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WE NEED A HQ...ON WHEELS!
When the Baneblade first came out I wanted to convert one into a mobile Grot Rebel headquarters but was put off by the fact it would hardly be used. Now Escalation has come out and has been approved for Throne Of Skulls use I'm now looking at the concept again.
The idea; to convert a Baneblade into the biggest Grot Mega Tank ever based of the forgeworld model. The trick will be placing all the turrets to make it look less like a tank and more like a tradional battleship (with tracks) whist still having room for a command bridge. Also I need to decide which one to take it will have to be one with a main turret and not a fixed gun.



At first I thought about saving it for after the main army was complete but with such powerful weapons around my 550pt allied Nob Biker squad and Warboss is starting to look a little...fragile so there is a chance I may build the super heavy instead of the nob bikers.

ALRIGHT YA SNEAKY GITZ, GET SNEAKY!
Well I'm off to the Kill Team tournament tomorrow and who better to lead them that Agent Spookums, I was going to make the Boom Blastas' Ead Honcho the Kill Team leader, but since my leader is going to just hide to avoid giving my opponent an easy 2 victory points might as well go with the ninja.
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Good luck Proiteus. Viva La Grot!

Ninja for the win

Good luck!

And definitely like the sound of a giant grot landship

WE GOT IT BOSS WE'Z GOT IT!!!
Well I attended the Kill Team tournament yesterday at Warhammer World and it proved to be very enjoyable. 7 Games were fun even the 3 I lost, with some close calls

Game 1 Vs Space Marine Bikers
Learning from a practice game all the grots took to the upper floors of ruined buildings with 1 or 2 grots on the ground floor to bait them into assault and kill them with dangerous terrain tests, funny thing it actually did.
Victory!

Game 2 Vs Space Wolves
Worst Warhammer World game ever as the kid I was playing against cheated in every possible way; from over moving to time wasting. He argued with me everytime I corrected him on obvious mistake and he even wanted to call the game quits with 3 minutes to go whilst his models were on the objectives. Of course I shot all my specialists weapons at the 2 scouts on the objective, he then “moved” his leader all the way to the objective and took the game, at that point I couldn't be bothered to argue and just put a complaint in about him.
In all the years I've been to 40k tournaments I've never played against an opponent who has resorted to cheating, guess this round made up for that in kind.
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Game 3 Vs Guard
Very basic game against a veteran and storm troopers squad, not much terrain on the board except 3 large building so first few turns were pure movement before a massive and intense firefight!
Draw!

Game 4 Vs Necrons
Kid surprisingly using the old Necron codex with 10 Necron warriors with hit and run and eternal warrior. In the interest of sportsmanship I decided to keep some boys out in the open, nevertheless they were all very difficult to put down in the end.
Victory!

Game 5 Vs Space Wolves
Not much to say except had a thunderwolf rampaging through my lines while a lone wolf and grey hunters secured the objective. Shot them off but the lone wolf remained, in a gamble I had my plasma gun specialist leap out of cover and rapid fire him, having failed to kill him and knowing that the grot was likely to die next turn he charged the lone wolf... and wounded him and survived combat. It wasn't till we were adding up the score that I realised that I had unwittingly contested the objective with that charge and drew the game.
Then shortly after my opponent found me and told me cause the lone wolf didn't die I got an extra point and won the game.
Victory!

Game 6 Vs Tau
Awesome Game with too much detail to go into but the highlight was my veteran sergeant running up to a piranha throwing grenades then blowing it and himself up in combat. Still nothing could stop his bad ass Battlesuit leader.
Lost!

Game 7 Vs White Scar Bikers
OH GOD THE HORROR! Bikes parked in the building on the objective and would not be moved, even by 9 grenade lobbing grots. Still an entertaining game.
Lost!

Game 8 Vs 6 Necron Wraiths
Setup my Kill Team with most of the grots on the 2 and 3 floor of a ruined building with some guys on the ground floor in LOS, the game got interesting when the wraiths got close and with the grots throwing grenades. Surprisingly it was a close game against such a competitive list as it came down to break tests he barely passed his first one and then I was forced to take one the next turn and failed it. A Great way to end the day.
Lost!

Well that and winning Best Kill Team!

So if not for that 2nd game the day would have been perfect, thou even with that awful game the day was still fantastic and I look forward to the next one. Now for Throne Of Skulls!

Well done, sounds like a great time bar the one game.

