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Awesome! The objective markers are pure win.

VIVA LA GROT!

These are great. I love the character behind each mini!

Kommand Squad




Well their back from being on display at the minaitures hall at Warhammer World, sadly I was unable to get a photograph of the Kommand Squad before they were put on display.
Again Colonel Grotsnik was painted by Alex.

Comms & Squigs
Well as I found out in a game with another guard player from my club an Officer Of The Fleet can be very useful so I'm getting on for games of 1750pts and here he is...



I did consider converting one of the grot ninjas with a radio since it would most likely be them holding up enemy reinforcement, but I felt this would confuse my opponent since they're already being used as my objective markers.

One recent idea I've had for sentinels is SQUIG TANKS after seeing this conversion and how it reminded me of a squig, I was going to use the little tanks but these would represent sentinels a lot better. I'm even thinking of wiring a squig into the hatch so the grots would have made a squig dread, but I'm probably going to with a grot pilot.

Love Da comm grot, and looking forward to the squig tanks as well! I had a similar idea with my squeaky waagh, but decided on regular kans in the end. Curious to see what you'll make of it

THE GBH TANK
At last the grot rebellion are getting their tanks and the first one is the GBH Tank which stands for "Grot Bodily Health" or "Grevious Bodily Harm" depending on your situation lol, which will represent the Banewolf.

Originally I was going to make it another fast food tank like The Little Grot But early on I decided to make the army appear completely mobile; they've got food and the manticore I'm workin on at the moment is also the mek's workshop and this is their medical centre...



"Da Grot Doks are da best doks dey iz; dey make supa juice to make grotz stronger and da killest of poisons to kill da biggest enemies. It alwayz a gud idea to keep da doks nearby in da GBH tankz case a grot rebel loses a limb and needs a medik to sow it back on!"

I very pleased on how it came out especially the turret, I used an old white dwarf tutorial for the battle damage to make it looked used. Later this week I'll be adding a grot dok to go on the top of the tank behind the turret observing his nasty poisons at work.

Most Excellent! What did you use for the Barrel of the banewolf gun?

@ The GBH: I REALLY like how you did the tank treads on this piece. I thought when I saw the first Grot conversions "This is great but what is he going to do with the IG tanks to make them look more Orky?" Well my friend question answered you are a genius in conversions.

That's awesome! And I am really excited about the mobile facilities. Great work!

The10thnazgul wrote:Most Excellent! What did you use for the Barrel of the banewolf gun?

An Autocannon with the lamp from the city of death set with an old wheel as the base.

ComputerGeek01 wrote:@ The GBH: I REALLY like how you did the tank treads on this piece. I thought when I saw the first Grot conversions "This is great but what is he going to do with the IG tanks to make them look more Orky?" Well my friend question answered you are a genius in conversions.

Their just the old tank treads without the outer hull and no going all the way round.
Also thanks your friend for the comment, GW Staff has also praised me as a genius and requested the grots and my renegade mechancius armies be put on display in the Miniatures Hall for 3 months and the beginning of this year and of course I said yes

Best thread eva. Comic was a nice little suprise as well. You ever thought about starting a 40k comics blog for dakk? On topic: These fellas are made of pure awesome sauce. (especially the ninjas)Thanks for the lulz.

I cant wait to se more and read more of dose comics ?

really like the models, show more please! would love to see the new units converted. a Valkyrie wouuld be pretty interesting under grot control.... just an idea

epic awesomeness. big up!

quietus86 wrote:I cant wait to se more and read more of dose comics ?

Then your wait is over

These are really cool, i love the medi tank

So THATS why they rebelled, an imperial experiment. Totally grim-dark, I love it!!!

Did you do these comics yourself??? They are AWESOME!!! I don't know if it is too much to ask, but if you have a place where you display your work (deviantart?) would you PM me and let me know?

Very good stuff. And great models, too.

Those are well and truly amazing models, but what happens next in the comics?

Can't wait for the next comic!

this is awesome! only thing i don't like about it is that i will never see an army this awesome in person

I love IG for gameplay and military fluff, and i love grots for humor. You made one of the most awesome armies i've ever seen. Gratz.

