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really love what you have going here

excellent stuff Inso!

I've managed to paint the last three of my remaining Tunnel Fighters:



Two of whom were used to finish this squad:



I have some more troops on the way so there will hopefully be more coming very soon .

I wan't to see more!

i usually detest some space dwarves, but your tunnel fighters are sweet.

Here is the latest tunnel fighter. He is one of the commander's local guides:



I've also got all of the tunnel fighters I need to complete the basic troop squads. I've converted and undercoated the next six and will be getting on with them very soon...and just have 4 more to convert to get all of the squads finished .

I have been putting putty on the robot and commander as well...but not enough to show off...

...more to come .

Oh god, the ewoks are advancing to the next tech age. But excellent work on the model!

Just in case everyone thought I've stalled on this little project, I haven't .

I have nearly finished the last ten of the basic troops and have been working on the big robot too. I've also paint stripped all the Epic Land-Raiders (E-bay purchases in various states of paint...Dettol is my friend ) and trimmed them down for the conversion work to begin.

The command squad is still in the 'thinking about' stage but so far has a Commander, the big robot and the 'Ewok'. I am thinking that I may have some bodyguards too but I am not sure whether I will take the robot approach or suitably 'special-up' a few Grymn instead.

I've also been playing with the idea of some powered armour to act as shock troops...

I must admit to being torn between half-tracks and wheeled vehicles for the troop transport role...any thoughts?

I really like these guys they remind me of the Demiurg!The local guide is cool too although one technicality that bugs me is a spear would be a bad weapon choice in the tight constraints of a tunnel...

...um...maybe the spear could be collapsible? The shield has a field generator in it so the spear could be a bit more technical than it would appear...that's the best I can come up with (apart from the fact I like the spear ).

On to other things...all of the basic troops are finished:



Bigger pic:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d161/Inso/Grymn/Grymn%20Tunnel%20Fighters/GTF17.jpg

So it's now on to all the support and command elements .

I have now finished the commander:



...and a little something I picked up at Salute:



I still need to base these but they will be the communication robots for each of the squads (I also have two spare...just in case I make a few new squads ).

those little robots kinda remind me of Tachikomas from Ghost in the Shell. Very nice. I love the way this army looks. Keep up the good work!

I wish I could find some nicely detailed Tachikomas in the right scale for this army as they would look great...but in the meantime, the robots have been based and have also been joined by something that may be familiar to a few people...



(It's available from Black Cat Bases...but it doesn't appear to be in their shop :s ).

well isnt that lil fella the cute robot of the old time movie "the black hole"? dont now the name just at the moment...

i like the movie especially all those dark robots with their twin handlasers... thats a fantastic idea to use this smal fella with the dwarfs^^

Vincent. the security droids had the twin blasters and STAR was the main one of them...then of course there was Maximillian (very cool indeed).

I wanted to get Old Bob as well but they had run out at Salute (a friend managed to get them both...the git ).

Glad you like them though .

Some Tooth-Doggie handlers:



Check out Inso's World (link in my sig) for more details .

Hrm, minis give me the feel of high end well geared ratlings.

They are more like well muscled and proportioned Dwarfs...sort of like short humans with large hands, feet and heads.

I've seen them used for Ratling snipers in the past...there are two sniper models available from Hasslefree Miniatures:

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=71

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=127

I've decided against using the panda and 'cartoon' robot conversion for the command squad...they just didn't fit in with the uniformity of the rest of the troops...so I've started to convert the Grymn required for the squad:



The guy in the middle is a bodyguard and the four others have 'experimental' weapons (a plasma rifle and Dante gun). I will be adding three more bodyguards once I have the miniatures.

Next are a few assault walkers (with the commander for scale):



They are Vulkan Battlesuits from the now OOP Warzone range...there will be another three at some point .

Hope you like them .

Are you not using the robot then? i thought it looked awesome!

It will get finished and used for something...just not the tunnel fighters army.

if you make some transports and hq's for this they will be sooooooo awesome and very well painted grats for you keep it up

What race does this count as in WH40k?

I haven't thought about what they count as yet...but the generally accepted route for me would be Imperial Guard (although I would be tweaking things).

I am planning on building some transports, finishing off the command squad and adding three more assault walkers.

I have a shield robot to add to all of the squads...then the army will be complete...before I start adding extras at some point .

i normally don't like dwarfs , but this army rocks m8 , totally love it

Cheers!

I've finished the latest batch of troops...I just need three more to finish the unit now:

Command squad finished:

Quick question are these an independant army or are they based on a codex? apart from that the work is awsome and the painting is really good

You simply must make an army profile for this when you're done! I take back what I
said about the mushroom men. I want to make some Grymn! I like the head
swap idea and might just try it myself.

Young_Logan wrote:Quick question are these an independent army or are they based on a codex?

Although I didn't have a starting plan for these, they could easily be turned into an Imperial Guard army (although the command squad would have to be altered to fit and the comms robots would just count as a standard trooper with comms and the weapon used by the rest of the squad)...

...to be honest, I just liked the conversions and went through my 'spares box' and this is what came out...well, apart from the odd mini I had to buy to make all of the squads equal in size.

I have had a few ideas with regard to the tracked robots and they don't really fit in my vision of a mobile and flexible force (maybe they would be better for urban battles?) so they will be left out for now.

I am at a point where the work on transports will have to start...effectively Chimera half-tracks but scratch built (they'll probably be counted as Chimeras though).

One thing you'll probably notice is that I change my mind all of the time...fortunately, I haven't stopped building up the troops while I consider all of the detours !

These guys look great! Makes me wish I had a squad or 7.