New Infinity New Faction - Haqqislam

With bikes getting a bit more focus in the latest ITS I took the opportunity to try out painting a couple of miniatures from the Infinity range. Haqq is blessed with a lot of bike options but unfortunately they haven’t passed through to Ramah. We have one option, but it’s a good one: Carmen and Batard. Not only do I get to paint a bike but an antipode as well! Ariadna aren’t a faction that appeals to me so I don’t get many opportunities to paint Antipodes.

The antipode’s base was nothing special, just Agrellan Badland texture with shading and drybrushing. For Carmen I wanted her positioned by the roadside on a desert road. I used some Tamiya tape to make a straight edge and brushed on Astrogranite for the road surface. Agrellan Badland for the other side with a bit more Astrogranite dotted around as the road’s started to break.

I preshaded all the parts and broadly glazed to get the general colour. Some things to note on the paint schemes.

• I painted the Antipode fur with layered, thinned paint and blended where it worked. I added a lot of thin lines to simulate fur.
• Carmen was painted to colour the preshade and highlighted where needed.
• Carmen’s coat had a pattern etched into the back. I outlined it in white, coloured it simply and washed with Agrax Earthshade.
• The leather bags on the bike were painted using ScaleColour’s leather set. I varied the base and highlight colours so they weren’t all too uniform looking.
• The chrome effect was done by thinning out the detail of each side of the bike. This is why I wanted road on one side and desert on the other. Hopefully the difference between sides will help sell the effect. I went over the preshade with layers of grey before painting hte needed colours.