Infinity

First project log on BOW 2.0 had to be my current project of painting infinity!

I will go through all that i have currently for infinity and keep this up to date with advancements!

I will make another blog to finish off the terrain side of things, that will take a little more time to put together as that’s more of a how to and why thing.

Sadly I cant take credit for the colour schemes I will use as they will be from the master himself Lord Giraldez.  So you can watch while I try to imitate this master as best I can and hopefully improve along the way.

I started looking at Infinity on Operation Ice Storm week on BOW a few years ago. I was so excited a got the game about a year after this. I looked and looked and looked at the tiny models and wished they were heroic scale. The fear built up and they sat for some time. Then I found out Angel Giraldez had a facebook page with step by steps (now missing 🙁 ).

I used these to paint my first infinity models.

My first finished Infinity forces!

So that’s my start,

I don’t think it’s to bad but without this great set i don’t think I would have continued.

I played the initial mini campaign in the book about 20 times with lots of different people and still use this to get friends into the game.

Been watching all the great stuff from spring cleaning and I started to look at all the nice bare metal models I have kicking around.

I have been playing more Infinity and I have played with bare metal models and felt the shame.

I have fallen out with Pano and decided to look back at my overall painting progress. I have Since added JSA and some individual models to my three forces all unpainted. Decided this bank holiday to start to paint infinity again.

I then remembered why I fell out with this. Greengate. So I set about fixing this by surprise just painting more. I also needed to clean off a layer of dust off of the models I done this with water and an airbrush. I went against the book and decided to just try and paint a similar green. This worked out great and got me painting infinity again.

I cant believe this has been a year strop. (though not as if I was not doing other stuff)

So far a good start quite pleased overall.

I still need more practice painting infinity faces. Think I prefer the heroic proportions. Also the Antipode crest was crazy to paint.

Still so much fun painting infinity I cant believe I stopped just because of a shade of green.

More to come.

So after a year and stalling I put brush to model again and put my terrain aside for a little longer.

I finished the rest of the models a bit longer than I expected as I was only doing an hour a night but it’s done.

That’s thankfully not the end of my infinity painting adventures.

I have the beyond Icestorm box to do the JSA Army pack and an Ariadna Tag and a Pano Tag.

So much to do so little time. I am however going to split my time between painting so will take this off of hold.

I need to get better at painting the female faces. I make them so pig ugly and cant think of anyway to get better but paint more. This is bad as I think I am better at painting 28mm heroic faces overall and female in particular.

Oh well enough ranting.

More to come.

So I wanted to get back to finishing my landing pad. No luck, however I found a use for hangovers. I am usually not in a good position to do anything but pity my life choices and drink lots of water and pain killers but it seems I can also basecoat. I have been out twice and the day after woke up and base coated which drives me along into the fun part of painting.

I finished painting two models on the first run and managed to basecoat the rest of beyond ice storm on the second. This is now ready for brush painting the rest today.

This is where I am now I hope to get the rest of the Ice storm box done this weekend. I have also based all 11 of the JSA and undercoated all of my infinity models.

More to come hopefully today.

So I didn’t manage to finish yesterday… Things happened but today was a bank holiday so lucky I had a second Sunday.

only thing I love and hate about infinity models. I find myself, that the models I think I like the most I enjoy the least painting. Weird thing I cant explain.

I enjoyed the OSL on the sword and the snipers pose when painting, very odd as these are the models I liked the least.

I don’t know if this has been done before (I can say it has) I can’t say I have consciously seen. The OSL was done with a mix of matt varnish and red ink building it up with thin coats.

Apart from that more of the same.

I may have painted myself out for a bit which bodes well for terrain.

We will see, Glad I have more infinity painted.

More to come!

Played infinity last weekend. This got me wishing I could play some of my unpainted models. Started painting again after a 3 month break of almost no creativity. So happy at this even if this is a random selection of models.

Super happy to be back painting. Pleased with the results. I wanted to join the campaign last weekend but wasn’t to be as the rules and how mixed us up. Need to get more game in and painting in and possibly even some scenery.

More to come.

So I have not stopped painting which is good because I have lots to paint. I have moved over to Aristeia so look out for that Project. Think I am a Corvus Belli Fan. But enough of that. Onto the JSA. Only painted one further model the Kuge Delegate, going to put it here in case I forget.

More to come as ever but it may be another couple of weeks before I am back here. I will be trying to finish the core set of Aristeia first. Hope you are all getting excited over Defiance which is also on my radar.

I had a little push with the defiance Kickstarter to paint more infinity models. I have had the JSA since they came out and they have been my undercoated shame for a while, so much so that I had to clean them before painting.

I usually start a set painting the models that interest me the most. Sadly this could lead to what normally happens that I lose steam half way through a set. I batch paint a little but not a lot. Mostly base colours then take each model as an individual.

I already painted the Kuroshi Rider and the Kuge Delegate which interested me a lot. So I took a step back and decided to do the base infantry Keisotsue Butai next before moving over to something more interesting.

With the base infantry done, this means they would not be sitting out for another year unpainted. They are also quite enjoyable. I changed the way I painted and painted on a mostly white undercoat. this helped with not having to do 100 layers of white.

Also learned that a few shades of black then a white highlight sells back better than turning it into grey.

More to come as I got a bit done this week.