HOUSE HARKONNEN is the most hated Evil Faction in the entire DUNE Universe. I would venture to say they are hated by most Sci-Fi enthusiast who love to root for The Good Guys. The scheming, limitless greed, and debauchery of Baron Harkonnen is legendary! It is important to me to make these bastards crazy-evil looking and awesome in my DUNE Miniatures Game!
Ole hippy activist Frank described almost nothing in his sleepy novels. I call it Dune-fog-vision. Cool things are happening but feel free to imagine just about anything visually. A happy consequence of Frank's vague space drama narrative is that we get to see a million versions of The DUNE Universe!
In the decades past the DUNE novels first publication DUNE has been wonderfully illustrated! These modern artist did what Frank could-would not do. I have found much to ponder and enjoy while researching! You can barely find art that is consistent in design, but some of it is similar in the basic vision of the concept. Look up any character or the beloved worms; you will find great variation, and I like it, because much of it is well done.
The Dune-fog-vision has made it easy for me to use the models and miniatures that I like and that look the way I want them to look. I am happy to report that I have found great models that matchup with what I see when reading the wonderful DUNE Novels. With GW being inspired by Classic Sci-Fi properties like DUNE and the wild selection available on Etsy this new adventure has been a lot of fun.
As I state in every DUNE Overview; you can use almost any miniature or model to represent the universe because Frank left it "wide open"! The Fremen and Harkonnen are however less ambiguous. These are the main forces in the long narrative and thus have been illustrated the most. Sure Atreides and Corrino are close, but in my experience with Dune the Frems and Harkers (ultimate good and evil) fight the most in the actual novels. As a reference my Dune Knowledge covers the first three books that Frank wrote, and the first three that Brian wrote (Prelude To Dune). I am aware of the entire universe of course, but I really know these six books well enough to make my cool skirmish game.
When you search around for 'thopters you will find over a hundred designs... no really you will. I love the more modern hard-mean look so of course I will be purchasing several GW FTOL APC's and other fun models!
As I planned my DUNE Miniatures Game I did a lot of NEW Research since I recently started reading the Brian Herbert main storyline Dune Universe Prequel Novels. I looked at what other DUNE enthusiast have done with scratch and limited release/converted miniatures and models too!
More to come... THE SPICE WILL FLOW!
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