Geeky Hobbies: Little Space Dudes 3 (Nomads from Infinity)

The third Infinity army I’ve painted is a little different than the others. See, this is the army my 11 year old son uses for the war game. He likes to paint but he’s still learning, and he knows it, only he wanted a good looking army, but he didn’t want to just have Dad paint them for him.

So on most of these he picked the schemes and did the base coats by himself. Then I came through and did clean up, shading, and detail work.

imageGroup shot. For bases we decided black and ashy, then used some coal dust weathering on some of them.

Some of mine, specifically because I needed the characters for the RPG I’m running. Zach is into Ninja Hacker Space Nuns.
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Some examples of me trying to paint the Nomad symbol freehand.
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More of mine for the RPG. The middle figure is from the Aleph line, but painted as a Nomad because that’s Tony’s engineer PC from the current game.
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These my son helped me with. He decided that whenever possible his were going to be super hero themed. So the dude with the corn rows actually has an M over his eye like Bishop, the girl looks like Harley Quinn, and… some dude.

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More from me and my son. He tells me the middle dude with the white head was for Hush (Batman villain)
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More from me and my son, we’ve got Slade, Ironman, Deadpool, and Bullseye.
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But an Ironman suit isn’t enough… Oh no, we need Hulk Buster and Warmachine for the big guys.
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Then this is one I did, mostly so I could play with red shading on my air brush. The blue high lights on the hoses pop pretty good.

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Into the Wild, a new Warmachine novel by me

Privateer Press just officially announced the sequel to Into the Storm, put up the cover, and a snippet.

http://privateerpress.com/out-of-the-storm-into-the-wild

It isn’t up on Amazon for preorder yet, but as soon as it is I’ll provide a link.  There will also be an audiobook on Audible, but I don’t know the release date for that yet.

For those of you who haven’t read Into the Storm, I wrote it so you don’t need to be familiar with the Warmachine game or universe to get into it. These books are a lot of fun to write.

Into the Wild

AR lowers with free MHI laser etching, January only

I was planning my upcoming SHOT Show event with JP Enterprises this weekend and I’ll post the press release for that shortly, but more importantly for you guys, they’re doing a sale this month. Order any of their lower receivers and they’ll do any of their lasermarks for free.
That includes MHI and MCB logos!
JP MHI
Here’s the link to their custom lasermark page where the different marks are visible:

http://jprifles.com/1.2.6_CFM.php?menu_select=lm

The free lasermark deal is good through the end of January and applies to any new rifle/lower assembly ordered or the following receiver items:

http://jprifles.com/buy.php?item=JP15%20LR
http://jprifles.com/buy.php?item=JP15LRUR
http://jprifles.com/buy.php?item=CTR02LR
http://jprifles.com/buy.php?item=CTR02LRUR
http://jprifles.com/buy.php?item=LRP07LR/URA4
http://jprifles.com/buy.php?item=LRP07LR/MURA4

They told me that customers have to call in to order serial numbered items, so they should make sure to mention this deal when they call.

Geeky Hobbies: Little Space Dudes 2 (PanO from Infinity)

I told you guys I painted a bunch of these this year.  🙂

Up next, Pan Oceania. Since these are high tech space Catholics, I went with more of a cool blue and teal on the armor. For the knights, white sashes and red crosses. For the regular troops teal and jade green to make the armor pop. The bases I went with a sandy grey/yellow that offsets the armor color.
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Group pic. I’ve got a couple of their TAGs (big robots) but have not painted them yet.

So the rank and file troops get the jade shoulder pads. It off sets the blue/sapphire washes I use for the armor.

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Now I start to get into the white cloaks and crosses for the SPACE POPE!

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The glow effect is for the hacker. The pic on that one doesn’t really do the light effect justice.
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I do love these sculpts. They do such a good job on the faces, with enough depth that a decent paint job can really make them pop. These are fairly new, and way easier to paint faces than some of Corvus Belli’s older models.

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