Is anyone else eagerly counting down the day till release? I'm really hoping Infinity will get a little more exposure in my area with the release of the 3rd ed. rules and such.

I know I sure am! I keep looking every day at my order thru miniature market thinking "please ship already!".

It will be my first steps into Infinity, and I can't wait to get to painting those minis.

2 weeks!

It is sitting across from me as we speak, as we speak! (RIP Mr. Iwrin :()

I'm quite excited to clear my current project and start digging in, I hope to teach a few people to play via it's simple intro missions!

Seems my gf is pre ordering it for me to get the extra copy but to have as a Christmas present so I will be counting down the days until Christmas.

I need more time... to paint. Its been a couple weeks since GenCon and I have only had time to assemble, prime them all and finish one of them so far.

Got a photo of the one you have finished dark?

My Icestorm has been painted by 2 of my friends. here are links to their micro-blogs, I don't think any registration is necessary to view the pictures:

http://wargamer.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=16880

http://wargamer.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=16861

Could you ask what paints he used for brown? I assume he also shaded them a bit.



Now I'm putting it here, because that's very lovely healer.

 Alkasyn wrote:
My Icestorm has been painted by 2 of my friends. here are links to their micro-blogs, I don't think any registration is necessary to view the pictures:

http://wargamer.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=16880

http://wargamer.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=16861

You have talented friends, and lucky ones getting to paint those minis up!

 Alkasyn wrote:
My Icestorm has been painted by 2 of my friends. here are links to their micro-blogs, I don't think any registration is necessary to view the pictures:

http://wargamer.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=16880

http://wargamer.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=16861

Could you ask him for a 'how to' on painting eyes?

I still struggle mightily with that...

so much win in this thread! thanks for the pictures guys.

I friggin' can't wait either. I'll be taking the Nomads and my brother will be taking the Pan O. I also have uberfallkommandos on the way and should arrive at the same time. I got a lot of work ahead of me!

 carlos13th wrote:
Got a photo of the one you have finished dark?

Yeah I'll get some photos this weekend. Hopefully have another one finished in the next couple days too.

Uberfallkommando for the win, gotta get that box...

I'm having somewhat better luck painting eyes by doing the before the rest of the face, then you can paint larger areas and clean them up later which is often easier. You can make the whole eye area black first and then paint in from the corners with white till it's the right size and shape. Anything beyond that is beyond me, I know some of these crazies can do the faces so they look like they've got eyeshadow and makeup and stuff...

I don't even attempt more than a wash in the recesses for eyes yet.

Can't wait! Do we have an actual release date for this? Or is it just sometime this month?

Well from what I've heard it depends on location. Europe is supposedly looking at ~15th or so while the miniature market is saying late Sept/early Oct here in the states. But that's just conjecture.

Thanks for posting some of the pics guys, would love to see some more as soon as they are available!

Are you after anything from the box or just sexy painted photos?

Gonna work on mine after another 4.3 shasvastii minis.

I'm not the best painter but I'm still learning. Seems most of my time is spent in prep than actual painting. LOL! There are probably about 20 Infinity miniatures, primed and ready to paint in the lineup and then I switched to Operation Icestorm as a priority. Hoping that it works to get my wife into more miniatures than board games. I ran out of painting time but almost finished one of them, still need to base it. The rest still need some touch up done on them.

You going to be playing it with the wife dark? I plan on giving the misses pan o and trying to learn the rules and play the game with her.

 carlos13th wrote:
You going to be playing it with the wife dark? I plan on giving the misses pan o and trying to learn the rules and play the game with her.

I have a group of friends that meet every other week for gaming but yeah initially will be playing with the wife. She ended up picking PanO so I'll be playing Nomads. My daughter and son are starting to paint miniatures so they'll probably end up playing. Although my son prefers to build the battlefields... he is looking for to the Battle System scifi set so he can make some scifi corridors and buildings.

 Dark Severance wrote:
I have a group of friends that meet every other week for gaming but yeah initially will be playing with the wife. She ended up picking PanO so I'll be playing Nomads. My daughter and son are starting to paint miniatures so they'll probably end up playing. Although my son prefers to build the battlefields... he is looking for to the Battle System scifi set so he can make some scifi corridors and buildings.

My gf & I are learning together. We both come from a 40k background with some others mixed in there.

