Many of us have a host of unpainted, even unbuilt, miniatures sitting on our desks or tucked away out of sight. Many of us haven't heard the clack of dice or the thwip of a tape measure for months. Together let's get motivated to dust off those dice and moisten our brushes!


It's easy to get involved:
Just post a message stating what you pledge to do and when you aim to do it by, then, when you complete your pledge, just post another message telling us how it went. If you can provide pictures at the beginning and/or the end then please do although this is not a requirement. I also encourage you to create a P&M Blog to showcase your work and announce your updates here.

All right... As I've been in the middle of painting my PanO Spec-Ops for a couple weeks now... It's the perfect timing to kick myself and finish it !
I've also started and basecoated a Shasvastii seed soldier and so I'll try to finish him before the end of the week =)

Next time, Ì'll post the picture of the model I'll paint before doing anything on it.

My first pledge.

Paint and base the models I have for my Qapu Khalqi sectorial force. So far this is Nomads Alguaciles (3), a mobile brigada HI (HMG) and 4 Druze Militia. Still to come, the Haqq contingent and an "Iguana" TAG stand in.

Alguaciles done. Mobile brigada done. Druze in progress.

I don't paint for GD level standards - so my TT standard will do me fine. They are a step up from dipped, though and do usually contain the "minimum 3 colours" that were the de facto GW tourney standard.

Good pledges guys, looking forward to seeing your work. I've updated the OP and I've thrown my hat in too, looks like the pressures on.

Ooh, a pledge thread! Well as i already have a host of unpainted/ unbuilt minis i might as well chip in.

This week: Get Mathieu's O12 mini bloody well finished! And base/ prime 3 djanbazans.

Oh, and as a stretch goal if i get time finish off a building i've been working on too.

Von Skyfury painting... really?

First pledge:

Occaisonally see my Infinity models in a corner of the basement while doing loads of newborn baby laundry.

Duration: Now - August

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Von Skyfury painting... really?

Hey ! It's not like I don't have anything painted
A few more and I'll have 1 painted mini per faction =P

Get all my Highlanders assembles by the end of may

 Von Skyfury wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Von Skyfury painting... really?

Hey ! It's not like I don't have anything painted
A few more and I'll have 1 painted mini per faction =P

I couldn't quite believe you were the guy pushing me to put this thread up. Turning over a new leaf?

Glad to see some more pledging too.
@bantha - Biggest pledge so far if you reach the stretch goal! Good on you, I'll add it to the OP.
@plastictrees - Haha, well congratulations and if you decide to jump on board at any point for a quick jaunt then feel free.
@Nerm - Since this is weekly, shall I put you in to get one built by the reset? I'll put you in as that for now and just tell me if you want me to change it.

Base coat and initial layering on my Gao-Rael Sniper.

Sorry mould, added you in earlier and forgot to post afterwords.

Well I'm putting stuff together so I can at least play with them but painting is another matter. I've had 5 Shasvastii half done on my desk for about 5 months now :( So I pledge to have them done in 1 Month!

I'm currently working of a project for another miniatures game, but I'll join the pledging in coming weeks.

I'll bite. Have my FRRM done by the end of May.

That's 5 Métros, 3 Chasseurs, a Mirage-5 team, 3 random chicks for Zouaves or Briscards.

Normally I'd have it all done by end of April, but with the studies, painting has been an issue.

An update or sorts and an excuse a reason for delays.

I managed to scratch my eyeball on my good eye (left one) and the treatment makes my vision blur and the depth perception is very much reduced so no painting or modelling for me for at least the next two weeks.

How am I typing this? I'm dictating this to my computer as I can't properly focus on the keyboard.

Ouch, swift recovery chromedog.

oh weekly, well nothing then as im off to china for two weeks tomorrow... I said end of May because of that

I don't think it needs to be weekly =)
As long as people get on board and reach their goals ( or not ), it's fine.
As long as it motivates people to actually paint some minis =)

My motivation is twofold:

I hate playing with unpainted minis.

I like having more minis painted than Von Skyfury.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:


I like having more minis painted than Von Skyfury.

You could litterally stop painting for a year and still have more painted minis =P

I'm making a pledge but it's a fortnight one, thesis intro due thursday so I'm unsure if I'll find time before then.

Finish Highland Grey with HMG, Wulver with T2 Rifle and SAS CRAP

edit: update, changed to SAS CRAP and finished him and the HMG Grey

Second opinion and referral to specialist tells me that first TWO doctors were crap and shall not be returned to. Specialist has changed the treatment and vision should return to normal within a few weeks.

Thanks for the thoughts, anyway. I've still managed to assemble some models. It just took longer than normal.

That's rough chromedog, hope you heal up promptly!

I agree about not making it weekly actually. The idea was to keep the updates easy and that small deadlines are easier to focus on. Looking at it now, it's easy enough for me to do non weekly pledges too and that'll work better for some people. I'll update the OP next. Basically I'll continue to reset/update every Monday so as long as your in for any Sunday I'll catch it on time.

Update for my pledge.
Got BlueDagger's trade underway. The pose is finished and I'm just getting it pinned together now, very happy with it. Sadly that's it so far as I've been really ill all week. Still planning to hit my target though.

I'm abit inspired now after adepticon so im hoping to get tl work soon.

I'm going to change my pledge from the shotgun SAS to the SAS with CRAP if that's alright, I love the model and my store happened to have it (they never have ariadna blisters, so that was a stroke of luck) and I painted him up as soon as I got home.

I also finished the Grey with HMG, and the Wulver is nearing completion. Pics will follow in the next day or two.

Funnily enough, not much uni work got done.

Vision improving and base coating of some models done.

Vision not good enough for finer details at this point, but can at least focus on screen if I squint a little (better than 4 days ago, at least, when squint or no, blur was all there was).

I don't expect to have as much free time next week so let's go with a very easy one =P
My fiday has no base yet so I'll work on it.
And if possible, I'll try to slap a little more paint on an Hac Tao.


So here's my Crimson Spec Ops for my PanO Military Order :



And then, here's the first seed soldier. As I wanted him done today, I rushed him a bit.
Now that I'm happy with the paint scheme I chose, the next one will get a little more attention =)




I'll eventually take better pictures I guess

So only Skyfury hit there target so far. I'm sorry to say I can't make that two either. Being ill ate up my week and when I finally started greenstuffing Blue's trade I realised it needed much more extensive and more detailed work than I anticipated.

@chromedog, glad you're getting a bit of vision back mate. Don't strain the old eyes to much though!

@motyak, yeh no worries. Sounds like things are progressing well, well... apart from uni work.

@CDK, awesome! How was it?

I'm going to add to my current pledge for next week to make up for it. So same again for me but two models for my blog.

I'll update the OP now. Feel free to make new pledges whenever.

Next month I'll finish my Acontecimento not including TAG.

5 man Bagh-Mari link
Doctor & Engineer with palbots
Hacker Akalis
1 or more regulars

Dragoe when I have the time.

 Casey's Law wrote:
So only Skyfury hit there target so far. I'm sorry to say I can't make that two either. Being ill ate up my week and when I finally started greenstuffing Blue's trade I realised it needed much more extensive and more detailed work than I anticipated.

@chromedog, glad you're getting a bit of vision back mate. Don't strain the old eyes to much though!

@motyak, yeh no worries. Sounds like things are progressing well, well... apart from uni work.

@CDK, awesome! How was it?

I'm going to add to my current pledge for next week to make up for it. So same again for me but two models for my blog.

I'll update the OP now. Feel free to make new pledges whenever.

It was awesome. I'm still recovering! I only got a few pics of figs though

I'm pretty inspired to paint now too!

It was a rough weekend. My term project slipped a bit... in favour of a giant werewolf-dog-thingy and a chasseur.

Whoever it is that proposed the "black wash first and foremost" to pick out details on a mini deserves a kiss.

Well my phone took a hissy fit earlier and I couldn't update the OP. I'll sort it now.

Kaap, welcome in, I'll add your pledge!

CDK, brilliant, now go grab that brush!

Nice progress already Mathieu, your nicely on track to hit your target and then some!


Also, in the fight for control over my phone I forgot to say that your minis looks great Skyfury. How did you do the Spec Op base? I suggest you put up a blog.

Well i managed to fail with my first pledge but i achieved my stretch goal Here's the building



My O12 mini is basically done but i failed to make any progress with the djanbazans.

I'm switching armies in our local league/ campaign so this week i'll be getting a Rui Shi assembled and ready to play at the weekend. Or at least trying to.

Haha, that's 3 incompletes to 1 completed. Nice work on the building though! I'll add your new pledge now.

I'm pledging not to start buying a second faction until I've at least had more than two games of Infinity.


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(the seed soldiers blister that I just got on Ebay doesn't count as it was a bargain)

Oooh ooh! That's mine! Yay!

 Casey's Law wrote:
How did you do the Spec Op base?

Use your Sedition Wars Opticamo minis as Camo Markers.
Use their base for your PanO Military Order.
Profit

I love your red. It's so different from the expected PanO blue.

 Von Skyfury wrote:

 Casey's Law wrote:
How did you do the Spec Op base?

Use your Sedition Wars Opticamo minis as Camo Markers.
Use their base for your PanO Military Order.
Profit

You're a crafty one! Nice catch.

Well, term project is almost over. I finished Margot and another Chasseur.

Hasslefree makes really hot chasseur models.

