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Landing pad has a lot of cool bits and bobs. I'm glad I got a few. Pad plus that new sprue they developed should allow for some really neat construction.

I'm working on some stuff to add in with the bzs. Scratch build some walkways and other add ons. Maybe this weekend.



Ok. Back to my main rig, time to clean these up and comment (used my phone previously, blech!). Above is one unit of clanrats.



This is my second unit of clanrats, I think the banner was intended for skeletons, skaven, and goblins maybe, the sprue seemed a tad generic. Been ages though so the memory is foggy. You can also see a warp fire thrower in line to the right.


Here's my unit of storm vermin. They used to be fairly shiny silver, but the mahogany stain took care of that, it looks like they still need to be dull coated. The banner is a bit dorky, but I like it. The bearer had to nibble away at the corner so he could see though!


Here's a unit of metal gutter runners, only four poses now that I look them over, but I still like them. They were fun to use and ninja rat-sassins are just hilarious!


Here's the second batch of gutter runners, technically they're the troop version--night runners-- but I decided I'd rather have two of the elite units instead so I matched up their color schemes and picked the more aggressive and dynamic bits for these guys. The rest of that box became slaves, I think.




Rat ogres! The left one had extensive greenstuff surgery to install his large boney spines, and to affix the right arm which came from a D&D metal umberhulk mini I had laying around. That one still needs dullcoat. Next to him is the older version of the bonebreaker, who was like a character rat ogre attached to one of the special character sorcerer guys.


Here we have some slaves. I used to take them in 20-25 rat blocks, but it was more fun to make them into a 40 rat horde If I ever use these again it will probably be for kings of war as either count-as-goblins or using a fan-made skaven list. So I'm not sure if their station will really chance to improve or not. I had fun with these guys, I used a hot knife to cut gouges into their clothes and bloody whip marks into their backs. Some of them are chained together to discourage fleeing, many of them have weeping boils and pustules from working the warpstone mines. Fun stuff


More slaves. You can see some goblins and gutter runners mixed in, fodder is fodder, my skaven are not picky. The goblins came from a goblin wolfrider box set that happened to include the standing legs too, I used the wolves for the smurfs project.


Giant mutant rats! I especially love the three rat-centaurs in the front, so creepy! Half or more of these little dudes got conversions, a lot of the bone you see that isn't spikes off their spines was added (horns, claws, head ram) and you can maybe see the large bloodshot eye growing out of one of their sides. One got two heads, another has a green stuffed human face and hands and is named Brown Janken.. it's a reference, if you get it, your sanity is probably not where it should be... mind the angles and watch for the hounds! There's also a fun tentacle and maybe some armor plating somewhere. Fun unit!


These are old metal clanrats I got from ebay, and a few plastic left-overs. I'll use them to round out units to 25 strong, or splice in here or there. If I ever re-based the army for Kings of War, the extra bodies would stretch pretty far since when I multibase I expect to use only 65-80% of the actual number of models in the unit, on the correct sized base. Of course there will be filler too so the base wouldn't be too sparse.


Poisoned wind globadiers. The glass on the orbs is meh, but it works, and these were probably my first not terrible attempt at glass lenses, though they aren't great either.


The warp lightning cannon, and more poisoned wind globadiers. The unpainted flag is for when/if a unit with a banner gets it captured, a marker for my opponent.

Whew that's slow going on the phone! Need to take better shots of the characters. If there is interest, I'll take more when I get the new camera when there is better lighting. Some of the slaves have fun details.

Family thing taking awhile... was planning on painting a bit.

Holy beans! My so-doomed-to-failure-it-may-as-well-not-have-been-attempted plan to use the larger size needle in my airbrush actually worked! I spent what baby nap time I had left after making this discovery spraying as many terrain pieces as possible! I painted one of my remaining undercoated pieces to the light grey I've been using so far, and got a dice tower and a few bits of scenery undercoated too.


I tried to use the brush to add some shading as I went, or well not-not add some shading. Leave parts of it darker.. same thing. Working?


