The Rogue Trader Bestiary Part 5: Astral Spectre

This is a bit of a silly one really, but it's part of the list, so I thought I'd model something to represent it.

And here it is, threatening the brave trouserless trooper with a short life as a host to a psychic entity.

There's more info and pics after the cut...




To start with, here's what the rulebook has to say about them:

As you can see from the description, Astral Spectres don't actually have any physical bodies in the material world, and so a model to represent them isn't really necessary for gaming purposes. Having said that, if they exhaust the body they're inhabiting in-game, then they have a chance of being able to take over another host, so a token of some description might be occasionally useful.

Anyway, here's what the rulebook put in as a depiction of an Astral Spectre:

Bit of a spooky ghost thing going on, there. And here's what I modelled to represent one:

I went for a kind of crawling horror theme, but with big grabby claw hands like the illustration. It's a WFB familiar I had knocking around, modified with plastic hands from some undead plastics I had in the bits box.

Here's a couple of other views:

As well as the Astral Spectre on the loose model, I also thought I'd make a model to represent a psyker that was currently possessed by one, and here he is:

As you can see, he's not very happy. He's bleeding from the eyes and there's steam coming out of his ears, so it's obviously not going to be long before our invading Astral Spectre will need to find a new host!

So, there you go, that's another one ticked off the list!

Links to the Bestiary So Far: 

• Astral Hound
• Astral Spectre
• Enslaver
• Psychneuein
• Vampires
• Warp Entity
• Zombie
• Ambull
• Bouncers
• Carnivorous Sand Clam
• Catachan Devil
• Catachan Face Eater
• Crawlers
• Crotalid
• Cthellean Cudbear
• Dinosaur
• Ferro-Beast
• Genestealer
• Giant Insectoid
• Giant Spider
• Grox
• Gyrinx
• Horse
• Lashworm
• Mimic
• Ptera-Squirrel
• Razorwing
• Rippy-Fish
• Swarm
• Sunworm