My recent
40K skirmish project ended up including a few alien animals and oddballs like Gyrinx and Enslavers. I enjoyed painting them far more than I expected.
With enthusiasm for weird alien animals and plants in miniature running high at chateau cheetor I decided to make a list of the sort of sci-fi wandering monsters and biological hazards that I want for my games. Many of them come from the Rogue Trader bestiary but there are a few others from other sources too.
I dont feel locked into the RT stuff, buts its as good a place as any to start. The list details are
HERE.
This is a long term project with plans to add things here and there for a while, so it wont be finished any time soon. I do hope to make steady progress through the list though. The bold titles link back to my blog entries on each of the creatures/plants.
The first entry is this
CATACHAN DEVIL (a very quickly painted Reaper Bones Ice Wyrm)
I painted it to match the
Necromunda Milliasaurs that I painted a few years ago. Those smaller guys will hopefully feature as its young in a future game.
Next is a
CTHELLEAN CUDBEAR (a SotTR Urzine Were Bear)
The model is hard to photograph due to its pose, but it does actually have a face, as shown here:
The model is roughly ogre sized.
The next thing that I got finished was a suitable pack of middle sized predators, which will serve as proxy
DEATH FERRETS (Splintered Light 15mm Dire Hyeneae, plus a Reaper ferret familiar:
I finished off a herd of 24
DUNGERS (from Ramshackle Games) over the weekend. Although they are not a perfect visual match for RT grox, they will serve a similar role in my games.
For the sake of completeness I am going to include a couple of shots of the figures from the other projects that directly led to this one. You may have seen some of these before though:
ENSLAVERS:GYRINX:GIANT RATSAnd finally some of the beasts frolicking in their natural environment, Discovery channel style:
I find it to be a bit of an odd diversion from painting yet more spacemen with guns to be honest, but painting these has been surprisingly rewarding, so expect some more additions as the months go by. I am looking forward to getting some hostile plants done in particular.