Heroscape Proxies? - Image Intensive- Over 170 pictures

[Rocktroll]

Updating this list is way overdue, now that Heroscape is no longer being produced and the prices of older figures are skyrocketing, more then ever is using proxies a better alternative than trading your firstborn child for a squad of Templars.


This is is mostly to find figures that are ready to use to replace official figures with little modifications needed fit right in.


Most of these figures are Mage Knight and are becoming harder to find but alot are still under $1.

Right click the picture as if you where going to save it to see the name of the unit. I've renamed most of the pictures to facilitate searching for them.


Master Sets

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Raelin Kyrie Warrior

Wave 1

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Orcs - Arrow Gruts - Blade Gruts - Heavy Gruts

Ok this has to be the biggest figure selection there is. Very few look like Grut orcs in HS but the Orc theme is HUGE , lots to choose from, these are only the ones I found from Mage knight, Tons more in D&D and other games











Omnicron Snipers , Gladiatrons, Blastatrons



Lots of robots in Mageknight , none look any thing like the HS ones though














Venoc Viper

Wave 2

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Anubian Wolves






Mage Knight Frost wolves look impressive and are about $3 each now


Knights of Weston


The best knights you can find are the warhammer fantasy game ones, but they dont come prepainted. You could get almost exact matches if you wanted to take the time to paint them.

For knights I found pretty much any thing in plate armor. Though honestly not any of them really look like a Weston, unless I can get some decal paper with the correct insignia, and maybe paint some blue shields for them.









Sir Denrick
See Wave 10

Wave 3

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Monks

Elfish looking monk?


Sentinels of Jandar






Microcorp Agents


DC Clix Pawns and Mademoiselle Marie, around $.50 each



These guys look like Agents!

Wave 4

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Aubrian Archers



These guys are really hard to find and are going for about $25 per squad.

Depending on the figures game stats is the color trimming, and if its a * named figure* same sculpt but full repaint. In this case the third one is named.







Or a spare / repainted Brandis



Lord of the ring elven Archers are almost the perfect size too






Gladiatrons


You can try modifying the much cheaper and easier to find Blastatrons or: See wave 1


Fatboy_Chubby created his own squad of Gladiatrons by upgrading his Blastatrons squad with some impressive results.
http://www.heroscapers.com/community...t=34616&page=2




.68 Also created his own squad here;

http://www.heroscapers.com/community...93#post1278293




Aeston also suggested some ideas of where Gladiatrons might have come from, worth a read;
http://www.heroscapers.com/community...61&postcount=1

2003 Battle Ball Game





Possible proxies include Games workshop Necrons

Wave 5

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Blastatrons
See Wave 1


Deathreavers or Deathstalkers






Warriors of Ashra


For these female warriors I grabbed any of the sword swinging figures I found.

Wave 6

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Heavy Gruts
For more Orcs see wave 1






Lord of the Ring Orc




Shades




Here is my repaint of this figure into a Shade unit





Dreamblade



Zombies


Lots and lots of zombies to be found in most games, D&D has a bunch , will look them up later for now here are the Mageknight look alikes, lots are just skeletons though







Dreamblade

Wave 7

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Rechets of Bogdan

Wave 8

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Wolves of Badru




Here is a Comparison Picture of a repainted Wolf ( I didn't try matching the colors though)

Really cool looking wolves, and they are still found for less then $1

Ravenloft Wolves

Wave 9

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Under Construction...

Wave 10

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Granite Guardians








These where a little small once I tried them;




Sir Hawthorne or Sir Denrick

Wave 11 / D1

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Fen Hydra

Wave 12 / D2

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Iron Golem


See tons of Mage Knight robots in Wave 1 , or the original D&D mini by the same name.


Wyrmlings



DnD Originals


Battle lore Dragons / Wyverns, cool looking dragons but I think they are smaller not sure never seen them.

Wave 13 / D3

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Flag Bearers

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Sir Gilbert






Ornak



This one is actualy pretty cool



Acolarh



Hatamoto Taro





Laglor

Large Sets

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Nilfheim or Su-Bak-Na






Obsidian Guards
See wave 10


Theracus


Ok so hes not a common squad, but maybe you dont have him yet or just want to spice him up a little? Or have a diferent one then the one your enemy is using.

Terrain

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Ticalla Jungle

This set used to be for $20 now it goes from $70 to $90 on ebay. Much easier just to make your own, except for the trees, the bushes are really easy to make.


Fyorlag Spiders







D&D Deathjump spider are about $3 each and are the perfect size but your better off buying the Ravenloft Spiders. They seems to be same mold just tons cheaper.


