Stargrave – The Last Prospector

Daughter Ryla is a character that seems to be potentially on your side, but takes some convincing. She is a resistance fighting against the Pa faction in the game. The artwork on the book cover is meant to represent her, but the model that NorthStar are selling has her more like a commando with a beret. So I went my own road with my kitbash. The pose leans heavily on the studio sculpt. I added extra armour because she has heavy armour stats and seems a real bad ass. Her stats say that she’s very strong. The artwork gave her potentially a pale blue complected with ginger hair but that could just be object source lighting and just suggestion. I went for green skin because… Why not? …. And because if people see her as orc like that comes with some attitude and atmosphere that suits her. Plus the Mornfang Brown and Steel Legion Drab give her the marshal resistance look she needs.

I have had some odd looking pieces of polystyrene in my terrain bits box for a while. They’re not the bobble heavy white polystyrene, but they’re not dense foam pieces either. This video has inspired me to give these potential walls a coating of a PVA / flour / salt mix to harden it up and easy to prime etc.

My version is different in many ways but the concept and materials are similar. I think I will make more of these and that are more broken and grungy like the video.

I like the supporting ideas I have toyed with to keep the fences up. Barrels on one side and a kink in the sprue on the other side (for the taller fence  piece.) Two halves of a 25mm base set in place with glue and a dab of ready made filler was a fun idea on the other fence section.

The barrels are from a Tamiya 1/35 scale set that I rescued from a shed clearance. The box and instructions destroyed by rain damage, but the kits were still on sprues and sealed. For Sci-Fi scales can often be flexible and compared to the 40k barrells they don’t look too outrageous.

I missed the boat a bit on this Starlink sale. Got my Lance and starter box bits online and delivered cheaply. Went to my local toy store and The Works and the cupboards we’re almost bare. They had more starter boxes, which I didn’t fancy and the guns that I have made into sporty hover bikes. They also had a couple of pilots, but I was most taken with this one and the potential to actually use her in one of my a crews. Though she’s also rock and roll enough to field as a baddy in a solo bounty mission too. For £1 I am really happy to add her to my list of Stargrave options.

On the Weekender 7th of May, Warren mentioned Starlink the computer game with it’s integrated models. He shared  that they were selling off the spacecraft model ships for dirt cheap because the game was dying the death.

I ordered the starter box and a “Lance” ship and they sent two Lances instead.

Knowing that I had a “free” ship and that they were identical I felt emboldened to try a fresh paint job on one of them. I put the wings upsidedown and they still looked like fun Sci-Fi wings. I put some filler in the exposed screws on the wings now they were on upsidedown and primed it Halfords red. Then I wrapped it in string and painted it black. Will post pics soon.

The plinth was made from stacked Starlink mini bases and the statue is one of the Lance pilots I have. The banners are just printed out Google images when searching for “Space Pirate symbols”.