Some really nice minis!

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:I used to have a bottle of this varnish-like stuff that your could paint over decals and it would 'suck them up' for lack of a better term, and really stick em' to curved surfaces. Sort of like those easter egg sleeves that you dip in hot water and they conform around the egg.

I can't for th elife of me remember what the stuff is called. I'll have to poke around in my brain-files some more.

Gunze Sangyo, or GSI Creos as they're called these days makes a good variety of hobby supplies. I'm pretty sure they made some sort of decal setting liquid, too.

Red Harvest wrote:Good stuff.

About the Crimson Fist decal... there is no nice way to say this, but decals pretty much suck when applied to curved surfaces. So, you're going to have to paint the insignia on if you want it to look really nice.

Had to smile when I saw the beaky though. Takes me back to the good old days of RT/2nd ed.

I don't really mind if the decal ends up sucking. I really don't want to freehand the insignia.

I couldn't really wait to get them all done in a batch, so I went ahead and completed two of my Danamian Jungle Fighters from Mad Robot. Normally, I'm not that much of a fan of the Heroic proportions, but I really like these figures.



Eventually, I may order another set to make a Vietnam style LRRP team to act as Vets.

Yeah, I've been following Mad Robot a bit, and I've really liked a lot of the stuff they'e come out with, their guns in particular are rather neat.

The dude look cool! I particularly dig the 'Power Machete'.

They do look good! Once I finish all the other minis I have to paint, Hmmmm, dammit! more good companies out there making me spend money!

*Looks at updated thread title*
Fantasy!? What the hell is fantasy stuff doing here?

Yeah, I'm not normally that big on fantasy stuff. Warmachine I'm cool with since it's all over the place with stuff looking like it's right out of WWI and others looking like medieval knights. Generally though, I tend to avoid it. There's a few types of Fantasy things I do kind of like though: beastmen (like werewolves and gnolls), stuff in heavy armor (even moreso if the face is covered), and undead. Most of my fantasy stuff tends to lean towards undead. I think someday, if I ever actually finish painting all of my skeletons, I may photograph my full undead army. Until then, how about an empty suit of armor?



I was at Brookhurst Hobbies this past weekend and was looking for something cheap to grab. I saw the ghost-in-a-suit-of-armor figures and knew I had to get one. That is just cool. The figure is one of Reapers, and from the looks of him, he might be a somewhat older sculpt since he's kind of huge in comparison to similarly scaled guys. I don't mind though, since it's a fracking possessed suit of armor!

While at Brookhurst, I also grabbed an Infinity figure. I got a Shasvastii Shrouded, mainly because I wanted to see how the desert colors would look on one of their more basic looking troops.


I think he actually looks decent like that. I'm fairly happy with how he looks, so I'll be dipping him. Once I've done that, I'll be adding the lighting to the red bits and on his rifle.
He looks decent with his Gwailo buddy, too.


I also got a Mobile Brigada from FRP Games. And, this picture makes him look outright terrible. Overall I wasn't too happy with how he was turning out anyway, so I may just dump him in the Simple Green and start over. I think I might try and go for something a little different and closer to the studio colors rather than my blue and yellow scheme. It doesn't lend itself too well to this guy.

The killer armor looks great, as does the infinity guy.

The mobile brigada is a little off, as you say. I think the blue needs interrupted by another color a little more maybe.

I actually really like that blue, and I think he'll look good if you stick with it. I think the problem is with the picture is that he's too bright and could use some contrast. The greys could be washed darker, more like a black, and once the gun is done I think it'll look less garish. There is a lot of bright going on, but I really like what it could be with just a few more tweaks. You'll figure something out I'm sure.

Hmm. Does a different angle help?



I'll admit, he looks a bit better from this angle. Still, I don't know. I'm ind of thinking dump the colors for black armor with red trim. I'm planning on doing that with my Intruder, so it might not be too bad to have at least a couple guys in red.

You got that armor done fast, that's for sure.

I barely started that goat you grabbed for me. Started doing him up along with the Mierce one I've had sitting on my table for a while.

I'm anti-box paint scheme, so I love it. But that's just me. If you don't love it, you should do what you want to do. I think once the grey areas are washed it'll look better, but I do think the blue is well done and gives him some unique pop.

No I like it now. THere was too much blue in the other shot but maybe it's just from that specific angle. The white on the arm breaks it up nicely and I do like the blue.

I like the ghost armor. Reaper has some interesting stuff (I have a few pathfinder figs, and the helper robots to act as palbot proxies)

The blue is flat looking, due to lighting? Maybe try glazing a darker version of it into the recesses and areas that get less light. I like the look though. The Shas look cool in those colors. Nice call on that.

I dip my metals, so that'll help with filling in the recesses. I've been staring at the pics of the Mobile Brigada all day at work wondering what kind of alternate scheme I could use on him. I like the blue, grey, and yellow, but it just doesn't feel quite right on that sculpt. I'm kind of thinking maybe go for a black-ish armor, keep the very light grey on the arms, keep the white rifle, and add blue trim to the armor. That way he'll have a more tactical feel, yet still retain all of the colors of the rest of my Nomads. Maybe stick a tiny bit of yellow here and there, too.

I haven't been posting anything in my plog for a while. There's a couple reasons for that. First, I've been house sitting (again) wihle my parents were in Japan visiting my brother. Second, There have been some family issues, namely that we had a death in the family. So, naturally, I haven't really had the time or capability to paint anything. I finally just got back home yesterday and went right to work. Unfortunately, only one of the figures I've been painting is actually close to done.

I've decided that my main Haqqislam force is going to be Qapu Kalqi. The main reason is because I want to be able to use Druze and Kaplans. Plus, there's the fact that I can use Nomads with them. I didn't want to use my actual Alguacile figures though since A)they're ugly and B)they won't fit in too well with my other Haqqislam figures. So, I had the "genius" idea to proxy the Nomad figures. What I'm going to use will be the Hasslefree modern soldiers. I just finished up painting the first one.



Man, I'm just not very good at doing freehand or camo. I tried painting the Nomad insignia on his cap, but it's blobby and looks gakky. Also, my main brush is starting to fray, so I had issues getting some of the lines straight. *sigh* I have to replace that brush now, too. The nice thing about this guy is that he can stand in as either a combi rifle Alguacile or a missile launcher one. I've got two more modern troopers coming to join him, too. One female, and one male with an M-4. Once Hasslefree releases the next modern soldier with the gas mask, "Alien," I'll add him into the mix as well. I also plan to use one of Hasslefree's power armored guys as a Mobile Brigada.

Speaking of Mobile Brigada, I stripped his paint. I came across a picture of a guy's woodland Corregidor team and I got the urge to make one for myself. So, my Mobile Brigada will be the first figure in a 150 point Corregidor team geared up for woodland combat. I suppose maybe they'll be deployed to Ariadna or Acontecimento.

Sorry to hear about the family thing. Model is looking nice. I think the logo on hat gets the idea across.

He's going to look good once he hits the dip. I have issue painting camo on smaller models too. I tried doing some for my Ariadna, and eventually just gave up and did a quick line pattern all over their BDUs. I can tell the Nomad symbol is a Nomad symbol, so I think it turned out well. Freehand is haaaard.

I want to pick up some of the Hasslefree guys to use as Chausseurs, but shipping across the pond is balls. I think that model is going to push me to do it sooner rather than later though.

Hasslefree is doing a sale right now. 20% off. That makes it a bit easier. Alternatively, FRP Games has them. That's where I got this guy.

Hasslefree does nice work

Hey, who wants to see some bad photos?

I mentioned that I repainted my Brigada to go along with my planned 150 pt. Corregidor woodland team. Well, I photographed him, but it turned out pretty bad.



At first you might think this pic looks okay. No. The colors are WAY off. He's actually using a very nice shade WWII Soviet olive drab with Luftwaffe camo green for the darker green bits. The red I used is actually really dark and nowhere near that bright. The vaguely flesh tone looking color is actually brown, but the camera really brightened it up and makes most of it hard to see other than on his arm. I'm going to use a black wash to darken the eyes and give them a bit of definition. Later, after dipping I plan on doing some OSL there like I did on my Tiger Soldier. Should I keep his HMG white and orange to match up with the rest of my Nomads?

On Thursday, I also received one of Kotobukiya's new Frame Arms kits via HLJ. This is the Durga I. I already got the base robot built up.



Not the best photo, I know. But, it'll have to do for now. I still need to do his weapons and armor. Though, I intend to arm him with some of their extra weapons.



That gatling gun is way cooler than the big one. Plus, the ammo drum and belt make it look way cooler. I'll probably either keep it armed with that, or one of the newer assault rifles.

Pretty good sized mecha inside the colony limits there B

Yeah something like that's probably a reason to declare a deadzone in the first place, it's massive and awesome. Good luck on the next picture of your MB, though it looks fine to me as is.

I dunno about the Mobile Brigada. Matching the gun to the rest of the Nomads would give him so cohesion with the rest of your Nomads, but would clash with the woodland scheme. Sorta like dressing up for camo and then waving a glowstick and a flaregun.

You could paint it something else and then use the bases to tie everything together, so there's that.

I think I can see what you're saying about the colors, but once it gets dipped it'll be good. Just reminds me I need to set up my lightbox proper.

^Agree on the gun, color schemes are too disparate I think.

Yeah, you're right about the gun. I decided not to go with the white and orange. I also got rid of the yellow eyes and the red hoses on his helmet. I think aside from sculpting him a base, he's ready for dipping.



I also painted up one of my Stim Hounds from Anvil. I like these dogs. I'm glad Joel took my suggestion to do attack dogs.



As you can see, they're very small, but nicely detailed.



I'll have fun coming up with coat colorings for the other three dogs.

Looking good, light grey gun seems to work well and the dog has a nice Doberman look.

Those Stimhounds are cool looking, and sized really well for Infinity. I'd love to use them as stand ins for an Antipode pack.

The more muted tones on the Brigada look good. I'm still a fan of the brilliant facepunching blue, but this looks cool as well. Ties him in more with your Anaconda.

To the dip!

Oh! And I had a request if you manage to read this before going to the dipping stage. Is there any way I could bribe you to do a step by step of the dipping process you use? I've been trying to explain it to my friends, and the concept is a little nebulous for them I think. If not, no worries.

I, too, am interested to see how Barzam does it. To hold you over, here's a link to how I do it if interested: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/540/508854.page#6523356

I've got a few guys that need to be dipped. I should probably get around to it this weekend, if I can bring myself to do it. I'll take some pics though. There's not a whole lot to it, especially now that I've begun painting the dip on, it's even easier than before.

I actually got around to opening up that Wu-Ming box I've had laying around, untouched for months. I tried to stick to the camo scheme I used for my shotgun Wu-Ming. I know the orange stands out against the camo, but I like how it looks.



Despite the fact that I did change the colors just a bit by using black instead of a third shade of green, both the new one and the original one look pretty good together.

You're painting the dip on now? How? With those sponge brushes?

Any advantages to doing it that way versus buying the ink washes and going to town? After all, you're still having to brush it all on.

If it gives a better protective coat than just a layer of ink (and a dull coat naturally) I might have to try that out, what with the way the kids tend to manhandle everything within reach.

I like the Wu Ming. And I think the orange is a nice little burst of color to make them stand out a bit. I like it when camo units have a little bit of something to make them stand out a bit.

Me too, it helps with the aiming

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
You're painting the dip on now? How? With those sponge brushes?

Any advantages to doing it that way versus buying the ink washes and going to town? After all, you're still having to brush it all on.

If it gives a better protective coat than just a layer of ink (and a dull coat naturally) I might have to try that out, what with the way the kids tend to manhandle everything within reach.

No, the sponge brushes are just for cleanup. The local dollar store has some smallish, cheap housepainting brushes. I think the things have about a 1" width. It's a little large, but it does give much better control over the amount of dip used on the figure.

The biggest advantage it has over just using ink washes and matte varnish is that the dip forms a nice, solid protective coating over the figure's paint. Once it's on, they won't scratch or chip unless you're really trying to scratch them. Plus, the shading that the dip provides is more subtle than just using washes. I do still use the washes. Mainly it's just for areas I want to darken, like folds in clothes.

The biggest disadvantages to using dip are that 1)it can be messy, 2)it takes 24 hours for it to fully dry, 3)it'll ruin any kind of brush you use, 4)you still have to dull coat, unless you like shiny minis. Still though, I think that the fact that it can give you a nice looking miniature without having to have amazing painting skills and be protective against chipping and help hold on those pesky bits that like to fall off far outweighs the negative aspects of dipping.

Now, because when I get in my groove, I can be a painting machine, I just nearly finished up a Barid for my Haqqislam.





I know, he's not done, but he's close to it. There's still the rifle, his visor, whatever that thing on his right hip is, and the eyepiece to do. I'll do those tomorrow probably. Except the visor. I'll be doing that after I have him dipped.

This is a neat little figure. I really like his design. But, for the life of me, I cannot figure out why he seems to be more expensive than the other Hassassins. He's like a buck more for some reason. I still haven't really learned how hacking works in the game (though my overall understanding of many of the abilities is growing) nor do I know if this guy is even worth his in-game cost. But, he looks cool and will probably wind up being used in some other games as a result.

Hacking sounds neat, lock down heavy infantry tags and remotes. You might have access to a remote with eva or whatever its called, gives you more powers, and ii think you can guide missiles around. Plus defend against that stuff, ooh and screw with drop ships deploying drop infantry.

Models are looking good.

Barids. Are. Awesome.

Besides just being a totally badass sculpt, they gave the Hassassin Bahram sectorial something they sorely lacked, a Hacker. The thing about Haqq, is that they have hella Willpower, so being able to tap into that is a must. Hackers and Doctors are the name of the game there.

Barids also give you a good, fluffy option for also including Remotes in your force without having to get a shittier Hacker option. So you could have a Barid and a Farzan with FO and a GML or something.

And, AND! ...he looks awesome.

Well, he definitely does look awesome. Some of the Hassassin designs I really like. Him, the Lasiq, and the Farzan are probably some of my favorites from their sectorial. Not that the Muyibs don't look cool either. They just look like they should be regular soldiers though.

 Barzam wrote:
Well, he definitely does look awesome. Some of the Hassassin designs I really like. Him, the Lasiq, and the Farzan are probably some of my favorites from their sectorial. Not that the Muyibs don't look cool either. They just look like they should be regular soldiers though.

Which they are! They're pretty much the line troops of the Hassassins. Everybody gets to be a Muyib before befing something else that is more specialized and awesome.

