Nicely tied together Marine forces.

Got my Miniature Market order yesterday, which had Alastor, Ophiel, and a little Metal Slug looking tank from Relic Knights.

I decided I would start work on the Anima figures. These are my first Anima Tactics figures and I have to say, their sculpt quality is very nice. I'd say they're up there in terms of quality with Infinity. It's a shame that, event despite the high quality of the figures, they still couldn't match the sculpts up with their artwork. Anyway, I was going to go ahead and get right to work on Ophiel. Until I noticed how huge his base is, at any rate. The thing is at least 50mm. That's massive for a guy that's slightly taller than a regular Infinity human. I wanted to model him with his shadow thing, but there's no way I'll be able to fit it and him on a 25mm base. I'm thinking I may have to track down a 30mm one and just not use all of the shadow things.

Alastor on the other hand also had a huge base (and a huge box), but he can fit onto a 25mm base without any issues. So, I went ahead and painted him.



For whatever reason, my camera just doesn't want to photograph his armor decently. It's actually much redder in person, like the Dark Eldar I did, but in every pic I took, the darker areas turned out black.

But, I did manage to match him up fairly well with the others.



I'm not entirely sold on his cape looking like that. I wanted it to look like flayed skin, like the other Dark Eldar are wearing. I think it came out okay, but just not especially enamored with it.

I think he looks suitably imposing, downright terrifying if you were just a lowly guardsman.

 Barzam wrote:
Got my Miniature Market order yesterday, which had Alastor, Ophiel, and a little Metal Slug looking tank from Relic Knights.

I decided I would start work on the Anima figures. These are my first Anima Tactics figures and I have to say, their sculpt quality is very nice. I'd say they're up there in terms of quality with Infinity. It's a shame that, event despite the high quality of the figures, they still couldn't match the sculpts up with their artwork. Anyway, I was going to go ahead and get right to work on Ophiel. Until I noticed how huge his base is, at any rate. The thing is at least 50mm. That's massive for a guy that's slightly taller than a regular Infinity human. I wanted to model him with his shadow thing, but there's no way I'll be able to fit it and him on a 25mm base. I'm thinking I may have to track down a 30mm one and just not use all of the shadow things.

Alastor on the other hand also had a huge base (and a huge box), but he can fit onto a 25mm base without any issues. So, I went ahead and painted him.



For whatever reason, my camera just doesn't want to photograph his armor decently. It's actually much redder in person, like the Dark Eldar I did, but in every pic I took, the darker areas turned out black.

But, I did manage to match him up fairly well with the others.



I'm not entirely sold on his cape looking like that. I wanted it to look like flayed skin, like the other Dark Eldar are wearing. I think it came out okay, but just not especially enamored with it.

That guy is one heckuva scary Archon! good call on making him such!

Been a while since I posted an update. Between doing work at my new place, going to Italy, and being jet lagged, I haven't gotten much painting done, nor taken many photos. I have been working though. Until I can take some decent pics though, you'll have to make do with this crappy, blurry phone picture.



Just a few items I've recently painted.

You did your Shattered Sword guys in red? Huh.

I've got the big ogre guy from Shattered Sword coming in the mail soon.

You're getting a fair amount of Relic Knight stuff. When do you want to succumb to actually trying the game out?

I've been working on getting my Noh stuff all painted and based.

Our dad said my stuff tended towards dark, muted colors too often and I wanted to try out a new paint I'd bought, so they became red.

I suspect it'll be a long time before I grab a proper Relic Knights starter though. They're generally more expensive than I care for. If I ever come across them on discount though, then I'll grab one.

Right now I want to focus on my Admech.

Relic Knights is supposed to be a really fun game. I need to pick up a second faction to try it out. I've got quite a few of the Shattered Sword minis, looking at picking up some Black Diamond at some point oh and the rules

If I were to play Relic Knights, I'd probably go Black Diamond as well. They're pretty cool looking.

I figured as much.

I find any cheap Black Diamond stuff, I'll pass it on your way.

...for some Goritsi.

You're not getting my Goritsi.

I have some not blurry pics today! I'll start with a pair of figures I picked up at the miniature swap a couple months back. I wasn't expecting to find to much, but among the odds and ends I wound up with, I'd found a pair of Haqqislam figures, so I gladly took them from whoever it was (probably someone from Dakka) and added them to my collection.



Now, here's a better pic of the Shattered Sword Paragon from yesterday's pic.



I still haven't gotten the other one from the box done yet. The reason for that is due to his pose. It's really weird, like he's supposed to be landing, but the way he's posed, you can't actually glue either foot to the stand and he doesn't have a flight stand, either. Once I rig something up for him, I'll get to work on him.

Also in yesterday's pic was this lovely, used Black Diamon minitank drone. Gaze upon its filthy tracks. Marvel at how my camera washes out all of its detail and blurrs its lines!



This next guy was also in that pic, but you could barely make out his details. I'm really pleased with how he looks.



I actually picked up a couple of Brother Vinni figures from Noble Knight. They're very nice quality. This particular one is based on the NCR Rangers from Fallout. Someday I'd like to get his trio of STALKERs.

Lastly, my current focus is painting up my Skitarii. I've only got these two guys finished, but I'm slowly working on them, one at a time.



Unfortunately, their paintjobs are a lot more difficult than my Dark Eldar's, so they're taking a little longer. I based their colors on the Stygies VIII forgeworld on account of the fact that it made them look even more like Urban War Junkers.

Just scrolling through, I thought that Skitarii commander was actually one of your junkers from a cursory glance.

Love your Skitarii scheme, top work. It does look a PITA to paint though.

Hope to see some of the vehicles from you too.

So a fairly good condition brown coat for the Ranger I see. My Rangers have faded and worn old coats

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 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Love your Skitarii scheme, top work. It does look a PITA to paint though.

Hope to see some of the vehicles from you too.

Well, you're in luck! I've had a crappy week at work and Monday was (so far) the worst. So, since I'm the type of person who buys stuff to relieve stress, I figured the best reward for my crappy day was to buy an Onager. I've been working on it slowly after work and I'm nearly done with it. Still some detail work, like the cabels, lenses, paint scratches, etc to do. I still need to do the crewman and the little foot pads. It's far enough along though that I don't feel too bad showing it off. Plus, Tamburlaine wanted some WIP photos of stuff I've been working on.





You can see a few bits of scatter terrain I've been working on, too.

The biggest issue I'm having with the Onager is that there's a big seam running along the center of the Neutron Blaster that I couldn't get rid of. Unfortunately, I think I'm pretty much stuck with it now.

Huh. I kind of like those walking tank things. Not everything about the Skitari grabs me, but those Onagers are pretty solid. Nice work too.

The Onager is a solid little kit. That's actually its biggest problem. It isn't very big, yet you're paying nearly the same price as a Valkyrie. It's kind of ridiculous.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
So a fairly good condition brown coat for the Ranger I see. My Rangers have faded and worn old coats

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Your guys were actually kind of what pushed my to purchase some Brother Vinni stuff. I have to say, I'm pleased with his quality.

Agreed on the Onager, I have bought two and painted one already. I think it is a great, but quite small, kit.

I really like your scheme on the Onager and the Neutron Laser is my favourite looking weapon.

 Barzam wrote:
The Onager is a solid little kit. That's actually its biggest problem. It isn't very big, yet you're paying nearly the same price as a Valkyrie. It's kind of ridiculous.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
So a fairly good condition brown coat for the Ranger I see. My Rangers have faded and worn old coats

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Your guys were actually kind of what pushed my to purchase some Brother Vinni stuff. I have to say, I'm pleased with his quality.

Hey the onager looks cool, a nice qudrapedal tank, but GW pricing is based not on making a gamers' needs for army but their view as a "collectible" which explains a lot as to why they charge as insanely as they do.

Ah! Vinni never disappoints!

Finished my Onager... other than basing it.

Definitely a sweet mech-tank. Great work!

Nice work on that Onager. I like the AdMech stuff you've gotten going here. Jealous!

I've enjoyed the Admech that I've worked on so far. I'm almost tempted to pick up the upcoming Magos figure, even though I'm sure he'll cost somewhere around $20. The tracked gun-Servitors that are coming soon are also tempting. If possible, I'd even like to grab a box of Rangers.

Speaking of Rangers, I'm not too keen with how the Stygies scheme actually looks on them. The tank crewman was somewhat of a test of it. It makes him look too much like a Chaos cultist or something. I'm thinking, I may have to come up with a new scheme whenever I get some rangers.

Onager is interesting , so a pair of Heavy stubbers along with the potent Laser cannon

I'm not sure if the stubber on top is actually functional in-game or if it's purely cosmetic. The rules blurb included with it doesn't mention it.

Explain the tread tank thing in the background that nobody else seems to have noticed.

Might make a good cheap proxy for other players out there.

I'm really surprised nobody's noticed it yet. It's actually a 1/72 toy called a Heavy Roller from Bandai USA's long forgotten Xyber 9 toyline, based on the long forgotten show of the same name. The show was very short lived, running only 1 season. About all I remember of it was that it was post apocalyptic. Bandai made a surprisingly decent toyline for it though. It came in two scales: 1/72 (compatible with Galoob's Action Fleet) and 1/18. The 1/18 line had figures of the main characters and the main villain (all of which were kind of crap), a series of very nice jetbikes, a fairly cool looking airplane, a very cool looking half track tank/recovery vehicle thing, and a VERY cool looking and fully articulated giant robot that is considered to be a holy grail among 1/18 toy collectors. The 1/72 line was a bit more diverse, considering it actually had stuff from the bad guys. For the good guys, they had two airplanes, one of which was in the 1/18 line, the half track from the 1/18 line, and the giant robot from the 1/18 line. For the bad guys, they had three vehicles, a funky aircraft, a very cool tank with three cannons on its turret, and the Heavy Roller. For a while there, I was tracking down the 1/72 stuff and actually managed to get a hole of nearly the entire line. I'm only missing the hero robot. While most of the vehicles would probably work great at 15mm, the Heavy Roller makes a wonderful 28mm Mechanicus robot.



Features on the toy are that its head is an opening cockpit, both arms move, the right arm's claw can open and close, the cannon on the back can rotate up and down and fired a missile, the missile launcher on the back can rotate up and down, the weapons on the back can swing down for some reason, the waist rotates, and it can roll. When you roll it, the little blades on the front move up and down. It, along with the rest of the line pops up on Ebay from time to time. I got mine for about $15, which I'd say is pretty good for something of its size.

Oh, and here's a figure I whipped up last night while listening to Doctor Who audio dramas.



I'd been wanting to make some carapace armored IG Vets for some reason, so I've been slowly gathering parts. This officer will be the first of a five man team. I'd also wanted to get some practice painting tiger stripe camo for my Danamian LRRP team, so this guy also was the guinea pig for that. The pic's a bit dark so it's a little hard to see it. I think, for my first try at it, I did an okay job. I'll be trying again on another figure soon. The idea for the scull detail on his visor I actually got from someone else's figures I'd seen on some other site a while back. I'd originally painted the skull detail on, but I didn't really like how it looked, so I tried again and used a skull decal from the Chaos Marine set. Worked perfectly! Now I need to get some more arms so I can do the rest of the team.

Gonna come back and look at your skullface when I go to do my nomad zeros. I wanted to give her something similar, though potentially a bit more girly.

I saw that robot tank, though I figured you'd bring it up if you intended to Seems like he should fit right in.

Yep, same here, was waiting for you to mention and describe the robotank and how it will fit, especially doing a AdMech army

That officer witht he carapace/camo and bolt-pistol/power-fist is very nice, the face plate with skull, wouldn't have been inspired by the stories of the shadows in the forest aka library would it?

Vet is epic! Can you do a quick parts breakdown?

Thats the vibe I was getting.

I like Barzam's. Gets the same effect but with a little more subtlety than my attempt:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Yep, same here, was waiting for you to mention and describe the robotank and how it will fit, especially doing a AdMech army

That officer witht he carapace/camo and bolt-pistol/power-fist is very nice, the face plate with skull, wouldn't have been inspired by the stories of the shadows in the forest aka library would it?

Actually, it's based more on the CIA SAD operators.



But, like I said, I'd seen someone else do it first and I was just copying them.

Vet is epic! Can you do a quick parts breakdown?

He's made from parts from four companies.
Head: Pig Iron
Body: Maxmini
Arms: GW
Legs: Mad Robot

Aha, so that kind of trooper.

