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Unfortiunately there is no Infinity running but the other formats get a fair few entrants. I understand 40k has 60 or so entrants

Well you're representing then! Go forth and recruit!

Haha yeah that is the idea. At the moment it is me and one other guy, we should have two tables and 4 130ish point forces to do battle with strangers. Our friends will probably come down through out the weekend for games as well... looking forward to it

Sounds brilliant man, better get those miniatures painted up then!

All models painted and rebased, just need to paint the bases. Then they get some varnish and done

I finished my competition related pledge in time, hurrah.

Me too - by the skin of my teeth...

 Arakasi wrote:
Me too - by the skin of my teeth...

High five for Australians handing stuff in at the last moment.

OK, eye is healing slowly, so I've not been doing a lot of work on my infinity stuff.

My Iguana TAG for my QK force.

It's painted in the same scheme as my QK nomad alguaciles.
There's a reason. They are the stooges to my Iggy.

It started out as a Lizard TAG, but I rotated the torso 90* forward (so what was the face now pointed down) and bored out the hips to make a socket to fit it better. Those "shoulder" boxes used to be on the back, and lower.
GS'd up the master arm sockets. Fitted some bits I had spare and went at it.

I figured that since the Iggy spits out a HI figure with hmg when it goes down, I'd add armoured front bits to represent the operator. The HI carries the HMG, the TAG carries the HFT.

The 'head' came from a spare tail bit (the Forward observer bit) from an aleph rebot.



Scuse the crappy pictures. Eye doesn't focus quite properly yet so lining up focus is tricky.

I like the master arms holding the HMG, remind me very much of Appleseed. Good job!

That's what I was going for.

The nomad part of my QK are supposed to be the SAR group (hence the high-vis orange and white).

In reality, it's the Haqq part that usually pull their nuts out of the fire.

As to the master arms carrying the hmg ... I wondered how the operator would detach the TAG weapon to use on foot (no hyperspace pockets in this man's anime, thankyouverymuch) and it was just simpler to have him ALREADY carrying it.

This way I can just sub out the mobile brigada HMG when he does cark it.

Looks like great conversion! And it'll fit right in with infinity models. While I'm not too keen on the look of nomads as a whole, I kinda like that TAG.

I've painted a model today, I'll pledge to update my blog about it tomorrow, as I forgot to update my blog when I got him.

Here's a visual hint as to which model it is:



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if I seem enthusiastic, it's because I think he came out great. Can't wait to update!

@Nerm - I'll update the OP, great job, let's see some pretty pictures though!

@motyak & Arakasi - Yeh well done to the Aussies for giving me a nail biting wait! I'll give anyone who wants it a point for the comp. I'll start with you two, anyone else should speak up or forever hold their piece.

@chromedog - Eh! Naw! You've been in my house and copied my Lizard! You fiend! No joke, I've done the same thing with the top of the torso and adding a head piece. Great minds think alike, eh?! You've done a really good job and despite our similar changes they are still very different. The paint scheme is lovely! I'll post mine up around the 10th.

...wait did you pledge to finish that and I forgot to add it to the OP? Or did you mean to post that in Showcase? Sorry if I missed it.


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Oops, you ninja'd me Kes! That sounds exciting, I'll add your pledge now. Though your first image link is broken I think.

chromedog
2013/04/16 08:22:02 wrote:
My first pledge.

Paint and base the models I have for my Qapu Khalqi sectorial force. So far this is Nomads Alguaciles (3), a mobile brigada HI (HMG) and 4 Druze Militia. Still to come, the Haqq contingent and an "Iguana" TAG stand in.

Alguaciles done. Mobile brigada done. Druze in progress.

Two days later, I had very little vison in one eye due to a corneal abrasion (I scratched my cornea) and it has been a recurring issue for the last few months. I've finally got it under control in the last week. The last specialist put a corneal bandage over the scarring and put me on stronger anti-bio. The bandage is transparent and allowed me to actually see with both eyes whilst the damage was healed.

It was part of my QK pledge.
The alguaciles (stooges) were done as well, so were the Haqq contingent of 2 hafzas, djanbazan, Druze and a KTS merc (stooges, hafza/djan and KTS are done on p2 or so)
Late, but still done. In terms of painting/modelling, it only took me a week or so to do them all up. It's just that it averaged out to one day or so a week.

Just waiting on my Ghulams. I need 6 of them to finish off my QK. They keep being out of stock and I need 5 and a doc. Probably going to get a blister, the support pack and see if I can do swapsies on the remainder.

Ask and you shall receive

Got you, chrome, sorry I didn't realise this was part of that same pledge becuase it's not in the OP any more. You should have repledged these things, there's absolutely no rule against that, just give yourself enough time to work with your injury.

Nerm, they look boss! I hope you enjoy the event and report back to us!

updated!


