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Lets all just hope Gits will be done with this nonsense soon

Well erm... good luck with the wooden car thing. And thanks for reminding me of an episode of southpark I haven't seen for ages

Hey guys quick off topic question, Over here we have queen scout, is that the same thing?? (obviosly its called queens cause were commonweath) Or something completley different?

I think they're essentially the same thing.

If they're in drag... probably NOT the same thing.

I hope to be back to the brush tonight.

Here's where the project stands at the moment:



Yes, the one jump pack is a little cocked... I'm kind of in a hurry this morning... it's magnetized, no biggie.

prototype_X wrote:Hey guys quick off topic question, Over here we have queen scout, is that the same thing?? (obviosly its called queens cause were commonweath) Or something completley different?

Queen's Scout is an award, much akin to our (Boy Scouts of America) Eagle Scout Award/Rank...


On topic: Gits that green is lovely, and I love the yellow in the packs. Its extremely smooth

Thanks Alf, it's only the first layer and I haven't tidy'd up the edges yet... but you get the idea where I'm going. Should be able to finish these up pretty quickly from here-on-in. Yellow, white, gold, seals, face, eyes. That should about bring them into focus.

I may have missed this, because I don't regularly comment on your blog lol, but what's with the raised disc on the shoulder pad? Is that for a mantis warriors transfer?

Wow, they are looking sweet, really like the one with the flamer very cool indeed

They re looking good (as usual); though the front/middle one looks like he's having a Darth Vader moment

*Noooooooooo!*

endtransmission wrote:They re looking good (as usual); though the front/middle one looks like he's having a Darth Vader moment

*Noooooooooo!*

That one is based on the Vampire Counts model, Kondrad Von Carstein if I'm not mistaken.

Top notch as always Gits

Do you think they will be harder to see now that they are closer to the ground?

I was thinking the flamer was looking quite nonchalant - he looks quite relaxed next to the others, like he is sizing up a wall/nid army for spray painting/flaming - hmmm... where should I start?

Gitsplitta wrote:Thanks Alf, it's only the first layer and I haven't tidy'd up the edges yet... but you get the idea where I'm going. Should be able to finish these up pretty quickly from here-on-in. Yellow, white, gold, seals, face, eyes. That should about bring them into focus.

Soo just a question about the green.

I'm assuming you are doing Base colour, Airbrush highlight, then lowlight/shape with ink/wash?

Once I get my base coating out of the way I will be trying somehthing very similar with my Aurora Chapter


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LOL and BTW the Cub Cars bring me way way back! I'm pretty sure I have my 1st place car from when I was a young buck kicking around somewhere still.

I think it may be cheating by todays standards tho. we were allowed a driver, Mine was made of machined steel

Wow Git, your painting skills are killer.
Love the squad so far, great poses too, def the right direction I say!

endtransmission wrote:They re looking good (as usual); though the front/middle one looks like he's having a Darth Vader moment

*Noooooooooo!*

My guess is he's the one clumsy/klutzy one in the group - Always forgetting his ammo, drops the grenade and throws the pin, always overheats his plasma weapons, you know the one. And he's crying as he thinks he's going to get left behind again, because he just can't get his damn jet-pack on properly.

Nice the guys look good! But the face of the sarge (I think he is) needs painting. I geuss you still havent had chance yet or somthing. Btw where could I find a RT flamer likie that one? (just wandering).

Alfndrate wrote:I may have missed this, because I don't regularly comment on your blog lol, but what's with the raised disc on the shoulder pad? Is that for a mantis warriors transfer?

No transfer, I hand-paint the symbol. The disk just helps me get the circular logo straight & makes it pop a bit.

bigfish wrote:Wow, they are looking sweet, really like the one with the flamer very cool indeed

Thanks bigfish!

endtransmission wrote:They re looking good (as usual); though the front/middle one looks like he's having a Darth Vader moment

*Noooooooooo!*

*chuckle* Yeah, kinda does...

Alfndrate wrote:

endtransmission wrote:They re looking good (as usual); though the front/middle one looks like he's having a Darth Vader moment

*Noooooooooo!*

That one is based on the Vampire Counts model, Kondrad Von Carstein if I'm not mistaken.

If it is it's news to me... never heard of Kondrad Von Carstein. Just seemed like a pretty obvious pose to me.

Johnny-Crass wrote:Top notch as always Gits

Thanks Johnny.

