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Dude you got me mixed up with someone else! There's no way I'm near your stuff. My shasvastii have been coming out great I think mainly because of the bases and the color choices. My Yu JIng look like crap right now.

What was the problem with white primer?

I saw a great video on youtube about priming. A couple of things he did I thought were excellent. 1 was he put the can in hot water for about 10 min. Just ran hot water until it was hot to touch. Not boiling or anything like that. He first primed the figure black and then used white but only from the top.

Edit: Found it!



I've been doing something similar. I prime white and then do black ink wash. The black gets into all those little crevices that I used to hate because I could see the white. Now no problems.

That guy with the spitfire looks really cool. You're getting me inspired to paint the stuff I have still in blister packs..

I love the Asawira model. Such a bad-ass-looking guy! I'd forgotten you could field then in the Bahram list. I'll need to get one, obviously...

R.

I officially have a Spitfire fetish or something. If a model has a Spitfire, Chem is gonna own it.

Save for CA models it seems. I'm not there yet.

I got some more work done on the Asawira, and I ended up making him a little brighter than the others, which came out well in my opinion. I'll get the pics up tonight when I get off from work.

I also assembled the Uberfallkommandos. They were a mess and I did not enjoy it. So many finnicky little bits. The Chimera was awful and I totally botched the model... so we'll see how that ends up.

I said I was going to prime them white! So I'm going to have to pick up some white spray in a bit, since I don't own any.

So these are from the weekend, but I only just got around to uploading them from my phone since I was doing a favor for CDK. What's a few clicks between friends right?

So I'm almost but not quite done on the Asawira. I still have some work to do on the Spitfire, and I'm going to need to touch up some things here and there. The blues are almost done but not quite, and I twitched when working on the eyes and now I gotta figure out what to do about that spot.

Damn you hands!

Anyway...








He has a lot more edges than my other Haqqislam troops. I guess you could say he's... edgier?

That was awful.

I went with trying to make him a little brighter than the others. He doesn't care that people can see him, he wants them to bring the noise. Also! I'm conflicted as to what to paint the chest bubble and the two side bubbles. I was originally going to go orange, but the more I look at them, the more I want to paint them blue and keep the Orange to a minimum on this guy.

Thoughts?

Also, proof I have Nomads.



Chimera intentionally blurred because I broooooke it.

What a nightmare model.

Next up... white primer, likely followed by me throwing a ragefest. I blame this on you guys if it doesn't work!

So I haven't been totally dead. I've just had a lot of real life going on. Such is the holiday season. Thats not to say I haven't been working on things! Here. Walk with me and I shall show you.

During Thanksgiving I took the time to snow the rest of my bases. Check it!




I've also been working on the Asawira, which is finally done but I don't have snaps yet. I finally broke down and sculpted a hand onto my SpecOps. Corvis Belli dropped the all in having a model with lost of options... that you have to sculpt on yourself. I'm a gakky sculptor, so this bothers me. But the Haqqislam model was too cool to pass up.




I also got the Najjarun Engineer. I... do not like this sculpt. At all. He has a huge head and is way too skinny. I tried to cover is retardo face but I feel I ultimately failed. I'm only painting him up for torunament use, as I almost always use Engineers on my lists.



And then theres that... other thing that came in the mail. More on this later.

That should be interesting! Going PanO now or just like the model?

Sorry i haven't checked in for a while, boss! Nice updates. Get that Chimera painted! Then I can steal your ideas when I have to paint mine...

Well then!

After a way too long hiatus caused by lack of funds and lack of life, I've been able to get back on the ole' painting horse, and saddled up to... I don't know where that was going. Long story short, Dakka is no longer blocked on the computers at work, so my posting is high and my productivity is directly proportionate to what they pay me.

Moving along! I've been helping a pair of my friends with their painting and modeling, and of course working on my own stuff at the time. We cleared off their kitchen table, bought some tiles and a couple lights, and they proceeded to second guess and doubt every shred of painting advice I gave them.

Savages.

They're comin' along though. Slowly. If they let me take pictures, I shall add them to the Blog so ya'll can judge them as well.

But the question you ask, “CC! But what are YOU working on!?”

...actually the question is more likely, “CC where the **** have you been for a year?!”

I was... umm... dead.

I got better.

Moving along! What HAVE I been working on! Sadly, it is not the Pupniks. They sit, unprimed, sad, in the bottom of my project box. Because my fear of White Primer continues to this day. And I haven't picked up any white. So yeah... they're gonna be waiting a while.

So if not Nomads, surely I must be working on my every increasing Haqqislam!

No? ...how about those Indigo PanO guys?

