What’s nice about Stargrave (the Sci-fi sister game to Joseph A. McCullough’s & Osprey’s Frostgrave) is that it is miniature agnostic; meaning the game allows you to use any miniatures you want! Have a pile of old Citadel Rogue Trader Pirates? Perfect! Want to use your Star Wars Imperial Assault minis since you they’re already painted? Go for it!
Looking for a size & scale comparison for Stargrave minis? I finally put one together! Video version HERE!
Now for me, my enjoyment of the hobby leans towards painting up cool-looking miniatures. When I see games that lets me use my own miniatures, I love being able to go through my collection or order a bunch of minis from different companies so I can make a cool looking, rag-tag squad.
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North Star Military Figures has a line of official plastic miniatures & metal miniatures for Stargrave. But I wanted some alternatives.
Here are the official Plastic Stargrave kits:
North Star Military Figures | Amazon
Stargrave Crew | Amazon
Stargrave Mercenaries | Amazon
Stargrave Troopers | Amazon
Here are the official metal miniatures from North Star Metal Miniatures
Brigade Games – Nickstarter Bundles
I scoured Google & YouTube for cool sci-fi minis for Stargrave. I’ll keep this list updated as I find more, so make sure you bookmark it!
Alternative Armies
Alternative Armies has a lot of different ranges. If you’re looking to go small, they have an entire range of 15mm. I’m sticking to 28mm for my list. They are running a 20% off promo until May 1st. I ordered from them.
Alternate Stars
A Cool mix of aliens and space pirates.
Ganesha Games Scifi
Really cool sculpts. We have Psi Paladins (Star Wars), Space Simian (Space Apes) & really awesome Aliens. I wish I ordered more, looking through the range again!
Ion Age
Reminiscent of old GW sculps and include some cool minis that could work for a spaceship crew, definitely dig around the range.
Space Marine and Adventurers
Spacesuits & Space Pirates. I bought a few of these.
Bombshell Miniatures
Counterblast
Pulp Sci-Fi miniatures featuring humans, aliens, anthropomorphic animals and robots, and even vehicles. Looking for robots powered by a brain? Then these minis are for you. Counterblast the game seems pretty cool, as well.
CMON
Zombicide: Invader | Amazon
Zombicide in space! Crew members, Space Marines, and of course, zombie aliens. The Kickstarter Exclusive Gang Packs look like a great deal for a crew of 5-6 (look on eBay, about $30).
Copplestone Castings
Future Wars | USA Store (Badger Games)
Scavengers and squads that are reminiscent of Retromunda.
Rogue Stars Sci-Fi | USA Store (Badger Games)
The Rogue Stars line is what got me excited to build crews. These sculps look awesome!
Core Space (Battle Systems)
Core Space has minis for everything from robots, ship crew, rogues and space police. Although the majority of the minis are plastic (board game quality) with mould lines that are a PAIN to remove. Some sets are resin and are of higher quality.
Corvus Belli
Infinity | Amazon
A huge range of miniatures. Each Faction has their own unique style; Humans, Cyborgs, Huge Mechs, Werewolves, Sci-Fi & Cyberpunk. There really is a huge selection. Infinity takes inspiration from Television, Movies & Anime.
CP Models
Many different lines of 28mm ranging from Aliens to Star Trek look-a-likes & future soldiers. I’m partial to the Scum & Smugglers line (there is a space-hammerhead shark). They also have Grey Aliens, space dwarves (Runts), goblins (Grem), and more!
Crooked Dice Game Design Studio
Many styles of miniatures to choose from here. Post Apocalyptic gangers & Marauders (think Necromunda), crab aliens, plays on pop culture (Ghost Busters & Star Trek), Cyberpunks, aliens, and lots of Sci-Fi Pulp! Definitely check out Crooked Dice.
There are some gems to be found looking through Crooked Dice.
Diehard Miniatures
Amazing, amazing miniatures with Old Hammer/Rogue Trader vibes. I want the entire line. Everything from Aliens, Chaos crews, and even Skeletal Spacemen!
eM4 Miniatures
Spacelords
More Old Hammer inspired goodness. I only wish they had more of their minis painted or…with pictures because the Spacelords line looks to have some great gems.
TIKONaMUT Pre-Painted Miniatures
eM4 has a a line of pre-painted miniatures on their site, that I’d be interested in checking out. They look nice in the pictures — TIKONaMUt is their dark future line including Mercenaries & the Chequer Gang.
Fifth Angel Studios
MERCS
Many different factions of humans in power armor from the MERCS skirmish game and MERCS: Recon board game. Lots of options from light to heavily armored crew members. They sell faction packs where you essentially get one free. PVC plastic minis from the Recon Board Game at $5 a piece.
Hasslefree Miniatures
Hasslefree has been recommended to me quite a bit. They have a lot of miniatures to choose from; resin, metal, large scale, and more.
Sci-Fi & Weird War
Really a huge range of styles. Everything from grimdark to anthropomorphic animals to fiction inspired sculpts.
Heresy Miniatures
“The best miniatures that you never heard of!”
Sci-Fi Miniatures
Heresy Miniatures were recommended to me quite a few times. They have a limited range, but they could definitely work if you like their style.
Their main attraction seems to be their gang collection, which I’ll consider alternative minis for Necromunda’s Delaque gang.
They do have a small set of Inspectors and Smugglers that would probably fit Stargrave better.
