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Hey guys, since I'm new to all this I thought I'd try and keep myself organised and motivated by doing a blog. That way I can keep track of my progress and how (if) I get any better over time.

So any comments and criticisms and tips are welcome

Here's all my collection of minis so far. That is:

Nomads
- 3 wildcats (painted)
- 3 alguaciles (painted)
- 1 alguacile hacker (painted)
- 1 hellcat (painted)
- 2 Intruders (painted)
- 2 Interventors + 2 fast pandas (painted)
- 1 iguana (painted)
- 1 iguana pilot (painted)
- 1 mobile brigada (painted)
- 1 grenzer (painted)
- 1 spektr (painted)
- 1 reverend healer (painted)
- 1 tomcat + 1 zondcat (painted)
- 2 geckos

Pano
- 3 neoterra bolts
- 1 neoterra bolt + spitfire
- 1 neoterra bolt hacker
- 3 fusiliers
- 1 akalis
- 1 lt. stephen rao
- 1 nisse
- 1 orc
- 1 father knight
- 1 santiago knight

Yu Jing
- 3 Celestial Guard
- 1 Celestial Guard + spitfire
- 1 pheasant agent

Mercs
- 1 csu

*Edit*
Colours:

Nomads
Red:
Base: Hull Red + Bloody Red
Highlight: Bloody Red
+ Highlights: + Ivory
++ Highlight: White
Shading: Hull Red + Bloody Red

Black:
Base: Black
Highlight: Black + Basalt Grey
+ Highlights: + Basalt grey
++ Highlight: White

White/Grey/Metal:
Base: London Grey
+ Highlights: + White
++ Highlight: White
Shading + London Grey + Black

Blue:
Base: Turquoise
+ Highlights: + Ivory
++ Highlight: White

Will be watching this one mate.

Thanks!

quick update with some WIP of my wildcats:

Looking very nice so far.

Looks good. How did you do the blue?

Looking good so far. Keep it up. Looking forward to seeing more.

Thanks guys! Sorry the slow update. Haven't had much time.

 carlos13th wrote:
Looks good. How did you do the blue?

Umm.. for the blue I did: Base coat in Turquoise. Then added Ivory to the mix to highlight. Then adding more Ivory and White. Then pure white at the end.
Exact ratios I'm not sure as I kinda wing it as I go. I'm using Vallejo paints.

Finished my Wildcats yay. Here they are. Let me know what you think.





Close up:





You can see how messy I really am lol ><

Wildcats are looking sharp! Very nice reds!

Update #3 Hackers and Pandas!

Thanks Paradigm!
Your stuff is looking good over on your blog too.

Just finished my Interventors plus some pandas!





My first time painting flesh so the skin tones and the faces are a bit messed up lol. I'm ok with how they look from a distance but might try and redo them later.

Some close ups:

male


I like how his visor turned out.

Shame I couldn't do it on the female. (all that paint clogging up detail oops)
female (sorry for the man-face)


Pandas (too cute!)



And lastly:


My Icestorm arrived yay! Time to get working on it. Will post pics later

Looking good! I have to admit the 'bots are one of the bits of the Infinity aesthetic as a whole that I'm not a fan of, but still nicely painted! The Interventors are looking great, I'm getting a RoboCop vibe from the male one.

Curse you for having Icestorm mine won't arrive for another week or so! Looking forward to seeing what you make of the minis in the box!

Thanks, I kinda like the bots when they are done well, like the pandas are cute af but then you've also got weird catbots too with breasts lol

And I guess the delay just proves how unexpectedly popular icestorm was. That's a good thing right? It's definitely worth the wait!

Yeah, I think they said something like double the demand for Icestorm than expected, which is good indeed. I might just find someone to play it!

I've had Space Hulk to tide me over though, so it's not all bad!

@Paradigm, heh well I'm jealous of you Space hulk! lol, your pics are tempting me but the price gets me ><

Update #4 Intruders

Intruder Assault Commandos! Got these bad boys painted up
Lovely models and I love the poses and they have so much detail! They have something going on all over the model. Was a bit tricky to paint because half the time I wasn't sure what I was painting lol. But I'm happy with how they came out. Looking very menacing





And some individual shots:

Rifle Intruder





Sniper Intruder





Also put together my Icestorm stuff yay

For those wondering about the new scale of the minis. Yeah they are big. Maybe not that noticeable from afar but up close you can tell. Here are some scale shots:

For the guys


Edit: Left to Right: Intruder, Mobile Brigada, Wildcat, Alguacile, Interventor
The wildcat is sure looking tiny. Granted he is slightly hunched but the Mobile Brigada's thighs are as big as his chest.

For the gals


Edit: Left to Right: Wildcat, Reverend Healer, Alguacile (old), Alguacile (New), Interventor
The reverend healer is either really tall compared to the poor nomad hacker who is really petite lol.

And to finish up a couple pics of my painted nomads





Thanks!
Any C&C is welcome!

Looking good, those Corregidor minis are next on my buy list! Very cool stuff!

Impressive mate.

Thanks guys!

Yeah I definitely recommend the intruders. Great models and very effective in game (so I hear).

Update #5 (07/10/14) Mobile Brigada WIP
Small update of my WIP Mobile Brigada. Finished the red areas.