Dice tower in the back, crates stored in the little cube building.

Hopefully I can do more later, but it'll have to be after the kiddo is asleep and I don't want to start the work week off with additional sleep debt so we'll see.

Buildings look nice and natural, add some weathering and they'll be perfect. Shading works well but I'd still hit some areas with washes/chips to add a little more depth, personally.

Plenty good enough, though.

Yeah, I just hit up the dollar store to get some 3" standard and foam paint brushes to try to evenly apply the same Tudor I use on everything else. I can lightly scratch the paint with my nail and bring it up, so I've got to seal it. And minwax makes everything look better anyway.

But yeah, I've got some sponge weathering in the plan. Not sure if I want to do scrape/scratch or dust/dirt or both. Probably not rust.. but then again GW's technical rust combo (the one with the micro microbeads, and the thick bright orange) are pretty tempting... Maybe rust on the metal looking parts.

Oh and blood spatter. There's a neat thing you can do with the airbrush. You fill up the cup and draw back the trigger (to let paint out) but you don't push it down (to spray the air). You let the trigger back and then pop it down spitting out a small burst of drops from whatever had pooled on the end of the needle. I think if I have the pressure set right and I do a good angle, I can probably make it look like an angled spray too, rather than just drops.

I'm mostly trying to decide the order of everything. If I do the weathering after I dip, it will show up better but it will be easier to knock off. Weathering my weathering... hrmm. If I do *everything* and then dip, it's possible the dip will hide some of the details.

It's also possible that I'm going to paint a bunch of the terrain to the above standard, dip it, matte seal it, and put it into the done pile. Then I'll come back and weather stuff as I get around to it. Kind of like doing all of the basecoats on a model but leaving off the highlights for later so you can get it done for a tourney lol.

I got some other cool stuff at the dollar store too... got some mesh stuff intended for some kind of grilling, but it's right at 6" tall by whatever wide, so it cuts in half to make tile-high mesh fencing. The grid is kind of large, but most 28mm figures still shouldn't be able to squeeze through. I got some floral stuff that may look good on my skeleton multibase. I found some cheap vinyl containers that may be easy to cut to make something resembling a force field or tinted door/window glass.

Hoping to get a little painting done but I'm kind of apathetic. Mostly waiting for the kiddo to go to sleep so I can airbrush more terrain

Buildings look nice. Going for lots of different colours or one main one? That kings of war rules in background?

So, you're going to brush on the tudor, or you did brush it on? Let me know how that works out because I'll probably have to do something similar whenever I get a TAG model.

I see you've made yourself a storage shed, too.

Its my unopened kow mohrgoths rising undead vs dwarf starter set. I got two of them for 30-35 dollars apiece from the bargain shelf at one of my nearby game stores. I opened one, but until I run out of undead from the first I intend to leave the second box sealed. It just happens to be the right size to block the over spray from my airbrush.

I plan to get my method down with the grey, then branch out to some other colors. Maybe some yellow, possibly with black hazard stripes... mostly medium to bright colors since it'll be easier to shade and weather them.

@Barzam I haven't done anything yet, I hope to give it a shot tonight. I will be brushing the tudor on because there's no way I can dip in a whole structure and I'm too far in to do individual tiles. Plus.. it would waste a LOT of mats. I got both a sponge brush and a normal paint brush that are at least 3 inches wide, I'm hoping to take the top and then each side of any structure in as few passes as possible so I can quickly start dabbing away any extra that starts to pool. I may have to do interiors and exteriors in two waves, lest things get too messy to handle. It's gonna be tricky, and I have a feeling the first few pieces are going to need some weathering specifically to hide errors. And I'll have to see if I can use mineral spirits to get the brushes cleaned out, or else I'll have to do big batches.

I dipped a carnifex by brush and it turned out alright. One of the old metal ones, but it's the same thing, wouldn't quite fit into the dip can. Just gotta go fast and hit as much area in a pass as possible. The big can has an almost 3" wide gap though, you could probably get most not-crazy-dynamic tags in there.

