On a quiet wednesday night/evening/afternoon/morning (depending on time zones), a few guys gathered on a video chat to do what they do best : talking non sense. And painting.
The idea though was motivated by the will to paint like PROS. Exclusively with their worst brush.
Brave readers, airbornegrove26
here...or for this Quest you may call me Mentor... If you have made it
this far you must have conquered Barak Tor, recovered the Spirit Blade
and slain the cruel Witch Lord. But alas what we feared most has
occurred. The Witch Lord has returned and with him the minions of
undeath creep across the land.
I was really excited when Scale Creep invited me to take part in their Heroquest challenge.
My love for Heroquest is well known among the Oldhammer community.
I
can still remember opening that sweet box on Christmas. Ripping the
shrink wrap away and accidentally trimming off the gargoyles horns in my
haste. I swear it looked like sprues to my young eyes!!!! That was it. I was hooked on
fantasy miniatures from then on. BROOOOOADSWORD!
I played for hours with this game, and still do on occasion. I know,
I need to make a new Heroquest comic report. Don't worry I have been
thinking on doing that. Maybe after the Oldhammer weekend. When things slow
down a bit.
So the challenge:
Paint one of the models from Heroquest.
Dont muck around with it too much, a reinterpretation isnt what is desired, just a new paint job on an old model.
Rebasing is allowed.
After pondering which hero or monster to choose. I decided on the skeleton.
Boooooooooring! But wait!
Notice the scythe head? In the monster cards that
came with the game the scythe is the opposite way. I'm sure this was
either an artists mistake/interpretation or with the printing some how mirroring it
backwards. Anyway I decided to give it a try, because how else are you
going to spice up a boring old bag of bones.
I painted him using foundry colors. Trying to match him as close as
possible to the monster card photo. I've left him on his Heroquest
base, as I will actually game with him. With his scythe different from
the others he might work into a character of some sort.
