When Grots Rebel!

[Bra'tac]

Hi and Welcome to my Rebellion.

I decided to give IG another try, but this time a bit different Inspired by Proiteus Awesome Rebel Grots

I made a test grot some time ago “the saluting one in the pics” and never looked at it again, until recently, after playing Wolf wing for 3 tournaments, I wanted to start with an all out Jump army, while looking for my marine bits I found the grot again which made me realize that I did not want to play another Marine army for some time.

So I started brainstorming.
I want this army to be Low Tech/ Steampunkish
So you will be seeing a lot of Empire stuff, (steam powered; weapons,vehicles, airships) If I mange to model the ideas I have that is.

While surfing the net for vehicles Ideas, I found this Gattling Tank
And decided that, I want to base the Hydra’s on this concept. I started building yesterday evening and came up with this.

It’s far from finished, I’ll be using 2 Helblaster Volley guns as the AA Auto cannons, I’m still waiting for bits to arrive when I get the volley guns I can dry fit them and see if my idea can be modeled.

For Chimera’s I’ll be using Leman Russ Hulls, with a Battlewagon grot turret.
I received the first hull this afternoon and started building and this is where it stands at the moment.
(it will be driving “backwards”)
And Another one

Last week I started on some other Grots, I’ve made a start on my Commander or Officer of the fleet (haven’t decided yet) he could be both.

And some more pics Here and here

I hope to receive all my bits this week so I can continue to work on my vehicles, and start making new Grots.

Advise, Suggestions, Criticisms anything more than welcome.
Thanks for looking.

Cheers,

Bra’tac

[Bra'tac]

A small update, I have been working on the First Chimera tonight

The turret got a "multi Laser"


and She got Tracks



And a shot from the front


Now that the tracks are inplace I can start adding the rest of the stuff, (haven't decided what stuff) Suggestions?

And a question, Does anyone know where I can still get the Old IG Tank Track Wheels? today I found out that the new kits no longer use them.... and I still need to build 3 Chimera's :'(

[jack da greenskin]

Good work so far. Grot rebels are one of the coolest armies to do, and generally play well. I like the work you've done on the commander, I'd have been tempted to leave the original legs on but it looks great with the goblin ones. Hope this doesnt slip into the sea of DE logs, its a real gem and I look forward to updates.

[Balephon]

love the tracks and the gun!

[Nasha]

they are the original legs i believe just trimmed down....love the grots rebellion mate as i always had a thing for the black gobbo haha

kerby

[Bra'tac]

love the tracks and the gun!

Thanks!

they are the original legs i believe just trimmed down....love the grots rebellion mate as i always had a thing for the black gobbo haha

kerby

You are right, I cut of the feet, then cut the legs somewhere around the knees, and glued the feet back on.
Ill have my own version of the black gobbo, I'm busy with my own fluff.
Basically a group of grots who where hidding during battle and afterwards found themselves to be the last living things on the planet, so not really a rebelion when there's no one left to rebel against


I've been working on the Chimera tonight. (still waiting for my bits to arrive!!)

first a shot from the top, She has a Heavy flamer now, a hatch for the driver, a "window" so he can see where he's going. an exhaust, a door and some armour plates



Here's a close up of the front



I've started weathering the front as you can see, I saw this done on a Submarine on a dutch model forum, I liked it so grabbed my dremel and tried it myself, it's a bit rough but should be ok after some sanding.

A shot from the right rear, best I could do too show the Steam tank exhaust pipe.



And last a shot from the scratchbuild door, I copied a rhino side door with plasticard and I must say that I'm quite pleased with the result



That's it for this Year, If everything goes well you can expect an update next week

so HAPPY NEW YEAR, see you next year!

[ConSan]

Nice stuff. Would love to see more. I'd love to start a grot army myself in the future.

[Bra'tac]

Nice stuff. Would love to see more. I'd love to start a grot army myself in the future.

Thanks, and make sure to blog your Grot Army


here's a small update.


I present you Offica of da Fleet



I made this Gnoblar Pirate in 2009 for Pirate day, but never painted him, he's now joining my rebellion as Offica of da fleet.

Next up, some of the Veteran grots



and some more pics here and here

Instead of steampowerd Lasguns I decided to go for Tesla powered lasguns
here's a concept backpack


I want to run a wire from the coil to the weapons they are holding. still waiting for the empire handgun bits to come in.

Here's some progress pics on the Chimera.