Well even though I had the house to myself I decided to catch up on a bit of TV I can't watch with the family around. Even that didn't go the way expected. I wanted to finally try out the Zombie show and ended up watch Doctor Who.

After that I got to my desk and started gluing stuff rather than painting. I just got in a bunch of magnets for my bases.

Completed apart from the eyes and a few chips from when I dropped the foam tray of them last night...sigh. Pics to follow.

Double sigh, just ignore the eyes. I'm really considering putting visors on all my models I'm that bad at painting eyes. The pictures aren't really flattering...quite horrific actually. For instance the highlighting is gone on the Wulver, and the blue on the tartan (there is a light blue there) is really quite clear on them...oh well.

The three of them together



Highlander Grey



SAS



Wulver

Yay =D

Hac Tao almost finished and Fiday's base has been completed.
I'll try to finish him before next sunday.

The glue is drying on my Rui Shi's spitfire. I'll get a pic up after work when my cameras not dead. And for this week i'll be assembling the Lu Duan and Pangguling and finishing re-painting my Yaokong .

OK got the battery charged.



Played a game with it at the weekend with just the main body glued to the legs and thought it looked pretty wimpy. Looks a lot better with the guns glued on as well.

Well, hum, one thing led to another, and, errrr... my pledge is done.

A full month in advance. Sorry guys.

Pics to follow.

So far I've just been working on putting models together. I figure at least I can play with them if they are together instead of on a box or blister on the shelf. I've put together three Auxbots, workign on boxed set of Wu Ming. The HMG is completely done. Working on pinning an arm for the Noctifer. Want to make sure I don't go completely through his arm like I did on the other arm :( I've almost have Lu Duan done too. I've still got Hac Tao with HMG. My daughters Riot Grrl with spitfire, and a few others I can't remember.

Brilliant work everyone! Sorry about the lack of update, I'll remedy that tonight. I completed my pledge on time with a few hours to spare and I'll make a new one on Monday.

Keep up the great work! And if you update your blogs be sure to pump them out on the Community Showcase thread so people find you easily.

Updated the OP including your new pledge Skyfury and one from me. Take a second to check it please folks incase I've mucked it up.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Updated the OP including your new pledge Skyfury and one from me. Take a second to check it please folks incase I've mucked it up.

Actually, the fiday was last week's pledge =P
This week is the Hac Tao and this one might not be done thiw weekend as I've been sick all day.

Oh so it is! I'm glad I asked you guys to check, I had a feeling something was wrong. There may be other mistakes, hopefully not. Would you like me to change the pledge to the 13th instead? I'll swap it to then until you say otherwise.

At last, the Hac Tao is done.
Not painting related but by next week, I'll kick myself to assemble the models that are not =P

I got all my Highlander assembled. Well not all of them but about 80% of them, enough to make an effective list. The ones I have are left overs or are going to be heavily converted.

New pledge, get 14 models painted by 8 June as there will be a 1 day tournament at Defiant Gaming HQ

Nice job guys! A couple of weeks early too Nerm, well done. That Hac Tao looks great Skyfury, y you no have blog?!

I got mine done too although I changed it slightly to work on one of my Infinimunda models so I dropped the painting bit and got a couple more conversions done, I'll try post them up today. I'll update the OP now.

I'll pledge to have my three Zondbots converted and preshaded by next reset.

There you go, all models are now assembled =)



As I have no idea yet as to which theme to use on my Tohaa forces, I'm giving myself until June 2nd to finish painting a Makaul.

Those Kaplan look very cool! Need to put mine together...

Yep, they are easily one of the best looking 5 man squad in the game =)

I need to drop out for this month, due to extremely tight schedule at work.

Maybe next month

Nice work, Skyfury! Got mine done too, I'll have to update my blog soon, which is now part of my pledge for next week.

No worries Kaap, repledge when you can.

Of the 14 models I have completed undercoated and based all, completed 4 and have paint on 3. I still have 3 and a half weeks so fingers crossed

Still plenty of time =)
You can do it !

That's already impressive! You'll manage it nae bother!

Well, after a couple mess up, I'm done with my Makaul.
Not sure the other Tohaa models will have the same colors but it should be close enough now that I know which colors to use =P

There he is =)




Next thing to do : Paint Django and King Kazak, 2 of my Veteran Kazaks. Being MVPs of my last 3 games, they deserve a bump in the painting queue =)

So, is it more motivating to paint haphazardly, in your opinion, or go on a faction binge?

Sorry about the delay folks! I ran out of data just before I got round to the update but my reset was today so I was only out by a day.

Another nice job VS! Your a powerhouse of production! I got my remotes assembled as intended but my CA has gone a little tacky so I might have to redo them. :faceplam: That'll teach me to clean the glue tube before I put the cap on!

MR, I'm not sure I'm understanding buddy... Oh! I think I get you now! That's a really good question and the answer may be different person to person. I guess that getting a few from the same group done will motivate you to finish the rest but swapping up the paint scheme is more refreshing. Maybe meeting half way is best? Swapping between two forces and after each miniature. I'd be interested to know what works well for others.

I'll put in an update now, not sure what I'm going to pledge yet though...
! I'll finish converting my Szally who I decided needed a new face and ankles. The operation had so far been messy and my tacky CA isn't helping.

I haven't been able to slap any paint on figs but I happy that I know have all my Wu Ming together so I can at least play them. I've also got all my Monks together. I'm also working on two remotes, Lu Duan and Rui Shi, I also got together my Spec Op. I was thinking of converting him somehow but I actually like the knife and gun pose. I think soon I'll clean up and start painting again. My kids want to paint their figs too so It needs to be done anyway.

Nice one CDK, you've been busy! I hope we see some paint before long, what are the weans going to be painting?

My daughter has a Riot Grrl and a Spekter to paint. My son, I'll have to find something for him. I have a bunch of very old minis that can be used. He can be picky though. He only wants to paint boys. It's about time I strip the ones they have already painted so they can paint them again.

Nice one, is that the female Spektr and the original Riot Grrl per chance? 'Cause they're both on my workbench too. The Riot Grrl is a nice drybrushing candidate but the Spektr is a particularly difficult model to paint in my opinion. I'm a little worried about putting down any more paint to be honest but I'm going to have to make a push to get Blue's trade ready.

Ive got 5 Highlander to base, Bruant to paint, and then 14 models to varnish. getting close now

Almost there, Nerm!

Well none of us got to paint because of hockey play-offs. GO Blackhawks!

I'm going to try and take pics of my daughters figures at some point. She's doing pretty good for a 9yo I think.

That'd be good mate. I think Gits and Graven both post work from their kids, it's nice to see the hobby being passed down to a new generation.

My Szally is coming along now, I got some new glue because I don't think that stuff was going to set. I'm really glad I decided to lengthen the lower leg, imo it balances the miniature better and gives it a nice imposing height. I'm working on my Lizard too which has now taken a leap forward thanks to you CDK.

Slight change to my list, need to pain Uxia and Bruant now

Nice job !
Which mini are you using for Bruant ?

Exciting, I hope we are going to get loads of pics!

Update:
I just gave the OP a large overhaul! Apart from general rewriting there are a couple of changes that may interest you all.
- Sunday Resets are a thing of the past! From now on you choose any date you want.
- Pledge Statistics has been replaced by a straight up count of how many times you have completed a pledge.

Any other changes you'd like to see folks?

First pledge for June: fully and completely finish painting my Military orders force and start a Dakka P&M blog (once there's something to put in it). So that's two knights, 5 sergeants, a doc and a thread by the end of June.

So, vision returning to normal - scarring on cornea has healed (it's a pretty resilient piece of work).

Got distracted by my club's annual 40k tourney (I was running it) so got no more work done for another two weeks.

WIP for the QK.

Kaplan Tech Services merc, Nomad Mobile Brigada (modified head - because I didn't like the original fish head), some Haqqi - 2 hafza and a Djanbazan and some alguaciles (old ones).

Excuse the quality of the pics. Phone camera - actual DSLR has flat batteries - they are recharging.
(Note: This is how my vision was about a week after getting treatment. )









Basing needs finishing and some touch up work done. Waiting for some Ghulams to come back into stock and also need to get some yellow paint for the druze.

 Von Skyfury wrote:
Nice job !
Which mini are you using for Bruant ?

I'm using the Intel Spec Ops with the knife arm (knife cut away) and the open hand holding the barrel of a Molotok (HMG) with the butt leaning on the ground, I used the gas mask head to represent the X-Visor. I will be posting pics up when its painted.

Ive got two weeks to paint and base two models and then varnish them all. My only worry is that the weather has been really bad here which may make it hard to use the spray varnish... fingers crossed

Updated the OP for you Dheneb! Good luck! I've just listed your miniatures as 7, I hope that's okay? I can change it if you'd like.

Chrome, I'm glad you're healing up well! The models are looking good! Thanks for keeping us informed, are you thinking of making a little pledge?

Sounds like a nice conversion Nerm. Hopefully the weather plays out for you.

Don't know what I could pledge.

Most of my stuff is already done - and except for the QK, which is waiting on stock - pretty much done. I've got Penny for Aleph to assemble and paint. Not to actually game with, though. She's just for the model. Hot biker chick.

I'd love to pledge to have the QK done by say End of June or something, but knowing my luck, they won't get to me until June 29

The Lizard being modified into the Iguana will take me a few weeks. Pieces have to be sculpted for it.