I have been interested in Infinity as the mini are fantastic and skirmish games are more my style. I do not have the time to invest in a massive army 40k style game.
The idea of getting my wife to play would be win win! How succseful have you guys been? at the moment my wife spends the evening watching tv and I spilt time between an MMO or painting. Would be great to have a games night with her. I might show her Icestorm to see if the style of the mini's appeals. She has a great geek side so might be a entry game for her. Would love to here other peoples experiences!

 Dark Severance wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
You going to be playing it with the wife dark? I plan on giving the misses pan o and trying to learn the rules and play the game with her.

I have a group of friends that meet every other week for gaming but yeah initially will be playing with the wife. She ended up picking PanO so I'll be playing Nomads. My daughter and son are starting to paint miniatures so they'll probably end up playing. Although my son prefers to build the battlefields... he is looking for to the Battle System scifi set so he can make some scifi corridors and buildings.

That's good mate. Painting or playing together is a far better bonding experience than zoning out in front of the tv I imagine.

The battle system set does look nice.


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Mooks wrote:
I have been interested in Infinity as the mini are fantastic and skirmish games are more my style. I do not have the time to invest in a massive army 40k style game.
The idea of getting my wife to play would be win win! How succseful have you guys been? at the moment my wife spends the evening watching tv and I spilt time between an MMO or painting. Would be great to have a games night with her. I might show her Icestorm to see if the style of the mini's appeals. She has a great geek side so might be a entry game for her. Would love to here other peoples experiences!

My girlfriend enjoys the painting side ( she also likes nail art so their is lots of cross over there.) I was painting one time and my girlfriend was bored so I gave her a brush and one of my miniatures and told her to join me she painted it enjoys it and paints with me once on a while too.

So far the only thing I have played with her is the gears of war board game, we had a lot of fun and plan to play it again but sadly the learning the rules was a large time investment and we didn't manage to finish the game. Still had fun though.

Just tell her you would really like her to play and paint with you and ask if she is willing to give it a go. Tell her if she likes it she can have one of the ice storm teams. If she feels bad about taking something of yours just say you would rather have someone to play and paint with than two forces. Just make sure she doesn't feel forced or pressured into playing or painting.

Remember as well that if the stuff on the tv isn't particularly compelling you can both paint while watching tv. I often paint in the living room on a cheap dinner tray.

Exhibit a

Mine shipped today for estimated delivery on 11th, this was direct from CB

Same here.

I really like the lighting of your tray photo Carlos, and the accent cat is excellent

I second the whole having a small mobile painting tray sentiment as well:

You guys are lucky. I'm looking at 2-3 more weeks :-(

Those look really good Dark Severance.

Great idea for a brush-pad as well there Carlos (to dry your brush) - What are those minis you have on the board there (some kind of SWAT team guys?)

Cats go where they please. If I am painting at the time is of no consequence,

Yeah they are swat and police types I am painting for fist full of Kung fu,

I'll be getting mine in a few hours. All the content is known already, but if someone has any question, I'll be able to answer it this afternoon.

Everyone who has icestorm already can you post any pics of what/how many pieces each model come in?

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Everyone who has icestorm already can you post any pics of what/how many pieces each model come in?

I can't take pictures now, but I can make a list:

Nomads

- Female Alguacil: body + backpack + right arm + left arm with CR
- Male Alguacil: body + backpack + right arm with CR + left arm
- Male Alguacil (lefty with urban hairdo): body + backpack + right arm + left arm with CR
- Mobile Brigada: body + backpack + head + sprue with antennae + right arm with MR + left arm
- Spektr: body + right arm with CR + left arm with knife
- Grenzer: body + lower half of the coat + left arm with MSR + right arm
- Reverend Healer: body + right arm with CR + left arm with Breaker pistol

PanO

- Female Fusilier: body + left leg + sprue with a) right arm with CR and b) left arm
- Male Fusiliers: body + backpack + sprue with a)right arm with CR and b) left arm (two different male Fusiliers with the same amount and type of bits)
- ORC Trooper: body + right arm with MR + left arm + backpack + sprue with antennae
- Akal: body + sprue with a)right arm with CR and b) left arm + jetpack + antenna (tiny bit) + sprue with two bits of the jetpack
- Nisse: body + backpack + right arm with MSR + left arm
- Father Knight: body + backpack + right arm with sword + left arm + sprue with two antennae

I hope that helps

My thoughts on the minis: all of them are really beautiful. The Reverend Healer is like really really beautiful. The Akal, Nisse, Father Knight, ORC, Spekter, Grenzer, etc, are badass. BUT: the little antennae on the differente models that have them (Mobile Brigada, Nisse, Akal, ORC and Father Knight) are going to be a pain in the ass, as usual. Also, the little bits on the jetpack look like quite fragile.

