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Heya Fellas great to hear from both of you! its beena minute i know..

@Zambro ill not try not to leave for too long again maybe if im not so obsessed about painting i can stretch my projects out
@nerdie thanks man, dont be bummed! youre a master, i love checking out your plog man, its what reminds me to pick up the brushes again afterall!!

so heres some updated pics...moving on to the chest areas, and more of the cloak...the mushy secxtion of beige by his bicep is a flap from the jacket that hasyt been painted yet, just a splash coat to mark it...areas need clean up as well and i have yet to get to his left side but im closing in. Also the straps of his backpack are as yet unpainted but will end up a dark leather, in the spectrum of the leather duster. added some green glazes to the duster as well to make it more weather worn. Also i need to go buy a real black so i can solidify some blacklining....ive literally been using a black wash as my only black at all...lame...anyways, i like this guy, challenging buy super fun ahh to be painting again. heres some progress from cheap i phone camera..





some more progress pic as of late afternoon: began work on left leg and leather straps...on backpck as well





progress! thoughts advice ideas questions...lemme know cheers!

BB

Damn, you really bring a whole new level of greatness to the Infinity figures. I've struggled to get into Infinity, but your style is what wins me over... Now where did I put my Operation Icestorm set?

Oh and welcome back... been too long since we saw you...

@ Ruglud: Hey man thanks so much Good to be back no doubt! Im glad you think my style works here because i sure feel like its a serious pain in my neck. I have the urge to paint every line and detail and man, it makes me wanna buy an airbrush!! especially to do the nmm faster.. But they are super fun to paint, but tiny tiny tiny details! yikes...

Ive purchased a black!! abaddon black, or as i call it a bad black. its not a good paint, the pigments dont hold when it gets watery so black lining its a bit clumsy...i think i might switch companies in regards to black. But it has served its purpose and is helping me make sense of the chaos and the clutter and things are really starting to look like a miniature! I still have yet to solidify the leather duster that is poking out through the sides of his torso, will get to that soon. This model is kicking my a$$ in every way, my neck is killing me from the strain of such tiny and constant corrections. Some corrections and clean up are just so small that i end up making a bigger istake here trying to fix a smaller mistake over there...anywho...there IS progress!! what say yall??





andddddd....i realize im not showing parts that arent really finished....heres a shot of the hugely unfflattering and unfinished back left side and arm....the areas with almost no work done...






cheers guys thanks for looking

BB

Welcome back and stellar work! Definitely inspires me to get painting me Infinity again as well.

bebop!....im sorry its taken me so long to see the updates - i swear i no longer subbed notices. no idea why.

but what a treat! your infinity models are amazing. so bright and colourful! loving the NMM approach, something ive always wanted to try but never had the guts. and you are smashing it.

the sniper looks fantastic. black armour is so hard to do well i think. and the tones on that duster are fantastic.

ckig and san thank you very much guys!

San, when you are refering to black armor do you mean the snper im working on now? Its suppossed to be gun metal nmm...uh oh i might have to go back to the dtrawing board big time if it doesnt come across that strong:/

i will admit, im having trouble with this dude. certain things are niggling at me, but mostly they are when viewing the model extremely up close. also his other arm is not making much progress...its a trickier position to me and im starting to feel like im shooting in the dark, so ive made very little progress on that other arm......i have made small but i think noticeable changes and picked out more details...i kicked up the glow a little bit from the lights, i still have touch ups every where, notably on feet, but shadows are getting stronger, and ive made more progress on the duster...begun glazing the armor with a blue green glaze, purple nearest the purple pants....all in all im still happy despite the minor niggles. Frankly, the approach im using to paint this guy is unrealistic. I need to find a more straight forward and clean approach. Heres some pics...thanks for browsing!






cheers...

Well that's looking amazing, don't think you have lost much if any of your skill bud. Beautiful work. That pink glow is sublime.

That looks Gunmetal nmm to me!

love the glow effects....why they´re on a sniper is beyond me but they look marvellous...and as i just said on red´s thread... seeing you paint the way smaller infinity minis that good is quite a bummer when i try to slap paint on the bulky GW plastics....

and welcome back... your kroot have been a big source of inspiration for my current works! just saying^^

Good to see you back Bebops !

