A peculiar bit of alien wildlife weirdness via the Sci-fi Frills and Fauna Kickstarter.
Knowing my enthusiasm for all sorts of 28mm alien wildlife, the proprietor of Krakon Games sent me a preview of some odd, bladder like Cirripod aliens.
I rapidly painted the chunky, heavily textured models with slight nods to alien in the old John Carpenter “Dark Star” movie. I turned them around fast and they are now ready to perform various roles in my upcoming games.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2016, Alien Flora & Fauna, Deathworld, Krakon Games, Rogue Trader, Sci-fi |
Space balls? Oh ****, there goes the planet.
I’ll admit to being tempted by these exact creatures, despite my lead pile and thin hobby budget.
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Im conflicted NSA, should I attempt to lead you astray, to spend money that you should perhaps not?
Or should I just mention that they were nicely cast with very little clean up required and that they painted easily? Ill go with that 🙂
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Hell yeah, I want to see your balls in the flesh please. I also want to have a play with my own when Frills & Fauna delivers.
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Im planning a ball fondling extravaganza when the postman arrives in a few weeks.
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Thats the second time that you have used that gif after some bawdy comments here NSA… Im going to take it as a compliment…or perhaps as a challenge for future comments 😉
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Looking sharp – time to look at the dangerous plants section of the RT bestiary.
Are you based in Dublin by the way?
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The Cirripods are very suited for use as “Bouncers” from the RT book CK.
Im in West Cork, so a get together is certainly not out of the question, but would need some planning. Could be fun though 🙂
Thanks for the feedback!
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Cool – I’m backing this KS so great to see ’em painted up and looking good! Lucky boy getting them early 😉
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It was a treat to get the Cirripods early yes. Im sure that you will enjoy painting them Alex, fun little things to fire paint at.
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Nice balls!
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Thats sure as heck what my mum told me 😉
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A nice addition to the deathworld flora.Though they look a bit fauna too though.
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Thank you Mr Saturday. They are the sort of models that I reckon you might approach painting entirely differently to me and still find it enjoyable.
Having a couple of Deathworld hazards is a bit like only having access to two miniature buildings: they become boring very fast. Adding more units like this give a larger pool to draw from, with correspondingly more interest and variety transferring to games.
And they are always fun little projects.
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These are cool!
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I’m glad that you like them Mark!
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At least I’m gonna pretend I’m embarrased for liking your balls!
Seriously, I do love how they look when painted. I was trying to resist this KS, you’re not making it easy!!
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Nothing to be ashamed of Suber, my balls are just as beautiful as anyone elses…
Its a fun Kickstarter Suber. I dont want to lead you astray or anything, but its right up your street I think.
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Very nice balls indeed. Nicely textured and,surely morw teeth and eyes inside… I really like this Kicksrarter. I never found the plastic plant offerings in the dollar store alien enough.
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The addition of a few more obviously alien bits and pieces can dress aquarium plants in a more exotic way.
I tend to aim for a Star Trek (original series) style patches-of-sand-surrounded-by-plain-bushes-with-occasional-lurid-alien-elements approach.
The Ramshackle Games mutant plants (also visible on this blog) are excellent for that too.
http://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=37
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Can’t believe I missed these comments and the oh so subtle innuendo 😀 So lovely work on those pitted, hairless balls!
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I used up all the ball jokes when I made the lo-fi version of these out of table tennis balls and puffy paint last time.
This version was restrained.
You can take a close look at the scary, wrinkled and swollen items in question the next time you visit Mikko.
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It’s always a special occasion when you plunk them on the table for some late night fun.
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Interested to see you didn’t go for proper psychedelic colours on these, and chose a more muted pallette.
Nice work.
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Thanks Curis 🙂
I went with the colour description of the Bouncers in Rogue Trader this time. These models are a good fit for those.
The same colour palette also fits the alien from Dark Star, so I figured that I would just go with that.
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