Antenocitis Workshop Asian Wall Set v2, Neo-Tiki Motel Office WiP, and the Accidental Dwarf Army

 Antenocitis Workshop has a couple of new prepainted MDF releases in their Made for Infinity line. 

They are well designed and are sized to be LoS obstructions even for 40K. These will be great with the Asian Restaurants or the Neo-Tiki Motel that Antenocitis also have on offer.  The wood color is actually laser charred and not paint... which makes this kit have a strong odor of burnt wood even before opening the box.  This dissipates eventually and I hit them with some Dead Flat sealer so they can be handled more casually.

 Our trusty Burna Boy is checking out the rental office of the Neo-Tiki Motel. This is a small building with a GIANT sign that services the Neo-Tiki Motel.  This is a WiP and the Neo-Tiki Motel have detailed interiors sold as a separate upgrade pack that contains both interior sets.

  The Asian Wall Set v2 makes 11 wall section and one (working) gate.

The Prepainted MDF has a covering that is a single color with details laser cut in so its not completely or 'finely' painted but it does make a great surface for adding in those extra details if you like without it looking so much like painted MDF.

 It is recommended to varnish or seal the prepainted MDF to reduce smudging from handling.  I had not though of that and wish I'd seen the recommendation before working on Hab 3 from the Forward Base line.  Once the clear acrylic components are installed sealing becomes more tricky! Its a learning process.  My current plan is to seal the interior upgrade pack before removing the components from the MDF sheet and then do any extra detailing after that... resealing if required.  The reason being that the clear acrylic doors and windows really need to be installed before the model is assembled.  Otherwise there is a significant risk of damaging the MDF.




While we're talking about Hab 3 I'm making some progress on the resin bits.  I'm interested to see what the difference is between the old resin accessorized offerings and the new "all MDF" versions.











Lastly a couple of pictures of the Accidental Dwarf Army that is on the painting desk because I has a paint mix error that resulted in me digging out The Battle for Skull Pass box set and... since I was doing the goblins to eat up the erroneous paint mix I , of course, had to do the dwarves because they were there!










These will initially get some use as Imperial Dwarves in Kings of War but will certainly find their way back onto the table in my Oldhammer games.

These guys are a uniformed army while my Freeholds will be built from Atlantis Miniatures Dwarfs and then there is the giant pile of Mantic Dwarfs to grapple with...





Back to the desk!

Forward Base Hab 3 WiP

 Getting started on the actual MDF buildings of  the Forward Base range Antenociti's Workshop.

These are "Made for Infinity" products and, while I've not played Infinity yet... hopefully I'll get some games in the near future... I've wanted some non-ruined buildings for my SF battlefields.

Forward Base fits that bill well.  Its a collection of prefab modules that would constitute the core of any exploration mission and would evolve into the basis of early planetary settlements.

Other lines like "Under Town" build on this foundation while retaining the feel of modular construction and a function over form theme.




My kits are from the Kickstarter and they have since been redesigned to eliminate the resin components in favor of printed and painted details.  The resin interior panels of the original set could be swapped round and customized extensively during construction and even, to a lesser extent afterwards.  I suspect in practice its just easier to settle on a configuration while building and glue it all in... at least that will be my approach.



Hab 3 is a small dormitory unit and was a good place to start while learning the ins and outs of building these models.  You can see several assassins here for scale and to show the very fun and numerous acrylic windows.  These are tinted a nice blue and probably look awesome with some LEDs to illuminate them.

I'm thinking about adding backing paper to the signs as they are cut through and the letters are reversed on the back anyway and they might be easier to see and give a more SF finish... plus it would make them solid LoS obstructions instead of portable windows

The kit has card "End Caps" to extend the printed textures into the tab areas that are usually left blank.  I found that a Reaper "Nut Brown" is a pretty good match to the laser burn brown that these edges have.  These are the weathered version of the kit. There is a pristine version but I have not seen it.

The MDF comes with a pre-colored surface which can be used as a base color for painting or as a prepared surface for a complete repaint.  the idea is to provide a painting surface that will not look like painted wood when completed.
 The safety barriers are a transparent green and intended to look like holographic barriers with corporate logos, cautions, or even advertisements on programmable surfaces.  The structures of the base have mounting lugs so these barriers can be added and removed from the roofs as desired.

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The white primed bits are the resin bits for Hab 3.  They include walls with lockers, a bunk, vid screens, trash recepticles, and more. Interior scatter has a table, two chairs, and a personal locker. The interior scatter will probably be reduced during most games in favor of space for models to move about.  Exterior resin includes vent covers and air handling equipment. The tan primed bits are shipping crate barricades/piles.

Back to the painting desk.