Tag: THW
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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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The Iron Queen’s War, Part 1
At dawn on the ninth of December, a day of fair weather and calm seas, four fast ships, hemiolias, were dispatched as courier ships. As the ships cleared their moorings, ten riders passed the gates of Nica. All were carrying orders for the fleets and armies of Nycenae. While Queen Celeste celebrated the launch of…
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Azande with Muskets
The Azande were among the few tribes who quickly adopted use of the rifled musket, so much so that at the start of the twentieth century, some Azande kings had their own regiments of uniformed Askari. They were a warlike people engaged in wars with neighboring tribes for conquest and expansion of their lands. In…
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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…
Atomic Floozy Adventures 