How to Paint Heinrich (the Human Warrior) | Painting Advanced Heroquest | Easy Painting Guide

Always Board Never Boring embarks on his painting project for Advanced Heroquest. In this first video, he does a quick and easy paint job on Heinrich, the human warrior. This (probably) noble knight is battered but unbowed, and ready to fight some skaven.
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[@blackraptor311]

Think the shield works well. Gives a worn look that shows it has been through a lot. Great to see these classics painted.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. Just wanted to try something a bit different on it. The next shield will be a bit more "traditional."

[@zombiedad]

Nice! That miniature is excellent. You are right! A little bit goofy, grim and resigned. Love your paint job. ❤

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

He is a goofy looking guy. I always thought the dwarf was the coolest of the four heroes, but I always had a fondness for Heinrich.

[@73Xerxes]

Wow! Nice work Brings out the minis character Love it The base is Fantastic👍👍👍👍👍⚔️

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you. I recently uploaded a separate video on painting those bases, to make it easier for people to find and reference if they want to.

[@pez5767]

THat's a really nice effect. That blue and tan look fantastic together.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. I'm really happy with the boots and gloves. I think they work really well with the blue.

[@paintfrenchy4735]

Awesome!!! Glad you give this game some attention. ❤️

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I am a huge Advanced Heroquest fan. There will definitely be a lot more to come.

[@renegadedalek778]

Great job, it's such a joy painting these older minis, it makes a change to switch to something simpler now and again instead of all those over detailed, more complicated newer GW minis

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. To be honest I hardly ever paint newer GW stuff anymore. I tend to do more old stuff or miniatures from other companies that aren’t so fussy.

[@HivisoftheScale]

Woot! Shout out for Leadbelcher! A must have for fantasy miniatures. Honestly it's good to see Heinrich in full color, the blue compliments him very well

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Leadbelcher is great. And so is this miniature. It's such a fun character

[@nickisaacs8073]

Love the base effect, great paint job! 👌🏻

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. I really like doing bases like this, but it's going to be a massive pain when I am working through 20 skaven!

[@Wilberon_McBane]

He looks superb!..............Likely to die gruesomely very soon no doubt........but he'll go out looking good! Really liked the colour choices and I actually thought the battered shield looked good as well. Adding in the scratches and scrapes was a neat touch 🛡️⚔️

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. The shield has grown on me. I posted a close up of it on Instagram, and looking at it that closely made me like it more.

[@danstampe1665]

Great paintjob! I would like to see you paint the rest of the heroes and also one of the skavens and henchmen that comes with the game.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. I will be working through my Advanced Heroquest collection (there's already a couple more videos on the channel since this one). The order I'm painting stuff is being chosen by the ABNB club members.

[@WLMjolnir]

Love it. Well done.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you.

[@morcar8991]

I can say that you have the best background music. And I like your painting videos as well.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you. I can't take any credit for the music; I just happen to have a very talented friend!

[@morcar8991]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Talented is thee that has talented friends 😄

[@danstampe1665]

Would love that music as background when playing hq with my group😍

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

There is a link to James Lloyd's bandcamp page in the video description. I believe he kept this particular piece off the list to keep it "exclusive" to my channel, but there's lots of other great (and weird) stuff on there.

[@salhernandez8286]

Thank you for your channel. I just got into Heroquest.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I hope you are having a lot of fun with HeroQuest.

[@salhernandez8286]

I am, and it is something I can play with my Grandkids.

[@Hellstorm87]

very nice guide :) keep them comming

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. Plenty more Advanced Heroquest on the way.

[@georgeadsett-knutsen829]

Great job!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you.

[@cjanquart]

Good tip switching out water when switching to non-metallic paints. I've always used separate pots for metallic and non-metallic paints and a small bottle of clean water for thinning paints; never understood why Duncan uses the same pot of water for cleaning and thinning paint.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Maybe he changes his water so frequently it's not a bother. I admit I've always used one pot for thinning and cleaning, partly because I change the water frequently and partly because if I had more I would only get confused and use the wrong one anyway. Or worse, drink one of them instead of my tea.

[@marasmusine]

I must get round to painting my AHQ models. It's only been 30 years.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Ha. I never painted my original set either. Going to make up for it now.

[@robins5314]

Just painted two of these recently. I made one similar to yours, but with red instead of blue and one with gold armour. I really love the models from this game.... I wish I had a third one to do blue now!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Gold armour is a bit of a level up for this poor chap! I bet he looks great in it.

[@robins5314]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Yes indeed, he needs a reward for all that hard work.

[@Mailed-Knight]

Great vid.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you.

[@superspecky4eyes]

Great model! So simple but characterful. The Agrax over the Zandri Dust gave a great leather tone. I would have thought it would muddy up such a light base colour but it worked perfectly. Perhaps you went one step too far with the shield, it looked awesome as you put the first flicks of leadbelcher on the edges, I dont think it needed the bright silver. Still looked great though.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It’s always a fine line between trying to make something look beaten up and messy and something actually being beaten up and messy. I didn’t do much of the final silver, but it was possibly a bit much.

[@superspecky4eyes]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Yes definately, I often find myself going one step too far and reaching for an imaginary Ctrl+Z to undo what I just did!

[@nickgraney2119]

Great guide, well paced so easy to follow for an amateur like myself. I have painted quite a few models now (GW and Mantic), could you let me know what would be a good varnish to use (I haven't varnished any as yet) as well as what brushes you use (especially the finer detailing ones). Thanks

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you. I like to use spray varnishes, and I always go back to Army Painter Matt Varnish, although Citadel's spray varnish is decent too. I spray for most things, but I also have brush-on Army Painter Matt Varnish, brush-on Stormshield from Citadel, and a brush-on gloss varnish from Eberhard/Faber. For brushes, I almost always use Army Painter and Citadel, and most frequently use a Medium Layer brush from Citadel. I also frequently use a basecoat and detail brush from Army Painter. This video might be helpful for you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2eliIabrpasr7c

[@spacedock873]

This is going to look much nicer on the table than unpainted minis. The only issue I see is that the colour of the boots is too close to that of the base so they tend to get lost. I understand the need for the boots to stand out from the dark armour but they also need to stand out from the base so maybe a "browner" colour such as saddle brown would have been better?

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

No. The boots and gloves are probably the best bit of the miniature. The boots are different to the flagstones and heavily lined in so they don’t blend.

[@spacedock873]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Maybe it looks different on camera to what it does IRL

[@robertlykins728]

Awesome

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks.

[@robertlykins728]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring you are helping me figure out how to paint I’ve been doing it wrong for years thank you!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Well I'm glad the videos are helping, but I'm not sure there's really a right or wrong way to do this stuff. Just get some paint down you are happy with and have fun doing it!