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Wow, I'm jealous. Those conversions are excellent.

LunaHound wrote:Wow , i really need to find that grass green .

It looks good enough to play just after the spray!

Humbrol Acrylic Spray 150ml No. 80 Matt Grass Green

Yeah,
I'm happy with it! although I was expecting the can to last a bit more than 500pts!
You should be able to pick these up at a regular model store, if they stock airfix type stuff.
The range of colours is really good.

Panic..

I'd try modelling some of the T4 grots as two grots - either side by side or one standing on the other's shoulders. This would work for runtherds, but better still for mega armoured grots - one controls the legs, the other the arms

You know - cos T2 + T2 = T4 and 3pts + 3pts = 6pts

yeah,
I like some of the ideas coming up in this thread.
I think Grot burnas and tankbusters and lootas will happen. MegaGrots!
I've been looking at these for a while, I think they will make good grot something.
Bikers? or with a heavy flamer on the left side burnas? --> monocyles

Anyway this is just a quick post of my desk to show that I've not stopped!


500pts tourney -> 4days to go!

Panic...

Arakasi wrote:I'd try modelling some of the T4 grots as two grots - either side by side or one standing on the other's shoulders. This would work for runtherds, but better still for mega armoured grots - one controls the legs, the other the arms

You know - cos T2 + T2 = T4 and 3pts + 3pts = 6pts

This is a REALLY good idea - and solves loads of 'counts as' problems...

You should look for gnoblars from the Ogre kingdoms. They have guys sitting on each others' shoulders, and they look reasonably grot-like.

Yeah great idea for T4 grots!!!!

Gnoblar "knights" w/ Sluggas should be perfect!!!

I have something you might want to steal
I had a Grot model that kill 3 Khorne Berzerkers in CC, only one with help.
This was back in 2nd or 3rd edition.

Awesome! The buggies are my favorites, they just rock!

I love this idea! Grots are great. So very amusing! If you can snag some of the old Gorkamorka stuff, there were some really excellent kits for the Rebel Grot range that would work perfectly for this project, I think.

yeah,
Sorry for the lack of updates.
I went drinking on tuesday after work and got nothing done. but on Wendasday I had the day off work and I painted the buggies and Killa kans.
I've used ForgeWorld powders for the first time and went a bit over board. but overall I was happy with the effect.

The Killa Kans. the photo is a bit washed out, but you can see i went overboard with the dusty powders.


The Buggies... Disaster struck, I sprayed the buggies with GW purity seal spray varnish and they clouded over in a white dust! It looks like I primed them white!!!

I've checked on dakka, looking for a way to fix the problem and found this -> spray varnish problem thread
I tried two of the the meathods presented there... with no real success.
There is one more fix offered and that's to spray them with zip fix, If i can find some i'll give it a go.
I'm really annoyed! but there isn't much I can do about it right now.
this is what they look like now... I was almost finnished with these, all I had to do was paint the grots and rockets and they were done! but I wanted to seal the powders in.

The only sort of good news is that I've taken ill with a cold so while I'm not going to work today or tomorrow, i can get some painting done.
today I'm going to carry on working on the Deff dread and Kan Weapons, tomorrow I'll finnish The Troops and BigMek.
I just have to hope I find a way and time to fix the buggies... I've used GW varnish spray so many times and it's been fine I can only guess this is a bad can!!! gutted.

Panic...

shame..........

DC

Too bad about the dusting but otherwise the army is looking great!

Very cool!

I has an idea-maybe have a Grot loot a tau Battlesuit and be your warboss?

bad luck lad, happened to me to, didnt shake it enough, but the kans look really cool
are you gonna add anythin more to the army like a deathfortress 'o grots a.k.a battlewagon or big gunz or sumthin?

Love it so far
LFF666

That's no good... no good at all. :(

I like the mono-bike thing tho. Mono-bikes rock, and they are just as dangerous for the driver as anyone else. Perfect for a weed little greenskin!

mwah i like your idea good work so far

yeah,
Ok so I tried reviving the buggies for couple of hours with water and nail brush.. inbetween painting the DeffDred...
A couple of grots drivers broke/fell off and paint&varnish was parting ways from the vehicles, I decided to give up! and try something new/basic.
I inked them with old GW inks matched to the underlying colours, this worked quite well althought it left the buggies in quite a basic state of colour/repair...

Ok this is my table 3AM... at the end of play today..

Click image to have a litle zoom around!

