Last year I started painting miniatures for use in tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons, Starfinder, and so on. I was perusing various miniatures looking for something threatening to toss at my Starfinder players when I spotted the Plague Stage 1A and Plague Abberation miniatures from Mantic. I have Phantasy Star on the brain as I immediately thought Dark Force. So I've started collecting them (usually in Black Friday sales) and painting/converting them to resemble my favorite extra-dimensional splinters of pure hatred. Here's my latest, Dark Falz from the original Phantasy Star.