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In case there are any still wondering if the french bolivians can indeed be bad mothers, I present this argument:

At least I'm fairly certain they are french bolivian. I am positive they are awesome.

The camo underneath all that black armor does make me chuckle though... it's so incongruous. They should just embrace the whole cyber-warrior look and go all black.

Bolivian's I think. The tag on the flag carriers breast says policia and the only countries whose armies use SA80 are UK, Bolivia and Jamaica. But I concur that they are indeed bada$$.

EDIT:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/07/04/bolivian-police-armed-with-sa80/
I'm not trying to show off. The text on the flag was just bugging me so I needed to find out what it says. Apparently it's "Unidad Táctica de Resolución de Crisis" or UTARC for short.

Shhh.... Lets just pretend I can tell the difference between Spanish and French

I second Igandris. Although, Gitsplitta does make a fairly solid argument with the awesome skull warriors emerging from lavender smoke. Definitely have to a have a brass/steel pair to make that decision out of all the other colors you could think of.

I thought ballistic masks were just Army of Two fabrications... amazing that they're actually real!

And second Gits- embrace the darkside. The camo won't help you anyways, what with your black components in the mix.

-Remi (HF Iz)

EDIT- Credit where credit is due - AWESOME pic, Whalemusic.

Hmmm... from a web search those appear to be Bolivian internal security forces (police). Disbanded in 2009 after their leader started shooting reporters who were filming a botched arrest.

Yggdrasil wrote:

monkeytroll wrote:One grot plus one hobby knife equals modular grot
edit: actually, that should probably be 2 grots + 1 knife = modular grot (depends on the grot/s)

Have you seen those plastic grots, honestly? They're quite static, lack a lot of detail, and have many parts "melded" into another, meaning that if you want to reposition any limb or head, you'd better just sculpt everything back! Or maybe I'm just not seeing the trick with them?

whalemusic360 wrote:Which bases? The hop over the pipes guy?

Actually he asked about the bases I did for the Achlysian Reaver... Wait... Maybe he's talking about the one Gitsplitta did?

I'll have to ask him lol, whether it's :

THIS ONE : OR THIS ONE

After thinking about it, it's more than likely that he was asking about Git's bases... So I'll just direct him to his already-done tutorial!

lovely to see those two again Yggs , they are bloody good mate.

Gitsplitta wrote:Hmmm... from a web search those appear to be Bolivian internal security forces (police). Disbanded in 2009 after their leader started shooting reporters who were filming a botched arrest.

Interesting. And still pretty BA.
Edited original post for clarity.

LOL! You did a funnier job of back-tracking than I did.

There was apparently a lively debate as to whether they were a kind of Chinese made ballistic mask or something much less durable. Given that these were police forces, a simple shock-resistant mask to protect against thrown objects but that looked intimidating as heck might have been sufficient. (especially if your main targets are reporters)

Sorry for the derail Yggs... we need more production from you to bring us back on topic!

Gitsplitta wrote:Sorry for the derail Yggs... we need more production from you to bring us back on topic!

Agreed.

Sorry guys, not much time available for modelling... Though I've had some time to think about my Achlysian Reavers fluff...

And I've had dreams of slightly mutated Astartes organs, Space Hulks, Navy fleets, arrogant Imperial worlds, Codex Astartes, frightful rites of passage, cleansing the Chaos taint, dealings with Xenos & Mutants, so...

I might come up with something soon!!

(And I'm still reviewing the Dark Heresy books, to find a suitable world - that is, not described by any DH fluff so that I can implement my own - where I could settle a Fortress-Monastery... Takes a lot of time to go through!)

WM, thanks for sharing that pic, it's really awesome... I'll have to show it to my MP guys down here, they cound find some inspiration (no, I'm not talking about the colour of the smoke).

Cheers!

^
now THAT is god AND uncalled for!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

That is wonderful! +500 internets to you!

Hahaha, I love watching how this thread has derailed so much...

Great Pic WM, they do look awesome, i really wish our guardsmen models look liike that! for some reason it reminds me of GI-Joe and its Cobra villain haha.

On track, its great to see old models again, I have always been into that jumping rock pose you made for Gitz, so if i were you I would totally go down that route in terms of the scouts. I think it would be cool to really show them on a rugged terrain which scouts are always forced to go in in order to do their job well: scout!

I would personally show some traces of battle, i think the marines are coming in after the Ig have failed, and they are moving into old battlefields and traces of that war is everywhere. I think that's a cool image, and the scouts would be the perfect SM unit to see the carnage, and since they are still in training they are getting use to the grim view a SM can have. littered IG helmets, bulletholes, etc.

I don't know, just my late night thoughts!

@ Skalk : Lol, at first I was wondering : did he just copy the picture? To what end? Then I saw it lol... Great!!! And, according to the article, it seems Chaos got them indeed!

@ Sageheart : Actually it was Gitsplitta who based him on a rock... I just had the dynamic pose, Git turned it into an über-dynamic pose!! As for the battle damage, I should add some indeed... I've thought of the landscape, but not enough on the mini... Or maybe I'll paint-chip them later?!?

I'm not big on the paint chipping, It looks cool, but I would rather have their poses and their bases show the battlefield they are in. also just the way they see the battle damage. Its one thing to throw some dead body parts on a base, another to show the horrorified look of the IG stuck on the base surrounded by these body parts.

I think you could have a lot of fun with these scouts and how they view the battle around them, as well as the cool poses you've been making!

does that make sense?

Well, I can understand, but on the opposite I tend to think of the Scouts as usually far from the "real" fight... They're supposed to ambush & sabotage & infiltrate, all behind the enemy lines, not along the friendly ones!

