Re: Forwarded from [Starguard] Beast Masters

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From: "Glenn M Wilson" <triphibious@juno.com>
> From: "triphibious <triphibious@juno.com>" <triphibious@juno.com>

> I can do this in either 15 mm (MY only 15 mm figures are SF) or 25 mm
> (almost the only 25 mm figures I have any more) instead of my beloved
> 6 mm because this would clearly be a fire team or squad oriented
> scenario.
>
> Several questions:
>
> 1) What figures (animals and ultra light infantry figures for a Beast
> Master team leader) exist in 15 or 25 mm scales?

First stop for animal figures in both scales would be Irregular
miniatures.
http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/
Ral Partha used to make fine 25 mm animals, including a lot of
prehistoric
mammals that might serve as 'enhanced' animals.
Railroad modellers' HO scale figure ranges also include animals,
including
'Zoo animals'. On the small side for 25 mm, but quite impresive beasts
for
15 mm scale.

> 2) What animals besides the ones mentioned in the books are
> possibilities? (Books, IIRC, mention felines, wolves, eagles,
> paraowls, coyotes, meercats but by implication these probably weren't
> only animals utilized) And who makes them?

Guess this depends heavily on the area where your troos come from. Bears
and
elephants are examples

> 4) The books (Andre Norton) show Amerindians as Beast Masters but
> obviously other nations (Maoris for example) would have enough
> background fluff to make candidates for 'Beast Master' potential
> candidates. Any other suggestions for identifiable groups (ethnic or
> otherwise) that would be useful and any source have identifiable
> figures of that group desired. The heroine's mother (She is
> Cheyenne-Irish) was probably a "sensitive" so the implication is that
> other groups	might have had the empathy/genes to be able to connect
> to enhanced non-humans so I guess I am looking for groups with
> historically identifiabley close ties to the non-technical part of the
> world and traditions of (for lack of a better word) 'totems' relating
> to animals. Is that clear enough?

Lapps/Saami from Northen Finnland
Eskimo/Inuit
Gypsies
Siberian Tribes
Indian and South-East Asian jungle tribes
Tuareg and Bedouin Arabs
Pygmies, Bushmen and other African tribes
Amazonian Indians
...

Greetings
Karl Heinz