I forgot the CSU: body, left arm + right arm with CR suitcase

Thanks much Erasoketa! I'm never satisfied to build bulk infantry straight outta the box & I plan to turn at least the female fusilier into a hacker to increase the # of specialists for ITS scenarios. I'll be adding Bipandra as a paramedic & Angus as... a douchey fusilier lol.

I was a bit worried about the antennae tbh as I've yet to build any CB kits with them but the husam spec ops was annoying enough with whatever the hell those canister things on the sekhban's backs are.

You're welcome.

I don't know why, but I still don't dare to convert Infinity minis. I guess it might be because you don't repeat models usually, so most of them are unique.

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Thanks much Erasoketa! I'm never satisfied to build bulk infantry straight outta the box & I plan to turn at least the female fusilier into a hacker to increase the # of specialists for ITS scenarios.

You do know the new fusilier hacker is coming out this month?

 Pierzak wrote:

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Thanks much Erasoketa! I'm never satisfied to build bulk infantry straight outta the box & I plan to turn at least the female fusilier into a hacker to increase the # of specialists for ITS scenarios.

You do know the new fusilier hacker is coming out this month?

Limited budget. I already have the train rescue & icestorm on order. That's 5 fusiliers so I might as well just use some of them as specialists

Does anyone know if Corvus Belli will email a tracking number before posting? I haven't had any correspondence from them so far, not even an order confirmation. I'm a bit worried it's just going to turn up unexpectedly, and I won't be in.

 Erasoketa wrote:
You're welcome.

I don't know why, but I still don't dare to convert Infinity minis. I guess it might be because you don't repeat models usually, so most of them are unique.

I'm the same way. GW figures are clunky enough that my conversions can be passable. But with Infinity figures it would be like taking permanent markers and drawing mustaches on a Botticelli.

I'm planning to convert my Moderator sniper to also have a combi rifle. At some point. 'Cause I don't see using the MSR outside of a link team and sometimes you want things that don't mesh with a moderator link team. Maybe a spitfire. Maybe just to be cheeky I'll take a deadzone reb dudes gun and use it instead!

Not sure I'll need to convert anything in icestorm though.

A few of the models I got in a trade had certain weapons glued to the back of the model. That could work too.

 MWHistorian wrote:

 Erasoketa wrote:
You're welcome.

I don't know why, but I still don't dare to convert Infinity minis. I guess it might be because you don't repeat models usually, so most of them are unique.

I'm the same way. GW figures are clunky enough that my conversions can be passable. But with Infinity figures it would be like taking permanent markers and drawing mustaches on a Botticelli.

GW figs are built with this in mind, with so many extra bits and interchangeable parts like so many legos.

Infinity figs, though, have such detailed sculpts and are so well posed that I feel even a little bit bad adjusting arm angle with a bit of green stuff.

I like adjusting the arms. The boarding shotgun Gwailos looks cool posed normally, but I feel that mine is a little bit more aggressive, and I like the way my malignos is holding his blade.

I would probably have done more conversions by now but so many things are kind of left to suggestion as it is already. Pistol out is the default "whatever gear you want" it seems, and hackers seem like they can pretty well be anybody who has the same weapon type as their profile. Hell two or three of my shasvastii are just holding knives at all.

 GrimDork wrote:
I like adjusting the arms. The boarding shotgun Gwailos looks cool posed normally, but I feel that mine is a little bit more aggressive, and I like the way my malignos is holding his blade.

Wanna learn a secret? The arms are swappable with the multi rifle body.

I have put together 5 minis of each faction in the box, including the ORC Troop, the Akal and the Mobile Brigada. I still haven't felt the urge to smash the models against the wall, so I guess the antennae and jetpack thing hasn't been THAT bad so far

I have yet to build both snipers, and the three special minis (Father Knight, Reverend-Healer and CSU).

The Reverend Healer is easy-peasy to clean and assemble but pay attention to her medi-gun or whatever it's called. That one little bit sticking out of the top is not flash. Or not all flash.

The female fusilier or either of the others can simply stand as a hacker, no conversion needed. If you get Angus and Bipandra, then Angus can stand for anything ( makes a great impersonator too) since he has no weapons. It is perfectly acceptable to proxy. I use Bipandra as a trauma doc for my ASA, and Angus is the machinist.

I was surprised to see the heads were not separate, which means that you need to watch for those mold lines on the faces. Not a problem on my minis. Fortunately.

