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OK, now that I have the scale right I will start this thread to keep up with the progress on these bad boys.

This is a pic of the finished Kan, minus paint, and the remodeling of the Dread.

looks great

Cool, I like the spidery legs... or are they more crab like? `,;~)

Very cool! Keep it up!

alright, da kans is ready for some paint'n.

Very nice, I'm currently building some scratch built kans and dreads from some extra materials at the metal shop I work in. I know this has been asked and answered elsewhere on the site, but how tall did you make your kans, legs and all?

Sandman wrote:Very nice, I'm currently building some scratch built kans and dreads from some extra materials at the metal shop I work in. I know this has been asked and answered elsewhere on the site, but how tall did you make your kans, legs and all?

Here is a pic of one of the kans next to a Nob for size comparison for ya.

Pretty cool design, I really like those crabby tripod legs

Wonder how will they look painted

ok, here are the Kans done. Simple but it gets the job done.
Only the Dread to go.

Nice work!

I'm concerned that they'll break off the base though, have you had any problems with that?

Good paint job on the kans, but they seem a bit... flat. Maybe some checker board patterns or warband identifying marks would liven them up.

I'm loving your Kanz! I'm not a fan of GW's Kanz and have been looking around for some scratchbuilt ones that I like and these are excellent! What did you use for the main body of the Kan?

my wife had a tube of beads that looked right so I dumped em and looted it.

And now that I got it down I am probably gonna go buy her some beads so I can make 3 more Kans.

AffliKtion wrote:Nice work! I'm concerned that they'll break off the base though, have you had any problems with that?

No issues yet with them breaking off the base. Putting the ground effects on the bases strengthened them too.

AffliKtion wrote:Good paint job on the kans, but they seem a bit... flat. Maybe some checker board patterns or warband identifying marks would liven them up.

I must agree with you on that Affliktion. I was just trying to do something fast and simple. I just finished a 4th kan and I have 2 more to do then I will liven the paint job up on all of them a bit.

Thanks for the comments.

Very cool. Nice to see something a little different.

Killa Kan Number 4. 2 more to go.

I love your leg design. Me and my ork playing buddy have always complained about the lack of usability of the GW dread and kan legs in any semblance of real world physics.

I might borrow your style when I start building my own. Great work!

All 6 kans are done now. Just got to paint em. I will show pics after the paint job.

Here is a pic of the start of one of the two Deff Dreads I am making.I plan on putting a third leg in the back of the dreads just like the kans that is why this leg is going forward. I plan to put a piston in the back of it as the mechanism that makes it move forward and back.

Pretty good. I recommend deepening the eye-slit or painting it a glowing red... also, isn't that krabby-looking Kan a bit small?

@Owain I am gonna be adding some paint to the Kans later so I think the red in the slot idea might work for me. I have seen some like that and they look too cylon for me but I shall give it a try.

As for the size, I am pretty sure I go the size right. I do not have a GW one to go by on hand but I ran a thread on it to make sure I got the size right before I started. The orc in the pic with the kan is actually a nob and I know that I have the kans on the right bases. If anyone else has any comments that might reassure me or show me that they are too small I would love to hear them.

Here is a pic of the back of the Dread. Not to clear but I hope you can tell whats going on back there.

Those legs are awesome. I think the kanz are a good size. They are piloted by grots after all.

Really awesome work on that dread!

Some of the shooty and grabby parts are taking form





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All done and ready for paint.




The barrel on da big shoota is kinda limp from this angle. I need to fix that I guess.

Very impressed with how that turned out - keep it up!

The next set of killa kans. I tried to put some more color on em and I think it worked out ok.
I am gonna go back and add more color to the first set of kans later.






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And the dread.

Almost done. Needs some minor details but mostly done.

That is very, very cool.

Nice work Stump, you have put thoughts into my head about scratch-building a few myself.

I love the color on the body of the deff dred ,
can you tell me the colors used please xD

Looks great, I didn't like the look of them before you painted it, but it really turned out well, well done!

@Lunahound- the colors on the body are a mixture of blazing orange and bestial brown watered down and washed over black primer to get a rusted effect. Then I washed it again with black and then dry brushed with mithril silver. Gun metal would have been better I think but I did not have any. That is just the basic colors I gave the Dread. Simple but it worked for me.


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Thanks for the comments folks.

I have decided to go ahead with the second deff dread.
I am gonna go with a chicken walker look for this one.
First leg almost done.

The head on this one is only there temporarily. I am not sure about it yet.