Archangeleong’s Infinity The Game Blog

Qiang Gao This guy was fun to paint.  So chonky.  I added lots of little markings here and there so he would tie in to my Invincible army.  Had plenty of practice painting Yu Jing yellow/orange armour so this guy was a breeze to paint, although he took the longest out of the heroes just because of his large size.

  Jazz & Billie These guys were the first heroes I did in the set.  It was nice to work on something different to all the purple Combined Army villains.  I tried to match her colours with my Nomad army. I didn't stray too far from the artwork in terms of colour selection but I did use black instead of white as a contrast colour. The writing and logo on her top was a cool little detail that I never noticed until I worked on her.  

  Combined Army So they ended up being quite a colourful lot of villains. I had some second thoughts when applying my Halo theme to the character models, but I'm happy overall with how everything turned out (just a bit more outlandish than your typical army with all matching colours).  The Combined Army sure do remind me of the Covenant with it's mix of different species that all share the same insane goal of universal domination.  I was also hoping to channel a bit of synthwave retro futurism with the fluro colours combined with the purple armour and magenta guns.  To this end I think the alien tufts of grass (from Gamersgrass ) sell this better than I painted it. All up it was quite a marathon to get all these guys done in one month but I managed pulled it off in the end.

  Aïda Swanson Another nasty little traitor.  Like Victor, I based her differently than the other villains due to her duplicitous nature as a merc playing on both sides.  It was fun trying to come up with a non-green colour scheme for her and doing some wild purple and turquoise camo.

  Victor Messer This guy's face is so creepy.  It put me off from painting to be honest lol. Those arms were a tad tricky to do with all those hex tats/etchings.  I used a Micro Art Studio base to differentiate him from the main army because he is ostensibly a character/ally for much of the game.  However with a face like that who is gonna be fooled? 

  Gwailos This heavy armour dude was totally inspired by the Halo Zealot Elites .  Ostentatious and brightly armoured this guy really stands out from the crowd!  His colours are a reversed version of the rank and file, being bright yellow armour with purple markings.  I was a little reticent to stray away from the main army colours at first but after I took the plunge there was no going back.  This bold colour choice made me realise that computer came designers tend to use colour to differentiate enemies for the player to quickly visually "read" what they are fighting, whereas miniature army painters choose the same colours across different units so that a player can "read" different units as a unified force.  Although my colour choice here stands apart from what I'd usually do as a miniature army painter I made sure that elements such as the gun, lights and base matched the rest of the army to tie things together.  I will have to stand by this choice ...

  The Charontids So this big bad guy is really quite different in silhouette and colour scheme to his Shasvastii allies.  I used fluro orange for his skin and fluro green for the lights in order to build a colour triad with the purple armour.  This boss monster clearly stands apart visually from his allies. My colour choices once again paid homage to Halo, this time to the Hunters (the big guys made up of orange worms). Ho looks so angry, or maybe he is just an aspiring thespian, "to be or not to be, arrrrrgh!"