HeroQuest Compatible Miniatures

[Sjeng]

I love Reaper's Bones minis. The soft bendyness is a plus, as you can't break them. Especially when gaming with younger people (kids), no worries. Paint won't chip, swords won't break.

I have made some HQ base molds with instantmold by pressing one original HQ base into the instantmold several times with the bottom up, so the top of the base is also the top of the mold. Then I fill it around the edges with milliput (press it firmly around the edges) and then I press in the Bones base. Then I smear the excess milliput over the top of the Bones base, so the entire base is more or less covered. I let it harden for a day, and then pop out the base. Now my Bones mini has a HQ shaped base out of milliput, which makes the model a tad heavier, and so it won't topple over as quickly.

They're easy to reshape with hot water (dunk in with a seeve, let it get hot and softer, take it out, reshape if needed, dunk in ice cold water and let it harden again/cool off). Clean with a bit of dishwashing soap and a brush, then just slap on some acrylic paint. Don't thin the first layer with water, just basecoat directly. Then add more layers, thin as needed. No primer paints needed. Easy peasy.

I'm sure I've written some tutorials here somewhere. Also check the Ye olde Inn blog (signature link below)

[Stairwell]

How can you tell what scale they are - is there any way or just buy and see? From the sounds of things most of them would be an OK size for HQ. The human wizards for example?
This guy I thought might make an OK Ogre replacement..
http://www.tabletopempires.com.au/minia ... arsh-Troll

or one of these:

http://www.tabletopempires.com.au/minia ... rOkk-Ettin


When I was considering using Descent figs the scale bothered me, I figured if I wanted to use an extra big figure it could roll dice to have a chance of smashing through a wall to chase a hero lol - but that doesn't help with narrow corridors. Although the frozen horror map for example is on an open space? So probably not as big of an issue..

[wolfie907]

hopefully these help

[Stairwell]

Hey nice one! Thanks for the pics.

Yeah I saw those orcs after I saw the Ogres, I thought the same thing. I can pretendz! lol.

Don't happen to have these guys do you?

http://www.slavetopainting.com.au/produ ... riors.aspx

They are on 40mm bases, so I am assuming they are going to be too big... (HQ 30mm?)

[sajungzak]

HQ bases are a little smaller than that even. And they're not really square. More of a rectangle bulging a bit on two sides. I don't have them in front of me at the moment, but I would guess 22-23mm by 25.4mm (1in) at the middle. Someone check this for me, I wanna know how close I am.

[wolfie907]

no I don't have those I got a lot of mantics first releases and was not impressed so didn't ever get any of the second wave stuff. I do also have some old gw ones though but they are oop and expensive and to big anyway

[wolfie907]

I think the bases are 24mm by 21mm

[Thantos]

http://www.statuesqueminiatures.co.uk/p ... order.html

New heroes from statuesque minis make a great heros set. ZM we are also doing the bases for them

[Stairwell]

Those heroes look nice. I like the alternative looking dwarf, not as serious as most.
The wiZard looks kind of like a forgetful old man lol.

Anyone have any avatars of war minis? They look nice and scale seems right... (28mm on 20-25mm bases...)
Edit found this post: avatars of war seem like a pretty good size (I know he's using a slightly bigger board though)
http://oldscratch.smackwell.com/cgi-bin ... 1334085909

[Sjeng]

Yeah seen those four before. A pit pricey though. Very nice sculpts!