Azazel's Bitz Box.

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.

It’s been quite awhile since I posted any Star Wars stuff here. To rectify that, I painted a little batch of figures from Imperial Assault over January.

First up, we have the rather well known C-3PO as well as the not-so-well-known 0-0-0 aka “Triple Zero” (an ironic name if you’re an Aussie, as you’ll see). I’m not going to explain 3PO, but 0-0-0 is “Evil C-3PO” and is some sort of sadistic torturer droid.

I didn’t have time to paint R2 in January, and the robot figure I alluded to in the Raptor post when I was talking about looking for a missing model is Triple Zero’s partner. Evil R2-D2 or BT-1 “Bee-Tee” (yes, I did have to look these names up) is currently MIA, so …one day.

Now we have the HK droids. If you played the PC RPG Knights of the Old Republic, you may recall the sarcastic assassin Droid known as HK-47 (not to be confused with the Soviet assault rifle). Anyway, like anything in Star Wars that is mildly interesting or gets mildly popular, the army of hacks that put together the majority of the EU over the decades that it was a thing kept returning to this particular well. And so we have a small batch of them for Imperial Assault. As always, IA (or Star Wars Descent) uses red-based models to designate “elites” and so I just paint them differently. These ones didn’t take much imagination to differentiate them.

All six of these count towards both Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26, and also count towards Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge. Well, not assembly in the typical sense, but I did have to clean up the mold lines on all of these models, so annoying prep was certainly part of the process performed in January!

Azazel's Bitz Box.

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

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

Look Sir, Droids! Star Wars Imperial Assault: C-3PO, 0-0-0, HK Assassin Droids.