{"id":4441,"date":"2021-08-13T07:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T11:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2021-08-13T07:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T11:20:55","slug":"game-over-man-game-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=4441","title":{"rendered":"“Game over, man! Game over!!”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For the past few months, this has been my main project: Painting Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps<\/em>, by Gale Force Nine. It’s done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First: the Xenomorphs. These guys were super-easy to paint. All 16 took me about 2 hours and I think they look great, especially for table play. I used The Esoteric Order of Gamers<\/a> method, which couldn’t be simpler; but I decided against using any gloss finish. YMMV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, the Alien Queen doesn’t come with the core set; she’s only available in the “Get Away From Her, You Bitch!” expansion. I bought that too (see below), so here she is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On to the Colonial Marines. The core set includes (L-R) Vasquez, Frost, Ripley, Hudson, Newt, Gorman and Hicks. Fun fact: not only do I hate painting camouflage, I really hate Colonial Marine camo. It’s fucking weird; and no two people paint it the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of close-ups of Frost and Vasquez, then one showing Hicks, Hudson (Game over, man!<\/em>) and Newt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Closeups of Ripley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the “Ultimate Badasses” expansion. (L-R) Drake, Wierbowski, Burke, Crowe, Apone, and Dietrich. Spoiler Alert! With the exception of Burke, all these marines were dead by the first 30 minutes of the movie, so calling them “ultimate badasses” is a bit of a stretch…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Closeups of Carter Burke, Weyland-Yutani douchebag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, Bishop, “Gooey” Bishop, Enraged Ripley and Ripley in the Power Loader. Gale Force Nine sells these miniatures (and all the others, too) in a separate sets containing only the miniatures. This one was called “Sulaco Survivors”. I bought it thinking I got a great deal before I realized it’s ONLY the miniatures and you don’t get the stuff you need for the actual game. For that, you need to buy the “Get Away From Her, You Bitch!” expansion, which also includes these miniatures (and the Queen). Confusing and annoying, since now I have two sets of these (one of which is still on the sprue). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I really like the Bishop models. The Ripley sculpt is pretty iconic, but I’m pretty “meh” about it. Do I really need three versions of Ripley?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, Ripley in the power loader. This one wasn’t fun, either. I hate painting yellow, and this miniature wasn’t easy to paint. Although I was wise enough not to fully assemble it before painting, I should have assembled it even less. It was tough to get the brush everywhere it needed to go. Compounding that with the color yellow (which is a notorious asshole) meant I needed to do a lot of repainting of the same areas to cover accidents. Still, it does look pretty cool…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, I’m ready to play! Just in time for another (likely) lockdown! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can play this one solo, at least…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past few months, this has been my main project: Painting Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps, by Gale Force Nine. It’s done. First: the Xenomorphs. These guys were super-easy to paint. All 16 took me about 2 hours and I think they look great, especially for table play. I used The Esoteric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,15,3,11],"tags":[89,114],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-horror","category-miniatures","category-sci-fi","tag-aliens","tag-gale-force-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4888,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}