I've finally started in a Serenity campaign and now the thought of miniatures has arisen. I'm not sure where to start, so I figure I'll try picking some of your brains for ideas. What established game systems or miniatures lines would be good to check out to find modern (maybe slightly sci-fi) and/or western figures?
Crystal Caste has some very high quality pre-painted Western miniatures that would work fairly well with a Serenity game. They're not that expensive and actually come with a d20 for every figure in the box. I've used their fantasy line in the past and really like them.
Well, not really minis, but I've seen a pile of ships and figures pass through the Diamond catalogue over the years.
I believe that someone I know will GM at least one Serenity. On the miniature front. Some of the Reaper Chronoscope minis are very good for Serenity. As a matter of fact there are two minis that seem like dead ringers for Mal and Jayne.
Reaper and GamesWorkshop Warhammer come quickly to mind. Those are the ones i use. Warhammer gets the nod between the two for detail. Reaper for price. Neither carry old west as far as i know. Anyone wanna elaborate on details for Serentity game genre/dice system/etc... .
Serenity is Sci-fi with a big chunk of Western flavor - it is based on the Firefly TV show and Serenity movie. Serenity is based on the Cortex rule system, which is skills and abilities that range from d2 to d12+d12, so for any test you are rolling 1 to maybe 6 dice that are either d2, d4, d6, d8, d10, or d12. I will try to post a rule summary soon. Warhammer minis seem way too fantasy (D&D-ish) to me. Plus the Warhammer stuff seems really expensive.