Another little update. I made two more Skitarii last night.

I got the first of my special weapon Skitarii done: the Arc Rifle.



And, I made the creepy looking Sicarian Ruststalker Alpha





And, since I was on the subject of Xyber 9 last update, I figured, what the hell, why not show another vehicle? This time, the "tank" used by the good guys.



This thing was called the Half-Back, for some reason. Clearly, it is some sort of battlefield engineering half track. This one is also from the 1/72 scale line, though there is a 1/18 version of it (I have none of the 1/18 ones). I feel that this thing is underscaled for 1/72. But, it's damn near perfect for 15mm.

And who are these little fellows down on the side? Why, they're Rebel Minis special forces.



Yes, I've started to experiment with other scales. 15mm is too damn small, but there's a lot of neat stuff available in that scale. The Rebel Minis figures are okay. The sculpt quality seems to vary across their ranges. These guys aren't bad. They're detailed enough that I can tell exactly what I'm looking at, but they aren't as nice as some of the stuff Khurusan puts out. I think I'd compare Rebel Minis' stuff to Mantic's. They're pretty affordable, not the best sculpts, but decent, and you get a bunch of figures for your money. I got 12 of these guys along with 40 zombies and a rulebook for about $25. That's a lot of stuff for what really isn't that much money in this community.

I'm assuming that was in the Red Ops 5 box that you speak of?

Paint some of the zombies. Curious to see them.

Then you can teach me the game for once!

Love the skullface idea

Yeah, those are the figures I got in the Red Ops 5 bundle. I've painted a couple zombies. it's kind of funny. The thing that's slowing me down with painting them is my lack of pennies. They're all based on pennies. Usually, I have too many of the damn things. But, when I need some, there's none around.

You read the Modern Havok rules I leant you right? Red Ops is basically the same. They're both built on the same basic game engine. Though, Red Ops actually seems better suited to single player rather than multplayer.

Got my Litko order yesterday, which means I can start on my BFG ships and my Danamian Long Range Recon Patrol team. Got the team leader all painted up last night, pics of him to go up tonight.

Not sure how I should paint my BFG ships. I've got a handful of Eldar craft and some small human ships.

Well, I've talked about wanting to do a Danamian Long Range Recon Patrol team using Mad Robot parts. I finally did it! The first figure, the team leader is now done.



The tiger stripe camo is simplistic, but I think it gets the job done and does look good from a distance. The team leader is the first of a five man team. There'll also be a radio operator and a flame thrower. Unfortunately, I think I'm going to need to get some more equipment pouches as I don't have enough for the whole team. Plus, I need to order some backpacks at some point.

To hang out with my Danamians, and to test the LRRP team's tiger stripe camo, I also have a Brother Vinni guardswoman to add to the mix.



I think I'll yank her off that base and put her on a clear one so she matches up with the rest of the Danamians.

My three tiger striped jungle fighters, so far

That head is from Pig Iron right?

M.

Why does the team leader wear Viktor von Doom's glove?

They look really good and a brother vini model with her clothes on what next .....

The team looks nice and coherent, they match well, looking forward to more work along this line.

Miguelsan wrote:That head is from Pig Iron right?

M.

Yep! The skull detail is a decal from the Chaos transfer sheet.

Jehan-reznor wrote:Why does the team leader wear Viktor von Doom's glove?

He lost his arm in Danam.

GiraffeX wrote:They look really good and a brother vini model with her clothes on what next .....

Shocking, isn't it? I could've gone with the entirely nude rocket launcher, but going into combat buck naked, regardless of location doesn't seem like a smart move to me.

 Barzam wrote:

GiraffeX wrote:They look really good and a brother vini model with her clothes on what next .....

Shocking, isn't it? I could've gone with the entirely nude rocket launcher, but going into combat buck naked, regardless of location doesn't seem like a smart move to me.

It would be pretty good on the distraction front but pretty useless in any other situation unless you were fighting zombies in a nudest park

Ah, the Brother Vinni missile launcher fully clothed looks great!

I also like the use of the MRM stuff for the leader.

Had some progress last night, got five figures done.

Finished two more LRRP team members: Flamer and Vox. I'll need to get backpacks for them though before they're truly finished.







The other three figures I finished were some robot troopers from AEWWII. For some reason, our FLGS pulled out a ton of old stock of Chronopia, Warzone, and AEWWII figures. I couldn't resist and had to purchase some AEWWII figurs. I got some American robots and some German troops. Today I wound up also grabbing some Dark Legion Warzone figures and a techpriest for my AdMech.

Anyway, robits!

first is the leader



Red, due to being the leader. I wish I had a zeon style horn antennae to put on him as well.

Trooper 1



Trooper 2





Eyes will be painted after they've been dipped.

LRRP guys are looking great!

The robots are so cool with the "tommy guns"

I agree with Shas, everything looks cool. Tommy gun robits... nice

Those robots were really one of those cases where I didn't like the figures' designs at all until I actually had them in hand. Their retro '50s look isn't entirely to my liking. But, like I said, in hand, I really like them. Unfortunately, for some reason these AEWWII figures really don't want to be glued together. I don't know what their deal is. The robots didn't and neither did the Germans I'd bought. Last night I tried to put the Germans together and fought with them for over an hour. No matter what kind of glue I used, gel or liquid, their arms would just flop off even after it felt like they'd secured. Ugh. Pain in the ass. Eventually, I got them all together, but man, those figures suck to put together.

Last night I also decided to go back to Infinity for a bit. My brother had bought a couple figures for me for my birthday and I decided to put one of them together. May I present the Kotail Mobile Unit.



With this figure, I now own at least one figure from every faction!

Looking great! Nice and vibrant spot colours!

I like it over the default schemes for Tohaa. Nice work

Looking very nice, going to be expensive going forward keeping up with each faction.

During my last round of FRP impulse buying, I wound up purchasing some odd figures that I've been wanting. I suspect not that many people are all that familiar with Zombiesmith's lines, otherwise I figure I'd have seen more of their stuff popping up online. Anyway, for some odd, inexplicable reason, I've been wanting to buy some figures from their This Quar's War line. So, I finally did. Just wanting to dip my toes in the water, so to speak, I grabbed a small set of two figures. I'd like the Toulmore scheme, so I decided to go with them for my first outing.

This guys aren't quite finished, but they're close enough that I'm comfortable posting them.



I have to say, I really like the doofy little guys. I showed them to my dad and he liked them a lot, too. I think I may just have to get some more Toulmore soldiers. I don't know what kind of animal they are, but they look vaguely avian to me. I think they'd go well against Tamburlaine's rats.

 Barzam wrote:
During my last round of FRP impulse buying, I wound up purchasing some odd figures that I've been wanting. I suspect not that many people are all that familiar with Zombiesmith's lines, otherwise I figure I'd have seen more of their stuff popping up online. Anyway, for some odd, inexplicable reason, I've been wanting to buy some figures from their This Quar's War line. So, I finally did. Just wanting to dip my toes in the water, so to speak, I grabbed a small set of two figures. I'd like the Toulmore scheme, so I decided to go with them for my first outing.

This guys aren't quite finished, but they're close enough that I'm comfortable posting them.



I have to say, I really like the doofy little guys. I showed them to my dad and he liked them a lot, too. I think I may just have to get some more Toulmore soldiers. I don't know what kind of animal they are, but they look vaguely avian to me. I think they'd go well against Tamburlaine's rats.

I have seen someone give them a odd tank that would have looked at home in the 1930's

Looks like something that belongs more in my collection than yours. They look nice. I think I saw one on the dining room table the other day hanging out with your 15mm stuff.

shasolenzabi wrote:
I have seen someone give them a odd tank that would have looked at home in the 1930's

The range actually does have a few tanks, and they're very funky looking.

highlord tamburlaine wrote:Looks like something that belongs more in my collection than yours. They look nice. I think I saw one on the dining room table the other day hanging out with your 15mm stuff.

Actually, their War of Ashes line, or whatever its called seems more up your alley. Those figures look like barbarian Muppets.

Oh man, those robots are awesome! Never heard of ae ww2 before, but I'm certainly checking it out now.

Glad you like them. If you're into the idea of German wizards, psychic Soviet chimps, and American robots and Wendigos, then you should totally check out the line.

The Danamian Long Range Recon Patrol team is done for now. They still need backpacks, but are otherwise finished.

I forgot I'd already taken pics of the vox guy, but here he is with the final two anyway.



And the whole team.

Just a little bit of 90s funk.

I like, but never got the 2nd ed versions, I have hidden somewhere a 1st run metal mini of the Praetorian Stalkers, still were mean looking back then. I had such high hopes for them to be a true competitor for GW, but the licensing issues that they fell into that ruined them at Target Games. I also ran some of the RPG as I had that book too.

They look good, maybe like they're gonna get ambushed by the predator any time now.

Looks like you got some litko bases going on, they're working well.

shasolenzabi wrote:I like, but never got the 2nd ed versions, I have hidden somewhere a 1st run metal mini of the Praetorian Stalkers, still were mean looking back then. I had such high hopes for them to be a true competitor for GW, but the licensing issues that they fell into that ruined them at Target Games. I also ran some of the RPG as I had that book too.

Is that a 2nd Edition Praetorian? I didn't even know that. I thought he was a first edition. I remember Mutant Chronicles being fairly prolific back in the day. Almost as much, if not moreso than 40k. I distinctly remember the local toystore, PlayCo. carried the board games. We'd even got Siege of the Citadel from there. Ah, good times. I can remember playing it in my brother's room, using the Bauhaus guys because I thought Max Steiner looked cooler than everyone else with his skull mask. I also remember renting Doom Troopers quite a lot (even beat it) and playing the CCG.

That Praetorian was picked up from the local hobby shop. They'd fished out a ton of old ass Warzone and Chronopia stock. Stuff I hadn't seen since I was a kid. Unfortunately, most of it has been sold now, and they didn't seem to have some of the cooler stuff, like the Cybertronic Shock Troopers or the Bauhaus Hussars. I did snag a few more blisters when I got that guy though and I'll post them tomorrow.

GrimDork wrote:They look good, maybe like they're gonna get ambushed by the predator any time now.

Looks like you got some litko bases going on, they're working well.

No, I'd need to get the Rescue Team personality set in order to have that scenario. Someday.... someday.
But yeah, all of my Danamians are on LItko bases. They look nice on them.

Yeah mine had the tusks and head all as one, close tot he head, and scrolled work in the armor. very static pose.

This pose in fact



One solid chunk of metal!


Speaking of, when I saw the Deadzone stage 1 Plague beast, I was thinking of this guy's "carcass armor"

Ahh good old Herr Stalher.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
Ahh good old Herr Stalher.

M.

Traitor to Mankind, ally to the Dark Soul! hence that bio-armor, such a sellout!

That's a pretty ugly figure. Which Megacorp did he belong to prior to joining the Dark Legion?

Anyway, I promised some ugly figures from the 90s and I will deliver. It's just a bit later than I'd intended due to stuff going on with my house.

You've already seen the Praetorian Stalker, but I wanted to get another pic of him.



Dark Legion Last Ritesmen, purchased due to their creepyness.



And purchased entirely due to their goofy hats, some Brotherhood Pilgrims!



Highlord Tamburlaine claimed the vents on their headgear looked like techno mustaches.

I also stumbled across some RIFTS miniatures of all things at the hobby shop. I wound up grabbing a pack of humanoid dogs... because of course I would. I'll have to work on them later this week. Tomorrow, expect some pics that ought to make Highlord Tamburlaine somewhat jealous.

Stahler was Bauhaus' problem

Well not for very long after Crensaw arrived.

M.

Jeez Barzam, that was fast on those guys.

You churned those Pilgrims out quick!

I guess I've got to step it up on my side and finish all my Legion guys. Weather certainly wasn't the most cooperative for spraying stuff this weekend.

Okay, time for something with which I make Highlord Tamburlaine jealouse. GORITSI!!!!

He's already seen the Goritsi Dancing Master, but the rest of you haven't.



But, nobody bought Goritsi for Vampires. That'd just be silly. No, anyone who bought Goritsi did so because of the plethora of werewolves.



Now, I'd just grabbed a pair of figures at random out of the extras box from the Kickstarter. I'd managed to have little in the way of errors or issues with my order, except, wouldn't you know it, I had a werewolf missing his tail. And, when i was fishing for a figure to paint, I just so happened to grab that very same werewolf. Because of course I would. I used to Green Stuff to fill in the hole on his backside. I suppose this guy's nickname is Stumpy.

