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Lovely grots! I like the doomchicken especially.

I was wondering, and now I don't have to - thanks

They are looking good. Send more when you finish whole army!

Can’t wait to see where you go with the DoomEmu!

Or will the banner bearer have a DoomTurkey and the DoomEmu be the Mork/Gork-a-naught?

Grotz are really fun to paint and play. In whole 40k they are less grimdark than others.

The fact that you are up to doomchicken number 10 amuses me to no end . Great work, always love seeing grot ingenuity.

Yorkright: The wife has a good burn wounds salve - it wasn't too bad, just slightly reddish by the end of the evening

Pomander Cask: Thanks! The doomchickens seem to strike a chord with most people

Arakasi: glad to be of assistance! It was all I could do with the model anyway, the body is horribly warped, so it's being used for emebellishment all over the grot force.

sajmonikpl1: thanks! And I agree: grots add some of the weird humour previous iterations of the game had in spades.These days 40k takes itself too seriously.

ChaoticMind: DoomTurkey! Love it! My red gobbo will be riding a doomturkey from now on . If I ever get a 'Naught, it will be more like a moving fortress methinks, with big-ass tracks. I will have to see if (when) I get hold of the model.

Theophony: Happy to be there . I'll probably bump'em up to 15, since they're good fun to make .

For today, all kinds of random stuff. First off, some painting was done.

A singular grot I found lying around on my hobby desk got a few more coats of paint to finish him off:


The flesh is a lot smoother irl, getting it blown up to 5 times the model size does exaggerate that a tad...

Also; the driver from the burnawagon got a lick of paint:



I tried to take a pic at the angle he'll be in the wagon. Once I've done the graffiti and the weathering, he's getting glued in place.

Then, some progress on the waagh banner. A cap and a banner pole were added to the red gobbo model:


The doomturkey got some work done on his head. It looks a tad big right now, but that'll work out fine once the body gets fleshed out.





I'll be adding exhausts to the rear to balance the model out visually. I'm glas this guy is on a 40mm base, No way I could fit this on a 32 mm base .

The model as-is:


I like the dynamic pose of the red gobbo vs the more lumbering look of the cyclopean Doomturkey. I just hope I can do him justice with a nice mount!

15 will be great.

Doom Turkey reminds me of Growler from RobotWars , I think it’s the square jaws.

The DoomTurkey looks very cool, the idea that the head is more massive than the body makes it seem like it was engineered by a grot. Good stuff all around!

And the Squeaky WAAAAGH continues to grow. Always nice to find miniatures that have found a hiding place and get them finished.

Cheers,

CB

Having helped name it the doomturkey is now my favorite thing in this blog!

Theophony: I can see a family resemblance . Is that show still on? I used to watch it ages ago...

Yorkright: thanks! He took some inspiration from both squigs, mousers, and cartoon rottweilers

Captain Brown: Not to mention doing something about my backlog of ideas and all the minis I got for them

ChaoticMind: Ah, a proud parent .


For piccies today, a finished Doomturkey! I built up the body a tad, balancing the model out visually:







I've been thinking that the legs I used make it a tad static. Then again, had I built my own practically notghing on this model would've been GW . He's takes design cues from a lot of different sources: squigs ( bit of skarsnik and gobbla going on), mousers from TMNT, the rottweiler from Tom&Jerry...

And here he is with his rider:



This balances the model out nicely I feel. Now, I jus thave to consider the flag. I think I want one streaming towards the rear of the model, but I might still go for one hanging off a crossbar.. Still needs a good night's sleep .

Not sure if the show is still on, haven’t seen it I need almost a decade myself.

I think the flag should look like a turkeys tail splayed out to remind us of Doomturkey . Even if it’s not cloth but metal slivers in a fan shape behind a boss emblem.

Nice mechaturkey! (Apparently one exclamation point is "too many" according to the automod built into the editor). Also, my response has been deemed too short, so I'm writing this extra sentence to compensate.

Theophony:

Not sure if the show is still on, haven’t seen it I need almost a decade myself

Still runs, I checked . I tried the flag idea, but it didn't look right. i'll let you know how it turns out in the end.

Warboss_Waaazag: Thanks! And don't worry, dakka asks me everytime I update the blog if I want that many exclamation marks, because people might not take my post seriously becauqe of it

For today's update, I decided to both make a start on my backlog of models for the squeaky waaagh, and continue with the new stuff. So, a bit of everything, as always

First off, the old stuff:



Not the best pic, but just to show that I've started work on the crew of this beauty:


Let's see if anyone remembers what it is


For the new stuff, I did some work on the grot gun crew (less bright irl!):


and on doomchicken numba 9:


Now I just need the weather to clear up so I can undercoat the chicken's handler, chicken number 10 and some other stuff. Anf if the weather doesn't clear up, I can build more doomchickens. Win-win in my book

Old Sentinel leg and a shokk attack gun... Interesting.

