The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 56, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 17, Modular: 92, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 11, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM, Enormity
Models Finished in Collection: 3120 Models since start of project: 915 out of 63 completed and still not done!

I’ve been slowly playing through HeroQuest with my friend and his kid, so I snapped up the first 2 expansions (Return of the Witch Lord, and Kellar’s Keep) when I found them cheap.  While the model designs are probably better, I’d have to say they are worse, for what the product is.  They have a lot more detail, which would be nice, but it makes them more difficult to clean up and the plastic does not respond well to tools.  it also means they take a lot more time and effort to paint up.  Take the skeletons for example.  The classic prints were basecoat, wash, drybrush, paint the scythe and you’re done and have cool models.  Now there’s layers of clothing and armour fragments.  Not just more colours and more layers, but they’re more awkward to paint.  They should have been designed with the mindset that this will be a lot of peoples first hobby experience and kept simple.  Instead they made the hobby side demanding and not fun.

Also, I’d like to complain about the plastic inserts.  The don’t just hold the models.  They clamp them in place.  just getting them out I was afraid I was going to break them.  There’s no way I’m putting painted models back in those boxes.  I’ll remove the paint.  It’s a horrible design.  I need some foam inserts designed to fit those boxes and models.

Anyway, that’s 35 more models done, and here’s the pics.