"The Hero Quest Replicated" by Juho Muuraiskangas
Posted: April 8th, 2021, 7:40 am
Video:
I've seen minis made with resin, they look pretty good. These … I dunno, maybe after painting or other prep work they'll be fine, but they don't look good to me. Maybe it's just the nature of PLA?
Everything else though—PLA can definitely do the furniture. The sorcerer's table looks great. The box insert looks decent. Carefully recreating the artwork at a slightly larger scale … it's all great! I think it's very cool that at this point, if you really want to, you can reproduce the entire game, in some ways better than the original.
It tells me that even if the Hasbro Pulse project completely fails, if nobody can get it but those who backed it or are willing to pay rat bastard scalpers their demanded blood money (I won't!), the original game can be had … recreated if need be.
In no way is that me looking to not give Hasbro my money—I've already said I'm down for the Mythic Tier package if I can get it this fall, any expansion that they release (unless they do an orc bard quest, I'm skipping that crap), I don't care if it's a "cash grab" or what—they wanna give me a box of HQ parts for a decent price I don't have to fight over? Sold.
But Hasbro isn't making the original. Nor is GW. And this video shows 3D printed tiles and furniture … I think we could still produce scans of the originals and I hope we do. I'd love for people to be able to reproduce the original game, right down to the box, because it means they could replace any part of their game that was lost or damaged.
So despite what I see as some flaws in what he's reproduced here, this video makes me happy.
I've seen minis made with resin, they look pretty good. These … I dunno, maybe after painting or other prep work they'll be fine, but they don't look good to me. Maybe it's just the nature of PLA?
Everything else though—PLA can definitely do the furniture. The sorcerer's table looks great. The box insert looks decent. Carefully recreating the artwork at a slightly larger scale … it's all great! I think it's very cool that at this point, if you really want to, you can reproduce the entire game, in some ways better than the original.
It tells me that even if the Hasbro Pulse project completely fails, if nobody can get it but those who backed it or are willing to pay rat bastard scalpers their demanded blood money (I won't!), the original game can be had … recreated if need be.
In no way is that me looking to not give Hasbro my money—I've already said I'm down for the Mythic Tier package if I can get it this fall, any expansion that they release (unless they do an orc bard quest, I'm skipping that crap), I don't care if it's a "cash grab" or what—they wanna give me a box of HQ parts for a decent price I don't have to fight over? Sold.
But Hasbro isn't making the original. Nor is GW. And this video shows 3D printed tiles and furniture … I think we could still produce scans of the originals and I hope we do. I'd love for people to be able to reproduce the original game, right down to the box, because it means they could replace any part of their game that was lost or damaged.
So despite what I see as some flaws in what he's reproduced here, this video makes me happy.