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That draw is organized!

I never said i had a pile of infinity shame. I said that about space marine stuff. I showed it off. Actually... I think I had that pretty organized too.

Whoops.

I just hate broken bits!

I just made the drawer, I'm sure it'll get messier in time... though I do hope to clear it out pretty steadily moving forward. I don't care as much if I get my 365/year done but I'd like to make some progress on that drawer and get some other misc projects worked out.

Remotes are getting done today dad gum it. Pretty close.

Very jealous of that Infinity pile, I really need to get some more Nomads at some point!

They're good stuff. I just hope you don't end up talking me into Batman with all of your showing off (and others too...), because I really don't need another drawer


Remotes just got dipped.

Now I have to decide if I want to try to bash out some scenery and another actor or two so as to make my 2 remotes into a diorama for round 6 of the painting comp... or if I want to start working on the builds for painting comp round 7...

Also, there are Geckos...

Gecko Gecko.

 GrimDork wrote:
They're good stuff. I just hope you don't end up talking me into Batman with all of your showing off (and others too...), because I really don't need another drawer

Yeah you do!

Now I have to decide if I want to try to bash out some scenery and another actor or two so as to make my 2 remotes into a diorama for round 6 of the painting comp... or if I want to start working on the builds for painting comp round 7...

Also, there are Geckos...

Gecko Gecko.

Gecko gecko, round 7 gecko... By which I mean I might just be disappointed if the entry isn't the Gecko squad facing off against, say, a couple dozen Plague Zombies (or Combined Army mutant-somethings that look like Plague Zombies)!

I want to round 7 Gecko, I do... but it would take a *lot* of odds for one of those to look like the underdog, you know what I mean? Especially if I get more than one done!

I was thinking I could do a Corregidor boarding party that ran afoul of as many plague zombies as I can paint in the time frame. Well either a boarding party in cramped space ship corridors (though it would be almost silly to make more when I have that battlesystems stuff) or a patrol running into the zombies in a dilapidated city district.

I just dunno if a Gecko or two, and or some Alguaciles, would really look like they were outnumbered and going to get eaten. I mean the Gecko is double the height of the zombies and made of metal... how is he gonna be scared

If you don't think it's a breach of theme I may still consider it.

I've got deadzone rebs too and other even less fighty humans like the ones from Mars Attacks that could all be accosted by the zombies...

I would like to keep painting Nomads though

Now see Grim, if you had some Tomcats, you'd have a good reason for sending in Corregidor. Tomcats are Search and Rescue. Do a rescue scenario with Tomcats and their armed escort evacuating civvies from a Shasvastii zombie plague outbreak.

Hmmm, civilians and zombies

I was thinking more like boarding action prior to salvage then oh no, zombies!

Sugar, spice, and everything nice
These were the ingredients chosen
To create the perfect little killing machines



Blossom and Buttercup, then Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup in the final photo.

I had some other theme ideas for my Nomads but so far, this is the only one to survive concept to realization. Obviously the characters in the kids show had slightly brighter colors but my painting/dipping style just doesn't go that bright. I think I'm up to 13/17(counting the Koalas) Nomads now.

I've got some more photos to share but the kids have been keeping me busy today. Be back with those later if possible.

Excellent choice of colors for the killing machines. What color exactly is that yellowish one?

That is probably my favorite new green: Minitaire Pestilence Flesh. It looks good on the Shasvastii, it looks good on the remote. Also note that it's Pestilence flesh + tudor stain. Darkens it up a little.

New photos of existing minis:


Whole crew to date. I've got a handful more Bakunin and now a bunch of Corregidor to do as well.


Think this is one of the better/more flattering shots of my Moderators. Bunny needs to get her weapon checked out though..


The Observance side of things, Moira doesn't blend as well as the others but they still play nice.


And everything else, including Spooky, the Powerpuffs, the Moran, and several Koalas.

Probably start work on the Corregidor Breach Team soon. And some Deadzone zombies. And some kind of terrain for them.

