INFINITY YU JING INVINCIBLE ARMY: Krit Kokram Krit Kokram So this is the last guy in my second Yu Jing batch. I wanted to add a face to this army as they were all helmeted so far. It's hard not to like this cool gunslinger Invincible. A Thai one no less, bringing a bit of ethnic diversity to the army. He was fun to paint but it will be nice to take a break from power armour for a while.
YU JING PAINTING GUIDE: YAN HUO Hi Guys, I thought I'd end my first Yu Ying project by putting together a painting guide. It's too long for the forum pages so please check it out on my blog if you are interested in how I painted the classic Yu Jing yellow/orange on my army: https://archangelelonginfinitythegame.blogspot.com/2020/04/yu-jing-painting-guide-yan-huo.html The guide goes over the Vallejo colour palette used on how to do classic Yu Jing Yellow/Orange. As well as the tips I use for breaking down a model and painting it as efficiently as possible. I list about 17 stages of painting with pics for all of them. Took me ages to write up but I hope sharing it will help some of you guys out there with their painting :-)
Will definitely spend the needed time to read it. Thanks a lot for such a massive work. EDIT: read it entirely and it's great. I really appreciate the comparisons between steps, that's something missing from a lot of tutorials.
@archangeleong time to make a video painting with this orange recipe Quarentine is the time, you know it :D
INFINITY NOMADS TUNGUSKA: Sectorial Starter Pack So we are all in the grip of a global pandemic and forced into social isolation. Being in lockdown at home isn't the worst thing to endure for a hobbyist as there is plenty more time on one's hands (I am lucky to be still employed and able to work online). Tunguska are my lockdown army and the starter set I was able to knock out in just under ten days! That's a pretty mean feat for a slow painter like me. Nomad colours are essentially red, black and white. There is a different emphasis on each color within the three Nomad Sectorials. I tried to keep my Tunguska Sectorial Army colour palette limited to mostly black, with a splash of red (Corrigor has more red and Bakunin more white). The only other colour I added was blue/green lighting. Happy to have got all these guys done in such as short space of time but I think I'm losing my mind a bit. I think I need to get out more...
INFINITY NOMADS TUNGUSKA: Securitate Securitate Securitate are the line troopers that I like best for Nomads. That's one reason why I chose the Tunguska Sectorial. Love the little details like the cops badges, handcuffs, earpieces and shades. Overall I'm sticking to mostly black and red as per the standard nomad colours (I have a mad plan to collect a little bit of each army one day, so no crazy colour deviations in each faction). However I do like to put my own spin on things. It was hard to come up with a different way to do the Securitate, but after a bit of research I found inspiration from Star Trek TNG Red shirts! Which is perfect for this trooper profile, being cannon fodder (OS Red Shirts anyway). Because I painted the red shoulders I ended up doing away with most of the glowy bits. I did the remaining glowy bits in blue green, which differs from the studio army also, but more so because I wanted to further differentiate this army from my JSA who have pure blue glowy bits (There is a grand scheme going here you see!). The text on their backs was tricky to do and I had play around a lot with the font before I was satisfied. Speed painted these guys in just one weekend (which is pretty good for me to squeeze in between vacuuming and other weekly chores my mistress wifey demands). Now just need some donuts... Securitate (Combi Rifle 1) She's my poster girl for this group, the mini I like most and drew me to painting them. Love her quizzical expression Spoiler: More Pics Securitate (Combi Rifle 2) Happy to add a little ethnic diversity to my infinity armies with this lil' lady. Have to say however that darker skin tones are much harder to do than lighter as they don't stand out as easily on a small surface area. Spoiler: More Pics Securitate (Combi Rifle 3) Painted brown hair cos this guy reminds me so much of Arnold. Hasta la vista, baby! Spoiler: More Pics I'll be back. Link Team
Great job as usual. It is always a joy to look at your models. But there is no way that Arnold would ever consider to take aim that way .
INFINITY NOMADS TUNGUSKA: Heckler Hacker Heckler Hacker This guy looks kinda sinister with his enclosed helm and dark coat. It was Ugin's Nomads on the Infinity forums that inspired me to start a Nomad army, and his Heckler was one of the first I admired. I was very impressed by how he was able to paint numerous tones of black on the same model. With this in mind I tried to emulate Ugin's skilfull application of black by painting black differently on various parts of my Tunguska forces. The Heckler was my first main attempt at putting this into practice. On the clothing and trenchcoat I applied a stippling technique to give those parts a cloth-like texture. On the armour I did wet blending and applied a brighter final highlight. On the helm I wet blended an even brighter highlight to give it a glossy effect. Finally, on the gun I used blue grey as the mid highlight instead of dark grey, so that it would have a different sheen to the armour and coat. The overall effects are subtle but noticeable. I'm not sure that I'm s good as Ugin but I will give it my best to paint a largely black army in interesting ways.
