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 Red Harvest wrote:
Uhm, no. It is a sign of laziness. The sculptor is not doing his job and sculpting a detailed mini. He is 'hiding' everything under the TP. CB tends to overuse things because they looked good once, the first time. See: Rage Fist and Tactical Debris. We're seeing more than a few hooded short jackets too.

Its definitely not laziness. Sculpting good looking flowing cloth isn't an easy thing to do. We can also see that the torso of the model has been at least partially rendered, so this isn't a matter of the sculptor just looking for a shortcut. Also, as far as I know the sculptors don't get to leave out major details from the dossier,like a poncho that covers the model's entire torso.


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 Barzam wrote:
I just wish she didn't look so much like a Tohaa instead of a human.

But she doesn't look like a Tohaa at all. I mean, except for the similar skin color theres no resemblance, is there? She doesn't have any of the Tohaa physiology at all. She looks way more like a posthuman, although I'm guessing thats a coincidence too. I think her skin tone is mean to indicate that she's not quite human, but if you paint her with a more typical skin tone she'll look human.

Oh great. I'm surrounded by a bunch of poncho-philes.

Perverts.

Jake, that sort of detail, the flowing fabric, is easier to do. And it does mean the sculptor can spend less time on the mini. However, you're correct in that the sculptor cannot ignore major elements of the concept art. So I'll blame the people who conceived of the tactical poncho. It seems just one step short of an actual cape.

It also means the mini is easier and faster to paint. It does leave room for some interesting freehand if the painter is so inclined.

Any thoughts on that thing on Jeanne D'Arc V.2's head? Anyone?

My thoughts on Joan 2.0's head are: at least alien-grope-victim came with two heads, so I can maybe use one of them.

I'm not minded to buy the Joan 2.0 at all. The Giraldez book LE has stood me well for some time and as there is no gun present on the mini she can represent both profiles, if I'm ever tempted to use 2.0, which so far I haven't.

As for the NCA's new recruit, I'm not bothered about the poncho (low tech mimetism I guess) but depending on the way the model fits together I might give her a stolen Bolt helmet and perhaps even a complete leg swap to give her a little more 'PanO-ness; as at the moment she seems to have turned up in an Ariadna kit.

 Red Harvest wrote:


Jake, that sort of detail, the flowing fabric, is easier to do. And it does mean the sculptor can spend less time on the mini. However, you're correct in that the sculptor cannot ignore major elements of the concept art. So I'll blame the people who conceived of the tactical poncho.

I'm not sure why you think that kind of flowing fabric is easy to do. It isn't. Or at least, that hasn't been my experience. But also, like a lot of Infinity models these days this model uses some recycled assets (like the legs and torso), but also has some brand new custom assets created JUST for her (the head and poncho). Re-using assets actually is a time saving shortcut (although it doesn't indicate that, as you said, the sculptor is lazy). Creating new custom assets is not a short cut and is actually a lot of work. So no, despite what you think the sculptor wasn't just being lazy. This release probably required as much or more work than most standard releases.

CB has done some embarrassingly lazy releases over the last few years (the Spetsnaz HMG, the general release Devil Dog), but this isn't one of them.

My experience is that flowing fabric is easy, easier than more defined detail. My experience is with clay for modelling/sculpting in larger scales and green stuff sculpting for conversions, but never anything from scratch using GS. Given that we have differing experiences, of course we have draw different conclusions.

Also, please, don't take my comments too seriously. Most of them are meant tongue in cheek, or maybe to stir something up.

News: Someone posted all the Interplantary tables on their blog, here,http://www.lead-rising.com/2018/08/interplanetary-2018-table-dump.html Some interesting things going on on a few of them.

And no word about Acontecimento at Interplanetario. Hmph.

 Red Harvest wrote:
My experience is that flowing fabric is easy, easier than more defined detail. My experience is with clay for modelling/sculpting in larger scales and green stuff sculpting for conversions, but never anything from scratch using GS. Given that we have differing experiences, of course we have draw different conclusions.

Also, please, don't take my comments too seriously. Most of them are meant tongue in cheek, or maybe to stir something up.

