The project formerly known as 'Prepping Maggie for Battle'
Laying foundations
This is ‘Maggie’. Maggie is a Maghariba Guard, which is the (!) TAG for the Haqqislam faction in Infinity. Maghariba Guard you say? Aren’t they supposed to look different? Or arguably cooler? Ah, you are referring to the newer model of the Maghariba Guard.
I started collecting Infinity when it just came out, so I have many old style models. One of these is Maggie. The cool thing about her is that when Corvus Belli brought out the new and different model, they worked it into the fluff. So, whereas the newer model is called the XPR-5 Akrep (‘Scorpion’), the older one is the Artefaktech XCR-1, with the codename Bokböceği (‘Beetle’).
So, when I dug Maggie up, she only had a white basecoat on her. No photos of that phase (sorry: forgot), but above you can see the first paints on her: Army Painter Warpaints Basilisk Brown and Shining Silver for most of the model, and Snake Scales for the cockpit. I’m on a mission to get stuff painted this year, so I’m keeping things simple. The plan generally is: a few colours, some dip and boom. Done.
Another thing you should know about the old school Maghariba Guard, is that there used to be no base in the box. This meant that you had to get one elsewhere. According to Corvus Belli, the Maghariba Guard should be planted on a 70 mm base. Now, it may be that I didn’t assemble Maggy perfectly compact at the time, but there is no way she would fit on a 70mm base! Also, I have no 70 mm base, and since lockdown, ordering stuff takes ages. So I’m on a quest to find her a nice bit to stand on.
In the picture above you can see Maggie on, or rather over, a 65mm GW base. Nnnnnope!
Then I found this bit of metal. So, she does fit on there, but with 100mm, it’s a bit big and will mean that Maggie will have a difficult time navigating those densely packed Infinity tables. (Although there are interesting changes in the ruleset as of N4!)
Now, the metal base above is the actually the bottom bit of an Edradour whisky container. Thus, my Quest for a Base brings me to and starts on my Drinks Shelf:
If you could find a way to stiffen it up the lid off a pringles tube is just under 80mm
You just happen to know that or is there one near you just now :p ? It’d be interesting to make a list of things people may find around the house that would make good bases!
There is one near me right now and a handy ruler so I had a quick measure up. I was trying to think of something that might be the right size, these days I have a 3d printer so that makes creating a quick base pretty easy but I do feel it has taken something from hobby now you dont see deodorant bottle speeders any more.