
This army was a labour of love over 15 years ago. I used to go into warhammer world once a month and use their catalogue service to order bits to complete this army. I realised its never rolled a dice in anger. Some of the conversions such as the cold one riders are a bit bad by my modern standards but I remember taking my time with the paint work which followed zulu war colour schemes. I got this army out because I'm thinking of saying goodbye to it in the new year and selling it on for minis I will actually use. They look good on a shelf but I have historical zulu war minis for that.
Giving up
Finding nothing but empty rooms our heroes look around the corner
Ans find another dead end and some wandering skaven
Busting open some doors our split up heroes find an empty room on one side and a skaven lair on the other
Backtracking to the start we look for a way forward down two passages 
The right passage led to a couple of rooms but no way forward 
To the left is another lair but our heroes have lost most of their henchmen and wounds are running low
A desperate battle sees many wounds on all sides 
Beyond the lair is another passage guarded by more rat men. Perhaps the illusive quest room is ahead.
Nope, just another way out. There is no way to progress so realising we are in the wrong dungeon we had for home leaving 5 dead henchmen behind but a stack of gold found on the dead skaven. Better luck next time