 Red Harvest wrote:
The Reverend Healer is easy-peasy to clean and assemble but pay attention to her medi-gun or whatever it's called. That one little bit sticking out of the top is not flash. Or not all flash.

Ha! Thanks for the tip I think I still haven't mauled any of this minis, but it wouldn't be my first time LOL. And I think it's a Breaker pistol.

I ordered from The Miniature Market - I've no idea when they'll be shipping it out...

 Erasoketa wrote:

 Red Harvest wrote:
The Reverend Healer is easy-peasy to clean and assemble but pay attention to her medi-gun or whatever it's called. That one little bit sticking out of the top is not flash. Or not all flash.

Ha! Thanks for the tip I think I still haven't mauled any of this minis, but it wouldn't be my first time LOL. And I think it's a Breaker pistol.

Naw, definitely the medi-gun in her left hand. I think the piece is supposed to be some sort of vial. I've encountered it before (Bipandra and the Haqq Doc). Fortunately I consulted the photos before clipping it off.

Yep, definitely be extra careful and triple-check everything if it's your first time working with infinity minis, the detail is much higher than you might be used to.

"Oh, a mold line. *file file file* , that was a pants seam!"

And I definitely recommend using emery boards (GW's worked fine but of course they had to kill the one product I bought from them) over files, files are only for the metal feeder tabs.

 Alpharius wrote:
I ordered from The Miniature Market - I've no idea when they'll be shipping it out...

According to their customer service they'll probably start shipping out at the end of Sept/early Oct. I share your pain!

Warstore seems to have it listed as "Late September": http://www.thewarstore.com/product93647.html

I read on the Infinity website it comes with a playmat and cardboard buildings/crates.

Question: What is the mat made out of? What size is the mat?

I'm a LONG time 40K player, but in its current state I'm at a crossroads and a new edition of Infinity is VERY appealing.

The mat is about 33x23" and made of paper. It's intented to be used with the smaller intro games from the O:I rulebook. I've played the first two missions and it does a good job.

I'm also a long time 40k player (21 years) who has recently switched to infinity. Let me just say that it's by far a more in depth game than 40k. The gameplay is far more interactive & you stay involved even in your opponent's turn. There's none of this watching your troops die wholesale & there's nothing you can do about it, all just because you failed to roll initiative.

 Red_Starrise wrote:
I'm also a long time 40k player (21 years) who has recently switched to infinity. Let me just say that it's by far a more in depth game than 40k. The gameplay is far more interactive & you stay involved even in your opponent's turn. There's none of this watching your troops die wholesale & there's nothing you can do about it, all just because you failed to roll initiative.

Amen to that, brother.
I grew up playing video strategy games and 40k. I love strategy. But in the past few years, even when I had fun, I still didn't get my strategy itch scratched from 40k. I craved it. When I left and went to Warmachine and Infinity, I instantly felt that I had found my games.

Has anybody else had a problem with their fusilier arms? Both of my male fusiliers came with the same set of arms, and I can't get them to line up on the guy supposed to be aiming his combi, which makes me think they're not supposed to be identical...

Managed to get the arms lined up, but not in the position they should be...

Yeah they are definitely not supposed to be identical. The fusilier and alguacile that are aiming their combi were both a little awkward to get lined up though, what with having three contact points, and the fit didn't seem as 'perfect' as all the other models.

Loving how surprisingly solid the paper terrain is, not entirely sold on putting old boxes in the bottom of the larger blocks though. It's supposed to add more rigidity to the structure as an option but it just seems to push the building slightly out of shape. Paper mat took a little while under some heavy books to get entirely flat too but it's hardly intended for constant play outside of O:I missions.

Looking to start infinity when this is available in the states.

I'm going to be stiffening the buildings with foamcore (because I have a crapload of it) instead of the little figure boxes.
The mat won't get used at all (the group I play with have several tables worth of lasercut mdf terrain).

It's been delayed for everyone who didn't get a early release from Gencon or wherever else - as demand was pretty much twice the supply. So they put a hold on release while they had more copies made to cope with the demand.

Hopefully it will be out in October - and the rules the next month.

I can't help but feel that the delay is a good thing. If the games hit the point where demand for the pre order outstrips what they planned to last for ~6 months or so to the point where a whole second run was ordered, it can only be to the benefit of the community. That many new players is a great thing. I'll take a few weeks delay if it means that many more people playing.

