From: Brettm Heroquest first edition from the Library of Fantasy [Fantasy Section](355 points)

 Finally decided to paint my original version of Heroquest. I'm still up in the air if I will paint the new version or not. I'm not a huge fan of some of the sculpts. Below is the first edition all painted up as I walk through the Fantasy part of the Library

First up the Heroes

Then the Orcs

Goblins hoping to score a hit

Fimers with those extra attack die

Mummies slowly coming at you

Mummies slowly coming at you

Zombies with the huge cleavers

Chaos warriors and sorcerer

Close up

Blood for the blood god

Close up of the undead

Close up of the green tide.

Did all their bases a way I saw on I believe it was a FB post. Gives it the dungeon like look I feel like. We have 16 Orcs, 12 Goblins, 6 Fimirs, 12 Skeletons, 6 Mummies, 6 Zombies, 4 Chaos Warriors, 1 Chaos Sorcerer, 4 Adventuring Heroes. Total of 67 figures at 5 points each brings up 335 points. Plus the additional 20 for the Fantasy section of the library. Total 355

 What a great collection of Heroquest miniatures, Brett! I have been looking at Heroquest myself recently, as there is a Dutch version that I might get the juniors to play, and your miniatures sure are inspiring! They have a very distinct, old worldy style to them which your great painting fits very well. Those goblins with their oversized kitchen knives!.Well done and another 355 points on the slate for you.

Ah, please remember to resize your photographs and your labels... And a map would be nice too!

From SanderS: A squirl post? (55 points)

 Hoi,

 

Today I'd like to show you a few figures I have painted up to clear the table. First up is a figure from Wargames Foundry depicting good old Julius Caesar. My brother turned 40 last week and as a present he asked for a figure of Caesar. That might seem strange but there's a reason for this. He has two sons, just like me, and the eldest is called Ragnar. So for one of his earlier birthdays I have painted him a figure of Ragnar Lothbrok. His youngest is called...can you guess it? Yup...Julius and hence the figure.

Next up are two test figures I have painted up for a future project my Warhammer 40.000 Thousand Sons. I couldn't choose between the regular and characteristic blue armour and the more 30K ish red armour. In the end I chose the latter since I could proxy them for 30K if need be.

Last are 4 real Fimir from the old Heroquest box. After my previous post I really needed to get rid of the  taste of fish in my mouth and so painted up my remaining Fimir.

7 times 5 points for 28mm figures is 35 if I am not mistaken. Oh and there's 12 skullz on the Chaos Space Marines by the way!

Cheers Sander

Nice figures, Sander! I don't think any of them count for the squirrel duel though, as I believe it is a minimum of 25 points per type. However, as the first figure is a gift, I've added it as a Gift Store entry, so you've got another 20 points and can tick that location off on your studio map..

Tamsin

From SanderS: More Heroquest! (175 points)

 Hoi,

If you have followed earlier Challenges you might have noticed that I am a major fan of the old Heroquest game. Both the game and it's expansions itself as the rule engine behind it really are simple and well balanced and very usable for other themed games. I use the rules for 3D gaming in the GI Joe, He-Man and many other universes by creating custom cards using Heroquest statistics etc. 

So when Hasbro decided to re-release the game I was mildly interested where they would take it. Since I already own two old boxed sets and most of the expansions I never was going to buy my own new set and am only interested in some of the new expansions like Mage of the Mirror, but my friend Martijn wanted one painted up for the gaming club so I set to work. The furniture I have finished well before the Challenge started  so that's not part of this post. The miniatures however are a different story; I was loath to start with the painting of them because most of the figures are not very good at all. Shady poses, low on detail and floppy soft plastic are some of their faults. But I wanted to get them done so people could enjoy the game at the club, thus inspired I set to work.

Let's start with the monsters or evil Dungeon Dwellers. The classic Heroquest baddies are the likes of the Skellies, zombies and mummies.

My favorite baddies remain the Orcs and Goblins, for some reason Hasbro has seen fit to include female Orcs and Goblins, a nice touch in itself but why are they in totally unsuited clothing?

The hardest to kill are the Chaos Warriors or Dread Warriors as they are now called. I have painted the four miniatures included up as warriors of each Chaos God respectively. 

The worst figures in the box are the "Abominations" and abominations they are. While Hasbro was able to get the license for the MB part of the game, they were unable to obtain the rights to the parts of the game that were intellectual property of Games Workshop and so were not allowed to use the Fimirs as evil minions. They solved that by creating these fishy types of monster. Why would these creatures live in a Dungeon environment? Martijn always gives me all freedom to paint the stuff up any which way I like so I decided to go for a "Finding Nemo" theme.

 

Next up are the two big monster "End Bosses" the Gargoyle (Blood Thirster anyone?) and the Evil Wizard. I must say I liked painting the Evil Wizard a lot, he might actually be my favourite figure in the box.

Last but not least the Heroes that resemble the players on the board. The wizard and Barbarian are most recognisably Old School HQ and the Dwarf looks the part too. As a nice twist they changed the gender of the Elf to a well armoured female Elven warrior. 

Now if I am not mistaken there are 35 miniatures in this lot and times 5 points that makes 175 points for the leader board.

I seem to remember playing Heroquest a couple of times back in the day, and had seen it had been re-released. It's a shame that Hasbro went with a horrible material for the figures, but you've done a great job bringing them to life.

Tamsin

From SanderS: Lady Sarah's Yacht to Glorantha and Glorantha Heroquest figures (70 points)

 Hoi,

When the Challenge started I wanted to actually enter 4 entries in each ring as well as finish the final quest, now (after the two weeks I lost during our renovation works) I would be happy to just reach Noel's Comet... So here are the first steps towards that goal and therefore I need to hitch a hike on the LSY towards Glorantha. 

The female figure I would like to enter for this is a Blood Bowl Star Player (pun intended) called Zara, clearly inspired upon Karla von Kill. I have painted her in the colours of my soon to be painted human team "The Middenheim Marauders". 

She will bring me 5 points for the figure and 20 points for using the yacht.

The Yacht will bring me to Glorantha were I need to enter something "quest-ish", that should present no problem at all: I have heaps of Heroquest figures in stock.

 I chose to paint up these Chaos warriors as I really need them for the quests we are playing at the moment.

 

There's one for Tzeentch, one for Khorne, one for Slaneesh and two for Nurgle since I have two core boxes one of which still needs a fourth Warrior.

Pointswise the planet Glorantha will allow me another 25 points for the 5 Chaos Warriors and 20 points for the planet. The two locale's combined will net me 70 points

Next to Glorantha is a Warp Maelstrom that will allow me access to the Middle Ring for next week's installment. 

Cheers Sander

Lovely stuff, Sander! That's another 70 points in the bag for you! 

So, you want to take the Maelstrom to the Middle Ring? OK, well, I'll drop you off at...Cybertron. Yes, Cybertron should do it!

Tamsin