I have added some bits and armour plates.
I also started weathering the Track Wheels and the sides where the Tank Tracks scrape the side armour. I can't get the right light to take proper pics so ill owe you some detailed pics.

C&C welcome as always,
Thanks for looking,

Cheers

Bra'tac

[Monsterzonk]

Great tank conversion! It really fits the concept of your army. Plus that Offica of da Fleet is just awesome!

Cheers,
Monsterzonk

[Bra'tac]

Great tank conversion! It really fits the concept of your army. Plus that Offica of da Fleet is just awesome!

Cheers,
Monsterzonk

Thanks!!


UPDATE!!!!

Sitting at home sick,..... digging through my bits trying to find bits that could work with my tanks but not finding it, I was about to give up until.....EUREKA Terrain bits Aegis Defense turret for the win!!!!. I completely had forgotten about having this set, immediately started working on possible ways to resemble the Hydra turret with it. 30 minutes later all required bits where assembled and dry fitted.
An hour maybe 1,5 hour later I ended up with this. (Still requires detailing)


Do you feel lucky? Well do ya?









The idea was to put this on the Gatling tank concept I made, but it looks totally...... so I put in on top of the Chimera/Russ unfortunately this combo give's the model a total height of 9 centimeters "almost 4 inch" but it's so cool, Grot RUZZBOT!!

The other problem being that I can't get hold of enough Track Wheels to build all my tanks, must find others ways to obtain them, anyone offering Track wheels? It's for a good cause

Thanks for looking,

Cheers,

Bra'tac

[Bra'tac]

Warning Warning Double Post!

For everyone who's curious how the turret would look like on a tank.

This is how it could look like,






Cheers,

Bra'tac

[Balephon]

the model needs an iron gob/ big jaw thingy. and with tracks really looks great! i thing with a lower hull (wartrukk with tracked wheels from the battlewagon) the hight will be better... but ehm... no, i dont feel lucky standing with my laspistol in front of the RUZZBOT!

[wingnut7901]

Everything looks great so far! I cant wait to see more.

[synthet]

Love your tank, I found it hard to build tracks. But you have done an excellent job! It just need some more "orky things" like glyphs or something and it will be superb!

[anselminus]

nice strating grot army

[Deamon-forge]

nice one hell of a lot of fire power lol. and love it! such a ace conversion well done.

[Boreas_NL]

Those Grots are very nice, the Tank is just awesome! Some very good plasticard skills and nice kit bashing... Very original and hands down the best Grot-tank I've ever seen!

Thanks for linking me to your thread!

[Bra'tac]

the model needs an iron gob/ big jaw thingy. and with tracks really looks great! i thing with a lower hull (wartrukk with tracked wheels from the battlewagon) the hight will be better... but ehm... no, i dont feel lucky standing with my laspistol in front of the RUZZBOT!

I'm going to use a Leman russ Hull but will lower it a bit, though on battlewagon tracks might work as well using the bw track suspension, Now ill have to order the bits to see how that looks! damn you!!! ;-)

Everything looks great so far! I cant wait to see more.

Thanks!!
Waiting is over, Update below!

Love your tank, I found it hard to build tracks. But you have done an excellent job! It just need some more "orky things" like glyphs or something and it will be superb!

Thanks, I'm still working on the details, currently riveting the chimera hope to get that finished soon and upload some pics

nice strating grot army

Thanks

nice one hell of a lot of fire power lol. and love it! such a ace conversion well done.

Thanks!!

Update time,

I have started riveting the Chimera (pics once I’m done with that)
I have started working on my 2 Medusa's pics of the 1 on which I have done the most work.
I also started on my PBS known as the Weirdlings.

So enough talk on to the pics

Medusa




The hole in the front is where the hull Heavy Bolter will come.



The left side panel is still lose, I'm waiting for the cannons to arrive, the cannons will be coming on the left open side, I can't continue without the cannons at the moment,

And here are my first two Weirdlings (psykers)





They have Anglerfish kind of "Rods" as I couldn't find anything about goblin shamans in 40k I decided that these are slowly turning to Chaos (hence the "rod" mutation) I'm still thinking about what to use as Overseer, Thinking about Bagpipe Squig herder or Squig herder with trident, Idea's?


Cheers,

Bra'tac

[Balephon]

hahaha, and the psychers will stare into the bright light themself! not knowing what's happening! and the overseer pushes his big red button to unleash their combines force! NICE!!!

[Balephon]

at least... thats how i imagined it...