And can't wait to see chapter 3 of the comic

Dakka Tank Concept
With all the monsterous creatures and mech lists running about I thought it would be a good idea to consider a taking a pair of hydras. Especially since the army needs some long ranged anti-tank.

Anyway whilst looking for a cheap conversion since I have to build a 2 or even 3 of them I came up with this model concept using bits I had lying around;

Basically put a shortened leman russ turret and the autocannon sentry bits together model add a small window on the front of the leman russ turret for a driver window and mount the whole thing on a city of death tile and tracks, overall it could be a neat looking support tank. I can also switch the turret for a mortar to turn them into griffons.



I also saw what it looked like with the autocannon turret on at a GW store a while back and it looks like it could work, so I will most likely be building the dakka tanks in the near future.

Loving the dakka tank

The Grot Tek Tank?
Well another tank has rolled off the grot assembly line, I give you the ‘Tek Tank’ that will represent my Manticore by calling in grot suicide airstrikes. Though I’m still debating on what to call it so feel free to suggest another more suitable name for it?



But it is currently incomplete due to the fact it’s missing it’s crew that I’m painting up at the moment. The Head Techgrot ‘Gazza Stripbolt’ (from the comic) will be working the console on the top of the tank with his assistant ‘stubbs’ behind him.

Cause a Manticore only has 4 shots I’ll have 4 tek boyz working around the tank one will be on the lower console and another will be helping himself to the tools, after each shot is taken I’ll remove a tek boy.

So it’s temporary back to painting grots as I’m now painting up the Tek Tank’s crew and the Squig Tank pilots.

looking forward to the next comic, and of course more pics. that last tank is pretty cool

Proiteus wrote:The Grot Tek Tank?
Well another tank has rolled off the grot assembly line, I give you the ‘Tek Tank’ that will represent my Manticore by calling in grot suicide airstrikes. Though I’m still debating on what to call it so feel free to suggest another more suitable name for it?

Cause a Manticore only has 4 shots I’ll have 4 tek boyz working around the tank one will be on the lower console and another will be helping himself to the tools, after each shot is taken I’ll remove a tek boy.

So you're saying that even the grots in the grot rebellion still don't care about their comrades, so much that they use them to pilot missiles? I LOVE IT!!

Great idea on the "ammo tracker" for the manticore, that should makes things easy to manage and also be efficient for playing games.

I'm not sure where to start with what I really like in this army. The theme is fantastic and isn't one I've seen much before (and I've seen greenstealaz, so I thought I'd seen everything! ). The execution is fantastic, great painting and modeling. The tanks are very nice, they look like they'd fit right in with any other IG army! (I have a feeling you meant to do this in accordance with your comics and fluff).

I think what really sticks in my head are the comics. Everything else is just brilliant, and the comics really tie it all together. They tell the story in well-done snippets; you only need to read a couple and you know everything that's going on! I can't heap enough praise on this army, I'm really excited to see more. Two up to you sir!

i love that last tank, and your fluff on it. but maybe it would be more suited to have the grot bombs be ork bombs, them grots getting a bit of a revenge....

Your work is amazing!

Big Gun & Squig Tanks Preview[u]
I've been workin on these tanks for a while the one of the left will represent artillery tanks like the griffon mortar and medusa as well as the hydras, switching the main gun for the appropriate weapon such as the mortar weapon shown.

Another recent idea I had for sentinels is SQUIG TANKS after seeing a killa kan conversion and how it reminded me of a squig, I was going to use the little tanks but these would represent sentinels a lot better. I'm even thinking of wiring a squig into the hatch so the grots would have made a squig dread, but I'm probably going to with a grot pilot. I was hoping to fit a squig on the base but there just isn't enough room to place one. So I'll create some squigs on seperate bases to run alongside them, they won't do anything gamewise but they'll add character.



With luck both tanks will be ready in a week and hopefully by then my doom-vee parts will have arrived if not I start work on my Thundersquig gunship.