Hero Quest Classic by Lawnor

This project will likely be just a stream of WIP shots with little to no text.  That may change though.  Gonna try and take pics at every step with every paint pot used.  I am going for high end tabletop batch painted.  I may focus more on individuals, but a swarm of identical greenskin trash are not getting display level paint jobs.

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the sculpts.  I feared my love would be unjustified nostalgia, but they’re actually quite detailed and quite nice, for 30ish year old single piece board game plastics.  Heck, I’m sure I’ve bought worse in recent years.

I got this box cheap off Ebay.  The seller said the corner of the box was damaged, but it had barely been played.  He thought everything was there, but had not checked.  I’ve had a look and the card count matches, there’s one extra dice.  The gargoyle need his whip gluing back on.  Two goblins, the barbarian and elf were all missing their weapons.  Otherwise everything appears present and as new.  Nice!

The terrain pieces below are being PVA glued to bottle tops and jar lids as I don’t think Blu tak will hold them in place while also not accidentally masking parts I want to paint.

The replacement weapons are coming from left over Kingdom Death armour kit sprues.

That’s the skeletons done.  Now on to the next entry, and back to the mummies.

I’ve tried to pick colours that will end up flat.  Vibrant colours would pop more, but I feel like orcs that live in a dungeon would not be wearing bright, clean clothes.

This just leaves the eyes and teeth, and the zombie hear and all those minions are done.  Next time I get a day to myself I think I’ll focus on the terrain.  That should be relatively quick to get done as it’s mostly just textured wood, or stone.  Sadly, friends expect me to be sociable this weekend so no progress will be made for a while.  See you in two weeks.

I’ve been real bad about updating this project, but I have been working on it!  I didn’t have much free time in week 3 as I was dragged away all weekend to play games with friends.  We tried Resident Evil 2 as our next campaign game.  We played 2 missions to give it a fair shot, but we just didn’t like it.  There’s some major design flaws, like all the art is so dark you’re just playing on a black grid.  It also feels like the dice are too in charge and there’s no mechanic to let you try and swing things your way.  I know its a horror game and things should always be hard, but it feels too hard because the dice are too swingy.  When you can make all the right decisions and still lose, a game can stop feeling fun.  Also, we had a long stretch where people weren’t doing anything but walking as they were too far away from the action, and they got bored.  It definitely feels like a writers first board game.

Next time we start Frosthaven.  If anyone still wants to buy a Kickstarter RE2 bundle let me know.  I have a friend who probably wants to sell his barely touched copy.

Anyway, on to the painting.