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I have to say Nerfest's Termie is looking pretty good....

Here you go then, I think the Preying Mantid is done.

Brother Nero, Wrath of the Endymion, Stalker in the Shadows, versus Trankillus the Corsair.



And various other angles/detail shots

Thanks again for your advice and support!
graven

Good job Graven. Really good to see you push yourself for this and the result shows.

Very nice work graven. You really expanded your horizons with this mini.

wow nerdy..., that looks awesome....I don´t know how you did those claws.... must´ve over read that in your thread....?

also...some progress of mine :



thanks mates, vik

The avatar ref pic really helps me visualise where you are going with this - nice job!

its still a long and rocky road ahead^^...

 Alfndrate wrote:
Just voted and commented on Selvaggio's entry, now we just need to get that layabout nerdfest to upload his entries to Dakka

Good luck with that.

Excellent entry Graven! And that's going to look great Vik, nice one!

I'm looking forward to voting on these in the gallery, saving them up til we get one or two more completed.

Whatdoyoumeanlackofpunctuation?runonsentence?wtf!c'mondudesitsjustexcitement ruiningmymindsabilitytoletyoureadproperly.


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Oh and is this a bit better now? I fiddled with his teeth for you!

Oh I also uploaded my pics to Dakka, hope it works o.k?

It only helps if you then replace the links to the blogspot pics in your contest submission post with new links to your dakka pics.



*sigh*

Found it and voted. Good job Nerd'.

OK friends, your bit 'o Gitsdum i.e. "Gitsplitta wisdom" for the day.


For those of you who use an airbrush and like Vallejo Air paints... I have the formula (well... such as it is... I eyeball everything) for GW's color "Scorched Brown" (that might be the old name... not sure). I love this color... warm, deep, slightly reddish brown.

3 parts Vallejo Air "Dark Earth" #71029
1 part Vallejo Air "Mahagony" #036 (give or take)

Maybe more like 4:1... I can never be sure. But, you get the general idea. I just whipped up a mix for a couple of flying bases I'm working on and it really looks good.

Entries are looking great guys, voted on Graven one and going to check Nerdfest as well

Thanks for voting my mini as well, first time my effort finishes on the front page

Fantastic Selv! Congratulations!

update on some mantis warrior related stuff...I think the pics will speak up for themselves...here they come

here is the mantis warrior...spotlight on his shoulderpads:





cheers, vik

Making good progress there Vik! That base is really starting to come together nicely, isn't it?



Well, today I have a tournament to play. I'm really looking forward to it. It's got some quirky FOC rules that I think will make it a bit more fun for a casual gamer like me than the standard tourney (you can't have two of any one unit with the exception of troops, and then only two).

So... I'm fielding a goofy grot-based ork list with a very small Necron air contingent as allies. I've never played with allies or flyers before so it should be interesting. I pulled some of my favorite grot or pseudo-grot units following a couple of basic principles. While the whole thing is painted well is't quite a motley assortment of figures. My orks are an assortment of things I painted myself and things I purchased painted when I first started building the army and things I contracted out... so everything doesn't exactly go together perfectly. Add in the Necrons and my Mantis Warrior Aegis Wall and you have a rather comical combination of colors, races and painting styles.

It was a good excuse to work on a few things though... I painted up the big guns for Thing 1's Scythes, painted and flocked their flying bases, painted the normal choppa army for my Big Mek (which before this was always wielding a PK) and began the process of re-painting a modern Gazgull (sp?) meganob figure that I picked up used into something more closely resembling a Bad Moon. Turns out I didn't need him, but I'll go ahead and finish him off just to be thorough.

Nice to be taking a break from my marines. I love them, but variety is the spice of life. Besides... who needs to see yet another Gitsplitta Mantis Warrior when there are so many fine competitors turning out fantastic work like Vik up there!! I'm "off the hook" for two more weeks... I'm going to enjoy it!

Gah! , if I had the time Id totally join this JUST so I could paint the little Mantis that could in that god awful yellow armor at least he'd be different
Good luck to all the entrants because so far these all look rather nice

Great progress Vik!

And that sounds like great fun Gits, best of luck! Are we going to get pictures at all?