I like the Barid (:
But I actually went looking for the lasiq in your gallery, nice colours you used there ^^ I'm just following you not too long ago, and haven't had the time to check out the rest of your work
Your Yujing are lovely aswell, the shang ji invincible in particular looks very sci-fi with the contrasting black/white + green details o:

Thanks Soulcow. The Shang Ji is one of my favorite Yu Jing figures. I hope there'll be more varieties of them in the Invincible Army sectorial.

You guys asked for a dipping tutorial, so I made one. Unfortunately, I didn't have any sponge brushes on hand, so you'll have to make do with how I do it using the paintbrush. Unfortunately, I couldn't add more pictures because it was just me at the time and I didn't have anyone else present to photograph the process. It's kind of hard to take pics and do the dipping at the same time. Also, for some reason the bottom pic kind of got cut off, but that one's not important anyway.

I just applied the finishing touches to the guys I was dipping over the weekend. I've got to adjust their photos now, but until then, I leave you with this shot of all of my Haqqislam units together. I think I've got more figures for their faction than any of the others at this point.

Nice collection there! Kind of makes me want some Kaplans or w/e you call them.

Very nice!

And it is nice to see some Deadzone terrain fitting in with INFINITY so well!

Yeah, now if only I could actually get around to painting that terrain. That'll be the day.

I'll go ahead and share the new figures.

Here's my fully finished Hassassin Barid.



He's such a cool looking figure. I need to pick up a Farzan to hang out with him sometime.

Here's my Al Waziri/Alguacile stand-in courtesy of Hasslefree. Sometime soon I should be getting two more. They'll get to hang out with my Qapu Kalqi team.



My finished, camouflaged Wu-Ming, #18



And a new guy to hang out with my desert Combined Army, a Shasvastii Shrouded.



I still don't get why they call this guy a Shrouded. He doesn't have a shroud. If anything, he looks more like he should be a Malignos.

Everything looks great. Knocking them out! The Barid is pretty awesome, I think I'd have to play/collect the Hassssins if I were into Haq.

Nice! I always love group shots.

The Barid turned out well, as did the Nomad. Well they all turned out well, but I just like those two moreso than the others because I'm biased. Though the Wu Ming are some of my favorite Yu Jing units.

Thanks a lot for the dip tutorial! Now I can link here and be like, "See guys! It's not black magic or witchcraft!"

I know it was a good bit of effort Barzam, and I certainly appreciate it.

Yeah, no problem. I needed to get those figures dipped anyway. Now I've just got my Mobile Brigada to photograph.

Just a few WIPS I was working on today. I really wish I had more time in the day to mess with these things.



From L-R: A Unity Council AJAX suit, a SWAT Officer (actually a Reaper Delta Force guy), a Stim Hound, a Hasselfree Grymn Power Armor, an Infinity Santiago Knight, and an Urban War female Retarius.

That Grymn armor is going to wind up with my Deadzone Brokkrs. Maybe if I grab a few more, I can completely replace the Hearthguard that come in the starter with them. I think fluff-wise, it'll be a weaponized mining suit. When they come out, the Mechadrome light mech I've pledged for will also be joining the Brokkrs as an Iron Ancestor stand-in.

The Stim Hound didn't come out quite as I'd hoped. I've seen shepherds with similar colors before, but I think he wound up looking too much like a fox (what does he say?). I may strip it and start over with a tan instead.

The Santiago Knight. I've been in a bit of a quandary about what to do with his heraldry. Should I keep him a Santiago Knight, or make him into a Hospitaller to match my re-assigned Templar from the first page?

That Urban War Retarius has been giving me issues. I had to sculpt her whole left arm. I think I did okay, considering it's the first time I've really had to do that. I'd contacted Urban Mammoth about the missing piece, but I never heard anything back. I assume they must've gone under in the last few years. I also received one of their power armored gladiators as well. I have this strange urge to get more of those Junker Gladiators and supplement them with some of those Hundred Kingdom and Reaper gorilla gladiators.

Lastly, there's that SWAT officer. He'll be the start to my Fear and Faith Police team. I'm thinking that next month I'm going to bite the bullet and special order the Tactical Miniatures rookie cop set through FRP. I think them, plus this guy should be enough to give me a decent team.

I see what you were trying to do with the Shepherd, and I think at the moment, he just sort of looks like a dog cosplaying as an orangutan. I think its the contrast between the orange and black, I know the fur color you're thinking of, and I think it needs to be a lot darker to work. Maybe blend it into the face a little with some drybrush of the orange into the black.



That is as orange as I could find. It still is rather brown. Maybe you just went with too agressive an orange?

I'm sure you'll hammer something out.

Yeah, he just needs to be redone, I think. It was worth a shot though. The funny thing is, the color I used actually is a brown.

Not sure if you answered this or not, but what shade of dip do you use?

I've got two dips that I use depending on the color of the model. For earthy tones, I use Army Painter Strong Tone. For everything else, I use Minwax Polyshade Tudor.

I just got back from the FLGS. I have a problem, I think. I can't stay away from their consignment case. I just bought another Eldar Warlock and a bag of 7 Space Marines (4 marines, 1 scout, 2 Terminators). The awesome thing is that the bag cost me all of $2!

Well when its that cheap... I had a similar impulse/control issue with eBay for awhile. Then I graduated to kick starter.

Hell I think I've had more fun just doing the buying part of some cheaply deals like that than I have had seeing some movies. And certain fast food trips... verily, there are worse things on which to dispense your disposable income.

Well, I managed to retain some self control and not start a new project. Rather, I worked on some of the figures from last week. Tonight, I finished up my Dwarven Power Armor and did more work on my Santiago Knight.

So, the Santiago Knight.... I decided to go with Hospitaller markings after all.


This way he'll fit in better with my existing knight. I know the cross is kind of rough looking, but most of it will be covered by his arm and the gun. I'll just need to clean up the loincloth a bit. Personally, I think he turned out much better than my first knight.

my Brokkr mining suit


I like this sculpt. These are neat little figures and they scale well with Mantic's stuff. I'm thinking after I do the dipping, I'll dirty up his legs with some dry brushing so it looks a bit more used.

He does scale pretty well with them, and I hadn't realized you had some forge fathers already , they look nice.

Good, atmospheric shot too, I'm going to have to take some notes when I decide to get camera happy. The bridge and foreground rubble frame it well and there's a living scene behind them that really sets the mood.

Knight also looks pretty cool! I've never been drawn to Pan-O, but I have a feeling that I wouldn't mind painting the models if I just randomly acquired some. The ORC, for instance.

Nice stuff. i am thinking of starting infinity myself, nomad, aleph and Haqqislam interest me

You should at least grab a few figures. There's some that are pretty cheap on Ebay with free shipping. Get a few and see how you like painting them.

The PanO knights are kind of hit and miss with me. Some I really like, others I don't. Up until CB released the pics of the Santiago box, those guys have done absolutely nothing for me. Once I saw those pictures though, it was like a switch was flipped and suddenly I wanted some. Must be some kind of conspiracy or something.

In my last Hasslefree order, I got one of their Modern Adventurers, McKenzie and I could not decide how I wanted to paint her. I knew I didn't want her to be with my Infinity Al-Waziri, so that was out and I didn't want to do her up in that generic tan and green combo. Then she'd look like just about everything else I've done. The more I thought about it, the more I was wanting to do her in a woodland camo scheme. Unfortunately, my attempts at it have generally not been that good and I don't think I'm all that good at camo to begin with. So, I cobbled some figures together for some practice runs. Unfortunately, one of them I just could not photograph decently due to how he was posed. Plus, I wasn't all that happy with him. The second guy though, I think I managed to pull it off.



I think he actually looks decent. The armor is also a bit darker in person, so it contrasts a bit better with the fatigues. I think I'm about ready to try this color scheme on McKenzie.

Also, I've had a Land Speeder Storm sitting around since I moved that's been only partly painted. I decided to finally do something with it. Unfortunately, at this point I'm missing the seats that go in the back and the gunner that goes in the front. I've decided to cannibalize the Marine Scouts that go with the thing and make it into a small transport for my Danamians. I'm thinking since it's too small to carry very many guys, maybe it could be a medevac or something.



I'd love to kitbash a Huey into a sci-fi VTOL, but I have no faith in my kitbashing skils. So, this will have to do for now.

I've got a storm just sitting around too, still not sure what I'll do with it.

Maybe give the Storm to your Corporation guys?

I went ahead and tried to paint up McKenzie. She's turned out okay. This figure is really tiny though, so she was kind of hard to paint. And yeah, I know the skin is very light. It'll be much darker after I've added a wash to it and after I've dipped her.

Looks solid, I like the camo. Should look pretty spiffy with the skin washed and everything dipped.

The storm might look cool with corp guys. Would be hard to sort passengers, but I could probably manage a driver and gunner. Will have to file that one away.

Alright, I added the wash this morning. It's a little heavy on the face, but I'll clean it up later.



More importantly, the thread title promises a new Al-Waziri for Qapu Kalqi. Here he is.



I had some difficulty with assembly unfortunately, You may notice a slight gap where his right arm meets his torso. I couldn't get the arm to sit flush there, while also get the left hand to sit flush with the arm. If I bent the weapon or arm to get them to sit right, then the weapon would be all gakked up. So, this was the best I could do on it. Still, I think he looks pretty good. I even managed a better freehand Nomad insignia on him!

He looks pretty good with my first Al-Waziri and McKenzie.



I've been meaning to post a pic of the completed Mobile Brigada as well.



Like I've said before, he's the first in my 150 pt. Woodland Corregidor list.

As stated previously, the camo looks great. Everyone looks good and go well enough together. I notice some nice lenses, and the new nomad symbol is very solid. I may have to try one on my Moran.

As always, excellent atmospheric shots. I'm gonna have to study these and the others as I try to improve my own camera work.

Inspirational as usual, keep them coming!

Very nice work Barzam, looking forward to them getting dipped. And like Grimdork said, the shots in and around terrain really add a lot to the pictures.

I like the mining suit - is that a Hasslefree model?

Your Woodland camo test model worked out well. Look like some of your Haqqislam have a nice 6-colour desert camo going as well.

Thanks. Yeah, the mining suit is a Hasslefree Grymn Power Armor. I'm definitely going to have to get more of those.

6 color camo? I wish. the Al Waziri are just sporting Choco-Chip pattern and the Ahl Fassed just have brown squiggles. Everyone else is just tan and green. I wish I had the skill to pull off some of those more complex patterns.

I'm enjoying your P.O.V. shots. Very dynamic. ANd a nice change of pace from what everybody else is doing.

Glad you guys are enjoying the shots. They're much more fun to take than the regular pics.

I think I may've come down with Bronchitis this week. I've had a horrible cough for over a week now and it's been very unpleasant. Plus I've been playing Dark Souls with my cousin, so not a whole lot of painting has been getting done and I haven't really had the desire to paint, either. I'm going to visit the doctor tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be able to get something to treat it.

That being said, I have done a little bit of work. Mostly fantasy stuff. I've got some Rackham figures to paint up. Mostly a Wolfen and an elf command squad. Unfortunately, those were not without issue. The actual elf officer figure was missing and instead I just had a double of one of the other figures. To make matters worse, the elf figures are super thin and incredibly easy to break. Hell, I'm lucky if I can even get them to hold together. The Wolfen's issue is that his casting just isn't very good. A lot of the details, especially on his back are very muddy. It just didn't turn out all that well back there. I did the best I could with what I had though. He's a big, heavy figure, too.



You can see it somewhat here in this pic (I had another and it didn't come out well at all), but he's got metallic purple and gold armor. It looks pretty good in person. It just doesn't photograph very well.

And I bought this Warmachine figure that I like. He reminds me of an Axe Knight or something out of Castlevania.

Pretty sweet. Elf armor and skeleton especially look good. Werewolf seems fine too.

Finally went to the doctor yesterday. Had it confirmed, I do have Bronchitis. Fun stuff. There's nothing quite like being unable to lay down without coughing non stop. Thankfully the medication I got is taking care of it pretty quickly.

Oh, and I got some stuff in the mail. While unfortunately none of it is Infinity, it is some Weird War II stuff and some sci-fi stuff, so it'll be fun to mess with regardless.

I did get a few figures finished up tonight. These will be off to get dipped this weekend since I've got a pretty good batch ready to go now.

First up is this Urban War Gladiatrix.


She doesn't look all that good without any shading. Except that there actually is shading on her. None of it showed up in the photo though. Eh, she'll look better after getting dipped. This figure though, let me tell you, she was a pain in the ass. I had to sculpt her left arm and the shoulder armor. I'm not good at sculpting. I couldn't get any replacements and I didn't want a one-armed Gladiator, so I had to do it myself. I did not enjoy it. Still, I'd like to have a Gladiator themed warband to fight Tamburlaine. I need to get some non-human gladiators. Maybe a gorilla or two.

And I finally got around to painting these guys yesterday. I've had them since December. Just sitting around. The guy on the right is the only one that's been done. It'll be nice to have the rest finally done. I forsee them having a lot of encounters with the undead.




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So yeah, I checked out the stuff I got from FRP. They'd had some of the "Valonian" infantry figures from Rebel Minis, which were their versions of the Skinnies from Mongoose's Startship Troopers line. I had thought these guys were going to be thin, weedy little Infinity sized figures. Good lord was I ever wrong. They're HUGE! They look like they could tear a Morat in half! I swear they look like they're actually 1/35 scale rather than 28mm. Why did nobody tell me they were so big!?

Man, those hazmat guys are probably my favorite thing you've painted to date. I have no idea why, but the way they're posed and the bright colors just look like a ton of fun. It might be that the suits work really with ze dip too.

Where are those models from?

Hazmat guys are definitely cool.

I'm surprised that the Hazmat team are going over so well. The models are from Hasslefree. There's two sets of four guys and then two individual guys, one with a flamethrower and one with a Geiger Counter.

http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=hazmat-team~hfa062&category=miniatures~modern-adventurers
http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=hazmat-team-%28b%29~hfa094&category=miniatures~modern-adventurers
http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=hazmat-with-geiger-counter~hfa096&category=miniatures~modern-adventurers
http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=hazmat-with-flamethrower~hfa097&category=miniatures~modern-adventurers

I've got set A with the loose flamethrower guy. They're really nice miniatures and they're all one piece, too, so that makes working with them a bit easier.

Don't forget the guy with the laptop apparently for comms. Hasslefree has some cool stuff, I need to order some sets of guns from them sometime.

Yeah, I totally forgot about laptop guy. My Hazmat crew will probably get their dipping this coming weekend.

This past weekend though, I did about half of the guys int eh queue. It was mostly the guys with darker and non-earth tone colors schemes. They got the Tudor dip. Among them, I finally got my Blue Bomber Charontid dipped. He's finally all finished.

I think he turned out looking pretty bad ass.


