| Cacique Caribe | 20 Apr 2006 4:16 a.m. PST |
link I just ordered a box of 'em on ebay earlier this week! My plan (you guessed it): Use them as technologically advanced survivors of a crashed alien ship on prehistoric Earth. Gotta love Sci-Fi. You can do almost anything. Any other creative uses for Kroot? CC |
| maxxon | 20 Apr 2006 4:18 a.m. PST |
Chop the guns off and they're a low-tech/fantasy race. |
 John the OFM  | 20 Apr 2006 4:23 a.m. PST |
When I get around to Mars…
They are also top candidates for "My God! Who left the Starget open?????" scenarios. |
| Pictors Studio | 20 Apr 2006 4:25 a.m. PST |
They have already met my British on the plains of Mars. Those martini-henry rifles do a number on their wiry little bodies I'll tell you. The Brits even captured the German scientist/industrialist who was providing them their weapons. |
| nazrat | 20 Apr 2006 4:41 a.m. PST |
Nah, not Martians— Venutians! When I get all this VSF stuff from Parroom Station painted I think there will definitely be a trip to Venus in the can. I've always wanted to paint some Kroot but I don't want to play the Tau in 40K. |
| Cacique Caribe | 20 Apr 2006 4:53 a.m. PST |
I like the colors on this conversion! link CC |
| Pictors Studio | 20 Apr 2006 5:09 a.m. PST |
nazrat, My buddy has a whole kroot mercenary army. No Tau there. That is where we get our hordes of kroot from. They have fought against my Tau on a number of occassions. The force is actually quite viable against anything we have thrown at it except Grey Knights. Grey Knights turn them into pudding. The rules are in the various annuals and an issue of white dwarf from way back when. |
| Lentulus | 20 Apr 2006 6:02 a.m. PST |
Isn't there a shink-wrap licence on GW packaging that forbids using their figures with non-official rules and backgrounds? *ducks* |
| John the OFM | 20 Apr 2006 6:06 a.m. PST |
SI, you gave me a vision of James Cagney blasting out the window with his .45 at the GW Figure Purity Police.
"You'll never take me alive coppers! I'll use Kroot any way I want!" |
| jonpaul | 20 Apr 2006 6:12 a.m. PST |
That one conversion was more than I paid for a whole box o'Kroot. Sheesh…I know you get five kroot, but
(sputtering uncontrollably) but… |
| Cacique Caribe | 20 Apr 2006 6:26 a.m. PST |
I got my box of Kroot for $20 USD on ebay earlier this week! I am not a 40K gamer, but I think that I get 16 figures out of that box. Am I right? link I counted 16 on the picture, but that may not be the contents. CC |
| streetline | 20 Apr 2006 7:36 a.m. PST |
That's the contents. What you get from ebay is hopefully close! |
| Thomas Whitten | 20 Apr 2006 8:07 a.m. PST |
Kroot are great. They are the reason the Dinosaurs went extinct. |
Dances With Words  | 20 Apr 2006 8:14 a.m. PST |
I got the 'bits' I needed from Battlewagon bits for kroot bodys and arms…and have been 'cloning' green epoxy SKINNY heads (off my mongoose metal skinny militia types) for use as non-armored skinnies…which also make great 'martian-types'…or other aliens… I've also 'cloned' some 'griffin grey heads'…using green epoxy to make a mold off several heads…and then using the green mold to form more green epoxy 'clones' of them. I've put the 'grey' head on the kroot body and it looks passable… I've also just merged a spare 'mantis hunter' head…(that I'd ordered from Mongoose with a regular mantis/assassing bug)…and merged it with the kroot body…and it looks like a 'Selenite' type (caves of the moon/First Men in the moon), critter…(or could be 'venusian'?