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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.