Tonight I got started on my third Al-Waziri and breezed through her painting. I wanted to get her finished before I dipped the rest of the queue. It's probably going to be a while before I get my fourth Al-Waziri and Mobile Brigada stand-in.


I just have her right arm and backpack to do now. Note that for her, I placed her Nomad insignia on her left bicep. I can't quite decide which figure to use as the fourth. The new kneeling guy with the HK-416 might not be bad, but then I was also thinking of having a second guy with a G-36. And then there's headgear to decide upon. Helmet? Hat? Ballcap? Boonie hat? Tough choices.

And of course, obligatory action shot using something new.



I think I need to rearrange the table a bit. This setup is starting to look stale.

Awesome I feel bad for that mecha, charontids mean srs bidness. Also, blue bomber and al waziri both look good.

Eh, it's a Scopedog. You could throw a rock at one and it'd explode. Thanks for the praise though.

Nice work on the Charontid. They are a PITA to play against too :( But they do die to HMG fire...eventually.

Go with the helmet.

So Charontids can be a bit of a pain to fight, eh? Is the just because their Plasma shots explode on contact, or do they just have touch armor?

"Occasionally" I get some bad hobby ADD and I find myself buying some odd things. Like those Skinnies I bought, or these Germans. Yeah, for some reason I really wanted to buy some Weird War 2 Germans, so I grabbed a few that were on sale at FRP. I got a One Man Army figure from Blackball Games' AE WWII line and a pair of Secrets of the Third Reich's Mech Grenadiers with "Packed LMGs," whatever those are. Actually, pretty much every figure I had in that order had some kind of molding issue. The SOTR Germans had some kind of white film over them, The One Man Army had some serious issues with flash, the Skinnies didn't exactly have the cleanest of castings either, and the Mercs FCC Liaison (I got one of those, too) had the whole inside of his right arm and gun miscast. Last night was fun trying to clean all of that up. I did find time to paint though. I present to you, a pair of Germans!


I'm actually really happy with this guy, but I'm going to change his helmet color. The green doesn't look so good. I'll probably change it to match his jacket.


This guy has a huge head! He's okay though, sculpt-wise. I was trying to paint some German woodland camo on his jacket, but I'm not please with how it turned out at all. He's taking a bath in the Simple Green right now. I'll try again on him later tonight.

I do prefer the first German's coloring. Second one still seems to have camp though.

Plasma does seem nasty. He can also take a sepsitisor or whatever you call it, mind control or other nasty business. Fairly tough and several variants have the best multi spectral visor which ruins units who depend on camo or mimetism/optical disruption devices to keep from getting hit. My guess, red probably knows better though.

In no particular order:

MSV3
Plasma rifle
2 wounds and V:3 no wound incapacitation
oh, and ARM 5.

Charontids are more like mini-TAGs than HI. And with a BTS -6 very hard to hack.

Bottom guy is missing his abdomen, or so it looks. And wow, monster feet.

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Bottom guy is missing his abdomen, or so it looks. And wow, monster feet.

Well, that's heroic proportions for you. Although, I don't think theirs are nearly as bad as GW's. He does have an abdomen, it's just hidden by his gun.

It sounds to me like I'm going to need to have a Charontid in my CA list no matter what.

He'll be your order sponge. They cost some degree of 80 points, so almost a third of even the larger normal battle size. The nilla CA starter (which includes one) is a steal in terms of how many points you get for the 6 guys in it.

I want to see your skinnies with some familiar figures to get a sense of scale. Maybe put a tape measure in the picture to help me get a better idea of how tall they are...

Have them join your gladiators.

What ruleset will we be using for said skirmish?

You also never told me if you want that extra wet nurse. I think Dakka wants to see you paint up a wet nurse!

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I want to see your skinnies with some familiar figures to get a sense of scale. Maybe put a tape measure in the picture to help me get a better idea of how tall they are...

Have them join your gladiators.

What ruleset will we be using for said skirmish?

You also never told me if you want that extra wet nurse. I think Dakka wants to see you paint up a wet nurse!

I thought we got banned if we ever painted up a Wet Nurse.

Those Skinnies are kind of tall.





I'm not sure I want to have a painted Wet Nurse. I'll take one off your hands though, I suppose.

We need to sit down and figure out how to actually play Flying Lead one of these days. I'd like to use some of this stuff sometime. Or just play a larger point SBH.

Shudder, wet nurse... creepy bit of kit.

Is that skinny wearing armor? Can you get a shot of him from the side? Looks like he's wearing an Eldar helmet or something.

Guess I can just see it in person in a few days.

Yep, all five of them are wearing armor, though one of them has a different suit from the rest and two have their helmets open.

Here's a turnaround


The casting is a little rough in places on them. On this guy in particular, his back, his gun, and the collar on his armor are kind of rough.

And I mentioned that they're a fair bit bigger than Morats.



Look at how big the Valonian's hands are compared to the Morat's head!

Also did some more work on my Germans. They're all now done.



Redid the One Man Army's helmet in German Grey and did the two LMG guys in standard uniforms. It's basic and plain, but that's fine.


Next time my ADD brings me towards historicals, I'll have to try and grab some more AE WWII figures. Their Germans in general look a lot better than the West Wind figures.

Germans are looking good, and wow that other guy is pretty large. If he makes a morat look like that... he's some kind of scary.

Those skinnies are different than the norm at least.

I think you should stick with finding weird figures like that to paint up. I enjoy it.

His paint scheme looks really familiar, but I just can't place it. Spiral Zone maybe?

I actually wasn't basing him off anything, but he does remind me of Spiral Zone, too. Weird.

Hey! Occasionally I actually do fully finish some of my projects! Over the Fourth of July weekend, I managed to complete my Hazmat team, both Al-Waziri, my Santiago Knight, my Dwarf power armor, my FCC Liaison, and my West Wind Germans. I haven't photographed all of them just yet, but I'll share the ones I did take pictures of.

Al Waziri #2


Al Waziri action shot


FCC Liaison

If you zoom in on the pic, you can see how his gun was miscast.

my completed Hazmat team


my finished Santiago Knight in Hospitaller colors


and lastly, survivor McKenzie, whose face was very hard to paint.

And here's the rest from that batch.


My Brokkr Power Armor/Mining Suit



and my two German gunners





I tried to give the eyes on their masks a glowing effect. I'm not sure how successful it was. I'll be applying the same technique to the One Man Army as well.

Lastly, I finally got around to painting up the pilot for my Anaconda. The picture makes her looks really blotchy and the paint looks very thick. I didn't think it looked that bad in person though.

I'm not sure if I want to dunk her in the Simple Green or not. I'm kind of leaning towards tossing her in and starting over.

Sweet batch of minis dude! Al wazira or whatever it is all look cool, as well as McKenzie. Hazmat dudes look amazing, it's just the perfect blend of orange and blue, and the face shields are very well done.

The knight looks solid and the freehand is pretty sharp, colors are a good fit too.

Glowey eyed Germans look good as well, and i like the mining suit. Looks like we're going to have dueling yellow/orange dwarf schemes

I don't think the pilot looks bad, looks just ripe for a dip fix, but if you aren't happy with her then simple green away.

Nice stuff! Hopefully i can blast some models out at such a pace come winter

Yeah, I think I'll toss her into the Simple Green. But, I'll do that tomorrow. My main goal this week is to work through my Valonian Infantry and get them all done by Friday. After that, I can go back to working on Infinity and Urban War and other junk.

To that end, I actually got three more of my Valonian Infantry finished today! One more guy to go now.



I don't know why, but that guy with the closed visor is wearing different armor. I'm guessing he's supposed to be carrying an HMG. His weapon seems a lot bulkier, so I'm just going to assume he's some sort of specialist.

Those are some weird little dudes.

Or big dudes, since they're rather tall.

Those are the Starship Troopers 'Skinnies' right?

Yeah, they're the Skinnies from Starsip Troopers originally. I think they're one of the few cases where having them on 30mm bases works a lot better than 25mm ones. They're pretty big for basic infantry.

Some real nice stuff since I've seen this blog last. I have to add my voice to those who love those HAZMAT guys, and I'm also rather partial to those Germans and the infinity guys in camo. Haqqislam? Either way, they look good - I'm a big fan of camo at this scale.

Thanks guys.

Well, if you like Weird War II Germans, you're in luck. I'm trying to limit my miniature purchases to one purchase a month (hopefully). I just placed an order with FRP for a Tomcat, a Sogarat, a set of four German Infantrymen, and an Urban War Syntha 'bot. I've also got an Orc Trooper (shotgun) and a Bashi Bazouk sitting on my desk. Once I'm through the Valonians, it's back to Infinity.


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I figured I'd have a little fun with my Hazmat team and some zombies tonight.

Alpha Team moves in to secure the crash site and look for survivors


Alpha Team tries to hold back the tide of undead


The undead begin to overwhelm Alpha Team


Time to retreat! The retrieval craft can only hold a few people though. A brave soul gives up his spot and tries to give the rest of the team time to get to the craft.

Those skinnies kind of wig me out, but the atmospheric shots with the hazmat team... just plain lovely. Makes me want to get my land speeder storm painted up for use in similar roles.

So, is the Valonians wigging you out a good thing or a bad thing?

I know I was supposed to wait on starting the Infinity stuff until I'd finished the Valonians, but I just couldn't help myself. I busted open the Corregidor boxed set I got on my birthday and finally started work on their Lieutenant.



I was really worried that I wouldn't be able to pull off the color scheme I wanted effectively due to how small and detail heavy this guy is. Until you actually have him in hand, no pictures give you a good idea of just how small and how fine the details on him are. Thankfully, I think he turned out alright. I'd wanted the mask on his helmet to be a brighter red, but this is fine, I think. Speaking of his head, I had to do a little modding on him. He is normally looking up and to his left. I managed to very carefully lop his head off and reposition it AND I managed to do it without actually damaging the collar of his uniform.

I really like the new Intruder design. I think these guys are easily my favorite Corregidor design. I wish there were more than just this one and the sniper (I also wish this one were available outside of the boxed set). I'd like to pick up the sniper at some point and do him up in the same colors, but with a yellow mask.

I think I've also decided, I'm going to paint the newer Nomads units in these colors, and the older ones in the blue scheme. Next Nomad after this guy is a Hellcat and eventually a Tomcat.

here's how he looks alongside my only other completed figure in my 150pt. Corregidor list.

Well i mean your paint job is nice, i'm just not sure what to think of the models themselves. They're very large, it's difficult to resolve, they're what 10 feet tall almost? Or at least 8, i'm unfamiliar with what they actually are so that may be part of my unease, they just creep my out standing next to normal people, like their hands or mouths are big enough to smush up someone's noggin, creepy.

You've got a really interesting nomad scheme going. The colors make them look like they've been assigned to some kind of forested area, or at least somewhere greener than a space ship, and it totally works for them. Especially for corregidor, since their main export is manpower.

I kind of want to paint one of those now, but i'm far more likely to get the bakunin substitue which i believe is the prowler. I do like the fluff for the intruders though, they send one down with the workers incognito so he can watch out for them and bail them (or train them into a militia to wait for the cavalry) out if anti-nomad sentiments reach the breaking point at their location. Plus they sneak around and gak dudes, what's not to love!

Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, I suppose they are kind of creepy in that regard.

I say go ahead and grab yourself a couple Corregidor figures. You know you want some. Not that the Prowlers aren't cool looking, but the Intruders are just bad ass.

And yeah, I was going for a woodland theme with them. I'd come across one of the guys on the official forums who had done basically the same color scheme and they looked great, so I figured I'd give it a try and see how it turns out. I really like how it looks. Nomads don't always have to be in bright red and white "shoot me" colors.

Yeah the scheme works well.

I'm not sure it's possible, but i may have too many infinity figures right now. I've got like 23 and only 3 of them painted, and i'm staring down the barrel of 15-18 more from operation icestorm and extras at gencon... and i haven't even got a TAG yet, that's bound to happen sooner or later! 40 models i want to spend extra time painting? That's kind of scary.

Plus i did that Moran, he's corregidor

I got a few more figures done for my Corregidor forces. I decided to go ahead and do the Hellcat from the Corregidor box up in the woodland colors even though she wasn't the one I was actually intending to use in my list. I also received my Antenociti's Workshop NRF trio of troops who will be my Counts-as Alguaciles.





The guy on the left actually turned out to have an LMG. I thought I was getting three rifles. Oh well, I'll just have to pretend it's a regular rifle instead.

It's looking like I'm going to have to do some house sitting for my parents again next month. So, they're going to be paying me in Infinity minis. Since they're normally way more than I want to pay for their size, I've talked them into getting me a Shasvastii Sphinx. That one I'm getting for sure since it showed up over the weekend. I'll hold off on him until August though. It looks like I may also be able to work in another boxed set of some sort. I'm leaning towards either an Iguana or the MAF box set. Probably the Iguana though. One can never have too many TAGs. So, it's looking like August will be TAG month for me.

Hmm, go for a lump sum payment, get the Icestorm box

Seeing a nomad in green and brown is unique. A good idea too.

Huh I thought I replied to this earlier today... they look good. And it looks like someone dislikes the current ags as much as me.

Eh, I was planning on buying Icestorm anyway. Hopefully I can split it with someone.

I don't quite hate the existing Alguaciles. I just don't think that they fit visually all that well with the new Nomads designs. When I get Icestorm, I'll probably put them in matching greens and browns.

Tonight I have something a little.... different? Gladiators. Yep. Sci-fi gladiators. There's something totally silly, yet awesome about the Junkers Gladiators from Urban War. I think I need to beef up my wacky Roman forces a bit more. I need some gorilla gladiators at the very least to add to this faction. Pig gladiators, too.

Anyway, I've shown this figure before, but I actually finished her up.



Apparently she's armed with a shock lance and a net launcher. I think she could be fun in SOBH.

And then there's this guy.



Gladiators in exo-suits. Yeah, that's pretty damn wacky. But let's just throw in a chain gun into the mix as well for that extra dose of silly.

You gotta get those gorillas painted up.

I already up and ordered some of the dino stuff made by the same company. Wouldn't surprise me if I get mine painted before you too!

I don't have the gorillas yet. Just a chimp. I working on him though. Keep your pants on.

Speaking of monkies though, I did get my Sogarat today. And I've already got him nearly finished. BEHOLD!!



I decided since he's a badass, I'd change the red markings that the other Morats had into yellow. And, I'll be doing his lights in green.

And I've got a Bashi Bazouk. She's hard to photograph.



That gun is pretty big and totally covers her up. I'll post more pics of her after she (eventually) gets dipped.

Man, you are a machine! Both models are looking good so far, your rate of progress is always enviable to me.

Well, I may be able to churn stuff out quickly, but keep in mind that I'm also only going for tabletop quality. If I had the skill and patience to put out high quality paintjobs, I wouldn't be doing this nearly so fast.

