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cant wait to see how it looks

alwasy been a fan of your work

you are awesome

Getting close! Had some time to work on it this morning. Have a couple of surprises that I hope you'll like. Just the rockets and the beacon with the OSL left.

it looks AWESOME love the green on the front

Well, it's done.

But I can't show you because the battery on my camera died and I have no idea where the charger is.

Bugger.

Hey Gits,

Not sure if this is the right place to put this.

I was reading some orky stuff and thinking of your tanks and saw this:

http://forum.40knation.com/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=78

Thought it might be a fun thing to do with things 1 & 2. Or open it up to a group of gamers for a bit of a laugh.

Enjoying watching the Waagh Dakka grow, and your models are looking great.

Hey dantay, good to hear from you! Thanks, it's been a lot of fun doing the Waaaaagh Dakka... from making my guy to seeing the amazing work the grotz and squig hounds have been doing. We still have lots of room in the mob if you're interested in making a cyber grot.

Wish I could show you the finished tank... I really like the way it came out & it gets my wife's seal-of-approval, which isn't given often or easily. I'm going to try and find a camera shop over lunch and see if I can get a new charger.

Those grot tank rules are interesting, but since I don't know the context of all the various options most of it is lost on me. Liked the little story though. The grot tanks are one of those things that FW does that I wish GW would make "official" by placing it in a dex. But at least I can convert them easily enough into rokkit buggies, so I'll be able to use them regularly enough. Can't figure out how to proxy the grot megatank as anything... perhaps when 6th edition comes out.

I wasnt too sure either, I guessed the rules would be in the ork codex, which I do not have.

I think Gladiator meets Gorkamorka, or even the movie deathrace.

Build a tank an fight to the death, build experience/loot/ gubbins along the way to bein' da best.

I have been lurking, but little more than that, work becoming ever morfe stressful and a little man who thinks throwing and biting is fun.

What about a small magnet on the back and put a trailer or something, you magnetised the missiles, you could swap out for flamers, then you got some nice skorchaz

Or a trailer on the back full o boyz and you got a stonkin' buggy or war waggin thingy.

Good luck with getting a new charger, cant wait to see the pics... will see about acquiring a grot tonight and let you know

I imagine building a little trailer out of one of the old (early edition/gorkamorka) style trucks would make for a serviceable grot truck (the weapon on the truck is the tank and the carrying capacity is in the trailer. However, the grots would have to be proxied up as "orks" for it to be playable in 40k.

Perhaps I should take a que from the Waaaaagh Dakka and make them all cyber grots that count as orks (i.e. the cyber bits make them better at fighting hand-to-hand & tougher but worse at shooting.

Hmmm... that's an idea with some merit. A cyber-grot trukk mob being pulled by a grot tank.

Grot tank #1: (at a closer mag than just about any ork I've ever painted... Lord help me)



The designs on the sides are decals because well... I own them, I like them and I could never paint them this small. The fact that you can see that the checkerboards *are* decals is care of the harsh lighting in the light box. In hand... you can barely see the checks at all much less the edges of the decal. That subtle effect was exactly what I was going for. I wanted the extra rockets to look like looted AP shells from the IG or something similar that had crude fins hastily applied. There's probably a couple of snotlings hiding behind the bones with a couple of hammers that "fire" them by hitting the percussion caps when poked with a sharp stick!

Remember to vote if the spirit moves you!

Gits

Looks great Gits, it all meshes together quite well. I'm sure my bro will be checking it out for inspiration when he paints his up.

Thanks WM... hope this helps. They are very expensive for what you get... however, the more I painted them, the more I fell in love with them... little buggers! Now I'm searching for some excuse for getting the grot mega-tank.... OH wait... I still have 3 more grot tanks to paint. Yippie!

OH, and a couple of more shots...

First, for you OSL junkies... a bit better shot from above.



And a final size comparison to something generally close in theme as well as physical size.

Well he got them a bit cheaper, but they were recasts from the notorious Tony Heath (see the transaction report for more details), but after much work, I got them exchanged for the genuine goods with GW/FW (along with my Drop Pods), so in the end they likely cost me more in time and effort than just getting the real ones to begin with!

