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Just thought I'd mention that I've begun painting my 3rd grot tank. I think this one will go together pretty quick. Aside from the weathering, the tracks are done already & am working on the tank body. Pics soon (hopefully).

What .. in your Bat rep did you actually say your dice rolled well?

Looks like getting your boys " stuck in" early was key. (Death rollers helped too)

SL

My opponent deployed a little too far forward making an across-the-board turn 2 charge possible. Combine that with his really bad luck shooting at my vehicles and my consistently good luck rolling dice... and it was a long, hard day for the eldar.

Deathrollas did a fair amount of damage in key situations, so they were definitely important in gaining the victory.

Made a bit of progress on my 3rd Grot Tank. This is just the base... lots to do yet.

Nice painting it's obvious your green is spot on (MW and ork skin really help with that)

but that turret somehow reminds me of this

It's the Christmas grot tank! I like it.

Actually Fatty... you aren't far off. Since there's an ork face on the bottom of the turret mount, I wanted the top to look like the top of the head. I didn't make the Oscar-the-Grouch connection though.... which is a major fail on my part. I approve whole-heartedly though!!

@Ice: Thanks! Made more progress after posting that pic. Expect another update tonight.

Looking forward to it.

Teasers from my game this afternoon, full batrep to follow. 1250 pts again with my Grot army using Buzzgob (with my opponents permission). All the units save one were chosen simply because they either were grots or looked like grots when compared to modern orks. (the exception being a couple of deffkoptas who were just filling out points)

The Army:


My Turn 1 roll-on (DoW game):


The fate of Grot Tank #3 (self inflicted):


Failequins, Part II: This is probably going to hurt...

Solar_lion wrote:Forsooth... we wait'th on the BAT REP with thy'ne baited breadth.

Finally got the grot army on the table.. good! .bout time.

SL

Yeah, I finish up that third grot tank, get two more kans painted & maybe a grot bike or two re-painted and they'll really look like something. I'd like to get some grot substitues for the deff koptas too, but the only model I really like for it is priced out of my range. Have some more FW grot things I'll be doing eventually, but not all of them have a good proxy (the grot megatank for example), so my ability to field them will be at the whim of my opponents.

Buzzgob is OK as a commander. No where near as effective as a big Mek with a KFF as all of his special abilities really don't come into play unless your playing apoc. However... his LD 9 is nice if he's attached to a nob squad and on the charge he gets a ton of big choppa attacks... which is nice as well. And he's a very fluffy choice to lead my grots into combat even if not that effective.

This is actually a pretty shooty list when it comes down to it and nearly everything contributed significantly in the battle. Bikes, buggies, kans, koptas... trukk w/ nobs... even the grots did their part. Hard to complain when darn near every unit grades out at a B or better. It's just very ephemeral... so it won't take much of a pounding. It can dish it out though...

How did the cannons work out. I don't see them used much.

Have to look through my pics... but if I recall correctly they took out the avatar, as well as adding supporting fire in general. Think I maxxed out the unit's firing strength roll (killed a grot as a result), then burned an ammo grot to get 2 or 3 hits. Failed a couple of saves & no more Avatar (he was already wounded from earlier Zap gun & rokkit shooting).

Most people prefer the regular cannons, but the only artillery pieces I have painted don't look like standard cannon so I use them as Zap Guns.

The tanks looking good Gits! So's the Stromboyz!

Stormboy Nob is Arakasi's work... and you're right... he's fantastic!

Built the Rokkit Launcher for the thrid grot tank. Here are some pics. Takes a bit of time but it's magnetized so I can switch it out in case I ever get the chance to run them as actual grot tanks rather than just rokkit buggies. Kind of fun to do though. Note that the rather wonky alignment is allowed to happen on purpose as I don't think grots would worry too much about levels and plumb-bobs. Also got a bit more painting done (but am not featuring it in these pics)... expect a painting update soon.

