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Yeah, eBay is more miss than hit, though good deals can occasionally be found there.

Miniature Market is OK if you're spending more than $100US, but I've generally found better prices over on Texas Toy Soldier, and that's where I've moved most of my INFINITY business...

I've heard of that one, I'll have to check them out. I don't buy much in terms of Infinity models but that may change in the future, they're really fun to paint.

Love the variety of stuff here. How well do those clear bases work, in-game? I like the way they don't look stupid.

Miniature Market is at least open about what they have in stock. I hate placing an order for something listed as 'regular stock, usually ships in 1-3 days' only to have it back-ordered for a few weeks. Not naming any store here.

@Grimdork: They are even more fun to assemble, in a perverse sort of way. Lots of really small fiddly bits on some of the models.

Well, Ebay's been okay for me so far. That's where I've been getting most of my stuff. I've come across a few good deals here and there. I forgot to mention, I also scored a Wu Ming set for about $25 total with shipping. And that Charontid I just won had free shipping, too. The Steel Phalanx guy and my PanO Knight were also good deals with both figures only costing me a few bucks.

Thanks Red Harvest. I haven't actually played any games using the clear bases, but for display purposes, they're great. The fact that I don't actually have to do anything to them once I glue the figure down is a major plus.

Alph, I'll have to check them out. Thanks for the tip.

Grimdork, just remember, Infinity figures are like potato chips. Once you get one, you can't stop. Your lone Moderator won't be a lone for long, I'm sure.

I got the Bakunin starter, bran do Castro, custodier, msr sin eater, and the lunokhod sputnik set for Christmas. I would probably have impulse ordered some gekkos but mm doesn't have them yet. I've been saving the infinity models to do between batches, a reverend moira is in the painting queue as we speak.

I will have to look at eBay a bit closer then, perhaps its better if you are looking for anything and not just specifics.

The only thing about the clear bases is to watch how you position the models on them, and this is doubly true for metal models. There's no way to hide a coin under them to mitigate top or side heavy minis, so you've got to rely on careful positioning to keep them from being tipsy.

It's sounds like you're pretty well set then. I wouldn't have had the restraint to keep from buying even more.

I just run a few searches by faction every now and then and if I'm lucky, I come across a good deal. Thanks to Disney's Infinity, it's a lot harder to just do a general search.

I'm hesitant about mounting any of my metal stuff on clear bases. I like to make sure that the figure has some support running through the base to keep it from breaking off and I can't really get that with a clear one. For now, I'm sticking with plastics and resin on the clear stuff.

I think I've seen people pin them to the clear acrylics. The pin goes under the foot so you really don't see it, I think. I'm also using epoxy to weld mine to the bases so I think it will work out.

The Infinity minis were gifts, or there might have been more. Now that dreadball extreme has finally caught my eye, the Gekkos will have to wait and it's just as well as I'd then want a corregedor starter (give a mouse a cookie).

Yeah... it's friggen hard to find CB/Infinity the game stuff sometimes, it's a great name, but too many other people have thought so as well

I used to do that occasional search thing for space marines and marine bits. Now I've got 4500 points of the buggers and probably 60% or better is from 'occasional search' eBay shopping

I tend to get bored during my lunch breaks at work and that's when I do my hunting.

I'm tempted to get in on Dreadball as well just so I can get more toys for Deadzone, but I just can't quite seem to pull the trigger. That $10 Iron Ancestor with hands is awefully tempting though.

Yeah that iron ancestor saves me 10 bucks over the urban pattern DZ model. More toys for deadzone is pretty much the primary reason I'm going in for DBX, if I can get anyone to play it, all the better! I'm planning to put in a not-insignificant order for guns/accessories so I can properly outfit all of my new DZ converts. Either hasslefree (lot of rifles,smgs, space guns and so on), or perhaps some eBay bits seller.

Pin them to acrylics sounds like a good idea. I'm wondering if a dab of that clear silicone caulk would work better than a glue that might frost the acrylic. Time for some research I guess. And yes, the fact that you do not need to do more is great.

It's saving me an hour or two per batch of models! The company I got my bases from (Litko) sells an acrylic cement which does not frost. It works on hard plastic and resin plastic so far. For infinity minis I've had to use epoxy resin, but that stuff is pretty heavy duty so I think it'll hold. Is silicon caulk rubbery like the regular stuff or does it dry harder?

Nice stuff!

Thanks a lot, BBB.

I'm still a little wary of trying to do metals on acrylic bases. They seem too thin to be able to run a pin through them.

Alph, how do you go about ordering from Texas Toy Soldier? I didn't see any kind of online shop.

Anyway, it's time for some Mo' Rats.

Yeah Weld-on 4 for clear acrylics. I was thinking of the rubbery sort of silicone. I have a circle cutter that I could use to make my own bases... Hmm...

Ah the Moarats. 'Cuz it seems like Moar are a-coming At least these guys have their shirts on. They look good.