...seriously? Just say it man!

I am, in fact, slowly putting together the newest faction, Yu Jing! Which I constantly irritate everyone else with by saying it jew-ching. Cause apparently that is how it is pronounced all proper-like. I'm not doing anything overly fancy with them, but I assure you that they will not be 'painted like the box'. Nopenopenope.

I'm thinking Jade.

I actually have a handful of them complete, a couple Celestial Guard, a Daofei, and a Gulang that had been the second model I ever bought before I even realized Infinity was a legit game. So he was happy to get some paint goin'.

I have Play by Plays of the Daofei and one of the CG. And I shall post them all... Tonight! As soon as I get home. They're on my phone, and I was just dog tired when I got in from painting last night.

Bear with me, I shall deliver! And certainly continue my painting shenanigans once again.

High five

So! CC must deliver on earlier promises. Here is my play by play of the other night, complete with enough pictures to make any mobile users scream bloody murder. I apologize for your dataplans ahead of time.




To start of course, a clean slate. We swung by Home Depot and snagged some nice big ole' tiles for 99 cents and got prepared.





Ah... now that's more like it. Workplace engage.









So just some group shots of what I'm working on in full right now. There's a couple of Bao hiding in there. A Crane Rank Imperial Agent. The two Celestial Guard. A Daofei. And a Guilang. (Not a Gui Feng... sorry about that. I don't really speak Mandarin).

Most at least have some sort of basecoat on em'. Except the Crane, but he makes me nervous so he's just going to sit there for a while. The Guilang is done, and I didn't do any fancy shots of him, I will later. Also the Celestial Guard with Spitfire is done, he was my test model for the paint scheme so I knew I wasn't going to mess everything up. Here he is...







Looks alright. The pictures unfuzz if you zoom a hair, and you can see me starting to work on the creams for the Snipergal. I shortened the barrel on her rifle to use it as a combi rifle if I want to, since I don't really use snipers in my list. Here is some more...











So yeah, there is the cream layers going down. I was using Zandri Dust (I think?) for the basecoat... and man I need a gallon of water to thin that stuff out. It goes one thicker than a slab of butter. I thought I pretty much ruined her facemask, even after taking a ton of time to water down the paint. But... after the next layer it seemed alright.

I had done the harder highlights on her armor too, which were starting to show up well. I was bouncing between her and... this guy... some of these are a bit fuzzy, but I was on my *cough* cider and he's a camo model so he's hard to get into focus.



















Whew. Yeah, thats a big one.

I was having some issues on what to do white on him, but decided to do him primarily in the jade, even if it is a bit boring, I like the uniform look and how he is supposed to be a sneaky bastard... a sneaky bastard in heavy armor.

So after a bit of working, we got to the stage where they were both prettymuchdone. Sooooo here we go.

















Yes, I am guilty of painting the exposed midriff. Because it wouldn't be Corvis Belli without just a biiiiit of cheesecake. And I was rather happy with the way the spine popped on the power armor.

I didn't do anything over the top or crazy. But I did do my best to try and get back up somewhere near my old standards. I gotta get back in the swing of things, and the Bao troopers I paint next aren't going to pull any punches when I work on them... so I'm both dreading and looking forward to that equally. They are damn cool models.

I'm not 100% on his sword, I might change the color later, (and I forgot to paint the handle damnit), and might switch either the gold of the hilt or the yellow of the blade. Time will tell.

For now, mission accomplished, they shall be snowed! And I shall slip off to bed in a little bit. I hope ya'll enjoy, and I'm glad to be back in business.

The SAS guy who doesn’t take any crap, and some Yu-Jing model that just looked too cool to pass up. Truth be told I bought them for a cyberpunk game I was running to use as player models…
great idea!

Welcome back Chem!

Welcome back from your hiatus. Sorry to hear you died. I know how that goes though, always good to have a friend who studies necromancy.

Seriously though, great plog. I'm a noob to Infinity and seeing all these painted minis gets me all inspired and stuff. Great work on your Yu-Jing

@Von Skyfury – *highfive*

@nadinee – Thanks! And yeah, the first three models I ever bought were the Hassassin, that SAS chap, and the very first was the Guilang. But he was a paaaain to put together and never got painted. I finally took the steps and got him up to snuff. I'll snap some shots of him later.

Also, welcome to Dakka! I noticed that is your first post, so welcome to the crew, enjoy your stay, watch out for the crazies, don't feed the trolls. The usual thing.

@San – Heya chief! Good to be back.

@ Xysis – Thanks you! I'm trying to be around more to answer queries, be helpful, and accidentally spread misinformation with good intentions but ultimate self destruction. Got a Faction in mind yet?

