Spring Clean Miscellany 2022

Although I didn’t set a very ambitious Spring Clean Challenge, I’m still surprised to have got these all done before the end of April.

Since there’s a fair bit of spring to go, it looks like I need to add a few more things to paint. A quick dig around has found a handful of old Warhammer Quest models that are long overdue a coat of paint.

The Witch Hunter is from one of the Hero expansion boxes from the original Warhammer Quest, dating back to ’95 or ’96, and wss sculpted by Gary Morley.

I really enjoyed painting this one. Nice single cast metal, clearly defined areas of detail, it practically painted itself.

This annoying little snotling would cause chaos for Heroes by stealing their lantern, plunging them into the dark and making them more at risk from traps and other dungeon dwellers.

I decided to try OSL for the first time on this very characterful model. It went… okay-ish? Really need to practice the technique more, but for a first try, I’m not unhappy.

Gorgut the Warboss and a pair of his boys from the Lair of the Orc Lord expansion for Warhammer Quest.

Sadly missing the shields for the boys, but otherwise quite happy how these turned out.

My last unpainted Heroes for Warhammer Quest finally finished. I quite like the arrogance of the Imperial Noble, and enjoyed picking a fairly flamboyant colour scheme.

If I remember correctly, the Wizard is supposed to be from the Grey College, and has such strong Gandalf vibes there was little point in resisting a matching paint scheme.

Thanks to the generosity of ZebraOutrider from the OTT community, I had a few shields arrive in the post, so I was able to get these boys properly finished.

The faces are a bit goofy looking, but I’m not too unhappy with how the freehand went. Main lesson learnt was to plan the designs properly rather than just winging it. Simple stripes and dog teeth patterns don’t need much forethought, but for a more complex design I really should have sketched out the end result, and possibly the order of building up the paint.

Very chuffed to get a Golden Button for this project, and hearing/reading all the positive comments. The encouragement from the OTT community is really great, so thanks very much.

I doubt I’ll be adding much more to this project before the Spring Clean Challenge finishes, but I’m going to try and finish up the last of my unpainted Warhammer Quest models before the end of the year. There’s not many, three minotaurs, a dozen spiders and a few bats, and the project will stay live until I’ve painted them all.

Nothing to see here…