Tag: 5150: New Beginnings
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Star Light, Star Bright, Star Army!
I finished painting a small commission with a squad of Star Army figures from the 5150 series of Two Hour Wargames. In typical fashion, I saved the hardest to paint for last. “Wait, what?” I hear you; they are white with black accents. Even though where I live, white is the predominant color of nearly…
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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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Pearl’s Plight – The Case of the Restless Redhead, Episode 2
And so you lost your Hollywood ambitions?” “I thought I had. I waited on tables. I learned about life the hard way, and I suppose it did things to me. I would look at myself in the mirror and compare what I saw with the fresh, young girl I’d been when I was thinking of…
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Pearl’s Plight – The Case of the Restless Redhead
In the outer office,” she (Della Street) said, “is a very starry-eyed young redhead with a figure that is much more important than her clothes would indicate, who gives the name of Evelyn Bagby. She says that she simply must, and I quote, thank Mr. Mason personally, unquote. She’s redheaded and determined.” Mason frowned. “She…
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