You'll see that I changed the OP to be more relaxed now so feel free to pledge anything. Even multiple pledges if you'd like. If you don't make the pledge on time then you don't get a +1 buy there is no negative record of it. It's just good motivation to have a target.

Do tell us more about the Iguana, I'm reworking the Lizard right now and also doing work on my Szally. I'd be interested to see what your ideas are and seeing your progress.

Of course, now you're all going to be very bust working on your Dakka Painting Challenge: Two Tickets to Paradiso entries!

OK, i'll pledge to paint something up for the painting challenge. I'd tell you what it is but its a secret!

Haha, I was wondering how long it would be before someone made that joke. +1 internets to you, sir!

My pledge: get the greenstuff and temporary painting base done on my Dragôes TAG.
Good lord that thing would probably have been a worse build than the remotes (legs just don't even come close to fitting the pre-cast blocks...) so I figured, hey, might as well repose it a bit. It's an awesome mini but it suffers from a moderately boring pose with a Doomsday OverkillCannon of Excessiveness +5 mounted on the shoulder in the weirdest possible way so I figured I'd do something about that - couldn't quite find any really similar conversions (as far as hands/weapon go) to see if it was viable before cutting the damn thing up so it was a bit scary, but I'm quite happy with this WiP: now just to GS a few bits 'n bobbins back on (both elbows need significant filling and detailing, need to resculpt the fingertips and thumb, and something has to fill up the void where the HMC used to fit on to his right shoulder...)

He doesn't show it in the crappy phonepics much yet but it really does look quite natural, so I want to make the whole thing "work" and really put a good bit of work into the GSing, which means that, due to a bunch of exams coming up soon, I'll be pledging to have this done by june the 14th at the latest, with an eye on perhaps getting it done next week already.

Very cool miniature, dude! I love to see Infinity conversions. I'll add you pledge to the OP now.

There seems to be a fair bit of TAG activity around recently which is nice!


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I've put you in as converting it by the 14th as I wasn't sure if you were planning to paint it by then too. I can alter it of you'd like.

Adding to my pledge : Doing my 1 or 2 mini(s) for the competition =)

 Casey's Law wrote:
Very cool miniature, dude! I love to see Infinity conversions. I'll add you pledge to the OP now.

There seems to be a fair bit of TAG activity around recently which is nice!


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I've put you in as converting it by the 14th as I wasn't sure if you were planning to paint it by then too. I can alter it of you'd like.

Ooh nonono that's quite right, converted by the 14th. not painted. definately not

Haha cool, I thought painted might be a bit too quick.

@Skyfury - How does that look?

Haha, sounds pretty good

Aha, good!

I'm also thinking about adding multiple pledges for myself because I think having goals of different sizes is good motivation for me. So I might put in a few to cover the next month and maybe one or two a few months down the line to have everything finished by. Obviously everyone is welcome to do the same.

My Photobucket account doesnt seem to work so I'm going to try to attach my photo of Bruant.

Hope it works!

Nice work Nerm!

My Szally is complete but I'm considering going back and adding some detail to it. I'll have a think before I post it up as finished. I've added some more pledges, next up is the Lizard.

I'm still waiting for a zinge industries envelope with a flexible ammo belt in it - they're actually much nicer than what's supplied with the dragoês model and way easier to model into more complex bends (which I kind of need here).
Not **technically** finished, but since it's going to take me all of five minutes to put that belt on once it actually gets here I'm calling it done
Never mind the base, that's a temporary one for priming and painting - the scenic base he'll be mounted on will be painted separately.

I really like the way you have converted that. I want to get a Jotum and do similar

Great conversion and a nice early finish! Great job all round! I'll update the OP.

I'm struggling to find a material which I can bend into a thin strip and which will hold up a TAG. It's going to have to be metal but I can't seem to find anything to do the job. Any ideas are welcome.

How thin and what kind of bend? holding up a TAG on any kind of thin strip is going to be problematic.
Realistically speaking the strongest stuff you're going to get at a normal price which is sufficiently malleable is plain ol' steel, AFAIK.
You have me intrigued by the idea, now

I'm not certain of thickness right now but a couple of millimetres probably. As for the bend, I need to be able to alter the shape quite a lot but that shouldn't be a problem with metal at that thickness. I'm looking for something around the house to plunder right now. Everything seems too thin or too thick but I'll find something.

"couple of millimetres" would mean 3mm steel, 8mm wide? that should hold without flexing in the least. have fun bending 2mm+ steel sheet, though. Not an issue if you have some tools; if you don't, however... it can be an interesting experience again, feasibility mostly depends on what you want precisely but TBH a "couple of millimetres" of some kind of metal does not qualify as a "thin" strip, at 1/56 scale modelling

Haha true. To be more exact I need 1-2mm thick strip with a width of maybe 5-7.5mm and a length of about 40-50mm. Kind of like a wide paperclip. I have the tools to deal with those sizes as long as I don't have to cut anything too carefully. I'm sure there will be something around that'll do the job. I need two pieces which is problematic...

Well I tried to paint the other day but my son and daughter whined to paint themselves. So my daughter got to paint her Riot Grrl and my son did a figure I got him for his birthday from Reaper. Some guy with a big gun.

2x7.5x50 should hold a TAG in any shape pretty well, I'd say. I could scrounge up some plate metal from my backyard (students' housing... don't ask) some time next week and try?

Haha, you've taught them well then Brian!

Bolognesus, it's awesome that you'd be willing to do that man, thanks! Don't worry about it though mate, I pledged to get my Lizard done by the 10th so I'm hoping to get it done asap. So far I'm thinking that I might have to rip the casing off of an old appliance or something. My PC is pretty much dead so maybe it doesn't need all of it's casing...

most of a PC case would be a bit too thin (generally somewhere between 0.8 and 1.2mm depending on build quality) but the internal frame might well qualify

...perhaps this whole thing doesn't really belong in the pledging thread...

Haha yeh slightly off topic now. Steering us back towards the road: I'm making progress on my Lizard but the process of design is complex(I've collected more reference images for this than everything else put together) so I might push it back a week. I found a large enough washer to cut into two strips but it's taking forever with the tools I have, I am now considering using a paperclip for strength and covering it in plasticard and greenstuff for shape. No further updates from me until I finish it and post to my blog.

The two lists I painted up for a local tournament. They worked very well as I won all my games!

That's going to confuse some people, Nerm ...

In an ITS tournament, if you are permitted to run two lists, they BOTH have to be from the same faction (and sectorials count as separate factions - so with Ariadna, it's either two vanilla, two highlander or two mrrf lists, not mix-and-match).

If, however, it's NOT an ITS event (as I believe this wasn't), and it's just a tournament event to get the local crowd encouraged to play the game, then all is fine and good with the world.

Your stuff's coming along well.

tournament was not ITS

Can I pledge to have my DPC model done in time, or is that too vague?

You really blasted through them, nice one, Nerm! I'll update your pledge.

@motyak - Von Skyfury asked me a while ago so I added that pledge in for everyone! Check the OP out.

So my 2 Veteran Kazaks were due today but as there's the Painting competition, they are not done =(
Maybe they will before the end of the month.
Haven't taken a lot of time to paint recently.

No worries Skyfury, I'll update the OP, feel free to repledge whenever. Hope you find some more painting drive soon.

Nope... Lizard is causing me trouble. I'm getting somewhere but it's not complete in time for the pledge. I won't repledge it as I've got absolutely no idea how much longer I need.

Here's my first model that I tried to paint seriously. I'm not sure hot to paint the glowing eyes effect and I'm still not sure how to make the face look artificial.

Nice one mate and welcome to Dakka. You probably want to post in the Community Showcase thread though, it gets more traffic too.

I pledge to assemble my $350 worth of Blind Pig Lazer terrain that I received yesterday, by the end of this month.

Nice one Nerm! Another epicly proportioned pledge!

I need to change my pledge. I pledge to paint 1 Janissary, 1 Veteran Kazak and 1 3rd Highlander Grey. I also need to rebase 3 Ghulam, 1 Muraibs Touerag and one Naffatun to complete two starter forces so I can run demo games at Wintercon 2013.

Deadline is Friday 12 July.

No worries Nerm, got that sorted for yah! A very worthy pledge, I hope it goes well. Does Wintercon get a good turnout?

Unfortiunately there is no Infinity running but the other formats get a fair few entrants. I understand 40k has 60 or so entrants

Well you're representing then! Go forth and recruit!

Haha yeah that is the idea. At the moment it is me and one other guy, we should have two tables and 4 130ish point forces to do battle with strangers. Our friends will probably come down through out the weekend for games as well... looking forward to it

Sounds brilliant man, better get those miniatures painted up then!

All models painted and rebased, just need to paint the bases. Then they get some varnish and done

I finished my competition related pledge in time, hurrah.

Me too - by the skin of my teeth...

 Arakasi wrote:
Me too - by the skin of my teeth...

High five for Australians handing stuff in at the last moment.

OK, eye is healing slowly, so I've not been doing a lot of work on my infinity stuff.

My Iguana TAG for my QK force.

It's painted in the same scheme as my QK nomad alguaciles.
There's a reason. They are the stooges to my Iggy.

It started out as a Lizard TAG, but I rotated the torso 90* forward (so what was the face now pointed down) and bored out the hips to make a socket to fit it better. Those "shoulder" boxes used to be on the back, and lower.
GS'd up the master arm sockets. Fitted some bits I had spare and went at it.

