Infinity Table in 30 Mins

 So, after browsing the Infinity forums I found a great idea for quick terrain for Infinity. I stole this idea and ran with to see what I could do. In the same fashion as other terrain I am working on, it is incredibly basic. I will detail it later. 

 The how after the jump...

Infinity Terrain: Progress Update

Well, school and work has meant that I have extremely limited. I showed you all, in this post, some of the terrain I had started. This is what I have done since. Well, I did all but one of these. They are deliberately simple. The thought behind that? The last time we attempted Infinity, it did not hold. One of the main reason was that we knew the game required different terrain than we had, but we over focused on detailed, multilevel, modular terrain and in no time we were tired of waiting to get terrain done so we could play. 

 This time around, KISS all the way. Keep it simple stupid! The primary thought is getting a bulk of large LoS blocking terrain and worry about the details later. So now we have the basis of a great table. It is playable, and later it will look great. There are 3 or 4 more pieces not pictured here as I outsourced some work to another location...hehe.

More pics after the jump...

Working Away...Infinity Terrain

So there has been a movement at the local store with Infinity lately. I already own the models so I figured I would join in. We took a stab at this game once before, and the pull to other games as well as the terrain demands pretty much stopped it before it started. This time around, we all have an understanding of what it will take, and we are committed to using what we can until we get some proper terrain made. I played some games last week and we used card storage boxes as terrain. I always enjoy making terrain so I thought I would spend some of the little free time I have and take a stab at it...

Quick Hit..Monkeyman7x's True Metallic Metals

I usually don't do this, but I think this is a really good article on how to do True Metallic Metals. For the most part there are two ways to approach painting metals. True Metallic Metals (TMM) or Non-Metallic Metals (NMM).

Non-Metallic Metal is a process brought over from other art forms where instead of using metallic paint (paint containing small metal flakes), you paint using normal non-metallic paint. NMM is a fairly difficult technique to master and looks fantastic when done correctly, but unfortunately it looks really bad if done poorly.

True Metallic Metals is a process as varied as anything in miniature painting. It can be as simple as a metal base coat, a wash, and then a highlight, to the process in Monkeyman7x's article. As varied as the technique is the results. The results from TMM is not really any better or worse than NMM, both look spectacular when done well, but TMM has the benefit that when used by less skilled painters the results are better,

Anyway, here's the link to the article. I have seen others before, but I think he does a good job of breaking it down into steps that anyone can manage and recreate.

Monkeyman7x's True Metallic Metals

Some Airbrush Work

Many of you know that I have been striving to get control on my collection the last couple years. Part of those strives is consolidating or eliminating parts of my collection. With the implementation of the allies rules in 6th edition I began working on my Emperors Children. With the release of Forgeworld's Horus Heresy book, I decided to consolidate the usable pieces of my Black Templar into a loyal version. That would make one big army I could use. The Chaos parts as a Chaos Space Marine army, the loyalist parts as a Codex Space Marines army, and combined I will use them in Horus Heresy games I play.

One army, one color scheme and I settled on a pre-heresy purple and gold look. Specifically a more muted almost platinum looking gold. In addition I am using my airbrush to do as much of the base color as possible. What follows is the result of my 3rd attempt. Unfortunately I am unable to truely judge if I like them until the other colors are on the model.

The steps after the jump...

RIP Airbrush Compressor

I guess I am now in the market for a new airbrush compressor. I am not dead in the water as I already have two, but the one that died was the work horse I used the most. It was a fairly inexpensive model I bought at Harbor Freight, but it was adjustable so I was not set with a single pressure.

My backup however stepped up and performed like a champ. It will not work as a long term solution as much of what I am doing with my airbrush now requires much lower pressures than he puts out. I might try moving the regulator to the old one and see what happens. If that does not work I will need to get something else.

Now I just have to decide what I want to get to replace it. I think I might actually need to move up to something bigger and maybe has a tank. I am just worried about the noise. The one that just died was pretty quiet and the less noise the less likely it will draw aggro from the misses. 

Some Quick Work

I finally managed to finish a figure. I have been replaying Fallout New Vegas and I also wanted a figure that I can paint and not really worry about how it looked in the end. Let me rephrase that. I was not going to be concerned with it looking spectacular or matching the color of an existing force. With Fallout on my mind I pulled out one of the cultists I have from the Dark Vengeance set.

More after the jump...