INFINITY NOMADS TUNGUSKA: Hollow Men (MULTI RIFLE + Pitcher) Hollow Men (MULTI RIFLE + Pitcher) Very impressive miniature. Slightly insectoid and inhuman proportions make them seem very tough even though they are much slighter looking than other heavy infantry. Reminds me of the robots from Velarian and the Thousand Planets (A fun and underrated sci fi movie imho). In all armies I'm drawn to collect I have to like both the main heavy infantry and the line troops. For Nomads I like all HI (Mobile Brigada, Riot Girls and Hollow Men) so it was hard to choose which sectorial to do. However I was a fan of the Securitate more than the other line troops so that's why I chose Tunguska. This guy took much longer to paint than the others which surprised me. There are lots of tiny details that belie the slight frame of the Hollow Men. Again I stuck with mostly black and just a touch of red. Yet I also added a few more spots of white here and there because I wanted to paint the face white. I didn't realise that the face was so skull like until I painted it white and this led me to leave out painting any OSL on the eyes and mask. Instead I left them black as I think it really brings out the soulless automaton like nature of these robotic puppets.
INFINITY NOMADS TUNGUSKA: Kriza Borac (HMG) Kriza Borac (HMG) Kriza Borac, the big boy and final and most complex miniature of the starter set. Always wanted to paint one, but not sure about how to do it. I love the big fuel(?) cans on the back, hex fibre muscles and chonkyness, but not a fan of the glowing mane depicted on the studio models (why does he need so much head power?). Thus I kept the cables black but added ribbed texturing to make them interesting. I did the head white to align this guy with my Hollow Men and for some reason the head/cable combo reminds me of one of the failed monstrosities in Robocop 2 (fans of 80s and 90s action sci-fi films may get this reference). Otherwise I kept the colours fairly similar to the studio. Very happy with how all my lessons learned on Tunguska were applied to this guy and he is a fitting mini to finish the starter set on. Big effort for me to get the set completed from one saturday across a week to the following sunday. Amazed my wife let me get away with it, but it was possible I guess, largely due to being in lockdown. Ah the boons of the global pandemic lol!...
i remember how this mini was ann annoience to mount and paint you menage to make it quite well and solve by painting an strange issue with his legs that they got "double foot " you judt merged it in to base :) - congrats if i would do this mini in same colours i would make things more vibrant but that just me . ;)
Doubel feet, the pilot ones then armor soles, by merging bottom ones now it looks floating and shorter... busy design choices ("hair")... at least it is not skulls and purity seals.
Thanks, feet are indeed funny. Love to see your colorful style on things always, so different to mine. Agree it is a busy model. But I like it for some reason. Maybe not the hair, but I painted around that issue lol. Anyways happy how it turned out.
INFINITY NOMADS TUNGUSKA: Interventor Interventors of Tunguska Interventors to me are the iconic Tunguska, nay Nomads, unit. So as a minimum I had to have these guys on top of the starter set. I had a hard time trying to paint them dark without being too boring. Just added a few red details to provide a spot of colour, but it is really the Tron-like glowy bits that makes them pop visually. The Pandas are cute and it was hard not to paint them, well, like pandas. So that is exactly what I did. Team is now done and ready for a "hacking" good time... (Ok terrible pun...) Interventor (Boarding Shotgun) Poster girl of the Interventors. I wish they sculpted a version with the hair plait like the artwork, instead of the frizzy hair version we got here, but no matter. I've seen some pretty unflattering attempts at her face out there on the web so I spent a long time trying to get it right and pretty like she deserves. I'm most happy with how I did here especially with the mascara, eyeliner and blush I painted on to bring out her features nicely. Spoiler: More Pics Interventor (Combi Rifle) Cyclops or Tron? Not sure myself and I wasn't so excited to paint this guy compared to the lady. However in the end I enjoyed working on this guy more, I think because I did him second so my skill was better, as well as he has a lot more surface area to work on which is easier. I think I was more comfortable with the OSL, which I still feel like I suck at a bit... Spoiler: More Pics Fast Pandas Fast Pandas. Cute and look like pandas. Not much else to say... Fast Panda 1 Spoiler: More Pics Fast Panda 2 Spoiler: More Pics Link Team
Still so great here. Love your nomads, very dark and smooth at the same time. Looking at your female Interventor I realize I might have cut off the Boarding Shotgun handle when I assembled mine... oops
