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Post by stroezie on Feb 27, 2015 19:16:20 GMT
OK folks here's the minis with some paint slapped on The heroes: The elf, mage, dwarf and barbarian Followed by the villains, Everyones favourite badguys the Orcs Their orange skinned partners in crime the Goblins The undead: skeletons, zombies and, because I couldn't find any mummies, specters For some serious Evil, the Warlock and his Chaos Knights Alas no 6mm Fimirs to be found so I decided to go with a trio of Ogers And another placeholder until I find a good Gargoyle figure, the Minotaur King Thats it for now, next time more furniture.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2015 20:11:07 GMT
Great choice on minis and good paint job. Good set so far. Bring on the rest!
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Post by rane on Feb 27, 2015 20:16:34 GMT
this is looking great!
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Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 27, 2015 20:52:52 GMT
my eyes are going cross side looking at those minis ! advice, dont start searching the details in the faces !
nice going there, i really need to start doing that one. a good game of heroquest is all we really need in the familly.
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Post by vestrivan on Mar 3, 2015 15:48:39 GMT
Great painting, you got some cool minis for the game! Once again, excellent job!
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Post by stroezie on Mar 7, 2015 21:38:05 GMT
The life of a Dungeon Lord is so hard! Couldn't find anything fitting at the local IKEA so I made these instead. Bookcases and wardrobe Torture and weaponrack Altar and tomb Due to a combination of making them fit a certain amount of squares on the board and this being my first time working with Milliput they turned out a bit to large, more like 10mm scale. Oh well, the original Heroquest pieces always looked a bit to large for the minis to me to so it doesn't really bother me. Still have to do the throne, fireplace and 4 falling block traps. Then I'll have to print me some cards and get a game on
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Post by DnDPaladin on Mar 7, 2015 22:51:57 GMT
makes me remember that i do need altars and sacophagus. really love your stuff.
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Post by vestrivan on Mar 9, 2015 6:12:25 GMT
That furniture and the other props are looking really awesome... and nicely painted!
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Post by halloweenville on Mar 9, 2015 11:06:25 GMT
Epic!
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Post by michka on Mar 10, 2015 14:35:54 GMT
Good Grief!!! Those are 10mm? I'd be happy as a... happy something if I had anything that looked that good in 28mm. Terrific job on sculpting and painting!
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Post by renel on Mar 10, 2015 14:46:50 GMT
I get eye strain just thinking about it. What a great piece.
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Post by ggwithrow on Jan 7, 2016 5:59:47 GMT
[PERFORMING FORUM NECROMANCY]
Has there been any additional movement made on this project?
This set looks absolutely amazing!
I've decided to try and emulate this project and I was hoping you wouldn't mind answering a couple of questions about your board construction.
What were the dimensions of the completed board and each tile?
What method did you use to keep the tile sizes consistent? From the image, it looks like it was done by hand with a knife, but I wanted to confirm that fact.
I would be really excited to see some more pictures of the set, if you have the time and inclination to do so.
Thanks for sharing this fantastic project!
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Post by stroezie on Jan 7, 2016 9:49:16 GMT
Sadly this was one of the projects that got boxed up and hadn't been unpacked when I moved house last year But your necromancy has now caused me to dig it out of storage So, to answer you questions: No more movement yet, I still have to do the throne, fireplace, falling block traps and the cards (hopefully soon) Board dimensions are 220x300mm, individual tiles are 10x10mm. Both were cut out of magnetic paper with a simple box cutter, I then cut the corners of the individual tiles with a nailclipper, drew a grid on the board in pencil and glued everything together with superglue. Painting was done with sponges and a small detail brush. If you have any more questions just let me know, and thanks for getting me to start working on this again And as a parting gift, I present to you: The Lair of the Technomancer
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Post by curufin on Jan 7, 2016 12:28:42 GMT
Utterly fantastic work and extremely inspiring!
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jan 7, 2016 12:32:14 GMT
for those who have never played HQ before...
basically the board was all one piece as you see here, but the layouts of the dungeons were ever changing, you had rocks to to make dead ends, you had doors and basically you could arrange you ways for numerous dungeons. so while this wasn't entirely modular, the placement of the pieces on the board were making the dungeons different each times. but i would definitely create black paper things for the rooms you are not using, you know just fogging the place you dont use.
also characters were easy to go by, there was no levels. the 4 characters were always in use. and between the mage and the elf. spells were separated easily... the mage was picking a spell set, the elf pick his, then the rest was going to the mage. there was 4 spell set. air, fire, earth and water. they had 3 spells each. the rest was on the hero card. and once every adventure was off, you could go tot he equipment vendor and vendor your stuff and buy better tools.
preparation to play the game was like 5 minutes at top. so easy to start a game. lots of hours of fun... came with a whole campaign book. about 25 dungeons totals and same with the expansion. too bad it was stopped there. i wish descent was much more like this, alas descent is too complicated.
you know what... thanks for necroing this thread... think i'll do my 5E HeroQuest conversion i wanted to do a while ago. i'll start on that.
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Post by bananapanda on Jan 7, 2016 16:06:04 GMT
Wow amazing work being done here!
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Post by ggwithrow on Jan 7, 2016 20:35:29 GMT
Everything looks fantastic!
I'm looking to emulate your game board pretty much spot-on. It seems really impressive to me that you managed to cut such uniformed tiles using just a box cutter. This is the part of the project I find most daunting.
I sent Steve at Microworld Games an email asking if he'd be willing to do for me what he'd done for you in terms of minis and he said no problem. So I've got minis covered.
In terms of furniture and door ways, I'm not quite sure what sort of deviation I'm going to be making from your design. I've presently neither the skill nor materials to manufacture the items in the same way that you have, so I'll likely look to something more akin cardboard glued to magnet paper.
My desire to do this project has come about as the result of teaching my fiancee to play the game and realizing how convenient it would be to throw our 'game in progress' into a backpack, then pull it out when the moment/opportunity arises to continue play. Your board seems brilliant for achieving such as goal, so long as I construct all of my game board pieces to be light enough to stay stuck to the magnet board while in a storage box. I'm looking at having all the cards printed in mini card size via PrinterStudios. For dice, I'll throw a set in the box, but if space is an issue we also have the android app with the dice roller.
Are you generally pleased with the stability of the game board?
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Jan 8, 2016 2:36:51 GMT
Howdy, Dude. You are killin' me. Good Job, Kev! P.S. EXALT BUTTON!!!
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Post by stroezie on Jan 8, 2016 6:17:32 GMT
@ ggwithrow
I don't think putting a fully set up board in a backpack is going to work.
I've tried sticking the whole board with setup to the fridge door, everything stayed in place, but I am pretty sure if I were to slam the door shut the larger pieces and minis would come tumbling of. I always intended it more to be played on the train or airplane or on the terrace of the cafe where people are more likely to bump into it and scatter the pieces. It works fine for that but if you realy want something you can set up at home and then take with you I'd recomend going for an all metal board and mounting your minis on true magnets( no neodiniums though as your minis will dropkick each other to death if they get within a few centimeters of one another)
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Post by ggwithrow on Jan 8, 2016 10:48:45 GMT
Well, the idea isn't to place the board just haphazardly into a backpack, but rather to construct (or find) a box which can house everything nicely with some sort of light batting or whatnot that can be placed into the negative space, preventing everything from falling off the board. If I end up having to remove the doors due to piece height, it isn't that big of a deal to replace then upon next play. It would still really cut down on setup time.
I assume since the board is essentially just a piece of magnet paper, that it remains pretty light weight with some minis on it?
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