HeroQuest Compatible Miniatures

[mitchiemasha]

What you mean these... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WARHAMMER-DOGS-OF-WAR-REGIMENT-OF-RENOWN-GOLGFAGs-MERCENARY-OGRES-/121791949603?hash=item1c5b5dab23:g:S2kAAOSwhcJWJOAm There's me thinking, oh they look nice!!!

£110 erm!!!

If he's going to sell them at that price, the least he could do is take a good picture.

There's an auction... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Golgfags-Mercenary-Ogres-Very-Rare-OOP-Boxed-Set-/262307405289?hash=item3d12bd5de9:g:4EIAAOSwe7BWuQib £29.99 still out my price range, lets see if they sell.

[herman_the_german]

You can do much better than that. Go for a used set, don't pay more than the equivalent of US $30.

[bordgames]

Wow,

Thanks for all the feedback.

My favorite sculpts from Warhammer for Ogres date to way back in the day (over $30 a piece on eBay now):

http://i.imgur.com/OnbT9fh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zRkOw9u.jpg

And i just happened to find this while searching for ogre sculpts:

http://i.imgur.com/Z6u0ccP.jpg (Hordesmen Champion | http://www.beastsofwar.com)

The Tim-Mee cavemen are a great affordable solution

For lack of any decent Ogre models, I've been using Reaper bugbears, like this one:
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/b ... down/77233
They look a lot like big hairy men.

I love this Bugbear. This might be my favorite. I hope they have a few different poses

[bordgames]

Well i became obsessed with Ogre Sculpts.

They had to be:

1) Not Overmuscled like the HULK
2) Not looking like an orc (Other than tusks)
3) Not fat, goofy, or stupid looking
4) Not Ogre Magi or Asian Ogres

I am weeble-wobbling between Kings of War Ogres and Reaper Ogres:

Kings of War Example: http://i.imgur.com/m2UKze9.jpg

Reaper Example: http://i.imgur.com/xQeqZNI.jpg

I kind of like them both and I am even considering grabbing parts from Ogres Sculpts and Assembling them into new molds for me to cast

...enough about Ogres ... er ... I wonder if World of Warcraft produces a miniature line with Ogres....

[Agent240]

I've been slowly building a collection of Reaper Bones minis for a modular HQ game project. I've painted a handful of alternate heroes. Learning more about painting with each new figure. Take a look.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c31186fzq0kh1mz/IMG_20160307_224123170.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/92utncd1s6qds6k/IMG_20160307_223236.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vii2lx7y7b39b9q/IMG_20160307_223354.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zx3vozztxr9u3c0/IMG_20160307_223457.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6jrls10ju4qbwte/IMG_20160307_223525.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gp338n14o02wksr/IMG_20160307_223605.jpg?dl=0

[knightkrawler]

Dude, not bad at all...
You're on the right path there.
You can already become more daring in your highlighting and shading if you want to, and also use smaller and more steps for it to achieve a smoother optical illusion blend.
It's actually easier to start from the midtone, highlight up, shade down, because the end result will be closer to what you wanted. But that's really yours to find out.

I like where you're going and these look like perfectly fine playing pieces.
I can also see that you can take it further if you want to, skillwise.

Will you saw the bases off and replace them? Because these do look like *lemony goodness* and have no purpose for playing pieces. Remeber you have to use super glue with Bones minis, so it makes sense to pin them if you choose that path.

[Agent240]

Dude, not bad at all...
You're on the right path there.
You can already become more daring in your highlighting and shading if you want to, and also use smaller and more steps for it to achieve a smoother optical illusion blend.
It's actually easier to start from the midtone, highlight up, shade down, because the end result will be closer to what you wanted. But that's really yours to find out.

I like where you're going and these look like perfectly fine playing pieces.
I can also see that you can take it further if you want to, skillwise.

Will you saw the bases off and replace them? Because these do look like *lemony goodness* and have no purpose for playing pieces. Remeber you have to use super glue with Bones minis, so it makes sense to pin them if you choose that path.

The bases do annoy the *lemony goodness* out of me. I tried using hot glue to blend away the seams, but they do literally look like *lemony goodness*. Maybe some white glue with rocks and sand are in order.

[knightkrawler]

Could work. Glue them on regular round bases and fill it up that way, covering the brokkoli.
But before you do anything with that, make up your mind and think hard about which style of bases you want for all your HQ minis cohesively.
Trust me on this, the base style is visually more important to connect everything than the quality of paintjob, the mini manufacturers or even differences in scale.
25 mm round bases, Games Workshop style, are pretty freakin' cheap these days.

[Agent240]

Could work. Glue them on regular round bases and fill it up that way, covering the brokkoli.
But before you do anything with that, make up your mind and think hard about which style of bases you want for all your HQ minis cohesively.
Trust me on this, the base style is visually more important to connect everything than the quality of paintjob, the mini manufacturers or even differences in scale.
25 mm round bases, Games Workshop style, are pretty freakin' cheap these days.

I took to heart some advice about bases and decided to add some pebbles and sand to them. I originally was going to paint the sand and pebbles, but kind of like the contrast the green pebbles adds to the overall look of the heroes. I'm thinking all of the monsters will have plain sand on their bases.

Excuse the shoddy pictures, but here's the idea I went with:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kk2maoh6yta1bp/IMG_20160329_204604887.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0zna9su3joko768/IMG_20160329_204555087.jpg?dl=0

[knightkrawler]

That's what I'm talking about.