Archangeleong’s Infinity The Game Blog

  Intruder My last painting project in 2020 was the Beyond Icestorm expansion pack.  I began with this lady.  I kept her colors pretty standard. Although there was not much surface area to work with, I was able to add a few small freehand flourishes here and there to make her a bit more interesting.  

  Ninja (SMG) This guy is such an awesome miniature.  Hi tech ninja with SMG juxtaposed on temple ancient roof. It's a bit like modern day Japan itself, ancient and modern at the same time. I painted him as a palate cleanser after finishing my Yu Jing. Black was the main colour to deal with on this mini. I did a glaze of black over grey highlights and then reworked the highlights in order to get a nice texture to the black bodysuit. I also used slightly bluer greys to highlight the gun so that it a has a subtle difference in hue than the suit and stands out.  For the roof I opted for muted colours as is the style of Japanese temples which are typically less gaudy and brightly coloured than Chinese ones.  This guy wins the rule of cool in any fight...

  Yáokòng Remotes The new sculps are most welcome for these REMS (the old ones were pretty rough).  These guys were my final Yu Jing for 2020 and round out my fully armoured IA force (it has no cheerleaders or any other squishy members).  I would add the larger drones too if they were resculpted but the old ones are a bit of a mess of a design that I'm not keen on.  One thing I like about the studio Yáokòngs is the interesting patterns and unit designs. But I wanted to mix this up a bit for my Yáokòngs so I added more black to the unit markings to tie them in better with my IA force. They were fun to paint and I nice way to finish up my Yu Jing project for 2020. Yáokòng Remote Hùsòng (HMG) Yáokòng Remote Son-bae (Smart Missile Launcher)

  Dragon Lady HVT This lady was heaps of fun to paint.  I think I like doing civvies the most.  I really wanted her to have a traditional red Chinese dress with gold trim.  I went for two tones of red and then everything else offset by the gold.  I copied the patterns from a real dress.   The parasol was the intimidating part to paint with the fine freehand and I looked up many designs from simple cherry blossom patterns and so forth but settled on a more complex dragon one after much research.  The pattern I used is based on an amalgam of many pics but close to a very traditional dragon and sky design that I saw on quite a few different artworks.  I'm happy I chose the harder path of doing the dragon as it is a nice feature and is appropriate for this lady.