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Here's their site.
http://www.hobbybunker.com/
They're over in Malden, so it can be a bit of a trip. From the sounds of things, they didn't have a whole lot of Infinity figures in stock, but I know they've got other stuff, too.

Truth be told, I'd have been trying to hit him up for some Mierce stuff, especially if it wasn't going to be coming out of my pocket.

At least they grabbed Brandon Graham's latest book for me.

Eh, you know I'm not that into fantasy stuff. These days I'd rather play with space men than knights. I'll admit your Mierce stuff looks nice, but I'd just rather have robots and power armor. You can have your dragon monsters, I'll play with my Shasvastii lizard men and my Morat murder monkeys.

Well, I was all set to start painting up my Gwailos, but he turned out to be missing his left arm. Now I've got to figure out how to do the missing pieces request again. Ugh.

Here's a link to the tutorial http://infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php?/topic/18901-missing-pieces-complaint-codes-tutorial/

Just in case you need it.

Got some updates. Haven't heard anything yet from CB about my missing part. I opened three figures and chucked their packages, so their complaint codes got all mixed up. I didn't actually notice the missing arm until I had the Gwailo built. Hopefully I grabbed the right complaint code.

Anyway, some figures. Here's my Vanguard Hacker and the Kawarij my dad picked up.

Is Kawarij the singular form, or is it Kawarijs?
I modified the desert scheme for the Morat to include some more brown. I'll be using pretty much the same colors when I get to the Shasvastii.

And we've got a distraction side project, a pair of Khorne Berserkers. The red one has been done for quite a few months. He was actually one of my first dipping attempts. The Black Legion one was done more or less to practice painting black without using black.

So what did you end up using for black? A grey of some sort?

I'm always on the lookout for black alternatives. Preferably ones that I don't have to mix and concoct myself.

You're spot on. I used Vallejo's German Grey with a few coats of GW's Nuln Oil wash. The end result is that it does indeed look black, but it isn't flat. It's hard to describe, but it gives a stronger impression of there being depth to the figure's paintjob.



And the red one.


Like I said, I did him a long while back. Back when I posted those pics of the MDF food stalls. He was done to test out three things: 1)try painting something red using successing layers, highlights, and the Reikland Fleshshade wash, 2)use cork as a basing material, 3)test out my (then) brand new can of Army Painter Strong Tone dip. Both have now found a home on top of my computer monitor at work. Actually, the only reason I had the red guy on hand for photos was because a co-worker had accidentally knocked him off the monitor and stepped on him and he needed repairs. So, that is actually a repaired model in the photos. No repainting or anything other than some glue was needed.

Everything is looking good, you make some steady progress for sure.

I got my notice from CB today about my Gwailos' missing arm. I guess that means I can go ahead and start painting him.


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okay, I finally got this little lady all painted up. So, she'll be joining the Morats and the Kawarij for dipping.



That just about finishes up my Yu Jing Starter. Unfortunately, I never got around to finishing the third Zhanshi, so I've still got that to do. Then I have some more Wu Ming to deal with, among other things.

Yep, those look nice I think after I have taken a solid swing at all of the stuff I have coming from various kickstarters... I will have to adopt your approach and just pick up neat Infinity minis to paint at will. It looks like you're having a good time doing it.

Oh yeah, I'm definitely enjoying myself doing these. Except when I mess them up, like that Charontid. There's nothing wrong with just getting the figures you want because they look cool. Who knows, maybe someday I'll even be able to actually play the game.

So, since his arm is supposed to be on the way, I figured I'd start work on my Shasvastii Gwailos. Here you can get a general idea of what I'm going to be going for.



I want to have as little skin exposed on any Shasvastii I get, so I've decided that, for the most part, I'm going to be painting the parts that look like exposed skin (biceps, parts of the head, neck) as part of the suit. I'll be using the dark grey for that which, once dipped should look pretty much black. I want to use a bit of lighter grey for a few spots, like his mask and "ears," his spinal plates, and probably on his calves as well. What I'm not sure about is what color to make the lights (leaning towards green) and what color to paint the actual exposed skin. It's going to be hard to make him look like he's wearing shoes of any sort, so his feet are going to be exposed. My thought was bone with a green wash, but I'm not really sure. Thoughts?