LET IT SPLODE, LET IT SPLODE, LET IT SPLODE!
Due to Xmas working hours, family visits, Xmas shopping and other commitments I'm running a bit behind on my Gretchin Deadlines but I was able to get the Boom Blastas Warband done before Christmas. Like the Deff Diggas the Boom Blastas are just a simple Veteran Squad with an autocannon and grenade launchers, while the pervious Warband/Squad had shovels and we're very dirty these guys are loaded up with a variety of explosives.



One of the biggest complements I got from a lot of players at the Kill Team tournament was how much they loved how each grot had their own character. Making each Grot troopa look different from the others and giving him his own unique look is both fun and stops the squad building process from feeling repetitive and boring.



With luck I'll be able to get the defence line completed before the end of the year and then it on to the 'Booty Huntaz'!

LET'Z GET FESTIVE!
Who's up for sum Xmas Squig?

I love your work!

Hah, christmas squig is excellent

ON DA FIRST DAY OF XMAS DA WARBOSS GAVE TO ME; 1 LUCKEE SQUIG!!!
Hope you all had a good Xmas yesterday. I was surprised to get this interesting Christmas present yesterday from my sister who does a lot of cosplay work, it’s a lucky squig mascot for the tournaments I attend with my Grot Rebelz.

Little guy also came with a fitting and optional helmet, it’s a child’s toy army helmet that will be repainted black with a red star on. Might even convert a squig miniature to look just like him and make it an objective marker for relic missions.

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NOW DAT'S A FORT!
My Aegis Defence Line is finally complete & I doubt I'll be replacing it with anything else anytime soon! My aim was to make it look like a outpost/fort instead of a defence line and when setup in a square it's certainly looks like an outpost & I love it!





I'm really starting to love chequered patterns they're very orky and while time consuming easy to do. Once the army is done and I don't need to make any sudden changes I'll be adding a small recruitment poster to the blank side of the Quad gun.
Now to get back to making my 3rd and final squad of rebel Gretchin before making the Nob Bikers, after that it just adding improving the 4 vehicles and I'll be ready as I can be for TOS.

SUPPORT DA REBELLION
I've uploaded the defence line at fortress to the Dakka Dakka gallery so be sure to follow the link and give it a gud rating!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-viewimage.jsp?i=571087&m=2&w=800

WORKIN ON DEM TANKZ BOSS
Once I've replaced all the infantry and created the Nob Bikers I'll start upgrading the tanks, the Thunda-Squig gunships are simply getting a touch up on their paintjob but other tanks will be getting some more orky modifications.

Battle Tanks
I'll be looking to convert my tanks to look more like the old epic ork vehicles such as the old 'Gobsmasha' (Demolisher) and convert leman russes to look like 'Bonebreaka' tanks, just need to add Deff Rollas to them.




Support & Artillery Tanks
All support tanks will be using the old Dakka Tank as a base, converting a weapon mount and ammo wagon to match the unit be in a griffon, manticore or medusa.



Chimeras
An improvement I'll be making to my Chimera will be to replace the Poundland toy wheels with those from the Ork Battlewagon. Thought about making 1 with 4 wheels and another with 6, what do you think?

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Go with 6. Makes it look more like an APC/LAV rather than just a scout car.

I LOVE THIS ARMY!

It makes me want to start a ork army


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A GROT REBELZ ARMY!!!

BRUTAL KUNNIN KARDZ
In my previous army project I created Warlord and Psychic power cards using a magic card template and some artwork from the Horus Heresy Visions book for my Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons. For this project I've been lucky enough to find a high quality pdf of the 'Digganob' rulebook, the Gorkamorka game expansion that introduced the original Grot Rebelz. So I've been extracting, editing and colouring some of the grot artwork for use on army lists, fluff sheets and of course some Warlord Trait Cards. Or as the grot's call it “Brutal Kunning”

I'll have these printed and lamenated in time for the 3rd generation grot's first game in a 750pt campaign down at my local GW store this month.

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Fantastic work Proiteus! Love everything!

We has arrived in da thread and it is now dat we do wat da boss said we was supposed to do.In fea..Fea..in fealty of gork(Da biggest baddest boss) and da grace of da shiny bitz I declare explodey deff on da grot world of wherever we is.I hereby krump lotsa souls to deff.May orky justice account in all Waaagh.Gork and Mork,stop us from being shot up.(I never know how to react to your work.its unorkeresy but so awesome..)

Great work on the Aegis. I love the shading and detail that you've put into it. I can't wait to see how you do the tanks!

