HeroQuest 2020 – Zombies & Mummies

HeroQuest 2020 Zombies

More boardgame models today – these figures – from the current iteraton of HeroQuest – were originally gotten out as something fairly simple for Marouda to paint, but she opted out so I just gave up trying to convince her to work on them and got them done myself.  I do have a copmplete set of the original HeroQuest that I owned (some parts lost, but then replaced by a second copy from eBay years ago) – though having never got to play it in my youth at all until now with the re-release and the app, and already being in the hobby before the original HQ release, I don’t really retain any special nostalgia for the game, especially when compared to something like Space Hulk.

HeroQuest 2020 Zombies

Simple models as you can see – all monopose so the only real way to give them any differentiation was to vary their pants (slightly), their undead skin tones and then the orientation of the Black and Red quartering on their shields – which is the main colour scheme of our Undead Army that I haven’t properly worked on in quite some time…

HeroQuest 2020 Mummies

The Mummies just have the slight differentiation of their skin – so something you can barely see. I think they’re doing a coordinated performance to The Bangles’ “Walk Like an Egyptian”!

 

HeroQuest 2020 Mummies

As noted, all of these models will fit in with the KoW army, though in the foreseeable future we’ll likely get more use out of them when playing HeroQuest in co-op using the app. Probably should have done a group photo with all of them in the same pic, but there ya go…

I want my… Mummy! Unit.

HeroQuest Mummies, Dark World Mummies

A bit of a mini-update today. A small unit of mummies. These were painted some unknown number of years ago on square green-flocked based, and rebased to my current style last year. I’m not even sure if they got touched up in terms of paint. Later last year they were drafted into my wife’s KoW Undead army, when I had to create an undead army out of existing painted figures in a day. Of course, KoW “officially” uses 20mm bases on mummies, so a Troop of five is on a 100mm frontage x 20mm depth stand. Four mummies based on 25mm round bases gives me the same frontage and +5mm depth – which is well within reasonable for a movement tray, so good enough for our games.

HeroQuest Mummies, Dark World Mummies

The “hands down” mummies are from my original copy of HeroQuest, cut off their original square bases and stuck onto citadel-style ones. The “reach out and touch someone” mummies are from a boardgame whose name I cannot remember, but it was from the same era, had a bunch of miniatures, and some temple scenery that I keep recognising in people’s collections and batreps from time to time. Dark-something? I’m sure someone will remember. (2016 Edit – Dark World) Anyway, quite decent mummies. I have a few of the official Kings of War mummies from the Kickstarter, but they don’t really appeal to me. I’ll probably look at them sometime this year and see if I can convert them more to my liking.

While these are nothing special in terms of wonderfully painted figures, they’re effective enough for what they are and do, and along with photographing everything I finish this year, I’m also planning to show off the armies as they get built up. Mostly, though – this post was inspired by seeing Tarmor and Subedai’s mummy-posts in the last few weeks with the same HeroQuest figures. So it’s also a “me too” post. 🙂