I figured that since the Iggy spits out a HI figure with hmg when it goes down, I'd add armoured front bits to represent the operator. The HI carries the HMG, the TAG carries the HFT.

The 'head' came from a spare tail bit (the Forward observer bit) from an aleph rebot.



Scuse the crappy pictures. Eye doesn't focus quite properly yet so lining up focus is tricky.

I like the master arms holding the HMG, remind me very much of Appleseed. Good job!

That's what I was going for.

The nomad part of my QK are supposed to be the SAR group (hence the high-vis orange and white).

In reality, it's the Haqq part that usually pull their nuts out of the fire.

As to the master arms carrying the hmg ... I wondered how the operator would detach the TAG weapon to use on foot (no hyperspace pockets in this man's anime, thankyouverymuch) and it was just simpler to have him ALREADY carrying it.

This way I can just sub out the mobile brigada HMG when he does cark it.

Looks like great conversion! And it'll fit right in with infinity models. While I'm not too keen on the look of nomads as a whole, I kinda like that TAG.

I've painted a model today, I'll pledge to update my blog about it tomorrow, as I forgot to update my blog when I got him.

Here's a visual hint as to which model it is:



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if I seem enthusiastic, it's because I think he came out great. Can't wait to update!

@Nerm - I'll update the OP, great job, let's see some pretty pictures though!

@motyak & Arakasi - Yeh well done to the Aussies for giving me a nail biting wait! I'll give anyone who wants it a point for the comp. I'll start with you two, anyone else should speak up or forever hold their piece.

@chromedog - Eh! Naw! You've been in my house and copied my Lizard! You fiend! No joke, I've done the same thing with the top of the torso and adding a head piece. Great minds think alike, eh?! You've done a really good job and despite our similar changes they are still very different. The paint scheme is lovely! I'll post mine up around the 10th.

...wait did you pledge to finish that and I forgot to add it to the OP? Or did you mean to post that in Showcase? Sorry if I missed it.


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Oops, you ninja'd me Kes! That sounds exciting, I'll add your pledge now. Though your first image link is broken I think.

chromedog
2013/04/16 08:22:02 wrote:
My first pledge.

Paint and base the models I have for my Qapu Khalqi sectorial force. So far this is Nomads Alguaciles (3), a mobile brigada HI (HMG) and 4 Druze Militia. Still to come, the Haqq contingent and an "Iguana" TAG stand in.

Alguaciles done. Mobile brigada done. Druze in progress.

Two days later, I had very little vison in one eye due to a corneal abrasion (I scratched my cornea) and it has been a recurring issue for the last few months. I've finally got it under control in the last week. The last specialist put a corneal bandage over the scarring and put me on stronger anti-bio. The bandage is transparent and allowed me to actually see with both eyes whilst the damage was healed.

It was part of my QK pledge.
The alguaciles (stooges) were done as well, so were the Haqq contingent of 2 hafzas, djanbazan, Druze and a KTS merc (stooges, hafza/djan and KTS are done on p2 or so)
Late, but still done. In terms of painting/modelling, it only took me a week or so to do them all up. It's just that it averaged out to one day or so a week.

Just waiting on my Ghulams. I need 6 of them to finish off my QK. They keep being out of stock and I need 5 and a doc. Probably going to get a blister, the support pack and see if I can do swapsies on the remainder.

Ask and you shall receive

Got you, chrome, sorry I didn't realise this was part of that same pledge becuase it's not in the OP any more. You should have repledged these things, there's absolutely no rule against that, just give yourself enough time to work with your injury.

Nerm, they look boss! I hope you enjoy the event and report back to us!

updated!


A new challenger approaches:


But you'll have to head on to the blog thread to get the whole picture

Updating OP and heading over to check it out. Good job.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Got you, chrome, sorry I didn't realise this was part of that same pledge becuase it's not in the OP any more. You should have repledged these things, there's absolutely no rule against that, just give yourself enough time to work with your injury.

With the repeated eye issues and other family related issues, It slipped my mind.

The injury made it impossible to read (how I relax), paint or assemble models. When I did get sight back, I had other things occupying me, then it relapsed. Seriously, LOOK after your eyes, kiddies. These injuries SUCK bigtime. I even tried listening to audiobooks - but the narration mostly never matched how I thought they would sound - and gave up. I really do prefer reading this stuff myself.

I've had TWO weeks in the last two or so months where my sight was good enough to do anything. The first one was late May, when I had to run a tournament.
Now that it's good, I aim to keep it that way. Even if it takes these drops for the rest of my life.

I will paint my roommates Herald of Tzeentch (Plastic standard bearer from the Horrors kit).

I am base coating it right now and will try to finish it by Monday.

So, usually, I look at my blog and go "hey that's good advice" and then totally forget about it.

To address that forgetfulness, I pledge to follow the advice people have given me as closely as possible for my four loups I'm starting to paint.

@cdog - I really hope you make a full recovery mate! Our eyes are certainly important and worth looking after.

@DD - This is specifically for Infinity Pledges as per the OP sorry mate. I believe there is a generic pledge thread somewhere but I'm not sure where it is, maybe P&M.

@kes - I think you've done really well to take things on board and progress, keep doing that. I sometimes have Dakka open when I'm working to refer to certain useful threads or I make notes to have beside me.

Right, i have painted all the models and all the bases including facing marks but I wont be able to varnish them as the weather is too cold at the moment :( Ill consider them finished for now.

My next very short term pledge is to get my force painted for a campaign game on wednesday night (10th.. ie tomorrow) I need to finish 1 Irmandinho and a Tankhunter HMG. Last night I painted Valerya Gromoz and my Warcor, luckily I've been painting so much over the last week that most of the models I reguired were already finished.

In the last 6 days I've painted:
Janissary
3rd Highlander Grey
Veteran Kazak
2 Rifle Line Kazaks
Sniper Rifle Line Kazak (Conversion)
Boarding Shotgun Foxtrot (Conversion)
Tankhunter Sniper (Conversion)
Para-Commando HMG
Metro HMG
Valerya Gromoz
Warcor (Salamanda Pilot)

I know its probably not the right place but I'm so damn proud of my efforts I had to post it somewhere.

You know what, sign me up for a pledge. I have a 200pt starter army that needs finishing. Currently, I have 4 models left to paint. A Hassassin Muyib, a Hassassin Fiday, a Ghulam with rifle and a Nasmat. I want these done, and right now my only other project is gradually getting bits of my Tervigon done.

I'll be ambitions and say it'll be done in a month - ambitious because I'm a notoriously slow painter, and I might be moving to temporary accomodations soon until my new house is built (though I can hopefully still paint there, it might put about a weeks hold on my progress).

So, by 9 June. That's a week per model. Like I said, for me, ambitious. But I need this starter list hammered out so I can start on the models I have to expand it.

That's insane Nerm, your a tireless workhorse of painting! I'm guessing you missed the short term pledge?

Loki, glad to have you on board. I'll assume you meant the 9th of August though...

I've been really busy so I think I'll push back my pledge a few days.

Errr yeah, 9 August.

Haha yeh I figured. Good luck mate, keep us updated!

Actually, I'll push it to 14 August, considering I didn't have time to start until today. I did, however, get nearly all of the colours blocked in on my Muyib, almost ready for his bath.

 -Loki- wrote:
Actually, I'll push it to 14 August, considering I didn't have time to start until today. I did, however, get nearly all of the colours blocked in on my Muyib, almost ready for his bath.

Loki, by bath, do you mean dip or wash? If it's dip, is it army painter and how do you find it working with infinity miniatures? I've only ever dipped a handful of miniatures, about 5 plastic, and 3 or 4 metal. I love the effect dipping can give but I've found with the metal ones, there is what looks like very, very subtle cracking of the varnish. Have you ever found this? One thought I had was that it might be due to metal miniatures ever so slightly expanding and retracting in different temperatures. It's the only reason I could think of as to why it would affect metal and not plastic miniatures. And it's put me off dipping metal minis in the future. Another very possible reason is that I've done something wrong. Any thoughts?

Sorry for going a bit off topic. With regards to pledging, I've got ten remaining haqq waiting, primed and ready to go. I'd like to get them done this year.... I am that slow, and I have boring space marines on the go also.

Army Painter inks. Basically, I block in all of the colours, hit it with Strong Tone Ink, then layer them back up.

Updated that for you Loki.

Cool, ok. Was just wondering if you used quickshade on them and if you'd found the same problem I had. No probs. Nice work also Loki, by the way.

To be fair, I did consider dipping along the way. I'm a lazy, slow painter. I just couldn't bring myself to do it to Infinity models.

Progress was made even further on the Muyib last night - all colours are blocked in and touched up. It'll be getting its bath tonight, and hopefully even real work started on it.

I did make the short term pledge, I just dont have a photo of them.

In the mean time here is a pic of all my Line Kazaks, 8 of them were painted in the last week.

There are:

9 Rifles
2 LGL
2 Snipers
2 Missile Launchers
3 AP HMGs
All of that comes to 288|8

Edit: added a bigger picture

@ Nerm - you must be looking forward to the kazak sectorial coming out!?

...I get having a variety of weapons to pick from in multiples, but 9 rifles? Were you planning the start of a 40k army here?

Don't discount the rifles.
I used 9 rifles to great effect against a friend's TAG in ARO once (he shot at my APHMG model) because he wanted it dead.

4 crits later, his TAG was little more than scrap.

HMG died, but his sacrifice inspired his brothers to greater acts.

