Media thread - 29 June 2023, 15:52

A photo of the box of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. The artwork on the front is done in a pencil style primarily in red tones, and has several fantasy heroes in the middle battling off the skeletons that are lurking in the shadows to the sides.

The game itself is a co-op dungeon crawler and the box weighs a TON.

Who has two thumbs and another sixty miniatures to paint now? THIS GUY.

Posted on 29 June 2023, 15:52

A photo of eight assembled but unpainted miniatures in bone white. We have:
- An aristocratic-looking fellow with a goatee and holding a old timey-pistol and a sword, mid-swagger.
- A vampire hunter with the standard pointy hat and cool cloak holding a shotgun-looking thing, and with many wooden stakes about his person.
- A heavily-armoured warrior woman holding a large sword in front of her, with the head of a gryphon draped over her shoulders.
- A HUGE ogre that's a good couple of heads taller than anyone else, with a massive mace that he's about to swing.
- A dwarf with steampunk-looking armour holding an axe and a steampunk-looking gun.
- A priest in long robes with a hood on and a big elaborate, uh... thing on her back that a bunch of strips of fabric are hanging from. She holding a staff and has her hand out like she's about to cast a spell.
- A wizened wizard who's hunched over in a big robe and has a like skull mask on and a MASSIVE long thing beard, he's holding a staff and clutching a very large tome under the other arm.
- And lastly, a elf with a bow who's mid-leap and also mid-shot, with her braids out behind her. She's got a bandana over her mouth and nose and her headdress is antlers.

I got all the Warhammer Quest hero miniatures assembled tonight and they're so good, I love how characterful they all are!

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Posted on 29 June 2023, 21:47

A photo of ten assembled but unpainted miniatures in grey plastic. We have:
- 3 vampire things that are clearly feral, two are on top of columns and the the third is mid-charge, and all three have very long swords.
- 2 undead ogre things with massive axes, and they've got very Mongolian-looking fur hats on.
- A MASSIVE, uh... demon/werewolf thing that's towering over everyone else.
- A skeleton warrior in decaying armour holding a large axe, his cape blowing in the breeze.
- An extremely gaunt humanoid with a long cloak on, holding a large shovel that has a tall metal headdress thing that covers its eyes.
- A wizened old man who is bent over and has what looks like the remains of a pillory still around his neck. There's a crow on one end of it and a rat behind his head, he's holding a candle and a staff and there's a horrifyingly large rat rubbing itself up against his other leg.
- And lastly the leader of all of these, a heavily-armoured vampire holding a sword with two massive werewolf heads and pelts over his shoulders, and another Mongolian-looking fur hat.

And that's the primary enemy miniatures done! I think my favourite is to be the the freaky one second from the left with the headpiece covering its eyes. After this there's just the hordes of regular enemies left (zombies, skeletons, bat swarms, rat swarms, and various "mysterious objects", things like gravestones, skeletons hanging from gallows, etc.). There's a shit-ton of them but they all consist of only a couple of pieces each so they ought to be pretty quick to smash through I think.

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Posted on 30 June 2023, 22:10

A photo of a BUNCH of assembled but unpainted miniatures in grey plastic. There are:

- 10 skeleton warriors in decaying armour.
- 10 zombies that are all hunched over and have gravestones and dirt on their backs like they've just risen from their graves.
- 6 individual bases that each have a horde of little rats on them, all running on top of each other in a wave.
- 6 bat swarms.
- 2 skeletons hanging from gallows.
- 2 squat little gargoyle things.
- 2 ravens perched atop ruined columns.
- 2 alarmingly large rats that upon closer inspection are rotting and you can see their rib cages.

And lastly, the horde has been assembled! I'm definitely not going to be getting into the woods with the details on these when I paint them though... I think I'll do my standard zenithal highlight and then some Contrast paints and a bit of a drybrush and call it done.

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Posted on 2 July 2023, 21:48

A photo of all sixty assembled but unpainted Warhammer Quest miniatures sitting on my painting table. See the previous posts in this thread for individual descriptions.

Man, that really is just a boatload of miniatures when you put them all together.

