Behold! My 2022 Painting Challenge!

[Weltenlaeufer]

Wow! Unbelievably epic looking models! I love how you painted your set!!

[sekundes]

It occurs to me that you went from perfectly-serviceable tabletop standard, to miniature works of art. The older paint jobs that you weren't happy with seem great to me!

Thanks! I wasn't happy with those older paint jobs because they were my first painted models and I really didn't know what I was doing. I have a lot of reverence for Heroquest so I wanted to do them justice, especially since once my kids are old enough to play I want them to really be blown away and immersed.

Wow! Unbelievably epic looking models! I love how you painted your set!!

Thank you, only half way done though....ahhh.

EDIT

Here's the Chaos Warrior color scheme, basecoat. Going on to finish basecoating the other 3 and then digging in to the details.

[sekundes]

Just a quick little side project as I chip away at painting. Decided to move forward with the Sir Ragnar conversion using that Dungeonquest mini, removed the sword and clipped some chains to fit onto his wrists. It looks a little goofy and exaggerated but I think it fits the aesthetic. Once my square bases arrive I'll clip him off and put him on one and I think the paint job will really tie it all together. Going to paint his glove wrists to look like cuffs.

[lestodante]

Poor Volrik!! If you are familiar with putty or green stuff I would add some beard to make him look a bit less younger.

[sekundes]

Poor Volrik!! If you are familiar with putty or green stuff I would add some beard to make him look a bit less younger.

Gameplay wise, yes poor Volrik( now Ragnar)! Unjustly imprisoned! On an archival level, poor Volrik being butchered just to become a one-off character in another board game. That being said, he will be much more appreciated and displayed as Sir Ragnar than he was as Volrik haha. I have green stuff but no experience using it to mold with, only to cover up gaps (like the gargoyles wings). I'll see about trying to give him a beard before I prime him.

[lestodante]

You're right on this point. You may want to try to make handcuffs around his wrists as well?

[sekundes]

You're right on this point. You may want to try to make handcuffs around his wrists as well?

Yeah I can definitely mold some actual cuffs if I'm going to greenstuff at all. I was just going to paint the cuffs on the gloves silver to represent shackles but I may as well sculpt those, should be easy. Found a video about sculpting beards so I'll try that too, using the Advanced Heroquest Wizards beard as inspiration. Volrik on a standard Heroquest base is only slightly taller than the Barbarian, so he's pretty big but not overly so. I kind of like it though because the quest text describes him as the Emperor's most powerful knight, so him being a big boy makes sense. And if there were quests to reincorporate him later I would love to use Sir Rohan as a "Ragnar in all his battle armor" figure, but I had already said earlier that I was thinking of using Sir Rohan to represent the Chaos Warrior wielding Orcs Bane.





You can see the Fimirs re-basecoated in the background. I decided to just basecoat all the remaining models before I dove into shading and final highlights. That way I don't have to get burnout when painting all the remaining Greenskins later.

Here's some new arrivals too:

[lestodante]

Volrik on a standard Heroquest base is only slightly taller than the Barbarian, so he's pretty big but not overly so.

You can file a bit his feet, Dungeonquest minis have very tall soles while HQ figures have their feet drowning into the base.
One modify I always wanted to do on my Volrik is to rotate his right leg a bit to make his pose less dumb. If you notice, he has the right foot turned to the inside (because of the solid mold process back in those days)

[sekundes]

Volrik on a standard Heroquest base is only slightly taller than the Barbarian, so he's pretty big but not overly so.

You can file a bit his feet, Dungeonquest minis have very tall soles while HQ figures have their feet drowning into the base.
One modify I always wanted to do on my Volrik is to rotate his right leg a bit to make his pose less dumb. If you notice, he has the right foot turned to the inside (because of the solid mold process back in those days)

Well the cuffs came out pretty good. I don't know if the beard is great, I can always take it off and try again. I don't think it's too bad though. Not a bad idea to cut off the foot and reposition it, but I think him being Ragnar it's okay for his foot to look a little injured.

[sekundes]

Okay smushed the beard and tried again, this one looks a bit more natural and elderly. I'll leave it here, I like it. Consider Ragnar finished. I MAY change his foot and MAYBE add a blindfold.





Thanks for the suggestions Lestodante, you really pushed this model to completion.