{"id":3736,"date":"2025-10-01T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:58:30","slug":"colony-87-attack-of-the-amphirans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2025\/10\/colony-87-attack-of-the-amphirans\/","title":{"rendered":"Colony 87 – Attack of the Amphirans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Crooked Dice Games have released a couple of images with miniatures based on my concepts, sculpted by the talented Ari Neilsson. They are a selection of Amphirans (a race of frog-like amphibious aliens) that you might encounter exploring Colony 87.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here’s an amphiran water trader. He’s chewing some leaves whilst he travels the wastelands. Apparently frogs don’t get their water from drinking (they absorb water through their skin (osmosis)) but Amphirans obviously do. He has a moisture suit to keep his skin damp and lots of gear for repairs. I’ve also designed some water trading company logos too.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is a Colony 87 medic team; three paramedics, one who is a bodyguard and ambunaut (flying ambulance) pilot too and one who is an Amphiran. Certain frogs have anti-bacterial substances on their skin which I thought would be very useful for an Amphiran. He wears a human hat to feel more like a member of the team.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Who doesn’t need a lovable rogue antiques dealer and his strange expert friend for their tabletop? Here’s my concept drawing of an older Amphiran expert on valuables and artefacts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And finally some more Amphirans, a couple of youths, an Amphiran space suit and a bloated merchant prince. He’s a combination of a couple of fictional Barons, see if you can tell which they are!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of these are available to buy yet.<\/p>\n

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Crooked Dice Games have released a couple of images with miniatures based on my concepts, sculpted by the talented Ari Neilsson. They are a selection of Amphirans (a race of frog-like amphibious aliens) that you might encounter exploring Colony 87. Here’s an amphiran water trader. He’s chewing some leaves whilst he travels the wastelands. Apparently … Continue reading Colony 87 – Attack of the Amphirans<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,12,4],"tags":[366,292,18],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-art","category-science-fiction","category-sketchbook-pages","tag-colony-87","tag-miniatures-concepts","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}