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Man, fantastic work! I just went through all 16 pages being as I have meant to for ages (Since you first mentioned infinity to me) but just kept forgetting.

Really great work mate.

Cheers bud, will eventually update the blog with pix of the rest of my painted figs as well as the 8 x 4 urban table I have built... the 5 month old is keeping me away from the computer more than I though she would ( you know except for now when I am work and should be doing something )

If you are at interested in starting Infinity try the official forum, the guys there rival Dakkites for their welcome and great advice.

http://www.infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php

Oh and well done on the amount of painting you have done lately, it seems whenver I log on to blogger you have like a dozen new posts!

Hey - he's back! Glad to see you're back in the saddle, and trust all is well with you and your brood.

Hehe, never really left have just been lurking due to an almost complete lack of any painting progress..... little girl has had silent reflux so last night has been the first night with only one wake up in weeks :S

I will repost some of the stuff I put up on the infinity forum just to prove I haven't been totally slack, hope your family is doing ok as well bud.


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First up is a Dragonborn Warlord for an upcoming D&D game I am going to be part of, I am playing a Dragonborn Warlord, can't wait to boss my team mates around! Model is pretty much just the Avatars of War Lizardman Hero with a sword instead of a club.



Next is a Teifling Warlock that I converted up for a friend who is part of the same game. Mostly the Warhammer Wizard kit, with a high elf head and some GS horns.... God those wizard hands are huge! This is also the first time I have tried OSL effects.... not incredibly happy with it to tell the truth.



And here is a Shang Ji Invincible ( think a heavy armoured warrior AKA Space Marine) I managed to get hold of, mainly cause the model is just plain cruel looking
The paint job was me experimenting with a blues, trying to get something dark but still with enough definition for the armour plating to stand out.





But despite the fooling around I did actually get some paint on my converted Myrmidon, be gentle! The simple fact is that both the Myrmidon and my Aleph scheme are basically monochrome with a tiny amount of red and purple for the eyes... I may look at adding a secondary color but I kinda like it.









And here is the terrain I am building for us to play Infinity on, it is basically blocks of foam that has been faced with cardboard, I can put up a tutorial if you guys are interested?

Sorry bout the glare in the pics it was beautiful spring day here and the room was washed out with sun through the windows.

























So I need to add another half a dozen buildings and I think it will be dense enough, after that it is just the small scale stuff like bins and barrels for models to duck behind.

C&C always welcome,

Cheers

BLACKHAND

That's very ambitious, and very cool. Can we see a pic with some infinity figures in with the terrain for scale?


The two infinity figures look really good. I think you might consider making your paints even thinner, especially with the white on her legs... in order to make the blending smoother.

The OSL on the mage is a good start... and I'm certainly far from an expert (most of my attempts thus far have been pretty sketchy). If anything... I would say there is a tad too much (i.e. the glow goes too far up the hands and arms)... and you might consider a bit different shade for the ambient glow as it would be affected to some degree by the color of the material (skin) it was shining on. I'm not sure if that's scientifically correct... but it does seem to help with the illusion.

All-in-all great work!

No TARDIS?

@Gitsplitta - Ha yeah I realised when I was uploading the pics that there were no figs on the table, I will hopefully get some pics tonight when I have a game. As for the glow do you mean trying a lighter green for the glow? I could definitely give it a try.

@Miss Dee - You know there are several casting companies that make them right? As well as different versions of al the Doctors....

And thanks to the Photoshop wizardry of Gitsplitta I have a couple of the pics I posted yesterday that have been colour balanced or contrasted or something technical... they just look better ok?



Oh and part of the reason the mymidon is a little rough in places is that its a conversion from another fig, basically I want to run an all female Aleph force and since the myrmidons are all female I needed to build one....



..... of course this month they have actually released a female myrmidon but whatever.





Cheers Gits!

Good to see ya back mate, great work on that urban table too. What scale are those toy cars?

I would look at adjusting the color of the glow to a slightly darker shade *and* making the glow not reach out as far.

Actually scratch the shade adjustment for now... just try limiting the glow to, say... 6-8" of figure distance... and I don't think I'd wrap the fingers and arm with it... it's just too much. If you look there's glow way down the arm but almost none on the cloak right next to the ball. I think if you sort that out it'll look a lot better.

@Perplexiti - Cheers, the police and ambulance vans are 1:50, the rest are just $2 cars I picked up in some of the $1 or more stores around town, basically guessed they would fit.

@Gitsplitta, thanks for the tips, I will grab the model back off my friend and maybe have a go at repainting the glow, it really didn't feel right from the moment I did it.