A Few weeks back, FRP had a huge clearance sale with over 300 items makred way down. Since they update their sale page around 1am here and I'm usually up around that time, I lucked out and managed to get a few things very cheap. Among them, I grabbed some figures from West Wind's Roadkill line for all of a buck. Grabbed myself some Night Rangers. Who wouldn't want a team of black ops guys with NVGs and full auot shotguns? They'll be perfect for fighting against the horrors of the night. If I ever end up palying some horror themed stuff, I'll probably wind up using these guys.



And the last bit for today's update, I'd picked up a Techpriest last weekend and got him painted up to go with my Skitarii. Decided to paint him in the Stygies VIII scheme like the troops.

Fancy stuff! And really strong turnover too.

It looks like you'd put more work in on that Blade Dancer anyways.

Your wolf came out good.

Every time I see your Skitarii tech stuff, I can't help but think they're Void Junkers due to how you painted them.

I always feel like I've wandered into a family reunion here in this thread!

Still, you both seem like friendly types, I imagine that even if this was the case, we'd be Highlordin' it up within a few minutes anyway!

The hats on those Brotherhood Pilgrims are excellent, their opponents would be crippled with laughter.

Love what you are doing with the Wrath of Kings miniatures, they are certainly on my "to buy" list if they ever make it over to the UK.

Your Skitarii are great too, I really like the black cloaks when compared to the GW "official" colour scheme.

Well, they are the Brotherhood of silly hats. The headgear on the old Mortificators and Inquisitors were bigger than their torsos.

I'd wanted to do something a bit different than everyone else with my Skitarii. I figured everyone would be doing the Mars scheme of possibly Ryza. I'm actually a little surprised I haven't seen more in the Stygies colors. The white one probably looks best, but no way am I going to paint that much white. The fact that the Stygies colors make them look like Junkers is just an added bonus.

Alpharius, there was a lot of Highlording going on last Saturday when we had a 3-way battle with our cousin.

Gonna work on more werewolves tonight and I should have some new Germans to post.

I my do some skiitari up in browns and greens for the faction "Trade Worlds Cartel"

Here's the Germans I did. These guys came from AEWWII same as the robots.

Nice work on this stuff. I especially like the Gortisi and of course, your AdMech.

Well, you're in luck, my Admech got an HQ today. I gave in to peer pressure and grabbed the new Magos. I'm looking forward to painting him. I suppose he'll be getting the same black robes are the rest of my Stygies crew. BUT, I've got a bit of an issue that's going to keep me from painting for a few days. I've finally got nearly all of the renovations done at my new place (need a fan installed, closet doors, internet, and some touchups) and I'll finally get to move in. I'm going be moving my hobby stuff this week, so my queue is going to be in limbo for a bit. And then, I've got to go on a buying hiatus again. But, I've got a ton of stuff to work through while I'm on hiatus anywaay, so you'll still see me painting stuff once I get everything set up again. In fact, tomorrow I should have some new pics up of some stuff.
k through while I'm on hiatus anywaay, so you'll still see me painting stuff once I get everything set up again. In fact, tomorrow I should have some new pics up of some stuff.

Okay, so this is obviously not being posted on the 27th of May. Reason being that I'd actually wound up packing the stuff I was going to photograph. It was just WIPs anyway, so no big loss. Today I have something better. Today, I have an actually completed figures, the Tech-Priest Dominus. I should also add, this guy is the first figure I've painted at my new house.





Now, I'd wanted to get him some Servitor bodyguards and I was going to use the Urban War Syntha Artemis class Biosynths, because this guy's a total pimp. Unfortunately, Noble Knight sent me the wrong Biosynth. Instead of a nearly nude female cyborg, I got a half naked male cyborg. Hopefully they can get things squared and send me the proper Biosynth so my Tech-Priest can have his ladies.

Looking awesome!

Yeah, that's fantastic. Excellent work!

Reminds me a bit of a haemonculus too.

I'm loving this AdMech stuff!

I'm not!

He refuses to paint any fantasy stuff since it would be considered an act of heresy for the machine god.

You guys just keep enabling him!


(I've seen the stuff in person though, and I'll admit he's tied it all together quite well.) I liked the big crawly guy on a big base with lots of wires n' junk hanging off him.

From the sound of things, next time we have a game it's going to be sentient mushroom men versus Weird War German sorcery, so that should be interesting...

Sheesh, and I thought my recent battles using government agents and super spies/necromancers and skeletons to fight gorilla gangsters were out there... Way to take the crazy cake

That is why it is referred to as Weird War 2

Well folks, I'm not done with the AdMech yet. Today I put a bunch of my Space Marines and Chaos Marines in the consignment case at the FLGS. With luck, some local gamers will like my Relictors and Plague Dogs enough to buy them. Sadly, this means that I had to part with my custom Plague Lord. The guy working there really liked him though and was contemplating buying the figure for himself, so I think he'll be a sure sale Compared to everything else in the case, my figures are hands down the best looking ones and I was already getting some admirers while they were being put in the case. My hope is that not only will I make room in my display cabinet by doing this, but that I'll make enough extra cash to grab myself the AdMech robots and Kataphron Destroyers.

For now though, I'll have to make due with adding non-GW figures to my forces. I wanted to add some combat Servitors to act as bodyguards for my pimping Tech-Priest. I think I already mentioned that Noble Knight messed up my order for one of the Syntha cyborg girls (which they finally got back to me about. They can't replace her and will be giving me credit). So, what I wound up doing, for now, is repainting the Biosynth girl I already had. I just did up her armor bits in red so she'll match up better with the rest.



I've got another Syntha robot that I'm slowly working on that will be joining her as well.

Last weekend, I went by Brookhurst and managed to come across some long forgotten Void Junkers suicide bombers. I needed to get those. So...



Yep, they're joining the Adeptus Mechanicus. Id like to think that they're menials who had performed some sort of techno-heresy and only by becoming human bombs could they seek forgiveness for their transgressions in the eyes of the Omnissiah. I'll have to come up with some way to adapt them to SOBH.

I think they'll go well with my Mechanicus forces.

Please tell me my 6 armed game illegal swarm lord has finally found a better home. I hate going there and seeing him staring back at me.

When I get home we'll have to find a decent SF ruleset so we can shoot it out with all your admech junk, and me with my ugly dark legion stuff.

Honestly, I'm not sure if he was still there. He probably was though. I'll be heading back tomorrow though. Hopefully someone liked my stuff enough to buy a few items.

Well, you'll be disappointed to hear, your Hive Tyrant is still kicking around the consignment case. Most of my stuff sold, which means I'll be able to buy the Mechanicus Robots and the Kataphron Destroyers. I've got to wait until Tuesday though, which is kind of annoying since the guy that signed the paperwork needs to be present. Bah.

Until then, I'll continue filling out my Mechanicus ranks with non GW models. This weekend, i finished my old sculpt Syntha Pointman. I'll be using him as a heavily armored Servitor.



I also painted what may be the most exciting mini every! A FRIGGIN' DUMPSTER!.



Yeah, that's the Bones dumpster. It's fairly large, actually. And a very nice, hard plastic with an opening lid. One of these days I'll also pick up a shipping container.

The shipping containers are great, I have a pair and quite like them. I would rather they be a little cheaper at retail.. but they aren't horrible, especially discounted and used to pad out orders to make free shipping thresholds.

Your robot looks sweet! Bright and killy.

And the weathering on that dumpster is great, looks like it's been around for awhile, and nobody's been kind to it.

That UAMC trooper looks to have a bad day turning the corner of the dumpster

I've been getting sidetracked with a combination of X-Com (nearly beat it) and season 2 of Agents of Shield on Netflix. But, I am almost done with my non-GW combat servitor reinforcements! Just three more to go.

My Magos also got some heavy armor reinforcements this week.



Once I'm through with the servitors and the Skitarii Vanguard, then I'll start messing with those. Speaking of the Vanguard, I've decided that I'm going to only do five of them, so I have one more rifleman to do. After that, I'm going to make the remaining five into a five man Ranger team. That way I get both units without having to buy another box.

With my servitors, I'll be placing them into three class types: low, medium, and high quality. So, when I stat these up for Song of Blades and Heroes, the low quality types will be getting the crappiest stats and will be classed as rabble. That means they're pretty much low cost, low quality fodder troops that you just throw at your opponent. For my low quality servitors, I'll be using these handsome fellows.



Cryx Scrap Thralls, obviously. I got them for under a buck from Brookhurst. If I can snag a couple more in the future, even better. I figure that with these guys, these are pretty much industrial servitors nearing the end of their operational limit, soon to be rendered down and recycled for newer servitors. Hardly more than walking corpses at this point. I doubt they'd stand up to much, but with dual power fists, they can probably take something down with them.

My mid level quality you've already seen in the form of the naked lady cyborg. I've got a second that I'm working on now. I figure I can pretty much stat them as regular humans.

For the high quality servitors, you're going to get the guys that pretty much look like full robots. They would be little more than human brains and nervous systems installed in fully mechanical bodies. These guys will be getting statted fairly high. The old sculpt Pointman will be in this class, as will these figures.



These are a pair of old Scotia Grendel Void Androsynths, from the Syntha faction. Despite their age, these are surprisingly very nice figures. I'd actually kind of like to get a few more, even though I don't really need them. I might have to grab the close combat models some day.

Here's all five of my completed non-GW servitors.



And with the man who will become their commander.



I think I managed to match them up well enough that they won't look out of place among the rest of my Mechanicus army.

Looks pretty good to me!

Agreed! Nice and coherent!

Okay, short update since I'm on my phone. Finished a couple more figures. I've got yet another cyborg for my Mechanicus.





And, when I ordered some more retro robots for my dad, I snagged a Hasslefree Left4dead Witch. I have more to do on her after she gets dipped, but her base colors are down.

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Never understood why they're wandering around in their underwear though

That's a few weird minis you have there Barzam. A cyborg with a really interesting cod piece and a witch in her underwear with rather big hands.

Its quite funny they both go really well together for all the wrong reasons

Ever play Left4Dead? The Witch is one of the special zombie classes. They sort of stumble about, crying. If you startle them, they suddenly go nuts and rip you apart. They can be one of the nastiest enemies in the game. Her big hands are actually claws. I'll be bloodying them up after she's been dipped.

 Barzam wrote:
Until then, I'll continue filling out my Mechanicus ranks with non GW models ...

You've got my attention Digging all the Warzone, Urban War, Syntha and such :thumsbup:

- Salvage

Good stuff. Overengineered codpiece lol.

That certainly is one manly codpiece. Wow.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
That certainly is one manly codpiece. Wow.

Well, he does like to terrify the clergy.




I've been putting a little bit of work into some non-Mechanicus stuff this week. I'd picked up a Kurgat Battlefield Engineer for my Morats a month or so back and only just now got to him.



He still needs to be dipped. I've got the dip at my place, but I'd forgotten to grab the brushes last time I was at my parents' house. I'll have to grab some next time I'm there along with the rest of the figures that need to be dipped.

I also just finished this guy tonight.



This Viridian Sniper from Urban War was a replacement for the Biosynth Noble Knight was supposed to send me. i've got a box of Viridian Special Forces sitting around that I haven't gotten to yet, and this guy wound up being the test for their color scheme.

I don't think I've shown them off before, but I've got a few Defiance UAMC Marines kicking around that I'd picked up during the Miniature Swap in Temecula. I've got enough parts for... six guys, I think? I've got two more I started on this week that are assembled (one made from leftover bits from the Defiance figures and a Mantic Corporate Marine). Maybe I'll actually get those two done this week?




Despite who they came from, the figures aren't actually that bad. Their details are a little soft, but I think if you wanted to just have a bunch of generic army men to use as fodder, they work pretty nicely. I will say, I actually like their proportions. they're not exactly true scale, but they aren't heroic scale either. They're kind of like Anvil Industry's Afterlife range in that they're right in between and wind up looking good in either scale.

Good stuff! Humans look pretty modern and versatile.

I dipped a bunch of stuff last night and sprayed the figures down this evening. Most needed a bit more cleanup to get rid of their shininess, but probably about half are now fully done. I'm assuming nobody really cares about the boring German guys I finished, so I'll post the sci-fi stuff I finished instead.

Got my Kurgat done. Now I can finally expand my Morat ranks a bit more.



And, he matches his buddies, too.