All looking good Commissar K, I dont think the little guys are too bright. Grotz gots to bright so da boss knows where they is.

Briancj: grabba klaw arm from a BW, but correct on the SAG . It counts as my big mek with SAG, or, more probably, the souped-up version. Here's how the full model is supposed to look:



Yorkright: thanks! I was mainly referring to the pic; I agree that grots look best with bright green skins.


As stated a few posts above, I'bve been trying to make some room on my painting shelf by, you know, actually finishing stuff . Since the burnawagon was in that dreaded 'near-finished' limbo, I decided to push through and get it done. It's left a nice empty spot on my painting desk waiting to be filled by some other contraption .

Here's a fly-around:





I kinda like the look of the grot driver through the glass .



And a top shot:


In the end, I didn't add loads of graffiti because of all the armour plating adding lots of interest already; I might add a grot somewhere just to add in some more green, as Yorkright suggested. Or I might go back andd add some more graffiti to it later as well, but for now I'm calling it finished.

Hope you enjoyed the pics!

Awww yeah that is one sweet big tank! I think a grot or two working away or hitching a ride on the hull wouldn't go astray but you're right in that there's a lot of detail in the panelling/rivets/battle damage.

The doom chickens are getting a lot of love and I can only second/third/tenth that...such a great concept and really well executed. Will be stealing if I ever set foot down the Orkdom path again...

That SAG on wheels looks great too. Hope to see it painted soon

Bruna wagon looks proper for Orks! I too like the little green grot driver. I wouldnt mind a few pictures of your army all together...

That's a great tank. It looks very tanky.

That’s a lot of orange on that Burna Wagon... Are the glass edges (struts) meant to be clear?

Nice conversion CommissarKhaine.

Cheers,

CB

Congratulations on finishing the burna-wagon it looks very cool, and proppa orky. Like everyone else I also like the doom chickens and the new doom turkey.

tzurk: Thanks! I found a snotling who will fit on nicely, just have to paint him first . If you fel like lootin' the doomchickens: there's a tutorial on the legs a few pages back.

Yorkright: Thanks mate! I've just realised this blog started almost ten years ago; I started november 20th 2009. I'll get you a nice groupshot the 20th .

inmygravenimage: those are the best tanks .

Arakasi: I agree on the orange,might go back to it later. Then again, I believe I've read that same comment every time you saw orange in here . I can never get the struts on the windows to look good, so I've decided to stay off'em till I find a solution.

Captain Brown: thanks!

Syro_: Thank you! I've decided to get some stuff off my desk, and this one seemed like a good start. I'll be adding a new doomchicken pic soonish methinks, need to build some more too.


For today's pics, no doomchickens, but I did get the grot crew for an addiitonal mek gun finished. Since I've started this blog on November 20th, 2019 (time flies ), expect a bit of a retrospective then. For now, grot crew piccies:



And next to a gun:

I always imagine Time Flies as some kind of nasty sci fi critter.

Lovely grots bud.

inmygravenimage: thanks, now I have an image stuck in my head of time-travelling flies with rayguns .

So, dear readers, to the day today, it's been 10 years. Ten years since I started this blog. Barring wife and kids, this may be my longest-term project ever . One could argue that it hasn't always been active, which is true. Life will do that - to me anwyays. But I always find myself drawn back to the little greenies, since they're one of the spots where creativity barely knows bounds, and I can channel all the crazy in my head. My grots may have prevented a number of axe-murders .

So, in honour of those ten years, let's take a look at where the painted horde stands right now. From a few different angles, since 'spray and pray' works for both guns and cameras .





Of course, this is only the painted stuff. As a frantic converter, I tend to build a lot more than I paint. That combined with a compulsive tendeny to start new stuff, has led to quite a backlog. Some minis have become less interesting once my skills evolved, or the edition changed... Some are just stuck behind a curse of procrastrination.

Let's have a look at all the minis, painted or not:


Quite a lot more... Still, I've decided to tackle the occasional old project between newer stuff to get rid of some of the backlog. let's see how good I keep it up

I also figured I'd show off my HQs, since I'm quite proud of 'em

Painted:


And WIP:


And since everybody likes doomchickens, I'll close off with a pic of those


Hope you guys enjoyed the pics!

Wow! Happy anniversary! That's amazing to have hit 10 years on your blog. Thanks for the army shots too. I really like the job you did converting your stompa.

RE window struts - try putting masking tape on the window and using a scalpel & steel rule to cover the panes, then you can just go ahead & stipple the struts


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Protruding struts might necessitate building the mask in parts:

Happy nerdiversary! Well done lad