Painting Guide for HeroQuest Zombies | How to Paint Undead Enemies | HeroQuest Restoration Project

Always Board Never Boring continues his HeroQuest restoration project by painting the zombies from his 1990 copy of the classic dungeon crawler from Games Workshop and MB Games. This is a very simple paint scheme, designed to get the models finished really quickly, to a reasonable standard.
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[@SeanSidious]

This series is so cathartic to me, I had hero quest as a boy and never got to play it as my parents never had the time to help me with the rules. Years later, when I moved away from home, the loft was cleared and I threw a pristine hero quest into the skip as I just didn’t think I’d use it ever again, stupidly unaware of how sought after the game is nowadays. It kills me every time I think about it. This series has inspired me, I need to pick myself up a copy on eBay and do what you are doing now with the restoration, and learn the rules to play with my son. I have some serious wrongs to right. Thanks for the videos, they are great!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Glad you're enjoying the series, and thank you for the kind words. I sold a near mint copy of HeroQuest many years ago, and I expect a lot of other people did similar things, so you aren't alone! It's a great game for parents to play with their children. I am sure you will have a lot of fun with it.

[@blackraptor311]

Nice work! At the time of writing this I have the entire base game of Blackstone Fortress painted. Also finished the No Respite expansion and now am working on the Chaos Cultist from Escalation. That would leave me with 12 more models from the other expansions left to go. Almost there.

[@doomed2die595]

i just started this hobby last September with a huge pile on, 2.5 sets of original HQ + 4 expansions, got 2 Mythic HQ orders comin soon i hope, i got more then i know what to do with, so like you almost there.........almost lol.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Well done on ploughing through all the Blackstone content. That's a big commitment.

[@blackraptor311]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring On 4 weeks going on today. Soon I'll look into the rule and play solo. And it will be all painted so it will look good.

[@kajkun1384]

Really enjoy these painting guides! Makes me carefully paint my own minis for some reason!🙂 great and simple painting approach!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you. My aim is always to go for the simplest approach. I should have some more painting guides on the channel very soon.

[@robins5314]

Great job, thanks for sharing.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks for taking the time to watch.

[@robins5314]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring You're welcome

[@minimishapsgames894]

So impressed by the eyes, zombie lookin' sweet!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. I hate doing eyes, but just dotting in a little white really does make the difference on these.

[@minimishapsgames894]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring I hate doing eyes, too, most times I just leave them off or hope for the best with my washes, lol.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Yeah, I've painted my share of "mysterious strangers" with their eyes cast in shadows. Sometimes it's better just to leave it alone.

[@doomed2die595]

ive completed 13 skeletons 7 mummies 1 chaos warrior 14 goblins + 1 goblin frankenstein'd from multiple brokens as an Infected Goblin Necromancer, and 2/3 way through 18 Orcs, all my furniture is complete got 8 zombies 8 fimir 7 chaos warriors 2 gargoyles and 2 chaos sorcerer's and all the heroes and KK RotWL MotM FH expansion minis left to do. My 3d resin printer came in, will start creating the minis for Ogre Horde and Wizards, finished printing out the quest books for FH MotM Ogres and Wizards, just gotta create the cards and tiles. This is a really good project, and as always another Great video helping me pick what i wanna do with the zombies as i think they be next after the Orcs thanks for the inspiration ABNB.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

You've been busy. Well done!

[@johnmiddleton4291]

Zombie belt buckles is the first thing I ever look for.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

The stylish zombies about town wouldn’t be seen dead without one.

[@DavidGreen_au]

He came up quite well.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.

[@Mailed-Knight]

Cool vid.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks so much.

[@superspecky4eyes]

Slightly off topic but do you know if there are any modern day rpg/DnD light board games like Heroquest? Something that wouldn't be out of the question for a family to play together at Christmas? I've watched some play throughs of things like Gloomhaven but that just looks far too complicated. Just something where you can chuck some dice, move around and fight some monsters.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Considering the games I've played, I think the D&D Adventure Games are probably your best option (Castle Ravenloft, Wrath of Ashardalon, etc.). They are completely co-op, so the family can all play together, and they are relatively straightforward. Dungeon Saga is another good option. It takes a lot of inspiration from HeroQuest but is a little more complicated and requires a DM. Silver Tower and Shadows Over Hammerhal would be good options but they are both long out of print and getting quite expensive. If you want a super-light family game, consider Hasbro's Dungeon! which I reviewed on the channel. It sort of distills D&D down to the basics of running into rooms, killing monsters, and taking all their stuff. I wouldn't call it a good game, but it's a bit of silly fun for the family. Obviously the new edition of HeroQuest comes out next year, so that will also be one to watch for later on. Hope that helps.

[@superspecky4eyes]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Thanks for the reply. Yes I have the new Heroquest on order but I was just wondering if there was anything else that can fill the void and save us from the usual Monopoly/Cluedo Boxing Day shenanigans. I think simpler the better, so I will give Dungeon! a look. I'm sure stuff like GLoomhaven is great but if it's too complicated 90% of people won't be bothered to play it.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

@@superspecky4eyes Gloomhaven looks to have some component bloat (lots of tokens), plus card combat which is very involved and doesn't involve dice at all. Definitely not what you're looking for. Check out Dungeon!, but again, I would also recommend looking into something like the Castle Ravenloft board game, which has lots of nice plastic toys in the box too.

[@minimoff8]

Has this taken a back seat for now?

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Yes and no. It's an ongoing project that I'm still working on and will be featuring on the channel, as I mentioned in my recent "on the hobby table" video. Then I will be moving on to Advanced HeroQuest and Space Crusade. However, thanks to Christmas holidays and lockdown I've had two children in the house for a month, one of which I'm supposed to be homeschooling; and running the channel isn't my actual job, so at the moment I'm doing what I can when I can. Painting videos obviously take a long time and are more difficult to do in the current situation. So, there's definitely lots more still to come, but only as I'm able to do it. I'm hoping to get some more HeroQuest on the channel next week, though.

[@Tanesis]

Fancy painting some Advanced heroquest Man at arms with a tutorial? Theres a distinct lack of those on YT

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Advanced HeroQuest is my next project. I really want to get through HeroQuest before moving on to the next thing, but he request is duly noted. I'll look at painting the men-at-arms first.