Shadespire Custom Objective Markers

Of late I have been getting into Shadespire, since you know: strategy game, check; awesome minis to paint, check; custom dice, check; card and secret elements, check; deck building, check... (I could go on, but I think you get me by now). BUT I am a customiser, so anything that is cardboard I like to make it 3d, as much as possible without interfering with the game, and I already bought some prefab 3d scenery for the obstructed hexes in the board a couple of weeks ago.

But I also wanted to make 3d the objective markers (the first 5 for a 2 player game at least to begin with), which is more problematic, because minis need to be able to stand in the hex, and they supposedly see through it. And no one sells anything like that, so I bought some pieces and did them. Additionally, they need to have some numbers on them (you know, objective 1, objective 2, ...), but I did not want to put numbers on them, so I went for skull: 1 skull is objective 1, 2 skulls is objective 2, ... I think that anyone that plays Warhammer knows how to count skulls.

Photo of the results:

And the materials involved in all of them:

Common: for the 3d floor (stone like, which I have a blue light glow to match the overall ambience of Shadespire) I used blue Styrofoam, 3 mm thick. for the skulls I used this, but any skulls will do I guess.

Marker 1: I was quite unsure what is depicted in this one, have asked people and no one seems to agree: is it shardglass, a random piece, a helm made of it, a katophranic relic? no idea, so I just went for glass, which I stuck on the finished (and already varnished) pieces of Styrofoam, leaving space in the middle for a 40 mm base to fit.

Marker 2: The magic orb is a blue Styrofoam ball while the plinth I bought it here.

Marker 3: The cogs are real watch cogs that I bought on eBay for spare parts.

Marker 4: The book came from here, while the plinth came from here.

Marker 5: That Icosahedron is a d20 (shocker) covered with crack filling putty in order to remove the numbers and give it a (non-dice) texture. and the plinth is the the same as for objective 2.

Next, when I feel like it I will go for 6-9 objectives.

Shadespire Scenery

So, if gone back to Warhammer planet, but not in the big way, not in the Imperial Knight, not in the 10,000 points, not in the "takes a whole fucking weekend to play a game", but mostly for painting, for now, with the intention to get into the smaller games like Shadespire (which I think is quite good as a not-so-hardcore competitive game). Problem is that I am a sucker for a good looking game table, and those folding boards alone won't make it for me. Don't get me wrong they are gorgeous, and I don't intend to replace them with anything fully custom for the time being, but some pretty scenery on top of it makes a big difference, so I started with the blocked spaces (which I got from Hexy-Shop). I tried to paint them using the same blue glow that all things (scenery-wise) in Shadespire seem to have, hope you like it.

All Chaos

And the last and most dangerous of the monster factions from the classic Heroquest: Chaos (sorry no ogres or weirder things yet).

All Undead

Now the turn to show all the different undead minions in my approach to Heroquest. Braaaaaaaaaaains!

All Greenskins

In the coming days I will be posting photos of the three major factions of foes in my Heroquest. Enter the Whaaaaaaaaaaaag. Enjoy.

From left to right: in the upper panel, a snotling, a goblin, an orc and a black orc; and in the lower panel, a goblin boss, an orc boss, a black orc boss and a mighty fimir.

More Heroquest

And some scenes from my own take on the classic board game.

 Who is stronger?!

Bring it on!

Long Live Crowd Funding

I think that we are living one of the best times to be a tabletop/RPG fan thanks to crowd funding. Have you seen the new Conan game? did you have the chance to have a look at the Twisting Catacombs a couple of months ago? (there was some serious Heroquest shit in there) And have you noticed that this year is the Heroquest 25th Anniversary (depending on which country you live...). There are some even for the Chibi fans!

And one thing my money would be flying to if someone did a serious crowd funding (for my taste, a much better board game than Space Hulk...):

Hero Quest in Action

I have been somewhat absent from here in the last months since I've doing a thing I wanted to do for years, of which I will speak at some other time. Now, some Hero Questing from my custom project to leave the rust behind!

The Highborn taking on the legions of the dead

The Elf and the Wizard cornered by a zombie mob

And my own personal version of the four classic Heroquest heroes

Undead Hero

I begin now with the leaders of the Undead, being the lowest rank the Undead Hero.

Armored Zombies

It's been some months since I last uploaded any Heroquest stuff. To go on with this here are some less-naked Zombies.

Speaking of Heroquest...

The Spanish Version of IGN has published a list of some of the best-of-all-time tabletop games, and guess what... I agree