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Made in us
Grovelin' Grot





How do you paint your hazard stripes so damn nice? Do you have a steady hand or do you have some little trick on making them perfect?
   
Made in ie
Pestilent Plague Marine with Blight Grenade







Try giving the smoke a badab black wash
   
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Arch Magos w/ 4 Meg of RAM






In the Wasteland

they look so cool!



 
   
Made in ca
Regular Dakkanaut





i used your idea with the stormgrotz
but im using 3 maybe 4grotz

   
Made in us
Bonkers Buggy Driver with Rockets







Chrisrms: I'm just doing it by hand. If I had a fancy trick to do it, they'd be a lot neater. As-is, they're not perfect, but the rusty devlan mud wash helps hide it a bit.

I'm back from a brief trip to the American Northwest (and Canada too) and I'm going to go ahead and finish this squad up.

I painted the stormgrotz up...







Meaning now, it's time to paint the smoke and bases and add proper detailing (adding checkers / decals) to the ones I've already finished, as well as touching up any mistakes or problem areas. I think I'm going to try painting the existing smoke plumes completely black, putting a bit of red and yellow around the nozzles, and then drybrushing grey overtop. We'll see how that ends up looking!

 
   
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Elite Tyranid Warrior






Those grotz are so cute!

"I hope they can fight without their commmander because he's lost his head."
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Slaneesh: Bow chika wow wow!


 
   
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Moustache-twirling Princeps





About to eat your Avatar...

Dude, that looks very very cool

It is like a 3-dimensional comic book. I would be slightly intimidated playing against those guys!


 
   
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Yellin' Yoof






Alberta, Canada

so sweet... i wish they were mine
   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut






Burtucky, Michigan

Yup, easily the nicest stormboy squad Ive seen
   
Made in us
Bonkers Buggy Driver with Rockets







And now, these guys are done, or just about. I finished basing them, and did the smoke up to the best of my ability. I tried to leave a bit of yellow/red visible on the interior of the smoke by the nozzle. I think the overall effect is pretty decent.



A final mob shot:





I didn't add checkers or too much else on their equipment largely because I think it'd end up being way too noisy. As-is there's already a pretty decent spread of colors and details, and I think adding chekered strips on things like shoulder pads and equipment would detract from the hazard stripes. I am probably done with these guys for now.

What I would like is a decent name for the whole squad. I want to make a 'Counts-as' version of Zagstruk and Da Vulcha Boyz, meaning I need different names for both. I figure my 'Zagstruk' equivalent should have a gas mask like these boyz do, down the road. I'm thinking 'Da Blitz Gitz' right now, because I like the idea of them being orky drop troopers who come in from extremely high altitudes at an absurd speed. If I can settle on a name that has good glyph connotations, I may revisit the squad and add said glyph markings to all of their shoulder pads.

I will do Zagstruk a bit down the road for these guys. I'm probably going to scrap my old one, or at least hugely revise it, because I figure if I'm making a counts-as Zagstruk he shouldn't have vulture-power-klaw-feet but some other equivalent gimmick.

 
   
Made in gb
Battlefortress Driver with Krusha Wheel







A great finished mob. Once again, you've really put the work in and come up with something that makes all our jaws hit the floor.

With regards to your previous go at Zagstruk, please don't scrap it! Do finish it and have him as your Zagstruk mini, as he was simply beautiful. If you want to do a 'counts-as' Zagstruk, then by all means do, but why not have them both?!

 
   
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman





These are fantastic.
Well done.
   
Made in us
The Last Chancer Who Survived





Norristown, PA

Dunno why I didn't see this till now but you should be proud. Those just look amazing. nice job

 
   
Made in gb
Slaanesh Veteran Marine with Tentacles





Sheffield. England

holt gak... that paintjob is awesome, the skin colour makes them look almost comic-style, very nice 10/10

 
   
Made in us
Steady Space Marine Vet Sergeant




Hanging out on the Great Plains

Truely awesome. The wire gives it a nice effect of flying.


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224th Astra Legion (main army)
628th Praetorian Guard Cohort (wife's army)
827th Auxilia Cohort (ad mech fun)
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1212th Foederati Cohort - Jokaero (cause I like apes with guns) 
   
Made in nz
Been Around the Block





When you do your own Zagstrukk you could give him a super hero pose. Arms straight down his side, head held high, flying across the sky with a big F***ing rokkit pack. And a cool pilot helmet.
   
 
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