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Congrats on such a remarkable milestone achievement.

Can't wait to see how the dino comes out! Oh, and congrats on 500, let there be 500 more!

Will be interesting to see what you are going to do with the Dino

Grats on 500.

Congrats on 500 pages Git''s, looking forward to seeing the dino painted.

500!!! Yeaaaaaahh!

Thanks guys. I wish the blog had more going on MW wise... but at least I'm enthusiastically painting... just not marines.

Here's the first WIP. I guess it's more like the box than I thought. Not trying to, just the way it worked out I guess.



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The dino is looking great so far? How is it to paint? I've thought about doing one for my Lizardmen painting friend.

Dino is a suitable project for page 500 (since you pumped out the dread so fast!)

Love the scheme so far, that is some beautiful airbrushing!

Extraordinary! Congrats on your enormous dinosaur.

And blog

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Extraordinary! Congrats on your enormous dinosaur.

That's what SHE said.

It's a beautiful figure. Jealous of it actually.

Airbrushing is easy... don't be too impressed.

Grats on 500 Gits!

Congrats on 500 Sir . It has been a great road that I've been lucky enough to travel on from time to time.

Also Dinosaurs are cool

Didn't get anything significant done on the dino. Thing 1 and I decided to play a game, then he decided he wanted to try and field everything he owned. He built a legal, 5000 point necron army.

Took me a while but I finally got my 5000 pt mantis warrior army built to match him... then for giggles I figured I'd see how much I could legally field. 6000 pts, no problem. Have a couple of extra heavies (dev squad & hunter), a 5 man sternguard squad, a dread, a bastion (assuming you can only take 1 fortification per army) and a mash-up of characters and terminators that I couldn't fit into a legal CAD. However if I brought in my two full squads of Inquisitional marines to make a third CAD, I could field everything that was left.

I can field at 5k...
- 10th Company Task Force (love this formation)
- Storm Wing (also love this formation)
- Stormbringer Squadron (think I'm going to love this formation)
- CAD (full except I only have 2 troops as all the scouts are in the above formations)
- CAD (2HQ, 2 TP, dread & vindicator)

This is what it looks like.

Grats on 500!

Looking good with the lizard. I so badly need to get an airbrush myself, just have to wait until after christmas. Maybe tax time.

5000 points of Mantis, and 500 pages. WELL DONE SIR!

 Lorax wrote:
5000 points of Mantis, and 500 pages. WELL DONE SIR!

Agreed

Is the Sicaran (sp?) hiding in that pic somewhere and I just don't see it?

Did you actually play your 5,000 point game or was it an exercise in list building?

Congrats on 500 pages. An amazing achievement that is a testament to how entertaining your blog is for the masses.

Hi Gits, honestly i'd like to congratulate you on reaching 500 pages of hobby madness! whether it's Mantis Warriors or Orks or random side projects it doesn't matter to us, we are here for the ride because we like you and what you do the many years you've been here you've always had a kind word of encouragement and help for those who ask, no matter what! now lets get on with the next 500 pages and see what you bring us!

Yay for 500!

And WHFB model? What?

Nice spread on the Mantis Warriors. Looking forward to seeing the dino progress.

A very impressive array of space marines indeed. I love all the RT era armor.

Wow Gits you've been busy. 500 pages and 6k of mantis warriors! congrats dude!

GamesEtc wrote:Grats on 500! Looking good with the lizard. I so badly need to get an airbrush myself, just have to wait until after christmas. Maybe tax time.

Thanks GamesEtc. Do it, it'll make you look like a bloody Rembrandt.

Lorax wrote:5000 points of Mantis, and 500 pages. WELL DONE SIR!

Much obliged Lorax.

RiTides wrote:Is the Sicaran (sp?) hiding in that pic somewhere and I just don't see it?

I couldn't fit it in, which sounds stupid at 5k but there were some things that I wanted to field in groups and they ate up points quickly.

Archer wrote:Did you actually play your 5,000 point game or was it an exercise in list building? Congrats on 500 pages. An amazing achievement that is a testament to how entertaining your blog is for the masses.

Thanks Archer. Yes, we're actually going to play this game.

nerdfest09 wrote:Hi Gits, honestly i'd like to congratulate you on reaching 500 pages of hobby madness! whether it's Mantis Warriors or Orks or random side projects it doesn't matter to us, we are here for the ride because we like you and what you do the many years you've been here you've always had a kind word of encouragement and help for those who ask, no matter what! now lets get on with the next 500 pages and see what you bring us!

Very kind of you to say my friend, very kind indeed. Greatly appreciated too. It's been a real joy watching you develop as a hobbyist and a painter over the last few years. Looking forward to more down the road.

moonpie wrote:Yay for 500! And WHFB model? What? Nice spread on the Mantis Warriors. Looking forward to seeing the dino progress.

Never know what I'm going to do next.

brushcommando wrote:A very impressive array of space marines indeed. I love all the RT era armor.

Thanks bc. That's when I started this game so I like to have a certain part of my army harken back to that era.

Eggroll wrote:Wow Gits you've been busy. 500 pages and 6k of mantis warriors! congrats dude!

Thanks Egg, honored that you stopped by. Been a long, strange trip for certain.


I managed to take a photo of *everything* (probably 6500 points), but at that scale the photo wasn't worth much. You couldn't really make anything out & things were distorted at the edges. It did make it clear that there are some models I need to finish. Not just the second LR & Pred which I've obviously just started, but my two LS Storms and the Bastion. Once all that is tidied up... I may actually build a multi-tiered stand that I can fit into my light tent so that I can photograph large armies such as this one.

I want to thank everyone for their help and support over the last 5 years. This blog and the people who visit and comment have been a regular source of joy, inspiration & group therapy. You guys are great!


I will take some pics of the battle. Should be UGLY.

I will say Git, I'm a little shocked or maybe I'm missing it but do you have transports for a full Company? I only count 5... They look great all together though my friend! Love the old school pattern Landraiders too!

I really love seeing a huge army arrayed for battle. That's the one thing 40k offers that few other games do: the sheer scope and scale of games, with a huge diversity of units even in a single codex.

great work!

Spacewolverine wrote:I will say Git, I'm a little shocked or maybe I'm missing it but do you have transports for a full Company? I only count 5... They look great all together though my friend! Love the old school pattern Landraiders too!

Well, 2 LRs, 2 rhino hulls, 2 LS storms, 3 pods and a storm talon. I need to do more rhino hulls, just haven't gotten around to it. I don't have anywhere near enough actual marines for a full company though.

Polonius wrote:I really love seeing a huge army arrayed for battle. That's the one thing 40k offers that few other games do: the sheer scope and scale of games, with a huge diversity of units even in a single codex. great work!

Very true Polonius. As much as we all like to complain about certain elements of 40k... it really has a lot to offer. I guess that's why it's been around for so long.

Wow. That's a lot of Mantis Warriors.

Just for the record... Thing 1's Necrons are slaughtering me. No other word for it. The game's been over since the top of T2 but we're playing it out so he can get more experience running new units. Have been taking pictures though... hopefully a few will be worth posting.

To think, The reason I joined Dakka was because of Git's blog about his experiences with his kids in 40k (either silver skulls or tyranids IIRC) and here we are at page 500 and what a ride!