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My Waaagh



It was to be much shorter and less varied than my other projects. I planned to make up 100 or so boyz (sluggas and shootas converted from AoBR) and a few other things; that was a lie. . . I'm way past 'a few other things' now!

Thanks to Ashtar, my army now has some GW approved fluff!

White Dwarf 136, April 1991
'Eavy Metal, page WD52
Stormboyz are rebellious Orks who are youthfully obsessed with drillin', marchin', salutin' and other unOrky behavior. Mostly they grow out of their obsession but a few dire-hards can't give up their disciplined ways and become Stormboy Kaptins or find themselves drawn into one of the Freebooter bands which worship the Blood God Khorne.

Stormboyz rebel against their clan style in the same way that teenagers rebel against the dress of their parents. The older Orks just wait for them to grow out of this phase, putting up with their strange behaviour and youthful enthusiasm.

As part of their rebellion, Stormboyz become obsessed with discipline in their dress as much as in their marchin' and salutin'. Each Stormboyz Korps adopts its own uniform. Shiny polished jackboots, buckles and helmets are common. Such Human-styled military trappings are frowned upon by traditionally-minded Orks.

The blue and grey uniform of the Stormboyz shown here is typical. [...]

Of course there is some slight variation, but the blue uniforms and armoured appearance and overall less-ragtag feel to the horde is in the spirit of the fluff I hope This army was intended and still remains very inexpensive. Almost all of the infantry models are created from AoBR orks, and the trucks and chinork were created using a single trukk kit and some spare bits.

I'll keep the first post of this updated to aid in its photo gallery esque easy of use, but for WIP pics, or further information on particular models, you'll have to either scroll through the following posts, or simply ask! I love questions.

HQ

Warboss "Kappin Crunch"


Warboss "Ram Rod"


Warboss "Wild Waaagh"


Big Mek with a Kustom Force Field

Elites


Nobs all wound allocated to cheese


Lootas


Burnas


Kommandos led by Snikrot

Troops

Ard Boyz


Shoota Boyz


Shoota Boyz


Slugga Boyz


The rides!


Chinork?


Last but not least, well maybe least: the Grots! These actually win more games than any other unit in my experience.

Fast Attack


Deffkoptas


Warbikers (notice any resemblance to the deffkoptas?)

Heavy Support


Scratch Built Killa Kans - I wouldn't have done this if the plastic kits were out at the time.


Looted wagons - What could be more orky than borrowing rhinos from my marines


Battlewagon with impaler


Battlewagon with mulcher

And what are the getting all dirty fight over?


Thoughts welcome

As of May 19, 2010; I have 4 more of each lootas and burnas to paint up so grant me somewhat functional squads and 5 flash gits with badrukk that I converted. Those last 6 gent won't be finished anytime soon as they absolutely stink on the tabletop.

I'm excited to see what rules the chinork has though. Maybe just a fast open topped skimmer but who knows.

Edit: Images reposted May 19, 2010 with better photography

What (and where!) are "dakka's tips on adding rivets"?

And, nice looking Kans!*

*It sure is nice to say that and not get in trouble!

loving the kans, im doing similar conversions using tau crisis suits and such....keep going and im sure these guys will be interesting addition to your army!
-ST

Those look great, especially the one with the hurricane bolters, that's a massive load of Dakka.

Thet look sweet i love the mini-wreking ball, looks like the new kustom stompa in white dwarf only smaller

They look good. I have done something similar and you can see pics of my deffdread in my gallery. I am currently working on a killa kan to join my 2 GW ones.

Look very orkish.

I like the bodies, but the legs could sue some work, I think. More pistons and joints, maybe.

Simple and effective. The best part is, those look like something an Ork horde would have stomping around. Nice

Leg's are a little thin, but I guess the Mek's didn't 'bovva addin' too many bitz fur da runty grots'.
Nice job.

what did you use for the main bodies of the Kans?

Aww, I want to hug them!

Alpharius: One of the stickies in modelling has a list of dakka articles, and one is for rivets with spots of PVA glue - it seemed to work alright but I'll probably use plasticard on the rest.

Balance: Yeah I agree, the legs are a bit thin, but as they're free models from my bitz box, I don't have a million spare pistons lying around. I have a ton from old IG tanks but they're used on the arms (poor picture angle you can't really tell they're there). Also the pelvis has pistons to it just not the scrappy legs.

!?: Yeah I don't think the Mek's cared too much about making the kan's too stable - they do afterall blow up on an immobilized result

porkuslime: The main body is a 1" tube of PVC pipe (I think that's the matterial) It's a nipple for sprinkler systems. The plastic glue I used didn't have the best bond to it - and superglue had a hard time bonding as well since it's such a smooth surface (even with roughing it up) so the next batch will be wrapped in thin plasticard and the plastic tube will essentially provide only form and support.

