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Got a good start on Grim Angus. Got leather, some cloth, skin done. Still need to do metal, some more cloth and that'll be about it.

Looking for ideas on how to do the entangling gun (the pistol) and shirt/pants/tabard... I was thinking red for the tabbard 'cause its pretty light on the red currently. Maybe keeping the shirt and pants black.


The difference between 1&2 is a sepia wash on the bedroll as it was looking too much like his skin tones.



I went with a kinda army green for the doo dads and holster. Thought it turned out alright.

And the main body of the Blitzer is primed.

And I'll have Infinity stuff by the end of the week. And Malifaux should come in this week too. New stuff overload, but it should last me pretty much the year.

Your stuff looks great! but seriously howd you paint two chickens on the first moedel and not even notice?!?!

Deminyn wrote:Looking for ideas on how to do the entangling gun (the pistol)

I think it would look good with brass/ gold casing and rest in gun metal. That way you would have visually more interesting gun than going with all metal. The official mini is quite nice in this IMHO.

Nice start on the Grim, cant wait for your take on Malifaux. My resurrectionists arrived last Friday, but I'm not starting painting them until I have 35 points of Skorne painted. Still 9 figs to get to that goal.

fire4effekt wrote:Your stuff looks great! but seriously howd you paint two chickens on the first moedel and not even notice?!?!

I just started painting, and got to them and it was like, what are these on his belt? And what do you expect on minis, on their belt... sacs. I didn't expect there to be plucked chickens tied to their belt! lol


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Metal started, pretty much done. Still need to do clothing.

Didn't do any painting tonight but did pick up my infinity stuff. Keep an eye out for it in the next 1/2 week or so

An Malifaux came in today

Angus got finished up. I like how he turned out but the tabard ended up a little brighter than planned.







Also, Some happy pics of Infinity and Malifaux stuff that I've been putting together.




If anyone is wondering about Infinity models, they aren't heroic which kinda was intimidating 'cause everyone looks so spindly and fragile. The people aren't really that bad. The TAG (mech suit) and the REM (little robots) have antennas and stuff that are finicky as hell. And the tag has a feeder belt (not seen above) that comes as 2 flat strips but in the course of trying to put it together, I ended up with 7 pieces and in the end just settled for a fairly short belt feeder. Except that, everything went together easily enough, and the models were medium in the flash/vent/mold lines department.


Self demo of Malifaux. The black/white/orange things I painted up for Infinity, I'm probably going to use those colours for my nomads.

I actually haven't built anything of the Viktorias box yet.

So I started the blitzer, and its annoying, let me tell you. I like the model but it comes in so many odd pieces that I had no clue how it all went together. On top of that, there is no way I'm trying to paint it when its all together. So I'm stating on the Blitzer proper, without the Pyg ace or gun. Even then, he doesn't stick on the base well (the peg or with stick tac) so he fell twice while I was painting and broke his hand off... so I gave up and started holding him proper which is why there is paint missing. Besides all that, I look forward to finishing him! Then my Trolls are done (for now) and I'll be moving onto the Infinity stuff I built over the last couple days.


Ohyeah, I tried putting paper infront of the lamp and bringing it more to where the camera was to make sure the whole front of the model got light, but I think it was too harsh...


And in case anyone was burning for Infinity updates...

I'm waiting for some resin industrial style bases so everyone is stic tac'd in the mean time so I can play Friday (yeah!) I didn't get creative with anything except a couple zonds. The transductor zond (front right) is doing a hard right turn which required sawing his left leg and bringing the wheels closer to raise the left side of the body. The Reaktion zong (back left) I tried to get a dug in and braced to fire look. And the Salamader was a pain in the toosh trying to get the ammo feed hooked together. (If you ever have to build one, THINK AHEAD and don't bend it until you have a REALLY good idea of what you want to do. Otherwise your 2 belts will end up like my belts... The only thing I haven't built 100% was the spectre sniper, I left his gun off so that I can paint him easier.

PEACE!

Rar!

Not the best photo. Skin done, mouth and eyes done. rocks, ropes, metal still need doing.

Looks fine, can't say much though. He still needs loads of contrasting parts to make him a treat for eye.

I've never seen this game's models before, but I saw your blog on the front page and had to take a look.

Have to say that your painting is top notch. Really detailed work that looks absolutely fantastic.

Keep up the good work.

Got a little more Blitzer done. 1 more session and the main body will be done and I can then worry about the rest of him. So the trolls are almost done! My Infinity and Malifaux got primed over the weekend (wow <80% humidity, had to use it while it was here) so once the Blitzer is done I'll be pounding onto the next project!

The rocks didn't turn out as well as the Mauler's so I had to give 'em an orange wash and now they are acceptable.



Got to play 2 games of Infinity and got beat both of them. We were playing the game pretty wrong on some shooting stuff really makes it hard to say how it would've gone if we were playing right. but I also need to rethink the list and how the game is played. Unfortunately my TAG exploded (literally) in my hand before the game and he didn't get to run rampant...

any way, get an eye out y'all. soon we'll see something besides trolls on here.

Got the bug for some reason to make a multi room, mutli level intact building. Using corrugated cardboard as I'm outta practise. I may get better material for the next one.

Concept. (Done in Google Sketchup)


First floor main walls done.



This isn't coming together well. Good enough so that I'll finish it, but cardboard is really a bad material to work with. Next time I'll either use some of the cardstock I got (worried about the strength) or splurge and get some foamcore, chipboard or something.

Blitzer will get done soon, I 'primed' all the extra bits today and started the base.