 -Loki- wrote:
I can't help but feel that the delay is a good thing. If the games hit the point where demand for the pre order outstrips what they planned to last for ~6 months or so to the point where a whole second run was ordered, it can only be to the benefit of the community. That many new players is a great thing. I'll take a few weeks delay if it means that many more people playing.

Plus, the closer the Icestorm release date to the release date of N3, the better.

I already had to tell my players when demoing for them: "So this is how it works in N3, but we play it differently now".

 chromedog wrote:
The mat won't get used at all (the group I play with have several tables worth of lasercut mdf terrain).

Wish I could say we were in the same boat but still waiting on the games & gears board to arrive after their KS, even with the table option though I'd be inclined to use the O:I mat for the O:I missions just for repeatability's sake when teaching new players. I'm sure I saw someone mention getting it laminated on another thread so I might try to find a place that could do that.

I don't mind waiting. It's given me time to finish my extra nomads.

Lol. The models in that box ARE my "extra" models.

I currently have nothing in my infinity stuff to paint (Sure, there is stuff I could add to existing armies but no dealer currently has what I want - and that's cool - as they will have new stock in a couple of weeks when I do my annual pilgrimmage to a games con and loot the vendors there.

Nevermind

For guys who have got their boxes of stuff, pics of unboxing and other cool stuff please!

I'm hoping to start an Infinity blog this weekend.

Pacific, what do you want to see? I could have put up pics a month ago =/ (still yet to paint anything though).

 Riquende wrote:
Has anybody else had a problem with their fusilier arms? Both of my male fusiliers came with the same set of arms, and I can't get them to line up on the guy supposed to be aiming his combi, which makes me think they're not supposed to be identical...

Managed to get the arms lined up, but not in the position they should be...

Spoiler:

Hey Riquende, where is that base from?

I think that is the fusilier that gave me some trouble too. And one of the Antenna on the Mobile Brigada. Attach those before you glue the head in place.

No pictures of unpacking. However a tip. If you want a digital image/file of the Lieutenant Order marker, you can find it in the Beast of War quickstarter rules on the last page. Apparently, we will need those for N3.

@Red Harvest - Appears to be one of the 'landing pad' range of bases from Antenocitis workshop. Looking forward to him expanding the range as I'd love to use the arc markers he's done for his bases but they don't work on the slight angle of standard bevelled bases.

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/landing-pad-bases-25mm-round.html

Everyones all "My Operation Ice storm shipped already" way back on 9/08 And I'm over here all like "damn it miniature market... hurry up!"

Picked mine up from the post office today. It's really nicely done, I like the stamps on the cardboard boxes with the factions in them.

Warsmith262 wrote:
Everyones all "My Operation Ice storm shipped already" way back on 9/08 And I'm over here all like "damn it miniature market... hurry up!"

I just got a reply to my email to Neal at the Warstore, he said UPS should have picked up the shipment from CB yesterday, so hopefully the Warstore will get their stock this week. Miniatures Market may be in the same situation.

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
@Red Harvest - Appears to be one of the 'landing pad' range of bases from Antenocitis workshop. Looking forward to him expanding the range as I'd love to use the arc markers he's done for his bases but they don't work on the slight angle of standard bevelled bases.

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/landing-pad-bases-25mm-round.html

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Grabbed Operation Icestorm today at a Wayland Games promotional event, its my first foray into Infinity and Iove the look of the models in it. I also grabbed some paints to do my new project with.

I have some issues though, the first is that the Father Knight wasn't anywhere in the box, which I could probably get sorted out I guess but it's a bit of a pain in the ass. The second is that the fluff section is pretty underwhelming at all of 5 pages across the book ; 1 (well actually half a page) for a rough outline summary, two form a wishy washy at best story about a non-stop swearing and insult filled pre-operation meeting between the Nomad forces, while there are two pages worth of short paragraph descriptions for all the factions later in the booklet.

Would have been nice to know a bit more about the PanO and Nomads and maybe some fluff/writing on how the operation actually went down.

There's also the fluff text next to pictures of every model included.

To be honest, the Icestorm booklet contains as much fluff as I'd expect from a quickstart 'intro' publication. As I understand it, the main rulebooks usually contain lots, lots more, and don't forget you can click on any unit in the Infinity model catalogue and it'll give you a short summation of the unit's capabilities and history.

The fluff is in the rulebooks. What you got was a Quickstart guide. Just like the rules are very brief to introduce you to the game, so to is the fluff.