Would you guys like me to post a tutorial on how to make the buildings I used on the urban table, I have one posted on the infinity site that I can repost her if you are interested?


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Well I have a spare five minutes at work so here we go,

Blackhand's extremely simple LOS blocking terrain tutorial

Step 1 - get a couple of foam blocks, this is styrofoam, slightly denser then the norm, I get it from a local fireplace store it used to pack the heavy fireplaces and so is a little firmer.



Step 2 - I then glue them together and pin them together with kebab sticks, would love to skip this step by having bigger blocks of foam but I haven't found anything this big. the reason I pin them is for strength and so I can work on them straight away.





Step 3 - I then measure and cut out 4 pieces of 4mm card for the walls and another for the roof. I make the walls wider by about 5 or 6 mm, so that when I glue them on to the foam there is an overhang.. you will see why later.





Step 4 - I then get my hot glue gun heating up, while this is happening I put a small amount of PVA or wood glue in the centre of the side of the foam I am glueing the card to. This will make sure the wall stays on in the future if the hot glue doesn't bond particularly well to the foam.



Step 5 - Once the glue gun is hot I run a line down the left edge of the foam and then a couple of globs and lines on the right, and lay the card down flush against the left side. The wall will overhang the right side but thats ok as this is something to butt the next wall up against.



You should end up with something like this....



Step 6 - I then use a sharp box cutter to clean up the overhangs and get tidy edge.



Leaving you something like this....



Step 7 - Then measure and cut another piece of card that fits over one wall ( always choose your messiest wall!) this will become your "storefront"



Step 8 - Map out with a ruler and pencil your doors and windows, making sure to take into account where the floor will run in the two storey building. I got a little fancy with this one since I was making a tutorial, usually I have done them much simpler.



Step 9 - This is the part I dislike the most, cutting out the windows and doors without slipping!



Step 10 - After glueing the "store front" on with PVA I then run around the joins of the card with crack filler that you can pick up from hardware stores, it has a pretty light and fluffy consistency like cake icing and dries in around 10 mins, ready to be sanded.



And finally you will end up with this!



This little fella is ready to sand and paint, I have been base-coating them in black then lightly overspraying with a matt grey primer, generic concrete tones really.

And in this pic you can see the building I made for the tutorial on the right



Hope this is of some interest!

Wow man great stuff!!

I just ordered my panoceana military orders starter so I'll keep you updated with how I go.

Your city looks amazing! I hear heaps of terrain is the best way to go with this game.

Thanks man, and yep terrain is king in infinity it needs to be "solid" terrain in most cases too or snipers will shoot straight through and control the board.

Can't wait to see what you can do with the PanO, you will have to post it to the Infinity boards as well as Dakka.

Oh and congrats again on getting your redscorps on the GW site, really well done.


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Oh and now the Secret Weapon Miniatures blog too huh? your arm seems to be everywhere on the net at the moment


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Aaaand the Dragonforge blog, dude you need to start charging for endorsements!!

Haha, I am EVERYWHERE!

I had to order new products from both of those guys so I thought I would let them know then BOOM, posts up! Both on the blogs and their facebooks, I'm all over the Forge World facebooks as well (A friend tells me Ead and the lads have a bit of a soft spot for my army) and the GW posts. I'm also posting on Miniature Wargame Conversions as a writer now as well. All int he space of 2 weeks..

Just had a look at the infinity forums, HOLY CONFUSION BATMAN! There seems to be no order to anything, I was trying to find colour schemes and player armies for the Pan-O knights but got completely lost in the format (ended up finding some info, going to go hospitaliers schemes).

Yeah I found a link on there to a guy dave graffam's paper models, he makes these beautiful pdf templates for buildings that seems to fit with the style for infinities. I am probably going to buy a few of those and glue them to foamcore boards for some modular terrain. Do you think a 3x3 board will be enough space for some small games Starter set to 10 miniatures maybe?

Keep up the great work brother.

Jack

Cool man, well done on the exposure, your painting deserves it for sure, will look forward to your posts!

As for the forums, yeah it takes a bit of getting used to but even just posting some questions in the PanO section will get you plenty of replies from the Big Posters like PsychoticStorm, and Bluedagger and from there you will be sweet.

Hate to say that we were playing on a 3x3 table and it was just too small, even with 6 or 7 figs. It basically came down to who started first, won the game. I have since discovered that was also our lack of knowledge of the rules to a fair degree but since we have moved to a full 6x4 table (starting on the long ends) we have discovered it gives us space to feint and manoeuvre around your enemy before getting stuck in which adds a lot to the game.

