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Flinty wrote:Looking forward to the official Thunda-squig unveiling!

Da wait iz over!

“CALLIN DOWN DA THUNDA!!!”
At last a worthy centre-piece for the grot rebellion; behold the Thunda Squig gunship!
The engines are made out of Manticore missiles with the hell strike missiles from the Valkyrie underneath them, throw in some extra bits and some plasticard and you have a Osprey Vendetta conversion. The engines and weapons are magnetised so can be rotated and moved, it also allows for easy transport. The bottom pic showing it when going at full speed and the middle left representing it not moving at all (which is never happens).


“Dem Thunda-Koptas got dem selfs all shot up, so I ordered Gazza to make me sumthing dead ard and xtra killy
and dose new Thunda-Squig Gunships do just dat. No only do dey bring da powa but dey can go real fast too!”

First day of the Uprising tournament went well with a victory against Blood Angels, Space Wolves annihilated off the board (1750 to 720 victory pts) and a close game against Eldar which ended in defeat due to 2 lone Dire Avengers keeping out of sight, dang pointy eared gits!

Looking forward to tomorrow where I might be pitted against an guard army of Squats who are also on the same points I am... BATTLE OF THE MIDGETS!

I think we all are xD


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wowwww the pic just popped up haha, amazing!


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battle reports?

Proiteus wrote: BATTLE OF THE MIDGETS!

PICS!
The Thunda-Squig looks cool.

I Came down to see it but i forgot my Camera like a Nonce ¬¬....

but i must admit your Army looks incredible...
It is the Greatest Fully converted unified army i have ever had the honour to bear witness to!

Proiteus, you have far too much time on your hands... and money, it seems

Superb work again. Well worth the wait

The little HB drone is still the cutest thing in the world

Flinty wrote:The little HB drone is still the cutest thing in the world

Why am I reminded of Dory from Finding Nemo "he is called squishy, and he shall be my squishy..." maybe insert "droney" or "shooty" in place of squishy though...

It looks great though, top notch.

Nice Job you really made the Valkyre kit your own.

dark6spectre wrote:Proiteus, you have far too much time on your hands... and money, it seems

Not really as most of them are made from simple bits and part from the old grot rebellion army, with the exception of the bigger detailed tanks like the Thunda-Squig & Manticore the average price for the tanks (like the chimera) is £10-12.

Imperial Monkey wrote:Why am I reminded of Dory from Finding Nemo "he is called squishy, and he shall be my squishy..." maybe insert "droney" or "shooty" in place of squishy though...

How about 'Little Bugger'

Anung Un Rama wrote:Nice Job you really made the Valkyre kit your own.

Then my job is done

DAY 2 OF DA UPRISIN
Well today’s been fun as I got to fight the 3 armies I said that I would love to fight the first round was against Squat guard so it was a battle of tiny proportions’.

Often when faced with lots of firepower like his army had with 3 vendettas and 2 Manticores my immediate reaction is to throw everything in reserve and let him have the first turn. Sadly I discovered that this is a foolish move when playing dawn of war as you don’t get to kill much on the first turn due to night fight, then by turn two his army was all setup and he crippled my force destroying key units and it when down hill from there final score (220-1280 victory pts).
Lesson learnt go second in night fight missions and Vendettas can’t move 6 when they outflank as they need to be completely on the board, so looks like I’ll be replacing the Astropath with an officer of the fleet model soon.

2nd game was a close one against a nice pre-heresy World Eaters army and while I did a lot of damage to his deployed forces it was the dreadnought and assault squad that came on later that torn through my army and killed 4 of my troop squads. There were so many parts where his units should have died but didn’t due to good dice rolling. It was a close last turn though, but sadly a loss for me with victory pts denied by the surviving assault terminator and assault marine.



The last game was the best one as I got to fight against an red skin ork walker army. With his force advancing and my army doing the best to slow it down. He had some lootaz but rolled poorly for them so only firing 1 shot per turn from each of them, we joked about how his grots were rebellin and had sabotaged the equipment. The hero of the game was clearly the Banewolf which shot up the side and flanked a large mob of boyz killing 5 boyz before taking a charge and backing up to kill another 18, sadly the nob survived with one wound when the game ended on turn 5. Final score 4-3 close victory for the rebellion.
He was one of the best opponents I’ve had at a tournament he even gave me a model that had lost an arm to add the head as a trophy on a Doom-Vee. Sadly the one that had done the most damage already had the death guard head. I likely but it on Da Bunka which stared down a dread and three kans which were out of assault range but dare not advance due to the melt vets hiding behind the hill it was on.