I spoke with my dad yesterday, and it turns out that I will have extra house sitting to do next month, so he confirmed that he will get the Iguana for me. So, yeah, next month is TAG month.

Tonight, I got some more stuff done.

For instance, I actually painted and attached the Sogarat's arm.


I also painted a robot I got in the mail yesterday.

This is a Pointman Heavy Androsynth from the Syntha faction in Urban War. These robots are so damn guly and asymmetrical, but I can't help but like a lot of them. This guy is kind of weirdly posed, which makes getting all of him in shot without making him look weird kin of a chore.

I also have a second Heavy Androsynth, the Prometheus II, which has been sitting around in a semi painted/semi chipped up state.

I need to get around to finishing that guy. They're actually pretty well sized, even the Prometheus despite being so spindly.

I suppose if I wanted to, I could have them go toe-to-toe with a TAG. I've been needing some heavier hitters and they'll fit the bill quite nicely.

As for their colors, I kind of like the idea that they're former construction/industrial robots that have gone rogue. I purchased the Mechanites from Mantic's latest Dreadball KS and they'll probably wind up with similar colors. I think having a rogue robot faction could be kind of fun.

And for Tambulaine, I did indeed finish my chimp Caesar.

Table top is about all i can come up with too.

Those robots are creepy in a good way, their curves and proportions... seem to just cast them as alien and default badguys for sure, but that isn't a bad thing at all.

I like the colors, just watch out, if you bring out too many rogue robots, i'll have to sick the Knight Sabers on you!

Looking forward to your iguana, it's a really sexy tag. I would like to get one.. but i'm thinking i may have to get the lizard first out of respect to my primary faction

I'm enjoying the muted, no nonsense look of the Nomads. Especially compared to the usual Nomad color schemes. Not to say I don't love bright and colorful.

Your Hellcat might be my new favorite Infinity model that you've painted. She looks good.

Workin' on some Doge. Much work, such color. Wow.



I love the Stim Hound figures. I thought for these two, I'd try going for more of a wolf/husky look on the guy on the left. Looking at him now though, he's kind of reminding me of Gin from Ginga Nagareboshi Gin. Hmm. Maybe I ought to add a trio of scars to his forhead?

Doge on the right was the one that was formerly that oragnish color. I thought I'd try again with a more subdued scheme on him. Now I'm happy with it. One more dog to go and then I can do their basing and call them finished.

I also started working on my Nomad Tomcat.



I'm just using the white on the helmet and light-up parts for now. I'll be using a fluo red over those bits once he's be dipped & dull coated.

The dogs are nice.
But was interests me much more is the further outcome of this alternate paint scheme of the Tomcat.

edit: Mistypings corrected. Need more caffeine...

Yep, dogs look nice, and the tomcat shows much promise.

Well Pfibp, you're in luck because I've got him fully assembled now.



Has a mishap with him this morning as I was doing a few highlights. I wound up dropping him twice, busting both arms off. Surprisingly, the only scratching that occurred was on the cuff of his left arm's sleeve. So, you can see how it's a little rough were the join on his left arm is.

You know, one element to this figure I never noticed from the stock photos is the fact that these guys have poofy sleeves. Their sleeves flare out just past the elbows and it winds up looking a little silly. I wonder how I never noticed that about these guys before?

Just popping in to say that I am really enjoying your log Barzam. I am not that well versed on a lot of miniature ranges so this blog really helps to highlight the amount of awesome stuff out there from so many different companies. Love the Hazmat team, and you seem to have done a great rescue job on the "injured" Tomcat.

He looks good, and the dogs look great as well.

I feel you pain with the dropping. I dropped my Dragoe twice last night while trying to finally get it painted up. After the second time I just went to bed.

Yeah dropping fancy minis sucks, it's one thing that's good about restic. He's looking good, though now i can't unsee the poofy sleeves!

Wow dropping a dragoe, huh, CC? That sounds rough what with the fancy doohikies they've got hanging off, like the big belt fed gun and such. ouch.

**** that beltfeed.

I hate that thing so much. It breaks when I look at it funny.

I pinned all the arms on it now, so hopefully that helps some.

I´m sooo glad I can´t find these minis here in China because I would not be able to resist.
Visiting your blog made it even worst !¡!
Congrats on the painting !¡!

Thanks for the comments guys. Glad you're enjoying my hobby ADD.

@CC - Dropping a Dragoe is pretty bad. I don't envy you that. I think one of the worst drops I've done is that I've dropped miniatures immediately after dipping them. And they landed on a dog hair covered rug. You want bad, try picking out loose dog hair from a rapidly drying, yet still gooey dip soaked miniatures.

Also, after staring at the pic of my Tomcat yesterday, I realized that I forgot to add the Flat Green bits to his armor plates. I was wondering why he looked off. I've since fixed that.

Those anitpodes proxies a page or so back are a bit undersized, no?

Are dragoes really that bad? "Cuz I intend to get one for my ASA eventually. The Jotums is a sold piece of work.

The Dragoe isn't so bad, it is actually a pretty solid model. The biggest issue with it is the gigantic feed-line for the gun on it's shoulder. It gets in the way of everything, its the first thing you grab when you try and pick up or move the model, and it is so thin I have no idea how to pin it.

If I ever get frustrated with the model, I'm going to dip the whole thing and then disassemble it, and convert it to be holding the HMC like a giant rifle. Maybe hook the box feed underneath of it somewhere. I dunno.

As good as it is put together, if you drop it the thing is doomed. Too many long edges jutting out in many directions. Invest in good super glue or a welder.

Okay, gotta post fast because I'm running late for work. Got five new figures to show today.

Deadzone Helfather


Urban War Vulcan (gladiator w/ shotgun and many grenades)


a very WIP Orc Trooper


Miranda Ashcroft


And, another Eldar Warlock

SWeet! The helfather looks pretty darn solid, and the rest are looking pretty good too.

The sculpt for the femOrc is kind of weird, it's power armor, with that much insulation there's no reason for the armor to look any different except for a drop or raise in mass... but y'know it's ''manga aesthetic'' so you gotta. The colors are looking good, seems pretty spot on for panO.

I think the vulcan is my favorite of your urban war gladiator stuff so far, jives the most with my sensibilities.

Helfather's a nice little figure. He's very solid and chunky. Unlike my PVC mercs, he actually had very very sharp details. It was actually him that made me decide to order the metal Survivor to replace my restic one.

I actually like the shotgun Orc a lot. She's the only Orc that's actually aiming her gun, even if she is hip firing it. The very feminine figure doesn't bother me too much. The combat heels that she's got though... those kind of bug me. Beyond that, she's a nice figure and surprisingly chunky for an Infinity figure.

I'm actually pleased with how Miranda turned out. I've been too afraid to paint her for some reason. Probably due mostly to the exposed face and eyes. I hope that when I do the dipping for her that the stuff picks out her details though.

Also, I got my Iguana today. It looks like next weekend is going to be my first round of house sitting. I'm not sure if I should start the Iguana first, or the Sphinx. The Iguana has a ton of itty bitty pieaces in his box. The Sphinx is like, 7 pieces total.

Hmm, hard to say, multi-part metal kits sound kind of frightening to me these days after having had plastic and restic for so long.

Miranda looks fine, it's a good combination of colors. What is she again, some kind of bounty hunter? Looks like she's part way between a school girl uniform and a womans suit, which is kind of odd but fitting for the infinity style

The orc doesn't look bad at all, i've just got a beef with armor that thick looking feminine as there's no point, but realizing it's infinity she looks a lot better than a lot of the lady soldiers. At least she's aiming the gun instead of posing for a photo shoot, like the new fem fusileer from icestorm.

The combat heels are just her CC weapon, if the knight sabers can do it in heels, surely she can manage

Mmm... Knight Sabers... fond memories.

Someone on this site has Knight Saber miniatures. One day I shall hunt them down. I remember seeing them... somewhere? Hasslefree maybe? I dunno.

Mental note, need to order their Matoko and Batou models.

I really like the Helfather! Both yours and Thraxis' look excellent, and are a great representation of what Deadzone could be. I find it one of the exceptions rather than the rule of the Mantix models.

More importantly, looks like I need to paint up my Miranda model! She's looking sharp man. And agreed on the ORC, she's my favorite of the ORC models... and the fact that she happens to also have a Boarding Shotgun makes it all the better.

I've got a set, only priss painted so far, they're the original series style from ground zero games:

http://shop.groundzerogames.co.uk/index.php?_a=product&product_id=1747

Those are absolutely adorable.

Now as soon as I can figure out how I pay for things in L's...

I either used my credit/debit card or paypal... Just realize that it'll cost as much to ship them as it does to buy them, and there may be some kind of 'VAT' as well. They weren't particularly cheap by the end of it, but i still <3 them. Just be aware that they're 25mmish, and very small.

Like, small small:

The L thing was a joke. I know what Pounds are and how to make my fancy American money into silly British money.

And GOOD LORD those are tiny. It actualy makes Space Marines look true scale.

...I think we're hijacking Barzam's thread again.

Yeah... :( You can blab at them over on my thread if you're bored I might actually get around to finishing them before the years out.

I don't mind if you guys want to derail my thread.

Man, that shot of the Knight Sabers with the Space Marines though. That really does make them look tiny. I'd love to have some Boomers, but at that scale, they just won't even feel right. Too small. I wish CB would make some not-Boomers. I think Karakuris are about as close as we'll get though.

Yeah, and they're pretty cool to boot! Probably the only unit that the knight sabers could really hope to count as too... other than the little servant models.

I guess you could get the karakuris, bend them over backwards into a crab-walk, 180 degree rotate the head, add metallic tentacle tongue and glowing red eyes... french maid/waitress outfit optional.. and you'd be good to go

That sounds more like a 2040 style Boomer rather that one from the original series. I want one of those cool, metallic blue, skull-faced looking bastards with the cannon in the mouth. I think those were specifically military Boomers. They were neat.

Oh, yeah i watched 2040, never found a good source for the older series when i had time. Can't find a good picture, but it does sound pretty neat!

Maybe i'll get a lizard tag and the sabers can run around trying to beat it up

These guys are the Boomers I want figures of.



I went and got my preorder in for Operation Icestorm. FRP and The Warstore both have it up for preorder, though the Warstore's price is better. It looks like I'll be splitting it with my Cousin. I'll be letting him have the PanO and the terrain, meanwhile I'll keep the Nomads and the limited edition figures.

Nice, you got the cooler dudes for sure, though I'll be happy to paint my new shiney pan o. I just hope they have them at gencon and I don't miss the preorder window.

That boomer is fairly cool, the one episode I saw part of for the old series had them acting like mobsters... but I could like one of those as an antagonist.

I've got a couple new figures to post. I managed to find an HRL Muyib for about $5, so I figured, what the hell, I'll get him. This guy might be the last figure I buy for a little while. I need to be a bit more conservative with my money.

I think I've managed to get him matched up decently with the Muyib I already had.



And I've been working on the first of my bribe figures, the Shasvastii Sphinx.



He's got an odd pose and I couldn't get the lighting to cooperate. I like the design of the Sphinx, but he costs way too much for what you get. This guy is barely bigger than a regular infantry figure and yet he's almost three times the price, unless you get lucky. My dad managed to get him on Ebay for about $25 or so, which I think is much more reasonable for something of this size.

He does look cool with his desert buddies.



I'll be adding some green lights to his Spitfire and some red lights to his back after he's been dipped. What color should I use for the eyes though? I'm kind of leaning towards a Zeon pink.

Yeah, he is a little pricy. Its almost like GW and their silly prices for high Point models. I still think he's a good sculpt, and he is basically 1/3 of your army when you field him.

And he is an incredibly nasty unit.

Pink seems doable as long as the wash sinks in enough around the eyes to give it a good shading around the recesses.

Lookin good. I know nothing of the shasvastii stuff, but they definitely look menacing and alien, the Sphinx looks like it could just reach out and palm someone's head too.

The Sphinx takes some major points. It costs more in-game than the Raicho does. But, I suspect that's due to the fact that the Sphinx is more of a black ops TAG. TO Camo plus that Climbing Plus and the Spitfire means it'll be moving around the field quickly and laying down some serious hurt.

Here is image number 400, btw. I just put some final touches on the HRL Muyib last night and got him all finished.



I think he's a pretty good match, if I do say so myself. Especially considering I wasn't using the same color paints for his pants.

Yeah those look good.

Spec ops tag sounds fancy. I like his pose, the Bakunin lizard tag has kind of a weird dazed or possibly come at me bro pose.

I find the Lizard to have a somewhat neutral pose, myself. I rather like it to be honest. My preference for the Sphinx though would be to have it posed firing its Spitfire while gripping it with both hands. So far, CB has managed to make all of ONE TAG that's actually posed that way. Speaking of the Sphinx though, I painted his eyes and added a couple of random Tau decals to it to spice it up just a bit.

In other news, as we all know, I do on occasion work on GW stuff. Unfortunately, it isn't always Infinity all the time. I picked up a five man squad of GW's old metal Storm Troopers a few weeks back and only just this week have I started working on them. They have such cluttered, busy sculpts I had a hard to figuring out how I should paint them. I finally settled on a green and grey scheme I saw in an old catalog scan. I think it works alright. Better than the red and black standard colors.



So, there's obviously still two more guys to go in this squad. Despite how cluttered the sculpts are and despite the oddly mushy faces (seriously, that melta gunner's face is naturally that ugly), I actually really like the Storm Trooper designs. Especially the ones with the gas masks. I wish they all had them on. Sadly, only two of the five are actually wearing the gas masks. Thankfully though, I have another Storm Trooper Sgt. with a Plasma Pistol who is wearing his mask. He may wind up replacing the power sword guy I got with these ones.

Since I'm showing GW figures, I figured I'd show these three off. I haven't shown them in here before, though there's some pics of them floating around in my gallery. As you can see, I never quite got around to actually totally finishing the one on the left and the middle guy. Leftie still needs his mask lenses done and middle guy never got his base painted. I'm finally starting to get off my butt though and actually work on the other two cultists from the set.



Hmm, I seem to have a thing about working in threes.

And for good measure, how about some third party cultists? These guys are from Anvil Industries' Miniatures Of The North line. They're really quite nice. I wish I'd actually bought the rest of the cultist range they have. Someday, maybe. I know their "assault" cultists aren't available anymore, but the leader and his dwarf minions and the regular infantry cultists are still available.

Everything looks nice! Good color choice for everything. The third party cultists look cool too.

I have a feeling that if I had a lizard kit in front of me, I could arrange the parts in such a way as I would like the TAG just fine.

Oldschool Stormtroopers are best stormtroopers!