Cutthroatcure wrote:Do you think they will be harder to see now that they are closer to the ground?

They aren't closer to the ground yet, still on their original bases. Ask wyomingfox... he's was taking great delight in shooting the hell out of them because the guys were so high off the ground I couldn't hide them anywhere.

Arakasi wrote:I was thinking the flamer was looking quite nonchalant - he looks quite relaxed next to the others, like he is sizing up a wall/nid army for spray painting/flaming - hmmm... where should I start?

My flamer guys are always a bit "apart" from the rest of the squad. Takes a special mind set to burn people alive and at close range.

logg_frogg wrote:Soo just a question about the green. I'm assuming you are doing Base colour, Airbrush highlight, then lowlight/shape with ink/wash?

Close logg_frogg: airbrush base color, then shadows, then 2 or 3 highlights, then a thraka green wash making sure not to let it settle into pockets, then line the crevices with the same to darken them up even more.

LOL and BTW the Cub Cars bring me way way back! I'm pretty sure I have my 1st place car from when I was a young buck kicking around somewhere still. I think it may be cheating by todays standards tho. we were allowed a driver, Mine was made of machined steel

Pretty slick... ours are no where near that sophisticated.

SelvaggioSaky wrote:Wow Git, your painting skills are killer. Love the squad so far, great poses too, def the right direction I say!

Thank you Selvaggio, hopefully the rest will not disappoint either.

monkeytroll wrote:My guess is he's the one clumsy/klutzy one in the group - Always forgetting his ammo, drops the grenade and throws the pin, always overheats his plasma weapons, you know the one. And he's crying as he thinks he's going to get left behind again, because he just can't get his damn jet-pack on properly.

A+ mate...

HAZZER wrote:Nice the guys look good! But the face of the sarge (I think he is) needs painting. I geuss you still havent had chance yet or somthing. Btw where could I find a RT flamer likie that one? (just wandering).

If you would have read my post answering YOUR post just below the picture... you would have noticed that I listed the face as still needing painting, along with a number of other things. I might have an extra flamer, I'll check... or you can get one that's actually RT looking only slightly cooler from FW.

Yeah I remember reading about that, hence why I asked...See i pay attention!

Uh oh gits STC_logisengine is catchin up to this blog with his alpha legion on exalts :p

the is Konrad von Carstein. the arm position are very similar. In reality the pose is really disadvantageous as you open up your entire body. but then again in reality we are just painting plastic/resin/metal figures and play with them. we think where awesome everybody else thinks where weird

polari wrote:Uh oh gits STC_logisengine is catchin up to this blog with his alpha legion on exalts :p

That's great! Since I know that I don't have a monopoly on cool ideas it's nice to see other dakkanaughts getting their due.

fatty wrote:

the is Konrad von Carstein. the arm position are very similar. In reality the pose is really disadvantageous as you open up your entire body. but then again in reality we are just painting plastic/resin/metal figures and play with them. we think where awesome everybody else thinks where weird

Agreed. Don't know about Konrad there but my idea was to pose my marine in a moment of adrenalin-filled exultation after slicing and dicing some opponent up for the Emperor. I have some other two-stick ideas for poses that are more combat ready.

Gitsplitta wrote:

Arakasi wrote:I was thinking the flamer was looking quite nonchalant - he looks quite relaxed next to the others, like he is sizing up a wall/nid army for spray painting/flaming - hmmm... where should I start?

My flamer guys are always a bit "apart" from the rest of the squad. Takes a special mind set to burn people alive and at close range.

"I love the smell of Promethium in the morning.
Smells like ... Victory."

Gits, Gits, Gits, the assault squad looks awesome so far! I really like the way they all fit together, you've made a very dynamic squad with your imaginative posing! and those CH packs are probably nicer than the GW ones imo, great job, i look forward as usual to seeing more paint on them all!

NF09

I think I see two guys who are going to make it very hard to hide the squad. I thought you were going to knock down the height on the rocks on your bases?

Actually there's three, but I'm not going to bother until the painting is done, the extended bases make them easier to manipulate while painting.

Soz gits, I read the post and dident see it thats all!

You're cool Haz... just razzin' ya.

Great work Gits, as usual!

As for the swordfighting pose: some Italian and Spanish fencing schools used similar poses, though these were only for one-on-one duelling, for obvious reasons