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Re: Chaos Warrior has two different gloves!

Postby Daedalus » March 29th, 2018, 1:19 am

Pancho wrote:Speaking of the models on the box art, many of those are different to what actually came with the game. Notably the :barbarian: , who holds himself in a different stance, and the :orc: and :goblin: which have differently shaped scimitars.

Do any of you Inn members have these alternative models? The Barbarian in particular looks pretty cool. I wonder if we had been given this original figure in our sets maybe we wouldn't have had so many bent/broken swords :( :barbarian:

This topic might be of interest. Citadel Collector is an Inn member who has located the prototype of the Barbarian, a sculpt done by Jes Goodwin, seen here. The sword and boots have been modified, but it is clear to see everything is the same, including a sheathed dagger.
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Re: Chaos Warrior has two different gloves!

Postby mitchiemasha » March 29th, 2018, 6:26 am

yeah photobucket broke the web.


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Re: Chaos Warrior has two different gloves!

Postby lestodante » March 30th, 2018, 2:19 pm

but if you click on links, the images are visible.
Anyway, seems several models were sculpted for Heroquest. Citadel sculptors were used to "recycle" the same body for different miniatures or to create variants of the same models.
You can see the barbarian is the same figure but with different sword (rotated 90 degrees on the vertical axes) and different boots.
The elf is the same body of the one shown on the HQ box, but the head is rotated and different as the arms are in another pose while extracting an arrow and holding a bow.
Other figures are different instead, only that 2 have been reworked and used for the trailer flyer and box; they also appeared on the HQ TV spot.
My opinion is that Citadel or MB play-tested the game using this prototype miniatures and others too. And some of them was given to Les Edwards to prepare the sketch for the cover; see the pic below, I highlighted with colors the figure I recognized from the Citadel range: Slambo (Chaos Warrior), Azoth the Faceless (Chaos Sorcerer) and a different young wizard.

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Re: Chaos Warrior has two different gloves!

Postby Thor-in » March 30th, 2018, 2:45 pm

lestodante wrote:but if you click on links, the images are visible.
Anyway, seems several models were sculpted for Heroquest. Citadel sculptors were used to "recycle" the same body for different miniatures or to create variants of the same models.
You can see the barbarian is the same figure but with different sword (rotated 90 degrees on the vertical axes) and different boots.
The elf is the same body of the one shown on the HQ box, but the head is rotated and different as the arms are in another pose while extracting an arrow and holding a bow.
Other figures are different instead, only that 2 have been reworked and used for the trailer flyer and box; they also appeared on the HQ TV spot.
My opinion is that Citadel or MB play-tested the game using this prototype miniatures and others too. And some of them was given to Les Edwards to prepare the sketch for the cover; see the pic below, I highlighted with colors the figure I recognized from the Citadel range: Slambo (Chaos Warrior), Azoth the Faceless (Chaos Sorcerer) and a different young wizard.


Maybe the artists and sculptors should of been seated in the same production meetings. :lol:
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Re: Chaos Warrior has two different gloves!

Postby Goblin-King » March 30th, 2018, 2:57 pm

I've always been slightly annoyed with how they did the bases for the Space Crusade test-minis. Grass and dirt? Really?
But damn... Is that a beautiful cabinet or what?


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Re: Chaos Warrior has two different gloves!

Postby Daedalus » March 30th, 2018, 6:38 pm

mitchiemasha wrote:yeah photobucket broke the web.

Nothing that can't be fixed. I restored the pics in my last post with imgur. Feedback constructively accepted.
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