Any suitable models/ideas for space livestock in 28mm

[zemjw]

Thanks guys, lot of useful links and ideas in there

@Sir_theo - I'd heard of Twilight, but the setting hadn't done anything for me so I hadn't bothered to look at the figures. Big mistake on my part, and I see an order in my near future. If not for livestock, some of those figures would make ideal pack animals for an SF adventure party.

@vermis - I may have the smaller Heresy bugs, and I'm pretty sure I ordered a Terror Grub as part of the Kickstarter, so it will eventually turn up. Andy has a sale on at the moment, so I may take the opportunity to pick up a few more of the smaller ones.

There was a thread this morning about someone selling plastic Dr Who figures, which reminded me that I have a set of the plastic slug like things from one of the magazines. I haven't seen them for a while, but they should make a nice cheap herd at some point.

Some space chickens are now definitely on the shopping list (so to speak )

[has.been]

I bought a tub of cheap (£5) 'Wild Animals' from Sainsbury's Store. I only wanted the elephant & crocodiles for an African game in 28mm. The rest of the animals were different scales, however I was loath to just chuck them. The cheaters had their tails cut off & were then painted blue. Similar small alterations to the others & I now have a lot of alien beasts.
Poundland had some dragons. The wings were removed (pulled off) & the holes filled in. A quick paint job & I have a herd of elephant sized beasties.

[Grimmnar]

Imperial Assault does a Bantha (sadly with rider, and flipping expensive).

Get the WotC one then. Still has a rider but way cheaper and will do the job just fine.

Grimm

[Will Bailie]

The comments about banthas remind me that Rafm has Martian gashants in their Space: 1889 line



http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF1807&Category_Code=S1889

[YPU]

Conversion wise you can find GW tyranid devourer guns cheaply online (or probably from people on here) and they make great alien heads. I swear even a regular cow toy with those things for a head will probably look creepy alienish.

[Dr. Zombie]

The resident mad viking doc. made some space cow beetles some time ago from cheap toy ones.


Thread here: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=15898.msg272795#msg272795

[The_Beast]

I've several small toys I thought would be useful. Some of the smaller Avatar beasts, for instance, as HUGE livestock, and you can get lovely glow of of those. 

Doug

[dbsubashi]

The new Reaper Bones Gorgon model would make for excellent grox, and cheap enough in plastic to make a herd. I always wanted to run a 40K game where grox stampede...

[Hobby Services]

Take a dig around the Reaper catalog sometime.  Lots of D&D fantasy critters make good xeno-fauna.  Gorgons for cattle, cockatrix for chickens, etc.

[Vermis]

Take a dig around the Reaper catalog sometime.  Lots of D&D fantasy critters make good xeno-fauna.  Gorgons for cattle, cockatrix for chickens, etc.

Any smeerps?

[Hobby Services]

Any smeerps?

Only rabbits.  Or maybe jackalopes.

[BlackWidowPilot]

I'll just leave this right here:

[zemjw]

The notion of oversize livestock is an interesting one.

I picked up a toy sheep (important to add the word "toy" there  ) on Saturday. I think it's roughly 1/26 scale (about 3.5cm tall), so towers over a 28mm figure.

However, even so out of scale it looks okay. The chicken above actually looks okay in the scene, and something that you'd get away with on the table. I think there probably is a point at which it would be too out of scale, but I'll maybe see what's around in 54mm as well. I think in that scale the sheep would be roughly the same size as a human, so about horse sized.

Dinosaur sized cows and sheep, however, may be a step too far

Thanks for the suggestions. Reaper bones is not my favourite material, but it's difficult to beat in terms of cheap. I haven't found the Dr Who figures yet, but I believe they were Cybermats

[SotF]

CP Models Cave Lizards from their 15mm Fantasy range:

http://www.cpmodelsminiatures.co.uk/15mm%20Fantasy%20Miniatures.htm

Might make cool crazy space chickens...!

Those look a lot like Gizka from Star Wars...