Easy paint jobs here, purely for the enjoyment of painting. I think each one was only about 4 hrs or so. I'm avoiding highlighting all the way up to white/near white which is the usual Infinity style.
I'm on a mission to paint up my entire Infinity collection in the next year or two and then possibly sell them.
Around 25 minis left to go...
I've had a short break from sculpting and focused on painting all the Nomads I had for Infinity, this is the stuff from Operation:Icestorm and Beyond Icestorm sets.
Both out of print unfortunately (I think).
I'll come back to this range and do the Pan-O faction at a later date, which I assembled and undercoated years ago and never got round to actually painting. I've also acquired the Onyx Contact Force as well as the Spiral Corps army packs, along with a handful of random characters... which might sit in the box for a few more years. Maybe.
I've had these minis for a couple of years but never really did anything with them. I decided to give them a lick of paint as part of my foray into 3d sculpting and printing to see how I felt about the style and size of them.
There's no denying that Infinity minis are very cool and stylish, and most importantly for me they're internally consistent as a range when it comes to style and size (mostly).
Heroic style has really bugged me for years. I always drift back to it as a fun and familiar style, but 3d sculpting offers up the opportunity for me to produce different version of my minis - heroic style, or even Infinity style. I'm under no illusions you can simply shrink or inflate a sculpt, features will need to be tweaked accordingly in every case when you switch size and style.
As a mini designer Infinity stuff really falls down in one key area for me - too many parts to glue together when the mini could easily be a single cast. Total pain.
That said, infinity stuff is seriously easy to paint! Way more easier than some of the recent GW plastics. The small size of infinity means less surface area. No big areas to blend, so less need for washes. A fine detail brush and a steady hand are a must, but layering of paint is very effective.
The mantic games Star Saga plastics are essentially cheap and nasty casts, the sculpts are pretty decent but I'd say slightly over engineered... too much detail and gubbins that really aren't necessary. Still, quick table quality paintjobs on them using my Inifinity approach seems to have come out OK.
And yes, they scale really well with Infinity.
Going off on a tangent now, this little collection I have will be perfect for Stargrave!
