I already use the old hacker/sniper al hawwa for my DBS hunzakut, alongside the one modern hunzakut figure. Might pick up the new one to round it out.
Given the Reinforcements: Haqqislam Pack Beta box, I think they're going to remove the dires foes 6 defiant truth and Dire Foes Delta boxes: Obsidian Head to make repacks, although I don't see Guǐ Fēng being repacked as I don't get the impression it's very popular. For the Reinforcements: ALEPH Pack Beta box, I think the arjuna box will be subject to a catalog reduction, to stay on the half of the references that will remain present in this pack. I'm guessing we'll get some confirmation in the next few weeks in the last chances.
The Haqq reinforcements look a lot better than the renders, the slight shrinkage from printing/masters/moulding/casting fixed the chunkiness and the designs look really good. Aleph look great, love the Hacker girl, the Remotes manage to look distinctly Aleph but still distinguishable from the Dakini, Devabot, and Kiranbot at a distance. The other guy isn't my bag as I'm not really a fan of half mask rebreathers. Guilang hacker is exactly what I expected and it's great. Slightly reminiscent of the excellent Nisse hacker and I like the open coat. With the Aleph hacker, Guilang, Taowu, and Rouhaini's Zhayedan overcoat, this month really reinforces how good CB are at sculpting interesting and fashionable tailoring. I would legit buy several of the coats featured on Infinity minis if I lived somewhere it ever got cold.
I’m liking the Ank guys more now they are painted! The Haqq guys are pretty good. The Al’Hawwa is a bit awkwardly posed. She looks like she’s doing the squats. And with the big chest it’s even weirder. My only complaint on the Guilang is that it should have been out years ago! It looks great. Sadly, it will probably take another 15 years before we see another. For March I really hope the Az is the same look as the current/old ones. It’s still one of the coolest models. I can’t wait to see the Anathematics!
Have they removed "primary" sources before? I just checked and the Jujak Box is still the same, so I don't think the Arjuna will be reduced. Also, it's theoretically possible to have 3 Arjunas and their bots in a list, combining regular and reinforcements.
Guilang Hacker is still the #1 of this releases. Took them a while ... Now that we have painted pictures I also have to admit, that the Haq RF box looks quite good. Especialy the left side of the picture. The Ball-Head guy is clearly the looser of the pack. This helmet don´t say Haqqislam to me, he looks a weird. The Hawwa look so much better with paints (cool urban camo theme), especialy the hair - the pose is still a bit dull. The super-heroine with her flowing cape looks cool, she will make a good Beasthunter Proxy, but I already have the original (YJ) and some more potential proxy candidates. Her loadout is still a joke, when you look at the available profiles. The Hafza lady is cute, posing is a bit oldschool, but I can live with it ;-) Aleph is a big win. Riksahs are very cool, Dawons still nice as is the Satrah (not the best loadout here) and at the end of the box is the Artalis who look slighly boring between all the fresh cool robots. If it were not for NCO I see not much reasons to take him in RF.
So... I was waiting for the Haqq reinforcements to see, if my beloved army will get something sweet, and I'm dissapointed. The pirate is the one and only miniature that I like. She's dynamic, foxy, just good. The rest is... Spoiler Sekbans are stiff and boring, but they have the old, good design, and that helps a bit. But just a bit - I prefer the old ones still. Al Hawwa is bad, that pose makes me cringe. Hafza is like... another boring pose with bend legs, typical female bad sculpt, but what's even worse is that new project. Looks more like hassassin, doesn't fit with the typical design. And last the new guy, interesting profile, totally failed miniature. Looks more like a Nomad, far from Haqqislam's character and style. PozdRawiam / Greetings
I updated my figure count. 2024 Figure Release up to February 2024 Aleph: 2 Release, 10 Figures (Myrmidons, REF Pack) Haqqislam: 1 Release, 6 Figures (REF Pack) Nomads: 1 Release, 1 Figure (Lizard) Ariadna: 1 Release, 1 Figure (Cateran) NA2: 1 Release, 1 Figure, (Digger) Combined Army: 1 Release, 1 Figure (regular release Caskuda) Yu Jing: 1 Release, 1 Figure (Guilang Hacker) O-12: PanO:
I agree with @KedzioR_vo abaut hafza. She looks like a hassasin. At least hafza could wear their tipical shoulder, like nadhir one. Cheers.
The Anathematics will be one of the most interesting models to see. I will agree that Haqq models look great painted.
The studio painting style for the new Aleph and Haqq teams look very different. As in, a lot more edge highlighting than previous studio schemes. The blending looks different too, comparing to the Arjuna, Danavas, and Leila Sharif.
It seems than the painter was trying to get a bit more contrast in the white purple scheme for the aleph ones, buy went too far and had not enough time to go back. PS: David Strom, winner of some categories in the Interplanetario
Today I asked the two stores in my area about getting Infinity figures, one of them has not gotten anything new since October. They say they have been told it's "on the way" from their distributor for months now. But it could be BS and they just don't want to get more. Sadly our group has been getting smaller. Some of that is due to new 40K. Of our small group I know that half of them get stuff online instead of the store. The second store has also been getting a limited amount. Neither have received any of the November REF figures. They got the Haetae, Squalos and a few of the new Aleph set. The second store said no one pre-ordered any of the December REF and didn't even order any. I asked if it has anything to do with the fact the miniatures are only available if you play REF. He's not totally up on Infinity but did say it's a factor and knows no one likes the rules. They have a tournament in a week and they made sure NOT to use REF in it. Why buy the figures if you are not playing it?