If you want the full fluff for the game, buy the 3rd edition rulebook, Human Sphere and Paradiso. This will also get you all of the rules, army lists, weapon and unit profiles, etc. So sort of win-win. If you go the equally viable route of downloading the free rules from the Infinity website, however, you won't get the fluff.

So I've gotten mine, built it and taken it to a local club day.

Absolutely gorgeous models, very good amount of fluff and art for what it is. Decent terrain/mat and a nice little shout out to their partners making better stuff, good little bit about moving forwards.

It got some people interested and really that's the biggest part.
10/10, best starter I've ever held.

Warsmith262 wrote:
Everyones all "My Operation Ice storm shipped already" way back on 9/08 And I'm over here all like "damn it miniature market... hurry up!"

Interestingly I just got an email from a CS person at Miniature Market, and they told me that they had no information about a delay on shipping out O:I. That said, the didn't give me a date on which they expected to ship, only that I would be notified.

 Buzzsaw wrote:

Warsmith262 wrote:
Everyones all "My Operation Ice storm shipped already" way back on 9/08 And I'm over here all like "damn it miniature market... hurry up!"

Interestingly I just got an email from a CS person at Miniature Market, and they told me that they had no information about a delay on shipping out O:I. That said, the didn't give me a date on which they expected to ship, only that I would be notified.

I was told about two weeks ago by miniature market that CB had just shipped their order & they expected to start shipping in "a couple weeks" however just this past week I got an email from CB saying that retail orders were just shipping that day so who knows.

 Red_Starrise wrote:

 Buzzsaw wrote:

Warsmith262 wrote:
Everyones all "My Operation Ice storm shipped already" way back on 9/08 And I'm over here all like "damn it miniature market... hurry up!"

Interestingly I just got an email from a CS person at Miniature Market, and they told me that they had no information about a delay on shipping out O:I. That said, the didn't give me a date on which they expected to ship, only that I would be notified.

I was told about two weeks ago by miniature market that CB had just shipped their order & they expected to start shipping in "a couple weeks" however just this past week I got an email from CB saying that retail orders were just shipping that day so who knows.

When I emailed them they replied with a sorry. Bit of a delay. And a should be in the mail by 10/03. heres hoping.. =)

Today is 10/3!

Did anyone who ordered from Miniature Market hear anything about their ICESTORM shipping out today?

Still processing preorder :( Though I did order towards the end of the month so I expected a delay.

Yeah, I got my tracking number a few days ago. It is supposed to arrive here on the 9th.

The warstore's order was detained at customs. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!

 Alpharius wrote:
Today is 10/3!

Did anyone who ordered from Miniature Market hear anything about their ICESTORM shipping out today?

Talked to them today, they are 2 miles from my house , they still have not recieved their shipment "it's in transit ", no expected date.

I just ordered mine yesterday from thewarstore.com, I hadn't ordered yet, and wasn't because I couldn't get the csu figure because of no preorder (I was out of funds and still on the fence about getting into infinity), but Neil had a limited supply WITH the csu figure coming in and I snatched the last one. But his are stuck in customs being inspected for safety , maybe the shipment us in the same container as the one for miniaturemarket.com

I wanted to preorder so badly >.< but hadn't had a job for two months. Now...now I have to wait unless the gods of Ebay are kind.

I love how we'll shakedown commercial containers & even private mail but not worry about a border where trucks full of god knows who or what can drive right across unimpeded.

Yeah, those sneaky Canadians illegally entering our country and taking all the Hollywood jobs!

Anyone heard anything new out of miniature market by chance?

My Operation Icestorm just arrived in the post this morning! Woohoo!

Mines been here 2 weeks now, but I refuse to open it... I might get distracted from the DZC I've finally started painting!

Picked my copy up from Tabletop Nation the other week, and have put together the basic soldiers used in mission 1.

Really lovely figures, and the set as a whole has a great retro feel for me – it's nice to have a boxed set that requires a bit of work to get going (like 40k 3rd). I've put some thoughts on the box on my blog, Death of a Rubricist, and will be working through the models there, too; starting with the Fusiliers and Alguaciles.

 Surtur wrote:
The warstore's order was detained at customs. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!

It's not the first time that has happened with Corvus Belli.

i ordered from thewarstore and got my shipping notice yesterdaay.... hooray!

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Anyone heard anything new out of miniature market by chance?

Yes - a few posts back someone who lives near them mentioned that they talked to them and that the Miniature Market's supply of ICESTORMs has been 'delayed' and that, as of a few days ago, there is no expected delivery date.

