New Warband! Roberto's journey (Jan. 17: Ranger, Warband done! Dragon, Yeti)

[Malebolgia]

Yes, time for a new journey...time for a new warband! Some of you might have followed my thread about Dragos and his epic adventures through Felstad. After 13 games and reaching level 51, I retired good ol' Dragos, so time for a new warband. This time I wanted to explore the opposite side of the spectrum: a Thamateurge. With spells like Heal, Dispel and Blidning Light he's bound to play differently. In addition, I always picked a Captain who is a shooter instead of a beatstick (and in two games he brought down three creatures!). So good time right from the start.
So far we have played the first two scenarios of 'Hunt for the Golem'. My mate Raz has chosen to play Skaven (Witch) and he's playing it sneaky and dastardly, like a true Skaven. So in game 1 he went off with the Golem notes, while I secured the most treasures. In game two I thrashed 6 of the statues (and two wolves and some Skaven!) but didn't manage to study the construct well. But I know it is a dangerous thing and it must be destroyed! So tomorrow I will quest to bring it down.

Enough chatter...time for some pictures! Like the last time I started with the Wizard. And we all know...

The best thing about Heroquest is...



The Wizard of course! I was doubting for a long time what model to pick as Roberto the wizard...but then I thought of the oldskool Heroquest wizard! He's perfect. COlour scheme was easy...



Awesome 80s colours and scheme and DAMN it works well. Love it! Had a blast painting him.

Marco - Apprentice



Every wizard needs an apprentice and last Fall I backed the excellent Midlam Kickstarter with a lot of goofy apprentices. This one's perfect. He was painted in similar colours, but I didn't do stars and a moon...he hasn't deserved these yet!
And the two together:



And to flesh out the list of creatures I added some Reaper Bones Spiders as Ice Spiders. Not the best models (Bones isn't really suitable for these models, the mould lines were a horror to remove), but at least I managed to paint them in an hour or so.



And their cards:

[jp1885]

Love 'em! Vibrant colour schemes and excellent freehand on the moon and stars - I'm very jealous of your skills my friend

[DivisMal]

Oh that Hero Quest wizard is just precious. And your colors...when I look at them I hear Iron Maiden!

[critsmash]

Nice! Like the bases too. More please. Makes me want to dig out my own hq minis.

[LiamFrostfang]

  look great...way fab paintjobs!
(up the irons)

[Malebolgia]

HURK...SMASH!



Another creature done...this time Hurk, my Snow Troll (a Troll from Mantic Games). Excellent miniature and loads of fun to paint. He'll also be very nice for any dungeon crawlers. Next up will be the Captain.
And the creature card:

[sebrex13]

Love your creature cards. Super cool!

[schoon]

Nice job! Who makes that figure?

[Zinkala]

It's a Mantic Dungeon Saga armoured troll. I have three of them and want a few more for a unit for mass combat games.

[Malebolgia]

And my Captain enters the fray...Gilles de Geus! Based on the Dutch comic character and painted in his colours (yellow cloak, black hair and moustache, red pants and a shield with the heraldry of Dubbeldam). I really wanted to paint this miniature, it's maybe my favorite fantasy sculpt EVER. He's oozing character. And although his proportions are all over the place I just love the miniature. So glad he's painted now! He will see action tomorrow again. Omnomnom!

[jp1885]

Wow he looks great, lovely and colourful - well done mate!

[AWu]

This guy looks like real boss of the team

Someone has to think for those whimsy and mindless wizard types :>

[WallyTWest]

You need heroquest henchmen...

Dude, my had is off to this masterpiece.

[Malebolgia]

Thanks guys!!
And yes, more Heroquest models will follow.

[GHoooSTS]

The models are amazing but I'm really curious about the cards. How did you make them?