Bebop is back !
Yeah !

Takes a seat.
Grabs cookies.
Enjoys.

Mate, now I look closer it totally is nmm grey. Dunno what I was thinking!

I think he's looking really good. Love the glow (got to learn how to do that) and the purple lining to the clothes. Have heart man...I think it looks better than you think!

@Cam: Thanks man! Appreciate the vote of confidence. Still feelin the shakes haha
@Nerd: Phew. Still gonna try an airbrush with this tactic. This is just too much work on such a tiny dude to do it this way >_<
@Big H: Thanks man good to be back brush in hand
@Minus: Gimmie a cookie
@San: No worries! Thanks! The glow effect is easy when it's limited to small things like lights...It's outta my league when we are talking really big glow effects...scary stuff to me!

Here's the finished model. I'm mostly pleased and severely annoyed at the same time. Some things I wanna do are just unrealistic at this scale and I need to rethink how I'm going about this. On a gw its different, but these infinity guys are just significantly smaller where it counts. Despite this...I love the mini in person, hate it under the camera. Not much I can do about it. Here's the finished pic. Have a click and you'll see the proper resolution image. It's big so looks blurry here. Thanks guys, please let me know what you think!

Bebop

Looks like a hell of a solid return. Any ideas on what's to come?

You smashed it, BB! The nmm is enviable, the glows are subtle and the jacket is awesome. It's good to have you back!

in the bottom left picture, at the right knee where there is purple cloth showing through the armour joins, the highlight doesn't look quite as smooth as the rest of the model.

Very cool. A much darker take on the Nisses. AM I seeing an OSL effect on the base from the 'tactical rock'? Nice touch

he looks awesome bebop. The NMM is great, the duster is perfect and the OSL so effective.

I really love it in the green glow from the thing he's standing on.

top work! votes cast

@ Whale Thanks man! Yea, it's nice to know the chops aren't too far away. Also as for what's next...As per below,...Mantis Warrior
@Zambro Thanks Dude! Yes good eye thanks for pointing it out! I missed it because I painted it primarily from 2 specific angles. Fixing it!
@ Red Thanks Yea, I figured it needed to be some kind of power cell or something like that. It was sorta tricky getting it to do that and I'm not even super sold on it....Ah well....
@ San...thanks mate! Glad you approve of the endeavor!

Wellllllll.....so I guess I wanted to enter Gits' Mantis Warrior comp. Basically, I just was over come with the urge to pant a single solitary space marine. Using what I learned painting infinity figures, could I apply the same techniques to the space marine. I don't know if this even counts and I think I might not be able to enter since I started painting right way. Gits if you see this, let me know I gonna brush up on the rule set anyways and give it a try. Also, I don't know much of the fluff or mantis warriors and rule set so if there's something insanely wrong with my recreation...just ignore it lol

Only the front is some what done...the right lig is essentially finished save some edge highlights here and there...ill post a pic of the back as soon as I finish a couple key spots....face needs layers and cleanup...it's getting there here's a nod to ckig too for showing how he gets that green...I've used a similar method here...



Thoughts guys??

It's as if you're hosting a course for how to feel really envious...

That green is amazing and the power fist while still a bit rough looks beautiful nmm already too...

Superb work there mate! Love that green! and thanks for the mention ^^

The Nisse looks fantastic too! Top notch work. Really like the coat.

@Vik Thanks man! And that is certainly not my intention! I guess when i get into a project i just obsess!!
@Ckig Thank you very much And of course, your infinity must have planted a seed!

Ive made more prgress today. finished mostly the main visible parts of the armor. The lower half of the backpack still needs to be done. The freehand chapter symbol i might touch up just a tiny bit more but too much fiddling could cause some problems with such a fragle yellow background. Besides i like it how it is though not sure to weather it or not...i could chip the paint of it or leave. The way it is is kinda early 90's to me and i love that...moving on...the metals on his back are untouched as is the lower half of the backpack. the top will continue to get some attentiom as well. also the fiddly bit around his head and of course his face itself require quite a bit of attention. Im saving the head for the end because right now, i could make it worse. doing nothing is better than the alternative. ill get to it. Im aware of the blackline issue on the shoulder pad tha tis yellow, the backside of it, ill have to fix it but it will be time consuming....Also ive added a number of brown glazez to shadows, some red glazes here and there, and more yellow glaze. heres a slew of wip pics. Hes really fun to paint. What do you guys think? ((the pics are large clicking will give better resolution than embed))

Nice stuff, lots of detail. Very pretty!