News: Someone posted all the Interplantary tables on their blog, here,http://www.lead-rising.com/2018/08/interplanetary-2018-table-dump.html Some interesting things going on on a few of them.

And no word about Acontecimento at Interplanetario. Hmph.

All the infinity stuff is sculpted using CAD now. From my relatively limited experience with CAD, anything organic or flowing would definitely be harder to model. Defined detail would be fairly easy, especially as you could zoom in.

So when does ITS 10 drop?

Beginning of September, I believe. Season 10: Xenotech. There is to be a new Classified Deck.

 ImAGeek wrote:
All the infinity stuff is sculpted using CAD now. From my relatively limited experience with CAD, anything organic or flowing would definitely be harder to model. Defined detail would be fairly easy, especially as you could zoom in.

I had not considered this. Now that you mention it, I do recall hearing that the sculptors hand sculpted the fur on the antipodes and dog warriors because it was so much trouble to get it to look right using the CAD.

Xenotech? Sounds ominous.

I'm glad I got to use the deck of classifieds for a month lol.

Mini Q&A session taking pre-selected questions from social media and ad-hoc ones from the crowd. Hosts were Bostria, Gutier and Alberto
Written by Phlyk from the offical forums.

http://www.lead-rising.com/2018/08/interplanetary-round-table-2018.html

Does anyone know the intended role for the Mowang? The “roll bars” (don’t know what else to call them) make them look almost bigger than a Yan Huo, but with shorter-ranged weapons.

I’d like to get back to playing Infinity, but Corvus Belli seems determined to give reasons not to.

 BrotherGecko wrote:
Xenotech? Sounds ominous.

I'm glad I got to use the deck of classifieds for a month lol.

ITS 10 begins next Monday, September 3rd. I guess we'll see the new information packet by then. I do hope there is a pdf or something of the classified objectives too. I'll not be participating in any ITS tournaments, and see no need to buy a deck.

 Mastiff wrote:
Does anyone know the intended role for the Mowang? The “roll bars” (don’t know what else to call them) make them look almost bigger than a Yan Huo, but with shorter-ranged weapons.

I’d like to get back to playing Infinity, but Corvus Belli seems determined to give reasons not to.

Likely similar to the Dayokai Dengekitai but with less of a CC focus.

Dodgy pics of the 2 new sectorial lists:

Andromeda is showing up in the weirdest places.

It's somewhat disappointing that the OSS doesn't have anything new that we haven't already seen in the previews.

OSS has Arjunas which I hadn't heard about before,
Andromeda's fluff mentionned her ties with the OSS I seem to recall.

Two Maruts and a load of Netrods it is....

Orc Feuerbach render:

Oh dear god yes.

I am not liking this new RTF model. It looks way too Panoceanian.

WAAAAAAAAGH!

 .Mikes. wrote:
Two Maruts and a load of Netrods it is....

Well... 2 Netrods (this is the most disappointing thing about the OSS so far)

HaleysRedComet wrote:

 .Mikes. wrote:
Two Maruts and a load of Netrods it is....

Well... 2 Netrods (this is the most disappointing thing about the OSS so far)

We don't know how Netrods are going to work come November with the 'big update'.

Note the Posthumans AVA. 1. You can't take 1. You have to take, at minimum, two.

Netrods and Imetrons are going to function the same way as they are now.

And having 2 Netrods in OSS was expected

Well it is a unit that consists of 2-3 different troop profiles.

Sorry for the Facebook images, but it is what it is for now. The TAK list looks to have a preview of the new Traktor Mul type being utilized by the Spetsnaz. "Kuryer" is Russian for "Courier".
Arjuna is a Hindu demigod that was known as "the best archer in all the world".

I guess the BS 14 Kurgat Autocannon is too much, but the BS 20 Orc Feurbach is cool (it is a very cool model though).

 jake wrote:
I guess the BS 14 Kurgat Autocannon is too much, but the BS 20 Orc Feurbach is cool (it is a very cool model though).

You're assuming that ORCs will be able to run Core Fireteams or that it won't be a unique profile that can't be linked.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Note the Posthumans AVA. 1. You can't take 1. You have to take, at minimum, two.

Posthumans are AVA1 in vanilla as well. G:Jumper is what specifies you have to take 2-3, so nothing changes there