SLAMBO! (& Some Other Oldhammer Citadel Miniatures) | The Advanced Heroquest Project Continues

Always Board Never Boring is constantly amazed at the level of support he receives from all of you. In this video, he goes through some miniatures he recently received as a gift from Andy Atom Taylor, whose social media links are included below. As an added bonus, he slaps some paint on Slambo using a very quick and easy painting guide for tabletop ready chaos warriors. He just couldn't wait!
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00:00 Intro
00:40 Andy is awesome
01:26 Malis Manwrack
02:11 Minotaur Lord
03:13 Slambo
04:02 Painting Slambo
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[@quakeSanchez]

It's great to see the old-school minis! Slambo AND Minotaur Lord? Those Advanced Heroquest adventures just got so much harder with such dungeon bosses!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

There's definitely a difficulty spike when these two turn up!

[@gordonbrown5641]

Slambo is an absolute legend of a miniature! I have lots of love for those old Skaven minis and I'm looking forward to see the minotaur all painted up, had a few back in the day but never got round to painting them

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Yeah, this is a very cool group of miniatures.

[@fortysixand2]

Looking forward to watching you paint that Minotaur in a future episode.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It will definitely happen, but I have quite a few things to get through first.

[@blackraptor311]

I have that Slambo mini. Years ago GW had a special sale with these old chaos minis where you buy a certain amount and get a special discount deal. I painted it a simple copper color as depicted in one of the Heroquest illustrations.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It's such a simple and easy miniature to paint, but has so much character. Copper armour always looks cool.

[@daviddupont517]

Thanks for this great gift becoming a great video

[@stevenkennedy4130]

Thanks Andy!

[@moseth7606]

Awesome job dude!! And many thanks to Andy for his generosity. Its lovely to see your community on this channel coming together

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I think everybody says they have the best viewers, but in my case it's true!

[@jasonbyers9736]

I love your style for colored metal. Great work as always.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. Glad you like it.

[@leefisher6766]

I think the award is Slambo.... why was he green? Great paint job!

[@morcar8991]

Thats the to date most effective use of green ink i've witnessed so far. I also own a Slambos younger brother model, unpainted yet, I think I'll give it a try using your tutorial

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It’s a fun way to paint the chaos warriors.

[@johnmiddleton4291]

That green color scheme for the CH2 Chaos Warriors comes from Druillet's Salammbo book. Pretty classic influence on the range. He influenced lots of early Warhammer, and is also the source of the Red Redemption, in the Loan Sloane books. Ansel used them as sci-fi baddies in Laserburn.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I never realised that's where that colour scheme came from. I think I only ever read one Lone Sloane book when I was back at school. All I really remember is the striking artwork, which I always feel has a lot of stylistic similarities to Ian Miller's stuff. (My favourite thing Ian Miller ever did was The City graphic novel written by James Herbert. I wish I still had my copy of that.)

[@johnmiddleton4291]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Duillet's stuff is pretty good to read still. Lots of it has been collected and reprinted relatively recently too. Lots of comics in the 60s, 70s. 80s featured wildly hued armors in them, mostly due to the four color process printing unable to replicate metallic colors without them just being grey. So any fantasy comic would have such. But Ansel, Tony ackland, and Jes Goodwin have all cited Druillets stuff as an influence to them. GW did do a superheroes RPG back in the day called Golden Heroes too, so the comics influence was there as well.

[@Geerdie]

Wow i loved the entire slambo family

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Their family fun days must be a blast.

[@Geerdie]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring haha ideed.

[@sim00ps]

I was lucky enough to pick up Doombellow back when AHQ was in print. Picked up Slambo in the early days of eBay too. Despite having a large Skaven army, that warlord is still missing from my collection! Great video, hope to see more soon

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

This is the first time I have ever owned an original Slambo, so it's a very cool thing for me. If I ever get one of every Advanced Heroquest model, trying to get a complete collection of the classic chaos warriors would probably be next on the bucket list.

[@sim00ps]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring I have always wanted to complete my collection, best of luck with yours!

[@calvanoni5443]

Lovely!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you.

[@1000jjwalker]

great paint job

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks.

[@MrLinindoll]

Thanks for sharing these beautiful monstrosities! I’m jealous of your Slambo!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I am so happy to finally have a Slambo in my collection.

[@ATOMTAYLOR]

Looks lovely. Happy to be of assistance. ;)

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate the gift. The minotaur and the skaven are a little way down the paint queue, but I couldn't resist getting Slambo dungeon-ready straight away.

[@ATOMTAYLOR]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring And thank you for all your wonderous youtube content. Slambo looks very much at home surrounded by his underlings. Great paint jobs.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Everybody is Slambo's underlings.

