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Aha! Why yes, I still do this thing!

I've had some distraction with painting those fancy Endless Fantasy Tactics guys, but as soon as I put the finishing touches on the Dragoon, I decided to crank out one of my Infinity guys.

This chap is old school.

I bought one of the Khawarij models, mainly because their fluff is badass, and I think despite being part of the original first wave sculpts for Infinity he holds up pretty well. Better than his boss did at least. Regardless, Superjump is a cool ability, and I wanted to abuse it a little and have some fun, so I picked up a super soldier.

I adjusted the scheme a hair from my usual. Not much, just went a little darker, sort of like my Djanbazans. I'm sort of working out the fluff stuff for him, but I won't bore ya'll with my ramblings about my fantasy army.

...I AM probably going to snag that O-12 commish for reasons though. Yes... reasons...

Anyway, here's the chap I hammered out last night.










I'm gonna have to figure out something else to call him, since Khawarij literally translates to Red Turban... and I screwed that pooch.

...anyone know what Black Turban is in Arabic?

Indeed, it's a nice model, and damn :p You were right to darken up some parts I think the model itself has something cool/dark about it, and these colours are just fitting ^^

You still need to tell us which fusilier you painted aswell (a) - if they are finished that is. Weren't they models of a friend of yours? Are you painting them, or are you painting together..?

Ah! Right.

Well he painted them all up... and then promptly stripped them to repaint them.

So now they're all orange and black with blue hats.

The one I was working on was the only helmeted Fusilier.

very nice

Ah, so you do have a P&M thread. Subbed.

I liked the old Tariq. The new Tariq. Meh. The khawarij is also cool. Blue is an interesting choice. In a good way.

Black turban is أسود عمامة no idea about pronunciation. XD

Thanks guys. And thanks for the squiggle-dot translation Red. I'll have to run it by my cousin who actually can speak the language and see what he comes up with.

So nothing Infinity from myself at the moment, as I've been elbows deep in Heavy Gear for a big RPG thing I'm going to be running. But while I've been doing that, my friends have been cranking away at their own stuff.

My buddy repainted his PanO forces, and got them to a place where he's happy with them, so I figured I'd share all of these with you guys. Hopefully he'll be at a full 300pts soon.






















Now I gotta get MINE painted up. Sheesh.

So you do have a main blog then CC. I am a complete Infinity virgin so your work is a great introduction to some of the miniatures in the range. One thing you constantly do well is the crispness and cleanness of your painting along with excellent colour choices.

Your mate is not half bad either (this does sound like a chat-up line one may use, that is not the intention).

So, on average, how many minis do you use in a game of Infinity?

I'm sure he'll appreciate the comment. (He lurks here, but never posts, the bum). And thanks! Crisp and bright is usually what I go for with my models.

As for the games themselves, it is about the same size as Malifaux, give or take. You can expect to have on average 8-12 models in your force. Usually a smattering of cheaper, general purpose guys, and a few handpicked specialists that bring some unique gameplay, (or outright firepower) to the force.

At the absolute maximum, you can field two Groups, which max out at 10 figures each. So 20 guys total. I'm not going to say that it is difficult to do, but usually by going with such a large number of troops, you're not going to have a lot of heavy hitters. I think my Yu Jing (The Chinese/Asian) list that I run has somewher ebetween 17-20 models depending on how I build it, but that is an extreme example.

You average game is 300 points, and models like the Dragoe (that big Orange chap with the Shoulder Cannon) costs something like... 97 pts? And the little guys around him are about 14 pts each.

So you can see that a lot of your force can go into the big scary killy units. Naturally, LOSING said unit can be a real blow.

Heh I like the shark detail on the dragoe.

What do you need to get painted? Have you got some more PanO to be done?

So hey!

Been a while since I've posted. I've obviously been around, since I comment a good bit, but my own work has been slacking.

I still don't have a net connection at home, so I end up doing all of my uploading and everything from my phone instead of being able to get on and post picture dumps like I wish I could.

