Archangeleong’s Infinity The Game Blog

Alguaciles Have to admit I'm not a super fan of the look of these line troopers.  The Studio ones are painted so red they look like they are wearing prison jumpsuits, the blokes look like they pumped iron but skipped legs day and I think the shoulder pads remind me too much of 40K orks from the 80s.  That said, they are an essential Nomad trooper so I had to do my best to make them shine. I wanted to keep them mostly red due to their sectorial colours but not do them like the Studio. To this end, I muted the red on their fatigues, which as it turns out harks back to the N1 Alguaciles lol! The male models were a bit tricky to assemble as the arms didn't seem to line up well so I had to use quite a bit of greenstuff to make them work.  Other than that they were pretty easy to do and I batch painted the lot fairly quickly (but not overly enthusiastically) over a couple of days.  They turned out OK I guess and I tried to give them as much personality as possible. ...

Reverend Healer (Combi Rifle) One of my favorite all time Infinity miniatures. This gal is the reason I went into a panic last December and bought the battle pack that was going out of production.  Likely this mini will be rereleased in an army box, dang those clever people at CB tricking me into buying more miniatures...  Actually I quite like their new sales strategy of battle packs being replaced by army boxes after a year.  It makes planning collecting much easier. I painted her with more white than my Tunguska guys, which fits in with her role but is also consistent with Bakunin colours.  Loved working on her face and spent at least an hour on it alone. Even managed to pull of a sideways glance for once!  Lots of freehand too made it quite a tricky mini to finish.  I also upped the highlights on her black leggings etc to invoke a more glossy sexy leather fetish vibe to her (probably should have gone all the way to white though).  What's the...

Spektr (Combi Rifle) The last straggler from the battle pack (and last Tunguska guy for a while).  Simple and fast model to paint.  Kept him dark like his teammates but left the white helmet and gauntlets that are kinda iconic on this Nomad mini.

NNM Steel Painting Guide So I'm a bit of a beginner when it comes to non-metallic metal painting.  However, I wanted to give it a shot on my Infinity minis and I started practicing the technique on my JSA models about three years ago (wow three years into Infinity now!).  In the past, working on GW models, I preferred to paint metallic metals, however the techniques are fairly similar. If you paint steel, you only have to replace the metallic silver paints with greys and in both techniques white and black are used as extreme highlights and shadows.  One thing I did improve upon over the past was thinking about a light source and how it hits a surface and I tend to think about this more when painting NNM metallic parts. Although I don't consider myself an expert on NNM technique, I have gained some mastery in the last three years and I decided to put together a tutorial to share my experience, largely because Oni on the CB Infinity forum asked me how to do it.  ...