Wow it's been a while since I posted... I've been busy painting models for tournaments, and not really getting time to photograph or upload them! I promise they're coming, hopefully by the end of the week depending on how crazy work is.

In the meantime, I picked up some interesting demon models, but I have had no luck finding out where they're from. They're not Games Workshop, but I can't find them. Does anyone know where these are from?

There's detail that's been damaged or rubbed off of the pewter coloured one, and he's missing a head. I wouldn't mind knowing what it's "supposed" to look like, so I know how I want to convert it. Likewise, the other is missing something from his right hand, which might be a sword.

In other news, I ended up playing in three Infinity tournaments so far; came 11th of 14 in the first, #1 of four in the second (yay!) - and 2nd in the latest tournament out of some 14!

It's amazing how all the things you think might work, (the "Math-hammer or List-hammer") in Infinity are maybe good, maybe entirely finicky. Each game so far I've seen something come up that makes me think "Oohh jeez, that models terrifying" or "Wait, so that means this model from my list would... wow, I'm taking one of them!"

I can't recommend Infinity enough to someone who wants a good tactical game where even when you lose, you had a good time.

Happy Painting and Gaming everyone!

Basswood Crates Done!

A month! How the heck has it been a month already? There's been some painting, but sadly not a lot of stuff that can be photographed and posted. (Or at least, not that I want to...) I've been doing assembly of models for a hoped-for burst of painting, and prepping for my first Infinity tournament by getting a last few models I want painted ready for it.

That said, I finally managed to paint the crates in a way I wasn't unhappy with the instant I saw them. It takes glosscoat (by me applied by cheap GW 'purity seal') to make sure the paint doesn't soak into the wood. I may end up changing exactly how I work the words/logos into the basswood, but for now I think it works.

Tadaa! Here they are! The 9Lives is intentionally kind of odd in the green paint, while New Dawn gets two crate colour styles, the Nomad crates are relatively straightforwardly painted (With one to see what it would look like if they weren't variably coloured). Alpha Aerotech is a pale blue that I'm not 100% about, but we'll keep it for the test crates and I'll work out colours I like more in the next round. I do like, and will keep, the variety of colours. It'll help make even a bunch of them across a table not be quite boring. For the most part I also haven't dinged or aged the crates, as I assume they'd be some kind of advanced plastic capable of resisting the stresses of interplanetary travel.

I'll try to do a 'how to' painting post soon, with the other test set I made. In the meantime, I'll also try to photograph the models I finished up for the contest, which is this weekend! Wish me luck!