This Dao Fei began with an airbrushed base coat on his armor and some airbrushed highlight and shading. Then I broke out the brush and worked the shades and hard edges. Did some outlining and started painting the rest of the model. One thing I am starting to notice about the airbrush is that it kind of makes you lean toward doing single color models and I'm trying to break that habit.
I've decided to do my JSA models, like the K. Butais, completely with a brush and only a brush. No airbrushing for them until I get to the TAGs at least. I feel the need to improve my brushwork considerably.
This commander illustrates why. I'm just not happy with the look of the black arm, but I think it'll do for now. The commissions next model is a Riptide, so I may return to the Commander and re-work the black arm a bit. For now, I need to move onto the next model. It's a bit of a sad attempt at NMM gold, which I have a lot less experience with. It just doesn't look like gold. Maybe I should add more shine? More yellow? Any critiques from the community?
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That's a cool take on the often modest looking Dao Fei. Neat! :)
That dao fei looks amazing. Glad to see something away from the studio scheme, which makes the model Stan out much less.
Looking good! My local gaming group are thinking about getting into Infinity with the route that 40k is headed to at the moment. I was especially looking at the Yu Jing, specifically more towards the Japanese Sectorial Army.
I was curious is all your Infinity models hand painted or done with an airbrush or a mixture?
I highly encourage you to get into infinity. If you are interested in the Japanese, I suggest getting the starter box + the Haramaki Zensenbutai box + the haramaki with missile launcher bllister pack to start. Build, paint and play those. It's about 100 bucks and you'll have a pretty nice army you can play for a good 6 months to a year. You get a ninja (oniwaban), line troopers, a good leader and a linked team of deadly samurai. How could you go wrong there?
My infinity models were mostly painted by hand, but some were given some initial airbrush work - mostly for base coats. Infinity figs really take washes well. A lot of great paint jobs can be achieved by a simple basecoat, wash, highlight method.
Thanks for the quick reply! I can't wait to actually play it. The main "hurdle" for our group is getting terrain for the game as it's primarily 40k/Warmahordes style.
Yeah I can see that. Its kind of a barrier to entry at times, but its fun collecting and making terrain for infinity. I started out by using 40k stuff and slowly built a set. You can start with paper-terrain. Check this out:
http://www.toposolitario.com/workshop/ikube.html
Free! Just gotta print it out and cut it up.
Awesome sauce! I've got to say the Oniwaban and the Gui'Lang Sniper are my favorite looking models for the Yu Jing line. Probably will go for a Jason Todd Red Hood look for them.
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