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Love dem grotz!

CommissarKhaine, your grot army looks great and is coming along nicely. I always have a soft spot for the Grots.

You have some really inventive ideas, I think the walking battlewagon and the escaped Squig with the grot up the pole are my favourites

Keep up the good work

SJM: Thank you! I kinda like grots, in case you hadn't noticed. Love that grot in your avatar btw, going to do a few helmets like that!

monkeytroll: thanks! Bit of this, bit of that... you knwo how it goes

Dysartes: Thank you! The codex has really motivated me; greenskins are being fun again

Gitsplitta: Thanks! It's about the lil'uns

Midget Gems: You went through all these pages? Gratz on your perseverance

For today folks, a hodge-podge of stuff I did, while weeting for my finger to stop bleeding. I was working on a second weirdgrot, and kinda forgot how sharp modelling knives are . Think I went all the way to the bone with the tip of the blade. Or: why you should always cut away from you. At least it was a sharp blade, should heal up nicely.. Also, since I've provided the blood and the sweat, I'm hoping my opponents will kindly provide the tears when I start using him .

So, random stuff:


just basecoating the skin, but I like the lil'guy a lot

Some basecoating on other grots as well:



And what would these posts be without some orange?



On a slightly different and non- grotty note, my 10-year old son wanted to have a go at painting some of his WHQ minis, and he got off to a nice start:





Proud dad here!

Lovely job on both blues!

Nice work from him there

I do like your random orky crud, but I see your boy has the AoS bug! I shall have to show these to my 11 yo to get him motivated

*glances at first page*
*adds following fifty-nine pages to reading list*
Niiiiice


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Oh, cool, I just got started on WQ stuff myself

CommissarKhaine,

Really dig that converted Weirdgrot.

Cheers,

CB

Gitsplitta: yes, he did me really proud

monkeytroll: agreed!

inmygravenimage: the warhammer quest bug, mainly. If he ever wants to play proper WHFB, I'll introduce him.

lindsay40k: thanks, those are some fun models idneed. Hope you enjoy the read!

Captain Brown: Thanks, here's number two!

So, weirdgrot numba 2. I initally wanted this one to have power pouring out of his eyes and mouth, but reconsiderd since it would obscure the face completely. Still felt like a visual waaghh manifestation was a fun idea though, also makes very clear what he is. Matters to me, since I want to play my army in pick-up games.

Still debating whether to have the cables going from his head to his staff like the first one, but I feel it might clutter the model up. This guy just might take the prize for most pinned model: waist to legs, arm, both hands, staff, waagh power manifestation has 3 pins,... C&C welcome as always!

Ohh, very nice. Great concept, and translated nicely into plastic.

If you really want the cables then taking them from the back of the head to the base of the staff would probably work without too much clutter, and adds a bit of balance on the diagonal axis.

oohhh, wow. I LOVE that second wierdgrot. simply inspired! (and inspirational)

Those weirdgrots are fantastic. I can't wait to see the new one painted up, I'm sure it'll look even better than it does already.

Wow I really like that Weird-grot. Love the swirly bit turning into the summoned orc. Great stuff!

Great work from your son CommissarKhaine, much better than I could do at that age. I really like how the skin on the Minotaur/Beastman thing turned out. Tell him to keep up the good work

I hope mine get interested in joining me paint (will give it a few years there are both below 3yrs)

Fun idea with the weirdgrots, will be watching with interest to see how they turn out.

monkeytroll: thanks! Gonna mess around a bit with him some more!

Coh Magnussen: Thanks!

Bellerophon: Paint tends to take a while with me, but it's relatively speaking in the front of the painting line

Cleatus: Thanks! The swirly bit is just a greenstuff sausage twisted (a lot).

Midget Gems: yeah, pretty proud of him, my first work wasn't half as good. I'll get painting on the weirdgrots soon(ish), I'm curious as well to see how they turn out painted


So, been a tad busy at work, but finally got some dakka (and modelling time) in . Not much to show you guys yet, but I did get another doomchicken built (giving me 8 total right now). I'll build the unit up to ten at least, probably 15.





Off to paint some, see you guys later!