You've gotten together quite the Infinity collection there. They look pretty cool, but I have no idea what's going on most of the time now.

It's on just hang on for the ride!

There will be smurfs and skeletons and other neat stuff here and there, worry you not.

Good stuff, I've always thought your Nomads looked good. The white that is clean without being too 'shiny' is really nice. The new additions are cool!

I do very enjoy the free and easy way your modelling slides from subject to subject. It is refreshing compared to what I am usually doing and I love seeing your progress and trying to guess what you will show us next.

Thanks Para, while it's mostly a side effect of the dip and me being too lazy to go back in and smooth things out after the fact, I like how it looks too Glad to have the tanky spider robots done as well!

That's a nice way to say I've got modeling ADD, isn't it Archer?

I do have an odd assortment so don't expect it to start making sense any time soon

Oh man those bots look good.

I really love the infinity aestetic, have managed to resist so far though. That team looks brilliant. And I like the accidental white too, nice when that happens.

Thanks I like the white too, when I dipped that first moderator I think my eyes lit up like it was christmas!


Hmm struggling to come up with something for the LoER comp, guys. I promised tentacles, and the theme is trap door. I want it to be usable in my scifi terrain though. Dungeon stuff is on hold until I can figure out just what I want to do with it. I'm thinking of doing some kind of ground-access shaft to another floor inside a large complex, be it a Nomad ship or just an underground portion of the city. Trying to sort out the implementation though.

Well, thinking of Prometheus, giant tentacle thing behind a door, could be a Sci-Fi type setting and you could combine it with the other thing you where doing for some painting challenge, and have a big ass robot being dragged, or running away from said large squiddy beasty!!! 3 jobs in one that way!

Hmm, it's a thought

I think I have my starting materials figured out now, at least for the structure that houses the trapdoor.

Could you do something with the seed warriors from infinity? Do tentacles fit with their background. Could also do it as a pacifying scenario, where your nomads are clearing a hostile environment. The tentacles could be an escaping alien pulling the trapdoor shut over itself.

I've drawn a blank for my own creation and I am way too into my zombies right now to sidetrack myself this time around, so I'm sitting out now.

You are a genius! That's got it.

Still gonna do zombies for painting round 7 but shasvastii seed pods hidden in that building is perfect.

Decided to do the harder gecko conversions first. First guy is close and second guy is concepted below. He will need some kind of claw. I figure this guy is all action and kind of breach first maintenance when I'm dead kind of person, so his mech has a missing hand casually replaced with something crude and he's bolted/strapped his second gun to the first and rigged the firing mechanisms together.

First guy is basic rifle pose but he's decided he needs to chain colt something up close at the same time.

3 and 4 may be pretty standard stock poses. I know I don't want to change the mk12 firing pose. Twin combis may or may not get modded, we'll see.

Probably will focus on this first guy with the mk12 as I want to use him in wave 7 of the dakka paint challenge. He will need very minor gap fills and some texture fixes on his left arm. Still have to remove the hand from his mk12 too.

Will start on zombies once this guy is assembled, well part assembled gonna leave off the right arm and pack. If I get enough zombies done I'll look into some backup for him.

I don't play Infinity, and I don't understand most of what you talk about when it comes up, but I like looking at your minis. Keep 'em coming!

All this infinity goodness had me looking at buying more Morats today.

Yeah do it, then I am watch you do it instead of buying them myself

I just hope MM doesn't put any morats on the dotd because ill probably buy them and then slippery slope to death: cause, bloated TODO like.

Meep. Not much done yesterday or today (yet). I've got a few wips of my building in the gallery but nothing special yet. Gonna do my loer building and count it as part of the September painting challenge. I may get crazy and try to do s whole 2x2 display/diorama/dz board to put the zombies and Nomads on...


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Headed to hobby lobby tonight to do a quick materials search. If they have what I'm hoping to find... The alien seed pods should be a snap.

Looking for one of those seed pods with the holes in the top and little beadlike deals inside?

Mostly these little hard foam eggs. Found some balls instead. May work. Interesting properties.