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Nice Iguana and hacker.

New painted ALEPH in my vitrine.
More pictures in my blog: http://pfiek.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/infinity-aleph-asura/
or Plog: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/572476.page#7199808

She is a beaut pfibp. Absolutely love the rich purple you have achieved, can I ask what colour you went from with the undercoat?

Thanks.

The purple is based on a ~50/50 mix of Vallejo Model Color "Royal Purple" and "Sunset Red".
Shadows are pure purple (step 1) and purple + black (step 2).
For the brighter parts I added more "Sunset Red" up to the almost pure color.

Is this what you wanted to know?

Sweet aleph mini

I promised I'd lay off till I had some more done, so here's my latest 3 Shasvastii additions, and a group shot of the 7 I've got done so far:




One of these days I'll get a professional lightbox, but right now it's more fun buying and painting minis so the sun will have to do. Just two more Shasvastii and I'll be looking towards Icestorm.

 pfibp wrote:
Nice Iguana and hacker.

New painted ALEPH in my vitrine.
More pictures in my blog: http://pfiek.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/infinity-aleph-asura/
or Plog: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/572476.page#7199808

Thanks, but my guys don't hold a candle to this. I don't know how you guys do that blending on such a small surface! She looks amazing.

Definitely a pretty Aleph in purple.

So, after a brief hiatus from painting Infinity to get some Malifaux done, I got back to the Hassassins and finished my last Muyib.

Muyib with DEP (still needs to be dullcoted and get grass tufts)


Muyib link team (my first completed link!)


All of the Hassassin badasses together


The most amazing thing about that final picture for me is that about 4 months ago the only finished models there were the Spitfire and Rifle Muyibs. That's a lot of finished models (there's others too like the Sekban and Malifaux stuff I've done) for me to get done.

Those are badass

What dullcoat do you use? I have had very little success with mates sprays.

Testors Dullcote. Hasn't failed me yet.

Testor's Dullcoat is the gak!

It'd make Pamela Anderson flat!

Muyibs are looking good, Loki! I got mine done and love the models.

had a good paint session with my buddies last night. Infinity, D&D and Bolt Action were being painted. I'm pretty darn close to being done with my Haqq. Must get pics done!

As soon as I find the spiffy bases I bought for them (and promptly set aside) about 6 months ago.

 -Loki- wrote:
Testors Dullcote. Hasn't failed me yet.

You spray or brush it on?

Spray. Didn't even know there was a brush on type.

You guys are making me jealous. My pics won't be as close up as all yalls.
But pics are coming. I just finished my Uberfall kommandos.

To be fair, mine won't get any closer than that individual shot of the Muyib. I try to make my stuff look good from a few feet away. Once I get close in macro mode, my stuff looks even worse than it does now. I'm not a detail painter.

I just got my Guilang finished. Yeah, it's a closeup, too.

Nice ghost wolf.

Looks great

 Barzam wrote:
I don't know how you guys do that blending on such a small surface!

I would say it takes 4 ingredients:
1) Well thinned paints. Sometimes it's even a matter creating glazes to put a faint of a different color on a surface.
2) A good brush tip. And brushes don't always have to be extraordinary expensive to fullfill this. I painted the Asura with a brush for about 3 Euros.
3) Somewhat steady hands. Or a good technique to get them steady (e.g. resting hand with the brush on the hand holding the model).
4) Patience.

Good eyes can't hurt either but I wouldn't call mine overly good.
Sometimes (after a long working day for example) I switch to my reading glasses.
I also tried working with a lense but it does not work for me. Messes with my hand-eye coordination.

I typical paint with airbrush paints with brushes gives me a good thinned paint, I also typically use washes/inks to blend my colors.

 NuclearMessiah wrote:
I typical paint with airbrush paints with brushes gives me a good thinned paint

How does that work as far as paint control and number of coats?

Depends on the combination of primer colors and what you are trying. red takes several coats, but like the steel color I like to use only takes one.

You have to be careful with how watery the paint is to not overload your brush as well.

Hi all - some just finished Haqq -









And because they haven't featured in here before, everything so far -



Thanks for all the inspiration in this showcase

Those look awesome. I still haven't worked up the courage to paint my ladies yet.

Sekban look fantastic.

Man, those look good brother!

I really need to get me some of those MAS bases.

Some Knights, my first Infinity minis:




Last one seems to have come out blurry.

Little hard to see in that light but they look pretty good as far as I can tell. I like the colors.

Looks better on my monitor over phone, I still say the colors look good Nice and dark. Well, comparatively, the darker side of Pan-O.

And then four more photos from me and I'll leave you guys alone for awhile:


Malignos Sniper activating his camo.


Shrouded sniper, apparently he is both very flexible and a bad person to approach from behind!

Since I'm done buying more models this year, I won't be doing any more Shasvastii unless some show up as a gift around the holidays, so here's the lot in a group pose:


Gonna switch gears and do some Mars Attacks! stuff before turning towards Icestorm, and there may be some Deadzone wave 2 stuff going on before that... so here's all of my Infinity minis to date, plus Priss the Knight Saber (who will likely stand in as a Zondbot).


Happy Hobbying

Here is my first model from the MRRF Starter the Zouaves, he is alright had a bit of an issue when I matte coated him the varnish ate off some of the ink. And it appears I scrapped off some paint on his boot, have to go fix that now.

Nice scheme. Maybe try getting the yellow/orange from the goggles in a couple of other spots just to break up the green/brown.

Did you just superglue him to the acrylic base?

 plastictrees wrote:
Nice scheme. Maybe try getting the yellow/orange from the goggles in a couple of other spots just to break up the green/brown.

Did you just superglue him to the acrylic base?

Don't know about putting the yellow else were, seeing as it is a poor glass effect that I need to work on.

And yes I used super glue, usually I can keep the drop small so it doesn't fog, didn't work out this time.


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It's hard to see in the pic, but the model has a subtle camo pattern.

This thread is great inspiration.

Here are my finished wildcats