Dungeon Saga Heroes - Your Quest Begins Here!

"Enter, stranger...."

In a wild departure from fantasy dwarf designs, this one is a grumpy-looking doorstop.

Despite having a SkypeQuest lined up with Kraken in the near future, I hadn't intended to paint any of my Dungeon Quest models. But I started to tinker with a few and realised - these things are fantastic to paint!

They're certainly on the smaller side of the 25mm scale - my SAGA guys look burly next to them, but they're just about on par with LoTR miniatures. But apart from painting most of the areas with a fine detail brush, it wasn't a problem.

We Will Rock You

For the elf, I wanted to try something different from my usual pale flesh tones - I used Drakenhof Nightshade as the wash, then highlighted with Ushabi Bone. I'm quite happy with the effect: more like the elves of Hellboy II, and less just like a slender-looking human archer.

Named 'Madriga', presumably for her early Baroque singing technique.

This bruiser is the standout hero for me (isn't it always the barbarian in these games?) - good stance, great expression. My only complaint is the amount of skulls he is wearing: a skull shoulderpad is good and characterful; a pair of skull kneepads seems less so; a skull attached to the back of your axe just makes me think it's a satire on certain other miniature companies.

"What is best in life? Apart from a lot of skulls, obviously."

As I was saying, these miniatures surprised me with how well they take paint and hold detail. Working up from a black undercoat, I was also able to whizz through them pretty efficiently (perhaps less than an hour apiece).

When I initially unboxed my Dungeon Saga pledge, and looked at the blue plastic models, I rated them B+, but to be honest, if all the miniatures are this quality, they're worth the cost of the Kickstarter by themselves.

And for some fun, I dug out the models that inspired this game - my old HeroQuest boys, as painted by 11-year-old me with my Airfix Enamels.

One of these dwarfs dwarfing the other.

Everybody, yeah yeah.
Rock your body, yeah yeah.

Elvish has left the building.

By the Power of Humbrol!

So no real difference, as you can see.