Thursday 30 March 2023

Alien Treasures & Secret Data - Stargrave Loot Tokens

As mentioned in my previous post, I'm currently prepping a crew for Stargrave. Most of the scenarios in the game are loot-grabs, so every game needs a selection of suitable loot counters. Loot comes in two different types: physical (crates, ammo, valuable items etc) and data (floppy discs and memory sticks).


For my data loot tokens I bought a bunch of little doodads from a bits reseller. I think they might be some kind of mine from a Space Marine kit, but I figured they'd do as little data caches.




I went for something a little bit more exotic for my physical loot tokens - a selection of weird alien artefacts from the Colony 87 range by Crooked Dice.




Painting on both was super quick - basecoat, wash shade, drybrush highlight. I did spent a few extra moments painting the data cores and key pads on the data tokens. I also made sure that the tokens were clearly identifiable by painting the data loot red and the physical loot green. No excuses for anyone who tries to open a data token with chiseller or a physical token with a hacker!

10 comments:

  1. Really cool - they look suitably strange and sci-fi. The artefacts have a nice almost-jade, almost-marble feel.

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    1. Thanks Toby! I wonder if I should have gloss varnished them? That would have made them even more exotic!

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    2. That's not a bad idea. That sort of slightly shiny varnish (is it called "satin"?) might work well, too.

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    3. Good idea- satin might work.

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  2. Those will stand out during a game. Hope you can play soon and show us how it went

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    1. Thanks Dai! Just a couple of weeks to go until I get some games in. I'll definitely take pics.

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  3. They all are pretty interesting pieces, and quite versatile. Nice paintjob!

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  4. Simple as the highlights may be, they certainly bring out the details on the tokens so very well.

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    1. Thanks! Sometimes quick and simple is the right approach 🙂

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