Back at that figure swap in Temecula, I actually managed to come across a couple of Haqqislam figures. I got myself a Ghulam and a second rifle Djanbazan. The Djan was one of the figures that needed a bit more cleanup, but the Ghulam is all done.



And, of course, I made sure to match him up with my other Haqqislam light infantry.



Lastly, because I like the figure, I finished up The Witch as well.



Now she's got her bloody claws. She actually turned out a bit shorter than my other zombies though.



Still, I like to have a variety among my shambling undead, so she fits right in.

Really nice models here!

I like the crisp painting style you have.

Nioce work with the zombies and humans and others!

Oooh, yeah, the witch looks much better now, digging it! I also like your Infinity additions, fit right in.

That witch looks really cool now you have her painted up.

Just caught up on your thread barzam.

Really like the alt Mechanicus models manly codpiece n all, didn't know where the Crying zombie came from either but all clear now.

You getting the L4D survivor set from hasslefree too

At the moment, no. She was an FRP impulse buy. For some reason they had one listed at about $3.49. I couldn't resist expanding my zombies ranks at such a low price. Maybe eventually I'll pick up the survivors though.

Finished up a few more figures tonight. I think I'll get the fantasy figure out of the way first.

You probably know that I'm fairly particular about my fantasy stuff. I mostly go in for the undead stuff, or beastmen like werewolves. I also rather like Gnolls (and damn you D&D for not letting me play as a Gnoll!). Unfortunately, I don't have very many Gnoll figures. Back when Tamburlaine and I went to the miniature swap in Temecula, I found a guy who had a ton of D&D Chainmail figures. Wouldn't you believe it, the guy had a Gnoll Ranger and some battle hyenas. So, I had to have them. I finally finished the Gnoll Ranger last night (not based though). He'd got a cool design, but unfortunately, the mold has a lot of miscasting going on. It's most clearly evident on the right side of his face, right shoulder, right side of his arrows, and in the fact that the weapons hanging from his right hip absolutely will not sit flush against his side. Basically his entire right side is messed in. But, I did the best I could with him and the guy does have some personality to him. Maybe some day I'll actually paint up some more of my Bones Gnolls and have a proper Gnoll/hyena warband.



Now, onto the sci-fi.

Some of you may remember that a while back, I'd bought a Gates of Antares Algoryn. I mainly just wanted to get a taste for the quality of the line with him and I found him to be a decent figure. I got around to finishing him up tonight.



He's now going to be an unofficial member of my Combined Army.

I got my AE WWII American robot infantry finished as well.



Continuing the theme of retro robots, some of you may also recall that I'd painted up some Retro Raygun robots for my Dad a while back. For Father's Day, I wound up getting him a few more troops for his Robot Legion. I got him two Destroyers, which are the armed variants of the larger robots, and a basic trooper. I'd actually painted up a trooper for him a few months back, but I never took a pic of him. Since I was using him as a painting guide for the new guys, I figured I'd go ahead and take a pic.



That is an "advancing" type trooper. You'll notice how bright and shiny he is. When I did him and the other silver guys, I didn't use any washes. It was just gunmetal, drybrush silver, then dip and done. Unfortunately, last week my black dip's can got damaged and dried out. Now I'm completely out of it and I'll have to order a new one because nobody carries the Minwax Tudor. So, when I did the new guys, I wound up having to use washes, which does not leave them bright and shiny like the previous figures. Here you can see the new "standing" type trooper I just finished.



As you can see, he's a fair bit darker. Another issue I came upon is that I don't have enough bases for both Destroyers. I haven't built the second one yet, but it seems he's going to have to stick with just his integral base until I can find one that fits him. The other Destroyer is totally done now, though.



He turned out very nice. I hope that when I get to the second one, he looks just as good. Here's all three together.



The Destroyer is a fair bit bigger than the others. He rivals my Infinity Iguana in height. He's at least double the height of a Space Marine, so he's quite the chunk of metal.

Nice robots! I especially like the destroyer.

Your retro stuff is coming along nicely.

We ought to use it in a mutants and rayguns campaign. They'd go perfect with your dino riding Germands fighting my mushroom men.

There's at least 4 or 5 Gnolls in the Bones line now. Plus you could probably substitue a few wolves as gnolls, especially if you go with some of Reaper's lupin guys.

Or maybe you'll finally succumb to the Rackham bug and start picking up some Wolfen instead...

All of those robots look really nice. The Algoryn looks like he'd fit in as a robot as well - just slightly more modern.

The witch looks really cool as well, and I love what you've done with the Mechanicus. I'm not familiar with WarmaHordes, but those Cryx figures fit the theme down to a T. Great work!

highlord tamburlaine wrote:Your retro stuff is coming along nicely.

We ought to use it in a mutants and rayguns campaign. They'd go perfect with your dino riding Germands fighting my mushroom men.

There's at least 4 or 5 Gnolls in the Bones line now. Plus you could probably substitue a few wolves as gnolls, especially if you go with some of Reaper's lupin guys.

Or maybe you'll finally succumb to the Rackham bug and start picking up some Wolfen instead...

I already have some Rackham Wolfen. And did you forget that I almost bought some the last time we were at Brookhurst?

Our father was actually asking me if he'd have a useable SOBH force now with his robots. I statted them and he does. We might be able to get him to join us when you get back.

Azazelx wrote:All of those robots look really nice. The Algoryn looks like he'd fit in as a robot as well - just slightly more modern.

The witch looks really cool as well, and I love what you've done with the Mechanicus. I'm not familiar with WarmaHordes, but those Cryx figures fit the theme down to a T. Great work!

I'm surprised at how few people use Cryx stuff to proxy Servitors. They're perfect for it. Syntha stuff works really well, too. Speaking of, I have some more Syntha 'bots on the way.

Glad you liked the Witch, too. It was kind of nice having such an easy figure to paint.

The Gnoll looks very cool, I've not come across them before. I was never into D&D.

Great stuff The gnoll does seem to have a fair bit of character, good work.

The scifi dude looks like he'd fit right in with CA, and the retro robots are looking excellent as well. As usual, a great update.

Glad you guys like them. Interestingly, a lot of the sculpts in Chainmail got reused for the WOTC D&D miniature game. My exact Gnoll was one of them. However, his D&D miniatures vrrsion lacks the quiver on his back and the weapons on his hip seem to have been resculpted.

This morning, when I got up, I had plans for what I was going to work on when I got home from work. Those plans fell apart pretty quickly though as I felt like crap for almost the entire day. I was very close to using some sick time to go home early. I feel a bit better now at least, but I was in no mood to actually paint anything when I did get home. I did put together the next few figures I'm going to work on though.



That should give you a sense of how big those Destroyers are. As luck would have it, my Dad found exactly the right size base for the second Destroyer. My Dad also requested that, in order to tell the two Destroyers apart, I should change the colors of the coils on its back. I'm thinking I'll swap them with the eye, so on this guy, the eye will be blueish and the coils will be glowy red.

All right, my Dad's robots are now done. I'll be giving them to him tomorrow. I'll have to take a pic of all of his robots together.

Here's the second Destroyer, all finished.



And here he is with the other two Father's Day figures.



While working on the robot, I also worked on my Morat hero, Kornak Gazarot. I've been wanting to work on him for a long while now. I just couldn't figure out how I wanted to paint him. I wanted him to be able to fit in with my other Combined Army, but I also wanted him to stand out due to the fact that he's a unique character. I finally settled on this color scheme.



It keeps the desert theme and retains all of the colors of the other figures. The brighter, almost orange brown also helps him stand out among the other Morats.



He's a neat figure. I'm not sold on the grey face though. I'm just not really sure how else I could get it to stand apart from his hair.

Nice robots! The Morat hero is also pretty impressive, even bigger than an already large Morat and in a dynamic pose that involves no rage fist or tactical rocks

To be fair, neither of the named Morats have rage fists or tactical rocks. Anyat just happens to be in a pinup pose instead of a dynamic or tactical one like Kornak.

I'm still not sure about his face though. Should I keep it like that, or should I ignore his fluff and just give him a regular red face?

I really like those robot models. Great painting job on them!

I think you need to go pick up the White Dwarf this weekend so you can paint your free Sigmarine.


Which was the Morat I said I liked? One of the newer ones. You should paint that one next.

Shouldn't this one have a red face like the restof your angry space monkey men?

I think the red face would be more consistent. I didn't realize he had a fluff-grey face, guess I haven't seen a good photo of the stock model. Red would match your other dudes better, but its not like he looks bad now.

According to the fluff, Kornak belongs to a different ethnicity that seems to be treated as second class. It seems that this othrr ethnic group has albino features. It's hard to do an albino when he already has white hair though. Any shade lighter than that and his features will be lost in his mane.

For the time being, Kornak is the last Morat I had in my queue Tamburlaine, so I assume you're referring to him. I've got a new Sogarat coming soon though, so you can expect to see him here shortly.

I may pick up that White Dwarf. We'll see.

Well, guess what happened to be waiting for me when I got home today?

Supply drop! New reinforcements!



I also delivered the robots to my dad tonight. He was very pleased with them. I took the liberty of taking a pic of them all together.





I know I haven't shown her off before, but I've got a single Retro Raygun figure of my own.



She's on a semi-permanent loan to my dad and is hanging out with the robots in a display cabinet. The official colors have the Valkeeri all wearing yellow leotards, but I thought silver would be more appropriate.

Those robots look really cool - especially as a group. Silver Sci-Fi girl works perfectly with them as well.

Yeah, she looks like she's from a matched set.

I really like those robots. Very Flash Gordon.

She fits in really well with the robots, very nice.

The robots look ace. Nice job.

Thanks for the kind words, guys. I'm just glad that my dad liked them. Now, if I could just talk him into getting a couple more.

Got some work done on my day off. I said I was going to get some work done on that new Sogarat, and I wasn't kidding. I'm already done painting him.



He's a neat figure. Very bulky. Here's how he compares to the old HMG type.



Their proportions aren't actually all []ithat[/i] far apart. The new one just has thicker limbs, really.

And, the Assault Androsynth that arrived at the same time as the Sogarat is also done. As with the others, he'll be joining my Mechanicus.



And with his buddies.



This particular Assault Adrosynth is armed with something called a "Grape Gun," whatever that is. There's another sculpt with grape gun and shield as well. There's also the hand-to-hand variants of these types that have full on power fists. I wouldn't mind adding those to my collection.

Now, I've had him for a little while, but this week I got around to painting up a new Mercs figure. This one is the leader of the Sefadu faction.



I seem to recall hearing that Sefadu is supposed to have some of the best tech in the fluff. These guys are kind of wacky though. Nearly all of them are posed really strangely with probably half of them running. Their sniper is posed wielding a knife instead of his rifle and I love that their leader, instead of using a gun, is about to throw a spear. He seems to have some kind of either artificial muscle, or a prosthetic right arm, too.

Here's all two of my Sefadu together.



I tried to get their colors to match up. I'm pretty sure I got them right.

Ahh yeah those Sefadu or w/e are very 'dynamic', the leader probably has some kind of nuclear powered exploding death spear, of course.

The new sogarat looks cool, I really like his axe, and I think he matches the old guy just fine.

New androsynth looks good too, way to class up the mechanicus with some clean figures.

I think I have a starter set of those Sedafu somewhere. Yours look nice enough that I may have to dig it out and try them myself.

I got my Oatsworn Kickstarter stuff today. That was a really quick turnaround. I wish all Kickstarters could deliver that quickly. I got my sneaky fox, a mouse-oleum, and a mole-in-a-hole. Should be fun to paint and it'll be nice to have another sneaky anthropomorphic fox.

I'm finishing up my Panoceania Military Order starter set this week. I've got the knights all fully finished and the Order Sergeants are nearly there. I hate to say it, but I'm not especially happy with most of them. I suppose they'll do for tabletop standards, but I think they ought to have turned out better. I hope when I get to my Neoterran boxes that they'll all turn out better.

I had decided a while back to do all of my Military Orders as Knights Hospitaller, so I continued that theme here.

Here's the first knight, the "Teutonic" Knight.



And here's the Magister Knight.

Not sure why you aren't happy with them, I quite like them!

I need to paint my neoterra stuff too... though I foolishly chose a black scheme.

Nice stuff!

Regarding the knights, I wasn't too happy with the way the dip made the lines on them stand out so much. It makes them look, I don't know cartoony or something. It wasn't a look that I was trying to go for.

