Aristeia! hEXx3r Nomad Witch

More than any other hacker in the brief stretch that the discipline has been applied to Aristeia! hEXx3r has changed the face of the game forever. In record time, she has proven capable of turning the tide of a match by sending her opponents into disarray at the worst possible moment. Armed with nothing but software, hEXx3r gives the heavyweights a run for their money. She freezes them, exposes them and then throws them into ambuscades choreographed at the speed of thought. The words “that Nomad witch” are often muttered by players as they’re carted out of the HexaDome.

hEXx3r the Nomad Witch is one of my favorite models for the miniature board game of futuristic gladiator combat. Aristeia! is my favorite miniature Boardgame that I have been playing with a friend. We have both collected all of the expansions and have a blast playing it. 

A new version of the game will be released by Corvus Belli soon called Hexadome. My friend and I are both looking forward to that. Hopefully they will incorporate all our current owned models, but if not we will still play the older version as it’s a blast.

I painted up the Nomad Witch for my friend and below is the original model I painted.

The following photos are of my model I painted this week. This is a new skin, same character just a fantasy look.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Aristeia! The Game: Fiddler, Lei Gong, Señor Massacre, and Valkyrie

 So while I painted a few figures for my non painting friend, I made time to paint a few for me. The satisfaction of completing a figure is only enhanced when you know it's just for you.

I fell in love with the special edition of the Fiddler miniature a long time ago but have never been able to get my hands on one. Fortunately a brand new release came out for Fiddler for the game Infinity and I just had to get it.

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning!

Fiddler is an Ariadne activist engineer welcomed by the Nomad Nation who needs to fight in the HexaDome with her Jackbots to fulfill a dream.

Next up is Léi Gōng.

When the thunderclap comes, there is no time to cover the ears.

Léi Gōng is The Lord of Thunder, in Chinese mythology, in the HexaDome, and on the battlefield. Fast, elusive, and powerful, Léi Gōng is a veritable force of nature who changes the course of any confrontation.

Señor Massacre

WITH PALS LIKE ME, WHO NEEDS ENEMAS?

Merc and showman, Señor Massacre is as violent as he is chatty. His military past provides him with enough experience to honor his stage name. In the middle of the fight, katanas in his hands, the result tends to be a lot of mortally wounded enemies, to say the least. His constant mockery of the show, everyone else, and himself, is just his way of constantly avoiding a past that haunts him, trying to drive him crazy.

... and last Valkyrie

VICTORY OR VALHALLA!

Blunt as a sledgehammer. Valkyrie charges to the Scoring Zone and seizes it. If Valkyrie has chosen you, there’s no place in the HexaDome where you can hide. She will find you, and she will beat you. Or worse, she will trap you and make you watch your team’s defeat.

That's it for today folks!

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Aristeia! The Game: the rest of team from the Legendary Bahadurs expansion.

 So I finished the rest of my friends figures from the Legendary Bahadurs expansion. There are four figures and I posted about one of those figures (Oberon) last post. These three figures (Shona Carano, Koorie Queen, and the Final Boss) took me a few more days to finish. I am pretty pleased with them, a good table top standard, and I know my friend will like them.

Here is a little quick copy and paste write up of each and their pics....

SHONA CARANO Weapon teacher and living legend

The audience ratings of the primal show Yajurveda dramatically dropped at the start of the fourth season. Vissiorama gathered all their brilliant minds to seek a solution. After some deliberation, the executive management of programming approved Jake Wilson plan, an ambitious young man who was the deputy director of Maya’s marketing department. Wilson offered himself as the executor of the operation and straw man, so that Vissiorama’s reputation wouldn’t be affected in case something went wrong.

Wilson gathered and studied the profile of several candidates whose common traits were youth, good physical condition, combat experience, and the mastery of some exotic weapon. He also valued the existence of moral principles that were easily manipulated. After an exhaustive screening process and a subsequent rejection of the first candidates, it was the turn of a neoterran fencing champion, Shona Carano, who didn’t hide her involvement with a pro-human movement that denounced the labor invasion of synthetics in various areas of the society, as well as in several Maya shows.

Jake Wilson, pretending to be an activist from another anti-synthetic group, contacted Shona to help them disrupt a Yajurveda battle. The plan was to sneak her in one of the shows, where she would defeat the synthetics before the cameras, and this way, demonstrate the superiority of humanity.

KOORIE QUEEN The first Bahadur

Kylie Cosmen was born in PanOceania, on planet Earth, with the gift of the song inherited from her maternal grandmother. Since her childhood, her parents invested in the future of her extraordinary voice, so when she turned seventeen the young Cosmen appeared at one of many talent shows in Maya, winning the competition and thus making an awesome entry to the professional world of stardom.

