Stargrave bestiary; pirate shock troops, space dogs and more

So I finally finished the chaos space marines from the 5th ed (?) 40K starter set. These will be used as Pirate Shock Troopers for Stargrave. These fit the "the main army colour is orange" theme I've got going for my Stargrave forces.

Next we have a couple of old chaos warhounds. They will be used as Warphounds, but also for Gothreck-spawn, when I get around to playing Hope Eternal.

And lastly we have a Nazgul and a phoenix. The Nazgul get use as Skeleton Knights in Rangers of Shadow Deep, and the phoenix is a vulture stand-in.

Space junk yard

 For the last couple of years I've spent a lot of time hanging around in playgrounds and sand pits. These are of filled with toys, and quite often you also find bits of broken toys, usually from that plastic truck you slowly see disintegrating over the course of a season. 

I have been collecting these broken off bits, and here are heaps for my space junk yard, made up of these bits. So, not only do I get to collect terrain bits, I clean up my child's environment too!

Next we have a fuel station for spaceships, made from the pistol grip of a waterpistol. The pistol itself is destined to become a space ship one of these days.

Speeder and aliens

 This is a bit of a "compilation" post, which isn't that uncommon for me, in that some of these have been finished for a while.

First we have a speeder I kitbashed from a GI Joe scuba tank and some WWII vehicle bits. I'm really happy with it and think it will fit right at home with my desert planet terrain and gang.

Three more loot tokens for Stargrave:

 

Some aliens; two random blueskinned troopers (Warzone Bauhaus plastics with orc heads), a very old Jes Godwin sculpt who will feature as Crystophon Marrs in Dead or Alive, and a Nightgaunt from Mansions of Madness, who will feature as Pondo-Pondo in DoA.

 

Since I want one of my possible gaming tables to be a small market town (in space), I felt that it shouldn't be totally empty of people. Thus, we need civilians. The first four have GBP Arab Spearmen bodies, with the first two working for fantasy as well, and the latter two being more spacey. The fifth model is the one you got with the Terrain Tutor book Kickstarter a couple of years ago. As you see it's a bit tall when compared to 28mm models, but what if it was an alien? Thus, I resculpted the head into some kind of cow-dog.

 Here are some animals for use in Stargrave, Rangers of Shadow Deep and Frostgrave.

And finally some more terrain. Here are six beds for Rangers of Shadow Deep (I really should enter the convent of St Emilia soon!) and a table filled with goods left over from when I built the Mantic market stalls.

Ghouls to go

 As I'm preparing for the Burning Light mission in Rangers of Shadow Deep, I've had to make a whole host of ghouls. They are based on a ghoul box from Mantic, but with bits from here and there, such as Frostgrave Cultists, late Romans, Ansar warriors, ungors, Stargrave mercs and WGF orcs. See if you can spot them, why don't you?

First we have the standard ghouls: 

 Then we have the so called Ghoul Fiends, the leaders.

Then we have the Ghoul Flingers, who I have given slightly more dangerous javelins, instead of the bones they are supposed to have.

These are the Ghoul Rotters, diseased ghouls. I've given these skeleton arms and heads, and painted purple around the black spikes.

Here is a mix of mostly NPCs. The first archer is someone I built for Mordheim some ten years ago, but never got around to finish the paintjob. We'll see if he'll get used in a game one of these years. The second archer is a cultist. The third lady is a mage I also started ten years ago, for a RPG player character, but only finished just now. The last two are my versions of Nicolan and Seb for Blood Moon.

Here we have two extra characters for my Stargrave scavengers gang, and four gun-toting zombies for whenever I get around to play Stargrave with zombies.

And finally here we have some terrain I hadn't posted before, a Heroquest sarcophagus and three weapon stands, two of them from Heroquest and one scratchbuilt.

Rangers, robots, cupboards and animals. Everything but the kitchen sink.

Here is a couple of batches of finished miniatures and scatter terrain. They'll see use in a number of games, including Stargrave, Frostgrave, Rangers of Shadow Deep and Bolt Action.

This is a couple of big warbots, a smaller robot (which I suspect will be a mark in Dead or Alive) and a drone, made from a Silent Death starship and a bolt pistol.

 

Here is a sorcerer, two rangers and a cultist from the Yellow Hood cult. These should find a use in both Rangers of Shadow Deep and Frostgrave.

Two cupboards, a drawer and a desk. These are from Mantic's Terrain crate, and should find a use in several types of game.

And to round it up we have a whole host of animals (and carnivorous plants). These should fill a range of random encounters. They are from Reaper, the Conan board game and old toys.

And even more random encounters, a troll woman (or something?) and a twig man (dryad?) from the Conan game.

And here is a picture from the RoSD scenario The Last Stand. It was brutal, all companions were taken out, but only Yost the archer got any lasting damage.

Stargrave crew and terrain

 More finished models and terrain for Stargrave!

Here we have another crew, so I have two for playing. This is a gang of desert scavengers, lead by a veteran in combat armour, and with a tekker first mate. The bodies are a mix of Stargrave mercenaries and Frostgrave cultists. For the heads and some of the equipment I went for WWII desert and winter heads, more specifically ones with covered faces. Protection from the desert and all that. I also gave them quite a few water bottles. Just as with my other crew, they come from a part of the galaxy where "military grey green" doesn't exist, here they have "military dark orange".

From left to right we have a Recruit, Runner, Codebreaker, Recruit and Casecracker.

Here we have a Gunner, Grenadier, Veteran Captain, Tekker First Mate and Trooper.

 

To finish off the miniatures we have three repairbots here from Reaper.

 

Here we have a house made from the packing of a computer part, or whatever it was, I've saved it for a long time. It's been embellished with left over sprues from mdf terrain. The "doors and windows" are just gloss black paper behind the mdf.