22 January 2017

The HeroQuest Hero Quest: The Wizard



Last to the party, but still with monsters following behind him, comes The Wizard!


Fistion the Fabulous (The name given to him by his parents was Reginald, but seriously who's going to be in awe of 'The Mighty Reginald'!?!) jogged through the dimly lit corridors. A drip of something cold fell from the ceiling and ran down inside his tunic.


Buffdar the Buffoon (something that Reggie promised himself to say out loud one day) had gone into the next room and Fistion could hear the clash of steal. It was probably more orcs; Buffdumn always roared that way when fighting the greeskins.

Fristion heard a grunt from his cerebrally challenged companion and immediately reached into his pockets for his spell cards.  Looks like the big fellow was going to get the healing spell again. Fristion really hoped that the diminutive grumpy one managed to release Mydicyn... er..... Medicanyc...  er..... The Elf from the lat trap. He hated having to use his staff on orcs - it wasn't fair! They had more dice than him!!

I volunteered to paint the wizard almost straight away. I have long planned to paint my heroquest set and what better way to start than as part of a Creep project. I started him only shortly after Cheetor started his dwarf and almost immediately stalled. This has been the most difficult model that I have ever painted! He has no details other than the ripples on his cloak. I have been told to avoid free-handing a 28mm face and I now know why - it destroys your soul!

However, after getting an awesome Secret WIPster present of Mongrol, I set myself the restriction of not being allowed to paint anything else, until the wizard was done.

So, here he is (he's not perfect, but I'm reasonably pleased with how he came out):




I really hope we get the chance to put all these HQ models together for a game one day.

17 comments:

  1. You've done a great job with a notoriously flat and featureless model. Great job antipixi.

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    1. Cheers. I did end up reasonably pleased with him.

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  2. Fistion! Lol! Great job man, he's a funny old fig but you've brought him to life, Grand!

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    1. Crooksie named him - look back at the barbarian post. 😉

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  3. Nice one. I didn't notice that was the colour scheme of the artwork till now, doh! He certainly is fabulous.

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    2. Thanks.

      With my OCD, it was original colours only! 😜

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  4. There is a reason I'm replacing the heroes in my set with metal models :)

    The face came out pretty well!

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    1. Cheers. I don't blame you for make by the switch to metal.

      I have to say that buying some series 7 brushes helped with the details.

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  5. Well done sir! Extra points for sticking with it, the wizard has all the detail of a chocolate bunny.

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    1. Indeed it does; a bunny that has been left on the windowsill on a sunny day!

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  6. This guys seems good to show off, but not to help painters. Well done and kudos for winning this fight. Here's to more rewarding models in the future. ;)

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    1. Well now I've managed the wizard, the rest of the heroquest set should be a breeze!

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  7. Fistion is a bit of a soft sculpt, but be worked out well.

    I like the basing too.

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    1. I reckon I got the water effect just right! ;)

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