Short answer: because i can

Long answer: because i like to field themed armies, whether it it a kazak swarm or a more elite force. Variety adds freshness to the game. I would get bored without the choices that having so many models gives me.

I didnt actually go out and buy three packs on line kazaks. I bought the original 4 to use for Inquisitor 28mm back in 2007-2008 and the newer ones i got mostly when people were selling on a whole bunch of stuff and they were just included.

If you take issue with 9 rifle kazaks then I probably shouldnt mention my 8 Tankhunters

That's awesome Nerm!

With your short pledge, did you come back and confirm you'd completed it? If I don't get confirmation within a reasonable amount of time I just assume it wasn't completed.

Nah I didn't confirm it. I will remember to let you know in the future

No worries, it's just the best way to do things from my point of view. I don't require photographic proof or anything, just dropping by to confirm is enough. Of course we all like to see pretty pictures if you have them.

Nerm86 wrote:
Short answer: because i can

Long answer: because i like to field themed armies, whether it it a kazak swarm or a more elite force. Variety adds freshness to the game. I would get bored without the choices that having so many models gives me.

I didnt actually go out and buy three packs on line kazaks. I bought the original 4 to use for Inquisitor 28mm back in 2007-2008 and the newer ones i got mostly when people were selling on a whole bunch of stuff and they were just included.

If you take issue with 9 rifle kazaks then I probably shouldnt mention my 8 Tankhunters

whoa, not "taking issue" here at all, just wondering
Would probably be an intriguing army to play against, that kazak swarm - meta around here doesn't really see much of anything in the way of swarm lists which might be why I'm taken aback by such an amount of minis

Oh, and in the way of pledges: I pledge to finish my still mostly black Charontid and at least my two PanO Palbots this week. With luck I might add an auxbot to that.

Pledge added Bolo, good luck.

Anyone else? The list is looking a little sparser than I like to see it.

I pledge to put together, base and greenstuff my 8 Galwegians by this Sunday. If I get some paint on them then thats a bonus

Well, that's one Charontid done. Good lord that idea to gradually highlight black up all the way to white (which can be really cool) might be a bit out of my league yet, patience-wise Still, good enough to do the rest like this. just need to get the purple highlights a bit less saturated.

Good man Nerm, added your pledge now.

Your Charontid looks really nice Bolo! That's a nice scheme you've chosen, very high contrast, Tron style and the purple is a nice compliment.

Yeah, I figured even the original charlntid might be a real nice figure in colors which did not suggest "technically supremely executed fingerpaints" as does the official paintjob

This one?

It's not my favourite colour scheme but I think it's beautifully executed...

Yup that's what I said: beautifully executed horrible scheme which honestly had me completely turned off of the model until I actually held it in hand

Haha, okay fair enough. My issue with it is actually the model, it's far too clunky for my tastes.

Heh, fair 'nuff. It is bulkier than much of the EI stuff is, that's true. However, have you ever played around with one a bit? It's really more elegant in the flesh than I'd have thought. The gun arm is the only really bulky bit (If I'd gotten my drones before priming the Charontid I probably would have replaced a significant amount of that arm with a drone weapon!)

No I must admit I haven't held one, maybe I'd feel different.

The original paintjob reminds in a bad way of 2nd edition 40k.

 -Loki- wrote:
The original paintjob reminds in a bad way of 2nd edition 40k.

Bang on, that's a much nicer way of putting it

 Casey's Law wrote:
No I must admit I haven't held one, maybe I'd feel different.

You probably would. aside from the fething huge gun arm it's really almost elegant.


And that's my palbots, complete with the doc they'll be serving. Just heard SW wave two will be shipping in a few weeks so the (cheesecakey beyond my usual limits but hey, free and quite characterful!) engineer model is en route too.
...Oh god, I did kind of mention "maybe an auxbot", didn't I? Well, new pledge time. Make that an auxbot, a peacemaker and a sierra dronbot over the next seven days.

I actually got some work done on my Muyib. Got the ink bath done, and started layering the green, and finished the highlighting of the green on the helmet. Hopefully tonight I can get the green finished off and the fatigues started. If so, I might be able to finish the model off before the weekend, and get started on the second Nasmat (and maybe even get around to stripping the last Ghulam and Fiday).

Hey all!

As Casey suggested to me when I visited his blog, I am here for some help with getting my butt in gear. I have a bunch of Infinity product here that I would like to one day see converted from 'still in packaging' to fully completed, maybe even including paint!

I guess to get started, the first thing I am going to do is get a P&M blog up of my own, so in case I ever finish anything I'll have someplace to document it.

I'm not sure if 'make a plog' counts as a pledge, but I'm aiming to have it finished within 24hrs anyways.

Good job, Bolo, I love to see an early pledge completion. I'm a last minute sort of guy! I've added your new pledge to replace it.

Making a blog is a good pledge in my books Michael! Anything that motivates us fits here nicely. I've added you in for tomorrow, hope this gets the ball rolling for you and we see some pretty miniatures soon!

I'm looking forward to your pledge Loki, sounds like your making quicker progress than you anticipated too! I don't suppose making the pledge has affected your motivation for the better?

P&M Blog started. Will post in community showcasing.

Paint to follow....soon (tm).

 Casey's Law wrote:
I'm looking forward to your pledge Loki, sounds like your making quicker progress than you anticipated too! I don't suppose making the pledge has affected your motivation for the better?

Don't get too excited. Last time I made a pledge on the Infinity boards and all I ended up completing was my Al Hawwa.

I tend to burn out on Infinity figs after one model due to the level of detail. But my main motivation right now is my friend and I are actually playing Infinity next time we do some gaming rather than 40k, and I want to have a fully painted force.

Mmmmm OK. So I pledge to paint and photograph 1 model per day until the whole of my new order from CB is painted up?

My dakka blog http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/531497.page#5856321

My infinity blog ( really the exact same thing. http://infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php?/topic/17537-painting-the-shasvastii-log/

First one up

I will (hopefully) be playing my first real game this coming Monday. Just a quick game or two using 150 point newbie-lists. I hope to learn some tips and tricks with different unit types.

In honor of reaching my new title of Ultraviolent Morlock I pledge to finish cleaning, assembling, and basing my Die Morlock Gruppen box, so that I might use them come Monday.

Just made a quick list (no clue if it is good or not), but in any case, I will need to finish assembling at least 4 Morlocks, 4 Uberfall Kommandos, and the 2 Sin-Eaters. So that is my Pledge, 10 models moved from Stage 2 to Stage 3 in my blog by Monday.

-Loki- wrote:I tend to burn out on Infinity figs after one model due to the level of detail. But my main motivation right now is my friend and I are actually playing Infinity next time we do some gaming rather than 40k, and I want to have a fully painted force.

You can do it mate! If you feel your focus waining use the community to your advantage, the pledging thread for motivation and the showcase thread for blog traffic. Good luck!

Victor.Drellings wrote:Mmmmm OK. So I pledge to paint and photograph 1 model per day until the whole of my new order from CB is painted up?

Haha, nice one, that's a big pledge, what date should I put on that and how many miniatures is it in total?

Michael Bishop wrote:Just made a quick list (no clue if it is good or not), but in any case, I will need to finish assembling at least 4 Morlocks, 4 Uberfall Kommandos, and the 2 Sin-Eaters. So that is [u]my Pledge, 10 models moved from Stage 2 to Stage 3 in my blog by Monday.

I'll add it now, good luck!

Indeed but should be fun hehe, I believe it is 16 miniatures if I remember correctly sooo, how about the 4th of August

Added it in! Keep us updated, this'll be toughy!

Ended up not working today so I assembled, based and green stuffed my 8 Galwegians.

Next pledge is to paint all my volunteers and metros by Sunday. 3 volunteers and 4 metros

Good man, I've altered your pledge and given you your +1!

All models painted, just painting the bases now. I will post pics when done

I didn't get as much done this weekend as I'd have liked, mostly because I spend Saturday running around doing stuff for my home loan, and spent most of today playing Guild Wars 2 (she's a harsh mistress).

I did, however, get all of the green on my Muyib layered, and I'll do the highlighting tonight and hopefully get started on the fatigues.

Great job, lads! Yet again this darn pledge alludes me. I got distracted by another competition. I'm almost there though so I'll repledge it one last time.

Off to update now...

Pledge complete

Pics of all my volunteers and metros.

Highlander Volunteers
4x rifles
3x chain rifles
2x HMGs
1x LGL

Metros
5x rifles
2x HMGs
2x DEPs
1x LGL

Really nice. The bases look great too. What do you use for the grass tufts?


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Also, a quick spray of matt varnish would do wonders here. Particularly for the highlanders. All looks good though.

Yeah, I am planning to use matt varnish but the weather here is way too cold for spraying. I'm basically getting everything to that stage then once the weather gets warmer they will be truly finished.

The tufts are the 6mm tufts form army painter? I'm waiting for varnish before I add the tufts

http://defiantgaming.com/shop/index.php?_a=product&product_id=2031

Must be this thread, because I haven't been this motivated on a fig in ages. Muyibs armour and fatigues finished, working on the visor (yellow is such a bitch).

After the visor, it's mostly touching up, and a little bit of work on the gun, then basing.

 -Loki- wrote:
working on the visor (yellow is such a bitch)

Yeah, I gave up and went blue.

I'm used to repeated layering (thanks Tyranids). So I'll just stick to it. I like the look with a yellow visor.

