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Got an idea for your grotz, you can include them in your imperial guard army as penal legion. Imagine captured grotz charging thowards the enemy driven on by the guardsmen. They could work as a good distraction or mine sweepers at least! Or if nothing else the enemy can waste their ammo on them.

Fantastic idea! I am using that for sure I can imagine it now, grotz pulling themselves along with chains dragging on their feet... Nice one rose!

Having a very hectic day today. I had to clean up the house as some people were coming round to see if they wanted to buy it (it will be so nice to live in a house that does not have a FOR SALE sign outside ) Not to worry, I still got some hobby stuff done today despite having a foul cold since lunchtime. E're we go!

After seeing some amazing grot rebellion conversions, I decided to begin a diorama in their honour. I knew that it would be something to do with the grots turning on their overseer and what better way than making a Supa Grot to beat him up!

This is just a mock-up to show how the general scene will play out. Let me know what you think!

















Just to clarify things. There is a grot in salvaged SM armour with a kustom jetpack which will be erupting flames. He is being steered around by a remote-control tau drone piloted by another grot.

Thanks for looking!

Can I get some of what your smoking please? It appears to stir the imagination quiet well.

Great work. Seriously.

Iron Grot!

The idea looks nice, now it'll all be about the execution; lookign forward to it!

haha this will be good.

Glad that you like him! The only thing that I am having trouble with is how to make the big flames that will come out of the jetpack. Any ideas?

hmmm cotton? with paint on it should harden but there probably is something better.

Iz it a burd? iz it a plane? NO, itz Supa Grot!

Looks like thats going to be a funny scene when its all put together. You need to paint an S on the grot's chest armour/

The control mechanism for the Supa Grot is really cool and I like the way that it looks like a joystick.

I was thinking cotton but I am sure someone had a really good method for fire on this site (searching now!)

Gathering Storm- I was already thinking of putting a big "G" on one of the shoulderpads but "S" would be very cool also!

The Tau drone is going to be called "Mr Happy" as I will paint a big smiley face on it (who could resist )

Cotton soaked in PVA might work.

wolfshadow- Yes, that could work also. I think that I will experiment with different ideas until I find the right one.

Finished making the SM army so I thought that I would post up some pics of it.



The Sergeant is a kitbash between an assault squad, command frame and with an IG head.



I have some DC bits scattered amongst the troops to add a little bit of flavour to them.





Nothing special about the Rhino apart from it has a Baneblade antenna on the side.





Now all I need to do is paint them

Christmas soon. It looks like I am going to have my hands full for quite a long time!


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Oh. BTW, I finished the SM scouts but did nothing special to them so did not bother to show them on the blog.

wow , you have soem cool conversion mate.. and i like where that diorama with the grot is heading.. jealous of that baneblade though.

Working on the supa grots armour. I am going for a worn and well used suit of silver similar to Necron armour. So far it is looking very nice and I will post up some pics when I am feeling a little better (Nasty cold and headache)

Also, if anyone has some good ideas on another grot rebellion based diorama I would love to hear it as I think I will have a go at another one soon enough.

OK, I have pretty much finished the armour. I was playing around with some weathering powders on this and they have worked very nicely.





"G"



Some progress on the backpack




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Oops! Forgot the front picture

Supa-grot looking good there cain, loving the concept for the diorama, skill

Like him, though I still feel he should be red and gold

LOL... Supa Grot is armed to the friggin' teeth... he looks great! I thought it was a funky Renaissance mask on a marine (I thought it was cool, anyway) at first, but then I saw the arm!

Keep it up! They're lookin' good!

Lol wicked i want that grot!

love the grot man! and the rest of your stuff is looking great!

Monkeytroll- Thanks! More dioramas methinks, they are great fun.

Commissarkhaine- Thanks! Red and gold eh? Well, that may be coming soon...

HF Izanagi- Marines with renaissance masks, that would be very cool. Thanks!

neil101- Thanks!

Sageheart- Thanks! It does not feel like only three months that I have been on dakka showing off all this stuff.


Trying out some OSL as people seem to be getting very good at it and I don't like being left out in the cold

Still a lot more to do, but your comments and suggestions are very important at this moment.



As you can see, I have used only ice blue and a little space wolves grey for the lighting. Do I need to add darker blues?






Also, all my finished models are all in the dakka gallery under "Commander Cain" Check them out!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-26800-12650_Commander%20Cain.html

Only comment would be is that I'm not sure that the very top ridge of the helmet would be lit to that degree. Other than that, pretty good stuff.

OK so the guy is all finished I think. I even did the base! I imagine his claws lighting the corridor ahead of him. Those genestealers wont know what hit them!

Looking good sir, I like it! Really need to look into this OSL stuff myself.

Thanks! It may be a little on the OTT side of things, but it works

nice claws , i can just make out the crackle of electricity on the blades, great job, your gems look pretty good too.

Thanks! I will get some better pics and also show the improved termie with 'stealer head (he is much more gory) and also the start of the banner bearer sans banner

6 termies to paint up to high quality before Christmas? I think it could be a challenge but I am going to try anyway.

Love the IG head on the squad sgt.
Also, a Baneblade
Clean or weathered?

BBL- I am going to do the Baneblade FW style, this means a tonne of weathering, airbrushing and super detailing. Now that I have the FW masterclass book I will probably start picking up other bits like oil paint, weathering powders and the like.

BTW, does anyone know the best way to get a nice smooth basecoat using sprays/airbrush? And if so what sprays or paints are the best to use? I have 163 models waiting to be painted and it is not even Christmas yet!

Here is the almost finished banner bearer. (Obviously he still needs the banner fixing on).





Don't you just love non-metallic metal!







And finally a good picture of the lightning claws.








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Hmm. My banner bearer is missing a thumb!


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I also added some gore to this termie (seeing as he is holding a tyranid spine in his hand )





Hope you like him!

really nice work here.