I love those models. The Plasma Pistol guy is my favorite though.

The cultists look good. I've been wanting to get some of the Dark Vengeance guys just to mess with for a while. The Heavy Stubber one in particular is a fun model.

Ooh! I like that scheme. What color did you use for his uniform? Is that a green or a grey? It's kind of hard to tell.

I decided to take a few more pics of the Sphinx. I think I've got it now to where I'm happy with it. I think I'm ready to dip him. I've add a few more details to him. Filled in the shoulder lights with a very dark red (it looks brown, but it is indeed red), painted the eyes, added some markings, and because the Sphinx is a badass elite unit, I gave him some yellow markings like I did with my Sogarat.



You can sort of see the yellow stripe on his face and shoulder pads. The lighting wasn't cooperating. You can definitely see the markings on his back fin and thigh, though.


And here's the other side, with the other thigh's markings visible.



You can see some small indentations on his back on either side of his head here. I'm going to be making those lights later on.

Definitely looks good. I like the added lettering.

He's going to look awesome once he's dipped. Right now he looks nice and clean.

The fatigues on the Stormtrooper are a base of Chardon Granite, which was this really dark muddy green/grey/brown color GW put out when they first released the foundation paints. It is seriously one of my favorite colors of all time. Its highlighted with some darkened Khemri Brown.

Decals definitely help spice up the TAGs. The Sphinx though is so small, it's hard to find a space large enough to fit decals.

I'm going to have to see if I can find something similar to those colors CC. They look really good.

Now, this is something I've had sitting around for a while. Back when I first started getting back into this hobby, I was going to build a more or less game legal Chaos Marine army, the Plague Dogs. One thing I was going to add to them was going to be actual Plague Dogs which would be proxies for Fenrisian Wolves. That didn't actually pan out and now I don't really care about making a 40k legal army. But, I will be using this guy for a Song of Blades and Heroes game this weekend.



You'll notice a few unfinished details on him. That's because this guy was a rush job I somehow managed to do in under an hour.

Here he is with the rest of the warband I'll be running.

Damn man, those helmets are really cool, where are those from?

Yep lookin good!

I wish I could post while I'm at work. Sadly, that isn't possible.

The heads on my Plage Dogs are from Maxmini.

The Plague Dogs look good. I think we need some more pics of them!

I think I agree with you. There's a few already in my gallery, but I've been thinking about taking some more detailed shots of the guys that I've made. I'm house sitting again (again) this weekend, but I think I can manage to start taking more photos once I get back.

I will take my camera with me though. Hopefully I can get some pics of the game this weekend and (gasp) maybe even do a Batrep with photos.

Okay, I just got back from my brother's place. We had two Song of Blades and Heroes battles and one round of Dwarf King's Hold. It's kind of late now, so the batrep is going to have to wait until I have more time. Let's just say though that while I did fine against my nephew, Highlord Tamburlaine's snakemen are a force to be reckoned with. Oh, and I wont that game of Dwarf King's Hold, so at least I went out with a win.

While I didn't document the battle against my nephew, I did document the one against Tamburlaine and I did manage to snag a few photos, too. You'll have to wait until tomorrow for that though. Until then, perhaps THE DRAGON KING can whet your appetite.



"They were ready for the lizard men. They were ready for the snake men. What they weren't prepared for was... THE DRAGON KING!"


"GAZE UPON ME MORTAL, AND KNOW TRUE FEAR!"

Hahahahh awesome.

I can't wait.

Though I don't care what my brother's handle is, I wouldn't call him Highlord anything.

 Chemical Cutthroat wrote:
I can't wait.

Though I don't care what my brother's handle is, I wouldn't call him Highlord anything.

You would if you met my reptiles.

That dragon is truly awesome. I think he was a gourd of some sort originally.

He's my made in Mexico Darklands proxy for Angrislaug.

Don't forget that second Dwarf King's Hold game, that was fun! It was the second scenario from the original game, where the necromancer loses a unit every turn. We literally fought each other to the very last dice roll, with every figure or piles of bones gone by that point. The entire game came down to one single dice roll. Haven't had that happen in quite some time.

I can also attest that those Plague Dogs are pretty cool looking.

(I also secretly went and slightly moved two figures he had on display at our parents' house. I wonder if he can figure out which ?)

You moved stuff? Honestly, I didn't notice. I just grabbed a bunch of guys and dipped them, too. So, whatever you did, it's been undone now.

Yeah, your snakes were pretty nasty. But they fared way better than your lizards did. I suppose that's to be expected though when a bunch of filthy xenos barbarians with pointy sticks try to take on my oozing, dripping, highly poisonous supermen who're carrying guns.

Eventually I'll get around to taking some decent pics of the Plague Dogs that were involved in the battle, and then I'll get that batrep up.

Until then, I finally got to start on my Blood Pact guys.











Lighting's bad since I took these on my work table in front of a piece of white paper. Ghetto, I know. Hopefully these guys will fare a bit better in combat than the Plague Dogs did (probably not).

Blood Pack you say?




Oh right... Blood PACT. My bad.

Cool conversions so far. We get to see the Sphinx dipped anytime soon? I'm anxious to see how that turned out!

Hmm, those are pretty gnarly. From where do they hail?

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:Cool conversions so far. We get to see the Sphinx dipped anytime soon? I'm anxious to see how that turned out!

He got dipped Sunday night. I'll be dull coating him tonight after work. Hopefully, I'll have him based and finished pretty soon.

GrimDork wrote:Hmm, those are pretty gnarly. From where do they hail?

Fluff-wise or parts-wise? As far as parts go, the torso, head, and legs are all Maxmini, and the arms are Victoria Miniatures. Fluff-wise, they're from the Gaunt's Ghosts series of 40k novels.

Alright folks, I've got a bit of a photo dump for you tonight. I got my dipped figures dull coated and based. They're all done. Among those finished are my Combined Army and my Nomads. Nomads to come at a later date. For now, Combined Army! Oh, and remember, these are all nice big pictures, so if you click on them, you'll be bale to zoom in.

First up, my HMG Sogarat is all finished.



Lookin' like a boss.

Next is my second TAG, The Shasvastii Special Armored Dvision TAG, the Sphinx!



So far, here's all of my Combined Army together (minus Blue Bomber Charontid)



And in an urban setting.



I also got my Blood Pact test figure finished. I'll probably add some more gear to the other guys.



Now then, I did manage to take those pictures of the Plague Dogs who participated in Saturday's battles. You've already seen the wolf, so I don't need to repost him. However, here we have some much more detailed pics of the guys themselves. Now, in order to better distinguish my units when I'm activating them, rather than they "this guy" or "the dude over here," I tend to give my troops nicknames based around some physical characteristic of the figure. As a result, they don't get the most dignified names.

First we have Horney Toe!



He get's his name due to the fact that he has a horn coming out of his left foot.

Here's Flyguy, whose name came about due to the GIANT FETHING FLY on his shoulder.



Running Man, because he's running.



Shieldman, because he's got a shield.



and last, but definitely not lease, MAGNOR!



Yes, MAGNOR! must always be in caps and have an exclamation point. Tamburlaine actually named him. I was just calling him Magnet Man, like he's some kind of Megaman enemy, but I think MAGNOR! is a lot better. He got his name due to the fact that he's the only Plague Dog I made that was fully magnetized. I'd had such great plans, to make these guys all modular and stuff. That didn't happen. So, he can move his arms around a lot, but he can't swap them out. He can swap guns though, as can several other guys.

Soggy is an impressive mini eh? Nice work on the CA figs. I like that you didn't go with the standard gray for the Morats. Well, standard enough now anwyays.

Is that some kind of neon green on his lights? Looks awesome

Bloodpact test looks nice, and those plague dogs are really characterful

Sweet minni work Barzam!

 GrimDork wrote:
Is that some kind of neon green on his lights?

This is a pretty easy effect to do if you don't want to spend a lot of time on OSL effects. Really, you just need some Vallejo Fluo paints. Apply a layer to wherever you want the light to be. Add a dab of white. Then apply another layer and you're done. The effect generally looks nice and bright and stands out very well.

Hell yeah, I winder if they have a set I'll have to research it. I'm pretty much painting tabletop even for infinity so something likethat sounds stellar.

Like I mentioned in the Infinity showcase thread, the stuff is real easy to use. Just apply the first layer of the fluo paint over wherever you want to put it. Once dry, add a dab of white paint. Follow that up with another layer of the fluo paint and you're done. The stuff has an odd consistency though. My green and yellow are both very thin, almost to the point of feeling like a slightly thicker wash. Meanwhile, my red is really thick, but applies thin. It's weird, I've never had a paint act like my fluo red before. The stuff applies with a fair bit of transparency though, so you'll get whatever color is underneath it showing through, which is how you get a kind of OSL look to it.

I'm having a bit of a quandry. My bank sent me a $50 prepaid card and I'm not sure what to use it on. My FLGS has a 10 man, metal Vostroyan box for $35. But, I'd also like to get a Maghariba Guard now that I know the current model is going to wind up being discontinued. Those run about $41 or so. Then, I remembered about Zandris Miniatures. I'd like to get some of their not-TAGs and with shipping, a single one of those will run me about $25. What should I get?

The not-tachicoma? Never have I seen the not tags to have a good way of commenting upon them.

On a tangent I think you are going to be partially responsible for me playing CA some day. I'm hooked on that Sphinx and I'm digging Shasvastii in general after my L2P gencon event. My Skiavoros failed even with his plasma rifle (more like plasma grenade cannon), but my spitfire gwailos did crazy well with his mobile cover and looking at them the shasvastii are really growing on me.

Vostroyans are kind of cool I guess, the guard and tags sound more fun to paint to me personally.

Man, I just love your conversions.

Thanks Waaazag. They're fun to do. I'm not so into the 40k stuff these days, but those Blood Pact were especially fun to do. I kind of want to make some more.

@Grimdork - How many times have I been a bad influence on you now? Shasvastii are pretty cool and despite their willowy build, they can be pretty hardcore and just as nasty to go up against as the Morats. The Sphinx is a neat little TAG. I just wish it were bigger. But, I've been digging it a lot too now that I've finished it.

This, btw, is the Zandris not-TAG I'm thinking about getting.


But, there's also his newest, the Satria which is looking pretty neat, too.


The Satria is basically an upgraded sculpt of the older, and not as good looking Bouncer.


I'm thinking I may skip the Vostroyan box and just use the leftover money on the card to grab one of the Vostroyan singles the FLGS has.

Looks nice!

 Barzam wrote:
Okay, I just got back from my brother's place. We had two Song of Blades and Heroes battles and one round of Dwarf King's Hold. It's kind of late now, so the batrep is going to have to wait until I have more time. Let's just say though that while I did fine against my nephew, Highlord Tamburlaine's snakemen are a force to be reckoned with. Oh, and I wont that game of Dwarf King's Hold, so at least I went out with a win.

While I didn't document the battle against my nephew, I did document the one against Tamburlaine and I did manage to snag a few photos, too. You'll have to wait until tomorrow for that though. Until then, perhaps THE DRAGON KING can whet your appetite.



"They were ready for the lizard men. They were ready for the snake men. What they weren't prepared for was... THE DRAGON KING!"


"GAZE UPON ME MORTAL, AND KNOW TRUE FEAR!"

You know my purist stance on things i cannot approve this!

Lots of anvil industries stuff i see there, good work!

I really like the plague dogs. The helmets and colour scheme remind me of the human enemies in silent hill.

Ok well those not-tags are fairly awesome. I like the first two (same guy different poses?) a little more than the heavy dude, especially if fielded alone. The big dude would look good with the thinner one to contrast him, but by himself he looks a bit sow and chunky, without being "ridiculously tough", kind of like the medium-heavy armored core robots, you may has well just chunk it out all the way and be impossible to kill if you're going to be nearly as slow anyway.

I decided to go ahead and get the Maghariba. The not-TAG can wait. It isn't going anywhere.

I picked up a trio of zombies today from Brookhurst Hobbies. I wanted to add some variation to my undead horde. When I get my Deadzone zombies, I'm going to have a ton of military garbed zombies, so I wanted to have to civvie ones as well. Thankfully, Reaper makes some. I wanted to get these guys done nice and quick, so I didn't take any particular care on them. These were a quick and dirty paintjob. I'll be adding blood after they've been dipped.

They look solid to me

I think you get some civilian parts in the DZ zombies, or at least it was planned, but I haven't seen any that look that way yet.

I thought they looked pretty squishy, myself.

Reaper makes some really neat undead though. I found a two-pack that had a muscular zombie dragging a dismembered pair of legs with a second zombie that had its leg chewed up and was crawling. There's another set that's got multiple zombies fused into some kind of fleshy monstrosity. Of course, there's also the regular ones, some that look like hicks, some hospital ones, and generic ones that look like they'd fit either in fantasy or modern settings. There's also one that kind of looks like Tarman from Return of the Living Dead. Actually, I snagged one of the hick looking ones from FRP over the weekend, too. He ought to be fun to paint.

Also, I did order a Maghariba Guard. Look s like I'll have another TAG to work on after I do the Iguana.

Wow, you did those zombies up FAST.

In the same time you did that, I at least primed those lizards I got and gave them a quick base coat of green.

Since tomorrow is my last true day of freedom I might be inclined to take some photos then.

It'll be about time you got around to posting some pics.

What can I say though, I was very highly motivated to have them done before I got stuck house sitting yet again.

Zombie dance

They do look kind of like they're dancing, don't they? Those ugly Bones zombies from the very first wave definitely look like they're dancing.

I finally found a use for my prepaid card. I used it to get the Armored Cavalry (while I've got the change) as well as a Wreck Age figure and a Deep Wars figure for the hell of it. Should be fun to paint up. I'm thinking a police scheme for the Squalo. I've got to figure out someplace to put lightbars on the thing.

Patlabor!

It has to be Patlabor!

Plus those look pretty easy to DIY.

..Please tell me you have some kind of miniature for that GrimDork?

I still dream of getting a large scale plastic kit for one of those, one day..

I think you could repurpose one of the toys/statuettes? I don't have any cool mecha laying around.

Just order yourself one of the new 1/48 Bandai ones, Pacific.
http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN993227/Sci
I think that would certainly scratch that particular itch.

Now me, nah, I'm not planning on doing a black and white scheme for my police Squalo. Rather, I want to do a blue and white one. I'll probably use Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear Military Police decals for it (thus making it a German police TAG). I'd like to give it lightbars on the shoulders, but the Squalo doesn't have any shoulderpads to mount them on. I'm kind of thinking of making some rudimentary mounts on its collar area and have them pointing back like the sensor masts on its back.

So if that's 1/48... would a 28mm mini have fair odds of fitting in the cockpit? And the price is pretty agreeable.

