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Small update with some terrain in my paint thread. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/493203.page#7012994

Some nice stuff on here as usual.

 chromedog wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:
It's from an Australian company, Back 2 Base-ix.

I'm up to 14 painted models. I'm ramping up my pace because I've given myself a limitation if only buying the amount of models I paint, so my backlog at least doesn't grow. One more to go and I can add the new Ghazi to my collection.

Yeah, that was going to be my other suggestion. I know they do them in acrylic now, but they did at one time do them in mdf.

They still do them in MDF. They just had a sale due to, I'm assuming, excess stock. That's when I picked mine up.


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Goal acheived! 4 models painted. I am now allowed to buy the new Ghazi.

I'm fairly happy with this one. He came out pretty much the same as my other Muyibs which is all I wanted.

Looks good Loki..

I admire your self restraint for buying new units!

long time till i bump my thread here,
my last minis:




C&C are welcome in http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/544809.page#5923917

Some damn sexy models there Sangarn!

Just wow.

So here is a terrible picture of one my Vanguards I am working on lol


He looks a lot better not under a zoom lens, but it is apparent I need to do some touch up work.

I 'love' it when i find errors only during the review of the photos...

Looks good to me man!

Is that a 3mm clear acrylic with his unit icon stuck underneath it? That is interesting... i may have to look into something like that in the future, might be useful in-game somehow.

 GrimDork wrote:
I 'love' it when i find errors only during the review of the photos...

Looks good to me man!

Is that a 3mm clear acrylic with his unit icon stuck underneath it? That is interesting... i may have to look into something like that in the future, might be useful in-game somehow.

You're right on on the base I have 3mm Clear Acrylics from Litko in 25mm, 40mm, and 55mm. Koni was nice enough to pass me all the Combined Army Unit logos so I size them appropriately in Photoshop before adding them to a 4" x 6" image and printing them up on photo paper. I have to use the glue E6000 to clue the photo to the base or the photo will fade/haze/blur.

As soon as I get my airbrush back together I am going to be doing the Raicho next, my only dilemma is if I want to free hand his unit logo on his shoulder or do the MAF logo.

Looks very cool Nuclear Messiah, like the skin tone of the Morat.

Sangran.. normally I would call it sacrilege to convert the Penthouse mini, but you have done an amazing job! My jaw has officially hit the floor..

Litko makes 55mms now!? Kick ass! I just wonder if they're in the 1.5mm thickness like the rest of my bases or not.. hell it's a bigger model it can float a little higher if need be. Gonna have to go look those up now.

I'm not sure if the paper under the base is quite for me, i like it on your guy of course. I'm thinking it may be a cool place to put counters/tokens for status, especially to clean things up during battle reports, neat technique I'mma steals. Do you have a blog for which i may peruse other things to steal?


That used to be penny? I just thought it was one of the aragotos... but that's the ninja head isn't it... we'll it's killer regardless!

 GrimDork wrote:
Litko makes 55mms now!? Kick ass! I just wonder if they're in the 1.5mm thickness like the rest of my bases or not.. hell it's a bigger model it can float a little higher if need be. Gonna have to go look those up now.

I'm not sure if the paper under the base is quite for me, i like it on your guy of course. I'm thinking it may be a cool place to put counters/tokens for status, especially to clean things up during battle reports, neat technique I'mma steals. Do you have a blog for which i may peruse other things to steal?


That used to be penny? I just thought it was one of the aragotos... but that's the ninja head isn't it... we'll it's killer regardless!

http://www.litko.net/BMaker/

You have to custom order 55mm until they add them fully, but the cost is no different.

As for the blog, not yet will start one up in the P&M soon enough

Thanks for the info! Site is being slow for me today so that helps me plan for the future, also, looking forward to seeing more!

Looks like 55mm x 1.5mm circular clear acrylic bases weigh in at a buck apiece if you buy the minimum of ten... ten should do for awhile.. probably. Will have to find some other stuff to order!

Challenge model 5 finished! Fiday done.





This one gave me particular problems. For one, the spider veins on the legs. I just can't paint them. They're wonky. Second was the hair. I really wanted to practice my Symbiont Armour technique on something like this, and I think the orange came out really nicely. But It also came out too bright for this model. I decided to keep it, as a model to stand with my Hawwa Snipers bright pink hair.

Also because I have so many models to paint I didn't want to get hung up on some small details, especially on a model that will spend its life as a token 90% of the time, and when it finally hits the table it'll go down in flames.

She looks great! May as well have that fancy hair and go down in a blaze of glory.

Since the painting bug has me this weekend I thought I would share a WIP shot of my Raicho


Baring any emergencies I will probably get him done tomorrow.

Loving the Space Monkies, NM!

Loki, as always, love your Haqq. gotta get my paint area in order and back into painting mine.

Speaking of which, I haven't edited the photos of my Fiday yet. I'll get into it.

Hi started to paint some Infinity minis again posted pictures of a finished Hsien and a Nisse with HMG on my painting log here.

 Crazy Ivan wrote:
Hi started to paint some Infinity minis again posted pictures of a finished Hsien and a Nisse with HMG on my painting log here.

Love the camo work on the Nissie, would love to know how you pulled it off.

Thanks I used this tutorial as a base for the pattern. the colours i used was first a base of vmc german field grey which I then shaded and highlighted before moving on to the next layer which was some vmc ivory and khaki, last layer was some black splotches. I then applied a mix of german field grey and the dark purple I used to shade the first layer with as a glaze to tie the layers together.

Nice, I had tried to do some camo on my Hassassins, but it came out like crap so I gave up. Will have to try this see if I have any luck.

Sangarn, your conversions are far and away the best that I have seen for Infinity to date. Way to up the ante and go far beyond the out-of--the-box armies that most Infinity players field.

Nuclear Messiah, looking good! You've convinced me to actually use metallic paints on CB figs, which I had been resisting until now. Apparently the secret is airbrush?

 Savnock wrote:
Sangarn, your conversions are far and away the best that I have seen for Infinity to date. Way to up the ante and go far beyond the out-of--the-box armies that most Infinity players field.

Nuclear Messiah, looking good! You've convinced me to actually use metallic paints on CB figs, which I had been resisting until now. Apparently the secret is airbrush?

Airbrush or using the airbrush metallic and brushing them on. They are thinned down enough they work out well.

I admit i've been hesitant to use proper metallics on my infinity minis so far, except for little bits and bobs like buckles and gun barrels. Looks good on your guys though.

Yeah, Morats seem to be the right place for metallics. Maybe somecolored metallics on the EI units too. Okay, I'm convinced!

 Savnock wrote:
Yeah, Morats seem to be the right place for metallics. Maybe some colored metallics on the EI units too. Okay, I'm convinced!

I have a deep blue metallic paint, perhaps I should get a red metallic and do up some purple for EL units Haven't deiced how I will go about on the Shav. But I am thinking of sticking with my Steel color that I wash down to look grimy for all my CA units.

Since Loki did one, now I had to.

Ooh pretty colors. Nice work!

*sigh* So pretty..