Azazel's Bitz Box.

A bit of terrain today – some more scatter-ish bits from the Star Wars Shatterpoint Core Set and Take Cover Terrain Pack add-on that I decided to get done quickly during early January. They’re not super exciting by any means, but they are now assembled and painted!

There’s these rocky spire-things. I guess they work as movement/LOS blockers in Shatterpoint. My understanding is that Shatterpoint uses a lot of verticality and these don’t really have a lot to do with that, but then I’d rather have an interesting and attractive looking table than a tedious 40k 10th-edition collection of L-shaped ruins.

I sprayed them with the same texture paint that I used on the 20th Century Fox logo that I printed and painted some time ago, as they were a bit too smooth. They’re actually pretty scale-agnostic overall. I don’t have any Shatterpoint figuresactually painted at this point, but (I think) they’re pretty similar to the Crisis Protocol stuff.

They also work pretty well alongside the mechs…

…snd also alongside both 1/100 (15mm) and Legions Imperialis tanks.

The other half of this post are these crates. When stacked, they’re pretty tall, regardless of whether they’re next to the smaller Imperial Assault minis or oversized Crisis Protocollers. Now I painted a set of these things quite awhile ago, and so I wanted to do something else with these ones. After all, I’ve certainly painted enough generic looking individual paints to last me more than a lifetime. In fact, if I ever find where I put that first set, I’ll probably glue a few of them together as well to turn them into small barricades instead of bits of full-ignorable decoration.

Anyway, they’re a good example of “it is what it is” in hobby form, and they’re now assembled, painted and about to be shoved into some sort of storage container until I need them again. The spires are all January models, while these were completed yesterday, though all of this stuff was built in January. As such, they all count towards both Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26, and also Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge.

Here’s something new, though perhaps not as exciting as it might otherwise have been. It’s the “Assets and Hazards” pack for GF9’s “Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps!” miniatures board game. Unlike most miniatures boardgames outside of Games Workshop’s products, the Aliens board game uses miniatures on HIPS sprues rather than preassembled PVC models. It’s also completely unaffiliated with the clusterfuck of an Aliens/Predator miniatures game put out by Prodos years ago.

So anyway, I picked up this box of scatter a year or two ago when GF9’s Aliens game line came back into availability after being OOP for several years. So then naturally, the box sat around for ages until I finally started working on it in January.

I assume that the different pieces all replace card counters in the actual boardgame, though crates and even the computer terminals also will have a potential for use in a lot of other games. The sentry guns would also work for ..well, anything non-GW, since GW games always feature ridonculously sized guns and barrels.

The eggs and facehuggers are a bit more niche. Maybe Zombicide: Invader or Project: Elite? Though those facehuggers are as fragile as they look!

Yet again, these models count towards Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26, and also count towards Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge. I mean, there wasn’t a ton of assembly here, but they did all start on sprue and needed cleanup and/or assembly.

Azazel's Bitz Box.

Painting, Modelling, Miniatures, 1:6, Games… Whatever else I find interesting.

Star Wars Shatterpoint Terrain: Rocky Outcrops & Crates

Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! Assets and Hazards (Gale Force 9)