First things first, good to see the Skaven come out. Thats a pretty nice army you have there. If we lived closer I would offer to pit it against my OnG army in a battle of hordes.

I've been struggling to get my Deadzone buildings done. I can see where the airbrush would come in handy for those, as doing it with a brush is a slow process. I think your idea for the blood splatter is neat, and want to see how that turns out.

I forget where I saw them, but maybe the mantic forums... There were at least a couple of nice tutorials on painting the scenery and at least one of them did it with layers from regular old rattle cans. Spray black, spray grey from a particular direction, spray white from further away. Many of them added salt inbetween layers as well which was later removed to give chipping weathering.

I think if the airbrushing goes well I may have some Infinity figures primed tonight too, been taking an increasing interesting in them so I've been cleaning them up tonight. We'll see. May just blaze away at all of the terrain too.

The blood spatter is still a theory, I know the brush will do what I say, but if it looks right... is left to be seen.

A bit late since I've been off this section of the board - busy with work and lost my enthusiasm for painting and such since I couldn't get any photos taken for my blog and haven't been playing anything. I'm not sure about the bright yellow on the Mutants, maybe if you changed the pouches to black? There are, after all more black ammo pouches than brown these days. Brown is more of a WW2-era leather holdover that's been used by GW for forever. (and even then there were a variety of colours). There's also no reason why tool pouches and belts wouldn't be repurposed by any but 1st tier military forces.

Skaven look good, now all you need is an opponent and you can give the KoW rules a go. I need to get back on the horse and get some more figures painted for it.

I really do like the look of your Necromund...eadzone board. I can't wait until I get my stuff sent out! It'll look all the much better when painted as well. And good to see some progress starting.

Yeah, I don't like the yellow and brown either. The pouches look like raw leather pouches, the way they're sculpted and especially the machine gun ammo bag... but it's the future and space and stuff, it's probably more likely that they'd bring synthetic everything along and be too cool to use native fauna for stuff. So hmm. Black would definitely help the yellow dudes, probably won't make the other guys look bad either. A good suggestion, perhaps the next time I get to painting on them I'll implement it.

The skaven need a little work, several models never got finished (most of those were picked up off of eBay towards the end of my WHFB days and never got attention aside from the undercoat), but they are reasonably close to complete. They'll be ready to give my undead force a fun for it's money whenever I build more than one unit for it.

I hope to get more and more of this stuff painted in the near future, if the airbrush continues to work as well as it did this afternoon, all I need is time and motivation to proceed. I also look forward to you receiving your DZ goodies, having seen your intentions for the stuff, can't wait for it to arrive


Think I'm gonna bust the airbrush out now, put a little more paint down. I think I'll run my tank out of air and then go brush dip one or two of the pieces I have... except I'll need to do the detail bits first. I dunno, I don't want to rush but I really want to see if the brush dipping is going to pan out. Maybe I'll do a bit of a rush job on one of the little cube structures, just need gun metal on certain parts, any bright spot colors can be added later after I figure out a good pattern for them.


Thanks for dropping by guys, helps keep me motivated!


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Well the thing is still glistening wet so I don't want to shoot it right now, and I'll have the better camera tomorrow too... But yeah, it wasn't really easy, and it was terribly messy, and the inside still isn't done... but one of my little scenery cubes (the one you saw earlier) has been brush dipped with a 3" paintbrush and the same Tudor we've come to know and love. It was messy, and I started off using the wrong q-tips. I got the shaped beauty aisle variety because of the shape... but they're totally different than normal cotton swabs, and just weren't working. The pointy part proved semi-effective at cleaning out the connector holes, I guess.

Anyway. Wow. It looks, to my eyes, really good. Darker, shaded, really grimy looking. I think it's because there's a lot more dip remaining on the cube than I'd leave on a model. In terms of thickness I mean. I got rid of pooling, but I think a thicker (and therefore darker) layer of stain was left on the surface by the brush than would have been by a dip plus vigorous drill spin. Kind of not in the cards though. It's a little disconcerting that my method isn't identical to smaller stuff, and I would technically like to keep as much of the underlying color as possible... but I definitely call this a success. I'll let it dry overnight and while I'm at work and then see about a matte coat over the top to tone down the gloss. Then pictures! Hopefully done with the new camera in the setting-sun-garage-lightbox-of-awesomeness, if possible.