Anyway, tonight I have a trio of kitbashed Fusiliers and the Akali sniper kitbash I'd done. Unfortunately, the Akali refuses to photograph well. His paint looks all grainy and rough, when it really isn't.



Since I wasn't pleased with the idea of having only three combi rifle sculpts and one fugly HMG for the old-style Fusiliers (something I'm also not happy about with the new ones, either), I felt the need to make a few more of my own. I've shown them before, but here they are again all finished up.

Combi Rifle Fusilier made from old sniper Fusilier.



HMG Fusilier made from old LGL Fusilier



Combi Rifle Fusilier made from the same LGL Fusilier



I know those two are using the same awkward running sculpt, but I like the fact that just giving them an arm swap and different skin tones makes the two look very different.

The Order Sergeants were finished up tonight and I'll have some pics of them tomorrow.

Yeah the modified fusiliers work fine.

Okay, the Panoceania Military Order starter set is done!



You've already seen the Knights, so how about the grunts, the Order Sergeants?



And the starter set exclusive Specialist



As an added bonus, how about a Mad Robot figure? This is Lynn.



I cant say that I've ever seen anyone post a painted example of her. She's a little odd since she appears to be true scale, while the rest of Mad Robot's line is heroic. She doesn't look too bad with Infinity figures and will make a nice objective. She's also absolutely tiny!

You can see just how small she is compared to the Order Sergeants, and they're not exactly big figures, either.



She comes up to slightly higher than the knee on my new Morats. Pretty tiny. I also went ahead and took advantage of Miniature Market's sale. Grabbed the old style Naffatun, a Farzan, and an Al'Hawwa. It's going to be a Haqqislam fest here, soon. My plan is to convert the Al'Hawwa into a shotgun type. That way, when I eventually get the QK starter, I'll be able to use the one in that set as a regular hacker. The Farzan will get the Al'Hawwa's arms and someday get a Contender as well.

Nice work on the Infinity stuff, and the girl will make a fine objective/hostage/VIP.

Does the little girl not have eyes? That's creepy...

P'raps she's awaiting a dip in the magic shading pool?

Yep. Once I get a few more figures ready to go, she'll be joining Kornak and the Sogarat in the dip. Plus I just don't enjoy painting eyes.

No, dude, leave her like that. Creepy is good!

Bwahaha unintentionally creepy ftw

Military orders dudes are looking nice! I think I like bolts and fusiliers more than order sergeants, but I still like OS's better than the basic infantry of some factions, and you've done a good job with them.

Trying hard to resist the infinity sale myself, it's a good deal but I've got a pretty fair infinity backlog to defeat... it's those devastating 50% off deal of the day spots that kill me

I actually never had any intention of PanO being one of my main factions, yet somehow I think I may have wound up with more of them than any of the others. I've got a lot of Haqq and Nomads, yet somehow wound up with enough PanO to play either Military Orders, Vanilla, or NCA. I'd originally planned to play Ariadna and Yu Jing, but somehow those have been the two factions I've built up the least (not counting Tohaa).

PanO stuff seems to go on sale a lot at MM, that and icestorm is why I'm starting to have an abundance of them..

Went to the San Diego Comic Con on Sunday. I had a great time, but I wish I could still do multiple days like I used to. I set out mainly to track down some of the new Gundam kits and actually found pretty much everything I was after. Only the limited Amuro color HGUC Zeta Plus eluded me. I ended up building a couple of them this week.

Built the newly redesigned Guntank from Gundam: The Origin.



I actually really like this kit, and I never liked the original Guntank. The more modern, realistic design to it makes it not only just look better, but more believable as well. The dust covers on the shoulders are a nice touch, too. This kit is surprisingly chunky as well.

I also picked up the Dahak from Reconguista in G and got him built last night.



Flexibility is more restricted than I'd like and the hands aren't nearly dynamic enough. That being said, I love its design and it's one of the few Gundam models that's actually capable of crossing its arms.

I've also primarily been working on Infinity stuff this week. I got an order of Haqqislam stuff in a couple days ago and I should have another coming in probably next week.
I finished up my standard rifle Djanbazan



I even managed to match him up to my customized one.



I buckled down and got to work on my Icestorm Spektr.



I didn't even notice those rough patches until I was editing the pics. I'll have to smooth them down.

I also worked on my old style Dog Warrior. I wanted to do something a little bit different with his colors.



And, tonight's work yielded a kitbashed Al'Hawwa with boarding shotgun.



I'm starting to think I may need to upgrade to a newer camera. There's actually 3 colors used in the camo on his pants, but only the darker brown is visible. My camera just wants to fight with me when it comes to putting things in focus. This guy looks much better in person than the picture lets on.

Nice paint work on the Infinity minis as usual, and i am glad the gun-tank that hatch up front looks almost sizeable for 28mm minis to use,,,,,amazing.

Excellent work! Interesting take on the Spektr!

Great stuff!

The Guntank's hatch is actually way too small to work with 28mm. It'll work a lot better with 15mm though.

The Spektr's colors are actually just the scheme I hax long ago planned for my Nomads. I'd only painted a Hellcat in those colors though and then abandoned it for the woodland colors. I think I'll be keeping my Corregidor in their woody colors and put Bakunin and Tunguska in this scheme. Maybe I'll mix the schemes around a bit every now and then, but I generally want my Corregidor to stand apart from the other Nomads units.

Interesting take on the schemes within the faction. I can't decide what I want to do with my corregidor stuff. If I paint them white/dark grey to match the bakunin stuff, then I'd have to paint my Haqq stuff white too (so they can buddy up for QK). Or I could paint corregidor some kind of tan/green to go with QK.

I do like your woodland corregidor stuff though, definitely wouldn't change them to fit other nomads, they other guys just aren't cool enough to camo up with them.

You forgot that the coolest feature of the Dahak is its extra limbs that are folded up so you an go all crazy multiple beam sabers at the same time.

That's a selling point right there!

Infinity stuff is looking good too.

I ought to post some of the crap I got in Japan.

Last night I finished painting my Naffatun. Sadly, I haven't been able to purchase the new ones yet. Still, despite the age of these figures and despite the girl's weird running pose, these figures are actually still pretty good. One of these days I'll need to grab the Haqq starter set so I can have my old style Naffatun trio completed. Them, plus the new style box should give me a pretty sizeable Naffatun force. There's something very pleasing about the fact that Naffatun are a dirt cheap line infantry with template weapons.

Such beefy guns they have!

They look really nice. I quite like the girl model. it looks like she's running one way and some things caught her eye off to the side.

The guns *are* huge but it still works.

Nice colors and execution as usual

I do like the sound of cheap infantry with templates: take that, camo! Seems like Haqq is one of the armies best set to run more than one group of 10.

Yeah, those heavy flamers do bulk things up a bit. The new ones look pretty beefy, too.

I'm not sure about N3, but Naffatun used to cost about 10 points per unit and every loadout for them includes a flamer of some sort. They seem like they'd be pretty nasty on the board. There's no way I would field just a couple of them. I will definitely need the new box.

I've been working on other stuff this week. In between working on more of the kits I got from SDCC, I've been working on more Infinity minis. Last night, I started working on 3 more Haqqislam figures. Two are conversions, one is straight out of the blister. Here's my converted Hassassin Farzan and my straight Hussam Spec Ops.



Obviously still very WIP. I've only just started applying the base coat for their uniforms, but I wanted to go ahead and show them off. I had a bit of trouble getting the right arm to fit on the Farzan, but eventually tonight I got it to fit right. I'd thought that the Farzan had two separate profiles for the shotgun and the contender. I didn't realize they were the same profile and that his other one was for a regular rifle. That made converting him easier. I lopped his head off and repositioned it and trimmed the shoulders of his new arms down a bit so they'd fit better. Did some bending on them too to adjust their poses a bit. If you can believe it, his arms come from the blister Janissary. I'm not really a fan of that figure and I think his arms look better here. I'm working on making that Janissary into a hacker using the Al'Hawwa's arms. I'd have shown him off too, but I wasn't happy with the mods I was making so I had to scrap most of them. I had all these great plans for converting the figure only for them all to be dashed by my inability to sculpt worth a damn. Hopefully I can pull off some "simple" sculpting to smooth out his helmet so I can at least make him look a little different from the stock model.

I've also gotten the urge to work on 15mm stuff again. I'd FINALLY received my Ranger's Project Kickstarter stuff last week. That project was so badly delayed. I'm thankful I finally have the stuff though. I'd included a squad of infantry with it and I have to say, they're nice little figures. They're tiny though. Comparing them to my Rebel Minis 15mm figures is like comparing an Infinity figure to a GW one. The Rebel Minis guys are not only slightly taller, but much chunkier and with more cartoony proportions whereas the Ranger's Project figures have more natural looking proportions to them. They're designed by Shimmering Sword and I really wish he'd make some of his designs in 28mm as they're simply gorgeous. Unfortunately, after the Kickstarter debacle, I don't think he'll be venturing into the wargaming market any time soon.

Pics are a little blurry, but again, these guys are damn tiny.



The vehicle with them is Clearhorizon's 15mm Nemesis. It's a nice little vehicle and I'm glad I got it. I'd like to add a 28mm one to my PanO forces.

Just whipped up a third figure from the Ranger's Project set.

Ooh swords and 15mm sci-fi, nice update

Working some more on my Farzan tonight, I've got him pretty much done. Just need dipping now, which I'll do after I've finished the Hussam.

Alright, the Hussam Spec-Ops is done now.



I was actually a little daunted by the level of detail sculpted onto him. I thought he'd be more difficult to do, but he actually turned out to be one of the easier figures I've painted lately.

I was waiting until I finished him to dip the current batch of figures. I'll be doing this Sunday evening.

Good stuff all round!

As is usual, looks very Haqq. And well executed beyond that. Still torn on Haqq color schemes myself, I want everyone to match the Kaplans.

More great works, the 15mm guys also look great!

The Spec-Ops looks very nice.

Those 15mm guys remind me of the armor patterns from Mass Effect.

I'm going to guess that was intentional, right?

How did I just now see the 15mm guys, they look good!

All of this Infinity stuff looks great. I also really like the 15mm tank.

That 15mm tank is great, do they actually do a 28mm version? It would fit in with so many game systems.

I always like learning about Infinity, I think the multitudinous factions and various names turn me off a little, but the miniatures are largely brilliant and you do them justice. The tan/olive scheme is especially good.

Nemesis has a 28mm version.

Great work! I really like how your camo scheme.

Hey guys, thanks a lot. I'm glad these guys turned out as well as they did. Infinity figures feel like such a challenge to paint decently. Thankfully, earth tones don't usually give me too much hassle, so Haqqislam is one of the easiest factions for me to paint. Camo still gives me trouble though, so I'm really pleased with how the Al'Hawwa's pants turned out. Camo also apparently gives my camera issues, too, since it never wants to focus on him. I got all of the Haqqislam figures done today, though. Now I can move one to something else. Probably more Haqqislam. I started assembling some Mantic Deadzone zombies, too, so maybe I'll paint them this week?

anyway, I have pics of things that are actually finished!

Here's the Al'Hawwa, whose pants came out much better in the photo this time.



I really like this figure. If I can ever talk anybody into playing some sci-fi or post apocalyptic games, he'll definitely be getting some table time.

Here's the finished Farzan. Dunno if this version is one I'd ever actually use, but at least he looks cool.



Naffatun duo are finished.



Another pair that I'd love to get into some post apocalyptic games. I bet these guys and the new versions would be great against zombies.

Here's the unconverted Hussam Spec-Ops. Another figure that I really love.



He's got such a cool, near future look to him. If I can, I'd like to get some Insta-Mold to cast his alternate head. It'd be great for converting unhelmetted figures like the Ghulam.

My Sefadu leader is also finished.



And here he is with his grenadier buddy.



I swear, I'm scared every time I pick the leader up. That spear is so damn thin, I'm afraid that if I don't accidentally snap it right off, I'm going to wind up getting it bent just handling the guy. Surprisingly, I've dropped him several times and so far, it hasn't broken and he hasn't snapped off his base. I think it'll only be a matter of time though.

Those are great!

More good looking stuff!

Many good things, woot!

Your talk of earthy tones is kind of swaying me towards painting my QK in such browns (and possibly greens) meaning my Auglaciles and brigada from icestorm would be inclined towards the same color. It's that, or paint everything including the Ghulams white.

Much looking forward to whatever you come up with next, though I do love me some DZ zombies.

Looking good! Really digging the orange.

