The Crew
A while back I posted about converting a Buzz Lightyear toy ship for use with the Stargrave skirmish war game from Osprey Publishing by Joseph A. McCullough. You don’t actually need a ship but I was inspired by the various conversions I’d seen on the internet and wanted to have a go at converting my own.
The crew for Stargrave took me a little longer to paint and assemble. This was mainly because I generally paint what I am in the mood to paint and I jump around projects, so often have a few things on the go and sometimes don’t complete a project.
My original plan was to use some Games Workshop miniatures but they didn’t have the right feel for me, so I looked around for some other minis, because you can never have too many minis, right? After looking around online for a bit I settled on the Northstar Military Figures Stargrave range and used a mixture of minis and parts from from the Stargrave Crew, Stargrave Crew II, Mercenaries II and Scavengers boxes. These are great minis and the sprues are packed with extras and its easy to use bits from one box with bits from another making it great for building minis that fit your ideas.
So here they are, the Crew of the good ship ‘Quintessence of Dust’. I haven’t decided on a crew name, but I am sure something will present itself at some point. I’ve ruled out so far, ‘Betelgeuse Bobbin Wreckers and “The Dust gatherers”. I’m leaning towards ‘Spiders from Mars’ but, I’m not definite yet.
Captain, First Mate & Sniper
From left to right Captain Bellatrix Madigan a Mystic, First Mate Charcharias Flay, a Psionicist who might not be entirely human, and Sniper Maliex Pelstig.
Recruit, Pathfinder and Runner
From left to right Recruit Breela Corakin, Pathfinder Trixie Grondement and Runner Evwyn Halsh.
Troopers
From left to right Montag Klops and Aoife Spiggot.
Sentries
From left to right Chastity and Verity Wolfe. Sort of sisters of battle.
There they are then. All ready to go and now I want to paint up some bad guys, build some terrain bits and play the first solo scenario from the Hope Eternal supplement.
I’m also rolling an idea around in my head to create some back story and a campaign world. Five Parsecs From Home by Ivan Sorensen/Nordic Weasel Games and published by Modiphius has some useful stuff and I have a copy of Stars without Number by Kevin Crawford which is chock full of useful tables, as is good old Traveller. I want to set my campaign in a universe of my own design based on a table top RPG campaign I started writing but never ran.
Have you built a Stargrave crew? What minis did you use? Any suggestions for crew names? Let me know in the comments.
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