So this evening we made a start on the first adventure in Heroquest. We Actually only managed three rooms as we started late and needed to go through the rules.
Luckily no-one died, but our duce were not really in our favour. Evidently Zargon had cursed them for us! We enjoyed it though and luckily found enough healing potions to help keep us alive.
We shall carry on soon.
This evening I decided I had better get my finger out and make a start on Loreil Softvale. I went for a ‘dwarf skin’ colour this time as opposed to the ‘crusader skin’ I used on Mizzi
I also got Grace the Pirate cured and here she is in all her glory.
As the great, late Frankie Howard said in Up Pompei…”don’t point those at me dear, they may go off!”
Now I have definitely had a problem with this print as there is a ‘scar’ above her right eye and I must have missed a support under her right arm as there was a little damage there too.
To be brutally honest I should have oriented her in a different way on the build plate as the supports have left some damage on her chin. Nothing a bit of sanding wouldn’t solve, but annoying anyway.
Well my warlock print came out fine, so another bust to add to the queue.
Well Mizzy is just about finished so I decided to undercoat Loreil Softvale the Druid.
I need to highlight the orb and tidy up a few areas on Mizzy. After two print failures on the warlock bust yesterday, I decided to do the supports myself. Today was a success!…Ahh the joys of 3D printing!
We still haven’t played Heroquest yet… hopefully soon.
I was perusing a particular social media platform beginning with ‘F’ and came across a real life Mizzy!
Well I eventually bit the bullet and decided to go for Heroquest. I had this game when it first came out and absolutely loved it. I even took it to Wales with me when I worked there as a summer job. It was so popular in the Hostel that I ended up making two new characters one was definitely a thief, I know for definite as I found rhe card I made. I think the other was a druid. I must admit this was a nostalgic journey, really helped by the cheap price I managed to get it for.
I haven’t really watched any YouTube discussions or unboxing videos so I was going in a bit blind and was honestly a little worried that it was going to be something similar to what GW did to Necromunda (I just hope they keep their mitts off Mordheim).
I shouldn’t have worried, apart from the miniatures it looks really, really similar.
The one major difference is in the furniture and doors is that they are all plastic rather than the card and plastic of the original.
The miniatures have some total differences. The Fimir have gone and are replaced by Abominations… basically fishmen.
There are four heroes and thirty one monster miniatures.
I am really tempted to paint everything 🙂
The miniatures are made of a soft plastic, not like the original hard plastic of the original.
Hopefully the kids will enjoy it as much as I did.
Well my daughter came back home today at dinner time and seems as fit as a flea. MRI scan is being booked for her.
I had a bit of a stressful afternoon/evening as my 15 year old fitted. She suddenly went no verbal, passed out then had what could be best described as an Epileptic fit. So I got back in past nine. 5 hours in A&E with her and my wife having to stay in overnight.
I really couldn’t be bothered it, but added gold onto the bronzeas a highlight. Not that you can really tell. I also went blue on the lenses.
Well this evening I went for some metallic bronze to do all of Mizzy’s buckles. It was then that I remembered how bad the Army Painter first generation metallics were. I decided on these instead of the Speedpaints because it would save me undercoating them all white.
I also remembered her eyebrows this evening!
My next conundrum is what colour and how to do those lenses on her goggles.
I will need to so a bit of touching up as some of the paint has rubbed off. Perhaps on the next one I will use my one and only GW painting handle.
Well Mizzy is getting closer to being finished and spartan from the stress of ghe eyes then I have thoroughly enjoyed doing her. This to me is a bit of a shock as I was a ‘whole army painted in a week and sod the mistakes’ kind of Painter. She has actually forced me to slow down. Is she perfect and error free, heck no. This is definitely a case of the journey matching the destination. The main thing for me is I am happy with her.
I am trying to work out whether to do one more coat on the main bit of her hair or not. If I don’t then it is just the eyebrows,glass and metal to do.
I have downloaded two more of these from Miniatures of Madness. I have the pirate I showed and now there is also Agatha the Warlock to join the team.
So in total three of this range to paint. As the Druid is undercoated I may do her next.
Bogenwald 