Infinity Terrain Update Pt 4

Finito! Mat is in, very impressed with the quality.  Map is VERY yellow toned.. Not sure I like it, but it will do for now.  There is probably a touch too much terrain on the table, but I'd rather have more and be able to take off, than have not enough and have to paint more.

I cut the edges off the mat since the picture, the printed area is exactly 4x4.

A keen eye will notice the Ikubes have been replaced with ReallyUsefulboxes .14 liter size, minus the lids and handles..  More durable than paper, and HEXES!!  Sprayed on some stencils cut from index cards with white paint.  Needed a lot of varnish to keep the paint on these.

Also made a bunch of crates out of shapes punched out of index cards.  Some squares, circles, etc.  Glued them to wooden blocks, and I had a table and more's worth of crates for ~$30, punches included.

Glad to see this project finished off.  Very glad.

Also painted up a Nurse, the second Rifleman, a Moran Maasai, and the Intruder HMG.


My local club is starting its annual BB league, so I picked up some Black Scorpion Minis Humans to represent my perennial Fantasy team, the Big Yellow Zonkers.  I take delivery on Monday, and should have them painted for their first game on Thursday.  Here goes nothing...

Infinity Terrain Update pt. 3

Hey everyone! Finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel on this one.

Buildings are done.



Barrels, Crates, Shipping Containers are done.
OK, I have ~4 more shipping containers and about 40 crates left, but the table doesn't really need it.



Antennae are done.



Consoles are done.



Benches are done.




Just waiting for my mat to come in from Banners on the Cheap.  It's made from Topo's road textures, chained together, rotated, and scaled down to a 4" road.

 

Woohoo!!!

Francisco Ortega

Some comically bad pictures of Frank.  Camera's still toast.

Perdita, Lone Marshal, Rifleman, Frank WiP

Here's some terrible cell phone shots of what I've been painting lately.

I've also managed to finish up the buildings for Infinity!! Woohoo! (No pics yet)

Infinity Terrain Update Pt 2

Hey everyone,

Infinity Terrain Update Part 2.  Still chompin away at it.  Apologies for the crappy pics, my camera is down and I need to send it to Canon for repair.  (#^&*%Q^78$#^&*!!)

Got another 3 buildings painted.  Changed up how I paint the grey, so I'll have to repaint one the red building.

I also folded up about 20 Ikubes for cover in between the buildings.  Right now I prooooobably have a bit too much terrain on the board, but I'd rather have extra and take away than have to build more after the fact.

Back in Black

After seeing some of the fantastic Tom Schadle's Nomads, I decided to rework the black areas on my finished Nomads.  I was never particularly happy with them, so here's how I want them to look.

Tom's Tunguska Hacker

Tom's Tunguska Hacker closeup

His recipe is:

"The black is based Black, then Highlighted with a mix of Black and VMC 166 Dark Grey, Dark Grey, 162 Basalt Grey <> 005 Ivory."

Luckily, I only have two models done!!

Infinity Terrain Update

Finally assembled most of my Shark Mounted Lasers stuff.  Have another 8 bridges left to assemble.

Next project is to get my hands on some more scatter terrain for both the roofs and ground level.  I'm thinking some Warsenal planters, some line of sight walls from somewhere (Underground Lasers?)  Think I need a few shipping containers too for small coverage.


In the meantime, I made some barrels a few months ago out of some wooden 1"x3/4" thread bobbins.  I picked them up on ebay from the seller "barnettandco" for ~$10 for 50.  I'm sure these can be locally sourced too.

With a 1/2" hole punch (Amazon) I punched out circles from index cards to cover the holes on the top and bottom.  I painted them in some bright colors, and then applied a mix of Burnt Umber and Lamp Black oil paints, only slightly thinned for weathering.  I then wiped most of the oils off with a paper towel.  This left them kind of grimy.

I glued them together in some interesting groups, and here's the result.

I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.