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Posted on 2 July 2023, 22:09

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of fantasy buildings. There's four hero miniatures in bone-white plastic at the bottom, and three groups of plain grey hostile miniatures at various points on the board (three skeletal warriors, three rat swarms, three bat swarms, and a lone vampire with a very long sword).

I broke out a game of Warhammer Quest just by myself tonight to familiarise myself with the rules. I didn't make it all the way through the whole quest, but it's pretty fun and I've definitely got the hang of things now. Excited to play it with @yayKM soon! (And it'll look even better once the miniatures are all painted.)

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Posted on 4 July 2023, 22:38

A photo of three individual bases of rat swarms all piling over each other, some have no skin on their faces and it's just skull and others have their insides visible. Behind them is another base with two large bats and several smaller bats mid-flight over a ruined stone column.

My first batch of Warhammer Quest miniatures are (mostly) done! I figured rather than getting utterly overwhelmed at how many miniatures I have to paint, I'd take just the ones, both heroes and hostiles, that I used for the first game I played the other night and get those done first, and then just specifically choose those encounter cards for the first game we play. I'm making excellent use of zenithal highlighting, Contrast paints, and drybrushing to get them done quickly since the hostiles really don't need to be done to crazy quality (the heroes will be done to a higher standard). The bases aren't done because I'm going to get them finished all at the same time once the rest of the miniatures are painted.

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Posted on 8 July 2023, 22:24

A photo of ten miniatures from Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. We have three skeleton warriors with flowing red cloaks and battered and rusty looking armour, three bases of swarms of corpse rats all running over each other (some of them have their skulls visible and others have bits of innards visible), three bases of bat swarms (one is a dire bat and is huge and has a bloody mouth), and lastly the pièce de résistance of this group, a feral vampire with pale skin who's crouched on top of a ruined column. He's got a sword held out behind him like he's just sliced something in half, and the blood along the blade lends credence to that theory. His mouth is covered with blood as is the other hand that's on top of the column.

All of the bases are painted to look like they're in wet mud, and the dire bat and vampire both have pools of green swampy water as well.

That's the first batch of hostiles done! This is probably the fastest I've painted things for ages, but they came out looking pretty excellent nonetheless. Especially happy with the gross blood effects on the vampire in particular. 😁

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Posted on 13 July 2023, 22:22

A photo of four painted miniatures:
- A vampire hunter with the standard pointy hat and cool dark brown leather cloak holding a shotgun-looking thing, and with many wooden stakes about his person.
- A heavily-armoured warrior woman with white hair holding a large sword in front of her, with the head of a gryphon draped over her shoulders.
- A dwarf with steampunk-looking armour holding an axe and a steampunk-looking gun.
- A priest in long deep rich red robes with a black hood on and a big elaborate, uh... metallic thing on her back that a bunch of strips of fabric are hanging from. She holding a staff and has her hand out like she's about to cast a spell.

Next in my Warhammer Quest painting adventures, the first four heroes! I decided to paint the bases of these VERY differently from the hostiles so they're much more easily distinguishable when on the board. It doesn't really show through very well in this photo but I added the snow sparkle texture paint on top of the snow and it looks so good.

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Posted on 25 July 2023, 19:57

A photo of painted four miniatures. Two are skeletons that have been clearly executed by hanging from fairly hastily-erected gallows but somewhat creepily they both have one arm up and are pointing at something. The bases look like dirt and have some greeny/brown grass tufts on them. The other two are crows that are standing on top of a ruined column, with a key hanging from their beaks. The bases of these look like some sort of yellow stone and have very dry-looking grass tufts on them.

Also finished tonight are the "mysterious object" markers. I used AK Interactive's "Neutral Earth" texture paint and just put a coat of Ratling Grime on it for the skeletons and Aggaros Dunes for the crows, and they came out looking vastly different despite being the same texture! (And I couldn't resist using some more of my tufts as well.)

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Posted on 25 July 2023, 21:53

A photo of three hunched-over rotting zombies. They've got the usual decaying clothes, but all three have part of the lids of the coffins they were in on their backs, which are attached to them by way of stakes driven through the top of the lid and through their chests. They also have tree roots growing through their bodies.

