Hello and happy new year, fellows!
I've noticed that I use a lot of miniatures intended for horror in my sci-fi games, and most of these would, I think, be suitable for pulp too; in fact, I use 'em in my fantasy dungeoncrawls too. I wondered how may of you do likewise, and which figures, companies etc you use?
The main staples of my Lovecraftian horror collection comes pretty much from two companies: em4/Moonraker Miniatures and CP Models. Moonraker (ex em4) has the wonderful Dunwich Detectives range of Cthulhu Mythos monsters (originally released by Metal Magic) and CP Models has a whole cavalcade of weird creepy monstrosities in its Night Terrors range.
I've been meaning to review them for quite a while now (new year's resolution number 2 fulfilled…); so here goes: both ranges are beautifully cast, great value and, as I've mentioned, I've got great use out of them in a whole range of genres and scenarios.
Here's a couple of examples:
This servitor of the outer gods and proto-shoggoth (and their fellows) frm Moonraker make a great my amorphous horde of Thing-style invaders. Add to them a shoggoth or two from CP Models:
link…and their brave human opponents will be really hard pressed!
The Dunwich Detectives dimensional shambers are a particular favourite; they have areal otherworldly pulp sensibility that reminds me of the seminal work of artist Virgil Finlay:
I backed the Phroggs sci-fi amphibians kickstarter from Ral Partha Europe this year; got my package of lovely giant space frogs before xmas and great they are. But they needed some smaller reinforcements as scouts, so I got a few packs of these Phibians form CP Models:
…and they do the job very nicely.
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Anyway, hope this has been useful to some of you, and I'd be interested which non-sci-fi or genre-specific figures you use to add some diversity and interest to your sci-fi and pulp games.
Cheers and happy new year!
