Expanding Beyond Tonoborus

By this point I've already purchased all the miniatures Tonoborus provides on Cults3d.com.

This cost isn't actually too bad. Really do support this guy his minis are awesome and the price is great.

Undead Set $3.26 (Wight, Skeleton Bowmen, Skeleton Swordsman, Ghost, Ghoul, & Zombie)

Daemon Set $3.62 (Bloodletter, Plaguebearer, Daemonettes, Pink & Blue Horrors, Nurgling, Fiend of Slaanesh, & Flesh Hound of Khorne)

Centaur, Troll, & Ogre 58 cents each($1.74 total)

Pit Fighter, Imperial Noble, Witch Hunter, Warrior Priest, Elf Ranger, Wardancer, Chaos Warrior hero, Bretonian Knight, Dwarf Slayer .98 cents each ($8.82 total)

Hero Pack $3.62 (Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf, Wizard)

Core Monster Pack $3.62 (Orc Swordsman, Orc Bowmen, Goblin Spearmen, Goblin Archer, Clanrat, Giant Rat, Giant Bat, Snotling, Minotaur, & Giant Spider)

Free stuff: Doorway model, Sample Monster Set, Chaos Dwarf Set, Chaos Warrior enemy, Dark Elf /w Crossbow, Dark Elf Black Guard.

Total: $24.68

This sort of comes across as a commercial, but I'm just ecstatic about what he provided to start this project.

Its sounds like he plans to do more, but he hasn't had an update since December 2024. I need way more than this. So where to find my STLs?

At this point I had 4 main resources.

Yeggi searches multiple websites that have STLs for free and/or purchase.

Cults3d where I found Tonoborus, but many other great STLs.

thingiverse Many free STLs here.

MyMiniManufacture Not very many free STls, but lots of quality ones for a price.

Many of the mini's I found on these resources don't exist there anymore, at least not by the same seller//provider. GW is not happy if their mini's are on these sites, and those STLs get removed quickly. I find searching with the term "oldhammer" helps. Many of the sellers use misleading names and images to disguise what they are actually selling. This helps them stay up on these sites longer, but makes it harder to tell if what you are downloading is what you are after.

I know I found the classic plastic Beastmen /w Helberd model on one of these sites. I shrank it down to 67% of normal size in Blender and it printed out great.

The model's head is a little mis-shappen, but free is free. Also one Beastmen's hoof didn't print at all, so I just sculpted it in green stuff. 

Update on 8/2/25; Since I made this post Tonoborus started to provide a free Beastmen model, similar to the one I used here, but slightly better detail (the heads not mishappen). You can find it here. 

 

Tonoborus's Beastmen.

 

I have a huge Beastmen Warhammer Fantasy army. I have them all painted up like Polar Bears (White Fur & Black Skin). All the leather they wear is made up to look like human skin. Ever care to see a Cow get even for that leather jacket? So I kept the paint scheme going here.

44 monsters painted, 204 monsters 3D printed, of 558 needed as of January 18, 2025.

That's all for this post, may your lantern always stay lit.

DeMagic Tutor out.

First Couple of "Units"

 

 The printer pictured here is what the wife got herself for christmas at the end of 2024. We purchased it from Amazon. You can find it here:

At this point, I like how this is going. I have 3 monsters painted and 1 hero. The assembly line is started. I find an STL I like. If it needs editing I do so in Blender. Pass it off to the wife. If it didn't come with supports, she adds the supports. Then she sets up the build plate, has her printer do its thing. If the print succeeds she, removes the supports and then gives the mini's a alcohol bath. After they have dried a while I give them a UV bath. We have acquired a UV light box, that I think was originally meant for drying finger nails?. It has a nice 90 second button, each mini goes in twice for 90 seconds. Between December 28- January 13 we had printed 197 miniatures. Some of these will be replaced with better models but this project is just humming along.

The UV Light box we found at Micheals. You can find it here:

As you might have noticed, my wife is doing a lot of the work. I don't know how to do supports even still. I don't know how to load up a build plate or start the printer. I'm sure I could learn, but if she is willing to do this part, that frees me up for finding STLs, using Blender, and painting. Yes, I do appreciate her help with this. Though at some point, I expect she will want my skills with Blender to help with projects she will have.

Time to finish groups of monsters, first up 11 more spiders. These went really fast. Such a simple model with a simple paint scheme. These guys were finished on January 7th.

Next on the menu, 11 more gobo's with bows. These guys were finished on January 11th.

Lastly for this post, 11 more Clanrats. To vary these up I gave quite a few different fur colors, White, grey, black, light brown, dark brown, yellow. These guys were finished on January 13th.

Thats 36 monsters and 1 hero painted.

Thats all for this post, may your lantern always stay lit.

DeMagic Tutor out.

The first batch.

Tonoborus provides quite a few of his miniatures for free.

