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Thanks guys!

@ Paradigm: Yeah just as carlos said. The zondcat comes attached to the tomcat as a package. It's basically an extension of him so he can work through the cat on the battlefield.

@ carlos13th: When are you getting your icestorm package? Looking forward to what you do to it

Next Update #9 Alguacile

So got my first alguacile from icestorm painted up. All the new icestorm stuff is so much easier to paint then the older stuff. It's not just the size but all the details are much sharper and people who like washes a lot will love them, the grooves and cuts are all deeper, faces better defined etc. The mobile brigada and this model came out a lot better then some of the older stuff imo. The new stuff is definitely a step above.

Here's some pics of the alguacile along the way to completion

First the basecoats:



That's bloody red for the red, black for the black (duh) and flat earth for the leather straps etc.

Next the highlights on the red:



Then highlighting the black/grey:



Finally all the finishing details. The leather, face, gun, etc. I still have no idea on how to paint faces ><. Still experimenting.



Now ready to be based!

Working on the rest of the alges now. Will post them up later on.

Thanks for looking!

Looking good! I agree these are great models to paint up, washes work magic on these guys and the faces are so sharp. My advice would be to use a very thin red/purple wash on the skin, it sounds odd but really does work once you get the balance right.

Thanks! The faces are great but they're the hardest part for me. Definitely a good learning experience though. I'll definitely give that a go.There's probably some deep colour theory explanation for it which I don't know lol

It's not so much colour theory, more just the fact that even working from a tan basecoat, the highlights usually go up to an off-white which will look 'cold' and pale. The red/purple tone just adds a little more warmth to it, giving the impression of something living rather than lifeless.

Yeah that's my main problem. It either gets too white or too yellow and I keep going back and forth trying to fix it lol. Would it work for darker skin tones too? Or should I go a different route.

For darker skins I tend to highlight up to just below the tan that I use to basecoat lighter skins, and then hit it with a brown wash. It has the same effect of making the tones richer, but works better.

I am getting mine for christmas CKIG. So expect my first Icestorm models anywhere between Jan and Decemeber 2015

I tried the wash thing and it did help tone it down a lot. Thanks! Atm I'm painting another alguacile just got the face left to do lol. going for a darker tone so we'll see how that goes.

lol carlos lets hope its not Dec 2015. Worth the wait though! That'll be a fun boxing day for you


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Update #10 More Alguaciles

So here's my next Alguacile done.

Still experimenting with skin tones. But I'm happy with how he turned out.





First mini where I've tried to dot some eyes on. You can't really see it in other pictures because of the shadows but here you can just see I managed to put a bit of white there. Things were getting too tiny for me so I couldn't get any pupils on lol. Soulless white eyes it is but I think it's ok.



More angles:







There we go! Only 2 more left. On to the ladies

These are great, keep up the good work

Looking great! The skin tone works well.

Amazing work, dude. Soft spot for Nomads or not, I really like your painting style! Keep it coming, man, can't wait to see more.

Aww thanks guys! Your words are very encouraging

Update #11 Even More Alguaciles

First off here's another pic of my alguaciles together.

They're like two buddy cops in an action movie.



And here's my next finished Alguacile! The Alguacile Hacker from the Corregidor starter and she is one tiny model!

Not sure if you can see it here but I tried to put some pink into her cheeks and lips on her face.



Pic of her butt:




Here's some WIP pics of the other female alge from icestorm. I was actually painting the ladies together so she should have been finished too but halfway through her arm decided to randomly fall off T_T. So I had to stop and make repairs and she got left behind. Oh well. Got the red done on her at least.





Will get her finished up soon!

Thanks!

Can definitely see the work on the lips, looks good. I think my eyes are failing me on the other details but I'm sure she's quite good in person

Your Corrigedor stuff is going to look great when you've got a full team assembled.

Even more great stuff, and pretty damn fast too!

I found those arm joints on the female Alguacile from Icestorm were a real nightmare to stick together, so I'm not surprised it fell apart.

The skin on the hacker is brilliant, you've really got the hang of that now!

GrimDork wrote:Can definitely see the work on the lips, looks good. I think my eyes are failing me on the other details but I'm sure she's quite good in person

Your Corrigedor stuff is going to look great when you've got a full team assembled.

Thanks
In your defense it's probably my fault with some shoddy painting in some areas hah! And some of the details are very shallow on the model like the hacking device on her back and the details on the backpack. She was a bit harder to paint. I feel spoiled after painting the Icestorm stuff lol.

Paradigm wrote:Even more great stuff, and pretty damn fast too!

