Infinity Terrain

Posted by Ste

Ash and I have been doing a lot of reading up on how to play Infinity, not the rules type reading which looks pretty straight forward, no I mean the practical reading of other people’s blogs and forums. We’ve basically been looking for hints and tips from people that have already learnt the game as one of the things we don’t want to do is get put off in our first few games because we get it wrong!

So the first thing we learnt (and the subject of this post) is that you need terrain and lots of it. Now that’s something we both have in abundance, however I’m not sure the hyper stylized sci-fi manga look will work with our existing WW2 or dark ages stuff so we’ve both been on a terrain binge. I’ll let Ash fill you in on his exploits however mine are below:

These are all made from cardboard gift boxes from a bargain store and as you can see I’m leaning more toward the gritty Bladerunner/Aliens view of the future rather than bright and perky!

I downloaded a couple of appropriate themed signs off the web and printed them out, stuck them on and grittied them up, just to give them a little life and also help give a sense of scale.

I've got more boxes waiting in the wings, I'm pretty happy how these turned out so I should be able to crank out quite a few scenery pieces over the next few weeks (time permitting).

Ste

Infinity - Ste's First Attempt at Painting

Posted by Ste
Damn these figures are detailed! Both Ash and I fancied a change from WW2 or dark ages and have decided to delve into the sci-fi/Manga world of Infinity. One of the major draws for this are the fact the rule book is free, however the other key attraction is how pretty the darned models are. Some of the earlier sculpts are a bit weird but in the main they’re all damn fine and interesting.

Now one of the not so good things about infinity is that it seems to attract people that can paint. I mean really paint. After trawling the web I can’t seem to find an averagely painted model nevermind a badly painted one.

So here’s my first attempt at a Nomad sniper (I don’t recall the detailed name!). All the colours are three layers (base, mid and highlight) and I’ve tried to some blending as well. My only downfall is I tend to paint mini’s with realistic shadows and highlights which doesn’t seem to work very well for Infinity.

Oh well, I’ll just have to get better at painting I guess!.