So tomorrow this is what I Need to do to complete the 500pts;
Big Mek needs painting and the Troops need inked.
DeffDred and Kans guns require painting plus I need to make a grotZooka!
Buggies are pretty much done except the Driver and Gunner (and passengers if I have time )

Oh yeah all the Troops and walkers need basing!!!1! Plus there is no way in hell I'm using my can of varnish again... I'll have to ask ArbitorIan to bring his!
God there is alot to do!

I've been thinking about calling these guys the Da'GreenSon's...
getting loads of EvilSunZ icons and sheilds and Basically everything gets painted green! Ya See I'm thinking like a Grot, What do you think>?

...I'm still a little under the weather... wish me luck!
Panic...

WOW!!! love it so far hope you do well in your tournament

also ive been thinking about doing a grot army for ages, i used to use 100s of them in my old ork army but fancy a fully themed one

where did you get that sparay paint and whats it called lol

im in UK so if its from a known shop i should be able to find it lol

Nice. I like the turret rings in the buggies that mount the rokkits.

Someone makes 'Grotzookas' and sells them on ebay if you want to take a look at those.

yeah,
Ok So the tourney has been and gone and it was a blast. You can check out how we did in ArbitorIans round up -> Here.
I pulled a all nighter to get the mini's finnished and based, I finally put the paint brushes down at 3.30Am so I could get a few hours sleep! This is the army before I packed it up for the tourny.

If you click the image you can zoom around and have a closer look!

I sprayed the army with humbrol matt varnish 5mins before the comp started and arrrrgh the dusty white came back on a few mini's. I must be doing this wrong! But i refused to let this ruin my day and with all the paint stalls at GameFest I got lots of advice to fix them up and will try them out today and tommorrow. Also My BigGrotMEKS choppa also broke and got lost... :( so i'm thinking of giving him a power claw. In most games I attached him to the unit of grots so a PowerClaw will give the unit some bite in close combat.I'll keep you posted.

Plans for the army?
Ian and I are planning a a mini paint escalation league type thing.. with Squats vs Grots! so we will have a 500pt game soon... BatRep to follow.
The next mile stone is either 750pts or 1000pts and will have to contain 2 troops choices... by the time I have a 1500List I plan on having 9 KillaKans 2 dreads (second BigMek required so that both dreads count as troops) and 9 buggies... the rest of the army will be grots and whatever else I can fit in!

GrotZookas!!! are awesome.
MeanGreenStompa: yeah I did a search for resin grotzookas and found IronDog Studios His design looks good but he doesn't appear to be selling them? I'd also want variations in the scrap piles and barrels... and if I have to convert his grotzookas to get the variation I may as well start from scratch... I like his design thou
It actually doesn't look a million miles from the last minute Grotzooka I put together from a old RT shock attack gun!

Also on his site is a excellent tutorial on how to kitbash ATV's out of bikes... which i will try with the new ork bikes.

Panic...

i'm glad you had a great time at the tournie and i really can't wait to see even more of this grotty goodness. Did you get loads of people commenting on how awesome your army was?

I love the idea for the Grotmek, and the conversion even more. I can't wait to see how you flesh this one out.

Looks great, and fun to play.

Loving Grots ....

yeah,
Thanx for the comments guys!
These guys have not been forgotten for the last week I've been painting up another 45 grots mostly metal, I also fixed up the original 15 plastic grots and herder they got a little bit cloudy with another spray problem just before the tourny... with a different can. I dunno what I'm doing wrong with the varnish sprays. I'll be doing test sprays onsomething else before these guys get varnished!

Anyways here's Photos of the 60 grots and the GrotHerder... Can you spot the ratling conversion?















This will be enough grots for a while as List wise I can play these guys as:
two squads of 30Grots with 3 Herders each, (I'll need another 5 herders)
three squads of 19 with 1 Herder,
four Squads of 15 with 1 Herder,

I've decided to strip the first three buggies... they can't be saved..
I'll put together the next 6 buggies and paint all 9 buggies at the same time. I bought a ork biker set and FW grot sponsons to convert into the next three buggies. not sure how I'll make the final three buggies.

Also I now have weapons for squads of burna boys and lootas...

Panic...

those are awesome. Is the mohawk in the first image GS or an old model?

yeah,
I wish I could take the credit!
He's a old lead grot I picked up on eBay.

Panic...

The Ratling.....
Six down, second from the left?