Anyway it’s been a fun tournament and I’ve really enjoyed myself and finishing 37th out of 80 very competitive players isn't bad. Maelstrom Games is a great gaming venue which I think has a bright future ahead of it and I look forward to returning later this year.

One thing I did learn from this tournament is that I need another Thunda-Squig so I brought one from the store which gives a fantastic 15% discount to tournament participants, which I’m hoping to have built in time for the Yorkshire Doubles next month.

Sounds like you had some good games

And I really don't get how you can both build and paint so fast! but well I guess your just better then me on focusing on one or two things not 5< projects at the same time

Why dont you use the stormraven as another thunda-squig??

I just found this on the forum and read it from start to finish. This is just SUPER!!!! keep up the great work!

TWO TINGS?
Two things I want to run by guys. First is a conversion idea I've had for my Officer Of The Fleet; it would be modelled using the old night goblin legs (with the skirt) and painted red with gold trim and white boots and gloves to create Kaptin Zapp of da grot fleet.

2nd is because I'm getting a 2nd Vendetta I'm going to have to drop the Hellhound from the competitive list, but because the model is a grot cafe it could easily count as a poison spraying banewolf lol, modelled with a alternative turret (similar to the GBH tank turret).
But first I'd like to ask which tank to you guys think is better looking the 'Little Grot' or the 'GBH Tank'?

The gbh imo, the grot on the top is just excellent.

I prefer the GBH due to the tracks, but the details on the Little Grot make it s much more characterful!

Also don't forget the Velour for the officer of the fleet

Its a real toughy but I think the GBH is better, the little grot 2 is good, and has a lot of character however.

As for the Zapp idea, genius. Just as long as you have a kiff following him

I definetly vote for the GBH tank. I'm loving the look of that turret.

Little Grot for me (but it's very close!)

I like the little grot, mostly due to the little stuff like the menu

impressive! whit the Thunda-Squig you had do a really great job!

woot for Che Grotvera!

I would keep the "Little Grot II" It is my fav of the two choices!

DIZ LOOKZ LIKE A JOB FOR...
Due to the recent 40k FAQ I no longer want to outflank my Vendettas so the Astropath (I mean weirdgrot) is of no real use. So I replaced him with an Officer Of The Fleet and what better way to represent the fleet but with a grot in a strangely familiar but snazzy uniform.



I’ve also pinned him to the box so I can remove him and place him in my 2nd Manticore when I get round to building it. Might make a small snotling to go with him in future.

Another thing I worked on this week was the Leman Russ' plasma weapons so that I could turn my unused 'Battle Bruizer' into a 'Masta Blasta' which should be a lot more fun to use in higher point games like 2000 points.

Now I need to complete my 2nd Thunda-Squig in time for a doubles tournament next month.

How do you find the time to get everything done so fast and to such a good grade of painting? Also Good luck man on the doubles tourney!

Great work a usual, the white gloves give the grot a very official look about him.

I like the tank, and Kaptin Zapp is great.

If I'm brutally honest I think that the Masta Blasta is too IG-ish. It just doesn't yet have the character that other tanks do making this army so unique. Its still painted very well though.

Zapp's looking good, if a bit clean - isn't he very light compared to your other minis?

Oh, and I vote GBH for the tracks; if you could add those to little grot II, he'd win out though!

WE NEED SOME OF DEM SNAZZY SHIRTZ BOSS!
We've been thinking about tournament team shirts at my gaming club with each one having a slogan on the back to suit the player, someone making the brilliant suggestion of mine being; "& Now For Something Completely Different" Sadly it's only a concept and I'm having doubts enough people will be interested to do it, so I'm thinking that I'll just make my own as I attending a lot of tournaments at the moment.

I plan to commission Nacho; the man behind the art style of the grot comek to create a image to be put on the opposite side of the shirt. So far I've had the following ideas...

Grotsnik holding an army case and tossing some dice around in his hand with a crazed grin on his face.

3 images of a warrior from each of my armies; A Krogg Warrior, An Iron Guard Robot & A Grot Sergeant

Or Grotsnik sitting a table... (with a grin)


Personally I like the sound of the first idea but I wanted to see what you guys thought and any other ideas you might have?