Hero Quest Flashback

Anyone who was a kid in the early 90's or late 80's remembers begging their parents for a copy of this gem.  Heroquest has a ton of flaws as a game but for it's time it was both fun and amazing to look at.  A few years ago I got bored of painting space marines for commission work and took a break by painting up my old Heroquest set over a weekend.

I wasn't going for a stellar paint job but something serviceable with a bit of that gritty old school look.  Anyways after realizing they never got in front of the camera I decided to fix that:

The furniture of course has already been featured on the Warhammer Quest painting earlier but I couldn't resist some kind of group photo...

The heroes in all of their ancient painted glory.  Drybrushing was a bit of the key to this job both in making them look as old as they are and being able to get the whole set done in a weekend.

 The undead take to this style very well.

Surprised the skeletor rip off never got hit with a lawsuit...

Somehow I think I ended up with a few more greenskins than there were supposed to be.  In the back center there is the 'leader' orc who is barely differentiated on the miniature by having a slightly larger sword than any other orcs.  Yes there is a quest with a leader orc that this miniature was required to be used for once and only once.

Finally the old GW bloodthirster model which they re-purposed as a gargoyle for Milton Bradley and a few Fimirs.

Fire and Furniture

To continue on with the randomness I've painted up a few hordes of Fire Elementals for my friend's Salamander army.  Hope to see these beauts hit the table soon!

Since you really can never have enough furniture for your dungeon (have to keep the feng shui) I've painted up some dungeon saga furniture.  Great models really and they painted up in just an hour: 

Elves, Creeps and Cities

A few new things are done or at least done-ish.  I've been agonizing over how I wanted my elf army to look and finally came up with something suitably elfy:

I still need some more elves finished before there are enough to meet at least minimum model count but it's nice to have the formula down. Yes my madness does force me to paint something pink at least once a year...

Next up I needed some genestealers to steal some genes during the Sodak Con space hulk game.  Of course I just had to do an aliens rip off not only because I can but because its super fast:
 

Finally (and with much more effort) our infinity group needed a map to campaign on.  apparently they've gotten jealous of the Kings of War one so two butchered monopoly sets, 1 butchered catan, expansion and seafarers set, tiles from the original mighty empires by GW (yes all the city blocks are those tiles which are VERY out of print) and I now have only my second most expensive campaign map...   Yes I need help!

Still despite my descent into madness I like the finished result.