 -Loki- wrote:
(yellow is such a bitch).

You decided to attempt yellow?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eal4fep7pK4


Ahem. Yes, I'm quite sick of yellow right now myself.

Just helmet visors. I already did one Muyib like that already and I liked the end result, so I'll stick with it.

My pledge is to paint my Intruder, Hellcats, or the female Wildcat since the male Wildcat is annoying the heck out of me.

The Hellcat with Boarding Shotgun is getting some love today though.

Spent more time last night meeting with people about my house, but I got some painting done. Another layer on the Muyibs visor done, all touch ups done, started on the rock he's got his foot on. Only just noticed there's a lizard on that rock.

Tonight hopefully I can finish it off. Metallics on the gun, highlight the visor, finish the rock, paint the lizard (I'm thinking purple/pink for some variety).

Hey Casey, hate to do this but ummm, well I sorta got a little over ambitious and forgot that in order to paint my models 1 -2 a day and take pictures of them. That I must first actually have the models in my possession. My big-o-box from CB won't be here till maybe Friday or Saturday so I'm forced to postpone my pledge. D:

 Michael Bishop wrote:
I will (hopefully) be playing my first real game this coming Monday. Just a quick game or two using 150 point newbie-lists. I hope to learn some tips and tricks with different unit types.

In honor of reaching my new title of Ultraviolent Morlock I pledge to finish cleaning, assembling, and basing my Die Morlock Gruppen box, so that I might use them come Monday.

Just made a quick list (no clue if it is good or not), but in any case, I will need to finish assembling at least 4 Morlocks, 4 Uberfall Kommandos, and the 2 Sin-Eaters. So that is my Pledge, 10 models moved from Stage 2 to Stage 3 in my blog by Monday.

Spoiler:

Finished all this in time for my first game this evening. Although I only played one game and ended up using only a single model from the 10 I pledged to complete. And that was as a proxy for an HMG version

I was very pleased with the way the Morlocks turned out, but the Uberfallen were very frustrating to say the least. I actually still do not have the tails on the pupniks, going to have to buy some smaller drill bits first methinks.

But still, happy to get some models built and very proud to finally lose my Infinity virginity! Resulting in a win no less!

Started a public blog rather than my one in the DCM forum which was sporadically updated.

Got some more work done on the Hellcat but being stumped a bit on the armor.
My goal right now?

Have the Boarding Shotgun Hellcat finished within two weeks--dependent upon whether or not my bases have arrived by then.
And get it looking nice.

Pleased to report I powered through that Muyib. I haven't painted a model that fast in a long time, and it's looking like my best model yet. I'll get photos of it and the Hawwa up this weekend.

Tomorrow I start on the second Nasmat.

24H to spare and I managed to chuck in a spare auxbot.

Up for next wednesday, my dragoe, which is barely more than primed atm. Maybe I'll throw in the GdA that belongs with the second auxbot, too. Might as well.

They look awesome dude!

Thanks

Well done everyone!

-Loki- wrote:Must be this thread, because I haven't been this motivated on a fig in ages.

Music to my ears!

@Kan - Nice one on posting up a blog but what exactly is your pledge? A date and what you want to achieve by then is the easiest way for me to add the pledge to the OP.

@Victor - No worries on changing pledges, what date do you want me to change it to?

Sorry guys but I've taken my pledges down indefinitely. I'm entering a lot of competitions and I just don't have time right now, I'll get back to them as soon as I can. Sorry!

 Casey's Law wrote:
Well done everyone!

-Loki- wrote:Must be this thread, because I haven't been this motivated on a fig in ages.

Music to my ears!

@Kan - Nice one on posting up a blog but what exactly is your pledge? A date and what you want to achieve by then is the easiest way for me to add the pledge to the OP.

@Victor - No worries on changing pledges, what date do you want me to change it to?

Sorry guys but I've taken my pledges down indefinitely. I'm entering a lot of competitions and I just don't have time right now, I'll get back to them as soon as I can. Sorry!

Best of luck on your competitions! As for my pledge, well Soon as I get the models I'll post here again, i'm itching for them grrr. Tracking says hopefully Monday though possibly today/tomorrow.

Thanks mate! I'm not really trying to place in the comps, my aim is just to improve my hobby skills. More info on my chatty blog.

I'll update the OP for you!

 Casey's Law wrote:


@Kan - Nice one on posting up a blog but what exactly is your pledge? A date and what you want to achieve by then is the easiest way for me to add the pledge to the OP.

Right now I'm still waiting on my bases and Hellcats...so right as of now, I'm going to make a Tohaa pledge.

You can hold me to it.
I want to finish my Kamael infantry from the Tohaa starter box by August 10th.

Nice one, Kan! Looking forward to it!

Proof!

Better shot of the Hawwa Sniper, and also the finished Muyib. The highlights are paler on the Muyib because I'm trying something new - highlighting with P3 Thrall Flesh for a more washed out look rather than mixing Jack Bone into Camo Green, which came out inconsistent at best.

Really lovely work, Loki! Nice to see you painting Infinity again. Do you get many games with them?

Not as many as I'd like. The next time my friend who plays Infinity makes the trip here we'll be playing though. Bit bored of wiping the floor with him at 40k.

Haha, nice one!

Looks like this thread motivated me more than others - second Nasmat started.

Reporting a failed pledge here - partly because repairing the damage from the dragoe tipping over from a display shelf onto a wooden floor took some time (pretty much AOK now, except for one thing which is probably an improvement ^^ and some paint chipping which is still to be fixed) but mostly due to getting an airbrush working and since I'll probably be dicking around with that for a couple of weeks, I can't really pledge much I'm sure I'll be able to do. I'll get my Swiss Guard (only primed now) to "mostly done" status within a week (using airbrush), my armoured cavalry to "ready for detailing" or thereabouts in that same timeframe and get my dragoe looking at least ready enough for the tabletop in that week as well but none of them done, really. just waaay to attractive to play around for me atm

(I should probably start a P&M blog for this, I suppose. that would be an awful lot of random ranting, though - even for me )

I'm going to have to push my pledge back a week, due to unforseen circumstances (pulling two late nights at work then seeing The Wolverine late on a work night, then going out tonight, probably to buy more Infinity to add to the pile).

Sorry guys, I've not been very attentive recently. Loki, I've updated your pledge for the 21st. Keep at it. Victor's pledge is still on hold and Kan's is just around the corner. Sorry you couldn't make yours Bolog, hope you pledge again.

I pledge to complete assembling my QK force, about 12 models left to assemble. Hopefully I can get this done by the 19th

Good man! I'll add the pledge now.

Ah why not, I'm game for this.

I'll pledge 13 Ork Models to completely paint that include (but are not limited to):

1 Kitbash Wazdakka Gutsmek
2 Biker Boyz
10 Shoota Boyz

What say by end of the month: 08/31/13

Sorry DJ, we just deal with Infinity in this sub forum.

I hereby nominate DJ's pledge to be to purchase 13 Infinity models before 08/31/13.

A bit of a ballsy move for me considering I've got an animation to do on top of other comission orders, but heres my pledge:

By the 23rd August, I hereby pledge to complete my nurgle zombie army. By complete I mean everything sculpted, painted (to a decent tt standard) and based to match my 'Greenstrider' Jungle fighting Tau Cadre.
Very tall order indeed, but probably the only way to get me motivated to finish them off!

List of stuff to do:
Complete 60 Zombie/infected Sculpts (approx)
Complete Pestilence, Dragon Lord of Nurgle (Count as Heldrake)
Complete Flying base for Blight Drone.


I'll try and get pics up as I go, feel free to harass me via PMs if I don't seem to be updating enough

I pledge to paint and base my black legion daemon prince.

My pledge got pushed back due to various family crises.

Both involving cancer (terminal in one case).

I'm still modelling and painting, but I'm also still waiting on those ghulams (who'd'a thunk that they'd be so hard to find?).
I'm also going to be in Melbourne for a week, which pushes it back again.

My pledge got pushed back not because of crises(I hope everything is at least calm and not hectic for you Chromedog), but because of the distraction of my bases for the Nomads arriving and a massive trade from Alfndrate for a Cygnar army going through.

Plus the Kamael cloth/armor ratio puzzles the hell out of me and I cannot get it just right to save my life.

It's not that hectic - it's more that with my inlaws, something medical generally happens every year around late July/August and coincides with our wedding anniversary.

Val, Dul, sorry guys but your in the wrong place. Check the sub-forum.

Sorry to hear that chromedog, it's horrible news to receive. Keep the old chin up and try and take some time to smell the roses if you can.

Kan, do you want to change the date or drop the pledge?

I'll change the date to the 17th

I'm going to have to change my pledge. I won't be able to get models assembled as I forgot my cutting board. Instead I pledge to base, undercoat and get pain on my 7 Kaplans. 4 combi, 1 ADHL, 1 spitfire and 1 multi sniper

Right on, how does that look now? All in order?

Aw dammit, the one time I try and get involved in something that includes updating my P&M Blog and I derp it up

Nevermind, sorry for the confusion guys.

Hey no worries, dude. Out of interest, did you find the thread through 'recent threads' or something? We got 3 people through very quickly, it'd be nice to know where you guys came from.

While you're here, check out Infinity! I guarantee you will not regret taking up this game.

'Popular threads' perhaps? I think a thread like this has a rather high exalts to views ratio, so this could well happen again. A subtle change to the title, perhaps?