Lungs.... burning... inhaled... too much spray paint fumes...

honestly, I haven't sprayed that much in a long long time and I thought my ventilation was adequate... *couch*hack* I don't think so anymore. Or maybe that pizza just isn't sitting well.

What a nomad will be looking at


What I'll be looking at


Roof removed


2nd floor modules removed


Currently there are some interior doors and that's it for detail. Not sure how I'm going to do this up but I think I'll be adding some windows and doors by paint or drawing. Anyway, I took a "look around" in the Sketchup model and its a really neat tool for checking LoS and stuff. That main pillar got token out for 2 reasons; 1 I didn't wanna bother, and 2 it blocked LoS from the left open area to the right stairs and balcony, which seemed kinda lame that someone could sneak in the building without the sniper position ('cause that's what I made it for) being able to do anything about it.

DUDE removable pieces of terrain I love it.

Don't know why I got obsessed with this, but I got Google Sketchup and Pepakura Designer both free online and started playing with designing and building my own paper terrain. The first piece, dubbed "Test Box" only took maybe 2 hours start to finish, 1/2 of which was learning the software and finding textures and editing them. I'm no photoshop master (in fact, I don't even have photoshop) and I'm no Sketchup pro (only got it yesterday) but it was pretty simple to make a box in Sketchup, then open it up in Pepakura. My only real grip about Pepakura is that it only deals with closed 3D shapes. So if you want a pattern, like I did, which includes interior walls, you have to build the 3D already partially unfolded. Which then means Pepakura doesn't recognize those already unfolded edges as closed edges which means you have to manually add tabs and you can recombine edges that were pre-unfolded to make them fit better on a piece of paper... anyway, here's my very first, design to build, paper building.

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It's DONE!!!

And now I can say that I've finished my Trollbloods (for now at least) and even 1 month ahead of my goal date.







Next up should be a home made case for the Trolls and same thing for Infinity and Malifaux. Painting wise will be the Infinity! If anyone has an opinion on what of the infinity to paint, feel free to say it.

The blitzer looks good, if he is a bit too dark. He fits well among your trolls.

Good job on finishing the warband!

Too many days without an update.

Made a couple small foam trays for Hordes stuff.
Clean up resin bases for infinity stuff.
Painting to commence soon.


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So I've started Infinity. I'm quite intimidated by these guys 'cause:

1. They are crazy detail and thin (as in, not heroic like GW or the Trolls I was doing from Hordes)
2. I'm using somewhat stock colours which includes blacks and whites. Neither of which I got a lot of experience with.
3. And I've never done black lining which I think will be huge for these.

Anyway, after touching brush to model on one of the Remotes, I had no idea of how to proceed. So I put him down and picked up the interventor. I've blocked off the colour, then I washed the white and brought it back with a near white gray. I'll highlight with full white soon (I hope my gray was gray enough that the white actually highlights it.) The hair was red, then orange, then red wash, then orange trying to highlight along the sculpted strands. That was fun. Anyway, I hope these help show off the model and how amazing it is. I'm really looking forward to playing with her.


I just held it up to my monitor and that's at like 200% zoom.



PS. First time painting breasts (he he, boobies) and they were actually kinda annoying.

That's a good start on the hacker. I have a couple of Infinity figs and also for me the starting is hard. They are so full of detail and nice sculpts so its hard to get going.

Keep the updates coming.

Not much painting done over the weekend. Got some time in Saturday morning but most of the weekend was used gaming and then cleaning. I got in 3 games (A lot for me) including Grim Angus' first win.

For the Interventor, I did the white highlight and then some work that I should've done before painting but didn't. The face was a little miscast so I took the dremel to it to remove the excess and I cut the slotta and put pins in and drilled the resin base she'll go on. I also primed all the other bases.

Didn't really have time to set up camera so here's a hybrid pic of flash/no flash. hopefully it gets the idea across.

She's almost done. Need to do some work on the pistol and she's done.

Wanted to build my Master Necrotech which took a lot out of me so when I finally finished, I really didn't have the energy to paint much.



The circle below here are the 'hacking interface' that I may glue onto her hands so it's less 'jazz hands' and more elite hacker.

Deminyn wrote:

Could you tell me what line she is from? I couldn't tell if it was Infinity or Malifaux...

I wasn't really into the troll line that Angus is from, but reading your blog... I'm liking them more and more. There are definitely a few on my list because of this thread.

Oh! and she looks great. Keep up the good work!

She is from Infinity and Nomad faction.

The Good Green wrote:

I wasn't really into the troll line that Angus is from, but reading your blog... I'm liking them more and more. There are definitely a few on my list because of this thread.

Oh! and she looks great. Keep up the good work!

Thanks, that's the best kinda compliment one could ask for!

Metsuri has her pegged, an Interventor, Nomad Faction, Infinity game.

Malifaux is after the Infinity project.

Thanks!

Between posts in an OT forum, I got these built



Quick pic, no plan on painting these any time soon, clockmaker is still next.

Got the main colours on the Clockmaker. Nothing spectacular but it's nice to paint again. In other news, I became an uncle today.

So, some more on the Clockmaker, the main armor is done, next will be his black suit then his pants probably. I'm really liking how he's turning out. Originally I was going to do the trim of the armour in orange like the standard paint scheme, but it looked to awesome like this. There's also something new in the background.






I took Mortenebra against Grim Angus for a little fun. The Reaper had some fun pulling the bodyguard out of the way for the Seether to charge in. Obviously playing against yerself is no fun, but I'm looking forward to getting Morty out for a rumble. Mind you, if the Impalers had managed a crit slam, the blitzer and grim probably would've pounded on Morty and it may have gone completely the other way.

Other stuff, went skiing for the first time in a decade or so... good times. And went skating on the canal too.