Painting Pledge

Quite a long time ago I bought a bunch of Infinity Odalisques with the idea of forming a unit of them. As there are only two models available this was likely to involve some conversion work. Also the Odalisque illustration in the Human Sphere rulebook has a much better pose - seen below on the cover of the Beasts of War quick start PDF alongside the two released sculpts:

Having finally broken open my Überfallkommando box set that was bought back in the Autumn, the assembly of the Chimera and Evil Ram Pupnik (henceforth known as the Evil Goat Git) was involved enough to deserve a blog post in addition to the review!

First, Evil Goat Git.

For #miniaturemonday this week I decided to do a blog post covering a conversion I've wanted to do for a while - a Infinity Nomad Sniper. In game terms it's a bit of an oddity as you'd usually be better off having the Multi Sniper Rifle on a more powerful unit, but as part of a Link Team it could be quite nasty.

Anyway, here goes. Some plasticard rod, 1mm metal wire, the 'bunny girl' Moderator, an Intruder Sniper's Multi Sniper Rifle (for comparisons) and one of Antenociti's resin spaceship bases.

After all too many months since the last update, it's time to let you know how my painting pledge is doing.

Since April I assembled and painted a bunch more Infinity Nomads in the run up to a tournament:

Masaai scout with Crazy Koalas:

Hellcat drop-troop with HMG:

So, my first painting pledge lasted a month and a day. Not very long.

Now it's time to renew the pledge. I'm still going to finish the first batch of Nomad models before starting on the Haqqislam starter force I've got, but may well mix a few models in with the Haqq batch, in particular some more Nomads and some Yuan Yuans — mercenary drop troops. 

Well, that didn't last long, did it? :-(

I started off with such good intentions to paint up my existing Infinity models before buying more models and although I've picked up the pace of the painting as a result, it's a mere month and a day (a year and a day would have been so much more poetic) later and I'm about to buy a pile of The New Shiny.

It's been two and a bit weeks since starting my painting pledge, and things are going roughly to plan.

Since then, the Spektr Sniper has been finished although it didn't come out as well as I'd hoped:

The Problem

Having a collection of Rogue Trader and 2nd edition 40k forces including Eldar, Squats, Chaos Marines and some Tyranids (and vast swarms of Warhammer Skaven that would blanket the earth if stupid stupid rat creatures in they ever escaped), buying new models hasn't really been an issue for me for many a year.

Then Infinity came along. Wow.