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Nice work! Love the rifle and the shotty.

Cool poses on the sword-fighters, and good job on re-posing the gunslinger - never too many cowboy greenies out there

Great job as usual and welcome back!
I love the two handed sword

Nice to see you back bro!

Llamahead: Thanks! For the double barrels, file/cut a bit of the tubes, so they fit flush. it also saves you some room - every mm count son models this small .

monkeytroll: Thank you . To be honest, I keep being amazed by the versatily of the grot minis. I have around 80 regular grots now, and the only duplicates are two classic models that will be grot riggers in the end- not bad for only ten basic models or so.

SelvaggioSaky: thanks - and to think that the two-handed sword is just a regular grot sword with an extended grip. It shows nicely how ridiculously big GW weapons are .What I like about the two-handed pose is how natural it looks, something that can be pretty hard with conversions, since you can't change every bit of the model.

MajorTom11: Thanks!

Sadly no piccies today, since I've been undercoating stuff and we've been clearing out the garage of all the 'moving house' boxes still in there. Hope to get some paint on either the deffkopta or the lootas!

Always a joy to behold your latest creations

Dude I really like that Warbuggy, Your skills are simply impressive.

Arakasi: Thanks, and likewise!

Runna: the trukk-based one:


Or the one with the rollcage?


Anyway, small piccie update with new stuff as well; I got the skin done on a bunch of grots, always a nice step in the painting process:



You can see the 5 newly-built grots there, as well as some lootas, and the two guys in the back will be added to the battlewagon turret and to the rokkit buggy respectively. I built them ages ago, so thought I might as well toss on some paint . Hope you like'em!

The cowgrot looks like an out-of-a-comic character!

Hey CommissarKhaine! The grot are looking good! Bhw do you have any tips for converting grtos becuase I'm currently needing to for my trukk to battlewagon conversion! Which is on my blog!

Not sure about pure Grots, but O&G snotling swarms (or whatever they're called in Fantasy- Gnoblars or something?) are fairly cheap, and come with a ton to a pack.

they are tiny though- their are several to a swarm base and they are half the size of a gretchin.

(also, they ARE called snotlings, gnoblars are like snow-goblins)

You can use the Ogre Gnoblars along side of Grots, they fit well.

Have you thought of making kommando grots? I think they could come out really cool.

Gnoblars work fine I used them before the new Grots came out.

hi, well i have just looked through all 44 pages of this and all i can say is WOW!
they are all looking amazing, just a few conversion ideas,
you could try and make some mega grots from some space marine terminators. also, on your stompa, i think it would look cool if you had a grot hanging onto some of the armour plates of its huge platform so it looks like the grot is falling

Have you seen the Blood Bowl Goblin Cheerleaders? They'd be excellent for putting on vehicles...

Anyway, awesome work!

Awesome Grots dude. Your the reason why im gonna start an army of grots soon. Love the battlewagons and the kans, not so sure about the MA grots through. The leader looks amazing. Your skilllvl is amazing

Wow, over a year since I posted here... Bit of a shame really... Real life and a bit of a hobby burn-out have conspired to keep me away from here for -way too long really. But slowly, I felt the need to return home. I started lurking here on dakka again, started replying (*gasp* ), and well, time to get posting again!

I figured I might as well start the little guys off with something big... And since I've started painting my converted stompa, I figured it would be a nice start. So, without further ado: an orange stompa, and hopefully the start of a renewed stay here on dakka .


Notice the grot in there, feeling a lot tougher with his big friend around .



And some side shots:





It's *only* the orange that's been done, but on this guy, that's quite a lot already- especially considering my rather sluggish painting. To get here I used 3.5 pots of macharius orange, a pot of vermin brown, and 3 pots of ogryn flesh! next up I'm gonna start balcking in the blue and metal areas, and then it's on to graffiti and detailing!

For the people looking for orks in here: don't . There just the one underneath one of my kans:


The squeaky waaaaghh is a grot revolution, so expect madness here -but no orks

A bit of very old background I might as well repost:

M 39.851, Segmentus Pacificus, Gnosis IV, Adeptus Xenos research facility, greenskin holding cells

“I assure you, inquisitor ‘s Yrenne , the highest precautions have been taken to make sure our subjects cannot escape. As a matter of fact, considering the 97.6% probability of an attempted uprising, maximum security precautions are always in effect in the greenskin holding area.” The voice sounded mechanical, inhuman. Adeptus Mechanicus. With the lack of humanity came a lack of the fear Inquisitor ‘s Yrenne was used to. Magos Biologis Xornos lacked humanity, in a way only the Adepts of the machine-cult could. “What about the spores they produce, Magos?” A mechadendrite extended from the Adepts waist, projecting schematics. “These pics should provide more clarity, Inquisitor. The greenskin area is separated with airlocks from the rest of the facility; it’s air is brought in from the outside, and outgoing air passes through several mechanisms to destroy any spores or, indeed, greenskins that may be attempting to travel along the air ducts. All gates are guarded by servitors, programmed to shoot anyone not broadcasting the proper signals. Hence the bio-data-specific emitter on your wrist.” “So one of these emitters gives me full access to the facility?” The magos hesitated for a second, clearly taking care to formulate the next answer properly. “You have a visitor’s emitter, inquisitor. You are safe in all green zones, as stated on the documents we presented you with, and as long as you stay near an emitter with a higher ranking, you are allowed to go wherever the higher ranked emitter goes. Should you be found … unescorted… in an unregulated area servitors or skittarii are programmed to detain you and call up the nearest senior Magos. I realize this may seem insulting to you, but we have had to upgrade our security since the latest incidents. Full descriptions can be found in the data provided.”

