End of season reinforcements

So, it's come that time of the year again where a new Aristeia expansion is launched and I have to rush my pencils to get it ready for my friend Rodro. This time he wanted to stick to official colors for the team. I took a few liberties here and there but mostly they are painted based on the original studio scheme. Koorie Queen  I really enjoyed painting Koorie. As the CB staff said, her body shape is very different to the usual "tall supermodel" shape of most miniature girls, and this was a breath of fresh air. I hope we get …

Freedom fighters

I got my hands on Third Offensive book last week and I'm starting to read all the new awesome fluff, I must say Corvus Belli really outdone themselves this time. It came with the limited release Libertos and i must say I've never  seen such a sought after mini in infinity in a while. Everyone is going crazy for the fish man. The profiles are insane and I expect many will grab the book just to get the libertos alone.  I'm not particularly impressed by the mini though, I guess I just like the Panoceanian Helots design better and the …

Big bad AI Mommy

I managed to get me a cheap Marut for Black Friday on my local store. I was not going to buy this one as I expect CB to be resculpting this on the near future, however I'm playing OSS a lot lately and the Marut usually features in one of my lists, so when I saw it on discount for BF I decided to take the risk and buy it. I basically maintained the same bone/gold color I used for the rest of my Operations Subsection force, but instead of purple I went with pink for the neons and jewels. By the way I had to change my cellphone recently…

Come at me bro!

So, after so many Aristeia comissions I got myself really lazy about painting my own aristos so I told myself I wouldn't buy any more expansion until all my current aristos are painted. So I started working again on the Kozmo conversion I was planning (I found myself playing Kozmo all the time, anyone else thinks we need more tanks in Aristeia?). The idea was to move Kozmo to a more defensive position. Instead of looking like she was recklessly charging with her boosters I planned to make her arms crossed in her front like she was protecting …

AI waifus and elite proxies

I'm having a bit of a problem to maintain my painting rythm since winter started. There are a lot less hours with good light in the day and my current lighting setting at home is not really the best for painting.  My OSS army is outperforming everything I played to date, just recently winning me 2nd place in one of our local tournament, so I'm spending my little time with them in hopes I can deploy my list fully painted. The star of my last game was my Asura lieutenant lvl 2 that went Rambo on the enemy army crippling them enough for my…

Can't fight the Capitol

Last week I decided to finally strip my remaining Pan0 models. I've been playing Neoterra again and I wanted them to look cohesive with my repainted models. This is how they looked before a coat of metal cleaner. I also decided to finally assemble the Bolts I had lying under my bed for almost a year. With the dropbears I got at Interplanetario I made a simple conversion to a new koala variant, making them easier to spot on the tabletop. From then on it was priming and off to the painting booth. The auxbots were the first to go as they…

Sporting alternate colors

I got a new request from Bahadur Rodro to paint his aristeia core box plastics as his current set up makes it difficult to transport the metal counterparts from the limited edition.   He wanted this set to be different from his base set that is painted in studio colors so his instructions for the job were: Purple Hexxer. Gata as "The Flash" Orange Parvati (The core one is green, and Aristeia teams are usually Green vs Orange) Polar bear 8-ball Black Maximus So let's see how it turned out. Hexxer's plinth was re…