Bandai's scaling seems to run a little on the small side sometimes. Their 1/35 Code Geass models seem to be more around 1/48 scale. But, it should scale correctly. At the very least, it'll be close enough.

Just looking at that Patlabor drudges up thoughts of those STUPID rubber coverings that basically ate away at the joints inside.

That model looked great, and it somehow contracted like a plastic Ebola virus and had all of its insides eaten away. Sad.

The Ingram was one of the first models I can remember painting up that *ALMOST* looked as good as the box art. I busted my ass on that one.

(I later learned that I put some of the kanji decals on upside down, but I didn't know any better at the time!)

Looks good!

Just another update without pics (for now). I just got in the second of my three orders. My Miniature Market order came in. I got my Squalo, a Deep Wars Atalan Soldier, and a Wreck Age Drifter Locust. In addition to those, my FRP order included a PanO hacker, a Retro Raygun robot officer (for my dad), a Reaper zombie civvie, some West Wind Soviet Survivors, and a sheet of decals for my TAGs. Supposedly, on Monday my Maghariba Guard will arrive. Lots to work on in the coming days.

I'm going to try and start work on that robot officer for my dad tomorrow.

I'm thinking that since I can't post any pics of my stuff right now, I'll post some pics of my brother's stuff later.

Post away! Sounds like a nice mix of models.

I made a MM order too for the three fluo paints they had in stock, and something else... let's just say I think I got sepsitorized and leave it at that.

So, as I mentioned, I'm going to post some pics of Highlord Tamburlaine's stuff. He's got a ton of figures, but doesn't ever want to upload them here. These pics came from the battles I had with him and my nephew a couple weeks back.

The first battle we had was my Plague Dogs against his son's Lizardmen. Aside from the Wyvern, these were all painted by Tamburlaine.



The big guy was my nephew's commander, the guy with the spear and the quiver on his back was his only ranged unit. The Wyvern obviously had flying and long move, dude with the spiked club could hit hard, and the other spear guy was just a basic grunt.

Prior to starting, we rolled to see what the objective would be. Turned out it was a treasure hunt. There were three idols placed around the table and one of them was supposed to be magic. My guys had to investigate all three and find the magic one, then get it off the table in order to win. Things started out somewhat badly for me. That Wyvern could move quickly and hit pretty hard. The Plague Wolf wound up being first, and thankfully only casualty in this particular game though. Following the wolf's death, my Plague Dogs managed to knock the Wyvern out of the air and promptly gun it down while it was lying on the ground. After that, my guys pretty much slaughtered the filthy Xenos scum. One of the Plague Dogs actually managed to find out which artifact was the one they needed and made off with it, leaving only one lizard left alive.

The second game though, that was played directly against my brother. My Plague Dogs were to again try to plunder artifacts from some long abandoned village. Unfortunately, it wasn't lizards they were up against. That lone survivor must have brought back tales of horror and disease ridden monsters gunning down his brethern, because the Snakemen came out to meet my forces. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of all of them, but I did take pics of the ones who were most important to the fight.
Tamburlaine's warband was made of primarily of Mierce and Reaper models. They were being led by a big Mierce snake guy.

Thankfully, he didn't manage to kill anyone, but he did turn out to generally be a nuisance. While my Plague Dogs managed to poison him, they didn't get to kill him. That guy could move quick and close in with my troops. Unfortunately, Song of Blades and Heroes does not allow you to shoot into melee. Otherwise, I think I might've come out the victor in this battle.
The big snake, referred to during the game as Big Boss had managed to discover which idol was the one my guys needed. I tried to send a pair of troops to flank the snakes and retrieve the idol, but they were stopped by the Snakeman Brute.

He only managed a single kill, and that was during the endgame after my troops were routed, but he did manage to hold up my guys and keep them from flanking the snakes.
The biggest thorn in my side during the battle, if you can believe it, was THIS bastard:

This is Tamburlaine's Snakeman Assassin. This guy singlehandedly managed to wipe out half of my force. Completely on his own. This bastard was tough and was entirely the reason my troops wound up going into retreat.
At the end of the battle, only two of my six troops survived, having escaped. It turns out that those medieval looking snakes with their primitive armor and blades were actually more than a match for my corrupted Astartes. They were able to withstand their firepower and the poisons and were more than capable of dishing it right back.

Someday I'm going to get those damn snakes. Someday.

 Barzam wrote:
So, as I mentioned, I'm going to post some pics of Highlord Tamburlaine's stuff. He's got a ton of figures, but doesn't ever want to upload them here. These pics came from the battles I had with him and my nephew a couple weeks back.

The first battle we had was my Plague Dogs against his son's Lizardmen. Aside from the Wyvern, these were all painted by Tamburlaine.



The big guy was my nephew's commander, the guy with the spear and the quiver on his back was his only ranged unit. The Wyvern obviously had flying and long move, dude with the spiked club could hit hard, and the other spear guy was just a basic grunt.

Prior to starting, we rolled to see what the objective would be. Turned out it was a treasure hunt. There were three idols placed around the table and one of them was supposed to be magic. My guys had to investigate all three and find the magic one, then get it off the table in order to win. Things started out somewhat badly for me. That Wyvern could move quickly and hit pretty hard. The Plague Wolf wound up being first, and thankfully only casualty in this particular game though. Following the wolf's death, my Plague Dogs managed to knock the Wyvern out of the air and promptly gun it down while it was lying on the ground. After that, my guys pretty much slaughtered the filthy Xenos scum. One of the Plague Dogs actually managed to find out which artifact was the one they needed and made off with it, leaving only one lizard left alive.

The second game though, that was played directly against my brother. My Plague Dogs were to again try to plunder artifacts from some long abandoned village. Unfortunately, it wasn't lizards they were up against. That lone survivor must have brought back tales of horror and disease ridden monsters gunning down his brethern, because the Snakemen came out to meet my forces. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of all of them, but I did take pics of the ones who were most important to the fight.
Tamburlaine's warband was made of primarily of Mierce and Reaper models. They were being led by a big Mierce snake guy.

Thankfully, he didn't manage to kill anyone, but he did turn out to generally be a nuisance. While my Plague Dogs managed to poison him, they didn't get to kill him. That guy could move quick and close in with my troops. Unfortunately, Song of Blades and Heroes does not allow you to shoot into melee. Otherwise, I think I might've come out the victor in this battle.
The big snake, referred to during the game as Big Boss had managed to discover which idol was the one my guys needed. I tried to send a pair of troops to flank the snakes and retrieve the idol, but they were stopped by the Snakeman Brute.

He only managed a single kill, and that was during the endgame after my troops were routed, but he did manage to hold up my guys and keep them from flanking the snakes.
The biggest thorn in my side during the battle, if you can believe it, was THIS bastard:

This is Tamburlaine's Snakeman Assassin. This guy singlehandedly managed to wipe out half of my force. Completely on his own. This bastard was tough and was entirely the reason my troops wound up going into retreat.
At the end of the battle, only two of my six troops survived, having escaped. It turns out that those medieval looking snakes with their primitive armor and blades were actually more than a match for my corrupted Astartes. They were able to withstand their firepower and the poisons and were more than capable of dishing it right back.

Someday I'm going to get those damn snakes. Someday.

Just reminded me of this

Sounds like a fun pair of games! This Song of Blades (and Heroes?) sounds pretty neat if it can adequately represent lizardmen, snakemen, and freaking chaos space marines! I may have to look into it.

It was fun, but so far I've lost every round against my brother. Those damn snakes.

Today I went back by my place for a bit to do a little painting. I worked on the robot I got for my dad. The figure itself is called Optio, he's an officer for the Robot Legions faction in Hydra Miniatures' Retro Raygun line. My dad has been collecting various scales of lead toy soldiers since he was a kid and for years had done wargaming against his brother and other family members using some extremely simplistic rules. He also happens to like that old '50s Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon style of sci fi with the ridiculous costumes and the cigar rockets. He's actually got a small collection of (I think) 54mm Buck Rogers toy soldiers. Now, my dad doesn't really like the wargaming figures because, as he puts it "they're too small." But, when I showed him the Retro Raygun stuff, he really liked it, especially the robots. So, I got one for him. With luck, maybe I'll manage to finally bring him over to 28mm scaled wargaming.

Hopefully, he'll like this.



It's totally unnoticeable in the photos, but I actually attempted to do highlights and blending with the silvers and the brass. It's a bit more noticeable in person though. The eye is also placeholder until after I've dipped him. He'll be receiving some OSL on that eye once he's closer to completion. It's aslo a little hard to tell, but his raygun is white. I wanted to have some lightning bolts on the sides of it, but my freehand sucks.

Looks solid, he's pretty tall.

I saw some people playing that at GenCon, robots and almost goofy looking heroes, heroines scantily clad riding jet bikes, not my thing but I could see people liking it.

 Barzam wrote:
Just order yourself one of the new 1/48 Bandai ones, Pacific.
http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN993227/Sci
I think that would certainly scratch that particular itch.
.

Words cannot express how thankful I am for you posting that.. thanks so much mate!

Definitely going to be getting myself one of those..

All I can say is wait until you see what I have in store for the next time we play.

I'm currently putting together "The Tom & Jerry Brotherhood." Which consists of nothing but rats and cats, oh yeah! Naturally with a few giant Mierce pieces thrown in for good measure.

I hadn't posted any pics yet, but my Blood Pact Shotgunners are all finished. Figured I should share them while I'm more or less unable to get any painting done.







These guys were pretty fun and simple to do. I've got a sixth guy awaiting paint though. He'll be a sniper.

I like them, they're suitably fierce and impersonal with the masks. They can scare the gak out of you and you probably won't feel bad about gunning them down, score!

Blood pact are looking cool.

Is that vic minis arms and micro art bits for the rest?

I would red wash them, right now, in that light their uniforms appear magenta to me,

Actually, they did receive red washes. The camera just washed it out. Their uniforms look much grimier in person. It's weird how that happened.

You're mostly right, JoeRugby. The arms are indeed Victoria Miniatures. The torsos, legs, and heads are all Maxmini.

Hmmm, Barzam, what kind of light are you using? I tend to have a LED day bulb on my workstation seems to get the colors pretty much right on.

lol, it's just the lights on the ceiling fan above my kitchen table. That's where I do all my photos since they're not yellowish lights and it's where I can get the most lighting.

Just got news from my dad. He found a Gui-leng sniper for me while in Canada. Yay! I also got my Maghariba Guard today. That box was heavy. On the downside though, it was missing its base. Anybody around here know what size base that thing's supposed to have?

The Mag doesn't come with a base, it is one of my biggest gripes about the model.

I didn't base mine, the thing is so thick, heavy, and has such a solid balance that it really doesn't need a base. For my logic, if they wanted me to base it, they should have given me one in the first place.

I get into some trouble during tournaments with sticklers over that.

I'm really looking forward to seeing you get it all painted up. You REALLY don't see too many of them painted up, and it is one of my favorite models in the Infinity line. I love using it. And I'm really really looking forward to seeing that updated version too! Scary Scorpion Mech!

I believe it is supposed to be on a 55mm base, or something. It was the only TAG (or unit in general) in Infinity that had a different sized base than everything else.

Really? They didn't give it a base? That's really weird. Why picture it on one then in the official photos?

I'm both looking forward to building it and not looking forward to it. There's going to be a lot of pinning on that model. I'm also not sure how I'm going to paint it. I'm torn between trying to camo it and just putting a basic tan/green scheme on it.

I do intend to get the redesign at some point, too though. They'll be neat to have together.

Anyway, back to tinkering tonight. I'm going to try and begin assembly for the Maghariba and my new PanO hacker. I'd like to get the hacker done by the weekend, so that's my current goal.

Looking forward to the not-tachikoma thing. Pano hacker is also good.

When Infinity first came out, there were the normal sized bases (25mm? 20mm? I can't remember)... your basic infantry base. And then you have all the TAG and Remote bases. Which I think are 40/45mm. And that was it, so they made EVERYTHING fit on either one size, or the other.

Then they released the Mag, which they showed on a base, but they didn't have a base for it, and didn't want to make a custom base just for one model, so they basically said you gotta build your own.

Naturally, the damn thing is the most awkwardly sized model on the planet. Nearly everything that is made out on the market is just a LIIIIIITTLE too small or a LIIITTLE too big.

Now that they're doing Infinity V3, they actually updated all the bases, and now you're supposed to be mounting all your TAGs and Remotes and other big stuff on larger bases...

...which I am not doing, becase *words redacted due to extreme profanity*!

I already based all my stuff, lovingly painted it, sprinkled snow on it, and it is done. I'm not rebasing my crap because they had a change of heart, that's a lot of work on stuff that I had already thought was done.

*pants*

Okay... yeah, sore spot for me.

Anyway. I still love the game and the models. Its my favorite game on the table by far. And I love the Mag, it is easily my favorite TAG.

I recommed pinning the little forearms that are its guns. And take the HGL, that think is tits. Otherwise I didn't pin anything else and I throw it around like an old Dreadnaught. Every now and then one of the legs will pop off, and I'll just glue it right back on. She's a pretty solid mini. Whatever paint scheme you go with will be great, that I'm sure of.

I began the Mag's assembly last night. I wound up pinning just about everything to be safe. But OH MY GOD that "groin" section! The GAPS! They were fething huge! I used much liquid greenstuff to try and fill that, but I imagine I'll be using more tonight to try and smooth it out. The thing is a lot smaller than I was expecting though. Heavy, but way small.

Yeah, it doesn't quite match the bulk of the later TAGs, but it certainly has hella-heft.

And yeah, the gap where the legs go together in the middle is just godawful. Thankfully it isn't really that bad once it's all together and he's on the ground.

Mags goes on a 75mm base, supposedly. Yeah, huge. But if you could fit 'er on a 55mm that would be fine, given that that is now the current size base for TAGS, except the mini TAGS like the Gecko.

Well, the Mag is going to have to go naked for a while, I think. Likewise, my Iguana is going to have to go with his ugly base extension.

Speaking of, guess what I've started working on!

Obviously a very early WIP. I'm hoping that I've got his green matched up with my Anaconda. I want him in a matching scheme. It looks like a match, but I'm really not entirely sure. I don't remember what green I'd used on the Anaconda. Now, if I ever get any of those Zandris not-TAGs, I intend to paint them to match the Anaconda, too. I want all of my mercenary TAGs to share similar colors, so that way they look like they're coming from the same mercenary team. And it just so happens that my Corregidor will match up fairly well with them, too.

I also achieved my goal. I got my PanO hacker assembled and fully painted, which means that I'll be doing some dipping this weekend.


Along with him, I've been working on some more gladiators. This time though, they're Reaper gladiators, but hopefully they should fit in alright with my Urban War ones.