Doing a larger structure is going to be an endurance trial, but I think I can manage. Probably... There's kind of a trick I discovered to using the q-tips, you kind of roll it between your fingers as you pass over the stain, lightly, and kind of lift up as you leave the surface. I'll think of some better words to describe it, if I can. It leaves behind little bubbles but they melt back into a relatively smooth surface coat after a few seconds.

So far, I'm really quite happy with the piece, I'll let you guys know more tomorrow once I've seen it in the daylight from better angles (it was hard to move it around to look).

Got some infinity minis nearly ready for mounting too, this will make 6 total cleaned and ready, four to go including a monkey-man and robot SQUEEE!


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Quick teaser still needs seal.

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Yeah, I don't like the yellow and brown either. The pouches look like raw leather pouches, the way they're sculpted and especially the machine gun ammo bag... but it's the future and space and stuff, it's probably more likely that they'd bring synthetic everything along and be too cool to use native fauna for stuff. So hmm. Black would definitely help the yellow dudes, probably won't make the other guys look bad either. A good suggestion, perhaps the next time I get to painting on them I'll implement it.

Try Vallejo Black Grey if you have it. Dark enough to be black, but light enough to "shade" with your dip.

The skaven need a little work, several models never got finished (most of those were picked up off of eBay towards the end of my WHFB days and never got attention aside from the undercoat), but they are reasonably close to complete. They'll be ready to give my undead force a fun for it's money whenever I build more than one unit for it.

I hope to get more and more of this stuff painted in the near future, if the airbrush continues to work as well as it did this afternoon, all I need is time and motivation to proceed. I also look forward to you receiving your DZ goodies, having seen your intentions for the stuff, can't wait for it to arrive

Putting up the final shelf and the bike racks ran into a little bit of a snag. Stud finder didn't want to play nicely, and there's AC behind that wall so it got to try a new career as a missile. A fan got in my way as I stormed out of the room, so it got kicked, and when I found out I'd broken the shaft, it unfortunately got curbstomped. So anyway, I still have to put those holes into the wall, and buy a new fan for next summer. It's also pissing down rain now, so it looks like it'll be a no go for the electrician tomorrow morning, since installing lights in a ceiling and heavy rain don't play well together either.

On a brighter note, I did a gakload of cleaning in there and also inside my so-called studio where it was starting to become a bit of a dump(ing ground), so if this gak ever gets finished, it'll be sweet from that point onwards. I'm still a little aggro right now, though. Neighbours were having a huge drama shouting match outside, so I was forced to open the back door and window and listen to a System of a Down album at full volume. It just finished, and now it's rather quiet out there.




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That dipped cube has come up really well. What exactly are you using? Minwax polyshades?

I might use the same coal I have been using for the guns... possibly I will just paint them dark black and drybrush, the dip doesn't HAVE to show, and it will probably smooth over the drybrushed highlights anyway.

Wow, did you ruin a good shirt and most of a pair of pants when you went all "hulk smash" on the stud finder and innocent bystander fan? Sounds like something I might do

Hmm I haven't listened to SoaD in awhile. The political undertones eventually get annoying but it's been *years* so maybe my tolerance is built back up. Actually haven't listened to anything in a while (hard to have headphones on when the baby is around, and I won't play loud angry music while she's around ), my death metals are probably getting sad.

It is minwax polyshades Tudor, yes. Lemme check the can...

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This is Tudor Satin 360, if they make a flat, it probably works even better. If you are looking the UPC is 0 2742661360 7 . At least on my can here in the states. I usually try to get the larger cans due to economy of bulk and being able to dip larger models

I like the result so far, but I still want to add some rust and hit it with a flat coat. Probably some blood. I'm not so sure that I need to do a whole lot of chipping since the greasy look the minwax has given it is kind of it's own weathering. I'd think about doing some dust weathering around the bottom but the bottom may not always be ground level, may be on top of another building.