First, the bits.... launcher made out of a tube & a hand-held ork rokkit launcher, magnetized at the back. Two kustum rokkits made out of smaller tube, GS & plasticard.


Side view of completed gun. Looks like I was a little over zealous with the super glue.


Front view. Really like the crookedness of it all... gives it that grotty feel. (sorry, depth-of-field stinks on this shot)


More quite soon.

Lovein the rocket mod gits

Great to see you back on the 'M' side of P&M! Lovely job, especially the crooked build!

Thanks guys!

New Batrep up! Orks vs. Eldar part II!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/457061.page#4433177

Loved it!

I just had the most amazing game as part of the 40k league I'm in. Fantastic opponent with a really tough, Abbadon chaos space marine list. Demon w/ lash whip, another demon, terminators, oblits, berserkers, squads of plague marines in rhinos... man... what a nightmare. I ran a gigged up version of my battlewagon rush list. Got off a first turn charge and by turn two, though I'd lost 2 of my 3 scoring units I'd eliminated the targeted units (berserkers and oblits). It was a truly EPIC struggle that waxed and waned for 5 turns... and it looked like in the end I"d be victorious. Unfortunately I discovered after the fact that I'd made a pretty important (and stupid) rule error in my favor that actually did make a difference in the game. Now, it's not the fact that I then yielded the game to my worthy opponent that bothers me... my opponent was great & very generous throughout and I'm glad I caught and corrected the error before it was officially recorded. It's the fact that it was such an amazing and fun battle that now is consigned to the toilet because I screwed up (i.e. no battle report, no fun stories of daring do, etc.)


So it was a wash, except for one... SHINING... moment... that remains totally untainted my by error.


You see, my battlewagon list includes Zogwort... for one specific reason: Abbadon the Despoiler.... squig!



You go Zoggy.... good on 'ya!


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A bit more progress on the grot tank. Just about done with the base colors. Detailing, then weathering left to do (and a bit of a surprise at the end).

Ziggy Zoggy Ziggy Zoggy Oye Oye Oye!

Too bad about the mistake, Gits, but it sounds like it was a great game, and that's what counts. Cool about Zoggy, too. Gotta love Abaddon the Squig!

Also, the Grot tank is looking great. Kind of reminds me of this

You know, I didn't plan it that way... but it does look a bit like the green M&M Dalek doesn't it? And you're right, it was a bloody fantastic game!


OK, next WIP. All the base colors are done but there's still a ton of detailing to do.... then all the chipping & scratching... finally the weathering and rust. So much work for such a tiny figure! It is finally starting to look like something though...

Looking good, as always, Gits. The grot Dalek looks great, I like the addition of the blue rockets, sort of a nice off key / orky note accent. Also " Abbadon the Despoiler.... squib!" FOR THE WIN!!

Thanks GG! Little update for ya... last for the evening as it's beddie-bye time for daddy. The blue and gold rockets are traditional colors for my particular branch of the clan. Not by design actually, but I picked up some nicely painted tankbustas in that theme off ebay and I've kind of stuck to the theme. Anyway, I always try to work them in.

Details are coming out nicely and have begun the chipping process. More to come!

Green M&M Dalek! lol!

I calls 'em as I seez 'em.


One little update for any Dr. Who fans out there... "why fight it?" I say!



Chipping is going well, it's just slow going. That big yellow section on the turret will get further detailing of some sort, just haven't decided what yet. The grots are supposed to be Bad Moons so I always try to work in at least a little yellow or Bad Moon iconography here and there. One of the advantages of these things being so small is that you can really dwell on the details. I guess that's why I don't really like doing bigger vehicles so much or take the easy route and just airbrush them "factory new"... there's just a never ending spiral of detail you can add if you want & at my speed it could take months to do just one vehicle. At least with these little guys, you run out of model pretty quickly!

Put some black dags on the top and bottom, diagonally- so it looks like a jagged yellow strip going from one corner to the other.

Number plate, is a very nice touch

Hahahaha Gits, genius numberplate. Its looking great.