Everyone Has Gone To The Stargrave

10/19/2025 06:00:00 AM

Everyone Has Gone To The Stargrave

28mm Stargrave et al.

It seems these days, that with the advent of 28mm plastics for games like Stargrave, and Konflict 47, a lot of gamers have switched to 28mm sci-fi gaming.

Obviously, I haven’t mentioned the elephant in the room - Games Workshop and Warhammer 40K which is ever popular, especially amongst the youngsters who don’t know any better.

I am here to plead the case for 15mm sci-fi - it offers so much more across the board.

First and foremost, with 28mm plastic figures, you must clip them off the sprue, clean them, glue them together, fill any gaps, clean the filler up then they are ready for priming.

I know from experience this takes an awful long time and gets boring very quickly. Do you really want to spend your precious spare time gluing your figure together before you can even paint them?

Then the painting, each 28mm figure is much larger than a 15mm figure, therefore will take 3 or 4 times longer to paint, using much more paint, and oh so much more precious spare time.

Then the breadth and depth of the ranges available from various manufacturers in 15mm is still far greater than that in 28mm.

If you are focused on Stargrave, then the reduction in cost, time, and money is significant, but not only that, there is so much more to choose from for your Stargrave crew minis in 15mm than in 28mm, even if you like wasting your precious time kit bashing and converting, you need to buy several boxes to be able to do this.

Whereas, in 15mm you buy the figures, they arrive, then you paint them, usually with very minimal cleanup if any at all - no assembly time for unique miniatures.

So, for narrative type skirmish games, whether you are running a ship’s crew, a gang, pirates, cops, bounty hunters, mafia, yakusa etc. etc.

There are plenty of figures available right now in 15mm, especially from manufacturers like Ground Zero Games and Alternative Armies, particularly in their HOF 15mm sci-fi range.

Next-up is space and I don’t mean the void! 15mm takes up much less space as well as being much more affordable, and convenient, and much less time-consuming. You can easily play a skirmish game on 2' by 2' board instead of 4' by 4' board.

You can even by conversion stuff for 15mm, Ground Zero Games offers packs of different and varied heads, you can buy packs of heads from Peter Pig, and you can buy packs of small arms from Alternative Armies in their Ion Age range.

So, if you like to do some conversion work on a standard mini - its already available for you.

Armed Civilians/Colonists from GZG.

http://shop.groundzerogames.co.uk/15mm-stargrunt/infantry/civilians-colonists-cops-etc.html