sci fi miniature suggestions?

[HobbitFan]

Any suggestions of miniatures to use for players, NPCs and aliens for Traveller games. I am thinking primarily of 25-28 mm figures here.

I remember seeing some figs in Reapers Chronoscope line that looked like they might work. And there are always the WOTC Star Wars miniatures (but these went out of production).
I am trying to avoid stuff super expensive or super recognizable like Warhammer 40k stuff.

edit: If you guys have any ship miniatures suggestions that would be good too. Right now, it looks like we might fill in with X-wing ships until something more accurate comes along.

 

[Infojunky]

Any suggestions of miniatures to use for players, NPCs and aliens for Traveller games. I am thinking primarily of 25-28 mm figures here.

For specifically Traveller, in 28mm you are mostly SOL, there are some in 25mm there are more available kinda, mostly expensive finds on eBay. Now in 15mm RAFM in Canada has all the old Citadel/Rafm License figures for sale, Humans, Droyne, Vargr and Aslan mostly.

I remember seeing some figs in Reapers Chronoscope line that looked like they might work. And there are always the WOTC Star Wars miniatures (but these went out of production).
I am trying to avoid stuff super expensive or super recognizable like Warhammer 40k stuff.

Now there are some 28mm SF figures out there that work for Traveller out there Hasslefree, Heresy and Reaper all have some. But again in 15mm you will find a more robust selection of figures from companies Like Rebel Minis, Khurasan, Ground Zero Games, Critical Mass Games as well as a few from Splintered Light, in terms of Character figures. 15mm also tends to be much easier on the wallet. Oh and not to mention that in 15mm there are a large number of suitable Vehicles to go along the character figures.

I am kinda a huge fan of 15mm SF figures, but for customising your own 28mm beats 15mm hands down. But 15mm makes it back with larger amounts of playspace on your average kitchen table.

 

[Golan2072]

the advantage of 15mm minis is that they fit the ranges of firefights on the kitchen table better than 28mm; with 28mm, most ranges on the average table would be pretty short. Which isn't a real problem with D&D, which is predominantly a melee game, but with the guns involved in Traveller, 15mm would scale better on the table. And they're cheaper, too.

 

[crazy_cat]

In 28mm I've got a very good range of SF and near future (suitable for SF) minis from Heresy, Hasselfree, Mantic, EM4, Games Workshop, RAFM, Reaper, Wargames Factory, Foundry, Antenocitis Workshop, Victory Force, Westwind, Statuesque Miniatures, FourA, Empress, Bronze Age, and probably a number of others I'm forgetting at the moment.

 

[Greg Smith]

Crooked Dice have 25mm too - astronauts, minions etc.

 

[HobbitFan]

I'll check those companies out online. Thanks guys!

 

[Infojunky]

In 28mm I've got a very good range of SF and near future (suitable for SF) minis from Heresy, Hasselfree,

As I said some worthwhile figures there. Hasslefree is 28mm Heresy is closer to 30mm...

Mantic, Wargames Factory,

40K clones not many choices for character figures.

EM4,

They have a mix of older figures the old SpaceLords stuff from Hobby Products are good, but 25mm. Speaking of which Ground Zero Games still has his line of 25mm figures as well.

Games Workshop,

Gothic Space Fantasy mostly, the Tau are doable, the Imperial guard have some winners, the best thing is GW is good for parts to roll your own, after you scrape of the Skullz... They used to have some fun character figures, but the back catalog is gone. And as a general rule Butt-Expensive.

RAFM, Reaper, Foundry, Antenocitis Workshop, Victory Force, Westwind, Statuesque Miniatures, FourA, Empress, Bronze Age, and probably a number of others I'm forgetting at the moment.

There are a fair number of boutique manufacturers out there, producing some nice figures. Very few vehicles though and what are available are expensive.

Now on a completely different track Steve Jackson Games produced several deckplans for use with Gurp's Traveller, the plans them selves were huge, but each set came with a sheet or two of Traveller specific Cardboard Heroes in 25mm (In the wayback machine they also did some 15mm) and the 25mm sets fit in to 20mm bases, so that maybe an option as well.

 

[Greg Smith]

For vehicles, try Ainsty.

 

[crazy_cat]

For vehicles, try Ainsty.

Also Antenocitis, Old Crow, Empress (modern, can do as near future), Khurasan, and many 1/48 scale model ranges.

 

[crazy_cat]

Also - Mongoose and Warlord do Judge Dredd minis. Most are setting specific but some might be re-purposable?

 

[Infojunky]

For vehicles, try Ainsty.

Also Antenocitis, Old Crow, Empress (modern, can do as near future), Khurasan, and many 1/48 scale model ranges.

Mind you that most of the models in 28mm are expensive, even more so now with the Royal Mail's recent increase of postage. Khurasan is a US firm and produces a few models in 28mm. And Jez hasn't gotten his web presence for Old Crow back up this year, yet.

 

[nats]

Given the ranges in Traveller a 15mm or 6mm range would be best but there are loads of both in terms of scifi fighting soldiers. Not so much starship crew members. So my recommendation would be a set of 15mmm starship crew.

 

[blackphoenix]

If you're still looking at 28mm have a look at Infinity. Obviously not everything would work but a good portion should be usable.