Infinity Spring Cleaning

Cadin was great fun to paint. Now I very much look forward to painting the rest of my Ariadna forces.

I pretty much just used the Vallejo WW2 Soviet box for this, though in future I may need to find a richer, darker, base green to give them a bit more vibrance.

Red hair recipe was to start with chocolate brown and then highlight up with the pictured colors (in gradations of course).

So…that’s everything needed for the game tomorrow, though I’m still hoping to at least get Agnes ready to go as well since she does figure into the first mission (I think).

Yet again I was entirely unoriginal and just went with the Vallejo PanOceania recipe. Not the first time I’ve done Pano so I knew what I was in for.

I’m not clear on Uma’s sectorial affiliation. And yes, that bothers me as I had come up with variants for the sectorials. Regardless, I just went with the game art.

Oh—I’m going with 74.029 Lipstick for the Pano glowing bits (though I may well have said something entirely different when last I painted Pano).

I swear one of these days I’m going to accidentally back my way into a respectable NMM. This isn’t it and it’s not really what I was going for but it feels closer than the times I’ve actually tried (see here for an example).

This my first go round painting Yu Jing and I’m no longer intimidated by the prospect (though it does take me a considerable length of time). I pretty much just followed the Vallejo playbook on this—with the exception of adding a final wash with a 50/50 mix of the pictured paints.

It’s really nice to get back to painting humans after all that Shasvasti. Billie was fun too. I’m a sucker for kawai.
So close to being able to play the first few missions with everything necessary all painted up! (And hopefully getting some battle/mission reports up!)

I tried taking a pic of all 6 but this looks better. Same highlighting of the armor armor as with the rest of the Shasvasti here. I don’t know why these took me so blinking long to finish. I think I just have a mental block painting duplicate sculpts for Infinity. It feels wrong.

So heroes, Charontid, and Megalodron  to go. I’m going to start in on the heroes as I’m hoping to start the campaign with a friend on Saturday. I figure the Charontid and Big Un are really unlikely to show up in the first mission.

So here’s the progress (in reverse order) on the scales/claws and the paints I used (starting with a base of black with successive highlights ending in a 50/50 mix of the last two) and ending with a wash of the first dark green.

So…here’s how I’m doing these little buggers. I’ll add the paints in the next post but I was struck that early on in my painting I was really frustrated with how many coats it took to get some Stormtroopers good to go. Now I’d be surprised if anything leaves the paint table with anything less than  that many coats. Long and short: I’m a slow painter but these lot are coming along despite my best efforts.

Edit: really just three paints. Start with Dead Flesh, a wash with the purple, and then highlights with a mix of Dead Flesh and Ivory, with successive increases in the Ivory.