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Author Topic: alien life forms in 28mm  (Read 2916 times)

Offline Grimrod

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alien life forms in 28mm
« on: December 08, 2012, 11:37:16 PM »
 After purchasing Fantasic worlds and it's source book and taking advantage of Bronzeage minis sale,. I have decided to run my own scifi lost world  campaign..I am looking for alien  life form type predators, (I want more varitiey than just my meager dinosaur collection.)    So any ideas you folks have would  be appreciated.
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Offline Conquistador

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2012, 01:08:11 AM »

Bipedal humanoids?    At first I thought you were speaking about "Not-Predators"  Then I wondered if you meant animalistic or intelligent non-humanoids? 


Are you talking things like multi-legged lions, winged bears, and other such VSF-like creatures?

Or are you looking to avoid the  Earth redux look and want alternatives to mammals/Marsupials?

Sorry to be so slow but I am very tired tonight.

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Offline Onebigriver

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2012, 11:40:29 AM »
Agree with Conq, you are very vague on what you're after. Beasties or bipeds? If bipeds, What kind of tech level?
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Offline Grimrod

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2012, 02:59:18 PM »
Sorry about the vagueness of my post...beasties is what I am looking for. Going for a  death world hunting expedition theme.

Offline Franz_Josef

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2012, 03:35:09 PM »
Reaper has a nice selection of fantasy beasties that would work well for alien predators.  Go to http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/DarkHeavenLegends and have a look.  As an example, check out 03616 Tiik Warriors (they look like icythoids).  Other examples are 03609 Hell Hound; 03606 Devil Ray; 03603 Cthon; 03595 Mini Monsters; 02976 Astral Mauler, etc. etc.  Don't let the names or that they are "fantasy" miniatures put you off - some of these definitely look like alien beasts indeed.  Also, Reaper has have some pretty vicious pleistocene mammals (and not just the immediately identifiable ones, like 03570 Sabretooth Tiger).  Another possibility is to use some of the Cthuloo (sic?) mythos creatures made by (I think) RAFM. 

Offline white knight

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2012, 04:06:01 PM »
The prepainted Star Wars range should have some cheapish large and small critters.

Offline manatic

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2012, 04:12:28 PM »


Heresy's Hellhounds are great, and the choice of heads allows you to change their look a lot.

Offline Ithaquatini

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2012, 06:23:00 PM »
You can check out "Assimilation Alien Host" minis from Kickstarter when they get released.

« Last Edit: December 10, 2012, 06:25:21 PM by Ithaquatini »

Offline tnjrp

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2012, 06:21:44 AM »
After purchasing Fantasic worlds and it's source book and taking advantage of Bronzeage minis sale,. I have decided to run my own scifi lost world  campaign..I am looking for alien  life form type predators
If you took on the Bronze Age "Barsoomian" beasties then the most obvious additions that come to mind would be Parroom Station's (http://www.parroom.net/parroomshowroom/v/Of_Mars_and_Martians/Crits/) and Tinman's (http://tinminis.com/) "Barsoomian" beasties.

Other than that, feel free to browse the following manufacturers (among others, those are just the ones that came to mind quickly) for at least some nasty critters each:
http://blackcatbases.com/
http://www.cpmodelsminiatures.co.uk/index.htm
http://dark-age.com/shop/
http://privateerpress.com/
http://www.taban-miniatures.com/

Offline Onebigriver

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2012, 11:20:25 AM »

Offline Homebrew Dave

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Re: alien life forms in 28mm
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2012, 05:59:52 PM »
How do you feel about worms?

http://www.gribblyminiatures.co.uk/gallery_Bileworm%20A.php



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