I stopped by my friend Lee's house earlier and after having a ferrit about in his loft came away with the above horde of goodies, plus a bunch of Hero Quest furniture, one rather warped board, at least two decks of Treasure and Spell cards and a whole bunch of broken mini's.
The good stuff is as follows..
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So after several months of house work, leaking washing machines, and minding the parents dog, I finally got around to having a game of HeroQuest, and it was decided that we needed Henchmen to hire on.
So I picked up a box set of Brettonian Men at Arms, and after several mishaps with superglue, I got 8 painted up, 4 henchmen, 1 Sargent, 1 monk, 1 jester/bard and an archer. Now I just need some rules.
And in case anyone was wondering, these are a nightmare to put together, hence why I stopped at 8.
Some new furniture I picked up from Unearthed Games, the new game shop that has opened up in Middlesbrough, seems a friendly place with a nice game room upstairs. Anyhow, this stuff should go well in a game of HeroQuest.
I haven't been doing any painting as of late, just noticed I didn't make any posts for September. Anyhow, I finally got to sit down and paint yesterday and got this little miniature, I bought off ebay in 2005, painted up.
This is Griselda who was released by Games Workshop some time in the 80's as part of a box set of White Dwarf Personalities, of which I have 3 more from the set to paint up some time.
One of 4A Miniatures new releases, a retro looking Tech Priest that wouldnt look out of place with a bunch of old school Rogue Trader miniatures. A real nice and easy to paint sculpt, and dirt cheap to. Get them now. http://www.fouraminiatures.com/page2.htm
This is the third Trixie Ive painted, but its a nice easy miniature to paint, and whats better is the fact that its a freebie from Ramshackle Miniatures. Everytime I make an order I make sure to include a Trixie.
Picked this guy up off ebay a few weeks ago, I wanted to paint him up to match my other Servitors, so a blue jumpsuit for being a close combat Servitor, and green decayed skin for being a techno zombie, though I think I went a bit overboard on the green wash.
I finished off an Inquisitor the other day, though I'm going to use her as a Veteran Sister for my second battle squad (sorry for the poor photo).
I also managed to finish off the last of the Repentia Sisters, though I still have to start the whip weilding Mistress with the stupid flame helmet...
We managed to get another game of HeroQuest in a few nights ago, playing through the "Legacy of the Orc Warlord" mission. The heroes had to escape from a cell, find thier equipment then escape, though Lee, who was in charge of the heroes decided to just rampage across the map unarmed and wipe out almost all the monsters before ehr got the dwarf tooled up to kill Grak the Orc Warlords son. It was a good game and was the first that all painted miniatures were used, which made me a happy chap.
(Due to IE9's issues with Blogspot Im forced to use Opera, which doesnt like me posting text between the photo's.)
I rattled off a few more Undead for HeroQuest over the last two days, the Skeletons were nice and quick, as was the Mumie, but the Zombies gave me a few problems. I couldn't remember how to paint rotting flesh and ended up with a green blue wash mix on one, kinda reminds me of a 70's zombie movie. While I was at it, I got the big guy painted up as a statue, rather than painting him as a demon, as he is a Gargoyle in HeroQuest, not a Bloodthirster.
While Im in the fantasy mood, I dug through the lead mountain and dug out a tomb and a treasure chest, both from the same Reaper set, they should look good on the board.
Something you really dont want to find in the engine room of your space ship. Four A miniatures produce these little critters, I wish they would get some more, 3 just isnt enough!