The data had been extensive alright: the Adeptus had provided all the information the could on the ‘incidents’ as they called them. To the inquisitor, ‘sabotage’ seemed more appropriate. There had been reports of airvalves not functioning, disappearances of personnel and servitors. Not efficient, not like the Adeptus Mechanicus usually was. “What species are detained in this facility, magos Xornos?” The Magos blurted out information, akin to an automaton. The inquisitor wondered how much humanity really was left inside that mechanical shell. “Curently, we have 2 non-psyker Eldar, 546 Tau, fire and earth caste, 700 K’tir, 1.345 orks, 412 squig hounds, 2 squiggoths, and a number of gretchin between 7.000 and 8.000 units, depending on hatching periods and daily casualties. All numbers except for the Eldar and Squiggoths can be off by 1.7% due to a delayed information transfer on the vivisections.” The inquisitor frowned “No Tyranids?” “Our psychic containment facility is not finished yet, inquisitor, it would seem unwise to draw the attention of any tendril fleets. This is the same reason we do not keep Eldar or ork psykers on Gnosis IV. If orks with psychic powers are detected, they are properly restrained and moved to another facility. As for your next question: in case of an uprising, we have a full strength skittarii platoon equipped for anti-personnel, and a number of auxiliaries that can be pressed into service. The PDF has been equipped with all the proper material as well, and the commissariat keeps them admirably in line, considering the natural tendencies of the Gnosis IV PDF.” “And yet, none of your personnel could find the saboteurs responsible for extensive damage to the facility?” “Not all incidents can be catalogued as sabotage, Inquisitor” the Magos protested, rising high on his mechanical legs, looking like an obscene, spider-like centaur. He was cut short abruptly by ‘s Yrenne. “You’ve had 59 deaths, 32 irrepairably damaged servitors, several power leaks and shortages, several important thefts, and you still believe no sabotage is involved? My first guess would have been Tyranid vanguard organisms, but as far as we know, none have ever been near Gnosis IV.”

The inquisitor consulted the charts again, her eyes scanning over the data “falling cargo containers and masonry crushing personnel, supplies disappearing, cut cables, two ogryn servitors that have vanished, unexplained power fluctuations and shortages… Not to mention that several Tau stealth suits were stolen! Thank the Emperor the ammo had been removed! How could this happen?” Magos Xornos’ chest unit started to whirr, increasing air intake and body fluid transmissal. The inquisitor had learned early on in her dealings with the Adeptus that this indicated some kind of stress. She decided to push the Mechanicus adept. Since there was no psychic containment field active, she could enhance his emotions. Even when done subtly, it would bring his reaction time down to a normal human level, just like his emotions would go up to a human level. “This is sabotage Magos, and I wonder why this wasn’t reported earlier. These “events” as your people call them, have been happening for over a year now! If Tyranids aren’t involved, it must be chaos cultists!” The Magos startled, the gears in the chest unit going a tad faster. “I assure you, inquisitor, this facility is loyal to-" “How can you be sure? Have you checked every single worker here yourself, Magos?” “No, but…” She decided to spring the trap. “So, what do you think, Magos?”

“Jealousy” It was blurted out, and the tech adept was obviously startled by his own answer. “Continue” The psychic imperative was barely needed. “My work with the smaller greenskins is ground-breaking. We have separated a number of them from their bigger cousins, and it creates a very different social structure. They have proven useful if cowardly workers, and some share the genetic aptitude considering all things mechanical of their larger cousins. They may provide us with interesting information on greenskin technology and genetic imprinting” “What else? Just this can’t be enough!” Again, a little nudge at the mind. It was harder to affect a partly mechanical mind, and she couldn’t read the thoughts like she could with an unenhanced human being, but she could surely work his emotions. The Magos’s defenses cracked open a bit more. “The holy grail of greenskin study is similar to the inquisition’s radical path, as you are well aware. A weapon that would make greenskins turn upon each other in such a fashion that they do not get the chance form a Waaaghhh!, or that a Waaaghhh! poses no threat to non-greenskins.” The Adept paused, hesitated for the tiniest fraction of a second, then decided to continue. “Social conditioning of the smaller greenskins has met with some success. I will download you a pict fragment that should prove my point”.