Damn bebop .... He looks awesome! I love the green, great tone and it matches with the yellow so well.

O.K you can go away again now Bebop :-) just too good man, too good!

@ zfreie: Thanks man! Really glad you dig him
@San:: Thanks man! I took a chance putting two yellow against each oter, the pad and the chapter sigil...and i think it worked out. Im keeping a wide palette between yellow and green on this mini.
@ Damo: Cmon man, i just got here! lol. Thank you though bro appreciate it! Just trying out new stuff all the time

Heres more update. In retrospect, i should have painted the entire back pack like the rest of the armor. I still have to balance out the highlights there is too much white on the lower half. Im not sold on them in juxtaposition, the backpack and the body. Also, i need to stop adding battle damage, im on the verge of too much and already it has affected some areas id have prefered to keep clean. I can fix it. There are several small spots that need doing but im losing in on an ending. The face got work, though still needs more, but is cleaning up..the backpack and back in general recieved alot of attention today, some final balancing and touchups will be applied...the main part left to do is the flat part of the power fist. With the details. Looking forward to this. it will be a challenge. Also, i have no idea what the heck to do with the base so im open to ideas though definitely thinking jungle here....Any thoughts on that? Here are a bunch of WiP pics including a very close up pic of the back. its hard to tell but the model is actually leaning forward dramatically, as if facing a on coming challenge, so its tricky photoing him correct...








Cheers guys!!
BB

Beautiful! and the good thing is seeing such great work makes me want to actually spend time on a model to see what I'm capable of! your progression is meteoric and always a pleasure to see!

Damn bebop....making my marines look decidedly pedestrian! The high gloss effect on top of backpack is really well done.

Wow. That Mantis Warrior looks great.

EDC

Wow, that marine looks incredible! The face is stunning!

@ Damo: You're a totally prolific painter man, I could not paint the amount at the high level that you do it! I spend hours and hours on one model. This guy has probably taken about 16 hours of painting. Maybe more?? Anyways, I really do appreciate such kind support! I'm just as enthralled with your work! As for getting better, I always go for what I don't think I can pull off! It's a failure sometimes but I always learn something!

@San:Thanks man!!I definitely do intend to make your marines feel inadequate. You're a brilliant painter with a fantastic vision!

@EDC: Thanks very much and welcome

@Zambro: Thanks dude! You're a marine guy so I'm glad you like him!!

Cheers all...I have finished the first part of entry into Gits' competition. Now that it's been ok'd, It's time to think about a larger scope than just the mini. The Pose was made to say, "Bring it on!!" As if he's locked eyes on his challenger from across the way. He's hunched over and sort of grounding in. With that said, clearly this fellow needs a challenger! I have the perfect mini for it, but I can't use him because I built him last year, so I need to come up with a worthy challenger in a pose that screams "IM COMING FOR YOU!!!" The setting will be jungle and as I get to that portion I'll elaborate more on my ideas. I'm going to break this project down into 4 parts. Part 1, which is done, is to paint the Mantis Warrior, Part two will be build and paint his challenger, part 3 will be to build the diorama base, part4 will be to paint it. So, part 1....

Is done. I liked mostly everything, the power first from one angle I love but other less so, but I've learned why it was challenging and can make progress next Time. His face is not my favorite either, (I've painted better I think) as I was a victim of moving too fast and not realizing certain details were sculpted in, Rookie mistake...but I think I masked it fine. I'm tempted to rip the head off and do another....id love feedback on that move before I do it. Also the base is placeholder until I settle on what he'll actually be standing on. Solid black for now just to photo....Anyways enough blibber blabber....here's my mantis warrior... have a click to view proper resolution



Would love your feedback. Cheers friends, looking forward to the competition!

BB