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. 
These look fantastic mate, and strangely enough I am watching aliens as I type this ! LOL Keep meaning to get this game, then get distracted by another shiney ! LOL
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Thanks Dave. I think I need to watch the Aliens movies soon after I finish with this Andor/Star Wars run I’m on. I wonder how far I can get through the Aliens films (after the first two of course) before losing interest? 😮
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These look brilliant! 🙂 I’ll have to share something! Our smallest Chihuahua, Midge, is a lightweight at 2.3kg and she’s quite agile. But when she walks quickly across our vinyl floor it sounds exactly like the facehuggers that get let loose in the med bay in Aliens!
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Thanks John. That story about Midge the Chihuahua …isn’t creepy at all. Nope, not one bit. 😶
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Beautiful work as always mate, those computer terminals looked wonderfully outdated these days, but who know in the future retro might be the fashion 😉 I always did love the sentry guns and was so disappointed when the took them out of the original cinema release, having already read the novelization I was stocked to see them….then didn’t.
Cheers Roger.
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Haha thanks Roger. I reckon a modern beige gaming rig build would look pretty cool actually. But not a square tower like we used to have – a moden open-sides RGB gaming rig but in beige instead of black or white – just for the full visual whiplash!
And yeah, the Director’s Cut adds so much more to that film. I’ll have to add it to my list of things to (re)watch once I finish the little Star Wars run I’m on.
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Aliens was one of my Fav films for years. I had a load of figures and scenery made up for an RPG/wargame from converted Imperial Guard figures and some alien types from a manufacturer I can’t recall.
These look so much better.
I love the terminals, remind me of the Commodore pets we used in computer science classes at school in the mid 80’s.
Brilliant!!
Cheers,
Frank
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Thanks Frank. I remember Vor had one of the many not-Aliens-themed lines of minis within it.
Gotta love those beige computers of the past! I was there also back in the day. 😮
Painting a good chunk more of the Aliens stuff needs to jump ahead of the Star Wars stuff shortly, I think. Perhaps I can have an Aliens-painting theme over the coming Easter break…
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Nice – you can fry a whole city with those puppies!
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😅💀
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Great! Thank you so much for taking part in the assembly challenge. Your crates. computers, Great Old One-looking aliens, and guns all look snazzy. :)GF9 apparently makes some nice stuff. I’ll have to give them a look one of these days.
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Cheers Anne! There’s a bunch more I have assembled so I’ll be splitting it between more finished models to be posted here before the 7th, ones I’ll link the photos to and some others that I’ll write up in a cryptic manner so the finished post will still be “new” rather than expected. I stopped doing wip posts years ago since models can and do regularly stall out for literally years on my paint desk pretty frequently… 😶
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Absolutely fantastic stuff. As a victim of the Prodos thing I have to say your stuff looks really good!
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Thanks Suber. Luckily I was low on cash at the time and had just backed away from overdoing kickstarters at the time. Still lost way too much on dodgy and cursed campaigns – and that’s not counting the current CMON stuff outstanding! 😶
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I’m not an Aliens fan and have never watched any of them so I can’t comment on their film accuracy but to me, the sculpts are pretty nice. The sentry gun in particular looks great and is versatile like you said. I like how you painted up everything! The Aliens stuff has the right amount of menace to it 🙂
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Now that’s shocking to me.
Do yourself a favour. Watch the original film by Ridley Scott (Sci-fi “Haunted House” Horror) and then Aliens by James Cameron (Vietnam War in Space).
Everything after that is optional and doesn’t compare, though a lot of them have bits that are ok. Even I haven’t seen any of the recent Alien-related stuff (on the list, but not high enough priority).
But yeah, the first two films are essential viewing on the same level as Terminator/Terminator 2.
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You’re not the first person who has been surprised by this and encouraged me to watch the first two movies. I haven’t found the time to do so yet but who knows what the future holds!
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