A friendly wager

As many of you know, infinity is going through an exciting time lately, with a series of incredibly releases only made more interesting with the addition of a whole new book of rules (H3N3) to play around with. New models, great sculpts, expanded factions… it’s all pretty tempting stuff for an average infinity player.

– And speaking of great sculpts, here’s the latest model I’ve painted up for my collection… Le Muet!

No small wonder that like just about everybody, I’m thinking of starting another faction.

But, like most gamers out there, both MidnightCarnival and I have a fair few unpainted models still in our collection. Even as I counted the 26 (!) models I have so far painted for Ariadna, I noticed I hadn’t even hit the half-way point of my collection, with a massive 28 still to go (and that’s not even counting some of the things I know I’ll pick up soon). Now for those of you more used to the model counts of 40k or Warmachine that doesn’t sound too bad, but in Infinity when every sculpt is an individual and lists of ~15 models is commonplace, that’s quite a lot.

So when our intrepid host announced he was acquiring yet another faction (Yu Jing, and I suppose technically the Onyx sectorial he’s expanding), I decided it was high time we had a little friendly wager 😉

“Paint a minimum of 25 models by the end of the year (should be good for at least 2 300 point lists)… or buy and ship the other $100 worth of models for a new faction.” 

Now completing 1 a week should take till about late October, but if any of you out there know the slow rate both of us paint at, that’s a pretty bold undertaking. After all, neither of us is a slouch when it comes to quality, and for a public dare like this, a rush-job simply won’t do. So our usual painting standards will be expected – Shading, highlights, faces, basing… the works. (You can see one of my best efforts above as a decent benchmark for mine!)

On top of this, I plan on moving house this summer, and of course MC works a million hours a week, so this could get very challenging. And of course to make matters more interesting for all of you readers out there, we plan to post our progress here on the site as we go, with updates for completed models and of course a final army shot at the end 🙂

After all, painted minis- isn’t that what it’s all about? Maybe some of you should do something similar in your FLGS’s, and make Christmas come early for some very lucky players 😉

– Challenge accepted?

So bring it on!