Yeh I think it's one or maybe more of those thread views. I'm tempted to change the name but I'd really rather people fell in here and thought, 'Damn, why am I not chugging down this delicious game instead of gagging on a lukewarm SM Centurion?'

Yeah, my pledge will have to go on hold for now. While the spirit is willing, the body has decided to rebel with some kind of cold or flu. Right now I have... a multitude of problems that keep me from staring at details without feeling like my head will explode.

Once it's gone, I'll take my pledge off hold. At the every leasy I should be able to catch up with building the last few models I've bought.

No worries man, hope you feel better soon. I'll update the OP.

So I was thinking, would you guys prefer a + and - scoring system instead of the current system?
Example:
Every pledge you complete gets you +1 and every failed pledge gives you -1.
[..........!..........] 0 Points
[..........l....!.....] 5 Points
[.......!..l..........] -3 Points
[..........l.........!] 10 Points

On the plus side I built the Najjarun I got off shae. Very simple fig to build.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Hey no worries, dude. Out of interest, did you find the thread through 'recent threads' or something? We got 3 people through very quickly, it'd be nice to know where you guys came from.

While you're here, check out Infinity! I guarantee you will not regret taking up this game.

I have a good few guys at my local club who play infinity, and I must say its on my wish list, along with some malifaux bits too, so I wouldn't be surprised if I 'fell' in here again sometime..
As for how I got here, I think it was through either popular or recent threads, hence my first comment being in the derp department.

Also, sorry to derail the thread a bit. I'll sit back in my corner and look at the pretty pictures for now ^_^

Don't sweat it, we have a good crowd round this board and we love the odd derailment. Hopefully we'll see you back here soon.

I tried to motivate myself by getting all of my stuff out as well as what's painted to see my whole collection at once, since I've never done it before. It had the opposite effect. When I finish my 200pt army, I've got 18 more models to paint.



It's all built bar the Maghariba Guard and Go Go Marlene.

Add to that a Sasvastii Noctifier with Spitfire and Speculo Killer. I'm thinking of just giving those to a friend who is sort of interested, telling him to grab a pack of Seed Soldiers and a Gwailos, and come to me for some intro games.

It looks like I might have from now until the end of the weekend suddenly free, so I am going to pledge an attempt to finish off all of the Spartan Scenics hdf pieces I have remaining (about 1/2 of the 6 total sets, and mainly the pieces that need lots of gluing) and then post a little review post on it in my my blog.

Pledge completed! I didnt get as much paint on them as i would have liked but i still made decent progress considering the circumstances

New pledge: a week-and-a-half (so that's saturday aug 31st), all painted except for perhaps the auxbots and naga. So that's two mulebots, three dronbots (fugazi, sierra, clipper), two auxilia and an aquila guard, done by then.

I got some of the ghulams I was needing, and hopefully my local dealer will have the rest for me on the weekend.

Then I can start painting them all.

 Michael Bishop wrote:
It looks like I might have from now until the end of the weekend suddenly free, so I am going to pledge an attempt to finish off all of the Spartan Scenics hdf pieces I have remaining (about 1/2 of the 6 total sets, and mainly the pieces that need lots of gluing) and then post a little review post on it in my my blog.

I failed. The amount of filing/sanding needed to placate my OCD was more than I bargained on.

pic is horrible, they look better IRL, luckily
Anyway, those are done now. Next pledge: two weeks for Dragao and either my squalo or my cutter (both of which have very little paint on them yet).

So, cold/flu/evil incarnate virus has dissipated, and a game of Infinity over the weekend with a slightly altered army list has given me the enthusiasm to carry on.

So, by 20 September I will have the following completed - Nasmat remote, Hassassin Barid and Odalisque with shotgun. Fiday and Ghulam have been dropped for now while I strip them.

Sorry I've not been around, all caught up now I think. OP Updated. Tell me if you spot a mistake.

I've swapped to a different measurement of successful pledges. Failed pledges will have an effect again but they'll just lose you a point on the dial instead of being permanent. Let me know what you think.

The only thing i might have noticed is that im on 5 completed pledges but it should be 6, mind you i think it will be back to 5 after this one:

I pledge to complete 3 Kaplans, ADHL, Combi, Spitfire, finished by Wednesday night for our local slow grow group.

You are correct sir, my bad! I missed that one, I'll fix it now and add your pledge. Good luck!

Tell me how you find the new system guys, I don't want to put people off but I think this is more fun and less permanent.

Amazingly I got the Kaplans painted, I also managed to base and undercoat 6 other models!!

Bam! Top job mate, I'll update the OP.


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I've added a pledge of my own. I'm working on an entry to Graven's Repurposing Competition. I'm turning an Infinity miniature into a Necromunda character so it fits in here for a change. This will likely be the first miniature I've finished painting in years. Fingers crossed!

Since Arenanet have decided to be stupid and kill my attempt to go for a legendary weapon, Guild Wars 2 is off my regular nightly gaming schedule. So I'll be painting more.

I've actually made progress on the Nasmat, but eed to find the money to grab a new can of grey primer, since I'm out and my Odalisque is bare (but then that seems to be how they're meant to be).

I'm also contemplating buying some resin urban bases and rebasing my stuff, but that won't be part of the pledge. I like the desert bases I've been doing, but urban seems to fit Infinity better. I'll just have to figure out a solution for things like the Fiday and Muyib standing on natural looking rocks.

That's easy Loki.

Swamp bases!

There's not many urban swamp bases around...

I said nothing about urban!

Swamp bases, Loki. They are the future of Infinity mark my words.

No, I said urban. I was fishing for ideas on how to hide the natural looking rocks on urban bases, not a complete replacement for the base idea.

Well then I'm fresh out. Maybe just cut the rocks off entirely and attach them to chunks of rubble or something?

I'll probably stick to my desert bases anyway. I like the look, and it suits the colour scheme I'm doing. Plus, when I get around to doing my own Infinity terrain, it was going to be desert themed anyway.

I pledge to paint 4 Druze, 1 Yuan Yuan and 2 Alguacils by 3 October. This will comeplete my 200 slow grow force. After that its on to 250

Your production rate astounds me.

@Loki - well, Nerm does live in the nation's capitol. Fewer demands on his time, gives him more time to do this stuff.


I keed, Nerm. I like Canberra. It's a great place to decompress from big-city life (like Newcastle) - unless you have to drive around it.

I completely forgot you guys were all down under. How's about that! Are you all in the Gamers Directory? I think there is only about 5 names for Oz.

Nerm I'll add your pledge now and I'm in agreement about your pace. Really amazing stuff!

 Casey's Law wrote:
I completely forgot you guys were all down under. How's about that! Are you all in the Gamers Directory? I think there is only about 5 names for Oz.

The problem is distances. I live about 2-3 hours drive from either of them, and Nerm and chromedog, well, you can just about add those times together for the distance they live from each other.

Also, talk about inspiration. I grabbed Art Book One and wow. Love the stuff in there, and those prints! The Druze and Fiday prints will be getting framed and hung in my man cave when our house is built, right above the painting desk. My only gripe is I would have loved the civilian scene with the green haied girl that's on one of the first pages as a print as well, but it seems they were doing a print for each faction.

This new found inspiration has me gearing up to get started on my Barid and finish off my Nasmat this weekend.

Yeh you guys have one helluva big piece of land for so few people. Go increase the population! A 5m rise isn't going to cut the mustard.

My artbook should be arriving tomorrow so I can see the Heralds climbing back to poll position on my workbench. Actually, I'm quite excited about it.

A lot of OS people don't realise how big Australia is.

From west to east coast it's roughly the same size as the US. Perth to Sydney is 2510miles.
By comparison - LA to New York is 2781 miles.
Our eastern state capitols tend to be around 1000km apart (Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne).

Most of our population lives on the eastern side, and east coast in particular. The middle is mostly arid desert suitable only for camels (of which we have the most, and apparently the 'purest' breed.)

In the UK, what is it? "You're never more than 110 miles from the sea" ?

Nerm and I live about 5 hours' drive apart. Our highway speed is 110km/h - 68mph.
I'm two hours or so from Sydney (and it takes about an hour to cross it).

Yep, crazy stuff. I think most people in the UK have a good idea of the vastness but I couldn't speak for other populaces. I'm sure the majority of the western world has a pretty solid understanding.

Pledge progress.

So .. how do I go about making a pledge and getting involved with this?

Kanluwen wrote:Well then I'm fresh out. Maybe just cut the rocks off entirely and attach them to chunks of rubble or something?

I think that's what I did with mine.. urban bases, but added a little flock/rubble to all of them to make it look like a Beirut-style city or something.

-Loki- wrote:
Also, talk about inspiration. I grabbed Art Book One and wow. Love the stuff in there, and those prints! The Druze and Fiday prints will be getting framed and hung in my man cave when our house is built, right above the painting desk. My only gripe is I would have loved the civilian scene with the green haied girl that's on one of the first pages as a print as well, but it seems they were doing a print for each faction.

This new found inspiration has me gearing up to get started on my Barid and finish off my Nasmat this weekend.

It's great isn't it! Yes think the Druze pic and one other is going to get framed and put up in my games room. That book is a great motivator, and the bits at the start of each faction explaining the design choices is really cool.

chromedog wrote:A lot of OS people don't realise how big Australia is.

From west to east coast it's roughly the same size as the US. Perth to Sydney is 2510miles.

