Non OTU: Miniature Use

[Timerover51]

I have been building over the years a large collection of plastic miniatures for use in role-playing games. D&D was easy as I could use everything from the Airfix miniatures, including their Zoo set to some of the weirder odd-looking dinosaurs that I could get for a couple of bucks a bad.

Does anyone use miniatures in their games, and not necessarily made-for-Traveller miniature?

 

[Marchand]

Once upon a time my mum threw my miniatures away and now my wife would laugh at them and my children would try to eat them.

However I have found paper flats surprisingly effective and attractive.

 

[Timerover51]

Once upon a time my mum threw my miniatures away and now my wife would laugh at them and my children would try to eat them.

However I have found paper flats surprisingly effective and attractive.

I understand that, but as I also design games, my collection is safe from wife, kids are now eating steak (son) and Mac and Cheese (daughter), although my cats do think that they make marvelous play pretties.

 

[SpaceBadger]

The expense of miniatures has always put me off.

I did buy one set of the Traveller Cardboard Heroes miniatures (folded cardstock w images printed on them) back in the 1980s, and more recently have used some of the fantasy Cardboard Heroes for playing Pathfinder, but most often when we get out the battlemat for either Traveller or Pathfinder we use dice and coins in place of miniatures.

 

[Vladika]

I can no longer see well enough to paint them. Used to use them and still draw deck plans with the 1/2 inch squares for Traveller 15mm.

 

[Timerover51]

I can no longer see well enough to paint them. Used to use them and still draw deck plans with the 1/2 inch squares for Traveller 15mm.

As I just use plastic ones, I never paint them either. The ones the PC use are sufficiently distinct so that I can figure out who is who. The main aim is to supply opponents for the firefight, hack and slash session, or who is out if front as the "security"person.

 

[VonPickles]

Back when it was cheaper I bought a box of Cadian's and a box of Empire Militia and mixed and matched! Made great looking space pirate mini's!

 

[Thanos]

Hero clix commons for the win. Need battle dress? Mandroids. Checkmate and Shield commons are pretty good for security forces, so are Judge Dredd mini's.

 

[Hyphen]

Minis all the way, dudes. (So I grew up on AD&D tactical battles, so what?) I have originals of the (was it Citadel?) minis now re-released by RAFM:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=RAF&Category_Code=GRAV

I think everyone in our group has some of these miniatures, either Citadel originals or RAFM re-releases.

Examples include:
Infantry pack = can be used for combat armor or cbt environ suit
War hounds = Vargr
Car Leonis = Aslan
Dracos = Droyne
Space Pirates = original set of PC's

On the next page:
Powered armor = battledress variant
Support staff = contains more aliens,as above, incl. an Aslan with ceremonial staff

And the grav tanks are based n the original, too (although these days they're resin instead of lead).

Finally, I've just picked up a few sets of GZG (Ground Zero Games) minis as well:
http://shop.groundzerogames.net/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=84

I grabbed the two SG15-X04A & B crew sets that look strangely familiar <cough>Firefly</cough> plus some vac-suited military types. As mentioned elsewhere, Jon threw in a set of his new figures as well. Excellent doing business with him, even tho' he's in the UK and I'm in Oz.

EDIT: just remembered: I have about three sets of SJ's original Cardboard Heroes for Traveller, and as well as a grav tank I have a G-Carrier and an air/raft floating around somewhere. ;-)

 

[DaveChase]

Oh, well check these miniatures out on this kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/deadzone-the-sci-fi-miniatures-board-game

And these are only a few of them. There are many aliens also (along with space like dwarves, orcs and undead.)



And they have scifi like terrain also.

Dave Chase

 

[ShapeShifter]

Paper flats for historical wargaming (WRG, Fire & Steel, The Sword & The Flame, et al.), fantasy (D&D, Chainmail), scifi (WEG d6 Star Wars, BSG, CT).

 

[Frankymole]

I mostly used the Laserburn ones: http://www.15mm.co.uk/Laserburn_15mm_Sci-fi.htm

Though the counters in Snaphot etc are usable.

 

[Hyphen]

Pity you can't get that detailed in 15 mm...

 

[madmike]

I have slowly amassed around 100 25mm SF mini's I deem suitable for Traveller. This does include about 12 Warhammer Cadian Imperial Guard to use as militia or mercenaries.

These mini's are sourced all over the place. Bronze Age mini's make perfectly suitable Vagr (SF Wolfmen), while Reaper Chronoscope, Hasslefree and others make ranges that you can pick adventures and NPC's alike from.

I actually have two boxes of 25mm licensed Traveler miniatures yet to paint (adventurers and Imperial Marines)

I am currently using WH40K Genestealer mini's to represent Chamax (it was convenient)

 

[GamingGlen]

Pity you can't get that detailed in 15 mm...

But then you have to paint the details. The older I get the more I prefer less buckles and straps and holsters and scabbards (one of each is enough) on a miniature. Superhero miniatures are the easiest to paint.

 

[Ran Targas]

I found that only I, the painter, appreciated them much during game time and the players spent any free time complaining that theirs didn't have this or that or wasn't painted the way they would like. So I had everyone go and buy a figure for me to paint which resulted in a disappointing mixed bag of fantasy and scifi figures of various scales, a mechwarrior, and a few barnyard animals.

That's when we implemented the dry erase board! Yeah!