Archangeleong’s Infinity The Game Blog

Hollow Men (MULTI RIFLE + Pitcher) Very impressive miniature.  Slightly insectoid and inhuman proportions make them seem very tough even though they are much slighter looking than other heavy infantry.  Reminds me of the robots from Velarian and the Thousand Planets (A fun and underrated sci fi movie imho). In all armies I'm drawn to collect I have to like both the main heavy infantry and the line troops.  For Nomads I like all HI (Mobile Brigada, Riot Girls and Hollow Men) so it was hard to choose which sectorial to do. However I was a fan of the Securitate more than the other line troops so that's why I chose Tunguska. This guy took much longer to paint than the others which surprised me.  There are lots of tiny details that belie the slight frame of the Hollow Men.  Again I stuck with mostly black and just a touch of red.  Yet I also added a few more spots of white here and there because I wanted to paint the face white. I didn't realise that the f...

 Heckler Hacker This guy looks kinda sinister with his enclosed helm and dark coat. It was Ujin's Nomads  on the Infinity forums that inspired me to start a Nomad army, and his Heckler was one of the first I admired.  I was very impressed by how he was able to paint numerous tones of black on the same model. With this in mind I tried to emulate Ugin's skilfull application of black by painting black differently on various parts of my Tunguska forces. The Heckler was my first main attempt at putting this into practice. On the clothing and trenchcoat I applied a stippling technique to give those parts a cloth-like texture.  On the armour I did wet blending and applied a brighter final highlight.  On the helm I wet blended an even brighter highlight to give it a glossy effect.  Finally, on the gun I used blue grey as the mid highlight instead of dark grey, so that it would have a different sheen to the armour and coat. The overall effects are subtle but no...

Securitate Securitate are the line troopers that I like best for Nomads.  That's one reason why I chose the Tunguska Sectorial.  Love the little details like the cops badges, handcuffs, earpieces and shades.  Overall I'm sticking to mostly black and red as per the standard nomad colours (I have a mad plan to collect a little bit of each army one day, so no crazy colour deviations in each faction).  However I do like to put my own spin on things. It was hard to come up with a different way to do the Securitate, but after a bit of research I found inspiration from  Star Trek TNG Red shirts! Which is perfect for this trooper profile, being cannon fodder ( OS Red Shirts anyway).  Because I painted the red shoulders I ended up doing away with most of the glowy bits. I did the remaining glowy bits in blue green, which differs from the studio army also, but more so because I wanted to further differentiate this army from my JSA who have pure blue glowy...

Tunguska Jurisdictional Command: Nomads Sectorial Starter Pack So we are all in the grip of a global pandemic and forced into social isolation. Being in lockdown at home isn't the worst thing to endure for a hobbyist as there is plenty more time on one's hands (I am lucky to be still employed and able to work online). Tunguska are my lockdown army and the starter set I was able to knock out in just under ten days! That's a pretty mean feat for a slow painter like me. Nomad colours are essentially red, black and white. There is a different emphasis on each color within the three Nomad Sectorials. I tried to keep my Tunguska Sectorial Army colour palette limited to mostly black, with a splash of red (Corrigor has more red and Bakunin more white).  The only other colour I added was blue/green lighting. Happy to have got all these guys done in such as short space of time but I think I'm losing my mind a bit.  I think I need to get out more...

Yu Jing Painting Guide Thought I'd put together a bit of a step by step guide to painting Yu Jing armour using my Yan Huos. I've included how to do the contrasting black and metal sections because breaking down a miniature into easily paintable sections is crucial to being able to paint neatly and quickly by minimising mistakes and reworking colours. These Yu Jing guys have two main sections to do: Yellow armour panels and black/metal armour cables and weapons. Each section is done in three stages: Base colour, shading and then highlighting. I used Vallejo colours and followed the colour palette used by Angel Giraldez in the Yu Jing painting set . I don't have the set myself but I just guessed how he used them based on the colour selection within the set. I use brushes only because my airbrush is a bit dead and I spend more time cleaning it than painting lol!  But to be honest I'm just more comfortable using a brush and only really find an airbrush useful for pain...