Hero Quest Classic by Lawnor

They were all then bases coated as before, and varnished.  And that’s the last model in the box finished.

I don’t own a fancy motorised turntable, but what I do have is a manual painters turntable and very shaky hands.  I like to call this piece, “I’ll take the 100 on the right, you take the 100 on the left”

And that’s this project all finished, unless someone wants to send me any of the expansions, or maybe even a copy of Space Crusade?

Every couple of months I get together with friends for a weekend of Frosthaven.  Saturday morning one of us has a class and another just cant get out of bed.  I’m thinking I may use this time for the remaining 2 of us to sit down with one, perhaps both, of his kids and play this, one game a session.

I’ve been slowly playing through HeroQuest with my friend and his kid, so I snapped up the first 2 expansions (Return of the Witch Lord, and Kellar’s Keep) when I found them cheap.  While the model designs are probably better, I’d have to say they are worse, for what the product is.  They have a lot more detail, which would be nice, but it makes them more difficult to clean up and the plastic does not respond well to tools.  it also means they take a lot more time and effort to paint up.  Take the skeletons for example.  The classic prints were basecoat, wash, drybrush, paint the scythe and you’re done and have cool models.  Now there’s layers of clothing and armour fragments.  Not just more colours and more layers, but they’re more awkward to paint.  They should have been designed with the mindset that this will be a lot of peoples first hobby experience and kept simple.  Instead they made the hobby side demanding and not fun.

Also, I’d like to complain about the plastic inserts.  The don’t just hold the models.  They clamp them in place.  just getting them out I was afraid I was going to break them.  There’s no way I’m putting painted models back in those boxes.  I’ll remove the paint.  It’s a horrible design.  I need some foam inserts designed to fit those boxes and models.