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Looking nice! And looking at the thread title, they've been fiinished a whole month without you showing us; not nice!

Tiny nitpick: the non-melta marine has a small paint spill around one of hos shoulder studs.

Hey Gits, once again some really nice work. Keeps it up!

Your stuff reminds me of the mid 90's heavy metal stuff (in a good way). Clean colors and crisp lines.

Looking good. What is going on with the first one's right eye in the picture. It looks like its black paint that is still wet...

Thanks!

@Imp: That's the reflection from the gloss ('ard coat) that I put on all my lenses.

im loving the two snipers especially the one with the catachan fang.

And here's a better shot of the squad that's going to Adepticon...



Love that FW melta gun... just looks meaty.

I also like the fact that no two combi-meltas are the same. Gives that "held together with bailing wire and duct tape" feel to them.

Let's hope you don't end up playing in any desert terrain at Adepticon, you won't be able to find the snipers!

Beautiful work Gits, you're really pulling out all the stops for this army.

nice looking Melta way better than the new ones in my oppinion.

Thank you!

And for those clamoring for an army shot... here is the force Destined for Adepticon. Only those models that are fully completed of course.



Bloody small but looking good.

"Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my chainsword!"

Lookin' solid, Gits.

Looking great as always Gits. The completed models are really starting to mount up now.

awesome dreads.. really kick-ass

That is looking good, Gits, have a cookie!
Anyways, That is a small force, but I was wondering for a bit of advice on Forgeworld things. Is it strait conversion, or do we pay a little more or less, money scale wise. It would suck having to pay $60+ for a single squad of DKoK.
It was worse when I first found the Manta, instant mini love, then I looked at the pricetag.
I smashed my mom's china cabinet, but I managed to put the blame on my sister. No regrets there.

looking great git only one thing. the razor backs theire chapter marking one is bigger the other is smaller. did you do that on purpose or not?

Gitsplitta wrote:And here's a better shot of the squad that's going to Adepticon...



Love that FW melta gun... just looks meaty.

I also like the fact that no two combi-meltas are the same. Gives that "held together with bailing wire and duct tape" feel to them.

you spelled mantis wrong unless ive been uninformed and you nicknamed them mants

Those snipers are really impressive now they have had a lick of paint! I think it is great how you have blended the old and new seamlessly.

What is next in the great 'to do list' may I ask?

Great looking little force Gits. Good job.

I didn't notice the misspelling at all when I looked at it on the other page. Lol The Mants are coming, the mants are coming. Misspell for the win.

Mants warriors! Oh noes!
speling erors four ther wyn!

now there trully GW style

Very nice sir, did you airbrush the yellow on those guys? You seem to have achieved a new level of smoothness in your work!

fatty wrote:now there trully GW style

hahaahaha loved this!

those models look great, nice to see the unit moving along!

Hey guys, sorry I've been so quiet but my Ethernet card died at home & my only Internet access is on my phone.

Sorry about the misspelling, fixing it will have to wait. These figures are all made with RT beakies of various types which can still be had at a reasonable price.

Yes the stencils are different, as they would have been painted by each squad you'd expect variation.

First drop pod is green... at least that's a start.



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OK, have some limited access back... still not at home though. First, thanks everyone for you kind comments!


I think the only unanswered question is the bit about did I airbrush them. Yes, I airbrushed the yellow. I started to paint them the old fashioned way, got two plates done and realized the time for that luxury was long gone. So, they got a base coat, wash, airbrushed highlights & then a lining of wash in the gaps. Did brush paint on the final bad moon yellow layer on the center of each plate (it's what makes the pop). When they're mixed in with the unit I don't think you can see the difference in technique... the camo pattern takes care of that (visually brakes up the model so the difference in painting style is not as apparent).

I love the little FW Mk-VI armor minis but who can afford them? These are all original beakies, mostly plastics with a few early metals mixed in. You can still find them from time-to-time though many are used & need to be cleaned up. As you can tell by my build shots most of these are cobbled together from bits as the original plastics offered very few opportunities for posing without major re-construction (which is what I did in most cases).