I can't stress the amount of terrain needed, at one point we made a maze of foam blocks that didn't leave more than a 6 inch gap between them and we had a TON of fun, like a bloody game of american gladiator In fact if you only have a small table then hyper compressed terrain may be one way to solve the "Who goes first, Wins" issue.

Google search a guy called Topo and another guy from the forums called Toomygun along with the words paper terrain and you will be blown away with how much free infinity themed paper terrain is out there, I have moved away from it since it just won't survive my club environment and needed to make something a bit sturdier but for home use it will really make your table pop.

Cool man I'll check those out for sure now and persist with the infinity forums, seems good community, everyone is very supportive!

I've been drooling over the CB youtubes tutorial videos and the miniatures that Giraldez paints up. So polished!! I'm going to have to learn some new techniques to paint them how I want them I think.

How's being a dad treating you anyway mate?

Yeah Angel does make the Figs seem made of pure win, when you have them in your hand you realise just how fine the details truly are, its definitely made me step up my painting game. Good thing is that 7 or so miniatures is a whole army so I can afford to take my time.

As for being a dad, its pretty damn good. This time round we have had some trouble with reflux so am only just now getting a decent nights rest, but I have never seen a baby smile so much so we must be doing something right

Reflux is hellish - but glad to hear your little one's doing well otherwise

Got any links for them?

@Graven - Thanks bud, now that she is sorted I may even get some decent hobby time in

@Miss Dee - Links for Redscorps stuff ?

http://reds-corps.blogspot.com/2011/08/red-scorpions-contemptor-cool-pose-bro.html

http://blog.secretweaponminiatures.com/2011/08/user-gallery-red-scorpion-space-marines.html

http://dragonforgedesign.blogspot.com/2011/08/jack-campbells-red-scorpions-emerge.html

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=17900003a

Or for the Infinity stuff?

this Angel's blog, he paints studio models for just about every model company except G-Dub

http://studiogiraldez.blogspot.com/2011/08/myrmidon-officer.html

and here is the official forum, bunch of really nice guys

http://www.infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php

and this is the remote presence blog, acting as a king of Blog hub for infinity blogs

http://remotepresence.blogspot.com


So I got a game in last night, managed to table my friend's Ariadne (ariadne are a bunch of french, american, scottish and russians that got stranded on a planet together, surprisingly they didn't kill each other and are now the low-tech faction... with werewolves ) with my Aleph (Aleph is the AI that runs all the human sphere planets, its army is made up of perfect bio-engeneered killing machines...sexy female killing machines )

I will try and dig out a few good pics from the ones I took of the game, unfortunately it was pretty dark.

*tap* *tap* *tap* *tap*

Were waiting.....

Jeez! I'm back to posting 5 mins and you expect regular updates!

And its not like you post on your blog that much Gits ..... oh, right....

Anyway I mainly tried to get a few snaps of the table to show the scale of the buildings vs models, now you have to understand my squad consists of 6 figs, two of which are Netrods ( basically missiles that are deployed from the air in the first turn and act as well, cellphone towers for the Aleph AI, they provide an extra order but no actual bullets) two of the other figs are unpainted and the last two are in a black and white scheme.... so not that flashy on the table

I won't even mention my opponents painting (honestly bro, black undercoated figs on a black tablecloth?) the amount of times I have moved a model around the corner only to walk straight into one of his figs simply because I didn't see it! He claims its camo, I claim its just more of his "bending the rules"

So first up is a high shot showing my two Asuras ( heavy infantry with a visor that lets them see through smoke grenades and Camouflage, and the ability to ignore wounds until they drop dead, basically like the chick from ghost in the shell)





As you can see the cars provide decent cover but let the models shoot over the top. In infinity if you can see a model to shoot at it, they can shoot back but if there is a car in the way and you are touching it with your base then you get a cover bonus.

Her you can see my opponents troops as they cover each other on the approach to my deployment. Bayonet always has to take an aggressive stance as his Dogface ( the super jumping werewolf) has "impetuous". This gives him an extra move every turn but he has to spend it moving towards the enemy, this generally leaves him too far ahead of his lines and the rest of the army trying to catch up and cover him.... they often arrive to see my Asuras riddling the poor doggy with lead



Here is my Asuras w/ Spitfire covering an approach, the Spitfire is a small machine gun that fires 4 shots a turn with a high damage stat... really fun.