And lo, the painting continues!

With the Celestial Guard out of the way, I figured I'd tackle the Bao and get them squared away. I wasn't super-sure what I was going to do with the, but with my intent to keep the force simple and green I just dove back in. I was doing pretty good about the step by step, up until the end where I ended up too focused and just ran with it. But hey, I tried.

Also, some snaps of my Guilang who was done but I never shot any good photos of. I still didn't, but they are at least bigger photos. So here he is.









I like how he turned out, even if it is a little simple. I'm not doing any layering or anything on these guys, just hard highlights and some washes and the like.

I also took some snaps of my friend's PanO forces he's working on. They're still very WIP, but I think they're going well. He tends to get rather impatient, and absolutely hates using washes, so we butt heads a lot. But I know he has the talent to do this well, so he's just making up excuses. Here's what he has so far. Spoiler, one of them I'm working on, can you spot it?















I like the color scheme. And we managed to get it more blue than my green. He's trying to model them after the color of the French tanks in World of Tanks, and I think he's hitting it rather well so far.

Anyway, on to the Bao.



















Sorry about the creeping finger, it just wants some attention. It irritates me that the lens is set so close to the top of the phone, but not much I can do about it. Also this newer phone doesn't let me put it into Macro mode for up close shots, but it does a pretty good job auto-adjusting. A lot of the photos look fuzzy, but if you zoom in on them they sharpen up really well. So I dunno what that is about.

That's about where my step by step stopped and I attacked the models with vigor. So the next shots are them magically done, like when a TV Chef put a cake in the over and then pulls out the completed version from the oven next to him.











So yeah, they're done and I'm happy with 'em. I was originally going to put some sort of Chinese character somewhere on them, but then I remembered I'm terrible at that and squiggled some stuff and called it a day. I was feeling uninspired.

On a side note, I picked up my Husam and got him finished. No real WIPs for him, I just sat down and started painting where I left off. So here is the result.








...goddamnit finger.

Enjoy guys, and lemme know what you think. More on the way!

Just crop your finger from the photo. Simples

I see you gave your husam the spitfire. Good call. And I like the color. nice work. Perhaps add a 'warm' accent color to the comlog lens and the other 'lit' areas of the husam?

Yeah, that conversion was a pain, simply because they give you the extra guns but then you have to cut them down. His hand was on the original rifle stuff I cut off, so I had to halfassedly sculpt a hand onto the spitfire. I'm rubbish at greenstuff.

I might go ahead with that and add my orange to him like I did on the other models. Maybe on his back 'stacks' and his wrist thingy. The spots are so tiny I can't really do much with them color-wise, other than dot em' and call it a day.

Your YuJing seem to have such an easy but effective colour scheme :p A bit much black for my taste, but wel yeah :p
And I dig the camo you did on the guilang, it's the same pattern as your maghariba guard isn't it? :p

I'm guessing you did the female fusilier, it's that or my second guess would be the first pic of the male fusilier?

Your husam is great! Again, that colour combo is soo good ;p and I like how you didn't paint your spitfire black, are you only painting your YuJing's weapons black?

Yeah, I have some issue with picking colors for the Yu Jing's other stuff. If I did them in browns or something it would add some contrast which would break up all the black... but its always that frustrating balance between 'tactical' and 'looks cool on table'.

Most tactical gear on military troops is colored towards their equipment. If they're wearing black, expect lots of black nylon webbing, cause it makes sense.

I tend to paint guns different colors depending on the faction. The Ariadna I've been doing is grey with wooden grips. The Yu Jing is black. PanO is a purpleish grey. And my Haqq I match it to their armor.

Well I got my uplink working again! So that means more stuff I've been working on.

I'll start with what my friend has been working on. I think they're coming along nicely, though we both agree that the faces need some working on. So without further ranting on my part, have a whole mess of Fusiliers.



















So yeah, there's that. I like em', and I like the dark red for the guns and the hats. I think they could use a little bit more to make them pop, but we'll see what ya'll think. One of those is still the one I'm working on, so I'll let everyone puzzle that one out.

But hey, what is really cool is what he was working on last time we were painting. He went from zero to painted in one sitting, and I think he did a damn good job. So without further ado, his Equestrian Knight of the Holyshithehasaspitfire!









I think he looks pretty sharp. Can't wait to see him on the table.

As for what I've been working on, it isn't super exciting. I've had a bunch of Ghulam sitting around in paint-limbo... half complete and sad. To make matters worse, I used them in almost every game I played. They truly deserved better, and so, I decided to get to work on making them fit in! Whereas I was a little rushed on the Yu Jing, I'm trying to take my time on these guys, and I think it showed a little.

