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 Red Viper wrote:
Stupid sexy Tohaa.

Dude! They are anthropomorphized artichokes.

I liked the soon to be oop tentacle drones, but I can see where they would be a pain to assemble. I saw a photo of one painted with fluorescent paints. It looks fantastic to me.

Good to hear about the RPG minis' availability. I hope that the Haqq mini is not kickstarter only.

Yeah... the tentacle drones just shifted way up in my queue. I may still get the new ones some day, but I simply must have the creepy floaty tentacle drones for my Shasvastii.

Tohaa creep me out, especially the 'ambassador' or 'diplomatic relations' one, that's trying too hard to be sexy and just comes off creepy as all heck.

I like Tohaa. They've got cool armor designs.

Those Drones struck me as likely being Exrah costructs. They fit their aesthetic far better than the EI stuff. That might be part of the reason they're being removed. They wanted a more unified look for the EI/Ur Rationalist designs.

Steel Phalanx's left-handed arm wrestling champion Acmon "Megafap" has painted close-ups on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=ms.c.eJw9yskJACAQA8COZLOXSf~_NiYo~_B0ZJV2iWBwo2tJ1mrE7mN0ARM77Pt36ua3~%3Bu85sLpBMTZQ~-~-.bps.a.948293961898178.1073742123.436491416411771&type=1

That's one beautiful looking mini, very 'Ghost in the Shell'

I think the shoulder pad resting on his arm gives the impression of the thicker arm.

 Red Harvest wrote:

 Red Viper wrote:
Stupid sexy Tohaa.

Dude! They are anthropomorphized artichokes.

Red Harvest, you are the one who should be face-palmed for missing the Simpsons reference there !

Are there rumours concerning Acmons rules? The mini is ace!

Apart from Enomotarchos for Dactyls, no.

 Pacific wrote:
That's one beautiful looking mini, very 'Ghost in the Shell'

I think the shoulder pad resting on his arm gives the impression of the thicker arm.

 Red Harvest wrote:

 Red Viper wrote:
Stupid sexy Tohaa.

Dude! They are anthropomorphized artichokes.

Red Harvest, you are the one who should be face-palmed for missing the Simpsons reference there !

I got the reference. I went beyond it. It's not like the Tohaa are "wearing nothing at all." ( thank goodness) Do try and keep up, dear fellow. Now about the Diplomat. I believe that it was said of the mini that she is communicating her desire to *ally* with humans by means of interpretive dance. The Tohaa have a good, unified look. Comparing the Tohaa range with the CA range shows that CB has learned a trick or two. Now the CA is catching up.

I'm guessing nothing new is forthcoming until the 15th? Will there be some sort of broadcast of the Inter-Planetary event/seminar, or will it be "hope someone films it and uploads it". ( and doesn't have the camera battery run out of juice too soon, like with the Ficzone seminar last year)

 IJW wrote:
Apart from Enomotarchos for Dactyls, no.

Plus he has a Panzerfaust in his dossier. I know it's not much but it is something his model is amazing.

@Red Harvest: No clue. We may see stuff being put out like Dossiers etc in the meantime, but Interplanetary is the best bet for new info being dumped.

If someone is kind enough to record the Seminar (if there is one) then we can hope for a video upload. I don't believe there was one last year. It will most likely be in Spanish, so it would need to be translated.

The seminar is in the published schedule on Saturday evening, but is half the length of the GenCon one, plus it's effectively even shorter for being in two languages. I don't believe anyone is recording it.

Please forgive silly question time: When is the USAriadna box supposed to ship?

I was under the impression that it was 'released' at GenCon, which was a week ago, and I've seen no mention of the box shipping to distributors/stores that I've yet seen.

Any ideas?

Very excited!

Thanks,
Mort

It was a "prerelease" at GenCon. Essentially they brought a number of boxes with them from Spain to sell.

Purportedly, they began shipping to distributors starting on Tuesday. If true, The Warstore should have them by next week and start shipping out immediately to the stores that use them as a distributor and to anyone who ordered via them.

 Kanluwen wrote:
It was a "prerelease" at GenCon. Essentially they brought a number of boxes with them from Spain to sell.

Purportedly, they began shipping to distributors starting on Tuesday. If true, The Warstore should have them by next week and start shipping out immediately to the stores that use them as a distributor and to anyone who ordered via them.

Ah, that explains it!

Thank you Kanluwen!

-Mort

Miniature Market Deal of the day is the new Squalo, I don't much care for the sculpt but $25 is tempting

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/cvb280275-0507.html

Normally it is $35.19 at MM. A nice discount. Wish it were the Dragoes though.