This is my Asuras Lt, I took a bit of a risk to run her up into a forward position as I really needed to take out his Heavy Machine Gun Sapper (in game Sappers are able to spend a turn digging a foxhole and as long as they don't move they gain a cover bonus...even on top of buildings dammit!). As you can see she took a few hits on the way to the cover she is now cowering behind, the red marker denotes a wound and the 2 shows how many she has taken.



And I just had to take a pic at the end of the game, this shows the HMG, Moblat (french Heavy Infantry), Highlander Grey (Scottish Heavy Veteran, damn his dual shotguns!) and best of all, his Medic..... all of them shot to pieces at the end of my Asuras Suppression Fire lane.



Well there you are, hope it shows exactly how big all those buildings are and how much terrain you really need for Infinity. I admit I don't many tables this big and dense but it has been worth it for the way it changes the game.


That enough for ya Gits?

Sure, it's like watching an Aard Boys tournament here in the 'states! (ie nothing's painted).

So, how do the figs get into the buildings? Surely there are floors and windows to fire out of?

Nope, having internals in the building slows down the game IMHO, taking off the top stories to move models around is a hassle and to be honest we like the way game flows when everyone is screaming around like madmen rather then skulking inside.

Several of the buildings have low walls around the roof so you can position snipers with cover if you want but other than that I have stayed away from interior detail.

Another factor, and I have had several people agree on the infinity forums, is that once you start doing interiors the time taken on each building increase exponentially. I was building and painting 6 buildings a weekend for a couple of weeks, the entire table was done in a month... compare that to the guy that built a 3 story doctor's office, inside and out, from hirst arts moulds. Don't get me wrong, his building is a thing of beauty, but it took him a year to finish and a whole table of terrain like that will take the rest of his life while I can play immediately.

Speaking of terrain the next project will be a s^&t ton of jungle and forest terrain for my friend's Ariadne to roam about in, he bought an entire box of aquarium plants so it should be interesting!

Teasing you is just no fun when you don't take the bait!

Oh....guess I am a little too serious when it comes to 1:50 scale buildings

Nay TARDIS links

Tardis syle decals can be found here.
http://homepage.mac.com/brentdietrich/companyB_decals.html

This guy makes some great urban gear for wargaming everything from porta potties to park benches.
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Fenris-Games/_i.html?rt=nc&_sid=55776203&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1513&_pgn=1

Umm, so Hi!

Sorry I've been of the grid for so long, it's been a busy year and a bit for sure, but it has been starting to get embarrassing when I PM you guys and you ask when I will get back to posting... there is only so long I can keep blaming my actually pretty cool kids!

So I have spent the time away from Dakka to experiment a bit with new games, obviously I have bought far too many Infinity figs (I know have 2 armies and a a random assortment of other faction's figs to use as mercs) A friend and I put in for the Dust Tactics starter set and the Dust Warfare rulebook, has been fun in the couple of games I have played so far.. pretty lethal TBh.
The same friend also had the unmitigated gall to suggest he liked the look of the new Empire models from Warhammer Fantasy and that he would like to collect a few.....

.....I now have around 3k of (painted)Skaven...damn you to hell!

MY long running 40K project, the Knights of Dark Renown has been slowly tracking along. I am basically trying to enjoy modelling for the sake of it, not pushing to get an entire army painted and done in a set time, just having fun with the army model by model.

For those of you who don't have incredible memories or feel like trawling through pages of my long necrotic blog (come on people, you know you want to ) the Knights of Dark Renown are a Space Wolf counts as based around Logan Grimnar, 15 termies with power weapons and storm shields ( Knights get it?), a squad of Thunderwolf cav (mounted knights, duh!) and two squads of missile Fangs( ummm, archers...a bit of a stretch I know). So a real cheesy list that I have no real idea how to play with but has been pretty cool to model as each and every knight is modeled differently and painted in their own livery.

But lets be honest, you aren't reading through this drivel for the sheer joy of finally being able to experience the poetry of my written word after so long....

.... your here for the pictures right?

Well fine, have your filthy pictures!

First up is my Logan Grimnar counts as , Berethain Lord of Misrule





I am planning on building some form of cloak to bulk him up a bit, will probably try and track down a Chaos Termi Lord cloak for a base....sometime....eventually

Next is Tarvesh the Lion, my barely converted FW termie (whose name escapes me just now)



Here is Feramon the Burnt, the smoke censor and smoke came from the various Skaven bits I had lying around



One of my favourites, Tyriel the Dawn Prince (little worried that is the name of some elf in a book I read that I can' t even remember but whatever)



Another one I am pretty happy with , Maleshar the Serpent



And the last of the Foot Termies I have started, very much WIP..... Arask the First Law.



