Archangeleong’s Infinity The Game Blog

Kriza Borac (HMG) Kriza Borac, the big boy and final and most complex miniature of the starter set.  Always wanted to paint one, but not sure about how to do it.  I love the big fuel(?) cans on the back, hex fibre muscles and chonkyness, but not a fan of the glowing mane depicted on the studio models (why does he need so much head power?). Thus I kept the cables black but added ribbed texturing to make them interesting. I did the head white to align this guy with my Hollow Men and for some reason the head/cable combo reminds me of one of the failed monstrosities in Robocop 2 (fans of 80s and 90s action sci-fi films may get this reference). Otherwise I kept the colours fairly similar to the studio. Very happy with how all my lessons learned on Tunguska were applied to this guy and he is a fitting mini to finish the starter set on.  Big effort for me to get the set completed from one saturday across a week to the following sunday. Amazed my wife let me get away with it...

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...