ORKS BOTZ ACTIVATE!!!
Ever since I came up with the idea of having Kolonel Grotskull piloting a Warboss Mecha I decided to include some enslaved Orks in the army. But the chances of an ork following a gretchin's orders seemed unlikely with shock collars and other torture devices so I decided they'd be enslaved and altered with cybork bitz.



Since the Nob Bikers would be armed with different weapons I used some Bits from Forgeworld to create the back mounted weapons to represent the Warbike's Dakkacannons. The heads are created from Tau Battlesuit shoulder-pad, Ork Jaws and the value of a guard flamer backpack for the eye. Trying to line up both guns to aiming the same direction was the biggest pain of all.

& These guys are big, they tower over space marines as you can see here...



Overall a great bodyguard unit for Kolonel Grotskull's Warbot, and depending on what the next Ork codex brings I might expand on this idea and make a full biker/ork bot army.

Question thou; If I was your opponent would you mind me using 40mm bases instead of Biker bases?

Really sweet conversion. An entire army of enslaved Cyborks would be awesome. They are just the right amount of cybernetics and Ork, looking suitably brutal.

Just put together some cyborks for my own army. No where near as complete as yours are though. Nicely done.

Those cyborks look brutal as all get out! Brilliant conversion, tho I think the one on the far left should get an iron gob too. The splice between the shoulder pad and ork mouth looks really off… maybe it's the angle?

Crazy Cyborks great conversions and those Tau pads work a treat as to the guy on the left maybe a little PC strip around the bottom of the pad meets jaw would work.

As to the bases I cant help mate as I don't play, sure most people would not mind though.

Great looking ! What do you use for their "legs" ?

I only play casual games, so the rule of cool would override the "wrong base" problem without any hesitation !

As for tournaments, I cannot say...

Honestly, I would prefer if they were on the correct base. But for a casual game, I wouldn't refuse to play you or complain. The difference in base size probably wouldn't have an effect in most games.

Well in the end I've decided to play it safe and go with the bike bases, someone told me that because of the way they are modeled not having them on biker bases can cause people to think their infantry. Placing them on the correct bases means anyone at first glance will know that they're Nob bikers.

Thou someone did suggest I create a patch to proxy Tau Battlesuits lol

Also here's a question: What colours should I paint the head, gob and centerplate (where the eye is) on the bot heads? Just to let ya know the shoulder pads and plate around the waist is going to be red?

How creative with the colour do you want to be ?

If the waist plate and shoulders are red I would say white or black head with the alternative centre section being black or white, jaw some kind of metallic finish, chequered patterned or even red.

What colour are you painting the vision device on the head ? I thought you could do a mix of red and yellows maybe just a thought.

Also what parts did you use to attach the wheels and body together by the way ?

If you are going to use bike bases this would allow for a little scene setting and artistic play, have you considered angling one on the base as if it is almost skidding at speed.

BIKER BASES!
Since I realized that while 40mm bases suited the models it was too easy to mistake them for infantry rather than bikers, so I decided to switch to biker bases instead but trying to fill the unused space on the biker bases effectively is proving to be a bit of a challenge.

I ordered one of the wounded orcs from the Empire Archers kit and it seemed only fitting he go on the mad dok's base, I did try to have him screaming at the Orkbot but the head won't sit at that angle so I settled for him yelling for someone to help him. I'll probably add a discarded choppa or gun on the base as well.

Another idea I had was to use one of the epic wagons I had previously used for Ruff Riders back from when I first made the grot army, the grot gunner fits the role of driver perfectly but I'm worried a grot driving a kart alongside the boss and his bodyguard just doesn't look right and would work better as an objective. What do you think?

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I can't give enough love for everything you do! I love well-done counts-as models, and since my brother plays Orks I keep sharing your conversions as inspiration. I think he's warming to the idea of doing something eventually - keep on being a great inspiration.

I also have tons of respect for the 'aesthetic' touches, like the psychic cards and the photoshopped art pieces. I'm working on a 'codex' for all of my counts-as units, and trying to make it look similarly official and appealing. I'd love for you to take a look at it when it's done, since I think the idea is right up your alley.

Keep up the inspiring work!

The heads on those bikers are just amazing stuff. Great idea and execution.

ORK BOT UPDATE!
I don't usually post pictures of half painted miniatures unless I'm looking for feedback, but I've been working on the ork bots and they are coming on nicely, as you can see they make truly excellent bodyguards for the Warbot!
Just touching up the hand weapons before moving on to the backpack weapons and bases. Problem is I weren't sure what colour to do the metal gobs, I was thinking bronze with metal plates?

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