I relise that FFG are probaly never going to come out with prepainted minis for DH since GW produce a fine but very expensive line of minis that we can use but I am termainaly crap at painting or mod figures so I would like if pre paint minis where avalible

Well there are always the Star Wars figures from Wizards, some of them could do for Imperial citizens, scum etc And of course there is always Ebay - when a new GW range is released there is always a glut of the old figures up for sale at reasonable prices, as long as you remember: caveat emptor!

DW

FFG also has the AT-43 minis. They are more of your armored guardsmen and arbites types but they can work.

I never seen a female techpriest So I never bothered with the minis to Dark Heresy ad concentrate instead on getting a good number of fantasy minis instead.

How can you tell below that robe and with all the appendages?

As someone else said on Dark Reign: I've always preffered a more gender-neutral approach to the Mechanicus... wait: Make that gender-neut ered .

Anyone here actually playing AT-43 ?

AT-43 is a great game. It is a much better system than GWs, squad by squad initiative system. And you can do a lot of things that you can't (or use to be able to do) in 40K, like falling back out of close combat, etc.

Salcor

Will if you get a chance go to e-bay they usually have less exspensive figures

I also use AT-43 figs for my DH games, and they work well. It's also a great TT wargame, so they serve double duty!

I use these EM-4 minis .

I use my old mutant chronical (the old TT and RPG not the new boardgame) minis. In addition Ebay and just look around in you local gaming shop, there is a good chance they will have non GW minis (and thus FAR cheaper) that will fit the bill.

I've told my players to find minis for their characters. The best mini at the end of each session gets its player +50 XP. There are no restrictions on ranges as long as they're 28mm. We play as part of a regular wargaming club, so minis are all-important.

I don't tend to use maps in combat, preferring to run things in a more abstract style. But I find the minis really useful for teaching my very new RPGers (and I'm pretty new, too, as I'm now in my 30s and haven't run an RPG for over fifteen years) how to play in-character. When they want their characters to "talk" they put one finger on their mini to represent the fact that what they say is what their character is saying.

Last session they all used a marine to represent their PC as they'd forgotten my directive. Needless to say, no one got the extra XPs.

Urban Mammoth's Urban War range (inherited from defunct i-Kore's VOID game) has a load of great female minis in the cyber-punk mould that make for great Arbitrators, Scum, Psykers, Adepts and Guardsmen. Only the Tech-priests are a bit hard to find. But finding tech-priest minis in 28mm is always a challenge. Finding a female one is just an extra challenge.

R.

Meta said:

These any good?

www.freebooterminiatures.de/shop/index.php

Meta said:

You mean something like this:

Except that female tech-priests should be as swathed in robes as their male counterparts.

Funnily enough, I was working on a tech-priest conversion just last night (trying to clear some space on my work bench so I can finish my backlog of Inquisitor models). I used the new LotR Ringwraith character "The Tainted" in his infantry incarnation. I snipped off his sword and replaced it with an axe, added a laspistol to his open hand and stuck on a censer from the plastic Dark Angels set. Turned out beautifully. Now I just need to get a new can of Chaos Black spray to finish him off!

R.

I painted a Games Workshop IG Enginseer for my tech priest character, and to be honest, there's so little flesh showing that you could use them to represent either sex.

Here's (a much better-painted version of) the figure:

Ebay is still number one for miniatures... price, selection, etc. I still browse around for different lines and information on scale. The standard used to be 28mm, but most are 30mm and the newer lines are pushing 32mm.

The ultimates source is Stuff of Legends (www.solegends.com) !

Myself... GW (Necromunda, 40k, Fantasy, Mordheim), Forge World, Warmachine (with a little conversion the steam-punk look works great - esp. the mercenary captains as Rogue Trader miniatures), Dark Age miniatures, Infinity (beautiful line but they are 32mm like the Chronoscope line from Reaper), I-Kore (Void), Urban Mammath (Urban War), Heresy Miniatures (appropriate huh?), Anima Tactics (Sophia is perfect!), Rezolution by Aberrant Games, and I just found some from Incursion by Grindhouse Games (alternate WW2 minis).

Just some ideas.

-Cynr

Dezmond said:

Good on all accounts IMHO. Especially the Field Medic from Dark Age which like its fellows in the product line work out great for DH PCs, NPCs, and Xenos. Get a Field Medic, some Mechanicus bits from GW and Online, some guitar string, and greenstuff (or ProCreate) and go to town on making a female Mechanicus technogrrl.

Check out Wyrd Miniatures for other cool DH miniatures options. They have some nifty additions as well. The Ortega Family makes some good mooks to fight in a game.

Dez's post does have some good examples.

@Voidstate: What you say is correct, although the showing bits are face, and the face is too obviously male (sharp, hewn features rather than softer, more round female features). However, if you're not zoomed in, it's probably unnoticable.

I picked up some AT-43 soldiers when they were on sale here for use as Guardsman, and I've gotten some assorted Star Wars minis from my local hobby store for use as other characters... as far as more specific threats or xenos go, I'm mainly doing proxies. Nevermind the cost for the daemons and xenos that are showing up in one campaign and not being seen for a long time, if ever again - think of all the time it will take to assemble and paint them. That's time that could have been spent on working on the actual campaign.

Remember that conversion I said I was doing?

I'm pretty happy with how he turned out...

R.

Check out the previews for the new Imperial Guard miniatures at the GW website. There are several new figs, including a Naval Commander adviser that would fit into a DH game very well.

ClockworkGecko said:

Link?

Go to http://www.belloflostsouls.com for some preview images.

R.

Though you might want to find Bell of Lost Souls here: belloflostsouls.blogspot.com/