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Gits, from what I've read if you take1 brood of gaunts as troops, you can take a tervigon as a troops choice???

Yep. We are putting together one group of gaunts with upgraded weapons and a whole bunch of nekked gaunts as spawned critters.

Well you are an Awesome Dad. Not just for your lovey painted gifts.

I am looking forward to seeign the Assult squads. My MW Assult marrine Hommage to you is slowly coming along. It has to be a slow build and paint to be a true hommage to gitsplitta project ;p

OK, just to finish up the Christmas extravaganza... I thought I'd point you to a couple of posts dealing with the xenos projects of the last couple of pages...

First, took some detailed shots of the Tervigon. These are not intended to be "look at my fancy paint job" pics ('cause it aint), rather just a better look at the Chapterhouse conversion kit & how it turns out. Include a couple of shots comparing the Tervigon to a normal fex. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/510/319195.page#3751621

Second, I finished one of the IC's for Thing 1's Necrons... Imotekh the Storm Lord. Painted to a higher level than the Nid so you can feel free to blast away on it if you like. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1200/285111.page#3754418

Should be looking at my marines again soon... just taking care of unfinished business.

WOW gits look good mna! Btw update on my blog too!

Gitsplitta wrote:You missed the posts... here was the setup Christmas morning:


They loved them. I haven't really done much in the way of close-up shots, but there are some closer shots on my Nid and Doom Eagle/Necron blogs (see sig). I could take some closer shots if people wanted, but as these are really only painted to a tabletop standard, I hadn't bothered to this point. I guess close-ups of the Tervigon might be interesting as it uses the Chapterhouse conversion kit.

I just read the whole blog and I must say I love the Mantis warriors!
Also Nice Xmas setup!

Thanks Captainsolstice and congratulations on plowing your way through nearly 250 pages of blog! My short term goal is to actually post something pertaining to my Mantis Warriors before we actually get to page 250... at which point I'm sure dakka will crash and the internets will explode.

Gits, don't you dare explode the internet! i'll be most upset if you do, although I would be very happy to see some new Mantis Warriors work! i mean this blog is their place of residence isn't it! and while I absolutely love seeing everything else, your MW are by far my favorite thing you do! what is the next thing your working on for them? what else is there to paint? :-)

NF09

Assaulty squad?

pweetee pleeze

Yes, assault squad... two actually. Since we've sold our souls to the tourney circuit and gone dex shopping... I've got 2 BA assault squads to make up. But to keep them flexible and use them in my (normal) vanilla army, I'm going to give them magnetized jump/back packs and enough magnetized options so that they can be fielded as a single 'nilla squad.

I have been really jonesin' for an assault squad or two for my army, so I'm pretty juiced about making this one (well... two, but you get my drift).


Boys and I just got back from wyomingfox's place where we had a tremendously fun 6000 point battle. Wyfox and Thing 2 with 3000 pts of Nids (total) vs. Thing 1 and I with Necrons and Orks. We used some mission out of the battle missions book. We basically sat back and let Imotekh do his evil work. Worked pretty damn well too, which is good cause I don't think the rest of our armies did much save pick off a few gene stealers and gaunts. We only got through four turns before it was wayyyy past bed time and I had to get us home, so we didn't pick a winner... but the Nids were all over us... think it would have gone badly in turn 5.

Night fight lasted the entire game and Imotekh's lightning accounted for a lot of figures. Pretty dang impressive.

I've been painting my butt off for the kids, even after Christmas. While I still have a few things I want to do for them, it's time to get back into my marines. Expect some build pics soon.

Gitsplitta wrote:.

I've been painting my butt off for the kids, even after Christmas. While I still have a few things I want to do for them, it's time to get back into my marines. Expect some build pics soon.

As long as you remembered to magnetise your butt, should be fine.

Gits forgot to use magnets but he did make it a awesome base!

after all it's 2012

I'm back. Mantis Warrior in tow.

First assault marine. I know this pose won't make any sense with a normal back pack on... but I don't care. Pack is magnetized for easy switching. Will be mounted on an appropriate base. Happy with the way he turned out but I forgot how much of a pain in the *ss it is to get the beakie parts into any other configuration than they're normal one. If anyone has any Mark VI legs that are NOT from the original beakie set that you're willing to sell or trade... please let me know.

Decided these squads are going to be heavily bionic as they'd really get beaten up due to all the close-in action. Should make for some fun models (and it's another way to bi-pass the beakie leg issue).

Incoming! Nice pose, but I don't see any bionics (yet)?

the chainsword arm

Yay, Mantis warriors again! sweet pose Gits, CH jump pack? and is that chain arm from puppetswar? or is it part of an upgrade set? i'll have a look for you for some mk6 legs in my box, I can't wait for this squad to get done, I have a feeling it's gonna be one of my favorites! loving your work as usual! :-)

Nerdfest09

You should have posted the first picture with a normal backpack, just for the lols^^
The biotics sound like a good plan. : )
Pose is really cool as well.

That is not an OSHA approved pose... but I like it!



OSHA is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the US... an organization attempting to keep all the stupid people safe from themselves.

looks great Git.

the pose is like the dystopian wars model of the john henry robot

Ahh he looks very cool, truly in flight rather than skipping along

Gitsplitta wrote:I know this pose won't make any sense with a normal back pack on... but I don't care.

Just add a white dove and you'll be fine

Cool pose gits! I like the bionic (rather than biotic LOL) arm. Forge world do the VI marines but they are pricey, I think your trade idea is a good one.

Nice stuff gits!Btw this is my 1001 post on your blog! (The 1000 was on mine!). Love the guy man! very dinamic!

He looks great, and should look cool when painted!

Wow! That really impresses me - stylish execution, great solution to problem - all round win! Are those CH packs you're using?

He looks really good - like the back pack too.

Very nice Gits Sweet build, where's the arm from?

@ fatty - any idea how big that John Henry 'bot is?

@ Arakasi - John Woo fan?

the size of a space marine. dystphian wars is a very small size game

Thanks fatty, that's the answer I was looking for I knew the scale was tiny, but had no idea how big those 'bots were supposed to be.


I look at the current header Gits and I expect to see a foot high model on here