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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.

Posted on 8 July 2023, 22:24

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.)

our house darkroom gaming games workshop warhammer quest

Posted on 4 July 2023, 22:38

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.

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer quest

Posted on 2 July 2023, 22:09

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.

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer quest

Posted on 2 July 2023, 21:48

A photo of a grassy backyard with a set of plastic cricket stumps set up, a 6 year-old holding a plastic cricket bat, and a man mid-bowl just in frame at the right. There's a number of other adults and children standing around fielding and just generally watching.

A photo of a raised metal fire "pit" with wood in it and flames merrily burning.

Had a friend's 40th today, highlights have included backyard cricket and also fire.

darkroom friends fire cricket seven hills

Posted on 1 July 2023, 18:33

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.

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer quest

Posted on 30 June 2023, 22:10

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!

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer quest

Posted on 29 June 2023, 21:47

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.

our house darkroom games workshop new miniatures warhammer quest

Posted on 29 June 2023, 15:52

A photo of a split mechanical keyboard with two fabric-covered gel wrist rests attached at the bottom. It actually doesn't even look THAT dodgy.

I realised that I do actually need a wrist rest for my keyboard, and my old one had one that was screwed in to the bottom of it and as a bonus has two feet under the rests to give some raise. I unscrewed them and have extremely dodgily attached the wrist rests to the new Keychron with several pieces of double-sided sticky tape and it works an absolute treat! 😁

The wrist rests actually have TWO little extended feet on each so you can also get some tenting going if you have the outermost feet retracted and the inner ones extended, so my next project is going to be getting some wood cut to the right length so I can attach it under the new keyboard at the top so it doesn't immediately fall inwards when I have the wrist rest tenting set up.

our house darkroom mechanical keyboard

Posted on 28 June 2023, 20:23

A photo of a split mechanical keyboard. The primary keys are a nice grey/blue colour, the surrounding keys (Control, Shift, spacebar, etc.) are black, and the Escape and Return keys are red. There's an LED under each key and they're busily changing colours like a rainbow.

New keyboard day, Keychron Q11! I mostly blame @damonism for this.

Also I didn't realise it had the hilariously tacky crazy RGB backlighting.

our house darkroom new toys mechanical keyboard

Posted on 28 June 2023, 16:29