Shasvastii Noctifer

Last year DakkaDakka held an official Infinity painting competition. All the entries had to be started and finished within a set time period and all had to be submitted anonymously to prevent favoritism. Unfortunately, I encountered a couple of issues with this competition.

1) I ran out of time thanks to working loads of overtime that month
2) Most people stuck to forces and colour schemes that everyone already knew, so it was fairly obvious.

I'd picked up the Shasvastii Noctifer model as it looked really interesting to paint... and someone else liked the way I'd been painting Aleph and tried to do something very similar. While this backfired on me, it was an interesting experiment in social interactions and how people are affected by who they think is responsible for the items in question. As it turns out, there were lots of significantly better models in the competition and I'd not finished him properly before the deadline.

Infinity Sophotect

One of the games that is doing the rounds near me, and I'm sure everyone else, is Infinity. Game-wise it's a refreshing change down from the tank fest that is 40k (yes, I know I play Guard and have a small parking lot at deployment) and model wise... they are a painter's dream, or nightmare depending upon how much detail you like. 

I eventually settled for Aleph as I wanted to try painting something shiny white after the browns and dirt that are the main themes behind my other gaming force. the first model to grab my attention and demand to be painted was the Sophotect. You can also see her on one of the bases I made and cast. There will be a small post about those tomorrow as that goes into a whole other topic for discussion...