I don't like his dopey looking half mask, but otherwise he looks decent.

This guy and the other Reaper one I got are surprisingly large though. They both tower over my Urban War Retarius, as you can see here.


So, I suppose they're using artificial growth hormones on the male gladiators?

yeah people are different sizes, those dudes are just freaks... well more so than your others

IGUANA!

Hacker looking good too!

Tonight I got around to painting the random zombie I'd found for about a buck.

His pants look very blue in person, which makes him look like Fry.

The important thing though is the Iguana. He's nearly finished.

The final colors are down, I just need to clean up the left arm and rifle a bit, attach the ammo feed, and apply decals. His torso seems a little bare though. I think I might do the gorget/collar armor in tan as well. I'd done it like that on the Anaconda, so having that visual consistency would probably be a good thing.

I also brightened up the green a bit. I was looking at my Corregidor troops and I noticed that the brighter green I used on them actually seemed to match up to the green on the Anaconda. I think I'd used Vallejo's Flat Green for those bits, so I went and redid the green bits I'd already painted on the Iguana. Now, when I get him dipped, he should match with my Anaconda.

Lookin good, fry zombie amuses me.

He does look like Zombie Fry.

I really want an Iguana... really really want an Iguana. I think it is the best looking two legged TAG in the game right now. Hands down.

He also reminds me of a Turian for some reason so that's always a plus. I think it's the collar armor.

I like the greens, and definitely looking forward to seeing him dipped!

I think the Iguana might just be one of the more intimidating TAGs to paint though. But, I'm just about done with him. next stop, The Dip!



On the downside, I'd wanted to have the ammo belt running from his rifle to his backpack. The damn thing broke twice on me while I was trying to glue it in. I guess somewhere down the line, I'll have to make an order from Zinge Industries to get some flexible resin ammo belts.

Lookin good, bummer that the ammo borked.

Well, at least it doesn't totally ruin the look of the model if it's missing. I just got him and a bunch of other figures dipped. And of course I managed to drop the Iguana. I didn't seem to scratch any paint off (thank God), but I did know his left arm loose, which I noticed after I'd already started applying the dip. Hopefully some of the dip got into the join so it could glue the arm back in place for me. With luck, I should have the Iguana totally finished by Monday.

Nice! Sucks you dropped him though. I've got a custom enforcer sgt (energy glove) who had magnetized arms and head so he could be an assault enforcer. Dipped him, tried to remove punchglove thing and it snapped where I glued it before the minwax gave up! Iguana is probably fine

I learned not to mix magnets with dip when I tried a practice run by dipping some space marines. One of them had magnetized arms. It wound up being such a mess.

Well, I managed to repair the arm. Thankfully, nothing broke and none of the paint seems to have scratched. I think I'd have been more pissed if the paint scratched than if it actually broke somewhere. Man, am I glad I pinned the hell of this thing though. I think about the only pieces I didn't pin were the head and the backpack.

I haven't got time to do a full 360 of it at the moment, but for now, please enjoy an action shot.

Looks awesome. Need to figure out how you dip large things so cleanly.

Zombie Fry, Lol. Great stuff. That Iguana looks very cool. I like the colors, very QK.

Grim, I've been using a paintbrush to apply the dip. It works so much better than dunking the figures in.
Okay folks, I finally got around to taking some pics of some finished stuff.
I also though I'd trying putting my pics together vertically so that they don't get shrunk.

First up, the long awaited Iguana.


My impulse buy PanO Fusilier Hacker.


And I finally got around to actually finishing my third Afterlife AJAX powered armor from their Kickstarter.


Got my Reaper zombies all nice and bloody.


Dammit Fry! You wandered into my shot of the zombie dance party!


And here's where my current zombie horde stands.

That really does look like Fry.

It *so* looks like fry. I kind of want to go get one and paint him similarly so I can have my own. The iguana looks great! What are you using for decals? So you're just using a large miniature brush to put the paint on? Or a sponge brush? What do you use to keep it from hardening, mineral spirits or something else? Thanks

I like the zombie horde!

I just use the smallest house painting brushes I can find from the local Dollar General. They're only about a buck. I just toss 'em when I'm done. The brushes themselves are pretty crap, but they get the job done.

Ah ok, I thought that was what you were using. I still get a lot of mess with those myself. I kind of like the sponge brushes for dipping the terrain.

I haven't tried using the sponge brushes to actually apply the dip, just remove it. How well do they work at application?

I have a few new photos. I started work on the Guilang my dad picked up for me. It isn't the most interesting paintjob though.


Believe it or not, but I actually finished the entire 5 man Storm Trooper squad I'd picked up.


Imagine that, I actually finished a set.

And lastly, the recent updates from Anvil Industry have given me the urge to get back to work on my Afterlife figures. So, I got back to work on my Unity Council Marines. Only two to add, but one of them is the medic (guy with the pistol). I'm thinking I'm going to try dipping them and see how they come out.

I like the Afterlife minis a lot, what material are they made of? Good to see the work on the old Stormtroopers too, I have always loved those sculpts.

I use the sponge brushes to put the dip on the battlezone terrain. Kind of like I'm dry brushing, but not really. But similar in concept that I'm wiping away most of the excess so it just puts a coat on the surface and doesn't leave much to pool or drip.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
I like the Afterlife minis a lot, what material are they made of? Good to see the work on the old Stormtroopers too, I have always loved those sculpts.

The Afterlife figures are all resin. The stuff Joel uses for them is really good though. I don't think I've received a single item from him with any imperfections. The resin on these has got just the right amount of give to it that it almost feels like slightly soft plastic. It's actually a little more flexible than what he'd been using for his Steamlord or Miniatures of the North lines.

Got another update.

My dad was so pleased with how the robot officer Optio turned out, he ordered himself a Robot Legion Centurion. He showed up on Friday and I just banged this out just now.

The raygun still needs paint, which I'll do in white with red rings like on Optio. Beyond that and possibly doing some highlighting, he's done for now. I'm not sure what color the eye should be. While I'd prefer it to stand out against the cape, I suspect my dad may want this guy's eye to be red as well. I'm sort of leaning towards green though. It doesn't really matter thought until after I've dipped him, so I've got time to figure that out.

Today though, I finally got back to my Aoshima 1/24 Garland kit. I'd built a few parts from it a long ass time ago and it's just been sitting unbuilt ever since (much like Vatshu has). I finally built up the nerve to actually work on it and actually finished it today, too.

This kit is specifically Shogo Yahagi's Proto Garland from Megazone 23, part 2. Personally, I didn't care for part 2 at all. The violence was ridiculously gratuitous and generally really nasty, the characters were generally unlikeable, the overall message was kind of iffy, and I hated the ending of it, not to mention the fact that since the first part, they kept building up the supposed aliens they were fighting against, and then not only never actually showed them, but the writers killed them all off almost instantly towards the end without even a second thought, like they weren't quite sure what to do with them and just said "screw it." Anyway, I'm getting off track here.
The kit is produced by Aoshima and I believe this particular version was a supposed limited edition version. The red parts are sort of metallic and it came with the heavy machinegun you see it holding. I believe the two figurines that came with it were unique to this particular version as well, but I didn't really care about them. The engineering on the kit is decent in parts. The kit does transform, but it isn't a perfect transformation. The legs have to actually be removed and there's other small pieces that have to be inserted. The way the torso section transforms though is pretty neat. The reason I don't have a picture of the bike mode though is because the damn thing broke almost immediately after I'd transformed it the first time. The wheels on the sides of the torso are and these fold out arms that are jointed using these tiny, thin rods that had absolutely no business supporting the amount of weight that they had to hold.
Beyond that issue, articulation for the kit is decent and about what you'd expect and actually managed to have a better range of movement than the non-transforming kits WAVE put out at around the same time. Unlike those kits though, the joints on this thing are FLOPPY AS HELL! This is primarily an issue of the arms though. They flop and spin all over the place and pretty much cannot hold a pose let alone the weight of that big ass gun. Speaking of the gun, it too broke almost immediately after assembling the thing. There's a tiny little wire attached to a sensor on its side that just snapped right off. Miniscule and unnoticeable, but annoying none the less. Also, this thing does not include the regular gun from the standard version of the kit. Parts of it are on the sprues, but there are major parts from it missing and the instructions don't say how to build it either. Oh yeah, there's also a bunch of metallic pieces that probably should have been used, but the instructions tell you instead to use the matte grey pieces. What was even the point of including the metallic ones then?

And, as you can see, it's kind of largeish, thus preventing it from really being used with any 28mm wargames.


Lastly, we have the Soviets mentioned in the thread title. I've been wanting to do these guys for a little while. I've had the figures sitting around, but I've been waiting to work on them until I had some gasmask heads to give them. These guys come from West Wind's Secrets of the Third Reich line and they're listed as Soviet Survivors.

I love the look of them. Their uniforms are ratty, full of holes and ripped apart. They just look haggard unkept and those gas masks just seal the deal for me. They look like they'd be just as much at home in a post apocalyptic game as they would in a WWII game. Now, these guys are only two from a set of four, so I've got a couple more left. They're fun to paint though. I can't wait to have my sci-fi Germans face off against my post apocalyptic Russians and make pew-pew noises.

Well, the mech is about the size of a "knight titan" so if you did collect all together, you could fight someone with that as a heavy support

perhaps, but I'd know that the scale is way off and it would annoy me to no end.

^Heh.

Everything looks good, sucky that your robot is kind of flimsy jointed. Still looks like he could roflstomp that spacemarine just fine.

Didn't we talk about using 1/144 mecha at some point?

Or am I just confusing that with the Lego rules we used that one time?

Because you know I could field an entire army of SDs. Squads and platoons of them in fact. with heroes, support, vehicles... it would be quite sad and/ or scary.

I too hated Part 2 of Megazone. Did you ever see part 3? Did I ever own it?

I don't remember having plans for using 1/144 stuff. Though, if we did, I'd auto win since I have the Turn A.

As for Megazone 23, I have part 3. Still do, in fact. It isn't all that good, but I find it to be kind of a guilty pleasure. If nothing else, the mech battle scenes in it look really cool.

I'm liking the way that Infinity stuff has turned out. The four-armed ...thing is very impressive.

You know what else is funny? When I saw that zombie the thought that came to mind was "they reminds me of Fry." I then read your text (and the rest of the posts!)

I don't know what it was about that figure that made me paint it that. That figure really does seem like it was meant to be a zombie Fry.

Someone around here was asking me about the Iguana's pilot. Was it you, Grimdork? Well, here he is.




I'm going to attempt to attach the ammo belt tonight. Hopefully I don't feth it up.

I've also been trying to paint my Maghariba Guard. I think that might just be the most annoying figure I've tried to paint.
Also, I'm picking up Destiny today. Not sure I'll be getting a whole lot done mini-wise in the near future.

Ahh cool beans, good work on the pilot. Gotta paint him up for when his rig gets shot up and he's got to go seek retribution on his own.

I think I might add some battle damage to him, actually.

Now this sort of came out of nowhere. I knew Bandai was planning a line of "action figure" model kits for sale outside of Japan, but it seemed like it was something that was just always in the works. I took a detour by Toys R Us today and low and behold, I actually found Bandai's Sprukits series on shelves!

"Barzam, what the feth are Sprukits?" you might be asking. Good question!
Sprukits are basically Bandai's latest attempt to try selling plastic models in the US and other Western countries. They'd given a half-assed attempt when Gundam was on Cartoon Network, but really, it was pretty lame. Their attempts to market the Mobile Suit in Action toyline was much more successful. This new line is essentially a rebranding of the MG-Figurize series of Master Grade class figure kits Bandai's put out in the last few years. Whereas those kits though were based on Japanese heroes, namely Kamen Rider, these ones are American heroes. There's so far two licensed lines, DC Comics, and Halo.

The Sprukits series is supposed to have 3 classes. The most basic- level 1- consists of simplistic 4" figures with limited articulation. As far as I know (I may be wrong), there's only 3 figures at that level right now: Batman, Superman, and Joker. Level 2 is larger and should be around 6" or so when finished. At that level, there are kits of Batman, Superman, Master Chief, Spartan Thorne, and Spartan Palmer. Level 2 should be equivalent to the Figurize-6 line of 6" kits. Level 3 should be equivalent of the full sized MG-Figurize line and so far only consists of a Master Chief figure. Hopefully, if the line proves successful (I have serious doubts about that) they'll add more licenses and have Halo stuff in the small scale line and DC stuff in the large scale line.

As mentioned, I have my doubts about the success of this line. I'm sure none of you have heard of this series even until just now. And that, that is the reason it probably is going to fail. Bandai is not doing any kind of marketing for this series.

There's also another line in the Sprukits series. They're using Sprukits to market the Danball Senki series of robot kits and like the other ones, there's to be 3 scale/difficulty levels. Unfortunately, I didn't see any of the Danball Senki stuff. Not that it matters because the line's been out for years now in Japan and by now, if there's anything I want, I've already bought it. Plus, I doubt the line will last long enough to get to the really cool stuff (like my flying guy with the sword bits from earlier in this thread).

Since I can't resist a good model kit, I did feel the need to buy one of the Halo Spartans. So, I picked up Thorne.

As you can see, they're marketing it almost like a Lego kit rather than a plastic model. I will note though, the little "Designed in Japan" blurb on the Sprukits logo. In fact, these kits are actually MADE IN JAPAN! That means these were made in the same factories as Bandai's Gundam kits. That's pretty cool and pretty much guarantees that these should be of pretty decent quality.
Here's a shot of the box back.

You can see the Master Chief and Sarah Palmer cross-sells there on the bottom of the box. One little bit about the box that I like is the (somewhat simplified) exploded view of the kit.

Here's what you get in the box: 2 baggies with a total of 5 sprues, a tiny decal sheet, and instructions.


I'm going to say right now, I really don't like the package design on these. The art isn't eye catching (unlike most Japanese boxart) and the box itself is super flimsy. That ring of cardboard is used to support and protect the sprues on the inside. Just, ugly package design. The parts look very crisp and sharp though. Lots of very nice little sculpted on details, like the hexagon patterns on the undersuit. Everything seems to be molded in color (yay) and the thing even looks like it might have extra hands and a stand.

However, I'm going to hold off on building him. He's going to be a weekend project. For now, I'm going to be playing Destiny.

New game huh? I'm out of the loop and my rig is too.

Neat halo man.

You must be out of the loop if you haven't heard the hype for Destiny.

As it turns out, I actually do have an Infinity figure to share. I finished up my Zerat sniper. I decided to try a different scheme with her since she's part of the Morat Special Missions Regiment and is meant to be a sneaky Morat, as much as one can be, at any rate. So, since she's part of a special unit, she gets to have a different scheme. I've included the yellow markings since Zerats are supposed to be elite units. Though, I'm going to remove the markings from her chest and they just don't look that good.

