Having given my Killa Kans a double undercoat, the next stage was the base coat. For this I used a Humbrol brown spray.
I purposely didn’t spray from underneath to leave a shadow with the black paint.
The other one.
And another one.
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Shadows on the Killa Kans
Having given the Killa Kans a white undercoat, the next stage was to add shadows by spraying a black paint undercoat underneath the model.
The aim of this was that when I painted the base coat on to the models the black undercoat would “catch” any part of the base coat spray that missed and add shadows to the model.
I did add a little more black spray to the rear for the engines.
Grot Bomb Launcha
Having done the double undercoat I started the basecoat on the Grot Bomb Launcha.
See the full workbench feature on the Grot Bomb Launcha.
Undercoating the Killa Kans
I wanted to use a two colour undercoat for the Killa Kans. The first was a complete white undercoat.
This I hope will allow the base coat to adhere to the plastic model. The white really does bring out the detail in these models (compare to the plain plastic pictures).
This is the Killa Kan with the Rokkit Launcha and here is the rear view.
This is the Killa Kan with the Grotzooka.
This is the Killa Kan with Skorcha.
More soon.
Making the Killa Kans
The instructions for the Killa Kans are very clear and straightforward, even so there are additional instructions available online on the GW website.
I decided to make mine up as they were on the sprues. It’s not quite one per sprue, but near enough. If I decide to buy another set I will then mix and interchange the parts (and possibly do some conversions).
The first I made up with a Rokkit Launcha, and putting the weapon was probably the most difficult bit of all three models as I didn’t really read the instructions properly and didn’t realise that there was a third component that needed to fit between the two sides of the weapon.
The second one I added a Skorcha. I do think some of the assault arms are a bit big for the size of model and I think I would have preferred it if they were a little smaller. Maybe next time a little conversion work to make the assault weapon arms slightly less large!
The third model has the Grotzooka. A few issues putting the weapon together, but apart from that the rest of the model went together really easily.
These are really nice models and go together quite easily. In many ways I much prefer them over the older metal versions.
More soon.
Stompa Conversion
This Stompa conversion incorporates a lot of different parts, the main are the Baneblade chassis instead of feet and the use of a Battlewagon as the head.
At first I wasn’t sure about this conversion, but the more I look at the more I like it. I think the head does work very well.
I can quite easily imagine lots of Ork Meks working together on the hulk of an Imperial Guard Baneblade and building up the body of the Stompa before deciding that the partly destroyed Battlewagon that the Baneblade had taken out would look great as a head!
More photographs of Ork Stompaz.
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Killa Kan Sprues
In the plastic Killa Kans box set you get three sprues.
It’s not quite one Kan per sprue, but pretty much nearly one. Very clever use of space on the sprues.
Evil Eye in da Sky
Taken at GamesDay 2009.
The mechanical monstrosity known to the Orks as the Evil Eye in da Sky is the insane creation of Big Mek Dakrok. The Evil Eye in da Sky is a Stompa, with a number of ‘Big Mek’s Speshuls’ added. These include extra and larger rokkits, a head-mounted supa-gatler, a belly-mounted deth kannon, and, most unusually, an unlikely system for transporting and launching its compliment of Deffkoptas.
Dakrok has become an expert of sorts in using the Deffkoptas to pinpoint enemy positions so that the Evil Eye’s rokkits can be zeroed in on the foe with unerring accuracy. It takes a particularly unhinged Ork to volunteer to pilot one of Dakrok’s Deffkoptas, but for many the chance to be propelled at breakneck speed from the Evil Eye’s launch ramp is just too exciting an opportunity to pass up.
Killa Kans
I was recently given a box of the new(ish) plastic Killa Kans by Simon.
In the box you get three plastic sprues, which allow you to make three plastic Killa Kans.
The parts are interchangeable, so if you get more than one box, all your Kans can be different. It would have been nice if you could with a single box make all three carry the same ballistic weapon, but as it happens you can’t. So when I build them I will do one with a Rokkit Launcha, one with a Skorcha and one with the new Grotzooka!
Building instructions are available on the main GW website.