Thanks bud, it has been a busy year of painting it’s true. I gotta say I really enjoy watching your ongoing progress with your Nomads also. It helps keep me motivated to finish projects when I see the good stuff other people do. Defiance was daunting to start, but I’m about 2/3 of my way through the Shas so far which is encouraging. Hoping to get them all done by end of Feb (Minus the Mega). Not sure how long the heroes will take though.
Thanks! I'm also at a similar point with my nomads as you are with Defiance ;) I got 50+ models of my 100 nomad models painted, so a bit more than half. But I bet that just as me you have other projects waiting for you after Defiance too :D
Painting project 2021 begins... So I thought I'd share my defiance painting project in 2021. I began with cleaning and assembling everything in January at a leisurely pace (I needed a bit of a break before starting a big new project). Some of the casting was a bit rough in places, particularly on some of the Shas, but everything cleaned up OK in the end When I did actually begin painting I started with the Villains since I was waiting for the base toppers I had ordered for the Heroes to arrive before I started them. I thought I might struggle with motivation to paint so many similar looking baddies, but it turns out that I quite enjoyed doing them after all once I had decided on a theme for them. I had to set my mind to great determination mode and managed to get them all done in my spare time in February (Lucky the Wife didn't kill me and that it is practically impossible to get a new Xbox at the moment so no distractions were inbound). The heroes I chipped away at in March at a bit more of a leisurely pace.
INFINITY DEFIANCE: Shasvastii Nox Nox These guys were the first I painted up. I was aiming for a colour scheme like The Covenant from the Halo video games so I chose a blueish purple as well as red violet guns as the main colours. Those gun colours are sooo nostalgic for me and I can just feel the needler in my trigger finger right now! I did three nox as a test batch first. The other three I painted about last as I didn't want to get bored painting the same minis twice. Be nice if there were more poses or if I could be bothered converting some, but the way they were sculpted made it too hard to attempt this. Nox Team 1 Nox Team 2
INFINITY DEFIANCE: Shasvastii Seed Soldiers Seed Soldiers These guys are quite similar looking to the Nox and I wanted to make them stand apart quite easily so I added yellow. In doing so I had settled on my secondary colour for the army as yellow complements purple quite nicely. I had to go back to my first Nox team and paint yellow over the white markings I had originally given them so that they would match. The glowing blue plugs I did with fluro blue, my first time using this kind of paint.
Color scheme and execution are fantastic. Keep them coming! I do grind myself through the flood of Shas on my painting desk and I'm a bit envious that you already finished a good bunch ;-)
Love the color scheme in general and the Halo reference! But I especially love the cold yellow on the Seed Soldiers! Can you share your recipe? Also, how did you like the fluorescent stuff? Are you happy with the result? Excited to see how you will apply the scheme to the other minis.
Thanks Zapp. It was a bit of a grind at first, but once I got in the groove it was Ok to get them done :-) I used Vallejo MC Ice Yellow as a base colour, GC Sun Yellow and white to highlight. Fluro was tricky to use. I'll go into it in more detail later :-) Thanks :-)
Holy shit, the Shasvastii are really cool. Cant wait to see the rest of them, the paint scheme is awesome.
INFINITY DEFIANCE: Shasvastii Caliban Caliban I'm very fond of these sculpts, especially the guy with the wrist canon. They remind me of Predator. At first I thought that their masks were mandibles and painted them as such, but when I got more familiar with Shasvastii anatomy I realised what they were and had to repaint them. These guys still win the rule of cool in my book though.
INFINITY DEFIANCE: Shasvastii Cadmus Cadmus I rather like the jump packs on these sneaky guys. I didn't realise that they scanned you and upgraded pretty fast when I first played them, but now I respect how nasty they are. I learned first hand how difficult fluro is to paint when I did the sword guy. The trick is to paint normal colours first and then glaze fluro over the top. Doing OSL with this colour was hard too as it often dried chalky so I had to touch it up as well as use very very thin glazes. Happy that it looks nice and bright and alien.
Would you mind to give me your purple armour reciepe? I am planning to shamelessly copy your armour when my own defiance arrives somewhere in summer (even if i cant compare to your painting skills). I tried and failed several times to make decent purple armour and yours is beyond cool. It is a shame that you can only give one like per picture. I know exactly what you mean, although i only played the first Halo on PC.
Sure. The colours for the armour are V GC: Hexed Lichen (base), Dark Blue (shade) & White/Hexed Lichen (highlight) The colours for the guns are V GC: Warlord Purple (base), Dark Blue (shade) & White/Warlord Purple (highlight)
INFINITY DEFIANCE: Shasvastii Jayth Jayth These big boys were a bit of a contrast to the other mobs. I added orange to their body suits and gave them magenta lights instead of blue. One thing that confused me about Shasvastii is that it appears that their skin is covered in platelike scales. At first I thought they were wearing armour but it seems more like a skintight bodysuit most of the time. Painting the Jayth helped me understand this when I did their bare arms. I used olive green and camo green colours for the skin, but it appeared too greenish for my taste so I then glazed pale flesh over all the skin to blend it in and make it seem more lifelike.
INFINITY DEFIANCE: Shasvastii Taigha Creatures Taigha Creatures These critters are quite kooky with their big grins, popeye arms and tiny butts. I'm a big fan. Although there were some repeat sculps I was able to twist and bend them a bit so that the poses varied a tad more. A couple have slightly twisted jaws due to my impatience when assembling them, however they look a little extra wild and slavering (at least that's how I justify my laziness!). The pale fur was nice to play around with. I painted them in two batches so I wouldn't get bored with them. The last batch was the very last mob I worked on for the main Defiance Shasvastii army. Taigha Creatures Pit 1 Taigha Creatures Pit 2