Great work! They are very bright and colorful, very much fitting the infinity aesthetic.

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Alph, how do you go about ordering from Texas Toy Soldier? I didn't see any kind of online shop.

Right here:

https://texastoysoldieronline.com/index.php?l=product_list&c=219

I've placed 4 orders with them so far, and they've been great!

Solid prices on the Deadzone stuff too. Will have to consider them for my next infinity purchase (especially since they already have Gekkos!). I do enjoy the Novelty of having the option of driving to Miniature Market if the whim took me, though the gas would far outweigh any shipping costs.

Thanks for the link, Alph. A lot of the prices are comparable to those on Ebay, but I noticed that most of the boxed sets tend to run cheaper. Especially the TAGs. I guess I know where I'll be getting my Geckos from (eventually).

I got a couple of orders in today. Parts from Hoard 'O Bits and my test Viridians from Noble Knight Games. I said I wanted to use these guys to make a police force for Deadzone, but I wasn't sure about how they'd size up.

So, there's two figures in the blister, both wearing greatcoats. These were the cheapest ones Noble Knight had, so that's the only reason I chose them over the other, regular guys. I went ahead and gave them some pretty basic paintjobs, but only got one done since the other guy wasn't drying fast enough.



Not a bad design. Their designs remind me of the Genoshans from X-men. The sculpting is a little cartoony for my tastes though. After messing around with Infinity figures, I've found my tastes heading more in the direction of truescale proportions. Anyway, the main reason I got these guys was really just to see how they scale up against Mantic's figures.



Ah, that's not too bad. A little chunky, but I think I can live with that.



Yeah, I think I can live with using these guys as cops.

Cool beans. He doesn't look as out of place as an imperial guardsman might. I think I'm set to order some Hasslefree bits from that Noble Knight place, if I'm thinking of the right seller.

I got my Charontid a couple days ago and got to work on him Sunday night. Right off the bat I thought I'd try and be all fancy and use some techniques that I'm not very well experienced in using (beyond screwing things up) and the results were less than stellar. Then there was just one bad decision after another, paint that got too thick, color choices that were wrong, and some plain old bad painting and I got this mess.



It actually looks better in the picture than it does in person. It just turned out looking like ass. I'm going to have to strip the paint and start over. At the very least, the one good thing I got out of this screw up was that the Megaman X colors don't actually look all that bad on the Charontid. Next time, I just need to stick to base coating and not try to do anything fancy.

Looking at his arm, I see why you went with the MegaMan color scheme.

You could always stick with the original Blue Bomber paint scheme, couldn't you? It's a lot simpler.

Eh. I'll stick to the X scheme. Classic megaman uses a little too much of the light blue for my tastes. On the downside, the Simple Green is probably going to undo all of the glue and I'll have to rebuild him again.

My stuff usually falls apart when it gets dunked in the vat as well. Definitely interested to see what you come up with though.

How do the Afterlife troops stand up to other minis?

I didn't take any pictures of them with other minis, did I? I'm house sitting for my parents at the moment, so I don't have access to any of my stuff aside from a few misc. items I brought with me. Detail-wise, they're very nice. Everything is sharp and crisp. As far as the styling, I'd say they're ever so slightly more true-scale than GW's stuff, but not nearly as much as CB's. I don't think they would match up too well with the Dreamforge figures, either. I would say that they're probably pretty closer to Mantic's figures in terms of proportions. Assembly is a breeze since each figure is only a couple of pieces. Both factions have officer figures that have some options as well, like alternate hands or separate heads.

While the figures don't offer a lot in the way of options, in terms of sculpting quality and overall design, if it was a choice between them or GW's Cadians, or Mantic's Corporate Marines, I would easily choose the Afterlife figures.

Well, I got some good news from my dad this morning. He was killing a little time in Boston and managed to snag me a Shasvastii Gwailo and a Khawarijs. Yay for me. I got my Morat Vanguard Hacker in the mail, too. Those should be fun.

I've been thinking about picking up some Shasvastii recently, anyway, so this is perfect. I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with a color scheme that I'd like to see them in. I'd been leaning towards doing them up like Medusa's with the purple, bone, and green colors, but I wasn't too sure about it. It finally hit me this afternoon, I'll just paint them in desert colors to match my Morats! I don't know why I didn't think of such an obvious scheme. That way I can avoid doing the super bright studio colors or the generic greens that everybody else uses.

Sounds like you've got a plan, I look forward to seeing it come to fruition!

What the hell?

Where'd they go that he found those guys? I didn't know you were sending shopping lists abroad....

I would have done the same.

[refrains from mentioning the obscure book that was asked for.]

Hobby Bunker. I didn't send a list, I just asked him to let me know if he wound up over there. And he did. Besides, I'm house sitting for them. I think a couple of Infinity figures is decent payment.

That's one hell of a Dad!

I'm in the Boston area too, and I don't think I knew about the "Hobby Bunker" - if they're selling INFINITY, I should see if I can't scare up a game over there!