"28mm Digitigrade Catfolk" Topic

Hi, I am new to TMP, so hopefully I don't commit a horrible faux pas right away!

I am trying to find 28mm catfolk miniatures for a dungeon crawl-style fantasy RPG. The setting is late medieval/early Renaissance; the PCs are located in a blatant ripoff of western and northern Europe.

Dark Sword has a whole bunch of 28mm cat people, but – and this is going to be nitpicky, I know – they are not digitigrade, and that's important to me.

I am aware of Crocodile Games' Basti and Alkemy's Khaliman Republic, but I was hoping for something more appropriate to my setting in terms of clothes, weapons, etc.

I'm also hoping to find a decent variety of miniatures, so that I can represent a bunch of different professions/character classes.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Not really my wheelhouse, but the pseudo-Renaissance setting is one I use quite often. Perhaps if you can find some one who makes decent feline heads, you could convert some Warlord Games Landsknechts or Perry WOTR plastics?

That would give you a ton of options for conversion, which I find very useful in RPG minis.

You might also be able to take some aspects or parts from the Khaliman figs, and use Perry parts for a somewhat "Byzantine" or "Levantine" appearance.

My last idea would be look for small children's toys. Lions or Tigers that could be head-donors.

I think White Dog has the right of it.

Off the Wall Armies has/had Samurai catfolk:

sjgames.com/miniatures/otwa

I don't have any experience with resin, which is what the Khaliman minis are made of. I'm used to metal, plastic, and whatever polymer Reaper uses for its Bones minis. How well do resin miniatures take to being cut in half at the waist or decapitated? Any tips on converting with resin?

Also, does anyone know the "true" scale of the Khaliman minis? It says 28mm, but are they heroic scale or just 28mm? If I wanted to use, say, Perry minis for conversion bits, are they going to look ridiculous due to scale differences?

His problem is the legs – they need to be 'walking on their toes', not flat footed like humans.

There were some digigrade figure in the old 25mm SF Traveller miniatures, but not really suitable for your period without a lot of modification, and then you might as well sculpt your own 'dollies' to make a mold from and cast them yourself.

bsrlee is right. I should have been more clear with what I meant by "digitigrade."

Humans – and most miniatures – are plantigrade, walking on the balls of their feet, whereas cats are digitigrade – they walk on their toes.

The Dark Sword catfolk minis, for example, are plantigrade:

Whereas the Khaliman Republic minis are digitigrade:

If I could find cat heads and digitigrade legs in the right scale, that would absolutely work for me, but making them from scratch is, I believe, well beyond my sculpting ability.

Bombshell's Shrinaar might fit the bill but are science fiction.

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You might be able to convert them.

I didn't miss that detail, just ignored it for the most part. :)

I did a search for Khajiit in 28mm or 15mm about a year ago and found that if you want Fantasy felines, you have to settle for what you can get. Canid subjects seem much more popular than Felinid, especially in the relatively sparsely populated area of "alternate" Fantasy races.

Reaper have a few, about half-a-dozen or so digitigrade cat-folk, but they are generally unarmoured or lightly armoured at best.
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That Daughter of Sekhmet from Reaper could work. She's cheap enough that I wouldn't feel bad about buying one to see if I can use her legs as conversion bits. Maybe I can cut them off at the knee and transplant them over to a human body and see if it looks acceptable?

I could use her tail, too.

I'd still need heads, though; the Reaper catfolk heads have headgear that don't quite work for me. Maybe I could use some green stuff and a file to alter a human head to look like a catfolk head, but my sculpting experience extends mostly to things like hair, fire, hoods, and filling gaps.

As an aside: why would anyone want to be a dog-person if they could be a cat-person?

Some people might want to ne dog people for social reasons

because dogs have friends.