I got half of the tower sprayed, will do more when able, perhaps during baby nap today.


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Also got new camera, but it has many fangles and is kind of tricky to use at the moment. Also, I can't find that little square thing that sockets into the tripod so doing anything with those is out for the moment...

Crikey! you have a whole modern colony town there!

And what's sad is that It still doesn't feel like enough! I'm digging through my found items looking to see what I can integrate. Making the terrain isn't so hard, it's making it fit somewhat well into the grid system of deadzone that is. I've got some bits for buildings and other such things already lined up, I'm going to work on integrating them as the mood strikes me.

Hey Grim- didn't realise you were a Skaven collector! Just started some myself. Got the Island of Blood stuff -all 47 minis for £30/$50USD coming today (just the Skaven army though- not a big high elf fan)

Can't wait to get my teeth into em.

That cube looked like it turned out pretty good. So you just used a regular paint brush on it? That didn't leave any streaks or anything?

Yeah, I was crazy into skaven for a good while there, later part of highschool or perhaps early college still. Never got to use them much but it was fun collecting. I've got an unassembled hell pit abomination sitting on my shelves too. I wanted a vaguely cheese-themed souvenir from when we randomly went to Wisconsin, and just happened to see that in a gamestore that just happened to be within a block or two of our hotel. I was practically done with the army at that point but ehh, I'll probably build it some time just for fun, would be a good model to expand my airbrush skills.

I almost ordered the Isle of blood skaven set i don't know how many times... It was and is still a good deal. I think the new guys would clash with my oldschool rats though and I have plenty. The high elves got the shaft, I'm pretty sure those griffon things are lame and there's barely enough to do anything with after you take that out.


Yeah, a regular 3 or so inch wide brush. I don't recall any streaks. The stain kind of bleeds together if you disrupt it. It's like regenerative shielding! I had to use a bunch of cotton swabs to clean off the excess, and there was a lot since I couldn't fling the thing around to get rid of most of it like you can with models. Every cotton swab pass left a bunch of little bubbles but they all kind of melted back into a relatively flat surface by the time I was done cleaning the next face.

I'll keep an eye out for tips, tricks, and pitfalls as I do the next piece. I should be able to do the tower with another half hour or so of airbrushing and I don't think that one even has many metal bits to pick out. So, it shouldn't be terribly long before I get around to dipping another piece. I need to read up on standard paintbrush maintenance when using wood stain, I think that my brush didn't get all the way clean and may or may not work properly the next time.

I'm also going to look into both applying it and siphoning the extra away with those disposable sponge brushes, they also come pretty cheap by the pack in the dollar store.

If you are gonna use a brush to paint the dip on cosnider that brush a dip only brush from now onwards. That stuff pretty mcuh ruins brushes.

Yeah, I'm using standard house painting brushes, like the 3" wide variety, can get them at the dollar store if I have to, though I would like to reuse them at least a couple of times. If it isn't possible, I'll just wait to dip till I have a larger queue of buildings and time to do them.

Meh sorry guys, work and other distractions are keeping me busy. I did do some more work on my Infinity minis for fun. I still really need to get my plague finished, but this stuff was easier to get myself to work on. Anyway...


Here's a a 'teaser' of the dice tower in progress, a gratuitous shot of that moderator, and a look at that re-purposed bbq thingie turned mega fence.


These two weren't working out that well, so I had to take some steps! The 5-minute epoxy is what it is, it means five minutes when it says it! So the three models that follow this image all worked out to be fairly balanced and didn't need any help. The female moderator on the left was too tippy and needed help to set, and the feet were too small for my smallest drill bit to try pinning. The robot didn't get a good set, so I drilled out little divots to set the feet claw things into, hoping this works out better for both of them.


