"Other Bug Miniatures" Topic

I'm trying to make a list of all available bug miniatures these are the ones I've come up with so far. Are there any others out there?

Thanks
Terry

Black Orc Games
They produce a line of 28mm insect like creatures for the 100 Kingdoms setting. Some would make excellent supra majors in 25mm
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Although listed in he 25mm range the Arcahnian Alien Invertebrates are excellent for majors or supra majors in 15mm, or for media in 25mm

In the 15mm range they have Those! Giant Ants
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15mm Pelagic Dominate Mantis Stallker Bioweapons

GFI
In addition to the dedicated range
Fantasy Ranges
Giant Scorpion 25921228
There is also a Giant Beetle, but I can't find it on there site

Moonfleet Miniatures
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Ironwind Metals
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Large Mantis in the shadowrun range
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Small Mantis from the Shadow Run Range

irregularminiatures.co.uk do spice lice (armed) and bug hunt bugs in their 25mm sf ranges. On a new machine and don't seem to be able to dirrectly link to the figures.

x42

Reaper makes a plethora of giant bugs, including beetles, scorpions, and several sizes of spider. So does WotC in their prepainted D&D range. The old Demonworld goblin range included a large number of unusual bugs as monsters or cav mounts. Mega Miniatures produces several packs including spiders, scorpions, ants, flies, and ladybugs. Heresy does hellmites and a giant spider.

I suspect if you dig through the various RPG lines out there you'll find many more. Bugs are popular dungeon vermin and immune to IP lockouts.

GZG make Ixx, Bugg aliens in 15 mm.

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In addition to the models you mentioned, we also make the parasachnid alien bugs, and very soon will be releasing Vespulid waspmen with ion shotguns and rocket jumppacks which replace their wings.

Those are some nice bugs! I need something that would work as a Plasma bug for my 6mm figs.

Thanks,

John

These are technically toys not miniatures but I have used several of this companies bug figures in Giant Monster Rampage games in the past.

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-Ken
Radioactive Press

In the US, Reviresco carries a nice assortment of Sci-Fi insectoid aliens, with an assortment of weapons and equipment. In size these are about 25mm tall. They are part of the extensive "Star Guard" SF military line designed by John McEwan.
You can see them at link
Well worth a look in my opinion, as they are very ant-like.

-- Jeff

Thanks
I just ordered the some of teh Irregular bugs to see how they look. The pictures are nice.

Terry

The Reviresco queen might well work as a Queen for my Hive in 15mm

Khurasan
I can't the two figures you mentioned. Can you send a pic or links?

Thanks
Terry

The Irregular 'bug hunt' bugs look like they would make cool colossal bugs for 15mm. Especially that scorpio creature.

Also nice are the old Ral Partha mantis figures, but do remind me a bit of 'Son of Godzilla'!

Terry, here are the parasachnids:

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vespulids are a coming-soon sort of thing.

The Dreenoi from Reviresco make decent 'Selenites' too! for VSF use or regular SF use…but I'm also looking forward to the Vespulids from Khurasan.

I've collected or modified etc…bugs and bug like things from several of the above named sources…(haven't done Ladybugs of War…yet!)…but even the 15mm stuff works for 28-30mm games as smaller 'infantry'..almost like 'dwarfs' do for D&D campaigns…and using 28mm+ insectoids in 15mm or smaller systems…just means they are HUGE bugs…(like in all those Japanese monster movies!!!)…

How many sci-fi or horror films have invoved human-sized characters being…overwhelmed by hundreds/thousands of small bugs, from ants to locusts to 'flesh-eating beetles'…(like in the MUMMY! 8-)

I think a swarm of the parasachnids even in 28mm scale games….isn't THAT different than the control bugs or whatever from Starship Troopers…

In short…having a VARIETY of 'insectoids' in different scales is always a good idea…whether you are playing fantasy or scifi…and scale with them isn't as 'defining' as with other species…like humans/humanoids…(remember the sizes/types of Selenites in 'First Men in the Moon'…for example.

Carpe' Tentacle'um
Sgt DWW

Hope this helps:

TMP link

Dan

There's also a "giant bug" faction in Monsterpocalypse now. Only showed up in the last set so there aren't many figs yet, but they might be useful.

These guys look like they might make good larva for the Hive

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In The Hive and the Flame the bugs don't have technology, they fight entirely with their organic weapons. This doesn't meant hey will be easy to defeat though

Terry

SGT DWW asks
"How many sci-fi or horror films have invoved human-sized characters being…overwhelmed by hundreds/thousands of small bugs, from ants to locusts to 'flesh-eating beetles'…(like in the MUMMY! 8-)"

We have Phase IV, an intelligence takes over ants in the desert

The Naked Jungle-Heston verses Army Ants-This film is really really good

The Swarm-Killer Bees (There was at least one other Killer Bee movie)

The Bone Collector-A South African film about insects that can group together to form larger structures, pretty scary

Damnation Alley-Large but not giant cockroaches eat one of the people. Terrible movie from a Roger Zelazny novel

Didn't the Indiana Jones Crystal Skull film have "Siafu" ants?

This is too funny:

YouTube link

Dan
TMP link

Hersey
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link for larva

Didn't find the hellmites yet

I looked through Reaper and they have a wide number of Big Bugs. these include a variety of spiders, some beetles (the giant scarab is huge, I have one of those) and some interesting fantasy cavalry mounted on beetle like creatures.

Has anyone bought any of those? They look interesting but I wonder if the rider is cast on the figure

I really miss the Demonword stuff. I have a couple fo packs of their beele larva looking creatures (which had originally carried goblin cavalry). I'd get another five or ten packs if I could find them

Terry

Ral Partha Europe is doing the Demon World line again!

Also The Hive and the Flame is available finally!

Terry

In early 2012, we'll be releasing alien bugs for our range of hard plastic 28mm (1/56 scale) figures: Alien War.

News just went up yesterday: link

Here's a taste of them:

Looks like some of the insect life we ran into in North Texas…that Orkin man is in a world of hurt if he's firing anythings smaller than 20mm APHE…

Leland R. Erickson

Those might work well for Supra Major Lancers in Hive Queen and Country, if they aren't too big for 15mm. For 28mm they should work perfectly for either Majors or Supra Majors.

Leland, please check out Hivequeenandcountry.com and see how our projects can mesh

In one of the fist messages I mentioned some great bugs but forgot to say theya re from khurasanminiatures.tripod.com

khurasan miniatures

He was running a really excellent special selling lots of bugs in three species for a very reasonable price.

Yes Terry and people gobbled them up and they went out of stock! Will add the set back to the store when I get a restock of the pieces ….

are they supposed to gobble up people?

I guess you could serve them with drawn garlic butter an a nice dry white wine!

I'm glad I ordered them when I could. I was very pleased both with the castings and the value. I also picked up a couple of the tunneling machines where are really excellent resin cast kits. Just the thing for breaking into the Bugs tunnels to root them out at their source

Terry