Thanks for the comments, they're sitting outside drying right now. Once I either paint them up or construct the next 3 I'll post more pictures. Again, is anyone positive on the current base size for killa kans? I've heard they switched from 40mm to 60mm but no one is positive that I've asked.

Alpharius wrote:What (and where!) are "dakka's tips on adding rivets"?

And, nice looking Kans!*

*It sure is nice to say that and not get in trouble!

Just don't mention the dumper and I'm sure you'll be ok..

/ducks to avoid flying things..

Looks like you had a lot of fun making them. I would suggest getting a leather punch like I did at a craft store for around $10 us. The get some thin plasticard and punch away. My punch has 6 different heads so i can choose the size rivet I want. I also used an old VCR case. (plastic) worked well for me. Nice job on the kanz and good luck with the rivets. They are a pain putting on. Maybe use a gel type super glue and dot them on. Less spillage and mess of super glue.
Fletch

Fletch: Thanks for the tip on the leather punch. I should have gotten one of those for my warhound titan - It's finished now but easy rivets would have made it look much better I think.

So I'm fairly certain that these are going to break if I drop them I need to pick up a small drill and pin the parts that attach to the PVC (as they break I guess). Since I'm not going to pin each rivet, I decided this set was done and did a quick paint job on them. Drybrushed on boltgun + chainmail then a wash of brown. Nothing fancy but with another 100 boyz to paint I can't be choosy!


The next six will definately be wrapped in plasticard so that the glue adheres as best possible. If you look close you can see the white glue rivets on the red kan.

The blister pack Killa Kans come with 40mm bases.

The newer box version ships with 60mm bases.

The Dread is on a 60mm base so I can't see the much smaller Kans looking right using
the same one, though the rules say you can always go bigger, I believe. Use whatever
looks better, depending on your specific models.

Although, Killa Kans technically don't have to be on bases at all. They're vehicles.

guitar wire would work to bulk out the legs but this is very very good as far as bitz box conversions.

What did you make the bodies from?

READ MAN! 1inch PVC tube.
anywho, those look really good painted! Even as just a quick paint job I really dig those.

nice,
that look good for a bit of kit bashing,

jolly good show

keep the legs like that. it makes them all cute and cartoony.

You can also buy styrene tube, which is what i was going to use for legs. I was trying to figure out the best way to make a hip joint.

Finished off the next batch of kans this morning. I put a grot in the photo for scale.

Thanks for the comments thus far.

The PVC is a pain to glue - I used some like that for exhaust nozzles on my Thunderbolt scratchbuild and had to load them up with superglue to get them to stay in place. As far as rivets go, I'm a big advocate of buying 1mm plastic rod (or for orks a couple different mm and shapes - round, hex, etc.) and slicing the rod into rivets. It's worked great for my Hellhound conversion so far. And hasn't taken me nearly as long as I was afraid it would.

Death By Monkeys wrote:The PVC is a pain to glue - I used some like that for exhaust nozzles on my Thunderbolt scratchbuild and had to load them up with superglue to get them to stay in place. As far as rivets go, I'm a big advocate of buying 1mm plastic rod (or for orks a couple different mm and shapes - round, hex, etc.) and slicing the rod into rivets. It's worked great for my Hellhound conversion so far. And hasn't taken me nearly as long as I was afraid it would.

Did it make a huge mess? My fear wouldn't be the time commitment, but that little dabs of glue would overshadow the plastic - perhaps because I use GW glue which can't be applied too precise. I guess the brush on stuff would work wonders?

Those are sweet looking Kans. Thanks for posting them. I've been looking for an alternative to spending $22 for an ill fitting piece of garbage metal GW version.

Are the arms made with Sprue parts??

Yup the arms are just sprues filed down and cut to the right angles to look alright - with the appropriate weapon added to the end. Simple as mud

PS - I agree, being Canadian they're $35 here - so I saved myself 210 bucks.

almost makes you wonder why GW dont do a plastic box set, 3 kans for £25, with different options.

would be a better deal for all, and would make them worth using.

All of my orks came in yay! So after chopping up a ton of them (need more shootas) I've got 20 1/2 done, 20 more assembled, and a completed warboss!

I was painting him along with the rest of the squad, but as he neared completion I couldn't help but finish him ahead of the rest of the ladz. Mind you he does require a lot more attention to detail than I'm paying to my boyz, and was a few hours work - how many episodes of x-files went by in the back ground?



I made him a tri-hat out of greenstuff to try out a simple method I read about. I wanted the warboss to look slightly different than everyone else's AoBR boss so I added the hat, and chopped off one of the pistols and the boss pole (since he'll never have one bought anyway). A few extra shoulderpads as well, more of a madmax look. Anyway I should get back to painting thest boyz if I want the list I thought up ready for thursday.