And the LE dismounted Maverick is a shout out to Taylor Swift? How closely does CB follow American Pop Culture anyway?

 Red Harvest wrote:
Normally it is $35.19 at MM. A nice discount. Wish it were the Dragoes though.

And the LE dismounted Maverick is a shout out to Taylor Swift? How closely does CB follow American Pop Culture anyway?

Pretty decently. Only if you really look at faces for the most part as sort of cameos.

The Acontecimento Regulars are all modeled after characters from 'Lost'. Same with the Keisotsu Missile Launcher guy.
The Gallewegans are all modelled after scotish characters: Mel Gibson's version of braveheart, and Sean Connery.
The Dire Foes Lupe and Chandra Sgt Thrasymedes are explicitly Danyeris Targaryen and Jon Snow from Game of Thrones (and their actors).
Roger Van Zant is pretty much a straight character out of Reign of Fire.
The Umbra Legate is more or less Darth Maul.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. There's some non-american references too. The female Ghazi Mutthawa is based on a popular spanish fashion blogger. Several characters are based on well known Infinity forum members even.

0-12 commissioner was supposed to be "allegedly corrupted" politician.

Dire Foes Aleph Thrasymedes. People from official forum claim he's based on a actor that plays Jon Snow. Nomad supposedly have the whiny Daenerys (rather fitting). Personally don't see that much resemblance.

PanO machinist is auto portrait of his sculptor.
Bolt LE has the face of Tabitha Lyons.

Probably more, these are first things that come to mind.

 Knight wrote:
0-12 commissioner was supposed to be "allegedly corrupted" politician.

Hopefully you are somewhere where this politician cannot reach you, could you please mention their name?

 Vain wrote:

 Knight wrote:
0-12 commissioner was supposed to be "allegedly corrupted" politician.

Hopefully you are somewhere where this politician cannot reach you, could you please mention their name?

Pretty sure it's Silvio Berlusconi.

If the Maverick dismount is meant to be Taylor Swift it's their first big miss. Doesn't look like her at all.

I have a personal suspicion that whoever is directing the Nomad art design is a closet X-men fan.

Lots of piccies and suspicious credibility under the tag:

 -Loki- wrote:

Pretty sure it's Silvio Berlusconi.

I'd remember, if it'd be him. Can't recall, unfortunately.

 -Loki- wrote:

 Vain wrote:

 Knight wrote:
0-12 commissioner was supposed to be "allegedly corrupted" politician.

Hopefully you are somewhere where this politician cannot reach you, could you please mention their name?

Pretty sure it's Silvio Berlusconi.

If the Maverick dismount is meant to be Taylor Swift it's their first big miss. Doesn't look like her at all.

Bostria mentioned the Taylor Swift reference during his GenCon seminar.

The 0-12 guy is inspired by some Spanish politician. Luis Bárcenas, ( or José Luis Bárcenas Gutiérrez to use his full name) I believe.

Just 5 days until potentially more new news

 Knight wrote:
0-12 commissioner was supposed to be "allegedly corrupted" politician.

Dire Foes Aleph Thrasymedes. People from official forum claim he's based on a actor that plays Jon Snow. Nomad supposedly have the whiny Daenerys (rather fitting). Personally don't see that much resemblance.

PanO machinist is auto portrait of his sculptor.
Bolt LE has the face of Tabitha Lyons.

Probably more, these are first things that come to mind.

Regarding the Dire Foes/Game of Thrones thing, here's the art for those:

Jean Reno and some japanese references we also have.

Then there is Deadpool aka Senor Massacre,
The wife of one of the scuplters as the Bootleg O-Yoroi Pliot,
the Dire Foes with the Knigh and Assassin and 2 of CB biggest fan suupporter,
and Antipode well read A Fire Upon the Deep.

CB loves their homages.

Edit: The Warcor model is a fan homage too.

While somewhat interesting, all of this really isn't relevant or on topic here.

Please feel free to continue the discussion about miniatures, homages and inspiration down to the INFINITY subforums though!

Thanks!

Got Ninjad

USariadna 6th airborne sculpt.

Inter-Planetary has begun...

So first news that I've seen is about the RPG.
-There will be faction books.
-The campaign will start after Mission 301 (from the Campaign-Paradiso book.)
-The minis will not be 100% exclusive to the kickstarter. There may be other means-- currently being investigated-- to obtain them. This is nice news.

EDIT: Oops, forgot that the forum reads Campaign colon Paradise as Campaignaradiso.