Thanks guys. I was going to post the Morats, but the update to Windows 10 on my computer is taking its sweet time and is preventing me from doing pretty much anything.

I can tell you though that tonight I primed 5 new zombies, 3 RAFM armored skeletons, 2 Menoth Idrian Skirmishers, and added basing material to 6 more 15mm figures, 1 anthropomorphic fox cleaned and primed, and I primed 1 mushroom man. Not much actual painting tonight, unfortunately.

Loving the Naffatuns! They're my favorite unit in Infinity.


Interesting conversions too. I'm totally going to steal some ideas!
::YOINK!::

Take, take. I borrowed the Al'Hawwa idwa, myself. Saw someone mention that conversion on the official Infinity boards, but never saw anyone actually do it.

Ahh yeah that boarding shotgun goes really well, doesn't it? I didn't even notice it was a conversion

I know it's the not the Morats, but I haven't shown anything weird on here in a while. Highlord Tamburlain backed Ganesha Games' Fightin' Fungi kickstarter (which was essentially Song of Blades and Heroes 2nd edition) which had a whole slew of humanoid fungus. He gave me one of the figures to paint and I got around to it today. So, yeah, here's a mushroom man. Because why not?



He's actually a good size, coming in just a bit shorter than a regular 28mm human.

I bet that was fungi to paint!

Nice work, but I wonder how long it takes for these puns to get mold.

Shame on both of you for punning around my mushroom man.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
ShameShroom on both of you for punning around my mushroom man.

Fixed that for you

Alright, this isn't the best conversion I've done, but I think it'll be serviceable. This is what I did with the leftover arms from the Al'Hawwa and the body of the leftover Janissary.



Now, I'm not a good sculptor. Like, at all. I'd wanted him to look at least a little different from the regular Janissary besides having different arms and frankly, I don't like the face sculpt of the current AP Rifle Janissary. So, I tried to sculpt a featureless visor over his helmet. I wanted it to kind of look like he's got some sort of HUD mounted onto his helmet. It's extremely rough looking though, even from a distance. I think that, again, it'll be serviceable though. An odd note, the male Al'Hawwa must have cybernetic hands. Both hands only have 4 fingers apiece. Hence the reason I painted them silver on this guy.

Oh, I actually finally got to play my very first game of Infinity tonight! I played the intro mission of Operation Ice Storm with my cousin. Simplistic and quick, but it was fun. Plus, I actually managed to win. Naturally, I played the Nomads. Only lost one guy who was covering the central buildings from atop some containers. He even managed to take out a Fusilier before getting capped himself. The Alguacile girl pulled off a lovely flanking move that won me the game, too. Now I've got to get the Mobile Brigada finished in time for the next match.

Highlord Tamburlaine has also been talking about playing Frostgrave, so I'm throwing together a warband for that using my Menoth figures. I just finished a pair of Idrian Skirmishers that I'll be using as crossbowmen.



So, I'm actually ready to throw down.

Grats on getting to play!

Janissary looks like he's gonna throw a fireball, works for me!

Yeah, your Janissary does look like he's charging a hadouken. Totally acceptable!

Your Skirmishers came out really nice. So nice in fact that I may end up keeping the blister of them I bought and take a crack at them. Really impressed with them. You even bothered to do something with their bases! Shocking!

Too bad you can't have a Jannissary hacker or 'd be set!

Really? I thought they could. Oh well. Maybe he's controlling a Tinbot?

Won't stop me from using him anyway.

Well, I got my stuff from the second Afterlife Kickstarter a couple days ago. I want to hold off on working on them for a bit, but I couldn't resist working on some of the new units. I had to do one of the new Republic Pulse Mechs. So, I chose the fire support variant. These are actually event better quality than the minis from the first Kickstarter.



I've got a second Pulse Mech soaking in the Simple Green right now. I'll probably paint it up soon. Might also paint up the Republic and Unity Council female operatives. I also may not be doing the rest of my Republic troops in these colors. I haven't decided just yet.

Well, I finally got to painting my Mobile Brigada from Operation: Ice Storm. I kept him pretty plain this time around. He'll have some lights on him when he's done and I may add some striping as well. Not sure on that yet, but for now I'm happy with him. As usual, thanks to the poor lighting in my house when I take these pictures, the picture doesn't show the paintjob all that well, so the highlighting I did on him is kind of lost here. His armor has a better sense of depth than these pictures show. He should be completely finished by the time I get to play Mission 2 of Operation: Ice Storm.



Got a supply drop yesterday, too. Got my Stonehaven order and some new Infinity minis from Miniature Market.



I didn't know they were updating the little cards that came with the figures. I still wish they'd put the figures' stat lines on the cards. It'd be a helpful reference.

Good stuff, I need to do my own brigada.

I got the little ikadron and imetron blister too.

Got my Basius basing pad from their second KS last night. I'm going to have to put it to use soon. Probably try it out on some Afterlife figures. Speaking of, I'll start working on the pair of female bonus figures tonight.

Started working on my Stonehaven stuff, Haqqislam Sekbans, a Batroid, and the Imetron last night. Expect a fantasy update tonight though.

Love the Brigada! Looking forward to the Anvil stuff!

Well, I said I was going to put this update up Friday night. It's now technically very early Saturday morning. Painting Infinity stuff and Dead Island put me behind schedule. BUT, I am putting it up!

So, I mentioned I had bought the female Half-Orc Necromancer from Stonehaven. She was there with the Kitsune Assassin in the haul photo. Well, I'd really liked the design of the figure when I saw the concept art, so I really wanted to work on her straight away. I pretty much spent my Thursday night painting her. Nearly finished her, too. I put the final touches on Friday night and now she's ready for presentation!




The detail on her sculpt is great and I really like her costume design. Stonehaven got some pretty good designs out of the half-orc Kickstarter. I love the Chinese looking armor and weapon and the hat is a nice touch. She's pretty much spot on to her concept art, too. Except for one thing. Her face.



Don't get me wrong, the face has a good sculpt. The problem is that it doesn't really match the concept artwork. Everything is spot on, except her face. The artwork made her look much younger, while the actual sculpt makes her look like she's middle-aged. She also had a really cocky smirk in the art that's sadly missing from the final sculpt.

As you can see, she's got a couple of minions with her. These boney fellows are from RAFM. Nice sculpts, actually.

Sword guy


Pick guy


There's a third swordsman one that looks like a barbarian that came with them, but I haven't gotten to him yet. These figures are actually pretty bulky. I like their dinged up heavy armor. The fact that they are wearing so much armor is a big plus in my book.

Last but not least, I have my Cygnar Sword Knights. I've no intention of ever actually playing Cygnar. I just really like the designs of these guys. They look like enemies Alucard should be fighting in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.



These two will be serving duty in Frostgrave as regular Knights and probably in A Song of Blades and Heroes. I'd wanted to do a full Menoth warband in Frostgrave, but until I can get a pair of Exemplar Errant figures, these guys will just have to do.

Here's everyone together.



That's almost a proper Frostgrave warband right there.

I like them! Her pose with that hand looks like she's going: "What the Hell?!" lol

Very nice. I love me some RAFM minis!

Looks like shes gonna sweep her raised hand in to a 'sic em' point or something. Everything looks great, nice work

Chunky skeletons and neat fully armored chunky knights. Good stuff.

Your necromancer looks good.

I wish Stonehaven would put a little more meat on their figures' bones, so to speak. They always have such characterful sculpts and designs, but some of that stuff is so flat!

The half orc campaign was their best one, I think.

Can't wait to whoop those guys!

While I've been working on more Infinity, I've dabbled a bit more into my small pile of 15mm figures. I finished off the remaining figures from the Rangers Project Kickstarter, did the pair of Clear Horizon Spec Ops I've got, and did a couple more Rebel Minis zombies.

I really like the designs of the Rangers Project guys. The final two figures were a sniper and what appears to be a running shotgunner.



I wish i could get these figures in 28mm. Great designs for them. But, I'd rather not have to go through the drama that I went through to get this bunch.

and here's the full team



When Clearhorizon was doing the preorders for the Nemesis Light Strike Vehicles and the small dropship, they were offering a pair of spec-ops figures as a bonus. I got my pair painted up. They're actually a much better match to the scale of the Rangers Porject figures than the Rebel Minis zombies.



Technically, the girl is supposed to be wearing a hood, but I thought it would look better if I painted it as hair. At this small scale, you can't really tell the difference.

And here's my newest chunky Rebel Minis zombies.



It's interesting the varying sculpt quality on the Rebel Minis figures. You can tell that they've been sculpted by different people. The zombies are much chunkier than any of the human figures. Their proportions are very different compared to the special forces figures I got alongside them. The nice thing about the zombies though is that I can really just slap paint on them and drench them with a wash and they look perfectly good. no need to go into much detail with them.

Alright, got around to taking some pics of recent Combined Army work. As usual, I blame any shortcomings with my paintjobs and photography on my lighting and it being terrible.

So, Kornak Gazarot. I was never happy with his grey face. So, I went ahead and just gave him a red face like the other Morats.



Part of the problem was that so little of his face was visible to begin with, it wound up not looking like a proper Morat face at all. I kind of think I could have gotten away with painting it up like a mask.

My Sogarat.



I attempted to make his blade look a little more interesting. My linework is a bit sloppy, but I think it's good enough for the tabletop.

The alien robot baggage handler I got from Miniature Market's sale.



I like his overall design. It looks like it was very heavily influenced by the Quedluun Rau female Power Armors from Macross. I think this set might also be the cheapest Remote in terms of pricing in the entire line. I may have to get another one.

And here's the Batroid's pet palm tree, the Imetron.



I also started work on my Sekban box. Got the first guy done.
Here's the Chain Pistol Sekban.

Great stuff! I can't get myself to like morats as much as the other CA stuff but I enjoy seeing your results with them. 15 mm stuff is cool too.

It's always a treat to visit your thread Barzam.

Poor Kornak though, being an albino was his 'thing' :(

Wow, I agree on that one Infinity figure totally being influenced by the female Zentradi power armor. Pretty blatant, but cool at the same time.

What's your plan with the 15mm stuff? Is that for All Things Zombie? Even the scifi stuff?

I didn't notice that. And I like robotech. Guess it's been awhile since I saw any of it.

Don't feel bad GrimDork. Barzam and I come from an extensive mecha/ giant robot background. When he was little I was already going off the deep end in terms of Japanese mecha so he was inundated by the stuff from a very early age. Nevermind all the schematic and design books we both use to sit and stare at day in day out.

You start to see those things pop up all the time.

For as big of a mecha nerd as I may be though, Barzam has got me beat by a long shot.

Well, he does good paint work on them I must say

Thanks guys. You guys aren't exactly bad painters, either, you know. I think I'm generally not as happy with my paint jobs as I'd like to be. I know I can do better, but I get impatient.

As for the 15mm stuff, I really had no plans for the sci-fi figures. The mech hunters I just liked the designs of and I figured there would never be 28mm versions. the Clearhorizon figures were bonuses. The zombies and soldiers I eventually plan to use for Red Ops 5, though they're just as useful for All Things Zombie. The thing is, I have 36 more zombies to paint before I can play either game.

Don't feel bad for Kornak, Red Harvest. I like the mask idea and I've decided to run with it. That way he can remain an albino uf I want him to be one and I don't have to be annoyed with his face not looking right.

Okay, here's the update to Kornak. I went ahead and modded his face so that he's got a mask now. Doesn't look as cool as a Raktorak's mask, but I like this way more than his face. Something about his face just didn't sit right and I couldn't be happy with it. This, to me, makes him just look much cooler.



And I finished up my shotgun Sekban.



Tonight I will probably start working on my Elf Assassin from Stonehaven and an Argus Hound that I picked up from the consignment case at the FLGS. I've got no assembled or primed Infinity waiting on my work table right now. But, I should have some more Infinity reinforcements arriving soon.

Kornak looks good, I approve of the mask.

Sekban also looks good, kind of want to paint mine after seeing yours done, they've kinda got a scary mask going on.

 Barzam wrote:
Alright, this isn't the best conversion I've done, but I think it'll be serviceable. This is what I did with the leftover arms from the Al'Hawwa and the body of the leftover Janissary.

This looks great, but the angle on that first pic... I thought maybe the greenstuff had been used to give some rather red-looking 'male enhancement' to the sculpt - took a second look and the other angle to get my eye in, so to speak.

Now that you mention it, I can't unsee it...

What has been seen can NEVER be unseen!! You'll think about that every time your troops face him in battle.