Yes, some of them are labeled wrong, I was copy-pasting the word Ghulam a lot, and two of them are Halqa. I run them as Ghulam anyway, since the only difference seems to be helmets and kneepads. But I love all the models, so whatever.

I'd like to hear what ya'll think about the lips on the ladies. It was a last minute adjustment after a few beers, and though it tarts up the cheesecake a little, I think it looks good on the tabletop. Up close they look like hookers.

Damn you zoom and your betrayal!

So! Here they are... Oh! And a bonus WIP Lasiq as well.































And, the Lasiq.







And so in closing for tonight... Pose Like a Team, Becase **** just got Real.



'Night ya'll.

Yes! Your last group shot shows your minis are really tied together :p Both by colours but it's a great group pose too I think :p
And I really like the helmet on your halqa, which seems a lot more realistic than my painted sculpt ^^
I do have to say is that I prefered your lasiq sniper model, did you use the same blue and is the difference due to another camera you used? Or did you really use another blue?
And which fusilier have you done?

I shall not reveal which Fusilier is correct until they're complete! So we'll have to wait on that.

It is in fact the exact same blue across all the models. The Lasiq's blue comes out much richer I think because I allow more dark to stay. There is much more blue on him, and the others merely have the blue as an accent.

As for comparing him to the sniper... I'm going to get him all done, and then take a comparison photo of the two next to each other in the same lighting and see if there is much difference, or if it is just because of the location.

If you're familiar with Games Workshop paints, the stages for my blue are...

Mordian Blue
Enchanted Blue layer
Asurmen Blue Wash
Enchanted Blue Highlight
50/50 Mix of Enchanted Blue and Ice Blue for the final Highlight.

I find it looks rich and really pops... and it looks as good in person as it does in the pictures, which really makes me happy.

And your helmet looks awesome! I wish I could sculpt like that. I just think it would look better blue instead of "Aim Here" Red.

Chem, I've been meaning to post in here. Your Haqqislam guys are gorgeous. I don't think I've seen anyone else use blue as an accent color on them before and I have to say, it looks great. I'm also impressed by the degree of uniformity your army has. Mine end up looking all over the place in terms of color aside from them all having tan and green somewhere on them.

I think you've also convinced me that I should buy a Husam and an Asawira.

Nice work CC. Now I need to get to painting my Ghulam too. Or at least finish them :( Interestingly enough, I used a turquoise as an accent on them, similar to what you have done.

Barzam, yes, get an Asawira. Get the Spitfire Asawira. A great mini, and a truly nasty in game unit.

@Barzam – Thanks mate, I've actually been stalking your plog a little, as I am a huge Gundam fan and I like seeing all the cool mecha you score. And your painting skills are damn sharp, I'd love to see what you do with an Asawira! Get one! Mine is actually complete now, I'll have to get pictures up, I just realized I never followed through and posted that.

As for them being all over the place in uniformity, its funny because one of my original draw to Infinity was that I could have a force and have a complete lack of uniformity, and it would still fit. But sure enough I was sucked into the draw of 'sameness' and I'm rather glad I was.

And yeah, the Husam is a baller, I love the model, even if I had to hack him up to get the spitfire on there. (I have an unhealthy obsession with Spitfires).

Oh! And if you want to see even more blue, check out soulcow's plog. He is doin' kind of the same thing, but has it a more PanO sort of blue, with a bit of red goin' on. I think they look pretty good.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/553416.page#6068833

@Red – Don't neglect the little guys! I'd love to see what you got goin' for your Haqq. And thanks for the kind words. I really can't get enough of Infinity's stuff. And now after seeing the NEW Kum Bikers? You can damn well bet I'm going to have those when they release. Can't wait to get them painted up... gonna have to work on my freehand. (I need to find a freehand first).

Thanks for the praise. Personally, I think your stuff looks way better and cleaner than mine does. Mach's too, for that matter. I guess I'll have to post some more mecha in my plog. I do have that Vatshu kit I"m working on with me....

Also, how is it that you don't have the Kaplan Spitfire yet? I wholly expect you to buy the upcoming Druze one as well.

Money mainly. I plan on getting the Kaplans and the Druze, because they're awesome and will fit into my Rogue Silk Trader theme for my stuff once I get them done. Believe me, they'll be in the works.

You've got some really nice minis!

Thanks chief!

I have a whole mess of pictures I need to upload. I just haven't been near my computer to do so since I spent the past few days flying into Nashville and then driving back to Baltimore. So I'm a little beat.

But I'll try and get stuff uploaded in the next day or so!