But I might keep that in mind, thanks... That's a nice twist to the usual "put some dead enemies on the base, so that they know they're already dead facing you" : it's more of a "put some dead friendlies on the base, so that they know their sacrifice hasn't been in vain"!!!!

Hi everyone,

Been a little busy these last weeks, so it's been hard working on my scouts... Plus, I installed Blood Bowl on my computer, and whenever I have a spare hour, I have to admit it's much easier to turn on the computer than get to the modelling table

Still, I have done little progress on the Scout Sergeant, and his Grot assistant / hireling. The grot is helping him carry a flamer pistol, that will, combined with the bolter, count as the "one-shot" flamer of the combi-flamer. After all, the grot will probably squeeze the trigger until there is no fuel in the canister, which can explain a flamer pistol will produce a S4 gout of flames, but only once!

Here are the pics (Sarge isn't glued on the base, and his foot will lean flat on the strut; Grot is pinned for showing the expended flamer shot) :





I've added a few Imperial stuff on the grot, so that it's obvious he's being supplied by the Scouts...

Another option would be to have them fire in the same direction, but I quite liked that 90° line of fire, as in a sort of "buddy movie", where they'd be fighting against overwhelming odds...

So what do you think?

As for today's song : My friends, from the awesome movie Sweeney Todd.

Thanks for looking!

I think it's fantastic... not at all what I expected. I also think the scout's left arm needs to be anchored higher up on the wreckage in relation to his body in order to steady his weight. Maybe I'm not getting the pose... but I think he'd have to be pulling rather than pushing in order to stay upright.

Looks good to me, though I suspect you will hear cries of heresy and purging the xenos and whatnot.

Great job, but I must agree with Git about the left arm.

The inquisition symbol on the grot makes me laugh. Have you thought of painting a tatooed aquila on his shoulder?

Very cool.

Yeah stay with the 90° line of fire, looks more dramatic.

I agree wit Gits and Joe, about the arm. Can you get him to hold the top of the bar or even the right edge.


Stay safe!

"An attempt by the Tech-Priests to cybernetically control the simplest of the Orkish races, the Grots, showed initial promise. Experimental use as servitors by Space Marine Scout units saw an increased delta in force projection and situational awareness. However, as the Ork genome has an inherent, although not fully understood, affinity for bionics and cybernetics, these Cybergrots proved unreliable when put nearby other Orkish units, oft-times with explosive results."

Gitsplitta wrote:I also think the scout's left arm needs to be anchored higher up on the wreckage in relation to his body in order to steady his weight. Maybe I'm not getting the pose... but I think he'd have to be pulling rather than pushing in order to stay upright.

Hyenajoe wrote:Great job, but I must agree with Git about the left arm.

tipios wrote:I agree wit Gits and Joe, about the arm. Can you get him to hold the top of the bar or even the right edge.

Believe it or not, due to your skepticism about the pose, I've spent the last 10min hanging around various places in the base, trying to figure out what you meant, and making a fool of myself with acrobatics ... And though I agree it would've looked cool too if the arm was higher up, it feels quite natural to get down to something that looks close to that in the pose he's in... I had no one to take pics of me, but I swear it worked!!!
He's pushing his arm, and bending it slowly as he gets down, along with his left knee, while his right leg aims to the ground... He can't be pulling, otherwise it'd get him off balance and pull him down! Or maybe I'm not getting what you're saying...

Gitsplitta wrote:I think it's fantastic... not at all what I expected.

Thanks, I may have been quite fuzzy in my description of the scene? What is it you didn't expect? Is that the Grot you're talking about?

whalemusic360 wrote:Looks good to me, though I suspect you will hear cries of heresy and purging the xenos and whatnot.

Hey, sure, but I intend on giving some fluff to get around that... Soon, soon, I promise...

Hyenajoe wrote:The inquisition symbol on the grot makes me laugh. Have you thought of painting a tatooed aquila on his shoulder?

Hey, I might try, that'd be awesome! I doubt I can freehand such a thing though, but...
Nice eye spotting that detail, by the way!!! It muzt be sumfin' shiny fer da good ladz!

tipios wrote:Very cool. Yeah stay with the 90° line of fire, looks more dramatic.

Stay safe!

That's what I thought, thanks!

Briancj wrote:"An attempt by the Tech-Priests to cybernetically control the simplest of the Orkish races, the Grots, showed initial promise. Experimental use as servitors by Space Marine Scout units saw an increased delta in force projection and situational awareness. However, as the Ork genome has an inherent, although not fully understood, affinity for bionics and cybernetics, these Cybergrots proved unreliable when put nearby other Orkish units, oft-times with explosive results."

Hey, that could be a good explanation, Briancj! But I am more inclined to think of the Grots as "hirelings", or "followers" of the Scouts rather than "cyber-slaves"... And I don't have PDH's talent for tiny bionic details!!! Thanks for that though, that could prove to be interesting, in another story...

at first I was like "damn these are some pretty good models"
but i then discover that not only are you in the military your on tour in afghanistan now? an you can still find time to paint more frequently and better than me?

I've got to step up my game.

I love all of the models, very good stuff man.

As always, tremendous quality and great fun - good stuff chief.

Hey graven... where did that dakka code thing come from in your sig?

@Yggs: Dunno... perhaps I'd spaced it... I do remember now the discussion of the grot, for some reason it still surprised me.

Voila:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/The_Dakka_Code

@Yggdrasil - I see, he's getting down from where he is I had him pulling himself up, it makes sense now.

Should have said that before you went out and tried it yourself