From here to Infinity

Hello everyone and welcome my first project diary on OnTableTop.  I suppose it makes sense to start with a bit of information about myself.  I’ve a long time gamer who started up with 40k twenty years or so ago.  I’ve played 40k, WHF, Mordheim, Warmachine, Mercs and a number of other table top games.  I’m also into various RPGs (Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, etc) and have done a fair amount of mini painting over the years.

Recently I started looking at Infinity and decided to give it a go with their new N4/CodeOne release.  So that brings us to this project.  I’ve picked up a number of Yu Jing models and thought it might be fun to track my progress here.  So here goes nothing!

To put some structure around the effort I’ve put an initial list together (no play experience so no idea how viable it actually is but that’s not the main point right now anyway).  Here’s what I’ll be painting up :

4x Zhanshi

1x DaoYing (lieutenant)

2x Tiger Soldiers

1x Ninja

1x Su-Jian

1x Mowang

4x Kuang Shi

1x Celestial Guard Monitor (to keep them in line)

So far I’ve assembled the Mowang and have three of the Zhanshi as well as the DaoYing put together to the point I’m going to paint them at (kept some parts separate to make painting easier.  The Ninja is about done as well.

Overall the models have been great so far.  I’ve found a fair amount of flash but it’s easily removed.  Oddly I haven’t seen many mold lines which worries me as I feel like I’m just missing them and suspect they’ll appear after I prime the minis.

The one exception to the easy of assembly so far has been the ninja (it’s the ninja with tac bow and an awesome pose on the edge of a rooftop).  The three part rooftop base was pretty finiky to get in place and it’s going to need some green stuff.  I ended up putting the small roof piece and the section with the ninja’s main body together first and then attached to the front roof section with his leg on it.

All in all, so far so good.