Adding the final brushstrokes to the last piece of dungeon furniture! Soon, my original HeroQuest set will be officially 100% painted. To celebrate, my brothers and I plan on heading back into Keller’s Keep soon to recreate some of our favorite childhood memories—this time, in full color.
Here’s a sneak peek; If you'd like to see how I painted my Chaos Warriors, you can check them out here.
Is anyone else here caught the 'painting bug'? I’m just about to cross the finish line with my 3rd Edition minis! I honestly thought nothing could top the joy of painting my vintage HeroQuest box set, but sitting down with these classics sculpts proved me wrong.
There is just so much variety to keep the 90's nostalgia alive—from stoic warriors and mystical elves to savage beasts, wizards, and the forces of Chaos and Goblins. I’m especially loving the vibrant, high-fantasy colors of the original artwork; it’s a refreshing change of pace!
Showing this amazing edition some more love! These sculpts are full of so much character.
I lost my Goblin Fanatic but I found a suitable replacement from the time period.
Don't look at me like that, skeleton. At this point I don't think I'll ever paint them.
Found this old new in box Dungeon Denizens for 10euro in my local modelling train store, was literally reminiscing about the Minotaur mini just the other day!
Some of my custom foam rooms. Trying to make more use of z space. Got a really tall one in mind next, but it will take a few weeks.
Another flavourful piece designed by LittleMonk, the text reads "The soft light from the lantern reveals blood splattered on the floor." So made a small hammer attack diorama 😁
The Ubersreik Five battle the perfidious Skaven in the tunnels under Helmgart
After completing most of the base game LittleMonks work offers a huge amount of inspiration.
Fancied doing one that was a bit interesting and had some spare crystals from making warp stone counters for mordheim, so here is the Crystal Cave (from Hall of the Hag Queen)
Totally give this game an "A"
I got Dark Water for Christmas, painted them all by March. Then painted some more WH40k things. I got around to playing Dark Water 3 weeks ago. Playing with wife and son. We are having a blast. This game is fantastic. Of course I had read this that and the other, lots of hate on YouTube. Its fun. Bottom line spent hours painting. Will spend hours playing.
Our first run through we died in ACT 1. It was silly. We are injured and one scenario into ACT 3 now.
I just wanted to report that it is a lot of fun. Easy rules. The characters are fun. The loot is fun, the puzzles and quests are quirky and fun. Its my first WHQ game, really any game of this type.
I had D&D and tried to play with my kids who are just a bit too young, they bickered and killed each other. A campaign with no DM puts the kind of guardrails I needed on a game like this. Who knows, maybe we will get crazy and play Gloomhaven.
So a couple of weeks ago I set myself a bit of challenge. I've painted a fair bit of modern Warhammer since coming back to the hobby, but I wanted to try to paint something older from my collection to form as a test model for something a little more biggerer in scale but similarly orc-y. But I've never built a custom base or for that matter tried my hand at NMM, can't say I've succeeded in either here but I've learned a lot from this mini (mainly from making many mistakes)! Namely find a better primer, as it kept chipping on high points, find better green paints my pot of Vallejo goblin green has terrible coverage, still not sure on some of the colour choices like the blue lips/ears, maybe purple is better? Need to get better at cleanliness and smooth gradients, but I can reserve that for what's after this test model.
Anyway it was a great experience painting a simpler model where you needed to add the detail and personality yourself. Like one of his eyes was a little droopy so instead of painting it up, I made it damaged and added a (Ziggy) tattoo to make him look ard. My favourite part was the shield's gribbly face, I enjoyed making the mushrooms too.
I'm sharing in case it inspires anyone to give it a go. All comments welcome.
Have been wanting to play Warhammer Quest 95 online but have not found it supported anywhere. I have run two campaigns in Foundry VTT now (Star Wars 5E and Twilight 2000 using Everyday Heroes rules) and gotten familiar with the setup. Used the Foundry Custom System Builder to make Warhammer Quest. Played our first game last night and it went well.
I think there is a way to move all my data to a Compendium and share it, but have not tried it yet. When I get some of the kinks worked out and add more data I would be willing to see if I can export it in a way someone else could import it.
The biggest change I made to let it work easier with Foundry, and how my players are used to playing TTRPGs, is to get rid of separate Warrior and Monster phases. Each combatant just rolls a 1D6 and adds their Initiative score, they are then sorted highest to lowest. I can then click on the Power Phase Macro and it adds a Power Phase event with Initiative of 99 so it is always first. It occurred to me if someone wanted to keep the phases separate they could just add 20 to each of the Warriors Initiative so it would always go Power Phase, all the Warriors, then all the Monsters.
The Event and Treasure Decks are Rollable Tables. Click on either of those and it will pull a card and show it to the group in chat.
Rather than placing tiles, I build the whole map in the Paint.Net image editor and save it to a single image file. I then place the walls, doors and secret doors on the map so the players can move their tokens through the dungeon and can only see what their tokens can see.
For combat I tell the player the Weapon Skill of their target and they click the number on the chart on their sheet. It then rolls a dice, adds any To Hit modifiers, and compares that number to the needed number in the chart and lets them know if it is a Hit or Miss. Shooting attacks are a single button, it rolls and compares to the Ballistic Skill.
I adjusted the dice available with the Dice Tray module to just show the D6, D66 and D3.
The map in the screenshot is a quick introductory adventure I made. I have the first two adventures for Death Below Karak Azgul done and ready to run, but no screenshots here because, spoilers.
My current project is how to work Settlements. I like the idea, but noted it can take some time to run each Warrior through their day which leaves the other players waiting. Right now I am using Journals so several players can be looking over their specific destinations at the same time. Will try some stuff and see what works.
For Settlements I decided to create a Journal for each Warrior, and then each Settlement Type. The first one I have done is Dwarf - City. The player can then grab the appropriate one and go through it, "Choose Your Own Adventure" style. You can embed links, macros, rollable tables and items in the pages. I looked a making just one for everyone but there are so many special rules and exceptions I was afraid it would just confuse the players. Just trying to make a chart showing which Warrior could go do which location is a pretty big table.
I really only need to make the Dwarf - City journal for the Dwarf. I duplicate it, then delete the parts that don't belong to make the Town and Village ones. A little more work on me, but will make it a lot easier on the players. Every button link and option in their journal will be valid for their current Warrior and settlement.
Settlements