I've asked them for an update today - I'll let you know what I hear!

For what it's worth, TheWarStore seems to have shipped this past weekend. I got mine today.

Got my shipping notice from Warstore today.

 Alpharius wrote:

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Anyone heard anything new out of miniature market by chance?

Yes - a few posts back someone who lives near them mentioned that they talked to them and that the Miniature Market's supply of ICESTORMs has been 'delayed' and that, as of a few days ago, there is no expected delivery date.

I've asked them for an update today - I'll let you know what I hear!

Thanks. So did I lol.

Where do you get the resin bases from and fantastic paint jobs, Im waiting to paint mine but they are in a cue

Heard back from Miniature Market!

Miniature Market wrote:

Christina S. (Miniature Market Support Portal)

Oct 09 01:44 PM

Good Afternoon [Name Redacted],

We have received confirmation that Operation Icestorm is in route to us and is currently being processed through customs here in the United States. We do not have a confirmed arrival date but anticipate for them to be arriving very soon. Please let me know if there is anything further I may assist you with and thank you for choosing Miniature Market!

So, while the delay most likely wasn't their fault, I think I'll be using The Warstore for my N3 Pre-Order...

 Alpharius wrote:
Heard back from Miniature Market!

Miniature Market wrote:

Christina S. (Miniature Market Support Portal)

Oct 09 01:44 PM

Good Afternoon [Name Redacted],

We have received confirmation that Operation Icestorm is in route to us and is currently being processed through customs here in the United States. We do not have a confirmed arrival date but anticipate for them to be arriving very soon. Please let me know if there is anything further I may assist you with and thank you for choosing Miniature Market!

So, while the delay most likely wasn't their fault, I think I'll be using The Warstore for my N3 Pre-Order...

I've already done the same; I'm just hoping the order from MM comes in before my planned BBQ/O:I run through for my gaming group in about two weeks.


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A quick follow up, MM emailed me letting me know my order for Operation: Icestorm has been shipped and I have a tracking number which shows it's been generated but not received yet.

That's great! Unless they process orders on Sat looks like I probably won't be hearing from them for a few days at least. But I can hope, any chance of sharing what your order # is kilcin? I'm curious where I stand in the list.

Yea, no problem; order # 100330091

Thanks. Well as order #100337513 it looks like I'm quite a few orders after yours. Hopefully that doesn't equate to a long wait.

Got my package today from The Warstore. Very excited!

Though I won't actually have time for it until maybe Nov 8th.

I should have mine on Monday. UPS delivers on a holiday right?

That will give me enough time to read the rules and put things together and put on some demo games on Tuesday night.

LGS had my pre-order in on Tuesday, nice surprise!
Probably won't get to play anything for a few weeks but the minis look excellent!

Already planning my Nomad and Pan-O expansion purchases!

Being deployed overseas means that even if my MM order got through customs tomorrow i still wont see it for a couple weeks... ah military mail you cruel mistress

I am sooo looking forward to this. Hurry up MM!

I started on mine this morning.
Looking god so far.
I think I'll paint the CSU first.
I've also got the bootleg Penny to paint.
Since I'm an Aleph player I don't really need any of the miniatures in the game, but I'll paint them up as opfor.
The healer looks like a fun model to paint, I might add her to the queue.

ok guys, I need some help please.
I tried assembling the first of my fusiliers and have either forgotten how to work with metal miniatures or my fingers have simply gotten fatter... either is a very real possibility.
do you have any tips on putting these guys together... they are so tiny... ugh!

I use a gel super glue and tried pinning but every time that I think the glue is set I pick it up for it to just fall off. maybe I need some kicker?

I've found that gel doesn't work too well for metal because of curing time & the weight of the parts. Rather I use a brush on loctite & sand/file both contact points to rough it up & give better adhesion.


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Just got my tracking # today. Woot!

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
ok guys, I need some help please.
I tried assembling the first of my fusiliers and have either forgotten how to work with metal miniatures or my fingers have simply gotten fatter... either is a very real possibility.
do you have any tips on putting these guys together... they are so tiny... ugh!

I use a gel super glue and tried pinning but every time that I think the glue is set I pick it up for it to just fall off. maybe I need some kicker?

I highly recommend zap a gap. It's probably the best super glue I've worked with. Half the time I just glue my metal models together with it and don't pin. It holds well.

I put mine together with regular Loctite. Worked fine.

I just used gel superglue too and it was ok. I prefer gel to liquid. You can also try scoring the surfaces of your minis maybe.

