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As a preface for anyone who wants to bug me about it, I'd rather be working on my Mega Shokk Attack Array model, but unfortunately I'm not going to be anywhere (geographically) near it until next Friday, so I'm trying to keep myself busy with what I've got.

These Kanz are born out of a simple concept that came to me when Cities of Death was first released and there was a stratagem for 'Wreckers'. The concept's really pretty simple: Take Killa Kan, subtract legs and power klaw, add wheels and wrecking ball, arm with demolishing rokkits, and you've got a handly little piece of armor to hunt hard targets with. Obviously they work the same as any normal Killa Kan would, as these modifications are purely visual (though I would love a 'wheels' upgrade that would let 'em move 12"), but the mental image of a Killa Kan rolling up on an enemy and spinning it's wheels in opposite directions to hurl a giant wrecking ball around at them was enough to see to it that the models would get made.

The first kan is a bit of an experiment in placement, but I think it worked out pretty well.









I grabbed a drill and a small bit and hollowed out a hole straight through the lower body where the legs would normally attach. After that, I grabbed two wheels off a Trukk and made a styrene 'dowel' between them for the wheels to attach to. The wrecking ball went on the side of the Kan without too much trouble, though the chain suspending it had to be shortened a bit because the Trukk kit it came from sits substantially higher off the ground. A Trukk front intake covers the front side of the Kan nicely, and dramatically changes the model's 'face'.

Since I didn't have any proper Rokkit Launcherz, I went ahead and made my own out of the spare shells you get in the Baneblade kit. They have two fuses sticking through the blast plate, and a grot from the warbiker kit sits behind them with a torch or flare in hand, ready to ignite them when a good target presents itself. I am fairly certain the 'flame' is just a hacked-down topknot from a Chaos Space Marine's head, but it sure beats sculpting!

The engine on the back had to be pared down a minor amount to allow wheels sit sit on either side. I added an exhaust pipe from a warbike on the model's left side to cover up the area that got chopped.

With this model reasonably done, I've now got to make a second and third for the squadron.

What! A DeffSegway! That's hilarious. In a very very good way.

Sweet

Love the Segway concept. (Lucky you for having spare wheels.) If you have the old IG wheels/tracks sprues, perhaps another Kan could have WALL-E style tracks?

Not sure about the grot hanging off the side, in that this seems an alarmingly dangerous way to fire weapons even for a grot! That's presuming he's also the driver though - if however he's just an extra crewgrot then it seems fine, although then I'd like to see the driver peeping out his hatch too. If that makes any sense...

I'd love to see this beast painted!

This is great

Why have I got Craig Charles is voice stuck in my head. Very Robot Wars I like it. How about a Big Mek with a Remote Control?

Another Wrekka Kan joins the squadron, making 2 of 3.











This one got a quick styrene gob, the same wrekka-ball treatment as the first, and a deathwind launcher from a Space Marine drop pod serves as it's rokkit launcher.

I ended up using some slightly smaller wheels on this one. The addition of a third wheel, R2-D2 style, is something I seriously considered, but I decided against it. Most of the time when you see Killa Kanz anyway, they've been converted to appear unsteady and lurching on their ungainly legs, so I figured a bit of unsteadiness wouldn't hurt. Besides, what ork would ever put training wheels on something?

Edit: Clang, I intended the grot to be more of a firer than anything. Having one sticking up out the hatch might work okay, though.

Now theses are extreamly cool,very orky in build,like to see them painted up.

Dat be sum Orky finkin fer shoor

The smaller wheels definitely feel better to me, for whatever reason. It seems to balance the kan better.

Thumbs up!

Teek wrote:The smaller wheels definitely feel better to me, for whatever reason. It seems to balance the kan better.

Thumbs up!

Indeed. Great job

Here is Kan 3 of 3.











I couldn't think of anything clever to substantially change the look of the front plate on this one. After a while, I sort've figured there may be some merit in loading up the front of a wheel-kan with spikes and blades, turning the Kan into something of a moving, ramming wall. I can sort've just picture this guy gunning it through a swath of smaller infantry, impaling them as he goes.

His rokkit is a strange assembly of Stormboy parts: one booster for last edition, and one from this edition. A loota's deffgun rokkit sits on the side to complete the arsenal.

I honestly think I'm done tinkering with these guys for now. Any additional changes (like a Kan with treads instead of wheels) will probably be worked into another squad down the road, because I literally have the parts for 20 or so Kanz around.

Obligatory mob shot:





I'm going to slap some paint on them, and see how it goes.

Looking great - I particulalry like the ramming spikes on number 3.

My only complaint is that all the wrecking ball arms are (apparently) identical - could you do a quick bit of customising on the 'cranes' or the balls?

I like it, Ork Segways. Nice job. I hadn't really thought of putting wheels on dreds but I think I will be doing the wheels concept for my dred mob.

They're great, I especially like the third one.

Great Kanz
if you dont mind consider them stolen

those look awesome ! I like .

Great concept, even better execution (as always!). I concur that the ramming spikes turned out to be the coolest gob of them all.

Sweet...I want one...or three....or nine....

These are brilliant!

I saw them yesterday on The Warforge

Those look really sharp in a group. Nice work

Ein, this is pure awesome!

those look amazing i just wonder how they stand when they stop moving lol

double post sorry lol

deffskullz wrote:those look amazing i just wonder how they stand when they stop moving lol

Probably like a Segway.

Alternatively: What says they ever stop moving?

Anyway, time for some paint!











I'm quite happy with how the wrecking ball's blood spatter came out. I'm not exactly done, per se, since there's some details that could be picked out. Even so, I'm going to move on to the other Kans for now.

Looking great, but I'd add some rust to the metal, especially on the tyres, to add contrast to the grey tyre rubber and generally make them look more run-down and scrappy.

rofl! That is awesome an totally orky! I can see though that the paintjob isn't quite done, but it's going good looks like.

I hate to say it, but the bloodsplater on the wrecking ball almost looks orange to me, could be the photo quality though. I love this idea btw. I'm totally using those wrekka balls as my Dread CCWs when I build my brace of Kanz.

Great job on the models.

SegWay of DOOOOOM!!!