Infinity- more BlauJ nomads

Infinity came and went. But it made no difference to me. I like painting infinity. But painting the wildcat with the boarding shotgun was the closest to a chore that an infinity model has been. I like how the wildcats are all different sizes, kind of daft punk and they have varied costumes with different textures etc. But I felt I had finished the wildcats really. Anyway he's done

The baggy pants clockmaker was more fun. He is a combat engineer, but being Bakunin I imagined him being more amateur. I gave him baggy jeans so that he would look less military. Baggy pants was nice to paint. He reminds me of my brother in law.

I also painted up three special units. Gomez was very nice to a paint. Cool details and very quirky. Her pose made it easy to sus out where the light would come from. The bandit was also full of details, and like other infinity figures kind of paints itself. I left off the pony tail. I went for shiny red shoes - it reminds me of the wizard of OZ, and a pair of shoes my wife once wore when we first met.

The jaguar bothers me in one thing only. The model I mostly  like overall, but for the studs and lumps on his head. Those studs I do not like. His pose is good and he looks like a lightly armed skirmisher. But head studs, a pain to paint and I haven't done it yet. I will lightly varnish before I try.

I like the top photo - nothing wierd. It just kind of looks a bit wizard of oz. Maybe a lion is needed.

The  part finished models I have are a Brigada, Alagcile and another Jaguar. The Alaguci.le will get pride-rainbow dreds and the Brigada will get a set of two-colour blended highlights in Red and white.

I like the pose of the bandit and his face, especially the beard. But I do not like the drawn knives. I'd have prefered a smoke popin' pose. Within Sci fi I am not a fan of the "take the tank/tag over there I want to hit them with my Sword!". really?  I like infinity poses when they are dynamic and charachterful, but not OTT. I find the waving my daggers at the HMG total reaction Remote is a bit silly. At least for me.  I know he's a 10 point model. But he has value to me, and white is a hard colour to clean.

Unfinished business

So we finished on Toshiro. This is how he ended up with his Ashigaru Summons. Ashigaru are decent as a summons because they are survivable (Hard to Kill). They are card swallowers, but decent. For cards and Stones on the first turn.

I want the plates on their chests to look a little like Jade, and tried to make my models look more Han than Japanese.

I did some work to Toshiro. His hair needs some love. As does his Katana. I still think he looks like Ian Holloway. But for me I feel I stop painting him and his honour can stay intact. So he put some of glistening entrails back, at least until they are needed for summoning.

Stilll to do are a mortimer and a blue belle repair. Both have shiny metal bits.

These are both models I painted early on and liked, and very much want to fix (they both remind me of people I knew). They took some hits at a tourney.

On my work bench are also the Soul Porter and Anna Lovelace. This latter model I can not seem to finish. I take her out with other models, but always seem to finish other stuff. I hastily put simple colours on her, and did not do this well. It means that I still need to correct mistakes. The other day Soul Stone Miner picked her up. Took one look and put her back... She had base coats and nothing else and didn't look good. Poor Anna.

I have played with her. She is a good way to see cards, if you don't use Philip or Hanna. Nerfing enemy pushes etc is also very good and her ability to summon could be alright too. Doing her cool-stuff needs suits, and as a henchman she can stone for them. But to be honest none of her tricks are worth stones. Maybe a card, but a stone for a mindless zombie? I don't think so. I might cheat a low number with the right suit for moderate damage and a Seishin, or a corpse-bloatable model? Maybe. But not a stone for a zombie.

Following in Reva's wake

Vincent ended up with the kind of Blue I wanted for the Onryo. His face looks manic enough for me though. He was a simple model also, with little detail, but nicely sculpted surfaces. Poor Vincent. Still a look at that face will tell you he's made a few bad choices in life. That  "Ikea Blue" coat isn't the worst. Still At least he doesn't have a facial tatoo.

The corpse candles were ok. A bit of a faf to assemble, but a bit simple to paint to be truthful.

The shield barer was nice to paint. She seems very 80's in dress style and was nice to paint and highlight. The guardian shield was particularly fun and I went with Red. Partly in homage to GO and partly to get a Roman feel. No metalics. I will paint up the other Male-shield bearer too. I  quite like these models. Next to stone-swallowing Molly they will be good and often fast. If Molly is in spirit mode they can be prompted and black blooded - eventually. With Toshiro they have potential to make corpses for him with the suits and hand out some nice beats.

Reva rides forth

I got the Reva box set early and then didn't have time to paint it for ages.

In terms of assembly Reva was alright for a Malifaux model but I honestly find the infinity metals easier. When Painting her I wanted the black horse and black gown to be different. I did this by washing and blending the Horse (Grey on top and black in recesses and then layering Reva's dress - gloss black up to turquoise. I gave he a white hood. It just seemed appropriate. She was nice to paint. The detail is there, but with nice flat surfaces that can take three plus layers or colours. I thought about red eyes for the Horse. But instead I went for red mane and hooves, and green eyes

I want one more layer on her hood, to add some orange from the lantern and maybe top light her upper torso little, or around her face.