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HeroQuest Barbarian with Spirit Blade

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Here's a HeroQuest Barbarian I finished painting recently. The conversion work on this figure was simple but IMHO rather striking - this particular Barbarian had a broken sword so I cut off the remains of the blade with a pair of clippers and used a needle file to clean out the area where the blade goes into the hilt. I then took the 'rune sword' from a Chaos marauder sprue and trimmed and filed away it's hilt so that the blade would fit neatly into the empty hilt on the Barbarian model. as with all HeroQuest models I've worked on this Barbarian has been re-based on a 25mm round base with textured plasti-card added to the surface.

The paint job was a fairly simple affair too, the entire model first received an all over dry brushing with 3 increasingly lighter shades of brown, then the flesh was painted in a thin layer of P3 Bloodtracker Brown followed by Citadel Bronzed flesh (thin layers allowing me to maintain the shading of the dry brushing beneath) I then used Citadel Ogryn Flesh Wash to enhance the shading and worked a little Devian Mud Wash into the deep recesses and between the fingers. The hair was painted in Bubonic Brown, highlighted with a 50/50 mix of Bubonic Brown and Bleached Bone and then washed with Citadel Griphone Sepia Wash (blonde hair of course being a nod to Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan) Leather bits such as the belt and boots were painted Snakebite Leather and washed with Chestnut Wash and the fur was left as the initial dry brushing. The metal studs on his belt were picked out in MP Bronze and then Boltgun Metal. The Sword was painted Tinbitz and then Boltgun metal and washed with Citadel Asurmen Blue Wash, I then highlighted the runes, hilt details and the edge of the blade with Chainmail. For the next HeroQuest barbarian I do, I think I will sculpt bracers around his wrists and maybe a head band too because I felt I ran out of interesting details to paint on the body and had to keep the painting on sword simple so as not to unbalance the look of the model.

The new rune-covered sword was intended to represent Spirit Blade artefact weapon from the original Quests that came in the HeroQuest boxed game. I've recently been using this model as my Barbarian character in Warhammer Quest who in his first game gained an Enscocered Blade so the magical-looking sword fits in nicely with that too.

The bonus pictures you might have seen before but here they are again - The Barbarian and the 3 other original HeroQuest characters, converted and re-based prior to painting. Hopefully soon I'll have the other 3 painted too!

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Sjeng

Re: HeroQuest Barbarian with Spirit Blade

Man that looks so awesome! I'd never dare to modify my HQ mini's :P But you have plenty right? hehehe.
Looking forward to seeing the others!

Eager HeroQuest newbie since july 2011 :D
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Marchomer

Re: HeroQuest Barbarian with Spirit Blade

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I am agree, this conversion is really simple but incisive, great job!
As you know I like your paintjobs, so I will not add anything else.

I want to seize the opportunity to say something about my "Bases philosophy".
I really like the fact that your bases always have the same style. This thing makes your miniatures "homogeneous".
I think that the base of a miniature is very important, it must be clean, well painted and decorated but not too much.
A masterpiece could be totally ruined if the base is too decorated or too less accurate (I saw miniatures nice painted with a base horribly painted with a mass of mixed flock and rocks.

On the contrary I saw not-so-well painted miniatures enached by a good base.
Never understimate the power of the base!

Sjeng wrote

I'd never dare to modify my HQ mini's :P But you have plenty right?

Me too, I don't have the courage to modify my HQ set! That's why I bought some extra HQ minis some months ago!
Mmmmh... I remember a picture posted by Mortis, maybe a couple of years ago, a sort of... "HeroQuest boxes tower" I think he has hundred of HQ heroes to modify!

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Sjeng

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I also had a second spare barbarian with a broken blade! Here he is now:

male and female barbarian

And beside him, his girlfriend (propped up by a yeti)

I used milliput on the base, and made a tile like I did with my other mini's. I used an axe from some GW bits, I think from some beastmen (I grabbed some loose bits from a bits-bin at a local gaming store)

Eager HeroQuest newbie since july 2011 :D
Check my Custom EU format card sets!
Ye Olde Inn | HeroQuest blog with lots of usefull stuff

MortiS-the-Lost

Re: HeroQuest Barbarian with Spirit Blade

Nicely done!

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