The hand that guided her to stardom belonged to a family friend, only a few years older than her: Sophia Kreuziger. She was an efficient, thoughtful, and very intelligent agent who devised a plan to put Kylie at the center of the entire Human Sphere. The first step of the plan was to hire a personal combat trainer in various disciplines. For four years, he had Kylie getting in shape, and improving her marksmanship by throwing light weapons.

At the age of twenty-two, Kylie entered the contest Exposed Celebrities as the second step of Sophia’s ambitious plan. The program aimed to test the survival skills of a group of celebrities in the wild jungles of planet Paradiso, which was actually a set-up located in Varuna - the idyllic PanOceanian planet. During the filming, a fan spontaneous jumped from the thicket, and began attacking the singer Liliana Vitsin. Kylie responded immediately, pouncing and reducing him to a crumpled heap with only two jujitsu strikes. This is how Kylie earned herself first place on the show..

With the martial prowess of the young Cosmen being without question, it wasn’t much of a problem for Sophia to introduce her to Aristeia! She dressed her with trappings inspired by the Australian aboriginal culture, armed her with a holographic boomerang, covered her with Maori tattoos, and named her Koorie Queen - in reference to the indigenous people of the southeastern region of Australia, an ancient country that ended up making up most of the current region of PanOceania. Kylie added to her costume a piece from the front of her father’s Croc-men armor - a veteran of the Polynesian Division during the Neocolonial Wars.

FINAL BOSS The Legendary Red Beast

Ohohoh! Daddy is back.

The five-time Bahadur, Final Boss is a living legend of Aristeia! who has reunited a team of old companions to demonstrate they’re still the kings of the competition.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin

Aristeia! The Game: Oberon

"This life is nothing but a dream, and dreams are only dreams."

Oberon is a geist, a pseudo artificial intelligence with a great physical presence and programmed to defend his team from the malicious software of hackers.

This is one of four figures I am painting up for my friend for his stable in the futuristic gladiatorial combat game called Aristeia! 

In Aristeia! you control a team of four gladiators. Each one has it's own unique abilities and when building your force you have to take into account these strengths to better operate as a team.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Aristeia! The Game more figures

 Just a quick post of some more figures I've painted for the game Aristeia!. These guys are for me and not a friend. Man I really like this game!

First up is Moonchild. “The Antipod are a brutal alien race native to Dawn, the Ariadnan nation’s planet. Apparently. the Antipod’s alien saliva contains some kind of retrovirus loaded with genetic information able to affect fetuses in the mother’s womb, causing them to change into the likeness of the aggressor. This “boogey-virus” is some kind of natural selection mechanism that helps the genetic strain of the stronger and more aggressive tribes or ethnicities to spread. The result of the infection of a human fetus is a creature that looks like a bulky human with Antipod features, pejoratively dubbed Dogface.

Next is Dart. Paola Duarte was born into a rich industrial family on Acontecimento. The Duarte family are the founders and sole owners of Aura Biochemicals, a conglomerate specialized in the use of natural resources to create biochemical compounds with multiple applications in the Human Sphere. As a future heiress, Paola was educated since childhood in a diverse array of subjects that would be a valuable tool in the management of her future birthright: biochemistry, business management, finance, law and many others. However, the young Duarte preferred to organize parties and enjoyed practicing all kinds of risk-taking sports to their fullest, which became her passion. Whenever she could, she would escape to a new adventure full of risk and danger.

And finally we come to Eclypse. The Shadow weaver, by the picture I need to say no more.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Aristeia! The Game

 It's been since May of this year that I have done anything substantial with Aristeia!. My buddy and I played a couple of Saturday's ago and rediscovered how much fun it was. We hadn't played this game face to face since the Great Plague. Of course I went total overboard gagga over it and have been painting figures for my pal who can't paint, and of course some for me. 

If you'd like to learn more about the game you can just click on this orange link Aristeia!

Here are some of my buddies figures I painted for him. 

Maximus also known as Max

The Nomad Witch

Parvati

...and finally Major Lunah

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Aristeia! The Game: Murtair

 The fourth and final figure for my Aristeia! team is Murtair. The original model, while very nice, wasn't what I was looking for in a Werewolf like figure. I wanted him to be full Werewolf or more human form. So I decided on using a proxy figure from Corvus Belli's Infinity game. I chose Wolfgang Amadeus Wolff. I really wanted something in full Wolf form but that was to expensive of a solution to get what I wanted. 