A new challenger approaches:


But you'll have to head on to the blog thread to get the whole picture

Updating OP and heading over to check it out. Good job.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Got you, chrome, sorry I didn't realise this was part of that same pledge becuase it's not in the OP any more. You should have repledged these things, there's absolutely no rule against that, just give yourself enough time to work with your injury.

With the repeated eye issues and other family related issues, It slipped my mind.

The injury made it impossible to read (how I relax), paint or assemble models. When I did get sight back, I had other things occupying me, then it relapsed. Seriously, LOOK after your eyes, kiddies. These injuries SUCK bigtime. I even tried listening to audiobooks - but the narration mostly never matched how I thought they would sound - and gave up. I really do prefer reading this stuff myself.

I've had TWO weeks in the last two or so months where my sight was good enough to do anything. The first one was late May, when I had to run a tournament.
Now that it's good, I aim to keep it that way. Even if it takes these drops for the rest of my life.

I will paint my roommates Herald of Tzeentch (Plastic standard bearer from the Horrors kit).

I am base coating it right now and will try to finish it by Monday.

So, usually, I look at my blog and go "hey that's good advice" and then totally forget about it.

To address that forgetfulness, I pledge to follow the advice people have given me as closely as possible for my four loups I'm starting to paint.

@cdog - I really hope you make a full recovery mate! Our eyes are certainly important and worth looking after.

@DD - This is specifically for Infinity Pledges as per the OP sorry mate. I believe there is a generic pledge thread somewhere but I'm not sure where it is, maybe P&M.

@kes - I think you've done really well to take things on board and progress, keep doing that. I sometimes have Dakka open when I'm working to refer to certain useful threads or I make notes to have beside me.

Right, i have painted all the models and all the bases including facing marks but I wont be able to varnish them as the weather is too cold at the moment :( Ill consider them finished for now.

My next very short term pledge is to get my force painted for a campaign game on wednesday night (10th.. ie tomorrow) I need to finish 1 Irmandinho and a Tankhunter HMG. Last night I painted Valerya Gromoz and my Warcor, luckily I've been painting so much over the last week that most of the models I reguired were already finished.

In the last 6 days I've painted:
Janissary
3rd Highlander Grey
Veteran Kazak
2 Rifle Line Kazaks
Sniper Rifle Line Kazak (Conversion)
Boarding Shotgun Foxtrot (Conversion)
Tankhunter Sniper (Conversion)
Para-Commando HMG
Metro HMG
Valerya Gromoz
Warcor (Salamanda Pilot)

I know its probably not the right place but I'm so damn proud of my efforts I had to post it somewhere.

You know what, sign me up for a pledge. I have a 200pt starter army that needs finishing. Currently, I have 4 models left to paint. A Hassassin Muyib, a Hassassin Fiday, a Ghulam with rifle and a Nasmat. I want these done, and right now my only other project is gradually getting bits of my Tervigon done.

I'll be ambitions and say it'll be done in a month - ambitious because I'm a notoriously slow painter, and I might be moving to temporary accomodations soon until my new house is built (though I can hopefully still paint there, it might put about a weeks hold on my progress).

So, by 9 June. That's a week per model. Like I said, for me, ambitious. But I need this starter list hammered out so I can start on the models I have to expand it.

That's insane Nerm, your a tireless workhorse of painting! I'm guessing you missed the short term pledge?

Loki, glad to have you on board. I'll assume you meant the 9th of August though...

I've been really busy so I think I'll push back my pledge a few days.

Errr yeah, 9 August.

Haha yeh I figured. Good luck mate, keep us updated!

Actually, I'll push it to 14 August, considering I didn't have time to start until today. I did, however, get nearly all of the colours blocked in on my Muyib, almost ready for his bath.

 -Loki- wrote:
Actually, I'll push it to 14 August, considering I didn't have time to start until today. I did, however, get nearly all of the colours blocked in on my Muyib, almost ready for his bath.

Loki, by bath, do you mean dip or wash? If it's dip, is it army painter and how do you find it working with infinity miniatures? I've only ever dipped a handful of miniatures, about 5 plastic, and 3 or 4 metal. I love the effect dipping can give but I've found with the metal ones, there is what looks like very, very subtle cracking of the varnish. Have you ever found this? One thought I had was that it might be due to metal miniatures ever so slightly expanding and retracting in different temperatures. It's the only reason I could think of as to why it would affect metal and not plastic miniatures. And it's put me off dipping metal minis in the future. Another very possible reason is that I've done something wrong. Any thoughts?

Sorry for going a bit off topic. With regards to pledging, I've got ten remaining haqq waiting, primed and ready to go. I'd like to get them done this year.... I am that slow, and I have boring space marines on the go also.

Army Painter inks. Basically, I block in all of the colours, hit it with Strong Tone Ink, then layer them back up.