The Zoidyssey - Adventures with Warriors of Athena

The main focus of the Quests book is a series of linked scenarios for your hero to play through.

SPOILER WARNING

I’m going to play through the book scenarios in order and prepare all of the miniatures required in advance.  If you are playing the game and don’t want the surprise of what you are going to face to be spoiled then please stop reading now.

Quest 1 is divided into 3 linked scenarios.  The first involves traveling across a field populated by very large and aggressive mythic bees.  The party is looking for the 3 clues that are on the table.  There are 8 bees to start off and there can be up to an additional 7 bees arrive due to event cards.  So 15 bees in total.

I can’t imagine anyone’s miniatures collection already has 15 giant bees in it, mine certainly didn’t so these were ordered from North Star.

I looked online and chose a bee to copy.  This one is a white-tailed bumblebee.  It is hard to find pictures of the underside of a bee.  The one I found showed it as all black which makes life easier.  Bee stings are usually orange, who knew?

They were undercoated grey on the underside and white on top and then glued onto the stands so I had something to hold while painting.  Wings were tackled first.  I went with Pallid Bone Speedpaint for the off-white look they have in the photo.  The top surface was then covered in Celestial Azure Colorshift from GSW to give a more ‘mythic’ look.  For the bodies Grim Black Speedpaint is doing most of the heavy lifting but this went on last after I painted the white tail in acrylic, sting in orange fluro acrylic and yellow in Maize Yellow Speedpaint.  The yellow was a bit dull and the black went over some edges so I tidied up with one of the Blanche acrylics, Moonbeam Yellow which is well pigmented and provides strong coverage.

As always the colorshift doesn’t really show up in the photo.