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Viktor von Domm wrote:stairway looks great... tho a better pic...particularly of the stairs would be nice...

I will get one in a bit - got a cat sitting on me at the moment and they don't like being moved

ruleswise, can these only be taken one flight in whole? they are not wide enough for a model to stand on?

I'm not sure what the Infinity rules are on stairs; as you say they are not wide enough to actually stand a model on and the slope is too steep for one to stay balanced. I'd imagine that they would be treated as normal floor to floor movement for 40K.

how do you intend to paint all this? airbrush or classic brush by hand?...that could take ages... and will you seal the cardboard with something? a coat of PVA?

I was going to go pick up some more spray paint tomorrow which should seal and paint it all in one. Was going to go for either a white or light grey, then weather with oil washes after painting on some details and other weathering.

and why do you use superglue for that kind of material? i know quickness is probably the cause here... but for sturdiness i would recommend PVA...or for that matter something called liquid nail...as this toughens up the structures a treat!...

Because I want to build things quickly

The main joints all get a line of PVA after the superglue has set though.

oh and i saw the debris/sand structures and also the door handle... details make the piece pop as usual^^

I would have to agree I'm planning on adding some more bits and pieces around - was thinking of making some lighting (non functional) but then realised after looking for about 30 minutes that I had thrown out my scrap wires :(

by the way... speaking of handles? what about some stairrails? even broken ones would look cool and give that finished look...even for a ruin...

That was actually going to be my next step

Will need some more superglue before I start that though - matchsticks are an absolute begger to glue.

just some thoughts on the top of my head...

Thanks for your comments


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As requested - additional shots of the stairs:




I see you! (At least, I would if I had a face...)

sweet looking buildings. do you use templates or do you just slab together what you find and hope for the best?

fatty wrote:sweet looking buildings. do you use templates or do you just slab together what you find and hope for the best?

Thank you

I had a vague idea of what I wanted and then just started cutting

Nice job Nate! Are you going to texture them?

Cheers

I saw the price of the textured spray paints and decided against it

I will be adding some weathering powders to add a little bit of grit/soot in places though.


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Ok, so I have sprayed the buildings white, and started painting the interiors. I have done all the internal walls a very pale green and the iron girders a darker green. Going for a kind of institutional look - the kind of horrible cheap paint that you always get in public buildings. Just going out to the shop to get some different colours as I seem to have used most of mine without realising it.

lol...that termy looks like he is doing a jig...lol...

thanks for the extra pics of the stairs...

by chance you should look for those bigger matches you get for fireplaces...extra long and such things...

two days ago i used a thick mix of PVA and sand and water... and this made a perfect mess and mass of some structure that solidifies as hard as rock... with that you can form some pretty nice weathered structures on the walls...but i bet you know that already...

by the way... nathe...that is a cool sounding name... one of my favorites in english... only topped by logan^^ (you probably can guess whre that love for those names comes from...)

He does look like he is dancing doesn't he?

I actually made the railings out of florists wire - you can just see it in the picture above.

I am keeping the buildings reasonably smooth for now, though the paint I am using for the outside has a bit of a texture to it, so it should look OK once I add some whethering to it. Also planning on airbrushing some smoke damage.

I actually made the railings out of florists wire - you can just see it in the picture above

now pointed out i see them too... thin railings in a technological structure actually look very convincing....

the oil wahses sound interesting... have you used them on other projects already?

Viktor von Domm wrote: now pointed out i see them too... thin railings in a technological structure actually look very convincing....

Yeah, I thought since it was a pre-fab type building it would have cheap and easy to make fittings. Plus it took me about a minute to make it, rather than 6 hours of swearing that would have been involved with making it out of matchsticks

the oil wahses sound interesting... have you used them on other projects already?

Not that I have pictures of, but I have used them before.