These three all gave me little to no problems with the epoxy. The big guy with the long coat (Sin Eater Observant) needed to lean against something, but he did pretty well. This guy reminds me of that creepy albino guy from the Davinci Code, religious fanatic with the flagellation and righteous murderizing. They've had their nervous systems rewired to make them really really strong on overwatch, but they aren't as good at taking normal orders. The other dude is just another moderator, which is kind of a more militarized version of the SWAT teams. They handle counter-terrorism, and all kinds of weird stuff since Bakunin is full of fun things like gene splicing and so on. The tall lady is a Reverend Custodier, basically a military hacker. The Nomads seceded from the rest of humanity 'cause they don't like the super-AI that's running the show now, so their hackers are pretty important. She's got medium armor and her combi rifle has a marker attachment, kind of like an underslung grenade launcher or a master key shotgun, it shoots a module that anchors itself to a surface and increases the ranger of her hacking abilities, letting her create no-zones to bottleneck enemy heavy infantry and TAGs.

Anyway, lot of text for not so many pictures, and not much in the way of painted, but what can I say, been busy with work

Alrighty, baby took a long nap and I got some more stuff done

First, we'll continue the Infinity lineup:


So, to the right we have another Moderator. The robot in the middle is a Lunokhod Sputnik, which is a Remote, a robot unit for Infinity. They get some different rules but they behave the same as everything else for the most part. This guy is a minesweeper with close range gear. The sputnik is almost unique among Infinity remotes, most units have at least quasi-analogues in most armies but the Sputnik only has vague mirrors in a couple of forces. I like them, I want to get the double set of the shooty variant. He gets a boarding (read that: extra heavy) shotgun and either what amounts to a limited ammo adhesive/glue cannon and demolition charges (root big TAG unit, amble over and set charges to blow it up!) or a flame thrower and a pair of Krazy Koalas. I haven't put the Koalas together yet, but they're basically adorable little suicide robots, kind of like proximity mines. The lady on the left is a Zero. Their description is pretty straightforward, they're Bakunin's scout/infiltrator unit. They take care of business and don't play fair. This one has an E-Mauler, which is deployed like a tent stake and then emits an EM field that remote units and TAGs and stuff can't enter without taking damage and or shutting down. Kind of like an all the time mine.


Here you can see the bits I've got left to clean and assemble to make Bran Do Castro, another Sin Eater, and those Crazy Koalas.


Don't mind the blurry shot... The Sputniks have climbing plus which lets them climb faster than normal and stop on any surface, thanks to thin bases, terrain walls, and strong magnets, I was able to visually represent just such an activity! Those miscellaneous zombies would be doomed if the weapons node hadn't just fallen off. It's back on now, ball joints can sometimes be tricky...

Here are some painted s3 and cube shots, as well as a WIP dipped s2.


Classic front view. He got a bit much blood in his face, I've been toying with using the airbrush to splatter blood and it obscured his eyes. Not sure which color to paint them yet, any suggestions?


The blood on this side of the cube was done with a brush, I think I will hand paint those big veins on the rest of my s3's, they shouldn't be exactly the same color as the skin around them.


A bit of rust on the metal parts of the cube.


A bit more rust and blood, I love how details like that show through the clear bases instead of getting covered up! You can also see the *almost* finished tower behind him too. It got sides 3 and 4 done, as well as the interior (just a quick dusting so it wasn't black, you won't see it unless you use a mirror on a stick ). Need to pick out a few metal bits and dip it, but I will need a solid block of time to do so successfully so I'm holding off for the next long nap


I think I got a little too close to this guy, whoops. If the blood isn't shiny enough after the eventual flat coat, I'll apply some more. The scheme is looking alright to me, I still need to sort out the face but otherwise he's getting close. I want to work out the kinks here before I move on to the big guy.

As I get plague guys done I'll be moving them off of their holders freeing those up for the Infinity models. I'm not sure if the Infinity minis or Marauders will be getting painted first, or if I will do more than one Infinity mini at a time, but I'm planning to get them primed soon one way or the other. I've got until late May or probably June before I get any more models in so my goal is to get as much done as possible within that time. It's basically two months.

