Space Toys are Fun

I'm busy working on painting my Jomsvikings but there's only so much pastel shades and axes you can paint before you implode, so for a fun deviation I decided to paint up an old toy I managed to recycle from my boys toy box. 

It's supposed to be a Y-Wing but I moved the engines forward and then started kit bashing from my bits box. 

I figured that it would work well for both Star Wars Legion and 40k, I've added a few old 40k decals but kept it neutral so it doesn't place it in a genre.

Infinity Scatter Terrain

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I don;t recall where I found it but I remember a website where some dude made a bunch of Infinity/Sci-Fi terrain from junk he found in his house. So I can't claim credit for this as an original idea however mine do look pretty cool! So after rummaging in the kids craft supplies I pulled out all the old milk carton tops I could find and sat one night sticking them together with contact adhesive. I also managed to find some petrol pumps in the toy car box! So here we have the bottle tops and pumps stuck together.

I slathered them all with the first cheapo artists acrylic to come to hand, mixed up some dirty wash out of old black gw ink, green and brown paint and some dirty dish water and let it dry. Then I printed out some warning signs that had been suitably shrunk down and hey presto - fuel and chemical containers

And here they to scale with the recent completed building (ooh look there's another building in the back, I told you I had more on the way).

Infinity terrain from junk

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Long time readers of this blog will have become familiar with my obsession for gaming on a budget and the "stuff from junk" theme is still alive and strong. Whilst decorating our bedroom (the missus and I) I pulled down a long broken and useless alarm sensor that was gathering dust in a corner. Being a bloke I swiftly stashed it in the garage in the box titled "might come in handy one day, hide from the wife", and continued with the decorating.

Fast forward a few months and I had finished my first Infinity building when I remembered this useless item and thought "Hmm what could I make from this?" Scavenging through my junk box I pulled together various bottle tops, plastic pipes, bits of wood and cardboard and fashioned this:

Looks kind funky and out of theme however with a little paint and imagination it ended up as this:

Not bad from some scrap really! Next up will be some scatter terrain involving bottle tops!

Ste

Infinity Terrain

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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

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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!.