Each one has a different thing on top of their coffin lid alongside a mound of dirt: the first has a gravestone and candles plus a tree stump, the second has a wooden memorial-looking thing plus tree stump and a crow holding what looks like someone's innards, and the third has part of a metal fence with a skull on the top and roses on it. The bases are all done up to look like fresh wet mud.

More hostiles join the ranks! This time, the first three Deadwalker Zombies. Pretty delighted at how revolting they are, haha.

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Posted on 29 July 2023, 16:05

A photo of two packs of "Gamers Grass" grass tufts, one is a really dark red colour and the other is icy blue. There's also two tubs of basing material, one called "Neutral Texture for Rough Terrain" and the other one "Moss Texture".

I'm taking the opportunity with my Warhammer Quest miniatures to expand my collection of basing materials. 😁 The plan for the boss hostiles in particular is to use the Rough Terrain texture with a really dark grey colour over it then put those Blood Moon grasses on them. Should look pretty fantastic I reckon.

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Posted on 2 August 2023, 14:00

A photo of two painted miniatures, on the left is a regular human-scale skeletal warrior, but standing next to him is the positively huge Kosargi Night Guard. He's a hulking brute that's close to twice the height of the skeleton, with rotting green skin and wearing a torn-up knee-length burgundy cloak and a Mongolian-style fur hat. He's got a big long grey beard and is holding an absolutely massive axe that itself is longer than the skeleton is tall. The base looks like mud with gross green swampy water in some of the hollows, and some swampy grass tufts scattered about.

Next in the seemingly never-ending flood of painting, we have a Kosargi Night Guard! He was surprisingly quick to paint since there's not too many little details, but I think my favourite part is the basing. Rather than trying to create a spot for a pool of swamp water, I just loaded up the base with the muddy ground texture as normal, painted it, and then carefully put the swamp water in the hollows where water would naturally collect anyway. (The skeleton warrior next to him is the one from a couple of weeks ago and is there for scale since there wasn't any other way to really show how large the Kosargi is!)

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Posted on 2 August 2023, 20:46

A photo of six painted miniatures, four are skeleton warriors and there's two gravestones sitting on their own bases too. The skeletons all have ripped and torn red cloaks and rusty-looking armour, one of the skeletons is holding a black banner on a long pole, and one is clearly a boss because he's larger with a bigger weapon. The gravestones have a pile of flowers sitting next to them, one blue, one purple.

Got another set of skeleton warriors finished, plus the first of the bosses, Watch Captain Halgrim! The gravestones in the front are markers used in the game that the Deadwalker zombies can spawn from so you need make sure you destroy them quickly lest you be overwhelmed. I also took the opportunity to add some of the new blue/white grasses to the bases of the heroes for some more visual interest.

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Posted on 9 August 2023, 22:07

A photo of painted miniature that's a humanoid monster... thing. It's extremely gaunt with sickly pale purple skin and has a bare torso, where you can see ritual scarring. It's wearing a deep purple robe on its lower half, and you can't see its eyes because they're covered by an elaborate metal faceplate that has a number of large bones coming out the top of it. In one hand is an elaborate shovel that's covered in mud, and in the other is a hook that's pulling up a coffin lid from the ground, under which a zombie with roots growing from it is emerging. The whole miniature is in a pose like it's leaning forward and screaming.

Tonight I finished my favourite miniature of the Cursed City box, Gorslav the Gravekeeper. I didn't realise until I was painting it that the headgear thing is actually a bunch of bones poking out of the top!

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Posted on 14 August 2023, 22:48

A photo of a very large combination demon/bat monster thing. It's hard to describe but it's got red leathery-looking skin like a demon, brown fur on various parts of its body, and running along the inside of its arms are what look like vestigial wings. It's face looks like a bat and the whole thing is hunched over, and it's standing next to a normal-sized skeleton warrior that is less than half its height, even crouched like it is. On the base is a pile of skulls, mostly humanoid but with a very large ogre skull sitting in the middle of the pile.

