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That kan looks great!

I really like those Buggies KC. What is it about that damn shape that makes such a great buggy? Seriously, the last 2 tabs I closed before coming to this one had Land Speeder Buggies as well, and all in different flavors. I'm really digging your Kanz as well. You've seen from the Ork Vehicle Comp. that I'm building a squad of my own. I have to say, I was stuck on what to do for the arms. Then I saw yours. Do you mind if a borrow your sprue arms idea?

Also, what are you doing for bases on those? Since mine are all from scratch, I'm missing the bases and yours look perfect. I was planning on just getting some from eBay, but 3 bases for $4 multiplied by the 11 60mm bases I need for my army equals more than I've spent on anything else for the army....

Thanks for your answers, and keep us posted with updates.

Jon

Firstly - Hurray a subscriber Well I promised once I got the first squadron done Id paint them up. So I might prime them tonight, if not tomorrow, which means Ill probably start painting tomorrow as well. So stay tuned!

Secondly - Landspeeders just look fast, and when you stick wheels on them, they get that "racecar" stance. Perfect platform in my book And of course you can steal the sprue arms, I use sprue for all kinds of things. But when it comes to arms, make sure you cut equal lengths and glue the fat sides together, that will give you the proper thickness.

The bases oddly enough I got from playdoh cans. A dollar store sells some cheap ol off brand, and its almost exactly the same size. The only difference is the playdoh lid is a little thicker then a dread base, other wise they are the same size, so its perfect.

i subscribed as well

Ok then let me try that again
Hurray subscribers! There its plural

OKidoki, time ta kick dem grotz in ta gear, an while Im tossin dem around, might az well dip em in da paint kanz firstly. Dat way dey can paint da Kanz while Iz toss'in kanz

KingCracker wrote:OKidoki, time ta kick dem grotz in ta gear, an while Im tossin dem around, might az well dip em in da paint kanz firstly. Dat way dey can paint da Kanz while Iz toss'in kanz

Yo dawg, I heard you liked kanz....

But seriously, thanks for letting me snag your ideas. My own squad of Kanz and both of my Dredz have been on hold while I tried to find some appropriate plastic stock for their DCCWs. I really don't know why I didn't think to use sprue. I can't wait to see some paint on your Kanz. Maybe it will kick start me into finishing mine.

Jon

*bows* I do what I can. Dont feel bad, most people dismiss the sprue as just throw away. I never toss my sprues away, Ive got one of my AOBR boxes packed with sprue


Well right now the bases are drying in the sun and nearly down, so Ill be putting some paint to kanz here shortly. Ill go out and take a pic of the bases so far.....so uh...brb I guess




Ok dead camera, so Ill post that in like 2 hours lol

Ok well this one will be short and simple for now. The camera died, and to kill time while it charged, my nephew and my son and I played a 3 way 1k point game, so that killed all my free painting time, but it was super fun. Anywho, based and black under coat. As your reading this, Im outside painting these little buggers.....so wish me luck, as Im not completely sure where Im going with the paint other then metal/rust/yellow

Well Ive realized, these are the FIRST vehicles I actually painted without using a spray can to make things easier. Yikes. Im alot better at painting Nobs/boyz and the like then vehicles

They are mostly done, Ill add a few tid bits here and there like "Oomie sploder" on a rokkit and things like that, youn know general touch up, but I spent a good chunk of the day taking these guys from black base to what they are here. I was going to try and use some bright yellow oil paint on the yellow....but the tube I bought is MIA so oh well, moved on for now.

Enjoy

I think why I love these kanz so much is that they remind me of the 50's style robot from the old movies.

Well hell yea, KC. Those look great! I hope mine turn out that well. Keep up the good work.

Jon

Dey reely good!

