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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The important thing is to enjoy it.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Haha! Then Praxis will teach you.

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

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

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

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

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

Hah, your productivity is amazing.

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

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

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

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

Fair play mate. Feel free to repledge!

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

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

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

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

We shall see how it goes.

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

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

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

Noice.
Source on shotgun bob (new version?)

Is it one of the hasslefree ones?

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

And they include lollies with their models.

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

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

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

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

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

Pledge completed. Is ill upload a crappy photo tomorrow

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

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

Crappy photo as promissed

New Pledge:

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

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

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

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

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

C&C welcomed.

Zero



Wildcat (Male)



Wildcat (Female)

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

Flickr is so obnoxious about direct linking.

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

Flickr is so obnoxious about direct linking.

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

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

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

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

 Kanluwen wrote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Druze militia and single Kaplan security consultant.

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

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