…I've got some other 'heads' I'm working on 'meshing' with kroot bodies…(I've also merged a Griffin grey head with a TAU body and it looks kinda neat)… I may rework their 'weapons' though..to replace the gun with a spear or something more 'electro-gun-ish' like Selenites used. A box of Kroot costs about $35 USD at a local game store near us, but I got JUST the bits I wanted…8 torsos, 8 leg sets and 8 arm/weapons sets for about $12 USD or so from battlewagon bits. I've still got other kroot bits, and their heads…(which I'm playing with on other 'mods' for critters)…but the kroot bodies are usable for a lot of things… My wife said the bodies look like old-stylye 'Sleestak'…which is what I'm going to try NEXT! In any case…GW got it's 'pound of flesh' already…by me buying their bits…whoever sells them, whole or in parts…so what I DO with them…is my 'own business'… Besides…I don't play in 'tournaments'…anyway. Those that do, are welcome to them and all the rules, limitations and conditions that come with them. IF that's your 'thing'…then that's cool! I'm just more into 'whatever works'…I don't plan to resell or 'market' my 'conversions'…though I've swapped a few with friends for other bits and for them to try doing their own versions of…and that too…is our choice. @CC…go head and 'experiment'…I've made 'green epoxy' molds off several 'bits' and then using mold release (after curing)…made limited numbers of extra 'bits' to use in conversions. It's not fast or 'easy'..but it is fun and I've gotten the 'knack' of doing it enough for my needs… Carpe' Tentacle'um,
Sgt DWW… |
| Hey You | 20 Apr 2006 9:33 a.m. PST |
If you come up with a Sleestak conversion, please post a pic. I want to see if I can do it also. Everyone needs a Sleestak army. |
| Lowtardog | 20 Apr 2006 9:42 a.m. PST |
Just started working on mine they are to be my Slavers from another world I am using the Kroot as basic slavers and the kroot on Krootox as my Hunter Killer "for runaways etc" and the hounds of course. I am currently looking at the Void Terror saurs as heavy support or the slave caravan. I have had it in my mind since playing the Turok Evolution PS2 game I had a few years which pits a primitive man against Sauropods on/in their world. The retro weapons look Ideal too. |
| Lowtardog | 20 Apr 2006 9:47 a.m. PST |
I have also been toying with buying the Olleys Armies Big scaley Aliens as some heavy fire support they look mean link |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 20 Apr 2006 10:03 a.m. PST |
I wrote mine up for dark Age, they are alien big game hunters who came to samaria to hunt Grwolers, from FASA's Vor which I also wrote up. |
| kallman | 20 Apr 2006 10:21 a.m. PST |
"Any other creative uses for Kroot?" Well, when properly prepared in a batter seasoned with 11 herbs and spices they taste just like chicken.  |
| Dances With Words | 20 Apr 2006 10:24 a.m. PST |
That is probably as 'badly misused' as the Zed/Zardoz images…8-) Everything 'tastes like chicken'…EXCEPT chicken? humans, kroot, tuna, rattlesnake, spugs…etc…??? Carpe' Tentacle'um…(the other….'slimy' meat…)
Sgt DWW |
| Texas Grognard | 20 Apr 2006 1:08 p.m. PST |
I'm getting up on a soapbox guys. GW has no bloody business telling me what to do with the figures I buy from them! I BOUGHT them, they now belong to ME. Possesion is nine-tenths of the law. OK gents off my soapbox. By the way Dances everything but chicken does not taste like chicken; it tastes like gumbo:D |
| Cacique Caribe | 21 Apr 2006 7:26 a.m. PST |
Q: What do you call the Kroot gunner on top of the Krootox?
A: Kroot-on (drums) Padum-pah! CC |
| Dances With Words | 21 Apr 2006 9:00 a.m. PST |
ROFLMAO! Good one, CC! Will have the list for you of bits after the weekend, gotta see how the 'green expoxy mold' of the head works out… Carpe' Tentacle'um,
Sgt DWW |
| byram1 | 21 Apr 2006 11:14 a.m. PST |
ROFL, that was so lame i had to laugh….. |
| Privateer4hire | 22 Apr 2006 9:05 p.m. PST |
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| Dances With Words | 23 Apr 2006 6:53 a.m. PST |
Well…I've starteing 'cloning' Mantis HUNTER heads for my kroot bodies…now to try the SLEESTAK…(old version)…as others have experessed intereste in it…. Kroot…it's what's for dinner! Kroot-Wasn't that a movie with Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda??? |
| Cacique Caribe | 08 Oct 2006 11:13 p.m. PST |
Lame Alert: Q: What do you call a Kroot that is burned and a psychopath?
