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one nice site for bits and stuff is the assult group, i dont recall if its a .com or a .co.uk type of thing though

Tonight's progress: GS's Sternguard for the GMS. Brother Zane.

hes looking nice so far

Excellent job Gits. I like the progress you've made, a little bit to catch up to since I've been away for a week or so.

College and work, you know how that is, eh?

Ooo the latest Sternguard additions look awesome Gits!

Oh that one turened out marvleous! : )
Love the color blending.

Also, that camo can be really distracting when you got a dirty mind.

Burn baby burn sniper inferno! Just had to say to the scorch marks!LOL!

HAZZER

SternGuard look amazing Gits, just one tennsy weensy thing? Is SG#9 missing a blade on his left fore-arm?

Otherwise looks perfect to me

GS' marine looks cool too


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Ooops my bad, just went back & looked and there they are, just different to those on his right.

SORRY

Rogue Wolves wrote:hes looking nice so far

So far... So far?! Got news for you Rogue... this is it.

Orminah wrote:Excellent job Gits. I like the progress you've made, a little bit to catch up to since I've been away for a week or so. College and work, you know how that is, eh?

Been there myself Orminah... understand completely.

Mr.Malevolent wrote:Ooo the latest Sternguard additions look awesome Gits!

Thanks Mr. M!

IPS wrote:Oh that one turened out marvleous! : )
Love the color blending.

Also, that camo can be really distracting when you got a dirty mind.

Believe it or not I did think about that when painting his codpiece... but I thought "naaaah, my audience is MUCH too mature to have an issue with that". Silly me.

HAZZER wrote:Burn baby burn sniper inferno! Just had to say to the scorch marks!LOL! HAZZER

Haz, disco is dead... let it rest in peace.

dantay_xv wrote:SternGuard look amazing Gits, just one tennsy weensy thing? Is SG#9 missing a blade on his left fore-arm?

Otherwise looks perfect to me

GS' marine looks cool too


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Ooops my bad, just went back & looked and there they are, just different to those on his right.

SORRY

Observant as ever I see. *rolls eyes* You spend to much time looking at that cute baby of yours and not enough time studying MY minis... get your priorities straight man! Full blade is always on the right fore-arm. The blades and ornamentation are part of the personal combat style that the chapter practices.

Should get the last sternguard finished tonight... man will that be an occasion for a party. I'll celebrate with some nice squad shots and a scotch.

Gitsplitta wrote:

HAZZER wrote:Burn baby burn sniper inferno! Just had to say to the scorch marks!LOL! HAZZER

Haz, disco is dead... let it rest in peace.

... .... .... ...NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!LOL!

Gitsplitta wrote:

HAZZER wrote:Burn baby burn sniper inferno! Just had to say to the scorch marks!LOL! HAZZER

Haz, disco is awesome... let's go boggy in space.

Fixed it Haz

In England, Gits, Disco is not dead.

Brother Zane looks fantastic Gits. Really nice execution of the camo scheme which really ties the model together.

P.S. I'll message you my mailing address asap!

It's dead. I watched them blow it up in Comiskey Park way back in 1979.

From the web:

I was not personally at Disco Demolition Night, but watched the whole thing on WSNS-TV. Several of my teenage friends managed to make their way through the traffic jam outside the park but still couldn't get in because the game was a sellout. They along with several thousand others managed to stream into the park through a broken gate. Naturally there weren't enough seats for all the people who got into the park, so the atmosphere was ripe for a riot.

Steve Dahl had been making a name for himself in Chicago radio since January, 1979 with a "disco sucks" campaign which he promoted on his morning drive show on WLUP. (I know this because I was a regular listener). Several of his band's weekend concerts were complete sellouts such as the performance at the old Pointe East disco in Lynwood, Illinois near where I grew up. Nobody ever thought they could fill Comiskey Park so they publicized it heavily weeks in advance. For $0.98 and a disco record, anyone could get admission. The records were collected at the gate and meant to be blown up in a giant explosion in center field. Lots of fans brought extra records and the gate crashers never handed in anything. The first game was repeatedly interrupted by the disco record frisbees that landed on the field. Mind you, these weren't baseball fans, as the stodgy old sportswriters were quick to point out in the following day's newspapers. These were rock music fans, mostly teenage boys and twenty-somethings, and a fair amount of illegal drug activity was going on throughout the park.

Between games, Steve Dahl comes out dressed in military fatigues and helmet, leads a chant of "Disco Sucks!", and sets off the records with the assistance of Lorelei, a blonde bombshell the station featured in all their advertising.