Seriously though, it looks worse in the picture than it actually is.

The mini also has a man-thong. That might help you unsee. XD

That is a tactical thong, sir! I think my plan for that Janissary is that I am going to have him be a Tinbot controller. I'm going to have to get myself some kind of small robot sidekick for him. Either a Bombshell Miniatures robot, or a Utopian Drone from Heavy Gear. Can't quite decide. I also need to get him a rifle to carry on his back. Whenever I decide on a robot, I'm going to probably get the male Hassassin Fiday along with it, since he comes with a spare rifle. Plus, having more Haqqislam assassins can't be a bad thing, right?

Speaking of Haqqislam, this little supply drop came in today.



Should be fun. I'll be doing them soon-ish along with more Morats and Sekbans.

Now, this though, this I'm proud of.



I got her painted in a little over an hour, start to finish. And she looks good. This is one of those occasions where I'm completely happy with how the figure turned out! Now, I really do hate painting eyes and hers wound up a little funky. When you look at her from head-on, they look fine. But from an angle, her left eye somehow winds up looking like a big ugly blob. Not sure how I managed that. I think to rectify it, rather than try repainting the whole eye (because if I do, I'll wind up screwing up her whole face somehow), I'm just going to paint it all black and say it's an eye patch. It already almost looks like one depending on what angle you look at her from, so it shouldn't be too difficult to complete the effect. Besides, I think a one eyed Kitsune Assassin girl would be kind of cool.

Assassin looks good, nice work!

Kitsune- chan looks good.

Those Stonehaven figures are a lot of fun to paint!

One of us needs to get the Half Orc Nobleman!

Nice work! I especially like the kitsune and the blade on that other guy a page or so back.

Nice work. The kitsune looks good. I reckon the eye patch idea is actually an improvement over the original imo.

Alright, update time! Yesterday I busted out some of my recent purchases and started priming. In this batch, I've got my Grenzer, Reverend Healer, Tiger Soldier, and an old Suryat that I'm working on. The Tiger Soldier received the most attention today. He's nearly done, in fact. So close to being done, that I'm comfortable to show him off.



The new Tiger Soldier is so much cooler looking than the old ones, and I liked the old ones. I'm not sure how his backpack works, but I could never figure out how the old ones were supposed to work either. I decided to do something a little different for this one. I've had black and white as the main colors for all of my Yu Jing, with a splash color to denote sectorial. The Vanilla and Invincible Army all have green, ISS has orange, and JSA has red. I thought for this one, I'd retain those colors, but swap them around a bit and make the green the dominant color. I seem to recall there being artwork depicting parade and field uniform colors for Yu Jing, and that's kind of what I'm going for here. This would be his field uniform and the predominantly white ones would be the parade uniforms.

Oh, and the dude is kind of chunky. Here's how he compares to the previous two generations of Tiger Soldier minis.



I know Tamburlaine doesn't like the weediness of Infinity, but I think he might warm up to the newer sculpts a bit since they're so much chunkier.

Oh, and one other thing I worked on is a Bones shipping container.



I know, pretty boring to look at. But hey, I did it and it's done. Now I have one more piece of terrain that's actually painted.

Up tomorrow, my Argus Hound that'll be pulling duty as a Wardog for Frostgrave. Once I get my Miniature Market stuff in, I'm also going to have to take a picture of my Infinity box Pile 'O Shame.

What'd you end up grabbing from Miniature Market?

Every time I log in and decide on making an order, all the stuff in my shopping cart has sold out.

Shipping container looks nice and weathered. What'd you use do to that?

I'm thinking about heading to Brookhurst this Sunday for one last hurrah before school starts back up. Interested? Or did you already spend your whole paycheck?

For the container, I used the weathering guide on Laser Cut Card's site. Paint your base, drybrush on a very light sand color, stiple in some silver here and there, then hit it with a brown wash. Real easy with good results. I used the same method on my Bones dumpster, too.

I mostly got Infinity from the sale. The Gecko box, a Ragik hacker, and Shasvastii Seed Soldiers. Also got the Reaper XAI Robots 3-pack, a box of a couple of Dystopian Legions Prussians as an impulse buy, and all of the Armored Cartographer city maps.

Oh, and I would be interested in going to Brookhurst.

Whew, I was productive today! Two Infinity figures, fully painted and the Argus finished! I am very pleased. So much so, I might actually get everything dipped this weekend.

As I promised, here is the Argus that I'll be using as a Wardog in Frostgrave.



He was a consignment case purchase for all of $5. Whoever built him put the heads on the wrong sides. I suppose that does make him look a little more unique though. I went with a purple accent on the armor so he'd fit in with my Menoth guys.

I also updated my Kitsune. Gave her that eye patch.



I like this look much more.

Got my Grenzer Sniper done tonight, too.



I left off the yellow markings on him. Not sure if I should add them or not. I'm thinking I'm going to have Tunguska in grey, black, blue, and white like this, probably with a tiny bit of yellow. I'm not fully decided on Bakunin yet, but I'm thinking I'm going to have them in yellow and white, probably with some grey or black as well. Since Bakunin are all such special snowflakes, they're going to need a color that stands out and I don't have much yellow in my Infinity collection. The Reverend Healer will be the first to test out that scheme.

Lastly, I whipped up my old Suryat.



It's a little hard to tell, but his armor's using two different tans. His chest, shoulders, skirt plates, and shin guards are all using a lighter tan while the rest is a washed tan that's closer to brown. They don't blend together so much in person, trust me. My plan for this guy is not to use him as a Suryat. He's going to be a Morat pilot instead. So, when I eventually get my Raicho (next on my Morat list), this will be the figure I use to represent the ejected pilot. He'll also work as a HVT, I think. I actually really like this figure. He's got a lot of personality. Too bad he doesn't look anything like a heavy infantry.

Argus is impressive. Even with the heads like that. To be honest, I would not have known.

Two headed dog is great, it speaks very powerfully to 'war dog' and should be a perfect model for such a role. A wizard wanted to make his guardian/tracker more potent? Two heads!

I also really like your future Raicho pilot. I'm gonna try to stay away from Morats as they would just be a *lot* more painting and buying to do, but the Raicho is that one model that is the most dangerous to my cause... so cool. Looking forward to your work on one sometime

Jealous of your finding a pilot too, I want some pilots for my Geckos but I dunno what I might use. Need to find some lightly armored pistol-having Nomads I guess... Szalamandra and Lizard pilots don't cut it.

Grenzer is nice too!

Got to play some Rum and Bones tonight, grudgingly. I'm not a fan of pirates by any means, but the game was fairly fun. Kind of got my butt kicked by the Kraken though.

I got my Rangers Project Salamander Mech all built up. It's a pretty good size, coming up on about the same size as a 1/144 Gundam kit. I had a handful of errors in the casting, but I've dealt with most of them. There's some air bubbles in his jump pack that still need filling.

Here's how he compares to one of the 15mm figures from the same Kickstarter.



And compared to an Infinity figure.



I'll use it as a Super Heavy TAG. I am going to try and paint it up like my other Mercenary TAGs.

Jeebus that is BIG!

Massive in its native scale, and pretty big in any case. Good stuff looking forward to paint.

You guys have strange senses of scale if that's considered big.

Maybe my sense of scale is off from building so many 1/100 scale Master Grade kits over the years, and sticking to figures that usually fill up a 50 or 60mm base.

I'm more curious how Barzam is going to paint his Salamander, because I've had mine for months and still have no clue how to paint mine.

Got my Miniature Market orders in. Going to have to contact them though. One of the maps I ordered was messed up. Since I got my orders though, I figured I ought to show off my Pile 'O Shame. Now, keep in mind, the boxed stuff (aside from the Ancient King) all have multiple figures in them and this is only a small portion of it. This isn't including my Mantic piles, thing's I've only partially started, then left to rot, nor my upcoming Kingdom Death pile.



And, as far as things I'm working on go, I've finished painting my Reverend Healer from Operation: Ice Storm.



Just the CSO left and I'll be done with it. So, of course, that means today I got my shipping notice from The Warstore that my USARIADNA box just shipped. So, I'll have that to add to the pile, shortly.

Nice healer! Cool pile of shame.

Vlad to bear you will be doing Ariadna, now I can vicariously enjoy it

It's a nice set and has a bike but if I get any .more infinity from a other faction its gonna be that Japanese biker gsng... And I have too much infinity to even consider that.

That is a lot to paint. I suggest sticking it all in a closet so you don't feel so much pressure.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
That is a lot to paint. I suggest sticking it all in a closet so you don't feel so much pressure.

I agree with Josh

If you can't see it you can't feel so bad when you add to it with more shineys

Eh. I just pile it into a box and treat it like a prize draw. More fun that way.

I think I agree, I know I have too many models, and now I'm pretty sure I just don't care.

I'll buy more before it's over, and probably never finish some. But this is my vice. I don't spend money on cigarettes, booze, or other recreational substances..and sometimes shopping/collecting is therapeutic/relaxing/fun in its own right.

That's all?

I could have sworn you have more than that. Some of that's older stuff too.

At first I thought that was all from your Miniature Market order, and I was like .

Then I looked a little closer. This almost seems like a dare to bring out my closet of shame. It's not even a pile...

That's all? Like I said, that's only part of it. There's still the boxes in my downstairs closet and the other boxes in my upstairs closet.

But enough talk! Have at you!

I was fairly productive yesterday. Got four new figures completed, two were ones I'd just purchased over the weekend.

I've expanded my Frostgrave warband a bit more. Now I've got some guys I can used as Treasure Hunters or Thieves.





I kind of rushed them and I probably could have done their skin better, but I've run out of Agrax Earthshade and I'm too impatient to wait until I've picked up more. So, they're done now. These guys are from the Croe's Cutthroats unit from Warmachine. I think they will work nicely for any kind of brigand or light armored unit.

This lovely figure comes from Celtos and I had to have him as soon as I saw him.



Who could pass up a zombie Roman? He was in a clearance bin for all of .99 cents. I had to have him. I'm pretty sure zombies can be a random encounter in Frostgrave, so he'll probably be used there.

Speaking of that discount bin, here's another figure I fished out of it.



This is an AE WWII Buffalo Powered Armor Pilot. I'd been wanting to pick one up anyway. I'll be using him as an ejected TAG pilot for Infinity.

Good work Barzam, that Celtos guy is a very characterful sculpt. I am digging the purple on the Warmachine guys too. I do not think the skin is a bad job at all.

It's not that I think the skin tone looks bad, I just think it looks rushed. And it was. If I'd had some Agrax, I could've made it look better.

I do really like that zombie though. He was worth the .99 cents. Should be working on some robots tonight. Might even start the assembly of one of the Geckos.

Good stuff!

My geckos so far have been going together smoothly.I'll have to make sure and get mine done first so I don't have to follow your act.

Looking good! Undead Roman is awesome!

That sounds like a challenge, Grim. Looks like I'll need to do more than assembly tonight.

Crap! And here I am due to play Pulp Alley tonight, and little to no hope for anything else.

Well Grim, you lucked out. I popped open the Gecko box and discovered a big QC packing error. I'm missing about half of a figure and they doubled the bag with the little bits like the heels and the operator arms. So, I've got four sets of heels, four chain colts (probably the best thing about this mispack), two sets of the dual combi operator arms, two sets of the MK.12 operator arms, and four heads. I'm missing a torso front and a pair of legs. I'm not sure if the torso sculpts are unique, but I tried to fit the bits together to see if I could at least build one of the figures and one of the legs didn't match up with the torso I've got. So, I can't even build a single Gecko. I just fired off the missing pieces email to CB. You'll probably have all of your Geckos finished before I can even start building mine. I'm so bummed about the missing bits that I barely got any painting done tonight.

On the plus side though, I got my USARIADNA box today. Haven't checked to see if everything is present yet though. I'm thinking I probably should, now.

I believe you get two identical geckos with different arms. I can't find anything different about my heads, torsos, or legs. I dunno if the legs fit perfectly but mine were pretty close.

That...really sucks dude! What a bummer. Makes me think I should pop open my second box of geckos and double check the 3-4 other boxes of infantry I have just in case =/

And here I primed one gecko last night after rushing to finish building it. Don't worry, yours will probably turn out nicer in the end, even if you have to wait a bit to get started.

I had a response from them waiting in my inbox this morning. They're going to be sending me the replacements. With luck, they'll get here quickly.

