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No miniatures hobbyist ever has enough display space. Guest columnist Hyun demonstrates a quick, easy, and cheap way to build cool-looking display cases from common CD-ROM spindles you probably already have lying around.
They’re cute, they’re Japanese, and they have katanas and AK47s! We review the first pack of Left Hand Miniatures’ customizable schoolgirl minis.
Want some? Come get some! Masked luchador El Diablo leaps into The Screaming Alpha ring direct from Reaper’s eclectic Chronoscope line. Is he a world champ in the making or just another jabroni? Read the review and find out.
It’s great fun to be able to play with immense hordes of zombies, but the cost of metal zeds can add up quickly. Wargames Factory now offers a solution with this set of two dozen multipart plastic zeds for a mere $18. Can minis this cheap be any good? Yes indeed…
Most painters have a pile of paint pots cluttering up their workspace and sometimes spend nearly as much time hunting a particular color as they do painting. The Paintier promises to cut through the clutter and bring order out of chaos. Does it deliver? Read the review and find out.
Guest columnist Hyun shows off a clever method of creating dirt-cheap stands of miniature trees using leftover Christmas decorations.
You can tell some minis are going to be trouble just by looking at them, and this pumpkin-headed psychopath is emphatically one of them.
Bikers can be heroes or villains or anything in between, which makes them great to have in one’s collection. We take a look at a group of biker minis from em4 sculpted by the great Mark Copplestone.
Moving big units of Warhammer troops can be tiresome and difficult. Guest columnist Hyun shows a simple DIY way to magnetize your army’s bases and movement trays, making movement a snap.
The Alpha scores an interview with the man behind brilliant UK zombie maker Studio Miniatures, Mr. John Hamilton.
Sometimes the simplest problems can be the toughest ones to solve. I hope the tale of my epic struggles to resolve a thorny photographic issue can help others from making the same stupid mistakes.
A quartet of zombified doctors and nurses have shambled their way onto the Alpha’s workbench from new MZD addition Recreational Conflict. Read the review to see how they stack up.
At long last we unleash our super-sized review of Lady Justice and her Death Marshals for Wyrd Miniatures hot new Malifaux game. You gonna click that mouse or just stand there whistlin’ Dixie?
There were supposed to be a lot more pictures in The Screaming Alpha’s coverage of Gen Con, but the photographer who agreed to shoot them didn’t quite live up to expectations…
Pick a card, any card! We review Pinnacle’s excellent Adventure Deck for Savage Worlds. Read the review to see how it stacks up.
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