PanOceania TAG: Cutter

Instead of tanks in Infinity, they have TAGs: Tactical Armored Gear. PanOceania has the most advanced TAGs, and the most variety. The Cutter is an amphibious, naval chasseur, cloaked in Thermo-Optical Camouflage and wielding a MULTI-HMG (and Heavy Flamethrower).

Truth be told, I'm not super happy with it. I mean - I'm not going to throw it in the trash or give it away, but it's certainly not my favorite.

I began super-excited to get started on it... And then it was a chore to finish.  If I were to do it again (and I won't), I would either make a much brighter, shinier blue, like chromed blue metal - or make the blue more the color of the sea, with more green to it. As it is, I feel decidedly "meh" about it.

Blue

• VMC 050 Dark Prussian Blue
• VMC 051 Prussian Blue
• VMC 058 Field Blue
• VMC 155 Light Grey
• White
• Shade VMC 100 Black Green
• Shade Black

MAS Crash Coffin

Playoff football.

For the Philadelphia Eagles, it started in week 17 in a win-or-go-home game against the Dallas Cowboys. Earlier in the day, I painted a green "Future Car" from Antenociti's Workshop to help with team mojo.

So the day the Eagles faced the Saints in Wildcard Weekend, I figured I had better do it again.

I painted up this Crash Coffin from Micro Art Studio, useful in Campaign: Paradiso, as an objective marker, or as cool scatter terrain.

Unfortunately, the Mojo didn't work this time.  But it was a great rookie season for new head coach Chip Kelly, and I am very optimistic for the Eagles going forward!

Warsenal Comms Arrays

I built and painted three of Warsenal's excellent Communications Arrays, featured in the new Dire Foes missions for Infinity.

They'll look great on my urban Infinity table, and are perfect for objectives.

I did a simple dark metal color scheme that was very quick to paint up - these three took about an hour and a half to paint in total, then glue the acrylic pieces on.

Over Black Primer, they were airbrushed VMC Black Grey, VMC Neutral Grey, VMC Light Grey and white.  Edge highlights were done mostly with VMC Light Grey. Some white paint and then Ghost Tints provided the background glow for the colored screens.

Eagles Green Car

The day the Philadelphia Eagles won the NFC East title, I painted one of the fabulous sic-fi cars made by Antenociti's Workshop.  Somewhat like voodoo, I painted it in the Eagles' Midnight Green color to help the team's juju.  And it worked!

I got five or six of their vehicles to help populate the streets of my urban Infinity table.  Darn fun to paint, and pretty quick, too - I finished this in about 2 1/2 hours.

You can afford that on a Fusilier's salary?!?

The Midnight Green was made mixing 2 parts P3 Gnarls Green with 3 parts VMC 050 Dark Prussian Blue.  The first highlight added a drop of VMC Dark Sand to the mix. The next 2 highlights I added pure white to the mix.

Windows were Black, P3 Coal Black, P3 Exile Blue, P3 Cygnar Base, P3 Cygnar Highlight, VMC Azure, and White.

Warsenal Templates

Warsenal is one of the newest official partners of Corvus Belli.  Not only do they make incredible terrain sets for the Infinity gamer, they also make templates, Order counters, and magnetic tokens for improved and attractive game play.

Assemblers. Assemble!

Combining work, holidays, and my first cold in two years, not a ton of hobbying has been going on.  BUT, I have been assembling models.

Seems like every time we do an O-12 Podcast, I get a hankring for a new faction... So I've been building Merovingia, Tohaa, my mainstay PanO, Haqqislam, and even some Japanese Sectorial Army.  And Nomads.  And Aleph... Oi, vey,

You might notice some Dire Foes minis in that last photo... I am swooning over this Fusilier design...

TAG, you're it.  I've got that Giant Robot Fever...

Home Field Advantage

The four people that follow this Blog may have noticed that there have been less than one updates since DuelCon.

Sorry.

Let's rectify that sitch, post-haste.

So, with all that terrain I built and painted to prep for the Con, I needed a table of my own to use them on. Instead of a purpose-made game table, I opted for a much more portable table TOP; a 4'x4' surface that can be placed atop any flat surface (such as the dining room table, a card table, the breakfast nook table (which is what *I* use it for...)).

Home Depot (or maybe it was Lowe's... any DIY store) had 1/2" thick chipboard in 2'x4' sheets.  That would be perfect - easy to carry and store, two next to each other make a perfect 4'x4' board.  I didn't want them shifting during game play, so I inserted some leftover Ikea furniture dowels into one side, and corresponding holes into the other half of the board to keep things together during the game.

Measure twice, drill once...

Step one was to prime both sides of the chipboard (to help against warping) with black primer. I used household interior/exterior latex primer.

Since this was going on top of the breakfast table, which is a bar-height piece of furniture my wife is WAY more fond of than she is of game tables, I helped out by outfitting the bottom of the sections with padded feet so that they would not damage any surface they are put on.  These self-adhesive, padded feet are sold for people who want to easily move their heavy furniture around hardwood floors, and are found at any hardware store or Target/WalMart-type store.

To finish the playing surface, I chose a time-efficient and aesthetically pleasing Easy Button - Rust-oleum Textured Spray Paint, Aged Iron.

I thought, once sprayed, it would look a whole lot like asphalt, so once I plopped all the buildings down on it, it would look like the streets.  It looked even better than I imagined.

As I applied multiple coats, I noticed that as my spray lingered in an area, it would gradulally become lighter in color, allowing a subtle variation in tone across the entire board.  I sealed the textured spray paint with several coats of matte spray varnish.