So I'm planning on building my terrain and forces for a custom world--Arvon IX, a Gotal colony--and had the really fun idea of building custom squads of Gotal forces to serve as local cells/soldiers. My plan is to use Rebel models for the base outfit, and then slot on Gotal heads.

Trouble is, I need me a source of heads. I know Mel Miniatures does alien heads, but those are in batches, and I'm not gonna drop a couple hundred bucks to get one squad's worth of heads and an assortment of unrelated craniums.

Anyone know of any options beyond just crafting my own?

There's three or four Gotals in the old Star Wars CMG... The commons are pretty cheap.

If one of the Shapeways shops makes Gotal heads, even if part of a pack, you could always message them and see if its possible for them to change the files used to just be Gotals.

16 hours ago, Castlecruncher said:

So I'm planning on building my terrain and forces for a custom world--Arvon IX, a Gotal colony--and had the really fun idea of building custom squads of Gotal forces to serve as local cells/soldiers. My plan is to use Rebel models for the base outfit, and then slot on Gotal heads.

Trouble is, I need me a source of heads. I know Mel Miniatures does alien heads, but those are in batches, and I'm not gonna drop a couple hundred bucks to get one squad's worth of heads and an assortment of unrelated craniums.

Anyone know of any options beyond just crafting my own? 

How many Gotal heads would you want?

Technically you would need different hands as well.. they have rather long claws.

1 hour ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Technically you would need different hands as well.. they have rather long claws.

You can prolly greenstuff/milliput hand/claws without too much effort over the existing hands

6 hours ago, melminiatures said:

How many Gotal heads would you want?

Hm... In total, I would want enough to fill out 2, maybe 3 squads, as well as a couple extra for special conversions (like for commanders and custom Jedi and the like). Probably 25 would be a good round number in the end, give or take one or two--that, or just single batches of 8 at a time. Thanks for taking notice! (It's also worth noting I'm not planning on buying anything immediately , just in the foreseeable future.)

1 hour ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Technically you would need different hands as well.. they have rather long claws.

Meh, I'm not terribly concerned--there's discrepancy in just how long their claws are, with some having three fingers with big honkin' diggers and others with five fingers and little chin scratchers. I'd probably be fine to just paint little black dots and say they're a local sub-race (Nemoidians came from Duros, after all, if memory serves). The heads, though--those are harder to hand wave away.

7 minutes ago, Castlecruncher said:

Meh, I'm not terribly concerned--there's discrepancy in just how long  their claws are, with some having three fingers with big honkin' diggers and others with five fingers and little chin scratchers. I'd probably be fine to just paint little black dots and say they're a local sub-race (Nemoidians came from Duros, after all, if mem  o  ry serves). The heads, though--those are harder to hand wav  e  away  .   

2 hours ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

*Highly Incriminating Images*

But yeah, I get your point; it definitely seems like the current canon is that they have three large-clawed fingers, but there's a lot of art out there of five-fingered Gotal with relatively small claws. Either way, I'm hardly a fanatic when it comes to lore-accuracy--like I said, I have no qualms just saying "this local breed has five fingers and small claws" and saving myself the effort of green-stuffing their hands (I haven't done any form of mini-crafting before, and even just attaching the heads is viable to be challenge enough).

EDIT: Via Wookiiepedia's Legends section: "Some Gotals had four fingers and a thumb with short, conical claws on each digit;[1] others had only four or three digits per limb with much longer claws making up a large portion of each finger." So basically they do both, it seems.

There you go:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/NFXXU2Q63/legion-12x-gotal-heads

I made 4 variations of the head so it wouldn't all look so similar.

2 minutes ago, melminiatures said:

There you go:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/NFXXU2Q63/legion-12x-gotal-heads

I made 4 variations of the head so it wouldn't all look so similar.

That is amazing--thank you!

57 minutes ago, Castlecruncher said:

But yeah, I get your point; it definitely seems like the current canon is that they have three large-clawed fingers, but there's a lot of art out there of five-fingered Gotal with relatively small claws. Either way, I'm hardly a fanatic when it comes to lore-accuracy--like I said, I have no qualms just saying "this local breed has five fingers and small claws" and saving myself the effort of green-stuffing their hands (I haven't done any form of mini-crafting before, and even just attaching the heads is viable to be challenge enough).

EDIT: Via Wookiiepedia's Legends section: "Some Gotals had four fingers and a thumb with short, conical claws on each digit;[1] others had only four or three digits per limb with much longer claws making up a large portion of each finger." So basically they do both, it seems.

Sigh.. wizards of the coast was such a blight on star wars.. they didn't seem to have anyone checking anything.. *cough*hwk-290*cough*. They were extremely lazy.

Sorry to rain on your parade.. I do think it's legitimately awesome you are doing a themed board/force.

While I don't play rebels, I plan on eventually painting a squad up as pantorans.