"Which Giant Monster type do you prefer?" Topic

Your go to type for fun and stompy goodness?

Here are some of the very basics, please feel free to add your own and provide a pic link to establish a direct like to help the process.

Alien…without a doubt not of this Earth

Chimera…bizarre mix of animals, vegetables, and/or minerals

Elemental…creature made of one or more of air, earth, water, fire, or other like energy, ice, crystal, etc.

Fauna…looks like a form of life from Earth, just really big

Flora…creature made of plants, fungus, or other living non-animal

Humanoid…looks like a dude but really big

Mechanical…cybernetic, bionic, or machine

Protoplasmic…blobs, slimes, goos, or other big sticky wet types

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A second thought…what is your preferred size of giant monsters for tabletop gaming?

3-4"

6-7"

10-11"

Cthulhu, of course…so 'Alien' I guess. He should be 5-8 feet tall on a gaming table.

Where does Godzilla fit in here?

Hard not to say "any and all" but my first love would be arthropoda…insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and other outer skeleton types.

So any pieces parts or whole of the above is A list for me. I do prefer less human type forms, but even a rubber suit type with bug/crab/spider parts works for me. For an image that shows all of these qualities I would direct attention to the Tyranids

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Although I am the first to admit that monsters of these types can look quite alien…so a torn answer is alien fauna, chimera, and earth fauna :)

3-4" works for me to allow for more movement room and better use of cover vs ranged fire (many of the same arguments for 15mm vs 28mm miniature gaming)

Godzilla would be a Fauna type…animal from Earth history + monster flavor and size :)

Oprah – she is great

I kinda like Mecha-Barbara Streisand…

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Porky and Richard, you both have issues :(

Good luck finding miniatures for both of those options!

Gamera!

Another vote for Fauna! Giant Earth animals are in the lead.

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i likes Godzilla

Fauna…looks like a form of life from Earth, just really big.Godzilla was the name that popped in the head as soon as I see 'giant monster'.
Still always liked the idea of Scorpions ,spiders and giant bugs too.Even an earwig or woodlice in epic size would be stompy .

Would go for anything 4 to 10 inchs versus 28mm figs.Against heavy weapons and vehicles the larger size and just fighting foot sloggers the smaller size.

Gamera. He's really neat, and filled with meat!

So, fauna, and about 6-7" for 6mm gaming.

"Gamera. He's really neat, and filled with meat!"

"…folks down south eat "right smart" of turtle, and I was with a (toothless) old cooter back then who was a similar kind of reptile gourmet. He told me that "they's seven kinds of meat in a turtle: they's chicken and pork, beef and lamb, shrimp, fish, and goat…"

Gamera is a wacky one but a lovable old cooter :) wildflowers.jdcc.edu/Cooter.html

My favorites are magical constructs… like in the Giant Majin movies and the 'Shadow of the Collosus' game for PS2.

On the table most of my stuff is in the 6" range… some smaller, some bigger.

Apocalypse Cow, so fauna for me.

My first love would be giant tank--Bolo, Ogre, etc.

Rob

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The cow…hmmm…http://image38.webshots.com/38/1/45/43/323714543IUbaXd_fs.jpg

Bugs and 'bots… giant robot bugs are teh awesomez!

Mostly Fauna and in the 6-7" size to use with micro armor.

King Ghidorah was my favorite as a kid.

I would say I like insectoid monsters slightly more than the rest.

I prefer the 6" figures but I am starting to like 12" figures since they go so well with Hot Wheels and other types of accessory toys.

-Ken
Radioactive Press

Ken,

Do you play Giant Monsters at your local basketball gym?…to give you room with the 12" monsters :)

Aliens mostly, but they tend to have insectoid or tentacular features.

3-4"

Gotta say, I would be ok with any of the types now that I have given it some thought.

The Blob/Protoplasm giant monster is a challenge…I am thinking maybe the main monster figure and then glass beads maybe?

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Use the beads to express the expanding goo?

Have any of you guys handled a Goo type before?

Use Jello?

28mmMan: I sometimes set up the game on the floor when using the 12" figures but most times we just play on the kitchen table. Here is a picture of the kitchen table set up with 12" figures of Ultraman, Godzilla, Mechagodzilla, and Gigan.

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I also have figures of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and a Galactic heroes AT-AT I have used with that set up.

-Ken
Radioactive Press

Those are some big blocks :)

Not sure on type- My Top Toho Three are Godzilla (especially the Heisei design), Angilas/Anguirus and Ghidorah.

Also I'm quite partial to the Evangelions… which kind of fit into several categories (Alien, Robot etc), as well as big stompy mecha! Dangaioh, Gundam, Nadesico; I do like the "hard sci-fi" or "realistic" over the "super" like Mazinkaiser, although Gurren Lagann was totally radical.

For ease, at the moment gaming 1/600 or 1/895, basically 2 or 3mm with 2.5" gashapons courtesy of Clawmark is my preferred method- especially so given that Monpoc is essentially the same scale and I've been playing a lot of that too.

28mm Man, you might be interested to know that I've built up most of the buildings from the City Set on that Sarna website for the Battletech game. Despite some alarming and totally woeful discrepencies in sizes (the roofs of the skyscrapers are NOT the same width as the sides, and the tall part of hte hospital does not fit the second part- you'll understand if you download the pack from that site linked in my thread) they don't look too bad. Still a bit big for 2-3mm and that's with de-scaling the image to 50%.

Very cool!

I was plucking pics from Cloverfield for my kit-bash project and this one popped up again picture

If I had to find an image that pretty much summed up all that I like in a monster, then this does a great job of doing just that.

Make it giant sized and I would be most happy :)