I'm with schank on this one, B-movie orks FTW

Oh cool, they do look like that dont they? Now I need that one instrument, they made the monster movie sounds with.....the name escapes me. You know that one that does the ooooOOOOOOooooooooo oooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo!!!! DUN DUN DUNN!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! kindda thing

Ill do that while playing, to distract my opponents

Theramin. Awesome instrument. A good player can make it sound like a violin, or even a piano, I hear.

You could put the theramin inside a gargant or stompa, then whenever you moved nearby units you'd get weird noises

At least, I've heard they still work inside thin containers...may not be actual fact though.

Theramin! Thats what it was Yea.


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Alright, worked on a FlashGit + runt today. Enjoyed it, and so now, I update so you can enjoy it!

Ok just hitting this up, since when I posted the picture, apparently I did it too soon. So there ya go

Classic Kans there KC, I'm loving the retro feel you found there, plus it looks like the Mek let his Grots put them together on the fly, which to me is even funnier. Love them.

Obviously good work on the Flash Git, but I might have seen him before.

Thanks for the compliment on the Kans. Oddly enough, I wasnt even going for that feel either, they just kindda went together that way. Im thinking on the next batch, I might turn that 50s monster movie dial up a tad. Add some cool 50s tech or something


And uh yea.... where would you have seem the Git before I wonder ........... We seriously need an Orkmoticon that scratches his beard. Hell even just has a beard. Off to nuts and bolts I thinklol

I like 'em both!

Love the Flash Git and ammo runt. That ammo runt conversion is awesome. Simple but brilliant.

What Schank said... wrote?

Also, I like the one handed shooting/aiming. It really sells that Flash Git style.

Thanks all for the comments. I figured my blog needed some painted works on here, everything until the painted kans was just WIPs, and looked a bit drab in here. Dunno what the hell Im going to start next. I might bang out some more kans, as those are pretty useful to an Ork shooty horde, like I seem to play alot. But Im not sure yet, I could work on finishing those burna buggies, or get off my ass and buy some magnets and finish building my SkullHamma. Decisions decisions

I need to get something rockin though, Im gunna have a couple boxes of Lootas/burnas dropping on my door step in about a week

Ok so did yet another repaint on my army colors. The previous colors just took me WAY to long to get anything done, and they werent very BadMoonz looking. So I went with black boots/shirts and dark grey pants with the usual yellow accents here and there. They still need to be based but Im done working on them for right now (mainly I need to get more basing material)




I think they turned out well enough. I have to remember not to get overly picky like when I paint Nobz and HQs, which is hard. And finally a sneak peak at my custom character for our Killteams. We all decided we needed to make a SC for KillTeams that fit in the rules but was special. Ive worked out some rules for him but they are somewhere in the proposed rules section and Im to lazy to dig em out. Im pretty much done with his skin tone and the rifle, but his cloak is just pissing me off. Ive whited it out a couple times so far, nothing seems to be working Maybe some camo or something? Anywho here it is thus far, I present

Da Grot Snipa

Looks like a fairly quick scheme for the boyz, possibly a bit more yellow needed? I'm thinking maybe do a few more helmets yellow just to help ram home that Bad Moon Bling factor Looks good as is though

Like the sniper, camo sounds good for his cloak, what where the 2 schemes you already tried?

Do some helmets in Gold instead.

Gold helmets? That just doesnt make sense, Flashgits maybe but not boyz. I plan on adding some checks on the helmets as soon as I get one of those super thin marker/pens, as my hands arnt nearly steady enough to pull that off. So Once fully completed and based their will be a tad bit more yellow and the bases to help make the colors pop, but as I stated earlier, I dont want to over due the stuff on the boyz, because it takes me so long to paint anyways, and I like running alot of shoota boyz. So half a day to get 10 fully completed times how many boyz Ive got left



On the snipa, Ive so far tried solid colors. So really I think its just the solid colors not doing it. I might try tiger stripe camo. Ive never done it for one, and I think it would just look cool and be Orky having tiger stripe camo in Urban settings

Sakura Pigma micron pens. Just the job for those pesky checks

Tiger stripe should be fun.