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where do we post pics?? im confused

on the wiki page. i just hijacked Gits tread

You can see some WIP shots of my Grot here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/367392.page#3366845

Let me know what you think so far.

I'm assuming there's still a spare squig-hound slot?

It's not really me, but hey, I'm also guessing most peeps aren't going to want to be squig-hounds

Really like it ... not, that's not right.

I love it!!

I was wondering how people were going to cyber up such small figures and you * don't* disappoint! :-)

Thanks Gits

Allright youz Gits, now listen up!!



Da boss seyz dat da Waaaaagh been takin' up too much gubbins on dis 'ere Bad Moon page.

Da boss seyz dat all youz weedy Gits wat been jawin' 'bout joinin da Waaaaagh shoud git yer butts over to Da Konverta's Waaaaagh Page 'n post yer progress over dere!

Da boss seys dat all youz weedy Gits wat be workin' on yr grots fur da mob c'n post yr WIP shots (WIP?? w-o-u-n-d-e-d i-n p-o-s-t-e-r-i-o-r... oh, I get it), yer WIP shots over dere & when yer done da big boss Waaaaghmusic will put 'chr pitcher up in da OP.

Soz get on over dere boyz... der's figtin' ta do!!!

Just thought I'd give you guys a bit of a text update. Not as good as pics, I know... but it's the best I can do at the moment. My problem is that I've got about 5 different irons in the fire at the moment which means I don't make much progress on any of them. One terrain, one Nid, 3 marines and one ork (and the ork is a multi-part). Top it off with a serious couple of work deadlines and progress is slow.

I don't want to completely spill the beans on the ork project, but I'll give you some hints to get you thinking.

- it involves using some Forge World figures
- the figs can be proxies for regular 40k figures for which a "modern" figure does not really exist
- the "work" involves making the figures WYSIWYG for 40k, which they all aren't when you get them... and making the primary weapon interchangeable
- I'm actually having to do some scratch building rather than just kit-bashing & it's working out really well. Now, those of you who scratch-build all the time will laugh your butts off at my pathetic little project... but I'm all excited because so far it's working exactly as I'd hoped.

Hope to get the project moved along enough in the next couple of nights to show pics.

Gits



OH, and any of you who haven't joined Waaaaagh Dakka yet, and especially our little unit of cyber grots... you're REALLY missing out. We've got folks doing the craziest, coolest things... You need to get on board if you're not already committed to another mob... we've got the goods, no lie.

Here's the link to our Mob's WIP blog. Check it out and see if it fires your imagination...

Callin' fer Da Konvertas ~ An effort in keeping our blogs on topic!

WHAT A VERY OBVIOUS SECR...

Oh, wasn't I meant to say



don't worry Gits, it's safe with me!

Looks interesting

Yeah well... the only thing secret about it is that I'm not willing to show pics yet.... so sue me.

typical Gitsplitta!

Actually, I'm being a bit like that on my blog, I've promised pics but I haven't delivered the goods...

I'm thinking Grot tanks to become Killa Kans

Right starting point but wrong end point.

Big gunz or warbuggies?

nvm, I don't wanna ruin the secret

cant wait to see what it will be


hmmm... grot tanks.....hmmmm....cant wait

Hint: Big guns are too useless to waste expensive grot tanks on.

*jeez I'm such a tease... must be bored*

I'll see if I can get far enough on one tonight to show some early WIP shots.

I was thinking Kommando Heads to make Flash Gits, but that idea got shot down fast.

Can't wait to see this "secret project" of yours, Git!

Now, I told you this was a lot of hull-a-baloo for nothing right?


Well, here's the "big secret". I'm working on grot tanks to be used as warbuggies. I wanted to field them all with rockets but was just going to use the weapons provided when I had an epiphany of sorts, and decided I could build my own rockets. I made a full tutorial's worth of photos, but these two cut to the chase... I can post the whole thing if somebody really wants. While these look tiny, mine are actually much beefier than the originals.

The gun:


And the turrets:

Nice idea for buggies, but baren't those horribly expensive? Still, it'll be very cool to see the end resultls!

They do look a bit weedy - aren't they twin-linked on buggies? You should try mounting the Deffkopta Rokkits on the front - if I'm not jumping ahead...

Funny thing is that the original that came with the buggies is basically just this... a single rocket on a stick. Granted it's made for the regular grot tank rules, not the proxy... but still.

I toyed with several ideas, including using the rocket racks that you can get from forge world for the guns to get the twin linked effect, but they're too big & over power these tiny tanks. (man they're small... expensive as heck for what you get) What I might do is scratch build a couple of thinner rockets and mount them below and aside the main rocket. That would get your multiple rockets for the twin-linking and give it a bit more visual oomph. However, if I do a decent job painting them up I don't think anyone is going to complain that I only have one rocket each.

The good part is of course that these are fully removable being magnetized... so if they end up looking too weedy I can just pull them off and try a new build.

I was just excited about figuring out how to build this little, movable and interchangeable bit on my own! It's not my thing normally...

Gitsplitta wrote:

I was just excited about figuring out how to build this little, movable and interchangeable bit on my own! It's not my thing normally...

Looks like you did a great job of it. Would love to see those with some paint on them

I pretty much go gagga over anything magnetic. The magnitizing looks very seamless. Do you suffer from any droopage (or a tendancy for the barrels to point downwards)?

Git can we get a comparison shot to get the feeleing how big they are? and did you buy the mega tank too?

Thanks all. No droop, the outside magnets are quite large. Size pics tonight.

Hehehe, somehow I just noticed the big lamp on the cyber-herder's head. Too funny!

That's so you can tell when he has an idea !

But its always on?

BTW, was that your first crack at OLS? It turned out good

Then he must be a smart fella. ^^

Gits,

You should be able to pick up some rocket pods from Valks that have been converted to Vendettas. Those would make for pretty good twin-linked rokkits, and are small.

A little creativity and you could make it look like a tank gun barrel that's been stuffed with rokkits instead of firing a shell.