PaintedFigs Delivers Exhibition Quality Infinity Commission with Sci-Fi Urban Bases

PaintedFigs knows that flock has no business anywhere near an Infinity miniature. The commission painting studio's latest documented project, a batch of Corvus Belli Infinity figures completed to exhibition quality, makes the case through both palette and base for treating the sci-fi skirmish game's miniatures as a distinct visual problem requiring its own solutions.

The studio's basing approach centers on three interlocking elements: multiple level changes to break up the flat tabletop plane, urban lines that read as industrial geometry, and hexagons applied with what PaintedFigs themselves describe as "gratuitous application." That last detail is not an afterthought. As the studio put it directly, "You can't really throw some flock down an Infinity miniature. Doesn't feel right. They need that sci-fi urban thing going on. Ideally with random level changes and lines, and hexagons."

On the figures themselves, the palette decision was equally deliberate. PaintedFigs paired the commission's primary color, a bright and saturated Yu Jing orange, against a darker blue tone they identify as Shadow Grey across the bases. The contrast is load-bearing: the cooler, darker ground pushes the warm orange forward, giving each figure a visual anchor that works at arm's length across a gaming table and holds up under close camera scrutiny. "They were great to work with," the studio noted, "we used a darker blue tone on them ('Shadow Grey') to offset the bright, Yu Jing orange."

The practical lesson embedded in the project is one PaintedFigs presents as foundational to any coherent miniature: plan the base and the figure's color scheme as a single statement rather than two separate decisions. When a bright accent color is the dominant note on the model, the base needs a cooler or darker complementary tone to prevent the composition from competing with itself. Shadow Grey against Yu Jing orange is a clean demonstration of that principle in action.

PaintedFigs operates as a full-service commission studio, accepting customers' own miniatures for painting across Games Workshop ranges including Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, and Blood Bowl, as well as Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and independent Kickstarter and board game miniatures. The studio also sells painted miniatures directly and makes a pointed claim about its pricing: "And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we've checked)," though no rate schedule or numerical figures accompany that assertion in the post.

For painters working in Corvus Belli's Infinity range specifically, the commission stands as a compact portfolio reference showing how themed scenic basing and a contrast-driven palette can carry exhibition-standard work from the undercoat stage through to a finished visual identity that fits the game's own aesthetic logic.