HeroQuest Compatible Miniatures

[Nebion]

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

nice. love the paint work

[Zeus]

I acquired a full Dungeon Saga Kickstarter edition plus all expansions and several add-ons (by Mantic games). The whole collections contains something like 140-150 figures , most of which are fine for Heroquest. The sculpts are quite good, the plastic used slightly less so, it often warps during transport and you have to give them the hot water treatment to fix. But once they're in their proper pose, they're very nice (I haven't painted any yet, so I don't know how this type of plastic paints).

If you were to buy the retail versions, the base set has 26 figures, but while there are some nice house rule figures in there (zombie dwarfs, zombie trolls, Mortibris the Necromancer, and possibly the heroes), the minions/monsters are undead - skeletons (including archers) and zombies (including armored zombies). Their style doesn't really suit the HQ figures, although it would be fairly easy to just use the Dungeon Saga figures only.

The board sections could be used for custom dungeons I guess, I'm not too fond of the artwork myself - a bit too cluttered - but unlike most other dungeon crawlers, DS also has plastic 3D furniture, a different but mostly similar set to HQ, that can be used just fine together with the existing furniture (although it's fully plastic, so they would need to be painted - but then they would look even better than the HQ furniture). There are also plastic doors, including double doors and portcullises, though no "open" versions.

There are also two expansions that are worthwhile for the miniatures. Again, the figures are about the same size as HQ, but clearly of a different style, and the same goes for the board sections:

-- Warlord of Galahir focuses on Greenskins: Goblin warriors and archers, Orc warriors, archers and tougher versions, Trolls, Orcling (Snotling) bases, and a nice Orc warlord; 10 different sculpts in all, 19 figures total.
-- Infernal Crypt focuses on demons/hellish creatures, with various smaller and larger demons, including succubi and Molochs (ogre-sized brutes), and a nice demonic boss; 10 different sculpts in all, 19 figures total.

For either set as well as the base set, you can buy a set of figures separately, but those sets include half of what you get in the expansion, and do NOT include the bosses. The expansions are therefore a much better deal, even without taking into account the board sections and other counters.

For those who really like the figure style and want to expand their HQ bestiary, in their Kings of War line, where some of the Dungeon Saga figures also came from, they have figures for pretty much all of GW's races, so you can easily replace all official HQ figures and add lots of new ones, and for much cheaper than GW.

[Figomurphy]

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.

Knightkrawler, would you recommend rebasing all Heroquest figures onto 25mm round bases?

If so are there any good tutorials for rebasing HQ minis? I'd hate to butcher my Heroquest models.

It makes sense to have them on round bases now that you mention it. You truly are a Heroquest guru.

[knightkrawler]

That's high praise, thank you very much.
25mm round bases are definitely a very good choice for HeroQuest minis, easily the cheapest solution if you wanna include non-HQ minis and still retain a cohesive base style for the entire set.
There are British sellers that offer 1,000 bases for 30 quid, for example (no-name manufacturer).
For bigger figures like the Ogres, you could use the new 32mm bases from Games Workshop or the older GW-style 30mm bases from probably the same no-name manufacturer one can still find out there, often with the same sellers.

One simple and effective way would be following Mophus' way. I think some of his minis are in the gallery, if not, PM him and have him give you links.
He simply uses Green Stuff or some other kind of putty to bulk up the bases cobblestone-style, if I recall correctly. I don't know if he pins the minis on top.

In regards to butchering: make sure you get the right saw (we have at least one thread here dealing with that topic) and you're good to go. If you reconsider, you can still re-glue the minis on your original bases if the cut is clean. You'll paint them anyway.

I use 30mm bases that have rounded rims and a crater that are just awesome for any style I wanna go with. Looks awesome.
If you like some of the methods on the later pages of my gallery thread, I can tell you how I did them.

Come to think of this, who did I promise a tutorial on how to paint marble floor bases? I haven't forgotten, rather I've been planning to make step-by-step pictures along with text the next time I do some, so it all makes more sense.

Knightkrawler's Krap Trivium: I own thousands of bases because I didn't make up my mind about my preferred base style and the envisioning of my dungeon before buying shitloads of different sizes and styles..

[whitebeard]

I'm looking at the Mantic Zombie Swarm to extend and diversify my HQ zombies. Can anybody post a side by side picture of one of these side by side with the HQ variety?

[whitebeard]

I'm looking at the Mantic Zombie Swarm to extend and diversify my HQ zombies. Can anybody post a side by side picture of one of these side by side with the HQ variety?

Nevermind. A search reveals that Sjeng plays with these. His blog post (http://yeoldeinn-heroquest.blogspot.nl/2014/12/saturday-night-dungeon-eyes-of-chaos.html) shows them close to the barbarian. Scale is still tough, they look "tall" if they were to stand up all the way. But next the the GW elf champion they look right. So should be good. I'm happy to have found a replacement.

@Sjeng, got any side by side images images of these with the heroes / stock zombie?

[Bareheaded Warrior]

I like the doors from that link and Sjeng where did you get that Elf from?

[aaronAGN]

I'm getting back into HeroQuest after years (played in college and played as a kid in elementary school).
Using similar miniatures-based games to include more quests for friends.
Was looking at Ravenloft. But I HATE the Count Strahd mini. Was hoping for a miniature that actually resembles Strahd as depicted in the illustration/cover.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

[knightkrawler]

Look for old Warhammer Vampire Counts.
For instance, use "carstein" as a search word on ebay.
If that style floats yer boat, you're fine.

[aaronAGN]

Look for old Warhammer Vampire Counts.
For instance, use "carstein" as a search word on ebay.
If that style floats yer boat, you're fine.

Thanks for the advice! Off to search right now.