Check out my painting with oils article (made with the kind contributions of others).

i´ve read that article beforer... didn´t connect it with you back then...but i guess being the quick painter and having to stop all of a sudden due to family issues it is a not-now ^^ for me atm... tho it sounds very good and that you could achieve quite better effects with oilpaints and washes...

and yep... sometimes wire you can´t beat with other materials^^

So, I got a present from Maelstrom Games today, my Infinity force!

Box o' toys:


All my new Infinity models:


Only had a quick look through the plastic blister of each model, but the detail looks pretty damn awesome


Rulebooks of doom!


Infinity; so good even the cat will want to play!


Monkey blesses my latest acquisition with her presence



Really looking forward to painting these guys up. Now, to read the fluff to see what kind of themes would be appropriate

Wow that's an impressive haul of stuff! Pretty much exactly the same models I bought for Nomads in fact (except for monkey face)

What a cute kitty!

She is now sleeping on the Human Sphere book, so I guess she likes that one as well

Boo (the other cat) was sniffing the models as I was unpacking them, but ran away when I tried to get a picture

Of course she does. It's the one with Aleph in it

So, opened and painted up my first Infinity model and I have to say that the amount of detail on there blows GW's efforts out the water.

No pictures as I am considering entering it for the Infinity painting contest - will paint up some more though and add the ones I will not be entering to this thread


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Ok, my first model, a Reverend Custodier! Decided to keep the standard Nomad colours for the most part - just changed the strapping to purple. Oh, and purple shoes as well

Wow, that didn't take you long to start! Did you remember to pin the arms in place? The models are very fragile...

I've not pinned the arms (they have already tried to come off twice while I was pinning it to the base ).

I may well go back and pin them at a later date though.

Super fragile... that's a shame. Oh well it couldn't be perfect I guess. . Model looks good, I see what you mean about the level of detail. I might have to invest.

Oh and your Pegasus hobbies( I assume) terrain looks sweet!
Keep up the great work!

madmartykmf wrote:Super fragile... that's a shame. Oh well it couldn't be perfect I guess. .

I think it was more to do with me grabbing it by the arms to fit the foot pin through the base - the arms just popped out slightly and had to be re-glued. I've picked it up and moved it around by the arms/shoulders and it seems solid - just not up to being dropped or rough-handled too much as it is metal. All the joints have small pins/holes already but if you wanted a rock solid model you would have to put some larger pins in place.

Model looks good, I see what you mean about the level of detail. I might have to invest.

Well, for £60 I got a 300 point (plus a couple of extra models) force, so it is pretty damn cheap compared to GW. Even if you never play they are fun to paint and look great if you have somewhere to display them

Oh and your Pegasus hobbies( I assume) terrain looks sweet!
Keep up the great work!

The set I have here are from Urban Mammoth (part of the biotoxin plant kit), but I understand they are repackaged by a number of different companies.

Wooh good to see you getting in to Infinity! I haven't bought a GW model since I discovered it As you say, for less than a couple of tanks you can get a complete army, give them a bash and even if you don't want to play them after you can go and buy another army to try without breaking the bank! Unfortunately this is why I currently have Haqqislam, Ariadna, PanO and Yu Jing armies...

Yeah, this is the first game system I have seen that I liked the look of since I dropped GW.

At least you have lots of great terrain to play them on though, eh?

Edit: This is my 10101th post

Awesome stuff, dude! Glad you finally got your order through.

Oh and i want your cat!

Casey's Law wrote:Oh and i want your cat!

I think that my wife would not be impressed if I gave away either of the cats

Nice haul Silver, will be watching.

Your cat looks almost like my old cat. Gotta love black cats. Miss the old bastard. I think I'll get a dog next!

Nice box o toy soldiers there. Paint that gak up!

Don't worry, I glued the next model to a temporary base to start painting it last night - also started work on his base too

This guy has been pretty much done for a while - just added some grass to the base and painted the canteen:

Infinity Spektr with sniper rifle:

That seems like a horrible position for a sniper to take! Paint looks good though, the white is a nice dirty shade.

It is just his victory pose