Favourite science fiction Aliens.

[beefcake]

Nice bookmarked thread there Spooktalker. I wish I'd seen it before this. Then again it's nice to have a refresh of ideas every now and again. I'm still keen to get some Kryomek. They have such a great alien look to them. I was originally after Rar from Regiment games but they are sadly OOP until further notice. He still has the molds etc but is not producing them.

[Earther]

I also really like the Loor scouts from CP Models: Loory Link

[Inso]

I'm a big fan of Heresy Sharclons too:

http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_60&zenid=f414d64263c7bf3423bb0d774116fae1

[obsidian3d]

I really liked the Cogs from AT-43, but wish they had been done a little smaller. In the fluff they were supposed to be big, but it still seems a shame that they were so large. If they were then I'd already be using them as stand-ins for the blue aliens the Destiny runs into in the Stargate Universe tv series.

[Conquistador]

Sadly OOP:

FGU Space Marines (Pre-GW) game's Rauwoofs, Blarads, Mekpurrs, and Whistlers.  Stan Johansen was my source back int he day...

Background here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Opera_%28role-playing_game%29

Guess I will need to take some pictures...

some covers of the rules

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=FGU+Space+Marines&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

http://www.thewarstore.org/games/role-playing-games/space-opera/space-marines-tactical-ground-combat-miniatures-rules-fgu-7100.html

http://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/

[BlackWidowPilot]

Sadly OOP:

FGU Space Marines (Pre-GW) game's Rauwoofs, Blarads, Mekpurrs, and Whistlers.  Stan Johansen was my source back int he day...

Background here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Opera_%28role-playing_game%29

Guess I will need to take some pictures...

some covers of the rules

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=FGU+Space+Marines&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

http://www.thewarstore.org/games/role-playing-games/space-opera/space-marines-tactical-ground-combat-miniatures-rules-fgu-7100.html

http://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/

An intriguing game system that came after Starguard! and Strike Team Alpha. Never got to play it myself, but I have both editions and have buried somewhere in our storage unit more than a few of Stan's original figures for the game... I always felt that the Whistlers were the best rendered of the bunch...

[tnjrp]

A bit off topic, but anyone recall a miniature line for a game with really odd xenos that look like masses of tentacles or spiky bush thingies

Among the most regular aliens in that line was something that looked like a beetle standing on all threes (yes it was tripedal but I can't recall if it had 5 or more limbs in total). There were some human minis too of course.

Not sure if it's in production any more but it just bothers me that I can't recall the name of the line. I may have a link hidden somewhere on my home 'puter but I can't access it for a week or so, because reasons.

[The_Beast]

'Mass of tentacles' sounds a bit like Galacta 25's Octapoids, but don't recall a tripodal beetle or 'spiky bush thingies'.

Doug

[obsidian3d]

...masses of tentacles or spiky bush thingies

Ha ha, I need to be careful which threads I read at work!

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

A bit off topic, but anyone recall a miniature line for a game with really odd xenos that look like masses of tentacles or spiky bush thingies

Among the most regular aliens in that line was something that looked like a beetle standing on all threes (yes it was tripedal but I can't recall if it had 5 or more limbs in total). There were some human minis too of course.

Not sure if it's in production any more but it just bothers me that I can't recall the name of the line. I may have a link hidden somewhere on my home 'puter but I can't access it for a week or so, because reasons.

Possibly Slishians from Hydra miniatures?

http://shop.hydraminiatures.com/index.php?cPath=2_37

[Predatorpt]

Tripod aliens from CP Models?

[tnjrp]

None of those I'm afraid. I was thinking maybe it was Galacta 25 -- which it isn't -- since I do believe it's rather an old sk00l thing. So not the Slishians, CP Models or anything from this decade I'd wager.

This is kinda close to to the mass of tentacles guys as I recall them (but isn't, I think that's some kind of DIY one-off):

[The_Beast]

If it was ONE of tentacles, I would have said Sathar, and Edestekai (sp?) one of the others, though not really spiky or tripodal.

Sorry, going even further astray, but, at least you know I'm on the 'old sk00l' track. ;->=

Doug

[tnjrp]

I found the link in my bookmarks. The game is Battlestations, a "pulp scifi adventure board game" by Gorilla Games.
http://www.battlestations.info/index.html

The lights are still on back there but I have no idea if anyone's home. Miniatures are nominally 15 mm scale which is why I haven't ever bothered to find out.

The mass of tentacles thingy I mentioned is most like a Tentac. The bush thing isn't really there but I may have confused a memory of a Xelosian and a Canosian, possibly intermarried with some scifi art of an exotic xeno. Tripedal bug is obviously a Zoallan.

[6milPhil]

Fenris do some neat aliens.



http://fenrisgames.com/shop#!/Alien-Grey-constructs/c/9264380/offset=0&sort=normal