IJW does Infinity Robots (again)

[ShotgunFacelift]

Great basing, looking forward to seeing them finished

[precinctomega]

Blimey! Is it just me that thinks those extensions to the 40mm base are a bit of an odd idea, even for Corvus Belli?

Could they not have either mounted it on a 50mm base or just cast the legs in a better position to fit on the 40mm base?

Still, I do love the Infinity stuff (see my plog, a little while back). And I love the look of what you're doing, and the busy battlefield!

R.

[IJW]

Yes they are a bit of an odd idea, but not everyone is insane enough to think that they need pinning to the base.

[IJW]

There is finally a bit more progress - the legs for the two Tsyklon Sputniks are cleaned up:




Plus, being the obsessive type that I am, I pulled a bunch of images out of the markers PDF and resized them to fit a 1" hole punch:




Plus a recent battlefield:

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Assembling the legs - lower half marked and ready to drill:




And marked with a felt-tip so that I can remember which way around the legs go:




Glued, pinned & drying ready for leg-bending to get them to fit the bases.





I'll not be pinning these ones to the bases...

[IJW]

Next batch of photos. The pins sticking up out of the leg hubs aren't in the same place so it was time to identify the leg-body pairings before drilling into the bodies:




Pins in place:








But a lot of pieces to go...





The weapon assemblies might be magnetised again, on the other hand there are no extra weapons to swap out.

Still undecided on gluing the bodies on once everything's painted, they are much easier to transport separately but then tend to separate when you pick them up to move on the battlefield.

[IJW]

Snowshoe time again:



I wasn't going to add embossed plasticard to the bases of these two but changed my mind to keep the force more cohesive.

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My main complaint* about the Sputnik design is that the angle between the legs is too tight for the guns to fit in without bending the legs a long way sideways and making the model even more crab-legged than it already is, so it's time to trim some guns again...






With pin, ready to attach to the body, although I don't think I'll do that until the side-pieces are on.



*Don't get me wrong, they're lovely models!

[IJW]

First Tsyklon almost assembled, just the tailfin to go. Not such an insane number of pins this time - one for the body-turbine joint and another one on each side.








The Feuerbach still isn't glued in, I'll do that once the tailfin is on.

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The other Tsyklon's legs have been assembled and based, but nothing else has been done to it yet.




I bent the front legs out on this one to make sure that there was room for the weapon assembly and especially the ammo feed. Fronts of bases facing each other:



The base extensions are now roughly every 90˚ which matches the official models.

[IJW]

Scale shot - normal paperclip, 0.5mm wire, tailfin and 0,5mm drill bit.




Unfortunately on pieces this thin it's easy to end up going through the side, but once the wire is in it'll be easy to fill.








Another scale photo showing an even more insane drill bit.
Left-to-right: 0.3mm (never used this one!), 0.5mm, 0,85mm (for paperclip holes), Nomad hacker sheet.

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The completed Tsyklon, Feuerbach also glued in place.

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Minor update - I've added some 1x5mm magnets to the underside of one of the Tsyklon bases to see how happy I am with magnetised transport, they're strong enough to hold it horizontal and even upside down.





Death from above!

[IJW]

It gets worse, or better, depending on your point of view.








After a comment from Domo on our club forum about lining all our scenery with metal plates (I'd forgotten to bring blu-tack & spare 40mm bases again last night) I had a brainwave. The walls on most of our scenery (GW CoD ruins, the planned foamed PVC blocks etc.) are quite thin, 3-5mm.

The magnets under the base are slightly inset and don't get close enough the the walls, but adding a couple of extra 1x5mm discs is enough the counteract that:






Place a bleeping strong 5x5mm neodymium magnet on the other side of the wall and:

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The rest of the bases are now magnetised. An important tip when magnetising resin bases - make sure that the hole is slightly larger than the magnets or cut a small channel down one side - otherwise you put a blob of superglue in, attempt to push the magnets in and fail to do so because the glue can't get out...






And a Spiderman group shot:



The one in the front is an old Kyromek ED209 lookalike that I'm currently using as a proxy for a Reaktion Zond.

[IJW]

Finally following up on the original idea of using magnets for transport rather than for sticking models onto walls... (Thanks to Magno on the Infinity forums)

This is how I've been transporting things recently - a standard GW case with infantry models in the top and a double-height layer underneath to hold all the remotes etc:








Now the ingredients for a cheap magnetised version - the case, some sticky pads and an old baking tray:




The baking tray was thoroughly washed and the reverse given a sanding down to make it slightly rougher while the inside of the case was given a thorough hoover. I then dug into the pack of sticky pads, only to discover that they were a bit more 'mini' than expected, only 5mm square! A lot of sticking down in patches (and removing 250 bits of non-stick paper) later...





The tray was ready to go into the case.

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Then came cutting out sections from the 'floor' of the bottom layer - several were cut out slightly larger than the remote's bases, two were totally cut out:




Then place the foam back into the case, on top of the secured baking tray:




The figures fit in quite snugly! The remotes will still need foam on top for the moment, as the top halves won't be glued in place until they are painted.

[IJW]

I've finally started putting paint on the Nomads! The Tomcat Engineer is being used as the test piece for the colour scheme:







The grey undersuit is a mix of wet-blending and layering but not very smoothly as I'm woefully out of practice.

The harder armour pieces will be purple (you can see the start of base-coating on one leg), with green straps and details.

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Before & after:





And the rest of the views:

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Lower views without the holo-display:









The gun barrel still needs a wash or two, the forearm lenses/gems still need doing and of course the base.

The base will probably be a warm pale grey for the panels with a metallic hatch and black base edge plus 'facing' triangle on the front.