How to theme a dungeon?

July 25, 2015, 12:15 am

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I like the idea from the Beyond the Grey Mountains website of having monster themes in a dungeon. At the start of a game BtGM use a monster token (similar to a character token) in order to determine the monsters they will encounter. It breaks up the inconsistencies of having trolls, chaos warriors and skaven in adjacent rooms (which is a little unfluffy for my taste too). I felt this may mute the element of surprise for play throughs so play to do some test games drawing two tokens

So I have been collecting miniatures for filling entire dungeons on a dual theme, so having enough variety of miniature without having to draw cards from across the entire range.

Undead
Chaos (daemons, beastmen and warriors)
Skaven
Orcs and gobbos
Miscellaneous monsters - large and small

I've also worked on building and basing for some undead.

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Warhammer Quest Room Tiles

August 2, 2015, 2:59 pm

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I've started replacing the cardboard tiles that came with them game. These are resin and are a faithful recreation of the originals. Here we have three corridors and the 'torture chamber'.

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Warhammer Quest stone tile corridors

August 4, 2015, 3:14 pm

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Some warhammer quest grey stone corridor tiles. I wanted to have a little variation so started with a shaded undercoat and worked up the stone from there. Pretty pleased with the results.

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Warhammer quest guard room tile

August 11, 2015, 3:10 pm

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Fun to paint and here's hoping easy to game on despite the additional scenery

Also a couple of T-junctions

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The Quest So Far

August 30, 2015, 2:50 pm

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So I've completed most of the easy tiles, I'm now working on the more complex objective and dungeon rooms.

... worth it though, like how they've turned out. It's spurred me on to put a little extra effort into the remaining tiles.

Next up: Idol Chamber

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Warhammer Quest - Idol Chamber with Be'lakor

January 6, 2016, 3:13 pm

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Here is the finished Quest idol chamber tile. I've still work to do on the Idol of Be'lakor, he's getting some OSL treatment at the moment. I'm pleased with how it turned out in the end and it was relatively cheap to make. The brazier is from the Skaven screaming bell kit.

I started with small blocks of extruded polystyrene, that blue or pink foam us modellers like so much. I've a load of this in the loft, but I actually bought these squares from eBay as my foam cutter is out of action. The blocks were slightly uneven, but a quick trim and it all fit snuggly together. I used a PVA sealant on the blocks before glueing down with superglue. I then coated it all with PVA ready for primer.

At this point I was a bit worried the PVA may not have fully sealed the poly and it would start dissolving when sprayed. Thankfully the glue did its job. I sprayed with black in the shadows, brown across all surfaces, and then white where the light would be cast to hold a rich yellow.

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On the workbench - Tomb Chamber and Well of Doom

January 7, 2016, 3:54 pm

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I've picked up a sarcophagus for the tomb chamber and I've mostly built the well of doom. Not much to look at yet, but shows how they began.

I've got to build steps and a platform for the sarcophagus to be interned upon. Probably using a similar technique as the idol chamber.

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Warhammer Quest - Corner Corridor Tile

February 21, 2016, 1:42 am

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A little bit of OSL and contrasting colours on this tile and it was particularly fun to paint. This tile is slightly different in that it has short walls. Shed games have a new manufacturing system and have done a really nice job on their new tiles, great value.

I plan to paint more with the short walls before beginning a full scale resin dungeon.

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Warhammer Quest Scenery - Column

February 28, 2016, 12:51 am

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A column for an infected quest tile. Quite enjoyed painting this little gem from Shed Games, but didn't quite turn out how I expected. My initial idea was to paint it as if if was underwater, considering it looked like it would suit a nautical theme, but the muted tones didn't do it justice without a bright model to set it off. If would look great with a Poseidon miniature or similar next to it.

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Nazgob - Orc shaman

March 1, 2016, 10:12 am

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He has evil intelligence and malice behind that hooded grimace. It's hard to believe this model is over 20 years old. Still my favourite Orc model to date and just hope the paint job did it justice.