I actually have been working on getting my Dragoe painted (after heavy repair), and have worked on basecoating my EFT models. I also got a BUNCH of guys finished that have just been sitting around. I have them on my phone, but I didn't feel like abusing my Data Plan with uploading a ton of Haqq dudes.

OhbutIwill.

Also doing all that on the tiny screen is a real PITA, but I need to stop being a slacker and get to it.

Anyway, for your time, here's the Fiday I FINALLY painted up. She's been sitting around primed forever, and after seeing everyone else have a go at her, I had to give it a shot. (Phrasing.) She's by far my favorite unit to use in gameplay... Boarding Shotguns are wonderful.

Here you go, my as of yet unnamed Fiday. And dat booty.









I normally like to do the hair in all sorts of bright colors, since Infinity loves the anime thing, but since she's constantly changing it and I wanted her to be a little sneaky (yeah bright blue lines shut up), I left it black, and rather like it.

More on the way... eeeeventually.

Dem pants

I know right? She was a lot of fun to paint.

I've been trying to figure out a replacement scheme since I'm all out of my old combination of Khemri Brown and Dheneb Stone. I really like how she turned out, but she is way more Yellow and way less White than the rest of my forces. A light brighter too with the contrast and whatnot. I like how it came out, but I'm rather on the fence about committing to it or continuing the hunt for paints that match my old scheme. I like my old scheme...

Anyway, where've you been Moltar?! Haven't seen you around in a long while.


Some more stuff I finally finished. In the slooow process of getting things uploaded.

I'm not super happy with the Cutter, but he's got his snow and I finally finished the gun... and repinned those wing things for what I hope and prey is the LAST TIME.

I know it won't be.

He looks better in the low-light environment he's meant for, the harshness of the brighter lights makes the hard edges look a bit sloppy to me. But He's not going to get dipped, he's good 'nuff.

And then there's the Engineer I take in %80 of my games but was never painted. Well he's finally painted... finally! Big head and all.

The old Halfling Najjarun. I always wondered why they made him so short. A good mini though. The purple cutter. Lol.

Nice work. The turquoise on the Haqq is an excellent choice. I may have said that already.

Models are looking great chem. Love the blues on the female model, and the pose on the engineer is very dynamic. Very nice purple highlighting too; when I do it it ends up chalky but yours looks nice and bright.

Thanks guys.

Yeah, with the purple I had to go outside of my normal Citadel Paint comfort zone and look for something better. I ended up finding a lavender looking purple from Vallejo that worked really well, and it makes a good hard highlight for the liche purple I had been using for the baselines.

I got a Kurgat done as a test model, but I need to touch him up a little more before calling him done-done. I'll try and get a shot up later.

Purple is a fine color choice. I found,of all things, that one of those Martha Stewart paints is an excellent violet.

Hmm. Purple's an interesting choice for the Cutter. Is the rest of your Pano Purple?

Did you add a balaclava to that Najjarun? It looks [i]kind[ of/i] like you did, but I can't tell. That's the old version of him as well, isn't it?

Heya, seems I have quite a lot to catch up.
The fiday is awesome It does seem as if you put more effort in these last Haqq models. As if you took more time to highlight/shade them, is that true, or just some lighting effects?
You should also make another group picture of your latest painted Haqq models, like the group pic with the maghariba guard :p

Have you decided to paint the cutter violet to make up for your EFT dragoon? I still think it was cool on the dragoon, but the highlights on the cutter make the colour pop out a lot more, I like it ^^

Also, I just noticed the snow on the engineer models base, and I went looking in your gallery for some other haqq pictures. I never payed attention too it, because not all your models have snow, but the result is very nice. It's neutral enough not to distract the eye from the models, but the occasional snow bases still make it interesting, and it ties everything nicely together.
I've been away for a while, working and going on holiday, but seeing your blog and browsing your pictures makes me want to start painting again asap

Red Harvest wrote:Purple is a fine color choice. I found,of all things, that one of those Martha Stewart paints is an excellent violet.