Front


Back


Thanks!

Looking good!

As, postage permitting, I should have my first Nomad stuff next week, would you mind posting a recipe for your red? I've tried a few times to get that clean, bright look, but not managed to, so any tips would be great!

Thanks! And sure thing : )
I think it's close to the official colours. Though I think my process is a bit drawn out lol.

so basically its sort of like this:
1 base hull red
2 go over with hull red + bloody red
3 full bloody red
4. bloody red + ivory highlight
4.1 bloody red + bloody red + ivory to blend it back into the previous layer.

(Usually when I do this it makes the red pop a bit more as the mid tone between the layers is more red going over an ivory layer so its like painting red over white to get a brighter look. Not as much as painting over straight white but a good amount for me. Also when I do it this way I dont need to layer on lots of layers of bloody red which I find is hard to get a smooth layer. It mixes and covers better with a mix with ivory I find.)

5. +more ivory into the mix for progressive highlights. and may go back and try blending as above.
6. add a bit of white for final highlights.
7. touch of pure white for extreme highlight if need be.

Usually don't need that many layers or highlights for smaller surfaces but for the mobile brigada he has lots of large smooth plates on his armour so it lets me get a bit more in.

Hope that helps. I'm no expert lol

Edit: Oh Hull Red, Ivory, White are Vallejo Model Colour. Bloody Red is from Vallejo Game Colour

Cheers, I'll give that a shot if my copy of Icestorm ever arrives!

I really like the clean, crisp color scheme you've got going on with your models. The Robo-pandas look almost terrifying to me, for some reason. It's the eyes. Still looking great.

Those Pandas are far tooooo cute to be combat effective!

Really nice colours here, and those models are absolutely beautiful!

Paradigm wrote:Cheers, I'll give that a shot if my copy of Icestorm ever arrives!

Cool! Looking forward to seeing them. Let me know how it goes

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:I really like the clean, crisp color scheme you've got going on with your models. The Robo-pandas look almost terrifying to me, for some reason. It's the eyes. Still looking great.

Thanks lol! Kinda like the creepy doll you see in the halllway in the middle of the night.. "come play with us..."

Knightley wrote:Those Pandas are far tooooo cute to be combat effective!

I agree! I'm not sure what they do in game but I'd play them just for that reason

MHVB wrote:Really nice colours here, and those models are absolutely beautiful!

Thanks mate! I saw some of your conversions! that stuff is crazy

Update #6 Mobile Brigada

Here he is 95% finished. Just need to paint that bit of rubble hes standing on and base him. I think he is my new favourite mini. Gotta say I'm proud of how he came out. Think I'm getting better at this painting thing

Piccies:

Coincidentally this pic is of the same angle as above. Makes it easier to see the before and after


Right side view


BANG!


Dat infinity booty!


Left side view


C&C Welcome! Thanks!

Looks great, nicely imposing and generally badass!

He definitely is Thanks!

Update #7 Dr Tomcat and Zondcat!

So this week I got the Doc painted up and his little helper bot. At first I wasn't a fan of the cat model but after painting it, it's growing on me. I think I just have a soft spot for all my painted minis

Pics of the Tomcat:








And here's the catbot:

bikini armour o.o




Pics show a few things I need to fix up but for the moment I kinda want to get onto the rest of my Icestorm stuff

Thanks for looking!

Update #8 Hellcats/Nomads Groupshot

Quick update here with my finished Hellcat.





Coincidentally this model rounds out my 300pt army list:

NOMADS
──────────────────────────────────────────────────

GROUP 1 10 0 0

TOMCAT Doctor Combi Rifle + Light Flamethrower + 1 Zondcat / Pistol, Knife. (28)
ZONDCAT Electric Pulse.
INTERVENTOR Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Combi Rifle + 1 FastPanda / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 28)
INTERVENTOR Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Boarding Shotgun + 1 FastPanda / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 28)
HELLCAT Combi Rifle + Light Shotgun, Adhesive Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25)
INTRUDER Combi Rifle + Light Flamethrower, Adhesive Launcher / Pistol, CCW. (1 | 37)
INTRUDER (X Visor) MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, CCW. (1.5 | 52)
WILDCAT Combi Rifle + Light Flamethrower, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (19)
WILDCAT Combi Rifle + Light Flamethrower, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (19)
WILDCAT Combi Rifle + Light Flamethrower, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (19)
MOBILE BRIGADA Lieutenant MULTI Rifle + Light Flamethrower / Pistol, Knife. (43)

4 SWC | 298 Points

Open with Army 4

Here's the group shot of my 300pts of Nomads



And that's it for now

Nice work! I must be missing something on the list, though, as I thought you could only have 10 models per Combat Group and there's 11. Been a while since I read those rules though, as I`m not near that point yet!

Zondcat is a personal remote so I don't think it counts generates an order so doesnt count.

I think you can only have 10 orders in a combat gruop not 10 models.

Stuff looks great CKIG. Hope when I paint mine they look as good as yours.

 carlos13th wrote:
Zondcat is a personal remote so I don't think it counts generates an order so doesnt count.

I think you can only have 10 orders in a combat gruop not 10 models.

That would make sense!