Green looks very nice Vik.
But the best part for now is the base, It's gonna "glow us away"

Enjoy the tournament Git!

That sounds like an interesting tourny Gits. Lets us know how it goes.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Add in the Necrons and my Mantis Warrior Aegis Wall and you have a rather comical combination of colors, races and painting styles.

Also this sounds suitably Orky.

 KingCracker wrote:
Gah! , if I had the time Id totally join this JUST so I could paint the little Mantis that could in that god awful yellow armor at least he'd be different

There's still 14 days left KC. You should totally get in on it.

Good to cya back in the saddle gits my man! and Vik, I love your shrooms!

thanks mates..

and good luck to you gits!

Well guys, I tied for 6th out of 30. Would have had 5th but in my second game I brainlessly moved 3 different units OUT of my opponent's deployment zone, costing me a line breaker point. This is by far the best I've ever done in a tournament out my highly competitive FLGS. I'm not sure I've ever finished in the top 2/3 before. I played all 3 games very well, including game one vs. Tau where I eventually got tabled. I never felt better about getting tabled than I did in game one. I was trying things and had a plan the entire game and all the way up my last turn (turn 6 I think) I was making a play for primary and secondary objectives... my dice just weren't there and everything collapsed after my last gambit failed. He was fielding a "Farsight Bomb" with an allied marine libby w/ gate and it was wiping out one unit every turn. I almost pinned it in CC with my meganobs on turn 3 by charging it with my grots first (the herder even survived) but my meganobs rolled double 1's for their charge movement... such is life. (actually, my grots were charging everything all day... it was a blast!)

Game 2 and 3 went much better though and in the end I'd earned very respectable number of points in each of the latter games. Enough to have won the "most improved" prize... (for the person who did the worst in round 1 then got the most points afterwards). I took a ton of pictures, though I don't know if I got enough in any one game for a cohesive battle report. I have decided that I'm much better playing my orks than my marines. I just seem to be able to use them to best effect... something I've never been able to do with my marine armies. The orks are just a more "natural fit" for me I guess. Go figure.

I'm not sure exactly where I'm going to post things... especially if I can't do full battle reports. Perhaps in my ork blog. I'll link it from here in any case, I think you'll find the photos and stories rather amusing. I had more fun than I think I've ever had playing the game... at least since I got back into it a few years back. Opponents were great, armies were quirky as were the scenarios... I liked it!


By way of a teaser...

Here's my army:


Here's the story explaining how this motley collection of units got together:

“Allies of Convenience”

lluminor Szeras stood motionless, observing the data from the scout drones. He had arrived on this sparsely populated feral world with a small guard of warriors to awaken a long-lost crypt. However the process had only just begun when a small contingent of human warriors made planet fall and began setting up a base. The force was too big for them to assault directly… but if he struck now, they might be able to cripple it long enough to awaken the bulk of the tomb, in which case the incursion could be expunged. With only two operating scythes however… the raid would have to be carried out with extreme precision.
A light flashed on the panel indicated a second probe had detected something, Szeras brought the video feed from the second probe onto the screen. A sizable contingent of orks was bearing down on the human base from the North East. Likely not enough to eliminate the base, but enough to cause a significant distraction. Proper timing of the Necron air strike would guarantee that the humans would have their hands full fending off the orks while his scythes came in undetected.
….
Szeras monitored the probe feed as his Night Scythe accompanied a lone Doom Scythe towards the target. He noted with some satisfaction that the orks had already overrun the outer defensive wall of the human compound. The humans were fully engaged with the tenacious orks and would have no idea what was about to hit them until it was too late.
“How convenient.” he thought.

And finally... a battle shot. Orks surge through a gap in terrain lead by an intrepid grot tank (rokkit buggy) and it's spotter:

excellent looking bunch there gits. Also congrats on your placing 6th , a lot better than i could have done.

Congrats, Gits. Although, I suspect that if you took a Marine army with some Necron backup, you'd have a similar situation.

But! probably less FUN.

Well done, and sounds like you had a blast, which is probably what matters most. Looking forward to a full batrep

Looks good indeed mate, and as delightfully a wacky arrangement of allies as ever there was!

I really love your orks... colourful but that makes them way more characterful as busy looking as one might think... a loony bunch that you almost have to cuddle^^