Stargrave - The Talons of Solubris

This metal mini was part of the Nickstarter. I see that duel wielding guns seems to have no effect in-game, so decided that I want this alien to at least represent a specialist class of crewman.

I saw the Let’s Play at the start of Stargrave Week and saw how useful the Rapid Fire class of weapon could be.

The only crewman using those weapons appears to be a Gunner. The trouble is that the rapid fire rule is meant to represent lazer Gatling gun or multi mini rocket style weapons, but I love the idea of a gunslinger from an alien race that have amazing reactions, amazing eyesight and super human trigger finger speed to represent the multi targeting and firing of this class of specialist.

The other factors were needing the mini to have heavy armour and plus rapid fire weapons are meant to have a 24 inch range, which seems a bit off when pistols have far less.

I tried to give heavy armour a nod by attaching two plates of armour at his shoulders and wanted to attach a sight to one of the pistols. After finding a scope I was happy with (From a Lost Patrol scout pistol from a spare bits sprue) I realized it would ruin the aesthetic of the mini if added to either gun. I settled on adding it to his belt instead.

The heavy armour is the heavily cut down upper arm and forearm of a Gate of Antares C3 right arm, that I already hacked a weapon off of to make my Commando.

I am also going to make a human runner to wear my last remaining slouch hat. I imagine Runners and Recruits to be the only replacements I need regularly but I can still use my Skitarii to fill gaps too.