Official Ticalla Jungle Terrain Set




Bunch of scapers here have posted some great threads on how they made their own jungle sets, will try to list some of the links;


Grungebob's Welcome to the Jungle! Custom Jungle Terrain with pics
http://www.heroscapers.com/community...ad.php?t=12401

Grungebob raided his petstores lizard section to create these awesome folige;



i_r_beej's Aquarium plant identical to Ticalla Jungle plant!
http://www.heroscapers.com/community...ad.php?t=35408

Some good links on this thread and suggestions for OFFICIAL looking plants to make your jungle with!!



Rouby44's Easy, authentic looking Ticalla terrain
http://www.heroscapers.com/community...ad.php?t=34745

Great step by step tutorial on how he created his jungle, a very good resource for new terrain makers!



Draconious posted these as a possible source, Grungebob recommended using the small sized stuff;

BRAND:
http://www.zoomed.eu/Engels/Terrariu...c%20Plants.htm

Possible Online Stores:
http://www.reptilesupply.com/product...roducts_id=308


The Official jungle set uses 4 different types of plants ( plus the palm trees)


"Official looking plants"




Exo-Terra Small Plastic Terrarium Plant "Croton"

Hagen Fluval Chi Aquarium Grass Ornament Found in Petco



Or


First one is, Zoo Med Amazon Phyllo Natural Bush Size -Small
Second one is , Betta Plants Window Leaf Plant

Promotional Figures

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Agent Skahen



Much cooler looking figure!!

Heroscapers that have already started making proxies;

.68 Has recreated a few units out of easier to find ones
http://www.heroscapers.com/community...78928&posted=1


WinonaVampire has upgraded his Venoc Vipers into Heavys
http://www.heroscapers.com/community...ad.php?t=33967

[Billtog]

Proxies aren't supposed to be something you spend money on. If you only had one squad of Blade Gruts and wanted two, you could substitute the Knights of Weston if you weren't already using them.

[Kepler]

I have looked at this some. But I do it a little different. I don't necessarily look at for minis that look the same, just minis of approximately the same size that could reasonable have the same stats (and SAs). For example, for Microcorps agents I have used these from SWM.



These make good Warrior of Ashra substitutes.



I have used these for Gorillinators.



I may use the wookiees from the newest set (due out later this week) for the Gorillinators too.

I will post some more later.

EDIT: Here is the new Wookiee I mentioned.


These guys would make good 4th Mass proxies.

[guido]

Originally Posted by Rocktroll

"ooh this could make a neat anubian archer!"



Anubian Archers

Don't you mean Aubrian Archers? I'm pretty sure the Anubians don't have a ranged unit yet.

[Rocktroll]

oops thanks


As for not having to buy any. I like making my armies by themes. I could use other figures for Knights, but if they dont look like knights its not the same. I dont mind if they are not official heroscape knights as long as they all look shiny and plated.

I havent checked Star wars, Demonblade and D&D minis yet. will do so later

Edit

AHA !! I knew they where out there, I found the Anubian Archers :P
Very elite and elusive unit, very hush hush

[Kepler]

Thing I like about SW and D&D minis is that the base is small and fits in well with HS. One problem is the large bases. The older large bases were perfect for HS (about the size of DW9k's base or about 1.5") then a few sets ago the increaced the base size to about 2". The 2" base is slightly to big for HS and overlaps the surrounding hex very slightly. If you don't have elevated terrain around the hex or another large-based fig next to it then it is not a big deal.

[Dr. Weirdscaper]

GENTLEMEN...

I think Ergo Proxy would be a welcomed addition to the...

oh, wait, never mind.

[LilMoochie]

HS figures are cheap enough that if you are going to do proxies, you should go cheap or not go at all. The uniques end up being $1-$2 each and there are very few uniques that I field all the time. You might as well buy the ones you want.
When I don't have enough commons we use poker chips to fill in the gaps. As the figures get killed off, you swap them out for chips. There's potential for LOS issues, but it hasn't come up. We play with generous LOS rules though. (When in doubt, take his $#@ out...) You have to have the cards anyway. You could print them but that takes time, effort, and ink. You could also play off scraps of paper with the appropriate data, but there's a line between frugal and lame that I won't cross.

[Ugly-Caco]

Those are cool proxies! In my case I just use marked stones (it's a joke...my life is not sad).

[Sherman Davies]

Originally Posted by LilMoochie

You could also play off scraps of paper with the appropriate data, but there's a line between frugal and lame that I won't cross.

Sigged.

[Dredd Stev]

Personally I can't stand using proxies. It's just not the same and it bugs me right from the get go. My play group has always been of the school "If you don't have em' you can't draft em' "

... Maybe that’s why I spend so much damn money on this game.

[Harlax]

I can see using proxies to test out figures that have not yet been released.