[@nickellingham1764]

Only last week I was wondering how your collecting project was going. Mine (inspired by yours) is mothballed for now due to financial constraints! Ive got my orinional 1988 rat ogre, warpfire team I picked up a while ago and a champion. Wow - that's a jackpot edition! Completely agree about the skaven sculpt - side profile is much better. May look slightly different once painted. When HQ came out and I was at primary school, I had a plain white t-shirt I got my mum to draw the HQ chaos warrior on with a black permanant marker on the front and the Sourcerer on the rear. Shes an exceptional artist and this t-shirt was the envy of everyone I knew! The Minator with meat cleaver is wicked too!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I know what you mean. Acquiring these vintage pieces can get very expensive very quickly, but they are all so lovely. I bet that shirt was awesome!

[@HivisoftheScale]

Oooh the Chaos Lord..? I've seen his numbers. A truly terrifying foe, to be sure!! 😮

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

He's a bit of a beast. Pretty much hitting on anything better than a 4 most of the time, with two attacks putting out four damage dice per strike. You wouldn't want to meet too many of them!

[@jayandreas1131]

Minotaur with the right-left hand 😁

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Which ever hand he hits you with is the right hand, because there's nothing left.

[@jayandreas1131]

Still looks strange that thumb on the inside 😁 or maybe it just looks like that?

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I think it just looks like that in the video. The bit on the inside is the fat part of the palm where the thumb connects. His thumb curls outwards over the top of the left hand, with the tip resting in front of spikes that come off his knuckles.

[@Mailed-Knight]

Great vid.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you for watching.

[@woges5093]

1985 Chaos Warriors Designed by Jes Goodwin, Bob Naismith and Aly Morrison. Can't remember if they were individually credit on the WD/Catalogue pages.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I looked for research for the video and couldn’t find the individual credit for Slambo.

[@johnmiddleton4291]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Pretty sure he's a Jes Goodwin sculpt.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

That wouldn't surprise me, but I trawled Lost Mini Wiki and SOL, looked through all the advert scans and White Dwarf pages, and even went back and read through the Warahammer Community restrospective posts they published about him earlier this year, and I was surprised that I couldn't find a definitive reference to the sculptor for such a well-loved miniature.

[@trifffid]

Ohhh De La Soul reference 😊

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It is the magic number.

[@PincheHugo_130]

My friend, can you or the community enlighten me on a possible purchase of one "HeroQuest Advanced EDITION" it has the same box art as the new HeroQuest looks like, but nothing like the one on this video.......is this a remake of your copy or something different??? i would like to have it, you make it look frigging fun and I want to try it for my self :D

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

HeroQuest Advanced Quest Edition was a special edition of the original 1989 game. It came out in 1990, and is basically a reprint of the core game, plus some extra mercenary miniatures and a special quest. It is a completely different product to Advanced Heroquest, which was made by Games Workshop.

[@SargNickFury]

Those deserve square bases......not round 40k heresy.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Advanced Heroquest shipped with round bases, and I want everything consistent.

[@SargNickFury]

If you played WFB you had your bases square, and thus all your mob bases were such. I never played WHQ with round bases. Heroquest miniatures came with squared bases built onto them. AHQ was sort of an aberration in that it did come with round bases, but even then we used square. Because we were not new to warhammer. Esp in my section of the states, we were already to 4th edition WFB by the time we saw a copy of AHQ. It was not widely distributed here. Many of us saw WHQ before we saw AHQ. Meanwhile Square bases ruled the hobby since 3rd edition WFB. All the boxes of minis like the infamous "Fantasy Regiments" and undead boxes were square based. Never really used round bases until Space Hulk, and then later 2e 40k. When I see round bases on any fantasy model, I assume it's AOS and not old school at all. It's your minis and your game you should do whatever makes you happy. But putting round bases on my classic Warhammer minis makes me physically ill.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

@@SargNickFury Yes I know. I cover all these subject on my channel. I no long play rank and file and base all my Oldhammer on round for AHQ. I even talked in a video about choosing between square and round for AHQ and there is a whole video dedicated to Fantasy Regiments.

[@SargNickFury]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Watched a few of your videos so I know you knew, which is why it surprised me. In the end play your games however you enjoy it best! :D I just feel like I have to have square bases or I will have WFB sinned. Maybe it's my general dislike of all things AoS, I still consider everything after WFB 3rd edition to be "new". I did technically start with round bases over all though, as My first GW games were Talisman (2nd so no minis just cardboard on round bases), and Space Hulk. and maybe Dungeon quest I don't remember what the bases were like for that though. I want to say hex?

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

@@SargNickFury I did consider square bases for AHQ, but ultimately went round because it felt more nostalgic and true to how the game originally shipped. It also helps with playing the game as I rotate miniatures to "lock on" to enemies in their death zone, and that's easier to do with round bases. I also like using round bases for the miniatures that will be used in other game systems like Rangers of Shadow Deep. And if one day I ever do feel like playing rank and flank, I will just pick up some of the movement trays that have the circle recesses. My big boys do go on 50mm squares, though. Good memory on DungeonQuest. It had integrated hex bases for the plastic heroes in the core game. For the heroes expansion, the heroes were depicted on the box with round bases, but I believe they did ship with the old hex bases.