As I mentioned above I got the first green coat on the pods. Painting them is going to bee a chore... gotta make it happen fast though.

Hey Gits,
after a solid 2 weeks of reading (while trying to get my dissertation finished) ive finally read through all 114 pages and can i just say, Holy feth its amazing!! seriously, this one thread alone has convinced me to join Dakka just so i can post to say well done and please keep up the good work. i absolutely love all the new (technically old) models, the paint jobs, the conversions...the list is endless.
I'm also now thinking of actually doing some work on my old BA army and getting back into the hobby (a disinct lack of funds and time at uni pretty much scuppered me doing anything for the last 4 years) so many thanks for the inspiration.
and a slight aside to BLACKHAND, dude how have you not been employed by GW yet?! ur sculpts are incredible!

anyway, apologies for the wall of text and hope you get your internet back soon so we can see some more progress!

LOL! Hardly a "wall of text" Reiko... if you've read through the whole blog then you KNOW what my wall-of-text posts look like.

Anyway, welcome! I'm glad to joined up and took the time to post. It's probably one of the things I've found most enjoyable about maintaining the blog, when people feel inspired enough to finally get involved. Just gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over (usually that takes several fingers of scotch).

Hopefully you'll continue to like what you see, though I caution that what's coming down the pike in the next month will be driven by expediency as much as anything.

Feel free to chime in at anytime. There is no litmus test for contributing to this blog... so just jump in if the spirit moves you!

@Revenant Reiko -Thanks man, but who needs to work for GW when I can enjoy contributing to projects like this!

Gitsplitta wrote:LOL! Hardly a "wall of text" Reiko... if you've read through the whole blog then you KNOW what my wall-of-text posts look like.

lol yeah thats true!!

to tell you the truth, it was the fact that you get inspired by other people being inspired by you that finally made me pull the finger out, sign up and post. and i love that you take the time to reply to everyone personally, really shows the best of the Dakka community spirit, and the spiit of this blog in particular, so thank you.
i cant wait to see what other wonders you produce for your MW, and i cant believe it will be of anything other than the highest standard expediency or no.
might take me a while to build up the courage to make any expansive comments but ill try.




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@BLACKHAND very true, its awesome to see someone creating such quality pieces, really glad you enjoy it too, and this project is definitely worth it!

You're doing great already! All you need to do to be part of this crowd of ne'er-do-wells is stop assuming I'll do something good and start brow-beating me into doing something good!

*grins at everyone*

Revenent Reiko wrote:

to tell you the truth, it was the fact that you get inspired by other people being inspired by you that finally made me pull the finger out, sign up and post. and i love that you take the time to reply to everyone personally, really shows the best of the Dakka community spirit, and the spiit of this blog in particular, so thank you.

I agree with you 100%. I used to be a forum whore, I'd post pretty much the same thing on all the forums I could find. But members like Gits converted me to a one forum man
Now I only post on Dakka. The other forums never felt like a community unless you are a part of their circle. But Dakka welcomes everyone. That being said, Welcome to Dakka!

Gitsplitta wrote:You're doing great already! All you need to do to be part of this crowd of ne'er-do-wells is stop assuming I'll do something good and start brow-beating me into doing something good!

*grins at everyone*


Aww thanks Gits! can do..... Get on with finishing those Drop-pods! lol

Styrofoam wrote: agree with you 100%. I used to be a forum whore, I'd post pretty much the same thing on all the forums I could find. But members like Gits' converted me to a one forum man
Now I only post on Dakka. The other forums never felt like a community unless you are a part of their circle. But Dakka welcomes everyone. That being said, Welcome to Dakka!

thanks, its good to be here! and you are right, there isnt another forum that has the same feeling as Dakka. i lurked on a couple of other forums but it was Dakka (and this blog in particular) that convinced me to be Dakka-exclusive


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Damn, i havent worked out the quoting thing yet, sorry