Warhammer Quest - Hathrek of Gadalhor and Golnir Coalbeard

 I finished up two more Warhammer Quest Heroes (or... Protagonists, at least...?) this week. 

Hathrek of Gadalhor and Golnir Coalbeard

Hathrek of Gadalhor - Darkoath Chieftain

Hathrek is from The Silver Tower and, the interesting thing is, the Darkoath tribes are worshipers of CHAOS!? Different people end up in the Silver Tower for different reasons.... Some have been trapped there by the Gaunt Summoner. Others have sought it out - either to slay the Gaunt Summoner - or ask a boon of it! The Darkoath Chieftain would the latter, I'm assuming! So in a group with a Knight-Questor of the Stormcast eternals and a Warpriest of Sigmar and a Fyreslayer... they would be allies of convenience! Though the stats are the same in both games, I'm not sure Thematically it's going to work with him playing in Shadow Over Hammerhal - where the characters are working to destroy servants of Chaos!? 

Golnir Coalbeard - Duardin Cogsmith

Golnir is the first of the Heroes from Shadows over Hammerhal I've finished. 

I've created a new Page on the Blog, here, where you can see ALL of the Heroes and Hostiles from all of the Warhammer Quest games (that I've painted so far!). You can find it here:

Age of Sigmar - Warhammer Quest Miniatures

Ideally I'd like to finish up the actual Heroes for Shadows Over Hammerhal before we start playing next week! But Maybe they'll end up starting with Coalbeard, here, and the Warpriest and Knight-Questor and Fyreslayer from Silver Tower!? 

Dungeon Building – Part 1

Yesterday afternoon I decided to embark on a new project with the kids: Dungeon Building!

I thought it would be fun to make some 3-D Dungeon Tiles and so I made some plans for a few different options, cut up some bits of MDF and enlisted the kids to help make a few prototypes to see which we like best…

The basic options were with permanent walls attached or without permanent walls attached. The “With” version has walls attached to the base – and has some aesthetic appeal to them, but will take up far more storage space and be less versatile – also I wasn’t sure whether to make ~2” (5cm) or ~1.5” (38mm) walls. The “Without” version is basically 2-D floor plan tiles with the option of adding painted wood block walls to make it more 3-D…

The Boy fancied he’d like the 3-D permanently attached walls, The Girl wished for the ones without – whether it was because she saw the versatility in them or just wanted to be different from her brother is hard to tell… either way, I figured we’d try making a few rooms and hallways to see how they look and make some further decisions from there.

This was partly spurred on because I thought it might be fun to try out Song of Gold And Darkness and ultimately play a Song of Blades and Heroes campaign with Song of Deeds and Glory…

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)

My apprentice dungeon builders and our cut up bits of MDF.

Painting the base coat of clack.

I was a bit quicker, so I started experimenting with some ideas for painting the stone work.

Again with the experiments with stonework.

In the end I stayed up way to late – long after the kids went to bed – and finished up a corner bit for the “With Walls” 3-D version.

It still needs a bit of touching up, but overall I am happy with the results.

The corridor is 5cm wide. And everything is based on a 5cm grid and basically tiles that will fill a 25cm x 25cm area. I'll try to remember to take a picture or scan the sketches of the plans for Part 2. 

What’s up around that corner? DANGER! That’s what!

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Probably more Dungeon tiles… though I have been working on some elves and some more of the A Fistful of Kung Fu miniatures.