Hydra Miniatures
Retro Raygun
50’s retro, Pulp-styled miniatures. They are 30mm scale, but many are robots or aliens, so they may mix just fine with other crew members. Robots, Aliens, Humans. Some of the most unique minis I’ve seen!
Khurasan Miniatures
Sci-Fi, Pulp and Fantasy ranges. Some 28mm and a lot of 15mm.
28MM Sci Fi Adventurers
Models most suitable for adventure in Space Opera settings. Right now it consists of aliens, dinosaurs with armor and guns, and power armor tigers. The site says humans coming soon.
28MM Sci Fi
Lots of vehicles, soldiers, power armor, more dinosaurs (Garn), and awesome Scavenger minis.
Knightmare Games
Orcs & Chaos in the style of GW.
Mantic Games
Deadzone & Star Saga | Amazon
Many different sets from Space Dwarves to Rat-men to Rebels. Big faction boxes of plastic or smaller sets of plastic or metal.
Reaper Miniatures
Reaper miniatures has everything from fantasy to sci-fi, in plastic, “bones”, and pewter. I like a lot of their miniatures, but their scale seems to be all over the place. Links are land on their “sci-fi” sections
Chronoscope | Amazon
Chronoscope is 25mm Heroic scale, not 28mm or 28mm Heroic. I’ll have to get my hands on them for a comparison, but be warned before you buy!
Space soldiers, robots, mutants, cyborgs, wastelanders, and more.
Spiral Arm Studios
Maelstrom’s Edge
Box sets, single units and plastic sprue sets. I ordered these Broken Infantry sprues and I can’t wait to build them.
Wargames Atlantic
Death Fields | Amazon
A few lines of plastic sprue soldiers. I’m partial to these Einherjar “space dwarves”.
Iron-Core | Amazon
A single, but cool looking set of sprue miniature “Eisenkern Stormtroopers”.
ZombieSmith
If the phrase “Muppets in space” raises an eyebrow or you need to check out ZombieSmith. There are quite a bit of sci-fi lines (as well as fantasy). I ordered a bunch of the line pictured below.
A7D12 (Now In The Starport Section)
Random Aliens Passing Through. Really awesome aliens; perfect for a starship crew.
These miniatures would be great for Stargrave, Star Breach, Reality’s Edge, Five Parsecs From Home, Kill Team, or any Sci-Fi tabletop game or RPG that require minis.
I have purchased many of these minis! I have a whole series of unboxing and reviews (and even some painting) videos over on the Current Kick YouTube Channel, so make sure to subscribe!
Any other miniature lines that I should add to this Stargrave list?
Leave a comment with suggestions. I’ll keep this post updated.
Since this post has been so popular, I decided to make a Fantasy Miniatures for Frostgrave & Rangers of Shadow Deep list!
April 18, 2021 at 6:32 am
zombiesmith has some interesting aliens you should look at if you haven’t ywt.
April 20, 2021 at 11:35 pm
Never heard of these! They have some awesome, minis. Will add them to the list soon!
May 13, 2021 at 10:06 am
You should take a look at the Chronoscape line from Reaper Minis. The Bones are quite nicely price and there’s a ton of them to choose from.
https://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/chronoscope
May 13, 2021 at 10:13 am
Awesome, thanks! Didn’t think of Reaper. I have bunch of their fantasy stuff. Their scale was all over the place, but I like the sculpts. I’ll look this over and add it soon!
June 2, 2021 at 11:18 am
One that should get more attention is Heresy Miniatures, Andy Foster. Great attention too. Check out their sci-fi line and you’ll see some familiar faces 😀
https://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2
June 8, 2021 at 9:14 am
Heresy Miniatures have been mentioned a few times. I’ll update the sheet (and check them out) this week!
August 10, 2021 at 2:01 pm
I picked up a “Wayward Eight” posse from Warcradle Studios. They’re basically the crew of Serenity. Meant for their Wild West Exodus game, it’s a steampunk post-Civil War Western game but I think they’ll fit in nicely.
August 10, 2021 at 2:18 pm
Oh very cool minis! Looks like they’re 35mm scale, though. So they’re pretty big looking at some comparisons. Larger than 28 Space Marines for example. I wonder how Wild West Exodus plays, they have a ton of cool minis.
October 9, 2021 at 1:09 pm
I’ll point out Alternative Armies > Loud Ninja Games has some dinos with guns that pair well with the Khurasan Stelloraps… 🙂
October 9, 2021 at 2:01 pm
Oh good call! I have a list of updates to add to this (more minis!) I’ll add them too. Thanks!
December 4, 2021 at 2:14 am
Hmm. Fifth Angel Studios/MERCS seems to be down. Which is a pity, as those Texico figures seemed neat.
December 4, 2021 at 2:56 pm
Back up for me! Maybe it was just temporarily down.
December 4, 2021 at 8:33 pm
Might be a mobile thing? The store won’t load on my phone, but it does load on my PC.
December 6, 2021 at 1:42 pm
Yeah, working now. Must have had a store hiccup. (Also, found https://store.wildwestexodus.com/ today, which probably fills my need for sci-fi cowboys… 🙂 )
February 1, 2022 at 7:33 pm
New one https://archon-studio.com/shop/23-starfinder The space goblin warband are quite nice. Pricey figs, but well sculpted.
February 5, 2022 at 3:45 pm
Good call on Starfinder! I have a BUNCH of Dungeons & Lasers terrain.