I just roughen up the surfaces (if they are flat) to increase surface area for the bond.

Otherwise, a little GS in the joint with the glue and it's got a little shock absorber as well.

Are you using a very thin superglue?

I use a medium or thick (either Roket or Zzzaap works well), very occasionally (as chromedog has mentioned above) you may have to use Greenstuff - although you probably shouldn't have to use that with the I:O miniatures, they are a pretty neat fit.

I just unpacked and assembled my Mototronica scenery pack, it's quite nice. For $11.19 on miniature market I may well get another set. Really helps to have the infinity unit boxes to strengthen the buildings, or just put something in there.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-70053-43580_Infinity-icestorm.html
Gallery if interested.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1590/508854.page#7276516
Blog update with commentary, if interested.

I tend to use dollar store glue on my infinity models, no problems so far. I haven't pinned a model in years and don't plan to start again if I can help it. We'll see how that mentality works out Re: TAGS.

I also tend to put bluetack into any large gaps, texture it if necessary to match the surrounding surfaces, and slather it with glue. I let the glue cure and often go in again. Actually... I do that with virtually all of my joins. I get just barely enough glue in place to make the join solid, then after that's dry/cured I go back and deploy a bit more glue into the join. Doesn't matter if it's plastic or restic or metal, that's what I usually do and it tends to work.

Sometimes I put a teeny bit of bluetack within a join to help me hold it in place for the glue to set, or possibly to alter the position a tad. It makes the join a bit weaker overall but if the bit breaks down the road it's really easy to stick back into place cause of the leftover bluetack.

I use greenstuff just like that frequently. I prefer it over blu-tac because it cures & basically becomes plastic.

Yeah its probably better I just don't tend to have the extra minutes/seconds, a lot of my hobbying is done in little bits of time snuck and stolen between other more necessary tasks like minding the little one.

Ergh, I had almost forgotten how much I hate super glue. After about an hour of fiddly arms falling off, I decided to just buy (yet another) new bottle of glue. Problem solved. New problem: tiny arms now sticking to my fingers instead of where the are supposed to. Grrr.

Buy thicker glue? Sounds like you've got super thin stuff. Try medium or even gel.

Loctite gel works for me, but it does sometimes take longer to dry.

Zip kicker is your friend, and contrary to popular belief, does not weaken the glue.

I use a toothpick to apply both glue and kicker to opposite ends of small joints, that avoids the mess of spraying or dripping kicker while trying to hold fiddly bits together.

Or you can apply your super glue to both parts then put a tiny amount of pva glue on the peg side & put it together. The pva should hyper accelerate the super glue.

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Anyone heard anything new out of miniature market by chance?

Man I have pestered the Hell out of Miniature Market and all I get is: Its in customs

 Warsmith262 wrote:

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Anyone heard anything new out of miniature market by chance?

Man I have pestered the Hell out of Miniature Market and all I get is: Its in customs

That was what I was told last Thursday via e-mail. Apparently some have received their order this past week, however, making me think they are...slowly...shipping. I guess our order #/place in the 'queue' determines our ship date?

What day was your last/latest correspondence stating 'in customs', if you don't mind my asking?

My copy is supposed to be delivered via UPS Monday. Man I wish they'd switch to USPS. BOTH take just as long to get here but at least the USPS drivers on Sat.

Rusty Trombone wrote:

 Warsmith262 wrote:

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Anyone heard anything new out of miniature market by chance?

Man I have pestered the Hell out of Miniature Market and all I get is: Its in customs

That was what I was told last Thursday via e-mail. Apparently some have received their order this past week, however, making me think they are...slowly...shipping. I guess our order #/place in the 'queue' determines our ship date?

What day was your last/latest correspondence stating 'in customs', if you don't mind my asking?[/quote

Today actually!!!! I called to inquire about having my order that contains O:I split since it also Had some Malifaux stuff attached to it. Since its been about a month since I ordered I want my Malifaux stuff at least. But I further inquired about O:I and the MM guy I talked to said Its still in customs but they are expecting them by next week... I have little faith in this since I've been hearing this line for a couple weeks now... sigh


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Don't know why it says you said what i said Rusty Trombone:

Today actually!!!! I called to inquire about having my order that contains O:I split since it also Had some Malifaux stuff attached to it. Since its been about a month since I ordered I want my Malifaux stuff at least. But I further inquired about O:I and the MM guy I talked to said Its still in customs but they are expecting them by next week... I have little faith in this since I've been hearing this line for a couple weeks now... sigh