Sa'Vasku Minis

Has anyone had the Kallistra Organic Space Pirates up against the GZG Sa'Vasku
ships for comparison?

I really like the Sa'Vasku ships, however, they are a bit homogenous for my
view of a bio race and I was looking for something to break the look up a bit.

I keep wanting to field dried fruit or insect larva :-)

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> On 17-May-00 at 23:21, Andrew Apter (apter@prodigy.net) wrote:

Great idea, I wonder if I can find an appropriately sized
ant-lion in the toys at X-mart.

I also use I.C.E. Silent Death miniatures. I also have used fishing lures
(soft plastic grubs, worms, crawfish,
etc.)

Brian Bell wrote
> I also use I.C.E. Silent Death miniatures.

I recently cruised through a local sporting goods superstore to look at
pistol cases for mini storage and lure-building components to see if any
of the bits would work for scratchbuilding minis. I then looked at the rows of
bins of the squishy worms and grubs. With many different sizes and some with a
single curly tail, others with 3, and some with none so you could have lots of
different classes of ships. A lot of different colors to select from including
some that were translucent with glitter imbedded throughout. The color and
texture could really set them apart from all of the pewter on the gaming
table.

I'll probably make a fleet of these after I figure out a nice way to base
them. Maybe gluing a large pin pointing up on a regular base then bending it
to look like a '7' so you can easily slide the worm on the sharp point but
since the top portion of the pin is horizontal, you can pick it up and the
base won't fall off.

I use a standard base from GZG (the ones with clockfaces). I use Piano Wire
(or other stiff wire) and insert it into the lure along the long axis. This
give the lure some rigidity. Then I just push the base half way into the lure.
Remove it fill the created hole with superglue and reinsert the base. Let Dry.

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