The pict-feed was high-quality, filmed through some kind of grating; a hidden camera in the greenskin holding facility. There was an ork visible, a huge, muscular monster, with fists the size of inquisitor ‘s Yrenne’s head. He was followed on cameras as he stalked through a number of areas. He was clearly new to this part, exploring as he went along. With surprising ease, he ripped a piece of pipe out of the wall, making for an improvised club. As he came into a new area, he noticed a few gretchin. His face split open with a wide grin, baring yellow fangs. “Oi, you lot over there! I’m hungry, get me a squig or it’ll be you I’ll be having for dinna!” The camera panned out, showing several of the diminutive greenskins looking at each other. ‘s Yrenne had studied greenskins extensively before, so she knew what would happen next: the grots would scarper off, trying to fulfil their master’s wishes. If he didn’t like their efforts, he’d clobber a few and maybe eat one of them, just like he’d said. Or he’d clobber a few anyway, for good measure. Greenskin society was brutal, and grots never stood a chance against the orks. She was in for a surprise.

Te grots didn’t scarper off. On the contrary, they assembled around the ork, grots appearing as if from nowhere, many carrying bit of glass or pipe. Then, they began to shout, one at first, then more, all the squeaky little voices blending together: “Please, master, no more beatings” “We’re workin’ as fast as we can boss!” “Don’t kick the gretchin!” What should have been a pleading, miserable voice, was instead a taunt. There was a malicious glint in their eyes, and a vicious tone to their voice. These grots would not obey. The ork, like orks are wont to do, decided to use brute force. “You lot moutin’ off now, iz ya! Feel me pipe then!” As the ork swung his pipe, cables were thrown. ‘s Yrelle hadn’t even noticed them, focused as she was on the grots’ unexpected behaviour and the more visible weaponry. It took the grots less then a second to bring the hulking brute down. It took the ork a lot longer to die, however.

“this was approximately 18 months ago. It was the first time his behaviour was observed, though it had often been hypothesized this behaviour should occur.”
The next fragments were similar. The number of orks increased, and it appeared that the grots who had thrown off the shackles of repression had become a different breed of greenskin altogether. In the last pict-feed, an ork mob was lured into a dead-end, and then bombed to death with whatever the grots had found, creating a kind of mechanical cave-in. A trapped ork was tortured for hours on end, before being clobbered to death by a bunch of exhilarated grots. “Some payback…” The inquisitor mused. “Not quite, inquisitor; the grots you see here have never been oppressed by orcs. They were allowed to build up strength for 7 months. Then, we introduced a few squighounds and other creatures, forcing them to fight together against a physically stronger enemy. After that, we led a few grot slaves that had fled from the orks there. The results... Are impressive, if I do say so myself.”

So, hope you guys enjoy the pics! i'm working on some basic grots and a dakkajet, so new updates should be arriving within less then a year

Hurray.
The little fellas arw back!
Good to read again this pages mate

That's a nice gargant or grotgant?
What is it made of?
And welcome back!

Yay!

Boo!

Looking forward to seeing your hobby rise back up to the top of my subscribed threads again! Welcome back!

That stompa looks great, look forward to seeing that thing painted.

I subbed to this after it had died but now it is back from the dead so I can remark on the work now and say BLOODY AMAZING

Plus the only thing I love more than Orks is Grots

SelvaggioSaky: Thanks!

Jehan-reznor: Thanks! It's a follows the 'normal' stompa rules (mostly since sine the model based on one ). As for what it's made of: it's a regular stompa body turned upside down; most of the construction pics are on p 31-35 of the blog, but this pic should make things clearer:



Arakasi: I knew that would get your attention . Thanks for the warm welcome!

hk1x1: Thank you! Paintin' is notoriously slow with me though, so it might take a while .

lone dirty dog: Thank you! It's good to be back, looking forward to your comments!

As for newer piccies today: I finished two of my grots I still had lying around:


Some pics of each of them separate:




And.. I'll be going back to remove the mould line on the gun; don' t know how I missed that...

I really like how this gunslinger worked out, especially since he's based on the single-pose grot holding a sword in front of him. But the resculpting of the loincloth is decent enough that you won't notice at a distance, and he's in a nice and dynamic pose, which is what it's all about.

And the swordgrot, wielding a singlehanded sword with two hands because GW thinks every sword is a greatsword:



Pretty natural pose on this one, made easier by the fact that I've practised both Aikido and medieval swordfighting

Hope you guys enjoy the pics!

Grots are awesome. You certainly did them justice. Maybe they will get some type of love in the next dex eh? *dreams of entire Grot army like they do in Fantasy*

Left leg forward... swinging from the hips... looks natural to me!

ZOGGING MORK. Fantastic work here, consider me subscribed.

~Sir William

KingCracker: Thanks: A grot codew would be nice, but I don't feel too restricted by counts-as (and Belgians are pretty relaxed players), so just using the ork codex is fine by me

Gitsplitta: And he's holding it left hand first as well . Good to have you back!

sir william the bold: Thanks!

Awesome googles on Cowgrot.
I remember him... was one of my favourite

SelvaggioSaky: You actually remember him? Wow, good memory

Now, I got a dakkajet a while ago (I love my wife!), and decided it was time to get it doen up. This one is pretty basic, just the cockpit moved back, my second one will be a bomma and will be a bit more extensively converted

Piccies:









I used the cockpit bit where the grot gunner usually sits, inverted it, and added a front window in clear plastic. Makes it look a bit more WWII, always a good look for greenskins IMO!

hope you guys enjoy it,
Cheers!