I'm considering making it a public bet with the winner picking what I do next from a list (with some oddball options for the cruel and/or unusual among you ). I've been going kind of slow and a bit of motivation may inspire me to paint models instead of plopping down and playing a video game or just reading. I've technically run out of books but I'm rereading the Dresden Files since there are 14 of them and I've already started to forget some of what's happened Back on topic (), I may even make a personal contest for myself like the TODO or Die list, with a reward of, uhh, something... at the end. It would have to be appropriate somehow... Either more Infinity minis for painting all the ones I have, or something. It would be more fitting to set the reward as something for finishing 4 deadzone lists like I said I would... but the only new thing I'd want is Infinity but I'd rather not add more metal to the pile if I'm not also finishing those They're kind of expensive anyway, maybe they should be the reward for selling off my old stuff

Anyway, a fair bit of blabbering like I usually do when I get a free moment, I better go check on the baby to make sure she isn't in a coma

Happy hobbying, hopefully more soon. I mean it about the bet/contest stuff, but I've got to think something up that makes sense

I really wanna see what you do with the I fifty stuff, the deadzone models are ok but the infinity stuff is so far above them quality wise.

Geez, I'd be very scared to stick that remote to the side of the building like that. One fall and it's done for.

Have you decided on a color scheme for your non Moderator Nomads? Or are they all going to stick that the scheme you've already used?

@Barzam, they're good magnets And it isn't as if he's painted yet

I think I"m going to stick with my *scheme* of follow the studio scheme/box or card art, changing thing as they suit me. A majority of the models seem to have that ribbed under layer to them, dunno if its armor or an undershirt or what, but most of them have it so far. I painted it blue on my moderator instead of orange, will likely continue that. I will probably continue the trend of whites and grays which is pretty much what they're doing. My remote may not be red though. I like red, in theory, but I suck at painting it. I can maybe pull off orange. Maybe. I may go stupid and paint him yellow, or possibly even tachicoma blue to go with the light blue theme the models will likely have with that under armor. I may do red lining on all the capes, and maybe on just the moira.

I'm not sure I plan to paint the second male moderator like they did, the hair and skintone imply shark DNA splicing, I may just give him brown hair, paint the FeModerator black instead of white with purple hair and go with the names Hank, Dean, and Trianna

I'm getting in deep with this Infinity stuff, almost wish I didn't have so many other models coming. I still want Der Morlock Gruppen, The UberfallKommando, pretty much every moderator sculpt I don't have, probably more Bakunin stuff I forgot already.... then I probably want several corregedor units, maybe the starter I dunno, their tag, the new two tag set...

And that's before we get to my Yu Jing Akira themed biker gang...


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If I buy all of that... who knows, don't think I'll allow it unless I move some of my old stuff first.

Your Deadzone buildings are looking great. The little details like the rust and blood add a lot.

Also, do you have any other pics on that 2nd gen? I would like to see him from the front.

I just flat coated him today. I'm gonna go back over the teeth and eyes. I think I may go for the whole blank zombie stare look for the eyes, just all white. Maybe with just a slight tinge of yellow or green so it doesn't look like I forgot to add dots. And the teeth, with all of the chitin being almost black, I figured the bones and teeth would have changed similarly, but only if I can do it without making it look like I missed them or something.

Of course, I just got out the laptop so I may accidentally start playing one of my laptop friendly video games

Hopefully I put some effort down on that guy and some of the other plague to make room for Infinity minis or marauders.

I also got some of the details done on my first tower. Just some little bits of silver for unpainted metallic parts and a few of the small panels are getting a bit of blue for some eye-catching spot color, otherwise it would be too plain.

This may be of interest to you for the Akira theme

http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=55891.0

Huh, cool, thanks for sharing

Love the infinity stuff, one day I will get around to painting a few of there models. Definitely a Nomad supporter.

The remote on the building is really awesome. Would add such a great thematic feeling to the games to have them crawling all over the place.

Keep up the inspiring work.