Not sure about the skin... Probably on the right track with something light and green-tinted though. The rest of the colors are nice. I would think for the lights you could do green, yellow, maybe orange... something along those lines.

I wound up using Vallejo's Elf Flesh as a base and giving him a wash using Athonian Camoshade. I think it works well enough. I also decided to actually go with blue lights and eyes on him. He's pretty much all done now. I've just got to wait for his arm to show up.

Believe it or not, I actually FINISHED some figures. I fully completed my Lasiq and my Celestial Guard Hacker, but I noticed that the Lasiq got a few spot of white primer splashed on him, so I'll have to clean that up a bit. Ugh. Anyway though, the CG actually turned out surprisingly well. I didn't think he would prior to actually getting him dipped.



The nice thing about him is that if I didn't want to field him as a hacker, he would work pretty well as an LT. Someday, once I've actually figured out how to actually play the game, I'll learn how hackers actually work.

Didn't you tell me you figured out the rules? Isn't that why you gave me a set of the quickstart stuff since you didn't need it any more?

You know, I had an idea for a counts- as Infinity force, but then I forgot what it was.

Liking those white figures. Your bug guy has a nice sense of color to him too.

Nah, I gave you those quick start rules so you could figure out how to play, too. I've got a pretty good sense of how gameplay works, but I haven't actually tried it out yet. Those quickstart rules just cover the basics. There's all kinds of funkyness that comes into play once you start bringing in link teams, weapon and unit abilities, equipment abilities, camo, and hacking.

Don't forget speculative shots and the like! Definitely a game you wanna start simple with and bolt on the extra rules as you get a better understanding.. at least I should think so.

Hacker looks great, Tudor (if that's what you're still using) makes flat white look pretty good. The other colors are nice too.

I bet your other guy looks cool with blue lights, I usually default to those so I thought I would offer something different, but I think they will probably match the other colors well.

Very nice work on the hacker. He can also proxy as a doctor too.

Start with a few 100 or 150 point games. Throw in 1 heavy Infantry, and the rest light infantry or skirmishers. Camo is very important to learn, so it is never too soon to start learning that. You can add in the other rules (like Airborn deployment, hidden deployment, hacking etc) later.

If you can, keep the wiki open in a browser, for easy reference. And if you use Chrome, you can install Aleph Toolbox as an extension. It is a nice army builder. Or you can use the Infinity Army builder. It really helps to have the digital devices around when learning this game.

Have fun!

I was really impressed with the community and support tools available. Is there even an equivalent to the infinity wiki for games like 40k? It was extremely useful for navigating the complex rules, and the built in army builder on the website is great and very shiny.

When I get around to it, I want to do some very basic games just using some cheerleader infantry so I can get the basics. There does seem to be a pretty good and helpful community though, which is really nice.

I thought I was going to spend tonight playing video games, but wound up working on some Deadzone terrian. I've been neglecting those sprues for a while, so it's about time they got a little bit of love. I wound up building two buildings tonight. I built a storage shed, and a fortified building. I think that's about all my fingers and thumbs could take though. They're hurting after trying to get those clips to snap in place. I still need to do a few more smaller buildings. Eventually I'm going to actually remove all of the non-Deadzone stuff from my board.



my bunker


and my storage shed


I think if I ever do any large scale games or Infinity using this stuff, I'll double up the board with my paper mat and then I'll actually throw in the non-Mantic terrain stuff. One thing though that I'd like to do, and I don't know if I have enough parts, is to build a small vehicle depot for my Space Marine tanks to park in.

Oh yeah, and one night I got bored and made a Nurgle icon/objective marker.

Nice, like to see what people do with their DZ terrain. Don't limit yourself to just Deadzone stuff though, the colonists would eventually start to manufacture their own items and probably have some ramshackle additions to their limited pre-fab structures.