CommissarKhaine,

Now that doomchicken is something out of a little Grot's devious mind.

Cheers,

CB

Flockin’ doom chickens . Whole flock of them crossing the fieldclanking and chuckin’ Bullets and bombs at their opponents will be a sight to behold. the little wierdoes are aces as well.

I approve very much of the chicken of doom.

Genius as always, but the highlight for me is the pin as radio antenna. I'm totally nicking that idea!

So, been away for a bit again, real life getting in the way etc... Still, after a thorough cleaning of the hobby room, which had become a bit of a dumping ground ,the grots are back

First off: apologies for the late replies to all the people who replied here; my new year's resolution will be to reply immediately. I usually only want to reply if I have pics, but that means that I can take a ridiculously long time to answer. So, no more of that!

With that out of ghe way, here's some replies, followed by pics of doomchickens.

Captain Brown: thanks

Theophony: 'Flockin'. Gonna remember that

amazingturtles: thank you!

inmygravenimage: yeah, I'm giong to replace all my antennae with pin heads. A lot sturdier.

To demonstrate the point above, here's a littly guy whose antenna I had to replace after it broke off:



A doomchicken that had its controller added:



And a fully painted new one, with a home-made plasticard headshield:





Hope you guys like the pics! Oh, and I also hope I won't take another two months before my next post

Welcome back again. Always good to see the grots back.

Return of the DOOOM chickens!

They're always fun models to look at, CK.

Had chance to try out the much from the new Ork book yet?

Yay! I am glad to see the chickens return. The remote controls look so neat too.

All very nice work!

Absolutely _love_ the doom chickens and their operators- they all take themselves so seriously, but look absolutely ridiculous- right up to the point where the chicken sendsa rocket up your exhaust or the stel teeth are locked on your *ss. Really great pieces.

Very creative! Love it!

Arakasi: thanks (again)

Dysartes: you can never have enough of them chickens . Got some games in, and I like the build diversity as long as you don't go super-competitive. Shame about killa kans though, but the rest of the book is good fun. Two battlewagons and some support seem like a nice CC portion, and I use tankbustas and lootas for krumpin' vehicles and stuff that's too hard to tackle in cc. Mek guns are pretty decent too, though I haven't fielded like 18 of'em yet

amazingturtles: thanks! The remotes are pretty easy if you've ever painted gems or screens (used to play High Elves in WHFB, so I've had lots of practice)

Meer_Cat: thanks! That's more or less the whole point of this army: grots doing ridiculous stuff and then proceeding to blow you up!

Gitsplitta: thank you!



So, for today, lots of random stuff! First off, I finished my first weirdgrot:




Still need to touch up his staff apparently... Oops



I added the shrooms ot his base because the orginial bit of chain broke off, and now I can hide the plasticard tube that it's inserted into between the 'shroom stems. And it adds some colour


Then, this lttle guy lost his orginal chainsword, so I gave him a new'un.


he's good to go again!

Some WIPs then, some grots and a start on the second weirdboy::






Hope you guys like'em!

Yum, weirdgrot...feasting on magic mushrooms no doubt.

Cheers,

CB

Brilliant conversion work here! I love the RC car style controllers!

Really enjoy the magical manifestation.

Captain Brown: yup, a little throwback to WHFB .

mcmattila: thanks!

Llamahead: thank you, bit of paint on it below

So, I spent most of my weekend in the garden, since we had the first good time in well, ages. I still got some small stuff done here and there though

First off, the waagh manifestation. While painting it, the hand came loose of the weirdgrot, but thankfully it was just the glue near the pin that let go. So I'll just paint the hand and leave it like that till the mini is fully painted, then re-atttach it



I made sure to use a different green from the grots, and as otherworldly as possible. Bit of a throwback to the old striking scorpion green, which seems to turn out alright. I did consider other colours besides green, but it's a physical manifestation of waagh! energy.. I really feel it should be green!


I also messed around a bit with my airbrush, playing around with pressure and consistency. Coverage is down now, but my airbrush doesn't clog up anymore, So I guess I'm getting close to the optimal mix:



3 more mek guns who will be finding their way to a gaming table should add some fun to the gaming mix - only 13 more to go .


Cheers!