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wait. stick with your original plan. I can wait.

wolfshadow wrote:TBH, I think it would be better safe than sorry, just in case. You don't want to spoil the surprise by accident.

+1.

Great work git , i can just imagine whoevers xmas present it is hunched over the computer eagerly.

Pleased to know you are having success with an airbrush, they seem to be storming the world of hobby

-Alex

I agree with wolfshadow. Just hold us over with tantalizing descriptions of your further plans

indeed you dont want too do that.

Git a little off topic question is it ok for me too use your warboss in the fluff storie of my own warboss? warboss Poeky that is his creed is : there is nothing as stealthy as a squiggoth

wolfshadow wrote:TBH, I think it would be better safe than sorry, just in case. You don't want to spoil the surprise by accident.

Some nice words of wisdom...

Agreed, I'll sit on my hands. Be one hell of an update when I get all this done and photographed though. Really happy with how the airbrush worked. I'm not sharp enough with it for details yet... but for the task I put it to it was just amazing.

@fatty: I'd be honored my friend. He's yours.

Yes more Gitsplitta fluff!


Soon the entire story of WAAAAAAAAGH Gitsplitta will be written without Gitsplitta actually having written any of it, lol.

Now THAT'S what I'M talkin' about!!

No pics on me no but I will give it a shot and post the results, as I said not tried it but it looked damn cool on the minis(s)

Project #1 is complete. There is one more bit of paint that I'd like to add (the crusty verdigris as opposed to a wash), but that will have to wait for later. I like how they turned out though... and the process is very repeatable so if he likes the color we can easily apply it to everything from infantry to vehicles.

I am very worried about getting project #2 done on time as there is a lot more hand painting involved on that one, however there are fewer layers & colors involved. Tonight I'll try to stay awake long enough to get the models prepped and primed. Tomorrow then will be the airbrushing and hopefully most of the brush painting. Keep your fingers crossed...

Who says Christmas only comes once a year?

I got a package from New Zealand today!!

that sounds exciting! show us please

Wow, talk about cutting it close Gits...

And show us the package!

OMG! Pics! Pics!! PICS!!!

You have to show us. Please sir, can we see some Vangaurd?

Great news Gits that you've got all the stiff. On a related note, I've bundled together all of the bits I'll be sending you.

Excellent! I always worry when I send things around christmas whether they will even arrive

Seasons Greetings, Git!

Here is the lates from The FW Badab War Volume II on your Mantis Warriors...
It's hard to squint hard enough to read it, but regardless, I thought it might get you a little warmed up.

@Moltar: Thanks! I was wondering about that. I can see the folks at FW/GW has *still* not bothered to ever look at an actual photograph of a preying mantis. Kinda drab... but it could be much worse.

@everyoneelse: Keep your pants on! I'll take pics... keep in mind these are just bits! No completed vanguard is magically going to materialize out of the bits. But once I finish the kids Christmas presents and my sergeant... I'll put one together as promised.

IIRC a praying mantic comes in something like 15 colors, including pink, and even a yellowish color. Anything OD is very boring to look at, honestly seeing as I have a bunch of stuff in that color.

Do like the carapace look of the shoulder pads though maybe brighten the green and yellow a bit?

btemple0 wrote:IIRC a praying mantic comes in something like 15 colors, including pink, and even a yellowish color. Anything OD is very boring to look at, honestly seeing as I have a bunch of stuff in that color.

I wasn't commenting on the color but the huge mandibles, which mantids do not have.

Evil Ant Warriors perhaps?

i guess so. i have a school assigment too build a home for a insect, reptiel ect... guess what insect i picked

Its xmas eve, merry xmas Gitz and thing 1 and 2...

Also merry xmas to everyone who follows Gitz blog...

Jim.

Well said Jim.


Merry Christmas Everyone!



And for your Christmas Eve treat... the necron pics are up on Thing 1's blog. Here's the link: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/840/285111.page#2259135

Still working on the nids and make slow, slow progress... but I'll keep plugging away on it.


Twas the night before Gitsmas, and all through his diggs
Not a creature was stirring, not even the squiggs.
Except for Gitsplitta, alone in his chair
Furiously painting, his youngest 10 pair
Of something called gene stealers, all pointy and nasty
And needing some clothing, and rhinoplasty

Now primer! Now base coat! Now highlight and washes!
On details! On eyeballs! On talons and claws!

... and... I can't think of the rest. *sigh*

Merry Christmas from Gits & the Things!

Ah so the Firehawks were not the only ones to get a paint job and icon facelift for the Badab book I see.

Oh and Git... Pics Pics Pics Pics go go do it now!!!!!

@Santobell: Follow the link in my sig to "A Doom Eagle Odyssey", pics are there.

I've seen a small shot of the entire poster and all the chapters are depicted in muted colors... must have been what FW decided to go with as a color palate. I've got no beef with that... and really not even with their MW insignia... but I'm a biologist, have to point out the obvious.

The IA books will be fun to read, have to get them eventually. Since my path is set for my interpretation of the chapter, I can just sit back and enjoy their interpretation without feeling threatened by it. Who knows, some day I may even meet another Mantis Warrior player... that would be cool.

Santobell wrote:Ah so the Firehawks were not the only ones to get a paint job and icon facelift for the Badab book I see.

Everything In that book got a face lift.. even the story!

Im not sure of whats real anymore!?

Gitsplitta wrote:

The IA books will be fun to read, have to get them eventually. Since my path is set for my interpretation of the chapter, I can just sit back and enjoy their interpretation without feeling threatened by it. Who knows, some day I may even meet another Mantis Warrior player... that would be cool.

Thats a good way of putting it. I think I will follow suit.

merry x-mas everybody

Merry Christmas Gitsciples, eat lots, drink more and keep safe!

Let's go with the Mantis Warriors begin based off an alien Mantis of some sort that does indeed have large mandibles. Merry Christmas as well.

SoG