SoapDoDger's Aristeia!
First painted models.
I have started by painting the first three models with varying success. The plastic makes normal painting techniques not work. Like edge highlighting it’s like trying to paint a snake and the paint does not go where you would expect it.
I have also seen mould lines. I knew these were present but when trying to remove some it chews up the plastic so if I couldn’t get to it with a knife to cut it off it’s staying.
Needless to say I have found myself in a position again that I need to remember this is a board game. But feel free to criticise or comment as if they are not.
hEXx3r
MAXIMUS
WILD BILL
So that’s what’s been done so far. I am selecting the characters at random so next up is Gata. I am going to continue painting and hopefully finish the painting in the next week or so.
That means more to come.
Great work that I can see! hEXx3r has been one of my favorite figs since launch. I guess I lean towards her as she is Nomad and that’s my main Infinity Army. But expanding to others now as well.
I feel your pain when dealing with mould lines and plastic that does not take well to standard methods of shaping.
My comment when I sent it to my friend was “just painted a filthy nomad” cant win a game of infinity against them, think it’s just jealousy. I think I will need to try a few new thing to clean them up if I get the expansions, I will post anything that works apart from slicing them.
Excellent work. Maximus came out strikingly. I struggled with him.
I’m a bit further along on this than you but way further behind (as in zero) on Infinity. I’m glad I decided to tackle Aristeia! first because, coming into wargaming from board gaming, the Aristeia! minis are quite good compared to many games. Now I have the Infinity minis to look forward to!
If you want to see the CustomMeeple terrain/scenery for this in action I have one snap on my project blog
). I can take more if you’d like. I’m largely pleased with it–though it isn’t quite as cool as Warsenal’s (https://warsen.al/collections/designed-for-aristeia/products/aristeia-ultimate-hexadome).
I have liked your whole project. Especially your recient Valkyrie! Great work. I seen this and was thinking of going down the hex cube method. I am lucky enough to have a laser cutter so would probably make it. I also looked at the warsenals one but it hurts my head and I cant picture the multiple levels in real life without it affecting gameplay. Also cant get the star trek chess set out of my head… I do need to think about basing, thinking something along the lines of what you have but think I will have magnetized bases to mount them on some fluorescent perspex. I do hope this is a fun game to play though, it’s been fun so far without playing even if a little frustrating.
I’ve only gotten one game in so far. I quite enjoyed it. It’s far less smashy than I expected. Getting your characters into the scoring zones and moving/keeping others out is the name of the game so smashing others just for the hell of it will likely yield a loss. Of course, that’s only one play so what do I know?
I look forward to seeing what you end up doing for your Hexadome. Maybe it will push me into acquiring one.
Side note: I did put magnets into the CustomMeeple bases–they’re built to accommodate them. However, I wouldn’t think it’d be too hard to cut some of your own. I’m no longer planning on using the perspex team signifier doo-hickies that I got in friendly games (i.e. where we’re playing with my set) as we had no issues whatsoever keeping track of which minis were on which team, particularly since they’re now painted. They may be useful if I ever play in a tournament since then both side could field the same model…I think? Even then, though, I really doubt it would be a major issue, what with different paint schemes/styles and probably different bases.
Great job! really good job! very loyal to the original concept.
Thank you! Possibly a bit too loyal I could be doing without the freehand!