The above pack of 5, can be downloaded for free here.

Before I dug too deep into making my own copy of Warhammer Quest and fully committing to the "Tiny" scale of 2/3rds size, I probably should test the quality of my printer and how good I am at painting at this size. Where else to start but the Free pack. The quality of the print is great. I love the "cutsie" feel of these guys, and they paint well.

I did the spider first. This minature is very simple. Makes speed painting them great. The eyes are a bit of a pain to paint at this scale, but flat black with a grey dry brush, then pick out some yellow for 8 eyes, some red fangs, and a nice red hour glass on the behind. Yes, blackwidow's hourglass is on the underside not the top, but hey this is a fantasy world, we get to make up the biology of its inhabitants.

Tonoborus seemed to have designed these spiders with the idea that they would have no base. I however, knew eventually I would want to magnitize these for easy of storage. Luckily they have a flat spot on the underside that glues down well.

Next up, Goblin Archer.

Simple Night Goblin paint scheme with Red Shoes, Brown bow, pick out some metal bits, gray for highlights.

Next, Skaven Clanrat.

I like pink on my rats. Pink nose, Pink ears, Pink tail. I think if I had these guys to do again, I wouldn't do the pink lips or pink hands. Later Skaven will not have these features.

Final mini for this post, The Elf, my first warrior.

I kept mostly with the classic paint scheme from the original 1995 box. Yellow and Green. Apparently a fan of Green Bay Packers. The Red/White triangles on waist and arms sort of turned out. But hey, at this scale quite happy with the result.

I did print the Minotaur. However, this miniature has something I've always despised: human feet instead of hooves. I would need a fix for this, but thats a problem for another day and another post.

Thats all for today, may your lantern always stay lit.

DeMagic Tutor out.

In the Beginning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a photo from a Warhammer Quest campaign from 2013.

 

 My buddy "Bob" got a copy of 1995 Warhammer Quest, some time in the late 90s. We played it a little  as we sampled a ton of GW games back then (Warhammer Fantasy, 40k, Blood Bowl, Necromunda, Gorkamorka, Space Hulk). Then some time between 2005-2008, Bob got the idea, he should re-write Warhammer Quest from the ground up and collect all the miniatures needed for all 11 Levels of the game. We started playing every weekend, and more or less have since. There have been a few breaks here and there, but as time went on we wrote whole expansions. Lustria, Norsca, Sewers and Lost Caverns. Adding new dungeon decks, dungeon tiles, monsters, adventures, adding Epic Quests and dangerous Quests. New classes. Room Features. Monster Cards. Monster Item Decks. Spell book decks for casting class. New Printed Rule book with our rules. Adventure book with our adventures. Character Sheet Folders with pockets for item cards and item cards for those pocket sheets. Full color Class books. We "borrowed" resources from wherever we could find them. Many found so long ago, no clue where they came from.

 Most of the re-write and new rules were written by Bob, some by me. Almost all new game components I made. All miniatures and game tiles provided by Bob. He has every miniature needed and they are all painted, most have custom bases at this point too. You can see his collection here .

Over the years, we maintained 4 players that meet and play most weekends. Bob and I are always there and the other 2 slots have changed over time. During Covid, we decided to move into Table Top Simulator. I was able to make a passable version uploading all the resources I had created.

Sadly, in 2021, we lost one of our long standing friends and fellow dungeon divers to a heart attack. Rob will be missed.

The current crew, is Bob, Jeremy, my youngest kid, and I.

That gets you caught up to December of last year.

My wife decides, she needs a 3D printer for Christmas. I encourage this. I have spent hundreds (if not thousands) of hours making resources for Warhammer Quest. But I don't have my own copy. This is about to change. 

In the previous year, I had seen a post from a guy, who was creating his own Warhammer Quest with custom miniatures at 2/3rd scale. This way it would take up less space and have a cute feel to it. 

Tonoborus even provides his miniatures on cults3d.com. You can find them here:

So here is where this Blog starts. We are going to begin with what Tonoborus has made. This will mean finding many miniatures else where because my goal is to not only have all 558 monster (for Main Game before expansions) 3D printed before the end of 2025, I plan to have them all painted as well.

The first miniature was 3D printed on December 28th, 2024. As of this post, not quite 4 months later, 234 monsters are painted and 508 are 3D printed. I have acquired STL's for all 558 monsters. Though several I would like to replace with more "nostalgic" models.

 

My first Tiny Quest mini 3D printed & painted. Blackwidow Giant Spider.

 

 

 

This like most of my level 1 monsters is a Tonoborus sculpt and can be found on the cults3d.com link above.

 

So the plan is, to blog about my journey in making my own copy of Warhammer Quest. As the blog is way behind where I'm currently at, I expect I can post quite a bit.

That is it for the introduction.

May your lantern always stay lit.

DeMagic Tutor out.