HeroQuest Spring Clean

Saw this on eBay and it felt like a great display piece for the hobby lodge.

Star Hat miniatures released via Kickstarter a range of HeroQuest alternative miniatures… Think HeroQuest cross Howard the Duck.

So of course I had to pick them up and add them to the collection.

Well this happened..

So in the last update, I became aware of these companion books for HeroQuest thanks to the very kind gift of another CoG. Well, my wife this morning has just surprised me with the Barbarian book which is extremely rare, very happy to now have both of these books leaving only one more to hunt down.

So not only have I had great feedback and comments on this project I have also been sent an awesome gift… something I did not even know existed.

@thedace on the discord reached out having found this book in their house and kindly sent it to me after seeing the work I put into the project.

This book I never knew was a thing but from what I can understand is there are 2 (so I will now be hunting for the second) but they are akin to fighting fantasy books of the time but with elements to be played out in the HeroQuest game as a solo player.

I love how there is no way I could have gotten this by any other means than someone seeing this project, knowing that I have a passion for the game and sending it to me. I know this must be rare but it will be something that will now be loved by me, my kids and beyond.

@thedace you are awesome, thank you!

Some final thoughts and stats…

Time to Completion = 11 Days (roughly 25 hours of effort)

Streamed = 20 Hours of content (+ 5 hours off camera)

Painted = 68 Miniatures + 13 Furniture Miniatures (82 Total)

Acheivements = Twitch Affiliate Status, First ever Twitch Subscriber

I was hesitant right at the start of this taking such an iconic game and put my amateur painting skills to it, since completing I have had one person tell me I should not have done it and I have ruined a classic and I guess in some ways I have… But this game was never going to leave the family and I actually hope it goes down through my kids and beyond, and if in the future someone says “you know what your grandad or great grandad painted this.. shall we play it” then whatever realm I am in by then it will make me smile.

Thanks to everyone that has viewed the project and given me the time to click a few of the buttons on the posts, and a special thanks to those that came over to the stream and kept me company.

See you all again soon I hope, big love… Martin (Laughingboy)

I did this sword on stream within a couple of minutes…. I did go back later will some extreme highlights of yellow and white but the basic flame took minutes.

A few weeks effort,  a bunch of contrast paint, twitch streaming and I have completed a thirty-year-old copy of HeroQuest. I was in doubt if I should ever have done it but now it is complete I am very happy with the result.

Thanks to everyone that came into the stream to watch, follow and even subscribe, I have really enjoyed the project from start to finish

Again painted these up to this point on stream, was about 2 hours effort and I reckon another hour and they will both be done… then we are onto the last!

I know this project does not contain much in the way of written tutorial but if you look throughout most of this project has been painted on Stream so please do check it out on either youtube or twitch.

Cheers

So through all the streams, I have done in this project it would seem it has pushed me into Affiliate status with Twitch.. this is unexpected but a nice thing to have. Thanks to all those that have watched and thanks to BoW for hosting on the website front page.

Orcs are done and to keep things interesting I mixed up the skin tones and tunics.

So at this point, I reckon I am 2/3 through but I still have a big chunk of Orcs, Heroes and of course the Gargoyle but I am really happy with the progress.