I travelled through Aus when I was a teenager, before going to University (this was before it started getting fashionable, and everyone in Europe started doing it!) - my travel schedule went out the window once I travelled on an all-night bus for 8 hours but then realised I had moved about 1cm on the map

The scale of the country is immense - great memories of the people and the place though, would love to go back some day (and perhaps travel by internal flights this time )

So I guess now that I have my Nomad Corregidor Jurisdictional Command, I am going to endeavor to have them fully assembled and painted in a 2 month window (giving myself lots of room)

Should have them assembled and primed this weekend so I will have pictures starting soon.

 Pacific wrote:
So .. how do I go about making a pledge and getting involved with this?

Just post a date, the number of miniatures and what you're doing to them. Simple. Feel free to go into more detail as long as I can see a date, a number and 'paint', 'convert', 'basecoat' or something. That's just so i can add it to the OP easily.

When it comes to completion don't worry, I'm not the Pledge Nazi or anything. I like to keep this thread relaxed so it doesn't become a chore for pledgers. In that vein I also allow a quantity of self regulation, I'm not going to deny you a +1 because you told me one or two days late for instance. What may happen is that I'll remove the pledge and call it -1 after a few days past deadline but even then it wouldn't be hard to convince me to go back and fix it.

The important thing is to enjoy it.


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 NuclearMessiah wrote:
So I guess now that I have my Nomad Corregidor Jurisdictional Command, I am going to endeavor to have them fully assembled and painted in a 2 month window (giving myself lots of room)

Should have them assembled and primed this weekend so I will have pictures starting soon.

Woops, ninja'd. I'll add you to the OP, good luck! Fellow Nomads are more than welcome. Forget everything they have taught you.

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 NuclearMessiah wrote:
So I guess now that I have my Nomad Corregidor Jurisdictional Command, I am going to endeavor to have them fully assembled and painted in a 2 month window (giving myself lots of room)

Should have them assembled and primed this weekend so I will have pictures starting soon.

Woops, ninja'd. I'll add you to the OP, good luck! Fellow Nomads are more than welcome. Forget everything they have taught you.

Not hard seeing as I have been taught...nothing

Haha! Then Praxis will teach you.

Beeteedubs, I'm going to post a couple of Artbook One images to my blog very shortly if anyone want's a preview before they buy.

Technically approaching a pledge fail - 10 days left and I haven't started my Barid or Odalisque ( even ran out of spray primer when I got to the Odalisque, so that really has issues happening), so yeah, that's probably not going to be a success.

I did, however, get a second model done in a row - something I've never done with infinity. Nasmat done!

You can do it mate! Do what you can for now and maybe you'll see a way around the rest. Brush on basecoat maybe. Fire up dome WIP pics here on in your blog every day or two to keep yourself going.

Going to have to change my pledge. I need to paint 5 Loup Garou a Spec Ops and 3 Zouaves by 4 October. If I get that done then I will go back to my previous pledge.

Hah, your productivity is amazing.

"Hey guys, I need to change my pledge... To a bigger pledge!"

I've made the update. The big question today though is, has Loki pulled it off?

...Get you're minds out of the gutter!

Nope, I ended up working back most nights this week, so I just didn't have time.

Fair play mate. Feel free to repledge!

So..... I didn't pledge initially, but I've painted up the following this past week:

2 Hellcats
1 Szalamandra Squadron
1 Intruder
1 Moderator from Bakunin w/ Sniper Rifle
1 Tomcat Engineer
1 Tomcat w/ Rocket Launcher
2 Wildcats (1 Combi, 1 Spitfire)
1 Alguacil Hacker

Over the next 7 days I'm hoping to finish:

1 Zero
3 Sin Eater Observants
2 Wilcats w/ Combi Rifle
2 Female Moderators from Bakunin.

We shall see how it goes.

Welcome in and good luck. That's 8 models by the 27th.

Probably not going to get mine done, between starting them and hating how they are coming out, one of my models got the infamous primer dusting and I am struggling to clean the model up (lots of tiny detail for paint to hide) In addition I am back to working on my Tohaa and creating clear acrylic plexiglass bases for them.

I'm going to make a long game pledge, which while it may be silly to do it for 1 model, its because I'm working on my thesis for the next 2 weeks before its due, and doing this in my breaks. Anyway, my pledge is upgrading Shotgun Bob to his much prettier version, and getting it all painted.

Noice.
Source on shotgun bob (new version?)

Is it one of the hasslefree ones?

Yeah, its the Hasslefree modern troopers Remington model, and one of their heads & backpacks.

And they include lollies with their models.

Haha yeah, last time i ordered from them i got some candy, was pretty funny.

I finished the 5 Loups, the Spec Ops and 2 of the Zouaves, this leaves just the Sniper Zouave to finish then it is only bases. I would like to add a Para Commando to the list becaues the one that I had already painted (about 6 years ago to use in 28mm Inquisitor) is in the same scheme as my Kazaks (at the time there was not even a mention of sectorials) so I want to paint one up to match my Frenchies and I already had the model anyway. I will be slightly converted by removing the rifle and adding an M1911 pistol for sheer awesome bad-assery. I will post pics of all the models when they are all finished.

Nuclear, I've got you down for November, miles off. Did I make a mistake when I put it up or do you actually not think you'll be done by then?

Motyak that sounds good to me mate. I like to think of this as a way for us to keep motivated and keep track of our own goals. Whether your target is to basecoat one model by next year or paint and army overnight it's all relevant to you and that's what's important. That had a lot to do with why I changed the rating system and dropped the point value, I didn't want it to feel like we were against each other.

Great job, Nerm! I'll alter your pledge to match, 10 minis now, yeah?

Pledge completed. Is ill upload a crappy photo tomorrow

Thanks to the awesome Shae and his quick postage, I'm adding a HMG Grey and 4 Rifle/Light Shotgun Greys to my pledge, but upping it by a week to the 16th of October. I'll spend that week enjoying myself and playing.

Nerm86 wrote:
Pledge completed. Is ill upload a crappy photo tomorrow

Crappy photo as promissed

New Pledge:

Paint 2 Kaplans, 3 Druze, 2 Alguacils and assemble/paint 2 Shihab remotes by 4 October

My pledge may have failed, but I'm still working on it. Odalisque wsa started last night, and I'm determined to do the face well. I spend most of last night ruining my eyes getting her eyes done well. I've got the kohl look and the whites done so well I'm terrified to ruining them by screwing up the pupils :(

I've got the zero and the two wildcats knocked out. I'll post a photo shortly.

Sorry the photos are dark. I don't have a light box at the moment, so improvised the best I could.

Whites are kinda chalky, but truth be told I didn't thin the paints as much as I should have. Further, I'm trying to simply knock them out at a decent TT standard. ~2.5 Hours into each model.

C&C welcomed.

Zero



Wildcat (Male)



Wildcat (Female)

If you can, put the pictures on the Dakka gallery.

Flickr is so obnoxious about direct linking.

 Kanluwen wrote:
If you can, put the pictures on the Dakka gallery.

Flickr is so obnoxious about direct linking.

I've found that photobucket doesn't stuff up much either, if you'd rather put them there.

Can you guys see them at all? I couldn't see them when I was on my iPad, but I got on our chromebook to move the files to dakka and I can see them now.

 cincydooley wrote:
Can you guys see them at all? I couldn't see them when I was on my iPad, but I got on our chromebook to move the files to dakka and I can see them now.

In order to see them, I have to copy/paste the URLs.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
Can you guys see them at all? I couldn't see them when I was on my iPad, but I got on our chromebook to move the files to dakka and I can see them now.

In order to see them, I have to copy/paste the URLs.

Cool. I'm just going to start putting them in the Dakka gallery. Updated, I think.

When I initially pledged, this thread was on page 1.

Since then, I've scratched my cornea twice (had it treated, healed and it relapsed), then had family health issues (which pushed EVERYTHING back by about 6 months). Between mother with breast cancer and sister-in-law with terminal liver cancer, and my own eye issues, I did about 4 weeks worth of modelling in the last 6 months.

These pics all taken before final washes for detail. I don't paint to win awards, I paint so that my models can play on the table (I will not field a bare model on the tabletop, regardless of the game). Criticism of paintjobs and suggestions on how to improve will be noted and filed and not acted upon either way.

Anyhow. Finally got the time to document some of the pledges for my QK. My 4th and last Infinity army. The Haqq contingent is currently drying after having washes applied and will have better pics taken when they are dry.

Iggy and his stooges (model made prior to the art being released for the Iguana). That's a Mobile brigada HI with HMG and modified head. Also proxies as Iggy operator (until the actual model is released, when it will be replacing it.).

Some of the ghulams and the Djanbazan HMG prior to the final highlighting and wash.

Other Ghulams (Yuan-yuan male, Aconte regular and old Ghulam doc). Bit of a snip/snip from a spec ops and bingo, the aconte defector has the same gun as the others.

The Druze militia and single Kaplan security consultant.

The 2 Hafza. (when they aren't looking like Djans or Janissaries).
So model count was:
Iguana (converted from Lizard)
3 Alguaciles
6 Ghulams
1 Djanbazan HMG
4 Druze militia
1 Kaplan security consultant
2 Hafza
1 Husam Spec-ops model as generic proxy for a third hafza or 7th Ghulam when needed.

Terrain piece is a Pegasus Gothic church kit for my club. It's 14"x12" or so and has a removable roof AND interior piece. The interior section serves to limit LoF through the church.
I'll get a shot if it as well, if requested.