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I have started a project to populate my game table with alien beasts and plants that are a worthy match for the most 'roided up Catachan Jungle Fighter. The large Age of the Imperium section in the Rogue Trader rulebook featured lots of bugs, beasts and buds that captured my imagination back then, so this project is a bit of nostalgic wish fulfillment for me. No strangers to that on this forum methinks
A couple of the creatures here have been painted for a couple of years, but the majority were painted in September/October. I posted these on the Lead Adventure Forum a while back too, so if you frequent that place then you may have seen them before. The provisional list of items for inclusion in this project is HERE, with some waffle about my thinking on it HERE.
Most of the concepts come from the Rogue Trader bestiary but there are a few others from other sources too. As time goes on I plan to slowly add to this project. Not all additions will be RT based, but they will all exist in my pulpy, gaudy, shoddy TV set filled, man-in-a-suit monster populated corner of the miniature universe, which is very much an RT sort of place. If it looks like a miniature version of the unconvincing patch of sand where a young William Shatner would punch a blue guy in the face before making out with a green lady wearing an unconvincing wig, then I am doing something right.
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 in eye-watering, paint job crucifying detail 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:
After that I finished off a herd of 24 DUNGERS (from Ramshackle Games). Although they are not a perfect visual match for RT grox, they will serve a similar role in my games.
Next some tentacle brain type things that spun into their own sub project. but they fit in nicely as ENSLAVERS.
GYRINX were the things that started this whole project, as I wanted to add a few to my RT based skirmish games.
These GIANT RATS were bought for use in Necromunda "Rawhide" sorts of scenarios back in the nineties but I didnt get around to very quickly painting them until 2011. I want to rebase them, but I may never get around to that.
Lastly some shots of the beasts frolicking in their natural environment, Discovery channel style:
Expect some more additions as the months/years go by. I am looking forward to getting some hostile plants done in particular.
Comments and criticisms (and to an extent requests) all gratefully received
