UVS Stargrave - Diminutive Robot 28 /02/2024

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I’m a bit squeamish...

If you want more techno figures for Zombies, what about Crooked Dice's Robo-Minions (with or without Disco Space Pants):
https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product/robo-minions/
I have a couple painted but only this photograph.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

More thoughts on Quarantine 37.
The really good idea is the mini-solo campaign - you create a full ten man team and then split it into a Captain's half team and a First Mate's half team. There are then two sets of two scenarios - each half has its own sub campaign (one zombies, the other bugs). This is a great idea for an introductory game, mini-participation game or fun to play during the next Quarantine. And on a two foot by two foot board.

The "zombies" are interestingly designed and certainly will make for some fun games (the optional reanimation rules and - in a campaign -potential that previously wounded soldiers can turn are worth including).

Regular zombie, or Bloater?
(Crooked Dice Arc Astronaut)

Next off on a bug hunt...

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Thanks for the suggestion. I had a look but they are a bit too gross for my tastes. I’m a bit squeamish...

They are definitely horror as much as scifi, true.

Same goes for Privateer's Cryx Mechanithralls, Bile Thralls, and Cephalyx Drudges, unfortunately.  More zombie than Borg.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Not Stargrave Figures (and extracted from a 2014 photograph).




Crooked Dice Scientists (and Failed Experiment) might be useful.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

So the first painted figure from the Stargrave Crew box.




With the days getting shorter, it is down to the weekend  for undercoating and photographing - if the weather gets better...

[LiamFrostfang]

  nice work!!!!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

At SELWG last week I bought an armed shuttle from Sammy Scenics.

The bits on the right are a scanner turret and dish that plugs int to hole above the wing.
3D Printed (and the cockpit and body are hollow - but inaccessible) with only minor print lines.



Not quite sure who Vando is, but he has fitted the shuttle out with four cannons in a pod on the right wing, plus another two on the hull roof.

They have a number of other interesting vehicles/spacecraft.

Unfortunately the URL on the packaging does not connect to a valid site and my Google-Fu did not provide me with an alternative.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I picked up the recent Wargames Atlantic Cannon Fodder box at SELWG 2021.

Comparison with a Stargrave Trooper.

Sprue picture:

There are four different heads (helmet, kepi, Barehead with explosive collar, and full face mask) and lasrifle equivalents.

[almic85]

Vando is the Vandolorian from the new(ish) Star Wars series on Disney+.

I’m fairly sure that you bought a 3D print of this STL file

https://imperialterrain.com/products/vandos-ship-digital-stl-file?_pos=3&_sid=595192165&_ss=r

That website also has STL files for a few different ships that could exist in the Star Wars universe as well as a link to 3D printers who can print and ship them if you don’t have access to your own 3d printer.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Vando is the Vandolorian from the new(ish) Star Wars series on Disney+.

I’m fairly sure that you bought a 3D print of this STL file

https://imperialterrain.com/products/vandos-ship-digital-stl-file?_pos=3&_sid=595192165&_ss=r

That website also has STL files for a few different ships that could exist in the Star Wars universe as well as a link to 3D printers who can print and ship them if you don’t have access to your own 3d printer.

Thanks, you are very probably right, they had a number of other vehicles on that site.

I was interested that the hull was in two pieces in the one I bought. I assume it depends upon your printer.

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So here is the first of the metal Zombies painted.


Size comparison with one of the plastic crewmen.

The crew man is based for a desert world, the zombie for a research station.

Now I have to build some more.

[Major_Gilbear]

Some good models here UVS, and some really good miniature comparisons too!

So here is the first of the metal Zombies painted.
[...]
Now I have to build some more.

Have you considered the Mantic sci-fi zombies at all? They're hard plastic, multipart, obviously sci-fi, and look like they'd be a great match for the Stargrave plastics. They also do some "Plague Troopers" in hard plastic, but they might look a bit too much like mutants with tattered weapons (which they are!) to be good Zombies.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Looking good mate!

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Some good models here UVS, and some really good miniature comparisons too!
Have you considered the Mantic sci-fi zombies at all? They're hard plastic, multipart, obviously sci-fi, and look like they'd be a great match for the Stargrave plastics.

They're a nice kit, well worth a look.  Somewhat modular in terms of how you can put them together, although nowhere near as varied as the North Star crew figs are. 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Thanks.

Thanks for the recommendation on the Mantic figures. The Plague Troopers will be useful for Q37.

I had a look for Mantic Plague Zombies and Troopers at Salute - they are a bit rare at the moment due to the new version of DeadZone coming out. I might have to enter the 21st Century and order them online ^__^.