In the book I am loosely basing my army theme on there is a cursed gate that a bunch of goody two shoe knights get tricked into entering to save a land from tyranny...and instead leads to a land dominated by psychic vampires.... five years later the knights come back in a pretty bad mood. Now while the the actual "Knights of Dark Renown" were the scumbags and murderers who were scraped together to combat the vampire knights I have decided to model my Knights as the bad guys....and they have decided to bring their Cursed Gate along with them into battle.

Hence my the Land Raider "Cursed Gate"... imaginative name no?





Next are my Counts as Thunderwolf Cavalry, now I decided to make sure to use absolutely no Space Wolf bits in my army and so had to try something a bit different for my TWC, namely the sweet Chaos Knight mounts from WFB.

First up is Trevain the Brutal....



.....Arukan the Lost and....



...Morat, Ender of Days.



I REALLY like how the TWC came out, an I am still considering modeling up another squad...will just have to see how they play first in 6th ed.

So that is as far as my Knights of Dark Renown have gotten so far, but I am happy with the speed I am going, I have just started work on an Egyptian themed knight using a red scorpion shoulderpad I traded for but thanks to 6th wound allocation being so different I have been able to change around the weapon loadouts on the rest of the termies and will need to begin again on most of them.

My Guard army has been pretty much collecting dust but will be having an outing in a couple of months when My friend and I take a Guard/Guard army to our local doubles tournament. I will be taking a mech vet force with 4 Leman Russ and a Vendetta, my friend will be taking a footslogging Catachan force with 3 Leman russ and ...well I am a little ashamed of this...21 mortar teams...yes 21 mortars....pinning checks anyone?

Pretty much all I have built for the event is a new Punisher Gatling turret ( pics to come, its pretty nice if I do say so myself) and a new Lord Inquisitor



I really like the original fig, but I felt the need to carve off his head and add a sweet Blackhand gasmask



Oh and speaking of Blackhands, I have decided to add a small Allied detachment to my Blackhand Marines....honest a just a little one... um, a squad of BA assault marines and um, well er ......Mephiston.


I know, cheesy as hell... I'm sorry but everyone always goes on about how much of a beast in CC he is so I want to try him out...honest!

So I have traded for a squad of marines, slapped on a few jump packs and worked out a paint scheme. I have decided to run the detachment as a squad of Void Dragons, the made up progenitor Chapter for my Blackhands ( which in turn are a descended from Salamanders) hence the mix of black and green.



In the next couple of days a copy of Astorath the Grim will arrive in the post and I will begin converting him to a Mephiston counts as, hopefully will make for some interesting WIP pics for you guys!


Well thats it for me so far, thanks everyone who still subscribes to my long dead thread and to anyone new!

Cheers,

Blackhand

PS, nice to be back!

BLACKHAND!!!!

Nice to see you back bud!

Ok, so im not going to do a blow by blow, just a huge WOW for all your beautiful sculpts! As ever, they are something special in the world of resin and toy soldiers

BLACKHAND wrote:So I have spent the time away from Dakka to experiment a bit with new games, obviously I have bought far too many Infinity figs (I know have 2 armies and a a random assortment of other faction's figs to use as mercs) A friend and I put in for the Dust Tactics starter set and the Dust Warfare rulebook, has been fun in the couple of games I have played so far.. pretty lethal TBh.

Welcome to non-GW games, i shall be joining you shortly.

The same friend also had the unmitigated gall to suggest he liked the look of the new Empire models from Warhammer Fantasy and that he would like to collect a few.....

.....I now have around 3k of (painted)Skaven...damn you to hell!

For those of you who don't have incredible memories or feel like trawling through pages of my long necrotic blog (come on people, you know you want to ) the Knights of Dark Renown are a Space Wolf counts as based around Logan Grimnar, 15 termies with power weapons and storm shields ( Knights get it?), a squad of Thunderwolf cav (mounted knights, duh!) and two squads of missile Fangs( ummm, archers...a bit of a stretch I know). So a real cheesy list that I have no real idea how to play with but has been pretty cool to model as each and every knight is modeled differently and painted in their own livery.

I will be re-reading your blog later, however some thoughts:

Long Fang 'Archers' are not as much of a stretch as you might think:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cardinal_of_the_Kremlin
Namely:

Wikipedia wrote:One rebel leader, a man known only as "The Archer,"

This Homicidal gentleman is known as the Archer due to his excepitionally accurate use of Stinger missiles to take out USSR Helicopters...

Like a lovely boomerang, he's back, baby! And in spades. Love the knights. And those TWC - staggered. Bring it on, BLACKHAND!