The Druze

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An excellent piece of artwork I picked up in one of the silent charity auctions at this year’s NOVA, finally up on the wall:

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That a Druze Shock Team from Infinity, a mercenary unit. They are indeed related to the actual Druze here with us today in real life. One of the things I really appreciate about Infinity is its very diverse universe, with many ethnicities, lots of references to modern day, and some backstory connecting this age to theirs. Tons of games have their Russian, Nazi, and American stereotypes. Not that many games have a unit with a real connection to a relatively obscure religious community in the Levant of which the vast, vast majority of Americans have without doubt never heard. To me that’s definitely one of the ways it really comes through that the game is European (Spanish) in origin.

 

DIY Paintbox Organizer

Posted on by tjkopena

I’m already committed for a ton of modeling and painting projects through the next year. Not the least of those is fielding a fully painted force for the upcoming PAGE Apocalypse. I’m so close, so close! In gearing up for all those projects I’ve been acquiring some more tools that should speed up or improve various tasks, and reworking some of the organization of my hobby tools & materials.  In line with that, I have a new article up about how my paintbox is built & organized.

That looks like a fair number of paints... Until you look around the Web at workstation pictures. Good lord!

That looks like a fair number of paints… Until you look around the Web at workstation pictures. Good lord!

One of the interesting side observations coming out of this very visible organizational scheme is an instant visual look at the palette I’ve used and developed over time, not just on any particular model. When you look at my default muted aesthetic, particularly the color schemes on the Kingbreakers, Kingbreakers Ghosts, and Forest Guard, it makes a lot of sense that I basically have as many browns as all other colors combined, much of it driven by the wasteland basing on the Kingbreakers and friends.

The other observation is that I have a ton of paints and especially washes hovering just short of being empty, that “Refills” column is plenty full. Guess I should get to it and paint some stuff!