Issue# 16 Wonder Twins Power Actavate

After a couple of weeks hiatus due to illness, resposibilities and other perils we are back with a vengance. Nick and Dan talk about the last few weeks covering topics from sword play to the banking system. Leave a comment if you DARE.

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Hero Questing

We played some Hero Quest today. you would Think it would not be so hard to arange a game. I ginally got every one together and played a game. We got throught two missions in the time it usally takes to do just one.

I have most of the set painted now. we have had to make some custom characters becuase there are players who drift in and out so in the sake of keeping the game going for the faithful and including people who have shown intrest I have added a archer class. Also so we where still a player short so I also let them use hench men, although they were as weak as goblins they really balacned things.

Hem the Dwarft

I had a chance to play Hero Quest this past weekend and I got inspired to do some painting. I have not painted to many dwarfs before, they were very challenging. There are a lot of tiny spaces and hard to reach areas. I think it came out pretty good, you can leave a comment if you disagree.

Hero Quest Barbarian

I started painting my barbarian. I did not do a dip job on him. I started with a base coat and did some brown wash on his skin and boots, a dark blue wash on his loin cloth and black with a dark gray dry brush on his hair. I am still learning how to do eyes well but they came out pretty well i think.

HeroQuest Orc Dip Job

I recently got HeroQuest for the third time. I don't know why I have sold this game ever it is to awesome. I started playing with some friends that are all table top newbies. The playing has went well so far. To make the game more enjoyable and also because I like painted figures better; I have started painting them. If you look back in my post you will see figure that I painted in the past for this game. I used a dark undercoat and dry brushed the colors to give depth. More recently I have been experimenting with washes and inks; I have also learned about dips. I have never used a dip before so I decided to try it out on the orcs.

I put a quick base coat not to detailed.

Then I dipped each one and held them with a pare of pliers to shake off the excess. I took a brush and dabbed of the extra that pooled up in areas I did not want it.

Issue #13 Jet Packs and American Greed

More jibber jabber to put in your ear hole. Nick and Dan talk about every thing from comics to movies and beyond.


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Heroica

I got these for my daughter to play with me when she gets older. I wanted to make sure I got them now before they stoped makeinf them like hero quest when I was a kid. I seems like a fun game that you can customize and you are encouraged to make new rules as you go. It you have kids I think it would be a fun one to start them gaming.

Hero Quest Pics

Here are some random pictures of my old Hero Quest Game. I never really got to play it and ended up trading it for the Battlemasters set that I am now converting to a WarHammer army. LOL gate way drug I guess.

I started playing Hero Quest with my cousins when I was younger: trying to capture my youth.

But who could not love a game that looks like this: with all the doors and furniture it really captures the imagination. 

I had started paiting them but never finished.

What do you think of my smurf of death? I have a unit of night Goblins painted the same way.

Hero Quest Commercial 90's

Commercial from when I was a kid. My cousins had a copy but when hardly got to play it because my uncle hardly ever wanted to game master. We bagged and begged every time I spent the night but when we did play it was pretty cool. That’s really where all the Warhammer and gaming came in to my world. They had 2 copies so we would take one and make our own games out of it and Battle Masters. But they had Warhammer also; my uncle had tons of figures. He had a Skeven army, one cousin had a High Elf army the other a Dwarf army and I had Empire.  We never got to play Warhammer that at all. I am thinking now because my Uncle did not want to explain all the rules. We just made up games of our own and did some horrible paint jobs LOL. The paint would dry up and clump yuck they just look bad.

Hero quest for android

I was looking for apparently today and stumbled across a direct translation of hero quest. If you don't know the game it was a turn based table top dungeon game with cool figures and doors. They say multiplayer is coming I hope so. Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.giggs.heroquest&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dgiggs+apps+dungeon+quest