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| Gūijiă TAG for the Yu Jing faction. |
While some of the old models show their age, many of them still hold up very well. Just take the old (right side) Gŭiláng I painted last year - it's an awesome model!
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| Gŭiláng - Ghost Wolves. |
The idea is to go with a blue/grey/white theme that I hve running through most of my Yu Jing models but combine it with a kind of police/SWAT look to bring out the badass landmate feel of the Gūijiă. I was actually considering replacing the head with something more Guges as that would fit sooo well, but in the end decided against it. Another idea I had was to replace the barrel assembly of the Multi HMG with a brass 1/35 minigun kit from RB Models. Unfortunately it was a bit too delicate to go well with the look of the rest of the model. I might try assembling to try it out anyway, but as it looks now we have a stock Gūijiă to look forward to.
And here is where it's at right now:
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| Gūijiă TAG work in progress. |
As you can see it's sans head at the moment, don't mind that. The base is also just quickly block painted to get get away from the black undercoat and get a better look at the overall colour of the miniature. I'm quite happy with the colour scheme, but I think the dark blue-grey need to come up a little bit in terms of lightness to make the model pop more. On the other hand it is often the final details that tie everything together, so perhaps a darker base colour like this is the right way to do it.While in Japan I bought a sheet of Gundam decals that I'm planning to use on my Yu Jing TAGs and remotes as well as perhaps some 15mm stuff further down the line. It's a pretty good mix of warning texts and more general symbols that should work well. A few of those on this guy will also help to make it unique.
I'm glad I got started on this as I want a similar colour theme to run through all the TAGs and remotes and now that I have it nailed down it should be easier to continue with the two baggage remotes I magnetized earlier:
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| Magnetized Pangguling remote for Infinity. |
Those are going to be sweet. Cant wait to see more paint on them!
ReplyDeleteIf everything goes according to plan the TAG at least should be done by the weekend. :)
DeleteVery cool. I'm a big believer in a coherent army-wide paint scheme...something that Infinity sometimes fail to live up to. I'm wondering about conversion possibilities for the HMG. I've seen a conversion on the Infinity forums that has the Gūijiă holding the HMG in both hands, and I love the pose. How difficult would that be to achieve, do you think?
ReplyDeleteThat's normally the way I prefer to do things as well, although I do think Infinity is one of the few games that can get away with a mix of different colours in the force. Depending on faction.
DeleteThere are certainly some variation within my Yu Jing army, but I've tried to have a few colours that re-appear. The TAG(s) and remotes will be a little different from the rest though.
That is a conversion I considered doing myself actually! Really love the mecha designs for Infinity, but many of them have weird looking poses. Not a single one holding its weapon in two hands for example. I don't think it would be too hard actually, but you'd need to cut the arms up at the joints, pin and then greenstuff the joints together again. A bit work intensive, but not all that difficult.