The re-launch of Warhammer Quest via Silver Tower came in May 2016 and it took until January 2017 for me to fully paint my game up, just in time for a new announcement of another Warhammer Quest game called ‘Shadows Over Hammerhal’, released in February 2017. This new version is both complimentary and separate to Silver Tower in that it is a stand alone box set, but you can use components of both sets, heroes and enemies to cross over. Hammerhal is an underground dungeon beneath a city, and features 4 new heroes and chaos enemies including Nurgle and Khorne, along with a good number of Tzeentch acolytes again. Painting my Hammerhal box set began in quarter one 2017 with heroes and blightkings completed quickly, but the final acolytes were only completed in June 2019.
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The enemies followed with the excellent Putrid Blightkings, which are the best enemies in this set. You have a lot of build alternatives with these models, so I decided to make them into mini characters to add a little extra interest for the dungeon master. This group presents a tough challenge when compared to most Silver Tower enemies. I find skin harder to paint than anything else so this was a challenge, and in hindsight i should have gone for putrid green based skin tones. |
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Next were the bloodreavers which i completed by the first half of 2018, and mostly with standard builds, but i added a couple of blightking conversion crossovers for some extra dungeon interest if i need it. A gradual realisation that this box is all skintones has made me wince, and i lost enthusiasm for these towards the end. |
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Finally it took me until June 2019 to complete the acolytes, as i was able to use models from the Silver Tower set. These new acolytes are more interesting to paint than bloodreavers, but all the metal edging and little detail makes them time consuming, but my efforts here are much better and skin painting improved. These acolytes have better poses than the Silver Tower set, with more interesting alternatives such as the scroll and bird carriers. |
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The great thing about Warhammer Quest is the ability to expand the games with the help of some additional rules in White Dwarf, so I decided to build a few new enemies into my Hammerhal box set.
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