Category: Science Fiction
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Boo! Hiss! Hishen!
The perennial bad guys in 5150 games, the Hishen. Controlled by their overlords through a hivemind and often incapable of independent thought while under the overlord’s influence, the only thing missing on these guys are tiny red MAGA caps. Just kidding, the orange-skinned Jabba the Hut with combover and his minions belong to a different…
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Grapes of Grath
Ok, it’s a bad pun, but I did finish painting a Grath. Though according to autocorrect, he’s Garth. To clear up the confusion, here’s a picture of two Garth’s and a Grath: The Grath are huge nearly unstoppable aliens. In 5150, they are the personification of violence, corruption and boorish behavior. I think I may…
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Razor Thin
The Razor is one of the few aliens that seem to have evolved over the various 5150 rule books. In early books, they are always found in groups of Hishen presumably to boost the strength of hive mind communications by using their empathic abilities. In later books you often encounter Razors as individual characters and…
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Xeog Blues
Finnished the first mini in a small commission to paint 5150 miniatures. What I’m most pleased about is that the client wanted the bases to match the New Beginnings battle boards. What do you think? The bases were painted with Reaper’s Shadowed Stone (a dark gray the shade of asphalt) and then stippled on Reapers’s…
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Alien Catacombs Terrain Set
I’ve finished a second 2’x2′ board for the Escape from Hadley’s Hope game I’ll be running at the Lone Star Game Expo, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2. This is the Alien Catacombs Terrain Set from Battle Systems. I need to complete two more terrain boards to have a 4’x4′ table and I need to paint…
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Cyberpunk Terrain Set
I’m preparing for the Lone Star Game Expo, a local game convention scheduled for September 30th through October 2nd. I’ll be running six sessions of a game, two for each day. The name of my game is “Escape from Hadley’s Hope” using the 5150 Star Army Total War rules from Two Hour Wargames. I’ve already…
Atomic Floozy Adventures 