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How about a MoO sitting behind the desk... with a grin. (as a model, not a shirt)

I think Grotsnik with dice would be cool for a shirt.

Kaptin Zapp looks great by the way, and I have to say, I like Da Little Grot better.

Thought I'd already commented, but apparently not...

Thunda-squig looks great, nice job on the engines.

Possibly a litle late now, but I prefer Little Grot II purely for the details.

Zapp is pretty cool, and yes, Grotsnik with the dice and case

You should consider three t-shirts: one for each army . They're very diffeent in style, so one t-shirt should be about you - or maybe with pics of the models?

I like the first idea

LET’Z TALK ZAPPAZ BOSS
Just a quick update, I’ve assembled the 2nd Thunda-Squig’s main body so with luck that will be flying soon.

I’ve also been thinking of a Medusa conversion replacing the dish on the Manticore with the FW Big Zappa so it would be like a grot fire prism; ordnance for normal discharge and small blast for a focused burst.



However the turret is not as big as it looks so it can’t really pull it off and sadly I don’t have the time to build the turret from scratch. The turret would look good for a devil dog melta cannon but I doubt I’ll use that unit in future. Someone did suggest I use the Battlewagon Lifter but that was far too big though it would make an awesome Deathstrike stand in with the weapon charging before firing a destruction bolt and depleting it’s energy, but far too much money and hassle for a unit I’ll rarely use.

ALRIGHT BOYZ WE GONNA RAGE WAR ERE & ERE
I really enjoying the Uprising tournament last month and it taught me that I need more long range firepower, that and think before you act. So with my arsenal being improved I’m looking forward to unleashing the Grot Rebellion on some more tournaments this year. So here a were da grots will rage war this year…

22nd Feb - Yorkshire 40k Doubles - Warhammer World

9th April - Open War XV - Maelstrom Games

11/12th June - Warpstorm Tournament - Maelstrom Games

16/17th July - Throne Of Skulls - Warhammer World (depending on what I hear about it?)

Hope to see some of you guys at one of these tournaments.

for the shirt i would say for you to go with the third one, that table seems awesome! or maybe the grot over a gaming table!

WHAT TA PAINT BOSS?
I'm currently painting up the 2nd Thunda-Squig and am currently thinking of what to paint on the nose, should I go with jaws like the last one or something different. Clearly I can't do female grots like WW2 planes as there is no such thing and I can't really paint a red squig on a red background.

So any thoughts or suggestions on what to add to the nose of the Thunda-Squig II?

You could paint a slogan on it like 'Ave a nice day' or just put 'Da thunda squig 2'. Or you could just paint on kill markings but underneat paint (lies)

I would say put some cards (Like the ace of spades due to it being an amazing song or even a royal flush!), flames (if you can do them) or seeing as they are a count as guard army maybe the golden eagle thingy (sorry I can not remember its name!) and have one half on one side and the other on the other. Hope I can help (and have not just suggested things that are impossible to paint )

Squigs can have lots of colours, so paint one on in whatever colour you fancy. Problem solved

Full house ace's over king's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGasZRX0U48


Awesome army! Great conversions!

Or "NIMBUS" in bold black letters, like Zapp's ship

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Or Nibbler.

If you wanted a squig and wanted it red it could be done on top of a black or blue roundel, maybe with a limb leaving the boundaries of the circle. Or if you could figure it out a squig skull.

That or a grot with angel wings, like their taking the piss out of SMs "Angelz of deff"

Mmm how about the symbols for each ork clan, painted on with their colour scheme (black for goffs, blue for Deathskulls etc) and cross each one out after I've defeated an ork army that can represent them.

I've already defeated 3...
An ork horde at TOS which can easily be a snakebite defeat.
Blood Axes I beat at my club,
And the dreadnought army which I beat last month counting as a Deathskull defeat.

[rawk]The Ace of Grots, The Ace of Grots!!![/rawk]

Otherwise I would second the Planet Express idea.

IMHO, I think you should do something similar to the Doom-Vees, and not paint anything on the sides until you've used them a bit. Like, say for example, you test it out for a few games and find it is great at killing tanks, then put something related to that on there, or if it saves your Gitz from trouble often, maybe a Grot Angel?

What about a grot skull, with black flames coming off it?

I think all symbols should be earned Post-Battles personally

the thunder squig gun will look fantastic

I like the idea of the symbols being kill markers. Maybe just the clans you've beaten already, and a kill marker for the mechanicus as per their fluff.

RIDE OF DA THUNDA-SQUIGS!
Well the 2nd Thunda-Squig is now complete and since they’re pretty much the same I thought I’d just take some photographs of both gunships, sadly not together as my photobox is big enough. Off to the yorkshire doubles tommorrow at Warhammer World so I might take some pics there.



As you can see for the 2nd Thunda-Squig instead of writing the name I painted a symbol from each ork clan crossing off the ones the grots have defeated so far, I plan to save the goff one for a victory against a 4 battlewagon thraka list.

Now I’ve just got to create the kommand tank and paint up some Meltagrots and this project will be complete. As for my next big army project I've had 4 great ideas, which I will do first is currently be debated here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/347708.page

WE NEED BIG BLASTAZ & LOTZ OF DEM!!!
I went to the Yorkshire doubles yesterday and found out the joys of throwing down 5 plasma cannon templates on marines and terminators, this made me realise that instead of a 2nd Manticore I should convert plasma or in this case Blastas for the battle tank to solve my lack of long range marine killing weapons.

Like someone said when I uploaded the original ‘Masta Blasta’ tank the weapons looked too much like they belonged to the imperial guard. So with a few quick doodles at work and a bit of blue tac here is the rough version of the blasta weapons.
Some of you will notice that I’ve borrowed the idea of using the searchlight as a energy weapon from this conversion from Spikey Bits, only instead of having those arms that are ’too orky’ I’ve added some bits from the Manticore on the side. For the sponsons I created a smaller version using an old titan weapon and a few other bits.

That basically the rough idea, I thinking of painting lightning effects on the orbs thou I’m open to other suggestions?

Just wanted to run it by you guys and see what your thoughts were?

I like it.

Very nice, but i cant help feeling the sponson weapon is a bit on the small side

THIS=WIN!!!!!

I have t concur on making the gun bigger!

THE MASTA BLASTA
I had planned to build a 2nd Manticore but my guard army is seriously lacking in long range Anti-Marine weapons, but after playing a few games with a leman russ executioner I discovered the joy of throwing down 5 plasma cannon templates a turn. But at the time I was using the imperial plasma weapons which just didn’t look grotty enough so I converted up a set of new weapons; behold ‘The Blasta Tank’



We’z been avin a beakie problem; Ya see it’s dat dang armor of derz we
can’t get threw until we up close witch iz bad cause by den da beakies are
lobbing bombs threw da tank’s windows. However Gazza recently looted an
very killy humie tank and after seeing it melt sum beakies I told him to create
sum for the grot rebellion”

I was unsure how to paint the orbs at first, then I saw a episode of clone wars while visiting my family which featured this weapon. Using that as a reference I painted up the orbs and after two retries was happy with the result. I also added some small lighting effects, I also repainted ‘boom’ with ‘powa’.

So that the final model really, I just need to finish colour a small picture of Grotsnik for my tournament t-shirt which I requested from Nacho and this project will be finished.

Nice, love the lightning effects. I'm anexecutioner fan myself, since it can hurt anything bar AV14