Elbows' Fantasy Thread : Warhammer Quest!

[Elbows]

I like the kit bashed skeletons. They do look like they are raised adventurers.

While it doesn't show in the picture, the green-shirted skeleton actually has the same black diamond logo as the men-at-arms...I figure it's the local baron/knight/power in my game world and other skeletons will share the iconography with their pulse-enhanced brothers.

[Golgotha]

For "nothing fancy and speed painting" you really have created some really pleasing results and the benefits of your approach are clear - too may of the rest of us perhaps sit on our lead piles instead of getting them going and enjoying the gaming - do keep up your style and momentum - it works.

[Elbows]

(gets a tattoo "PAINTED NOT PRETTY") 

[Constable Bertrand]

In an ideal world I'd just use Otherworld metal skeletons - they're wonderful. 

hahaha Yeah, me too! 

So the question is which ONE box of plastics get the closest to that 'look'?
Mantic? No! Silly evil skull faces 
That leaves VC with motifs removed or fiddly WGF in my book.
 

[beefcake]

Very nice work. The thief is cool.
I love the otherworld metals.
Plastic skellies I like are the WGF ones. So quick to paint. However I think my favs would be the old warhammer skeletons circa early 90's (maybe earlier?) probably helps they were my first plastic kit.

[Reed]

hahaha Yeah, me too! 

So the question is which ONE box of plastics get the closest to that 'look'?
Mantic? No! Silly evil skull faces 
That leaves VC with motifs removed or fiddly WGF in my book.
 

Mantic skeletons with GW VC skulls.

[Elbows]

The Mantic skeletons I have are rather slight, all one-piece (except heads/shields I think?) and don't fit visually with anything else I have.  I do use some of their heads etc.  I think perhaps older Citadel skellies might be a decent compromise.  For skeletal bits, definitely Wargames Factory but they're OOP until Warlord re-release them.  I'm sure some boxes are still floating around. 

[Constable Bertrand]

Ah you don't say, I wondered why my local gaming store didn't have any

You may have some bits?
Pm sent.

Cheers
Matt

[DeafNala]

OUTSTANDING They all look SPLENDID...especially the Mule. GREAT brushwork & basing. VERY WELL DONE!

[psyberwyche]

This is such a great thread! 

[Elbows]

Well, some buddies of mine and I were gaming a few weeks ago when we decided to up and try Warhammer Quest again (something I hadn't played for nigh on 20 years).

Luckily for me my friend had the old boards, doors and most of the miniatures.  It helps that our gaming group has a veritable bevvy of fantasy miniatures, particularly old Warhammer miniatures.  My friend has several full old 1990's Warhammer armies in fact.  So, going through our email group we gathered a few volunteers and played a few games - and will likely play many more!  It was exactly as I remembered it, only this time full of nicely painted miniatures (granted some are still underway!).

Anyway, I decided at once to play my old high school character, the Dwarf Trollslayer.  I assembled my figure in private for the reveal on the first day of gaming.  He's...not your normal trollslayer.



I was so dreadfully tired of Scottish dwarves with gigantic red mohawks I went another direction entirely.



Here he is charging forward with the Barbarian...one of our two starting hero groups who met their fate yesterday (failed both games!)

And when I was about to go home, I was griping about not having much in the way of fantasy miniatures to paint...lo and behold my buddy tossed me an unopened blister from 1995 (21 years!).  A pit fighter for Warhammer Quest!  I was pretty nervous about painting him because my buddies all paint way better than I do, but I hope I did him justice (leaving the base for my buddy to finish to match his stuff).  I hate the figure but it was pretty fun to paint.



Again I strayed from the overly common red-n-black-80's-metal paint scheme he's always issued.  Hoping to get a few more games in sometime soon!

PS: It was great to find a use for my miniatures finally!  I was able to use my spiders, bugbears (stand-in beastmen), ghouls etc...finally earning their place on the table top!

[wolfen]

I am so very jealous right now! Quest is the best.

[LordOdo]

No red haired dwarf but you do a red haired pit fighter 

I think he's painted very well!

[Elbows]

Yeah it was either reddish brown or he-man gold!