If I didn't know any better I would almost think you were making fun of me!

Barzam wrote:Hmm. Purple's an interesting choice for the Cutter. Is the rest of your Pano Purple?

Did you add a balaclava to that Najjarun? It looks [i]kind[ of/i] like you did, but I can't tell. That's the old version of him as well, isn't it?

Yeah, I added a facemask to the Najjarun. I had a little bit of greenstuff left over from something so I just tamped it down so you could still see his features underneath, but more like the mask is wrapped tight and poking through a little. He looks alright, but he isn't my favorite model by any stretch... which is a shame since I use him in almost every game.

And yeah, the rest of my PanO is purple! When I was originally painting them I was reading about the Indigo Spec Ops and all that, so the original plan for the paintscheme was an elite Varuna Anti-Terrorist Unit, that used the deep purple color for their gear. If you dig through my gallery a bit you can see the other ones, I think I have a group shot of em' floating around. I'll see if I can dig it up.

soulcow wrote:Heya, seems I have quite a lot to catch up.
The fiday is awesome It does seem as if you put more effort in these last Haqq models. As if you took more time to highlight/shade them, is that true, or just some lighting effects?
You should also make another group picture of your latest painted Haqq models, like the group pic with the maghariba guard :p

Have you decided to paint the cutter violet to make up for your EFT dragoon? I still think it was cool on the dragoon, but the highlights on the cutter make the colour pop out a lot more, I like it ^^

Also, I just noticed the snow on the engineer models base, and I went looking in your gallery for some other haqq pictures. I never payed attention too it, because not all your models have snow, but the result is very nice. It's neutral enough not to distract the eye from the models, but the occasional snow bases still make it interesting, and it ties everything nicely together.
I've been away for a while, working and going on holiday, but seeing your blog and browsing your pictures makes me want to start painting again asap

It is certainly high time for me to take another group shot... though they all won't fit into just one! I recently laid out my guys on a shelf above my gaming table, and it really struck me with the sheer number of units I have. I'm likely pushing 1000 points of Haqq, give or take. And I don't even have the Sekhban box I want. Or... well... yeah, still a lot I want to pick up.

I actually painted the Cutter way before the Dragoon. I'm working on painting my Dragoe now and I'm trying to remember exactly what I did to get the colors like that. I should really write things down.

And yeah, every one of my Infinity units is based in snow except for Deadpool... err... Senor Massacre. I based him differently since I painted him for the competition we had a year or so ago. I plan on eventually doing an Infinity table, painted up how I want, so all the guys will match when I play at my house. And I like snoooooow.

Thanks for checking in guys!


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Group shot for Barzam. Sorry about the ugly lighting, it was when I first got my box set up and the bulbs it came with were these awful yellowy things. I'll get some better shots later.

 Chemical Cutthroat wrote:

Red Harvest wrote:Purple is a fine color choice. I found,of all things, that one of those Martha Stewart paints is an excellent violet.

If I didn't know any better I would almost think you were making fun of me!

You have seen "Screaming woman with assault rifle showing off the toilet paper dispenser" in my blog, no? That is the purple I'm talking about. I don't use GW Paints. So I experiment with all sorts of stuff, or used too.

That Cutter (the purple thing yes?) looks sublime, like he is made of Amethyst. I like a lot of Infinity but that model looks like the best in the range that I have seen. If I did purple like that, everything that I paint would be purple (rather than just half my stuff).

Is the new starter set on your "to buy" list?

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
That Cutter (the purple thing yes?) looks sublime, like he is made of Amethyst. I like a lot of Infinity but that model looks like the best in the range that I have seen. If I did purple like that, everything that I paint would be purple (rather than just half my stuff).

Is the new starter set on your "to buy" list?

Oh lord yes.

I actually cancelled one of the Kickstarter things I was backing so I could pre-order that wonderful 'starter set'. I can't wait for that stuff.

And thanks for the kind words about the purple, I wanted it to be a deep and rich color, and seems like I nailed it.

Hopefully I can repeat the experience with the Dragoe!