Five Parsecs from Home: First Quest Mission Two

Five Parsecs: Mission Two

I will be posting a more conventional report in a few days, stills and text.

Skaven Plague Monks

Here are my Plague Monks for the Skaven deck I'm putting together. Sadly, they are made from the same Skaven models from the 80's, so the poses are a little repetitive, but I make no apologies, I'm not inclined to buy the actual models and enjoy the challenge of making the whole range from a limited basic resource.

For these Monks I added hoods and cloaks from green stuff and extra hand weapons from card. I often use card for bladed weapons and it has worked well enough in the past. They can sometimes get knocked off in transit, but there you go.

I would also like to point out that I do not consider myself to be competent sculptor, these are for me to play with, not to be put in a glass cabinet and gazed at. After this they will go in a box till we play with them. :-)

Wound Tubs

Realised that I had not posted pictures of how we record our characters wounds during a game of Quest. We use these small card tubs, that I made quite a while ago, to put red glass beads, one per wound, obviously.

I made them out of cereal packet layered over with paper and PVA glue until the structure became hard. On top of the basic structure I added lots of smaller bits of card, like round the rim and round the base. Then on the inside I mixed up some PVAcrete and applied it inside the tub. When it hardened it was like rock.

Then to complete, I painted them with acrylic paint and when finished lacquered the whole thing with acrylic clear varnish. Surprisingly when all that is done the tubs are really very durable.

Punk Hideout Video

I took a short, 3 minute, video of the Punk Hideout that I played my last game of Five Parsecs on. A complete report will be out shortly, but I wanted to show the setting without getting in way of game.

All the scenery is hand made and painted by me, although some of the buildings were influenced in their design by Games Workshop and Mantic Games. I wanted my builds to fit in with models made by the two games companies mentioned.

Punk Hideout

Clanrats

I have managed to complete, probably the most straight forward of my new challenge, the Skaven Clanrats, 12 of them.

These are all made from rather old Skaven models, the ones that came with Advanced Heroquest and some I seem to have inexplicably gathered but from where, only the Buddha knows. The only thing I had to add was a bit of filling where there were holes punched to locate the shields.

Five Parsecs: Bounty Hunters

These are not really converted at all to be honest, a bit of gun shortening, and some extra bits of kit from other miniatures added, but nothing major.

I thought the Tau models worked really well as Bounty Hunters, they are a bit uniform, but they might be from a sanctioned company or part of a law enforcement department.

I will keep adding small groups of models and individuals until I run out of ideas and try to keep them as close to the list of protagonists in the Five Parsecs Table. I have really enjoyed making these different groups and look forward to gaming with them.

Hobgoblin Characters

Although I have just posted my April challenge, I still have bits of Chaos Dwarf miniatures to finish off. So today I finished of a Hobgoblin hero and a Sneaky Git hero. I don't have an awful lot more models for the hobgoblins, but I still have quite a few Chaos Dwarf models.