I found those arm joints on the female Alguacile from Icestorm were a real nightmare to stick together, so I'm not surprised it fell apart.

The skin on the hacker is brilliant, you've really got the hang of that now!

Not as fast as you! I got a whole three models painted in week compared to your Icestorm lol.

Maybe I should pin the arm but drilling metals models.. zzz ... it'll be fine

Thanks! Good thing about keeping a blog is I kind see my improvements over time. Practice practice practice . You tips helped a lot. I was experimenting a bit and basically i add a tiny bit of skin wash to my paints for each of the highlights/layers etc and it works pretty well!

You guys talking about your flesh tones is getting me amped up to try harder for the rest of my Infinity stuff when I get back around that way. I love 'dueling' P&M blogs

Get to it, Grim! You're falling behind!

Just kidding. Seriously, though, I agree about the 'competition' between us bloggers is very inspirational. Especially with all the Infinity stuff exploding onto the scene at the moment, it's a great time for all of us painters!

^It certainly is a great time! I'm hoping to do some serious catch-up with the operation Icestorm stuff. Or at least some of my existing nomads. Kind of hard to say no to Corrigedor as nice as you two have been making them look though

Hah! Go for it! A little friendly competition never hurts. And it's always good to see some more infinity around here

Lovely ladies. Got the two of them on order now so it's nice to see someone else painting them before I tackle that job. Any issues apart from the arm?

Nice! looking forward to it. Do you mean issues with this model in particular or the Icestorm stuff? Other then the random arm incident she's all good . She's easier to paint than the older alguaciles for sure.

Almost finished painting her so I'll post pics soon.

Aye I just meant those girls since i am going to have to paint them pretty soon. Looking forward to seeing her finished.

Coolies. How will you be painting them?

And here she is finished! With arms intact!

Update #12 Alguaciles Completed!

Tried to paint the eyes on this one. Semi-successful lol.



I missed this mold line on her face :(
Even if I caught it I don't think I'm skilled enough to remove it without wrecking her face. I guess that's another thing to watch out for Casey









And a group shot with the rest of them:




Hope you like 'em. What to paint next. Finish my Nomads or start my PanO stuff. Just picked up some Yu Jing too so hmm..
Thoughts & comments welcome

Thanks!

Fantastic job, they all look great. Tackling those eyes sounds terrifying! I'll keep that face mould line in the back of my mind thanks. My colour scheme is going to be chrome and olive drab with pink as a spot colour. Annoyingly I need to paint the metal first then work around it.

As for what to do next: Nomads, Nomads, Nomads. Nooomaaads! Moar Nomads is always best.

Looking good ckig, I'm leary about trying the pink hair myself, but you did great with it. Finish up the nomads is what I'd recommend, then start on your other armies. That way it will look more unified before you take a break and then come back and try to do the second part of the army.

Great stuff!

Thanks for the compliments!

Ok! I am (easily) convinced! I'll finish up my nomads

Casey's Law wrote:Fantastic job, they all look great. Tackling those eyes sounds terrifying! I'll keep that face mould line in the back of my mind thanks. My colour scheme is going to be chrome and olive drab with pink as a spot colour. Annoyingly I need to paint the metal first then work around it.

As for what to do next: Nomads, Nomads, Nomads. Nooomaaads! Moar Nomads is always best.

Chrome sounds awesome! Looking forward to that!

Theophony wrote:Looking good ckig, I'm leary about trying the pink hair myself, but you did great with it. Finish up the nomads is what I'd recommend, then start on your other armies. That way it will look more unified before you take a break and then come back and try to do the second part of the army.

Yeah it was my first time painting pink. I was worried about it ending up too light/white. So I think shading it was key. I shaded it by adding a tiny bit of red ink into the pink to shade.

Took a while but here we go!

Update #13 Reverend Healer (-Killer)

Finally completed her. Amazing mini by the way and a joy to paint. A lot of different surfaces to paint if you want to be creative.
So here she is. Enjoy!

Looking very mean!


She has lots of little details, straps, belts, (she even has a priest's collar!) etc.


Painting white was a bit difficult. First time painting it on larger surfaces and on cloth. So it took a long time and a lot of trial and error lol. Hope it turned out ok.


Very Assassin Creed vibe.


Nice legs.


And lastly,


I enjoyed it. Hope you enjoy it. On to the next!
Thanks!

Great work on one of the best minis in the set!

Yeah that's stunning for sure!

I think the all-white eyes actually work for her too, give her a very creepy vibe

I may have to steal that as an Idea, give some of my Nomads unusual eyes, maybe cat/lizard eyes or all one color scleras.