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.