Not much of an update, but I wanted to share these. Someone sold off a bunch of old early 40k kits at the FLGS. I had to grab some just for nostalgia's sake.



Look at 'em! Look at how ugly and misshapen and blobby they are! Gaze upon the wonders of their early 90s teen-done paintjob! Look at how their previous owner so expertly tried to repaint them. Oh, it's glorious. These guys just totally take me back. Needless to say though, I'm going to attempt to strip the paint off. Hopefully it'll actually come off. There's no telling what kind of paint or what the original owner had used on them. There's a little bit of repair work needed, too. The only real question though, what color should I paint them?

Paint 'em like SPESH MAIREENS!

Nothing says old school beakies to me like Dark Angels!

Good luck with the paint stripping!

Holy Moley, Rogue Trader marines. A friend has a few of those. I still have a few Rogue trader Orcs somewhere, pewter ones anyway, I think. Man were they really bad.

Go nostalgia. Paint 'em as Crimson fists. Like on the cover of Rogue Trader.

Were those Crimson Fists on the cover of Rogue Trader?

I had always assumed they were Ultramarines since they were blue.

Looking at the cover now, I never realized that. Wow.

I say do that or Dark Angels. We always had Dark Angels and Salamanders, didn't we?

I haven't tried painting Crimson Fists before. Hmm, I wonder if my Dark Prussian Blue paint will be a good match? I'll have to give it a try.

In the mean time, this guy got finished.



I'd used Blood for the Blood God to paint the blood, but it didn't come out shiny or anything in the pic. I tell you, it was hard trying to make it look splattered. I'm still not a fan of this particular G2. He looks like he's waving at somebody. Oh well, that's two G2s down, one to go.

I've also finished these two for my Enforcers


The Engineer's casting was a little soft, so it was hard to pick out the details effectively on him. All in all though, he's turned out to be perfectly serviceable. Once I get my boosters, I'm going to try and make a standing version. Possibly even a combat ready one. We'll see how hard it is to do once I have another in hand.

On the Captain, I tried something different. Instead of using black for the wash, I used a blue glaze early on in the painting process. As it turned out, Gw's blue glaze is a better blue wash than their actual blue wash. I used it immediately after priming, then drybrushed the off white for the armor over that, painted the grey bits, then applied the top layer of the armor's white paint as a glaze. I think this turned out well. I'll be using that technique again when I do my Nomads.

Oh yeah, we celebrated my birthday party on Saturday (since not everyone will be able to meet up on my actual birthday). As it turns out, I got the Corregidor starter box. So, it looks like I'll have some more stuff to work on!

Ooh happy birthday, jealous of the corregedor starter but can't wait to see what you do with them!

Enforcers look great, captains armor is really nice. I like your g2 as well, though I agree about the pose. Its a cool base model but none of the poses are spectacular. I'm gonna see if I can cheat with my airbrush for blood spatter.

Okay, that blue Charontid? I got around to stripping the paint and completely repainted him. In the process, I noticed that Simple Green does an odd thing with my metal figures. For some reason it starts turning bits of the metal a really dark grey. It's weird. It's not from the paint, but it scratches off. It doesn't affect the figure though nor the painting process. just strange.

Anyway, I'm now happy with this figure.



As it turns out, I didn't even follow my own advice from earlier. I said I was just going to base coat him and leave the rest of the work for the dip. I didn't do that. I highlighted him. I think I finally managed to pull it off decently though. I plan on adding a few further details to him after he's been dipped. Mainly, I'm going to try and do the gem effect on his red bits. I mainly just did the base red now so that the dip will darken it further and save me some time later.



He looks good with his green buddy. So, that gives me a Zaku inspired Charontid and a Megaman X inspired one. Maybe I should do an Exrah Dom at some point?

Also, my Shasvastii got his arm last Friday, so he's all ready to go now.


He'll have more pics once he's been dipped, but you get the idea I was going for, I think.

I think what you really want to paint next are some armored werewolves.

I think you want to buy some of those armored werewolves that Mierce is making, don't you?

I sat down and started painting my Deadzone stuff again. We need to do that still...