A: Freddie Krooter? CC |
| Judas Iscariot | 08 Oct 2006 11:31 p.m. PST |
I have a small pile of FW Epic scale Kroot that I keep thinking about doing up… I just need to do a few conversions to get me some NCOs, Officers, and some Squad Support Gunners… I also need to come up with some vehicles for them… I am none too fond of leaving all of their transportation needs to animals like the KrootOx… They would probably have more than a few vehicles… I just have a little trouble trying to envision what they would look like… |
| Cacique Caribe | 09 Oct 2006 8:58 p.m. PST |
Kroot vehicles? Maybe something like the "Sandships" in "Martian Chronicles". CC |
| Judas Iscariot | 10 Oct 2006 12:19 a.m. PST |
I would need to go back and have a look at that (The Martian Chronicles). It has been over 20 years since I read them… Obviously teh Kroot diet has been mostly anthropomorphic for the last several generations or they would have a different body form (if I am reading their description correctly). In any event… I do not use the GW background for the figures… So, they would be anthromorphs, and as such would have vehicles similar to the needs of other anthromorphs (seats, something to see the enemy with, something to shoot the enemy with, some method of communicating with friends, and some method of locomotion). Their sort of Porcupine looking spines seem to call for something that is crab looking in my mind… Maybe grav-vehicles that are also walkers… Using the Grav portion of their locomotion for long distance travel, and the walker portion for localized combat. Various antennae and weapons mounted in their front where the claws would be. Maybe a top and bottom turret??? At least something is beginning to form in my mind now… |
| alien BLOODY HELL surfer | 10 Oct 2006 2:25 a.m. PST |
Don't forget if the Kroot are just too tough for you, you can always throw in the Tau (towel) yes, I know that's a bad pun |
| PleaseDeleteAccount | 10 Oct 2006 4:49 a.m. PST |
i've been combining them with WFB lizardmen plastics to make 40K lizardmen for my Space Slann army. |
| Cacique Caribe | 21 Dec 2006 11:35 p.m. PST |
I think these beasts are interesting: link CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 07 Jul 2007 9:17 a.m. PST |
Some are seeing VSF applications for Kroot figures too: TMP link CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 07 Jul 2007 9:24 a.m. PST |
Does anyone remember Outpost Gamma? link Can the Kroot be used as a tabletop miniature version of this game? CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 25 Sep 2007 9:30 p.m. PST |
Here is a nice close-up of the Kroot sprue: link CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 13 Dec 2007 1:15 p.m. PST |
DWW has certainly out-done us all with his Kroot . . . TMP link CC |
| palaeoemrus | 14 Dec 2007 1:09 p.m. PST |
If you do make sleestaks make sure that you only allow three of them on the table at any one time(not counting the altrusian). It's a Land of the Lost Tradition. |
| Cacique Caribe | 26 Dec 2007 2:16 a.m. PST |
If you want Insectoid heads for them, here are some GREAT NEWS from Black Orc Games! Hope this helps. CC
------------------------------------------- Dan, We can always make a special item, package it in a plastic bag. Large heads (Mantis) would be $0.75 USD USD USD
Small Heads (Myrm) would be $0.50 USD USD USD
Antennas would be $0.5 USD USD USD for a pair,if you need them If you need more let me know, I can accommodate a special deal Shipping would be $5.5,if shipped in the USA Thanks Patrick
Black Orc Games |
| Cacique Caribe | 28 Dec 2007 10:53 p.m. PST |
Here are some cool Saurus heads for modifying your Kroot: auction
auction CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 11 Feb 2008 9:37 p.m. PST |
Check out these guys: link CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 16 Feb 2008 11:30 p.m. PST |
How about a head like Mikey's? link CC |
| AndrewGPaul | 18 Feb 2008 7:37 a.m. PST |
DWW, this one probably does taste like chicken: link (scroll down a bit, plast the laspistol). |
| 28mmMan | 19 Feb 2008 6:23 a.m. PST |
CC there is your started base for the second stage graboids! |
| Cacique Caribe | 13 Nov 2008 11:46 a.m. PST |
Has anyone been able to get the bug heads from Black Orc Games? CC |
| Warzoned | 13 Nov 2008 2:23 p.m. PST |
@Punkrabbit – How about posting those VOR stats for your Kroot? :) |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Jun 2009 10:56 a.m. PST |
Thomas Whitten: "Kroot are great. They are the reason the Dinosaurs went extinct." Maybe not . . . link Interesting how the "Velociraptor homoides, aka 'the man-raptor'" in that link looks a lot like a GW 40k Kroot body with a more reptilian head: link
link Wonder if shaving the spikes and reducing the beak on the Kroot heads (and turning it into a reptilian "lip" of sorts) would do it? Removing the lower jaw of the ones with open mouths, smoothing out the top jaw, and then reconstructing the lower jaw, perhaps? auction Or, maybe, I should go ahead with my original idea: link
TMP link What do you guys think? CC |