He'll have a ball with them.

OH! And there will eventually be weathering... but at the moment being fully painted will do.

Lovely piece of work!

Looking good Gits.

Love me some grot tanks! Remember though for convincing osl, the light source meet be significantly brighter than the glow it casts, the red bulb is the same as the red of the glow...

Yeah... struggled with that actually. That is the most vibrant red I can get out of the bottle. Would you recommend shading it up with orange or white?

grot tank is looking good so far

Where's the DCCW?

Scratch that, they are Buggies not Kans - doh

That tank is real nice Gits!! The glow effect is great. In some pics it looks like the light is brighter than the glow, is that just the pics?

Go with some GW blazing orange or an equivalent, its what i use for extreme/ edge highlights mixes well into the reds too and with a baal red wash looks nice

looks awesome as usual

bigfish wrote:grot tank is looking good so far

Thanks! Hate the "so far" part but I have always intended to muddy it up (which is why the tracks are painted brown) so I guess you're right... not done yet (and I've still got to fix the light).

Arakasi wrote:Where's the DCCW? Scratch that, they are Buggies not Kans - doh

There's just NO PLEASING YOU is there?! *sigh* Actually a miniature grabbin klaw would make this a great Kan proxy...

tipios wrote:That tank is real nice Gits!! The glow effect is great. In some pics it looks like the light is brighter than the glow, is that just the pics?

Yep, there's a couple of different shades of "glow", some definitely darker... but MT is right, the brightest glow and the bulb are the same shade. Bulbs are tough to do... as they're 3-dimensional you can't paint them like a normal lense or glowing power weapon which are in essence... two dimensional. I came up with a decent version on my Big Mek... but I'm not sure that will be convincing here.

dantay_xv wrote:Go with some GW blazing orange or an equivalent, its what i use for extreme/ edge highlights mixes well into the reds too and with a baal red wash looks nice

That's usually where I go to blend up my reds... just not sure here where it's such an obvious light source... something keeps tugging at my mind to go to white rather than yellow.

marmaduke wrote:looks awesome as usual

Glad you approve marmaduke. Assuming I fix the tone of the bulb, does the OSL work for you? It was your idea after all.

Looking at the bulb, there almost looks like there is a starburst done with a blended blazing orange....guessing it is the lightsource though.

Personally, I would stay away from pink...err...white.

That's why I give all my lenses and bulbs a couple of coats of "Aard Coat"... it allows natural highlights to occur that I could never duplicate artificially.

I was looking through pictures of red LED's to get an idea for when I try red OLS on my IW dread, and found these pics!! They show the brightest parts as white. So I'd go with adding white for the brighter bits.





I can see the dilemma of trying to highlight a sphere, but maybe the top can be the brightest part then blend down to red at the base. Same as the top pic! Good luck!! when I get back from holiday I want to see the resault

That helps a lot tipios... thank you! I'll fix it ASAP.

Here's another couple of examples I found...








So it seems from these and tipios' examples... I have 3 options.

1. light on top, dark on bottom, possible other bright spots top and bottom
2. white line & very light section in middle to approximate nichrome wire, then darkening both up and down (this is closest to how I did the bulb on my Big Mek, but not exactly the same)
3. the bulb actually appears solidly off-white with just the slightest pinkish/red tinge

I think most of the variation depends on the kind of bulb...
1 = LED, cylindrical/pointed
2 = clear incandescent bulb, globe
3 = frosted incandescent, globe

(Sorry for the size of the photos, not sure how to adjust that when they're not in my gallery.)

tipios wrote:I was looking through pictures of red LED's to get an idea for when I try red OLS on my IW dread, and found these pics!! They show the brightest parts as white. So I'd go with adding white for the brighter bits.

That pics shows a progression of red to orange to yellow to white . Suprisingly, the glow looks pink in spots...how strange.

P.S. I am suprised that I can't seem to google up a tutorial on painting light bulbs

Really stunning work mate, fantastically ramshackle and - sacrilegious as it may be - I like the decals!

That tank is insane gitz! WEll done sir!