FINALLY did some more painting tonight! I'm working on the Vargskyr from Warhammer Quest, the huge bat/demon thing that's the first of the big bads we need to kill in the campaign and I want to make sure it's actually properly painted before we kill it. 😅 The Vargskyr itself is done, I just need to do the basing for it. I'm making good use of the box of skulls I got for Christmas to make a much more interesting-looking base, and I've included one of the skeleton warriors to give a sense of scale of just how enormous this thing actually is. I also didn't realise I hadn't done any of the Warhammer Quest miniatures since August. 😬 Just haven't been in the painting headspace I guess, but hopefully this'll get me back.

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Posted on 30 December 2023, 22:17

The big lad is done! I added some extra highlighting to his face and the highest points on his body, and of course no self-respecting bat-demon-thing would be complete without some blood effects. Plus, I started Qulathis the Exile, one of the other heroes, before dinner and have made this much progress on her already.

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Posted on 2 January 2024, 22:18

A photo of two painted miniatures. One is a wizened old man with an EXTRAORDINARILY long and thin beard that reaches down to the ground, wearing a black cloak and carrying several large books along with a tall wooden staff. Standing next to him is a lithe wood elf all dressed in greens and browns with a pair of antlers on her head. She's in the middle of aiming a bow an arrow and is simultaneously launching herself off a broken piece of stone on the ground. There's snow at the base of the stone and next to it, but the left half of the base is rich earth with grass tufts on it.

Qulathis the Exile is now finished, and I've done Octren Glimscry too! I'm particularly happy with how the base for Qulathis came out. I've been putting snowy bases on all the heroes to make them REALLY stand out on the board compared to the hostiles (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2443), but given Qulathis is a wood elf and is all done in greens and browns like you'd expect, it felt sort of weird for her to be on a fully snowy base, so I decided to split the difference and have partially half-melted snow instead. I think it gets the point across, and looks terrific to boot.

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Posted on 5 January 2024, 18:29

A photo of an aristocratic-looking miniature mid-stride. He's got a magnificent beard and mustache that's curled up at the ends, plus a long top-knot of hair and the rest of his head is bald. He's holding a steampunk-looking pistol upright and has a red jacket edged with white fur billowing out behind him, and his other hand is on the pommel of his sword. His robe thing is lined with armour plates and he's wearing an armoured chestpiece as well.

Glaurio ven Alten III is ready to avenge his family's deaths! One more hero to go (who is actually mostly done but the base texture paint is currently drying) and I'll have the full eight completed, woot.

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Posted on 7 January 2024, 21:06

A photo of two miniatures side-by-side. One is a standard human-sized skeleton warrior, the other is an ogre who is head and shoulders taller than the skeleton. The ogre is wearing chainmail and a big helmet that leaves his face exposed, and has a big mace held out in one hand behind him like he's either about to hit something or has just finished doing a big backhand swing with it. In his other hand is clenched a big blade that's attached to a leather glove and that arm looks like he's about to stab someone with it.

And the final hero is completed, say hello to Brutogg Corpse-Eater! (As before, skeleton for scale.)

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Posted on 9 January 2024, 20:23

A photo of seven hunched-over rotting zombies. They've got the standard-issue zombie decaying clothes, but all three have part of the lids of the coffins they were in on their backs, which are attached to them by way of stakes driven through the top of the lid and through their chests. They also have tree roots growing through their bodies. The bases are all done up to look like fresh wet mud, which is splattered part-way up their legs so it looks like they've been slogging through it.

A photo of three bases of bat swarms mid-flight, all flying around ruined stone columns. The middle one has clearly visible fangs and is FAR larger than the others.

I'm definitely closing in on the end of my Warhammer Quest project, I've finished the rest of the deadwalkers and the bats! Only thirteen miniatures left to go out of the sixty-odd in the box. Really happy with this second batch of deadwalkers, I didn't do any drybrushing at all except for the robes and instead just highlighted everything manually. It comes out a lot more strikingly.

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Posted on 24 January 2024, 19:49