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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: zemjw on July 27, 2016, 04:11:34 PM
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What's available model wise to populate the fields and farms of the far flung future?
Matakishi did some Leet models, but other than that I draw a blank. I have a couple of the original GW Ambulls. I also have the Seekers of Slaanesh, and the mounts look promising as herd animals, but they have integral saddles :(
The recent Space Truck thread brought back the idea of square pigs, and Imperial Assault does a Bantha (sadly with rider, and flipping expensive).
So, any ideas/models for livestock and alien beasties to have wandering around the table messing with the best laid plans, or simply as items to be stolen during a raid on a colony. I appreciate I could just say that the colonists took cows and sheep with them, but that seems boring.
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Thunder child do mutated cow beasts
http://www.tcminiatures.co.uk/#!product/prd13/4521231781/pack-mootant
Also the creatures from the World of Twilight game might be useful? (Lovely models too)
http://worldoftwilight.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4_7
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Ramshackle's Dunger are pretty fun herd beasties. I played in a game last year where a herd stampeded after escaping from a corral ;)
http://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=39&zenid=5fa4981bd51e4e4b6b7f6a3cb187bb6a (http://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=39&zenid=5fa4981bd51e4e4b6b7f6a3cb187bb6a)
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(http://www.cpmodelsminiatures.co.uk/cave%20lizards%201.2.jpg)
CP Models Cave Lizards from their 15mm Fantasy range:
http://www.cpmodelsminiatures.co.uk/15mm%20Fantasy%20Miniatures.htm
Might make cool crazy space chickens...!
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Tortuga (very large mutant turtle) and Mootant (Cow'ish thing) from the Wasteman game by Thunderchild miniatures both have really potential. The Mootant does have a bunch of packs on him, but they're pretty cool figs.
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Hasslefree have mini-mawes and larger versions too:
http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=lesser-mawes-x4~hfsa310&category=sci%252dfi-%26%0D%0Aweird-war~sci%252dfi-aliens
http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=mawe-pack-%283%29~hfsa309&category=sci%252dfi-%26%0D%0Aweird-war~sci%252dfi-aliens
But I'll definitely add my nod to World of Twilight... and the accompanying big beastie that is available from Fenris:
http://fenrisgames.com/shop#!/Anyaral-World-of-Twilight/c/5557007/offset=0&sort=nameAsc
There's also Matakishi's Leets:
http://www.matakishi.com/apps/webstore/products/show/4787359
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I used some cheap plastic Glyptodons with the tail and heads modded with green stuff.
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Pygmy mooncalves...
(http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/images/large/monsters013.jpg)
http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_12_51&products_id=73
Moon...bull? ;D
(http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/images/large/terrorgrub01.jpg)
http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_12_51&products_id=344
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DIY Buggalos using dollar store insects?
(https://theinfosphere.org/images/6/62/Buggalo.jpg)
https://www.safariltd.com/toobs-glow-in-the-dark-insects-figurines-697204
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I used a bunch of classic plastic cold ones from the 1st boxed set GW made for dark elf cold one knights (the ones that look like dinky obese godzillas) for a weird West game we used to play... we called them moo-gators
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Use larger scale toy cows (like those Farm Toob things at Michaels, maybe) and call them Hyper-cattle. Genetically engineered to grow much larger than regular cattle, because who doesn't want a 100 oz t-bone? :)
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Lots of good ideas here
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I bought bunch of dinosaurs to repaint .i was just going to spray them a dull brown.
Grox stand ins.
I like the space chicken idea
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My usual suspects for weird wildlife would be various Clix type mini singles. Many beasties in the D&D line 4X tho they do tend to be a little ferocious-looking.
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For smaller alien creatures there is the Khurasan Miniatures "Great Plain Klor" in the Arak section (bottom entry, with picture,) of Black Powder Sci-Fi Gaming.
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Thanks guys, lot of useful links and ideas in there :D
@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 ;D)
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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.
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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
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The comments about banthas remind me that Rafm has Martian gashants in their Space: 1889 line
(http://www.rafm.com/images/product/S1889M/018007.jpg)
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF1807&Category_Code=S1889
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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.
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The resident mad viking doc. made some space cow beetles some time ago from cheap toy ones.
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_YgOzHmVzYc0/TIzfTolW-fI/AAAAAAAAB6s/bNnbZTOjS60/s912/P1170433.JPG)
Thread here: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=15898.msg272795#msg272795
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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. lol
Doug
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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...
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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.
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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?
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Any smeerps?
Only rabbits. Or maybe jackalopes.
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I'll just leave this right here: (http://www.craveonline.com/images/stories/2011/2012/December/Film/Chicken%20Scenes/Sleeper_Woody_Allen_Chicken.jpg)
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The notion of oversize livestock is an interesting one.
I picked up a toy sheep (important to add the word "toy" there ;D) 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 lol
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
(https://dyn0.media.forbiddenplanet.com/products/2414096.jpg.square-true_maxheight-285_size-285.jpg)
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(http://www.cpmodelsminiatures.co.uk/cave%20lizards%201.2.jpg)
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...