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My epic 3d Hero quest board

Postby lehtimik » Saturday August 24th, 2024 2:38am

Hi Forum!

first post here!

Here is my 3d board:
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Little background. I played Hero Quest in the nineties. My friend had just bought the game and it was five of us playing it at the age of 11 and I was the barbarian. Very good memories. I noticed acidentally that there was a new release of the game and
bought it in 2021. My son and my wife liked the game (my daughter not so much) and we have been playing it since last winter. The game was on the shelf for my kid to grow a little older for a few years. Anyway, the original board started to break down and it
was time to check alternatives. I noticed a really cool Youtube instructions done by David Selvadurai from Blueline Gaming on how to build a 3d board.

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The project took me the whole summer. Unfortunately our summer trip got cancelled so I had some free time. I renowated the kids rooms and build the board. I followed the stepd in David's videos and added some details of my own:
- added some sewers etc. to the corridors
- I had some ninties models left from Blood Bowl etc. I cut them to litlle peaces and used those to detail the walls
- For the rooms, I also carved the textures of each room to replicate the original board
- I used a thicker foam board (3 cm) for the board. This allowed me to do the corridors on the edge having details like cracks and peaces of stone missing. Also tried to do the edge corridors so that not all squares are at the same level. Some deeper some higher.
- I glued the rats and skulls from 2021 Hero quest into various crack etc. on the board
- I agree with David on the wall tops -> I do not like the perfectly cut wall tops that you see on the 3d printed Hero quest boards. The top of the wall should be rough.
- I carved a symbol and painted it gold to the center room
- Added some tiles to some parts of the corridor around the center room and also to one of the rooms. Glued strips of card board to achieve that.

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But here is link to the Youtube video of the board. Unfortunately this was the first time filming a video so the quality of the picture is not as good as it could and I also accidentally used 6:9 frame.
When I have time and money I will reshoot this with a better camera and with tripod. Hope you get the idea still:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpeLFcDjIWg
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Re: My epic 3d Hero quest board

Postby Daedalus » Sunday August 25th, 2024 10:13pm

Wow, you poured a lot of attention into your 3D board--it's fantastic! Great to hear from you, and glad your HeroQuest journey has resumed with your family.

I'm definitely looking forward to more of your posts. The video was great eye-candy. One small point: your pictures don't seem to be viewable. If you join a file-sharing service for images (I use Imgur), you should be able to get a working link.
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Re: My epic 3d Hero quest board

Postby lehtimik » Monday August 26th, 2024 1:44am

Thanks Daedalus from your comments! Hopefully the links work now. I use Dropbox and apparently you need to manually change the URL of the images from https://www.dropbox.com to https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/ Sarcasm: very user friendly /Sarcasm

Will be nice to see what you have here in the forum. We have played through Kellars Keep (good), Return of the Witchlord (great, I really liked this one) and Prophecy of Telor (a bit disapointing). Currently we are playing Spirit Queen's Torment and it feels a lot similar to Telor. But I am really looking forward for the next expansions, we already have Frozen horror, but was planning to play Against Ogre Horde next.
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Re: My epic 3d Hero quest board

Postby lestodante » Monday August 26th, 2024 4:23pm

It looks really cool!!


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Re: My epic 3d Hero quest board

Postby Daedalus » Tuesday August 27th, 2024 9:40pm

lehtimik wrote:. . . Will be nice to see what you have here in the forum. We have played through Kellars Keep (good), Return of the Witchlord (great, I really liked this one) and Prophecy of Telor (a bit disapointing). Currently we are playing Spirit Queen's Torment and it feels a lot similar to Telor. But I am really looking forward for the next expansions, we already have Frozen horror, but was planning to play Against Ogre Horde next.

Sounds like you're on the right path. Enjoy the ride! Do you plan to play the Arena that is part of the Avalon Hill Against the Ogre Horde? If so, I hope you build it and share more pics!
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Re: My epic 3d Hero quest board

Postby lehtimik » Thursday August 29th, 2024 2:44am

That is a great idea Daedalus. Had a quick look at the arena in Against the Ogre Horde and it could be doable. I was also planning to do the stairs in Kellar's Keep but I think that is even better idea.
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Re: My epic 3d Hero quest board

Postby Daedalus » Monday September 2nd, 2024 7:06pm

Checkk out what Avalon Hill commisioned for inspiration:

It's semi-official since the box for the Wandering Monk features the same art.
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