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Warhammer Quest Tile - Corner Quagmire

March 4, 2016, 3:15 pm

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Another Warhammer Quest tile, this time with a water effect applied so some highlighting, but that nice glare is from the Vallejo Stillwater, I think it gives a nice organic effect.

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Warhammer Quest - Monster's Lair

March 5, 2016, 2:25 am

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Finished off the lair I've had on my desk for a while. It's a faithful recreation of the original tile, although the I'm not a huge fan of the original colour scheme.

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Warhammer Quest - The Great Unclean One

March 5, 2016, 2:38 pm

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Confession time: We all from time to time have to take a step back, look at our collection and say "I'm a collector or painter above being a gamer" this is the case for me right now as we have a wonderful 5 month old who selfishly refuses to sleep all day on a Sunday so I can head to the local gaming club and hash out an adventure every week. So I recently came to accept the hobby is probably more important to me than an actual game at the moment, as I paint an enormous dungeon to enjoy in years to come.

That brings me to my next finished project. This was not at the 'level 1' end of the quest monsters, this was not a practical decision whatsoever. Never the less, I hope to eventually, one day, need a fully painted great unclean one. So here he is in his resplendent rotting form..

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Nope nope nope - Arachnophobia in Warhammer Quest?

August 28, 2016, 12:19 am

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Heresy miniatures have down a fantastic job with this sculpt, it's not an easy model to put together, this being a metal cast with incredibly thin legs there was little room for pinning so I had build a scaffold for it to rest on whilst gluing on the legs. I had a look and noticed they have replaced it with a resin version which should be considerably easier to work with. Anyway, loved painting it and should be fun introducing it to quests in the future.

Check out the remainder of the Copplestone spiders ready for the project too.

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Half-Orc D&D character - Reaper bones Goldar

January 28, 2017, 2:12 pm

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Half-Orc painted for a friends D&D campaign. The model he gave me is Goldar from the reaper bones range, for those unfamiliar it's a white PVC plastic miniature. The clean up process was a little fiddly, but I'm surprised at how reasonably detailed the model is. It goes to show even with cheap materials the bones range has produced some great results in terms of miniatures, especially considering how well priced it is compared to resin and white metal.

Overall pretty happy with the results.

For anyone interested this is the PVC model as delivered, very different from any material I've worked with in the past. I will say the face lost some detail in the moulding process, but even in white metal the head of Goldar was not the best scale or sculpt anyway, as you can see.

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Warriors of Chaos Nurgle Standard Bearer

September 5, 2017, 3:12 pm

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After photobucket turned most of our beloved blogs into mush realisation that I may have lost a lot myself I went on a hunt for lost photos. Here was the favourite mini I painted back in 2014. Thought it was lost to the ether, pleased I found it.

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Warhammer Quest - Troll Slayer

September 16, 2017, 1:09 am

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It pains me to admit the original Quest troll slayer is a little too cluttered for my taste, although the artwork is great, sadly no inspiration to paint the mini. Digging around solegends.com for replacement slayers and decided this guy was ideal. Half the fun for quest seems to be finding hidden gems in the old citadel ranges.

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Warhammer Quest - Ex-bloodbowl Ogre with bottle of troll squirt

September 23, 2017, 4:15 pm

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Whilst searching around eBay I spotted this old ogre, sculpted by Michael Perry. It was cheap as it was missing the club, presumably removed in a moment of folly. I see this mini as a customer of a local tavern and decided he could be rescued and given a new purpose as an NPC or character in Warhammer Quest. Meet this surly ex-bloodbowl player, Drinking his favourite brew, Troll Squirt.

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Warhammer Quest - Wardancer

October 30, 2017, 6:24 pm

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Although I'm not 100% happy with the heated metal effect on the swords didn't want to slow down on a prolific painting episode so called this guy finished. When I used this effect on the necromunda pyromancer I used water to thin the washes rather than using lamian medium, in this instances it created harsher transitions. They will probably get repainted one day, but he was painted in 5hrs so can't complain.

Lovely old quest model and just pleased to get some paint on him after 25 years in a box. Wasn't sure about the blue and green palette to start with, but pretty happy with that.