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40k day

Played some 40k today!
Marines and Marines vs the new Dark Angels, Orks and a Knight. Massive amounts of destruction on both sides. The new DA psychic powers seem pretty good.

After his Thunderfire cannon was destroyed, the Techmarine attempts to claim his vengeance on the Knight. He is not very successful.

Infinty Games Day

Hello!
Yesterday I made the trek up to Chiba to visit the wonderful Mr Fields hobby store. There were about 6 of us, 3 tables and players of varying skill levels.

Aleph vs Tohaa. Not pictured: Tohaa

More pics after the jump:

Infinity - Bandua Wargames Shipping Containers.

I picked up some of these Bandua Wargames Shipping Containers a while ago. They were super easy to assemble (they came pre-cut and didn't need to be pressed out from a sheet). I did a bit of spraying and tried using masking tape for the first time (fun!) and then added weathering with a bit of paint and wash. Super simple, and adds a bit of colour to my table.

Yeah, that 1 is waaaay off centre

Ironclad Dreadnaught and Drop Pod

A lot of my hobby time recently has gone into a Space Marine army. For various reasons I decided this time I'd go with a self made chapter. The main reason is it allows me to use miniatures from multiple other chapters and fight other Imperial factions, as I can tweak the fluff to suit whatever.

I went with a silver and blue scheme, inspired somewhat by the Astral Claws scheme. It's fast to paint, looks pretty good and is fairly bright compared to my previous Iron Hands marine army.

Chapter name and symbol are still TBC.

I've made several attempts to photograph my progress, but capturing the blue has been difficult. Today I had some time and there was a bit of sun so I used natural lighting. Much better! Not perfect, but not too bad.

Infinity - Painting terrain

One of the big things about Infinity is having a good table. For the first few demo games I was using my 40k stuff, but it wasn't a great fit. Not just aesthetically, but being different sorts of games the ruins didn't really work so well. 40k terrain is fairly abstract, but in Infinity it needs to be much more solid.
With that in mind, I decided to get a whole load of new terrain, because I honestly need very little excuse to buy more hobby junk. I'd been eyeing up CNC miniatures for a long time. They do some amazing stuff and this seemed like the perfect chance to order a bunch of their kits. Expensive (it's an Australian company) but great design and loads of extra little design bits with each kits; doors, windows, vents of various shapes and sizes.
Anyway, I finally finished building and painting the first building. This was also my first go at graffiti. Simple, but adds a nice splash of colour. I'll be adding more on future buildings for sure!

Infinity - First Batrep, ALEPH vs Nomads

Last week I finally played an actual proper game of Infinity!
Well, 150 points and everyone involved was very new, but still.

It was me and 2 friends. First game of the day was Aleph vs Nomads.
My Infinity terrain is still very much under construction but I think I managed to cobble together a decent table using a couple of Infinity style pieces, some 40k stuff and scatter terrain. Not good, but not bad.

The middle two buildings are from CNC Miniatures. More terrain to come soon!

Infinity - ALEPH Rebot remote

I was kinda dreading putting this guy together but building and painting him turned out to be a lot of fun!

Infinity - ALEPH Posthumans

I'm not dead! Horray!
So, over Christmas and New Year I went on vacation which took some of the wind out of my sails in regard to posting updates. I've not been entirely idle though!

ALEPH Posthumans are some of my favourite unit concepts as well as some cool miniatures; A single digital mind jumping between multiple cyborg bodies. I'll just be using a couple of them for now, the hacker and the sniper.

Hacker

Infinity - ALEPH group so far

Here's the team so far!

Infinity - ALEPH Sophotect and helper bot

Sophotects are ALEPH's doctor/engineer unit. These days, each faction has a very nice support pack with a doctor, engineer and some helper bots in. However this Sophotect dates from before then, so I had no Yudbot helpers. Unbound from the constraints of box sets I decided to use the Nomad Fastpanda figure as my helper robot buddy. Because hey, who wouldn't want a cute panda stitching them up after they get riddled with bullets? It7s enough to make you want to get hit with a HMG, right? No? Just me?

Blue haired cyborg dr lady and mini robot assistant. This is possibly the most Anime thing I've ever done.

Infinity - ALEPH Asura plus Tactbot

 A couple of new figures this time. The Asura was a little disappointing to be honest. The detail wasn't so crisp, the face was at a slightly odd angle and the nose was slightly miscast. Sad, because I really like the general design. A let down after the Naga hacker from the same box set.

Infinity - ALEPH Deva Functionary plus Devabot

 Another Deva Functionary, this time with her synch-buddy/bodyguard, the Devabot. I'm not 100% sold on the green hair. I might go back and change it later. We'll see.

why so serious etc etc

Infinity - ALEPH Deva Functionary

Next up is the Deva Functionary from the Aleph starter set. Not a bad sculpt, although the hair is little unnatural looking. So, I painted it black and it looks fne from the tabletop ;)

I don't know what she's standing on. Some type of fancy sci-fi lunchbox?

Infinity - ALEPH Naga Hacker

I've been painting Infinity stuff like mad recently. It's a lot of fun to paint and a nice change from the overwhelmingly huge army projects of 40k.

Today I managed to get outside into some semi-decent light and take some pictures of what I've got painted so far. Here's the ALEPH Naga Hacker, which is possibly one of my favourite sculpts.

Combat hacking protocols, or just trying to line up a cool photo?

My workspace

It's been a while!
Recently, I moved to a new apartment, so I've been getting my new work space set up. Also my order for a bunch of ALEPH stuff arrived, so I've been building that. I hate working with metal. Plastic for life.

Anyway, everything is built now and I can get back to painting.
Here's where I work these days:

I need to get myself some srot of paint rack still

Dark Eldar Venom

After the first squad was done I knew I needed to get started on the vehicles. I hate painting anything bigger than infantry, but I quite enjoyed the venom. I think I was a little heavy on the washes so it looks a little strange on the large flat surfaces, but overall it's not too bad. Fairly quick and easy to do! Hooray! Venom spam for everyone!

 More pics after the jump...

Dark Eldar Warriors complete!

Well, I finished my first squad of 5. Adding the extra bit of purple to the leg really solidified the scheme I think and they look pretty good all finished and with snow on the base.

More pics after the jump...

More WIP Dark Eldar Warriors

I've just got the base colours down but so far I'm liking the way they're turning out.

Dark Eldar - More test schemes

Since last post I did a bit of shopping and picked up a few new purples (you can never have enough!).
I'm getting close to a scheme I'm happy with.

What do you think? Lighter or darker purple?