"Alien Bugs in Nylon" Topic

Here is a Rosa Miniature and Games campaign that offers a range of insects invading the Earth in 3D.

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Amicalement
Armand

Thank goodness, you mean alien figures *printed in nylon*….

Nice looking bugs. Bases a little thick?

Glad you like them my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

OK, as a biologist and someone who wnats more nonhumanoids, I am liking these a heck of a lot! The first one especially.

The bases don't get printed. I use poker chips!

(smile)

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Armand

Covert Walrus
Since I'm also a biologist I did extensive research into these critters' back story and life histories. They are bio-engineered for a number of purposes by an advanced alien race. The three issues with big arthropods come down to Can't grow without multiple moults which don't work past a certain size, the inability to get oxygen to internal tissue with an open circulatory system and the lack of an exoskeleton to support the weight of a large organism.

Let's start with the last one. Chitin is very strong and by having corrugations or other structural refinements, as well as some changes in the material, such as silk like reinforcing fibers there is no problem with bugs massing several tons.

Next we gave them a closed circulatory system with effective lungs. They still breath in and out through spiracles on their abdomens, but that just means they don't have to stop eating to breath.

Finally the bugs undergo complete metamorphosis like a wasp, beetle or butterfly. Depending on how big the adult will be it spends more or less time eating and growing as a larva. They it pupates and emerges as an adult. It never grows again (except male and female reproductives)

All science all the time!

Thanks!.

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Armand