New Infinity New Faction – Haqqislam

The few games of N4 I’ve tried showed me armour is much more effective. Not only ‘cos crits don’t auto damage now but also ‘cos quite a few armour units get a 6″ first part of their move. Lovely for cautious move.

Haqq aren’t well known for their HI but I think they have some of the nicest looking powered armour in the game.

On this model I was a bit stuck on where to put some blue highlights. I didn’t find it compelling and preferred keeping it to a minimum. To make the miniature more interesting I added some yellow areas and stripes, saving the blue for actual light sources.

I had a go at freehanding the Ramah logo. It’s ok, not that great.

These figures followed the standard colour scheme. I changed their visors a little. The Zhayedan I tried to follow Scale Colours recipe for a copper colour. The finish is ok. I’m not going ot push any harder on it. Leila’s visor is a layering of tones starting from a white in the middle working through yellow, orange, red and purple. As you go through those tones they get easier to blend.

I’ve included a couple of progress pics of Leila. Partly to show the basecoating for the visor but mainly to show how bright the figure is before the oil wash.

The basic Haqq troop with some impressively good doctors.

I’ve built a collection of Haqq minis without any plan. Pieces I’ve got in starter boxes or bargains I couldn’t resist buying over the years. Thanks to the hobby shame league I’m participating in I’m trying to get my unpainted minis pile down. That means my current Haqq force will include:

• the Red Veil starter
• the Red Veil Beyond box
• the old Qapu Khalqi starter
• an Azra’il
• a couple of remotes
• a Bashi Bazouk
• the Magheriba Guard
• the Fat Yuan Yuan

Ehhh, honestly, I get a bit bored writing lists and reading rules. I need to play to really understand an army. So this force will be a mish mash of units for vanilla Haqq and Ramah.

To get stuff ready for my first escalation league game I’ll concentrate on the Red Veil units.

I’ve had some Antenocitis Workshop Badlands bases for a while now. I bought them when Red Veil came out but I only got round to painting the Yu Jing half of that box.

However I did paint the bases for them a while back and have to confess I can’t remember the exact colours. They’re supposed to be a slightly darker view of a desert.

In the case of the Magheriba Guard I decided to make the base myself. I glued rolled greenstuff into some rough ripples and glued on a couple of rocks. I then applied sand over it all.

With these bases I’d prime black then spray white from one angle. Apply lighter colours over the lighter side, something like Scale Colour Iroko, then run in a darker colour from the other side, Scale Colour Mars Orange I think. After that I use a wash like Druchii Violet to add shade in the darker side. I try to apply the paints quickly to blend them. Perhaps tidy the overlaps at the top of the sandy ripples. I don’t want to take too long over these.

I’ll apologise for the progress pics on these now. I painted a pile of them some time ago and didn’t document the process well. I can’t find the final process pic where I applied the purple but hopefully that stage will show on the finished bases.

I don’t want to follow the usual colour scheme. I think nearly every new Haqq player has thought about painting them in a Dune style Fremen scheme. Me included. At their heart the Dune Fremen scheme from the first movie is quite plain. So I’ll pick an accent colour for it and leave it at that.

Looking round for inspiration I rather liked the pics I saw of Tuareg people. They inspired me to push for a scheme of warm browns, light tan / sand colours, whites and blues. I’ve told myself it represents the colours of the desert earth and sky.

Generally I have several rough tones in mind and just mix them up as I see fit.

Darker Tones: Scale Colour Black Leather (SC32), Scale Colour Red Leather (SC30)

Mid Tones: Scale Colour  Walnut Brown (SC29), Scale Colour Orange Leather (SC28), Scale Colour Iroko (SC27)

High Tones: Scale Colour Mojave White (SC62)

For the blues I normally undercoated with grey then layered up with mixes of Scale Colour Cantabric Blue (SC53), Scale Colour Sky Blue (SC50) and White.

Afterwards my miniatures will get an oil wash tohelp hide the roughness of some transitions.