Well it's just for consoles isn't it? Lame. Plus FPS is meh unless I've got someone to play it with. Enjoy though, sounds like a lot of people will be around to play with you.

Sniper looks good. I definitely like the colors.

 Barzam wrote:
You must be out of the loop if you haven't heard the hype for Destiny.

As it turns out, I actually do have an Infinity figure to share. I finished up my Zerat sniper. I decided to try a different scheme with her since she's part of the Morat Special Missions Regiment and is meant to be a sneaky Morat, as much as one can be, at any rate. So, since she's part of a special unit, she gets to have a different scheme. I've included the yellow markings since Zerats are supposed to be elite units. Though, I'm going to remove the markings from her chest and they just don't look that good.

Lanky! yet curvy, but Zerat Males are so bulky and such.

She looks good like that. good colors. I might have to try destiny see how it plays and such. I am used to the Fallout and Elder scrolls universes on my 360

Destiny's been kind of fun. But, I enjoy post apocalyptic games in general.

Did a little more work on the Zerat. Got rid of the yellow on the chest and did some highlights to try and brighten up the green, not that it came through on the photo. Also tried to lighten up the hair a bit.




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Let's throw this in for tonight as well. I had a hard time coming up with how I should paint this guy. I think he turned out pretty good there.

Here you go, a Farseer for my Hojo Clan Eldar.



And here he is with the Warlocks I've done so far.

Looks like he fits in pretty well, to me.

I've also finished up my Soviet Survivors set. Here's the other two guys from that pack.



And here's all of the Soviet Survivors set II.


I really like these guys. I'm a bit disappointed that FRP doesn't have any of the others on sale besides the RPG guys, who look terrible, and the zombies. I'm actually rather looking forward to seeing what West Wind does with their SOTR 2nd edition.

Damn you and your industrious painting.

In the span of you doing all that, I primed one guy. One.

Work and kids certainly haven't helped.

I think you did a good job on that Farseer. Your freehand came out nicer than mine would have! Nice detail on that guy.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Damn you and your industrious painting.

In the span of you doing all that, I primed one guy. One.

Work and kids certainly haven't helped.

I think you did a good job on that Farseer. Your freehand came out nicer than mine would have! Nice detail on that guy.

Well, my thread would also make you upset, I am working on several squads as seen in it of late as well.

 Barzam wrote:

I really like these guys. I'm a bit disappointed that FRP doesn't have any of the others on sale besides the RPG guys, who look terrible, and the zombies. I'm actually rather looking forward to seeing what West Wind does with their SOTR 2nd edition.

Me too!

And then I'll be looking forward to seeing what you do with them!

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Damn you and your industrious painting.

In the span of you doing all that, I primed one guy. One.

I managed to do that with a new game distracting me, too.

I got my Deadzone stuff in today, too. I literally came home, threw a few figures together and slapped some paint on these two to see how they'd look.

I'm not feeling the Tron style colors on the Cypher as much as I thought I would. I'm going to try throwing a different scheme onto one of the special weapon Cyphers from the booster bundle and see which catches my fancy better. The zombie I did to see how well the fantasy bits mix with the new bits. I'd say they work very well. The legs and head are from the new plastics and the torso is from the fantasy set. He fits in pretty well with my other kitbashed zombies, too.

Here's a trio of Cyphers from the Asterian Booster bundle. I redid the Tron one in blue. I was kind of leaning towards doing the basic Cyphers in blue and black, so these two here were tests for that.

I hate to say it, but I'm not really feeling the blue, either. Thankfully, I have two Asterian starter packs, so I think I might do one of the sets in green. Greens usually tend to come out well for me.
The Black Talon on the far left, btw, I did up in the colors of the Black Tri-Stars from Gundam. It seemed fitting to me.

Well I certainly don't think they look bad, though I dunno if its a color I would choose myself. Black talon is interesting. Black armor and white cloth/flexible/less armored areas is what I'm looking into doing for my enforcers going forward.

Models look like they really lean towards a two-tone approach, not sure what I'll try myself. I'd like to do some kind of fancy airbrush nonsense but I dunno what it would be.

Got my Guilang sniper done last night. I'd wanted to keep his colors simple, but pretty much up until I'd had him dipped, I wasn't quite feeling the scheme. Now, I really like it. This is a neat little figure.



I've really been ignoring the faction that actually got me into this game lately. I think that'll be changing a bit in the near future. I just won a set of Tiger Soldiers for about $6. So, they ought to be arriving fairly soon, I hope. They ought to be fun to paint.

Here's the usual dio shots, too.

Looks good, the helmet and eye are especially striking.

I finally bit the bullet and started work on my Police Squalo. I knew this thing was going to be difficult since it'd involve a lot of white paint. Add in the fact that my usual super glue is dead and my backup isn't that good, and I wind up with a lot of frustrations.

I know the blue I used is kind of bright, but trust me, it looks better once it's fully assembled.

I'd initially planned on building some light bars on the back next to the sensor fins, but I decided that it would be too much work and just wouldn't look very good. So, instead I've decided to just incorporate the light bars into the fins.

Here's a closeup of the head/torso area so you can actually see the MP decal on its forehead.

You can also see a small gap on its right antennae since the thing didn't quite want to fit in all the way. You can tell that this is definitely an early sculpt since there's quite a few little fit issues here and there on it.

I also painted up a Mercs figure. I really like the Sefadu team's designs. They've got really cool looking armor, but their figures leave a lot to be desired. Their default color scheme is not my favorite and most of them are posed really badly.

This guy is Sefadu's Grenadier. His posing is okay. Him and the shotgunner look the best. The leader is kind of cool, but the lineartwork for him makes him look much cooler than his actual figure. I'm not sure why I chose green and yellow for his armor, but I like how it looks. Same with the white rifle. I might add some extra color to that, but I'm not planning on changing the gun's color. It sort of reminds me of the rifles the MNU used in District 9.

The sefadu guy looks interesting, good job. And the Squalo... excellent I really really really like where you're going with that. The sensor fin things should be pretty easy to make into light bars too, can't wait to see it done. I was on the fence about maybe getting one of those or maybe waiting till they eventually re-do them. This has pretty well convinced me not to wait for a re-sculpt (though it may still happen before I get one ).

The sculpt is a little funky in terms of proportions though. It's got a long torso, but it is kind of neat looking.

I figure being an older figure, I could explain it away as being an older model TAG handed over to the police.


And what would be a Police TAG without some police to hang out with it?

Well, I got my Tiger Soldiers today, but there's a bit of a problem. The HMG guy's arms/gun were mispacked. He's got a right arm with a combi rifle from... somewhere. It sure as hell isn't the arms though. On top of not having the right arm packed in, the little missing product slip is missing as well. I'll have to contact CB to see if it'll be possible to get a replacement or not. This is mildly annoying.

On the plus side, the figures I ordered from Noble Knight earlier in the week also arrived and all three seem to be just fine. I've got another robot soldier for my dad and two cyborg ladies for me.

The light bars turned out well, and the police look good.

Sucks to hear about the arms, so far I haven't had a problem myself.

Well, so far my issues with missing pieces have mostly be relegated to older figures. So far, the only exception to that has been my Gwailo. At least it isn't that prevalent of a problem and CB is usually pretty cool about sending replacements. I sent an email to them about it since the Tiger Soldiers didn't even have a complaint code with them. Hopefully they'll just want a picture of what I had in the package and they can ship me the correct arms. Of course, that particular Tiger Soldier will be invalidated with their new profile. So, if they can't send anything, I think I'll accept the mispack's challenge and attempt to mod that incorrect arm to actually fit onto the HMG guy.

Should be pretty manageable, though I say this without seeing it. There's always the cop-out bandage or baggage to cover it up too

Well, so far, no response from CB. I think I'll wait another day or two before emailing them again about it.

I've spent my time this week, so far, working on my Enforcer Strider for Deadzone. I just got the main model finished. All that's left is to do the basing as finish it all off with a spray-on dull coat.





In this second pic, I wanted to show the blending job I attempted to pull off on the cockpit glass. This is probably the second time I've actually attempted blending and even though it took a little while, I think I actually kind of pulled it off.

That glass looks good. The colour tone can convey the sense of it being a water-filled compartment though. This is not necesarrily a bad thing.

Nice blending work!

Definitely nice Did you magnetize the arms there?

Nah, I just hadn't glued it on completely yet. My next order of business is to work on some zombies and the Stuntbot.

Sweet. Looking forward to it!

Well, I didn't get as much done tonight as I'd have liked. Most of my time tonight was spent trying to learn how to do German tank camo without an airbrush. As a result, I only got two zombies painted up.

The ones I painted wound up being the two I did in hazmat gear.

The skin on the right-hand guy is kind of dark. The guy on the left was made pretty much out of spare parts. Mixing in some fantasy bits gives you some funky, misshapen zombies that actually fit in quite well with the fluff. I mean, these guys are people who couldn't quite fully mutate, so they should look all kinds of messed up.

More angles.



They're still fitting in well with my other kitbashed zombies.


As for the Stuntbot, I've begun assembly, but not painting. I wanted to do it up in German style camouflage, but I'm not confident in my skills to replicate it. Especially not without an airbrush. So, I tracked down a decent tutorial and tried to learn how to paint the camo style I wanted.

Here's the test model for it.


I'm trying to replicate the soft-edged look that most German WWII camo patterns had. I don't have an airbrush, so this was sort of difficult to do, despite how simple it looks. I think I went a bit heavy on the weathering though. When I do the Stuntbot itself, I'm going to leave the weathering out and just dip it instead.

Some of the German 3 tone camo also had hard lines
Base of sand yellow the brick red and the olive green But you do have soft blurred or "feathered" edges to the darker parts, so good deal there

I like your growing zombie horde, going to have to add my KoW zombie bits to my new zombies straight off.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Some of the German 3 tone camo also had hard lines
Base of sand yellow the brick red and the olive green But you do have soft blurred or "feathered" edges to the darker parts, so good deal there

So, you think I should use a redder shade of brown then? I've got a more orangey shade, but I just used what the tutorial suggested, which was Chocolate Brown and I'm happy enough with how it looks.

My dad wanted me to post a picture of the bike completed after I showed it to him, so here's how it looks.



The bike, btw is the Puppetswar not-Space Marine bike. I'll admit, the rider is a rushed job, but I don't really care. It's good enough.

Now, about that naked cyborg in the updated title....


Yep, she's definitely nude. These are kind of weird figures. Urban Mammoth's Urban War/Metropolis line has a bunch of basically naked cyborgs in one of the factions. Even the male ones are pretty much only wearing the odd codpiece. It's kind of odd, because all of the official pics of the Artemis Class Biosynths (what this figure is) are painted with tops on, but they're all sculpted to very clearly be topless. I think, not counting my Wet Nurse, this is my first topless figure. I'm kind of thinking though, if I get any more of these cyborgs, I kind of want to do them up like my zombies, with the purplish skin.

LOL, is okay, the bike looks good as is.

Yeah, the original VOID Synths were more clothes and more or less safe for work image wise, Urban Mammoth redid them as pretty much Nekkid what can you do? the original comapny hadd problems, UM took it all over and redid the whole thing and stopped trying to compete with the massive GW as the orignal Void was trying, but did not fall before Mutant Chronicles did.

Trying to go fast in direct competition with a major and established game company was shown in the late 90's early 2000's to be fail recipe. starting small and trying different approaches, or just being a source for alternative army pieces first seems to be working better than just going head to head.

Privateer Press and Infinity went with different plans, and has worked for them so far. Prodos is resurrecting WZ with a different metho and not directly challenging, others are also slow to get things running, but seek more stable growth as opposed to the explosive stuff of the past where mini/game companies shot for the stars before mastering normal flight as it were.

Love the word ballons on last image

Lol nekkid cyborg. Funny speech bubbles too.

I'm unfamiliar with the various types of camo, but I think the bike looks good in general.

Thanks guys. I suppose I can try and tackle the Stuntbot tonight. At the very least, I've got it primed now. I'll start applying the base coats, I guess.

I also painted up another Retro Raygun Robot Soldier for my dad. I'd hoped to get this guy done before his birthday, but no such luck. At the very least, he'll have this guy join his Centurion and squad leader figures by this weekend.



and remember, these guys are pretty big.

That Enforcer Commander isn't exactly a small figure.
Someday, I need to get some more of these robots. I'd like to give my dad an entire squad with support weapons.

Sweet robot.

I kind of want to work on my own stuntbot but I'd feel bad for the rest of his strike force sitting up on nails waiting for paint.

Hey, it's not like I've been doing any work on my Marauders, either.

I did do work on the Stuntbot though. I've got the main figure assembled, minus arms. Basecoats are applied and the first of the two camo colors have been applied as well.

I'll be adding green stripes between the brown ones, obviously. And then he'll be off to get dipped!

Also took a size comparison, so you can see how it stacks up against the regular Marauders.

Very nice Are you going to paint the interior? I think I'll have to copy your method there, paint the arms separately.

You don't paint the big stuff in pieces GrimDork? I'm kind of surprised. I'd go crazy trying to get some of those little niches and crevices when you have the model totally built.

I see we're sticking with the German theme there. Is that an Afrikakorp Marauder running in the back? It works.

All this Deadzone talk lately got me to finish clipping all my battlezones and actually put some buildings together. My fingers are still raw from it.

Kids were happy and got in a big fight over who got to play with what buildings. Nexus Psi was soon populated by Wave 2 of Myth.

Yeah I almost always assemble everything fully, sometimes I use magnets, but I usually just grit my teeth and bash my head against the tight corners. I find I'd rather do that than mess up my hard work by being ham-fisted with the glue and messing up the paint or something.

Gotta love battlezones too

I'm out of connectors, so I don't have to deal with sore thumbs for a little while. Not until wave 3 ships, at any rate.

As for the cockpit, I actually glued it shut. I thought about pinning it so it could swing open, but it didn't seem like there was quite enough resin there to drill through without destroying it. So, the pilot is now entombed within.

I don't know how you can paint something fully assembled though. That would drive me nuts.

Drives me batty to do it the other way Some things it's almost impossible not to, but it's been my default for ages. Maybe a bad way to do, but it's how I'm programed

Nope. Can't do it. It drives me nuts not having the whole thing painted or having little bits that I can't reach.

Stuntbot's almost done! Just basing, a few more details on the buzzsaw arm, and some dip and he'll be done.

Oh I pretty well get those bits, even if it means messing something up then fixing it. You should see the hidden parts of some landscape walls we've built, or like most houses

Bot looks excellent BTW. Really coming along well.