The following is a quote from the website about his background:

"Duncan Brewster, aka Murtair, “assassin” in Gaelic, was a shining star in the Caledonia National Dog-Bowl League, the most brutal sport on archaic Ariadna. Elevated to the Olympus that is Aristeia! thanks to his main sponsor, Aura Biochemical, he now triumphs where no member of his species has ever done so before, among the stars.

Trapped in the hybrid body of a human and a wolf-like alien and cursed with a grisly temper, he’s also the frontman of the quantronic-trash band Full Moon’s Dead. But Murtair is also quite the teenage heartthrob and, according to specialized media, has an impeccable taste for art and fashion.

No one can behold his sinuous, predatory movements and not get chills up their spine. It’s like running into trouble after taking a wrong turn in a dark alley. Murtair knows this all too well and exploits it, both inside the HexaDome and out. He’s pure violence molded into a smoking hot bod, and a sure bet for a night you won’t forget."

Here is a picture of the game's model.....

Here are a few pictures of my completed proxy model....

As always thanks for looking!

Cheers

Kevin

Aristeia! The Game: Padre-Inquisidor Mendoza

The third of four addition to my crew is Padre Mendoza. He has several different models to represent him and I chose this one because I like the "I am totally a badass" look. His story below...

Juan Diaz Mendoza. Father-Inquisitor—what else could we possibly say about him that wasn’t already said in the trailer for the third installment of his biopic?

His legend was forged in flames on the most dangerous battlefields of the emerald hellscape, the ironically named planet, Paradiso. Nothing could be further from paradise than its jungles, teeming with the galaxy’s most aggressive alien races amassed by a maniacal Evolved Artificial Intelligence intent on exterminating humankind.

But, where anyone else would have given up, his unwavering faith kept him strong.

“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed am I who shepherd the weak through the valley of darkness, for I am the true keeper and protector. And I assure you that I will strike down with great vengeance and burning anger those who would attempt to destroy my brothers!”

As always thanks for looking!

Cheers

Kevin

 

Aristeia! The Game: Táowù Mastermind!

 Here is the second addition to my four man team for "Aristeia! The Game". I am using Táowù alternate model called Táowù Mastermind. I love the alternate model as it gives me the feel of the old Chinese Kung Fu movies I watched when I was a kid..... a very long time ago. 

He was fun to paint, but white, man oh man, white. I am still experimenting and learning how to do white and not just make it look like I simply spray painted white on it. I need more practice but I am happy with how it came out. Here is a little background on my master of quantum waves.

"He is the knower of all plans, the surfer of the quantum waves and the waters of chance.

Táowù has meticulously plotted out his life with the utmost precision. He has never made a misstep nor failed to take advantage of the missteps of others.

His grasp of the intricacies of social behavior is such that he can unleash Armageddon by uttering a single word.

Táowù is unacquainted with failure because he knows that in show business mistakes are paid for with the currency of ridicule and mockery. All who have accused him of mistakes eventually have no other choice but to admit it was in fact they who were mistaken, exposing themselves to public scorn.

Always keep in mind that Táowù is always exactly where he intends to be and, if he leaves, it’s because he wants to."

[below is original look]

[the new look and my work below]

As always thanks for looking!

Cheers

Kevin

Aristeia! The Game: Kozmo!

 Aristeia! is a future gladiatorial based game based off the world of Infinity. The game has great mechanics and is fun to play, but it doesn't have a following in the US and pandemic struck down any kind of growth as it was released just before. It seems to still be going strong in Spain, but since the world has started coming back into normalcy Corvus Belli has really focused on releasing new models for Code One (Infinity simple) and Infinity.

The Expansion "Smoke and Mirrors" has a gladiator team that I really like because it has a robot. You know me, Dinosaurs and Robots, I just can't resist them!

Here is a post from Aristeia! about my little guy....

Nobody has ever caused such a stir setting foot in the HexaDome as Kozmo. Enveloped in smoke with his glistening jade armor covered in graffitilike a schoolyard wall, his first appearance of him was a sight like no one had ever seen before in the arena.

Noriko Ayase, Kozmo's creator and pilot, is an extremely brilliant recent grad from Tomari University who combines the enchanting innocence of a Japanese schoolgirl with the pragmatism of an engineer into her fine-tuned combat mecha.

Kozmo, her remote-piloted mech, exhibits the widest range of abilities since 8-Ball. And each time Norika unleashes one of them, they blast from his built-in speakers to the delight of the chanting HexaDome crowds.

But this aristo is just full of surprises, because the design of the current season's outfit is the result of a collaboration between Noriko and her kid sister Yue, another star in the making.

...and with that said here is the old design, and the newly created one, along with my finished work on the model.

[Below the standard Robot design]

[and now my humble attempt at painting the new design]

As always thanks for looking!

Cheers

Kevin