The place went nuts! As the ground crew began clearing the field of debris, a few fans jumped onto the field from the right field (?) corner. What followed happened very quickly. Within seconds there were fans jumping the wall from all corners of the ballpark. Hundreds began running around the field for no apparent reason at all. Sox Security was overwhelmed. Several small bonfires were built in the outfield, and the batting practice cage was pulled out and destroyed. The field was torn up pretty badly, and the mayhem was beyond anyone's control, so the umpires ruled a forfeit by the Sox. The image everyone remembers is poor old Bill Veeck standing at homeplate with a microphone begging the fans to return to their seats. He was completely ignored.

The embarassment for Sox fans mostly revolves around the condition of the field after the riot. The outfield was scarred for the remainder of the season. Right field was especially bad, pocked and filled with sand to aid drainage. The sportswriters came down hard on Bill Veeck for holding such an outrageous promotion and destroying the field. They overlooked the fact that most of the damage to the field had occured at Comiskey rock concert festivals that same summer, known as The World Series of Rock. It rained on several of those dates and the concertgoers created most of the muddy mess that Disco Demolition was blamed for.

1979 was a crazy year from a crazy decade. Baseball tried lots of goofy things to bring back fans. For total outrageousness, nothing compares to the riot they had in Cleveland during $0.10 beer night. I think that was back in 1974. Anyway, for teenagers like myself, Disco Demolition was just the latest goofy thing to get wrapped into. We grew up and moved on. The sportswriters who wrote all those nasty things about Veeck forgave him soon enough -- especially after Reinsdorf and Einhorn took some cheap shots after buying the team in '81.

I'm sorry if I got a little long winded. Writing this has struck a nostalgic chord within me. Thanks for indulging me with your attention.

George Bova
White Sox Interactive





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Gathering Storm wrote:Brother Zane looks fantastic Gits. Really nice execution of the camo scheme which really ties the model together.

P.S. I'll message you my mailing address asap!

Glad you like him GS. I really think he's one of my best. Simple, straight forward tribute to the original beakies and Mantis Warrior fluff. I'll see him to you safely. He should make it fine as he's been dropped several times from my work bench and never shown any damage or breakage.

Gitsplitta wrote:he's been dropped several times from my work bench and never shown any damage or breakage.

Good to know. I think the CSM Mantis I built for you is of a similar sturdiness. I distinctly remember one of my cats had batted it clear off of my desk into a wall and it didn't break, only a couple of days before I sent it to ya!

you know what i mean i just add stuff like that so i dont hae to say only AWSOME all the time.. which he is .. still loving the eyes

Sternguard #10:



And the squad... (with chapter master)

!!!! Beautiful man!

So nice to see them all together at last.

Also, bit of news, I went scavenging in my box for Tyranid bits, and I found I could make a Stormboy, and I even thought of a suitable trade; how's about a Manti-stealer?

Outstanding work amigo! There's a Kind of ruthless beauty to #10. The only thing I'm not entirely sure of are the studs, but I suspect tbh that's more of a general problem I have with the mk6 pad than your painting. Great to see Kantor again too, forgotten how cool he was!

@Orminah: What on earth is a Manti-stealer??

@graven: I agree with you... the old campaign studded pads are poorly formed... half the studs kind of drag out along the plastic, especially along the top row. But... gotta work with what I have at hand. I could take a bit of yellow and try to tidy a couple up (did that once already), but in the end there's not a whole lot I can do with them given the sculpt.

Those sternguard are awesome. Chainsaw bayonets FTW! The lens effects you've done on their helmets are amongst the best I've ever seen.

@Cave_Dweller: Thank you sir! I opted for a different approach on the lenses since Mantis Warriors are supposed to be generally stealthy... didn't think glowing eyes would help that much so I went with a black gem painting technique instead. Of course screaming yellow with black stripes isn't exactly stealthy either... but... sometimes you've just got to throw caution to the wind!

Here's one more shot of the group. Slightly elevated and rearranged with a different background. You get a better view of some of the squad members from this shot.

Nothing short of awesome, really cool to see an out-of-the-box camo scheme for marines and even better to see it works!!

Ohh that's a nice sternguard!
Relly go together well.

Also the scorchmarks on that last one turned out much better.

Oh dear real life has been getting in my way, i am only up to page 146, but i am doing my best to make it through. Starting to skim though other peoples comments now and concentrate more on Gitsplitta's bits

@Scotti: Thanks! Appreciate it.

@IPS: Yeah, I went with a lighter medium grey for the main scorch marks and then some red/brown along the edges. Not as severe as the first try and overall much better looking.

@MOrdain: Well, if you're only reading my parts you're probably missing the best stuff. Readers contribute a LOT to this blog and to my ongoing quest to build my MWs... so don't sell them short!

Very coherent force, I really like the group shot!

Look great gits! whats your next project?love to see it!

HAZZER

Id love to see some WM in chains

Loving the Sternguard Gits they look incredible.