Category Archives: HeroQuest Models

Not-HeroQuest 1989 – Monstrous Encounters Classic Goblin

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At the end of May we stopped past a little hobby store a few suburbs away that a co-worker had told me about. The place is called Miniature Horde and they sell a bit of GW, some paints including Citadel Colour, Two Thin Coats, some other hobby supplies, etc – but mostly they’re big into 3D printing, with a wide variety of bases, basing bits and several licenced ranges including Avatars of War, Print Minis, OPR and Monstrous Encounters among others.

The owner there, a bloke called Irish, also holds a monthly painting challenge/comp with a giveaway model when you make a purchase, so when I bought a couple of figure cases and a model, I ended up with this little gobbo as well – clearly inspired by the old Heroquest models sculpted by Kev Adams.

I only had a couple of days to paint this little guy up, so being a simple model I allowed him to jump the queue and glued him down to a 25mm citadel round base so he’d fit in with my main Orc & Goblin force. I then got to work, finishing him the next day which is actually super fast for me, believe it or not!

Since I don’t really have any other similar random fantasy models to share for May’s work, he gets a post to himself – though there are more fantasy models to come fairly soon…

HeroQuest 1989 – Skeletons

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HeroQuest 1989 - Skeletons, Milton Bradley, Games Workshop

A couple of mouldy oldies today – a pair of Skellingtons from the Original MB/GW co-production of Heroquest from my 1989 copy. Sure, these took more than a little while to get painted, but now they’ve finally been started and finished. Only a few decades late!

HeroQuest 1989 - Skeletons, Milton Bradley, Games Workshop

Now there should be another pair of Skeletons from the set, so I may well have to go delving and foraging in my game boxes to see if I actually still have the other two, but for the time being these two are done!

These are my first February models that also qualify for entry in Dave Stone’s in the current Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4, and were indeed painted due to the challenge (and seeing them on the table and thinking I could get them done relatively quickly for it!)