I did eventually regain my painting mojo last night. I painted up a Heavy Gear Ferret I found in the Brookhurst clearance bin.



Colors were based on a scheme occasionally used by Federation Mobile Suits from Gundam. These scheme can occasionally be found on their mass production Suits, most notably the Ground Type GM from Gundam: 08th MS Team. It can also be found on the Nero from Gundam: Sentinel and on the REZEL in Gundam: Unicorn.

Nice, gotta love 'tank' legs on a robot.

Here's something you don't see too often. I'd found this figure in the bottom of a box of other Warzone figures at the FLGS. I think I paid a whole dollar for him.



The figure is a Sons of Rasputin Soldat Vicar. No clue what that title means, but he seems to be an officer modeled somewhat on an Imperial Russian officer. Since the design is so similar to that of a Prussian, I decided to base his paintjob on a Prussian Guard's uniform instead. I've got a couple of Dystopian Legions Prussians waiting for paint as well, so I figured this guy would be a perfect test run for them.

Very Prussian. Looks good.

I'd love to see you do your Dystopian Legions stuff. Curious just how much bigger it is compared to other stuff on the market as well.

I need some feedback from our dad, since he chose the colors I used. I think the jacket is too bright. Makes him look French rather than Prussian.

SoR Vicars were commissars

They're Commissars, eh? Too bad I don't have any fancier Imperial Guards for him to boss around. I suppose I'll have to remedy that someday via Mad Robot.

I did actually hear back from my dad. He thought it looked good. I still think the blues are too bright though. So, I discovered among my paint collection a bottle I'd totally forgotten about: Prussian Blue! Turns out, it's damn near perfect for Prussian uniforms. What a shock!

I took brush to figure and painted the Prussian Specialist from my little Dystopian Legions box.



I'm inclined to think he's the easier of the two to paint. I really like their designs. It's just a shame that the scale is so off.

This is hardly the best scale shot I've taken, but you can see that he's quite big.



Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the infantryman done, and then get back to Infinity.

Yep, Vicars were the Commissar like figures to kee other Sons of Rasputin fighting for their cause

Cool stuff!

I like the Heavy Gear Ferret. The paint scheme reminds me of the Junkions from Transformers the movie.

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Junkion_(species)

I had totally forgotten about them. Really, I was going for an EFSF scheme on that one.

Here's the other figure from the Prussian Specialist pack.



I believe he's supposed to be reloading. Interestingly, his sculpt is actually unique. None of the figures in Dystopian Legions share sculpts or poses, apparently. This figure is effectively finished. I really just need to do some drybrushing on the base, seal him, and add some gloss coat to his helmet and boots.

And, I have one more size comparison.



All three of these figures are supposed to be 28mm tall. The Chandra on the left is a little bit taller due to being on a Microarts scenic base and the Prussian Landwehr on the right is getting a major height boost due to having an integral base. As you can see, the Dystopian Legions figures are just too big compared to everything else in this scale. Without the height boosts the other two are getting, this guy stands a full head taller at the least. They should've classed them as being 35mm. I don't think they'd have had the same issues if they'd done that.

Oh, and I will be painting that Prussian Landwehr. He's actually my dad's, but he never wants to paint 28mm stuff, claiming that they're just too small. So, Hopefully if I paint that for him, it might give him a push to paint the rest of them.

Nice stuff.

The whole 28/35mm thing is so confusing. You can have 28mm to the top of the head, or 28mm to the eye level. That guy is certainly bigger than either though.

He'll be a giant among men when he tangles with my mushrooms. They'll be up to his waist or so!

Nah, it's unlikely that you'll be encountering these Germans on the battlefield. I did them purely for display and my own enjoyment. I don't really have any intention of buying more Dystopian Legions stuff. I may try making some Prussian styled Imperial Guardsmen at some point in the distant future though. For now, your 'shrooms will have to cower in fear of my Weird War Germans instead.

I've got some new Shasvastii joining my Combined Army forces. I grabbed a pack of Seed Soldiers during Miniature Market's summer sale. I just finished painting them up.



If you're familiar with the studio scheme, you'll notice that I've deviated significantly from it for my guys. I was planning on having them with bare arms, neck, and heads, but when I got them in hand, I noticed that they've actually got armor sculpted onto their arms and they appear to have headgear sculpted on as well. For some reason, Angel Giraldez painted those bits up as skin. Last I checked, Shasvastii don't have carapaces, so it could only be armor they're wearing. If you look really closely, it also looks like they have headsets sculpted onto the right side of their heads. So, I decided to go with a full bodysuit look on them and kept the exposed skin limited to their mouths, fingers, and feet.

The Shasvastii are really kind of creepy looking. I wouldn't mind getting more. But, unless some really good deal on them pops up, my next CA purchase will be the Raicho.

As a side note, I had a playthrough of Telltale's Walking Dead playing while I was painting these guys. That finale was kind of messed up. The best ending wound up being the hardest to watch and was probably the worst for Clementine.

Very nice looking minis!

I need to finish that game, I think I've got a chapter or two left... and then there's a sequel.

I like your shasvastii. If I had been thinking about it, I probably would have nabbed a pack of them to fill out a link or make conversions.

Kenny's endings were kind of hard to watch. Don't expect any kind happy ending though.

Got some more Haqq to work on tonight, but will probably spend most of the evening playing Dead Island.

Well I kind of figured that when you could either try to save the guy and fail, pissing someone off, or not try to save the guy and piss someone else off...he dies either way lol.

Spoiler the walking dead stuff please. I haven't seen season 5 or 6 as we only have Netflix. Makes me sad that I can't keep up with the unlife of zombies .

Cool looking seed soldiers. Angel pretty much gets a pass on anything he does when painting because he is so awesome. So if he doesn't want armor panels .

Not to worry Theo, we're talking about the Telltale video game. There's only two "seasons" of it, but it's really good. You should check out a commentary-free playthrough of it. It's basically an interactive show.

I'm only halfway through season 2 of the walking dead so I think you're OK . Safe from me at least.

As far as the show goes, I've only seen what's on Netflix. I think that goes up to season 4? Honestly though, I think I liked the game's story and characters more. The fact that a good chunk of the game is told from a child's perspective makes it a lot more interesting, too. It also helps that the game's cast is more likeable and relatable than the show's.

I don't know what any of you are talking about since I'm old school and read the comics as they were coming about way back in prehistory.

Shasvastii are always good and creepy looking

Got the first Republic Trooper figure from my Afterlife: Shards of LIberty set done. I started with the Yoshida's Bodyguard first since she was only a single piece.



I'd used a Vallejo Games Color Desert Yellow on her, but in these pics it looks more like it's just full on yellow, rather than desert-ish. I'm not entirely sure yet though if I want to go with the colors like this, or if I want to reverse them, with a tan uniform and dark gray, almost black color for the armor. Thoughts?

Last night I wound up painting my Ragik Hacker. I'll probably either add lenses or shiny bits to his hacker goggles after he's dipped. I'm not decided yet.



Here's a small update on my Pile 'O Shame.



The reason for the small "X" on the Wu Ming is due to my having only done one figure out of the box. :( Currently working on the XAI Robots from Reaper and the Winterguard from Privateer.

I really like most of the Afterlife sculpts, and that one looks great. I think that reversing the scheme may well work better, have you got a similar "sacrificial miniature" that you could try it out on?

Great colour choices on the Ragik Hacker.

Nice progress on the pile o'shame too. Which Wrath Of KIngs faction is that boxed set for?

He's got Gortsi from Wrath of Kings... and he won't swap me any of his extra wolves either.

That he won't ever get around to painting.

I totally dare you to paint that starter. I double dog dare you.

Then you have no excuse for lamenting how you have no fantasy stuff to use.

Yep good stuff

I also like your photo of shame and the simple choice to cross things off. I should have done that with my TODO list or something, easier than what I did, more entertaining than just stopping

You're working your way through the pile of shame quite well.

I'm going to throw a vote for the Gortsi as well, they are the faction I'd want if we had a distributor in the UK.

Wow. I had seen the renders of that model, but hesitated. Not only have you done that model justice I think I might just have to pick it up myself because of the paint job.

Glad you liked her, Theophony! It's not everyday I can convince someone to buy into a line by painting a single figure. I hope you'll like the rest of them that I do just as much. I'm starting work on a regular Republic Commando and a CRANE trooper. Still trying to work with my Basius Pad, and it's definitely a learning process.

I started work on more stuff from the pile. Unofortunately, thanks to a weekend trip to Brookhurst, I just added more stuff to it. I've been painting the Khador Winterguard figures I got and my Rackham Lion swordsmen for use in Frostgrave. They'll be classed as Sharpshooters and Templars, respectively.



I just finished these three today and I have one more Winterguard from that blister, and one more swordsman to do and then I can take them off my list.

Looking good! Can't wait to see more Afterlife stuff hit!

Good stuff. I particularly like the aesthetic of the handgunner guy.

Sounds like you'd like Khador then, Grim. That guy is one of their basic infantry. I'm actually surprised by how well they look in Menoth's colors.

Tonight's plan is to finish up the two remaining guys from these blisters. The swordsmen are very time consuming on account of their little swirly details on their armor. You don't get a sense of how tiny and thin they are from the pic.

Once these guys are done (and my pile 'o shame gains a couple more marks), I'll work on some Afterlife. I also picked up some more Rackham Wolfen over the weekend and some more AE WWII as well. The Weird War guys should be easy to do and I'll mix them in, but would you guys prefer to see the Wolfen over more stuff from the pile?

I think I'd have to play cygnar or one of the hordes armies... But then seeing them with diff colors may make all the difference.

Paint what you like, its all good stuff.

Those metal Lions look pretty sweet. I could easily see using them as Elven champions amongst the Swordmasters.

Yeah, I could easily see them being used as elves. Though, I actually do have some Rackham elves floating around somewhere. Anyway, finished the whole set.



Nice looking figures to be sure. Them being one piece also helped. There was a second set of swordsmen like these guys at Brookhurst a couple months back that I almost bought. While they had the same general design and weapons, their helmets were closed and they were multipart. I kind of wish I'd picked them up, now.

Finished the other Winter Guard, too.



It's kind of funny, the Khador guys were real quick and easy to paint up, but those Lions were really time consuming. Thankfully, I won't have to paint so much bone and brass for a little bit. Now, I'm nearly done with my XAI Robots (just need to do a once over of their bases and a little cleanup) and I'll be priming a couple more Afterlife figures. Getting the Basius pad to work has been a little difficult. The Green Stuff keeps wanting to lift off when I remove the base from the pad and ruins the whole thing, making me have to do it over. Eventually I got the bases decent enough though. Priming will begin for them in the morning.

You need something in-between . try water at first and .move up to something like baby oil or Vaseline if water won't work. I think water should work though.

I don't have a basius pad but water isxhow I keep my sculpting tool and fingers from sticking to the GS.

Water is what they recommend in the video IIRC.

Can you do a scale shot of the rack am next to something GW or Mantic? They might be a cheap alternative for KOW.

Water was what I used. The base also wants to slide a bit when I press it into the pad. I think it's just something I'm going to have to work on. I'll try a different lubricant next time.

Here's a quick size comparison.



I don't think Rackham would work as a cheaper alternative to anything, considering the prices they go for online. Maybe the plastics could work as an alternative, but not the metals.

Both the Rackham and Khador models look great. I'd never have thought of using purple for the Khador.

Okay, painted up one of my CRANE Heavy Infantry from Afterlife.



After looking at the pics, I think I may do a wash over his undersuit. The highlighting I did doesn't show up at all. It'll need to wait though since I'm nearing the bottom of the Nuln Oil pot, and the stuff that's left is a little too dark.

I may also redo his helmet lenses with OSL instead of the gem effect.

Painted up my Reaper XAI Robots. So, that's another thing I can strike from the pile.



The red one's guns do sit crooked. They just didn't want to go on flush, so they're angling slightly to the side.

The tan one is on a smaller base because I'll be using him as a Tinbot.

Thanks for the size comparison.

Miniaturemarket has a bunch of the plastic rackham stuff which is all prepainted, but breaks down to about $2 a figure. Not sure if there's enough for a full army of anything though. I never liked their wolves (I know most people do, but not my taste), but they might have enough to do a counts as ogre army in KOW.

Good stuff. The red on that afterlife guy really pops.

Is that one of the Anvil Miniatures models? I like the gem-lenses you've done on him. If you have another it might be worth doing the OSL on the second model so you can do a side-by side instead of just going over this one.