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Wow I love those tanks!

I'm not familiar with their rules, just seen the models, do you find them effective in-game?

Hi Awesomesauce! Thank you!

Well, at the moment I'm using them as rokkit buggies (i.e. normal 40k rules). Which is why all the guns on the tanks are converted rokkit launchers as opposed to the normal mix of big shootas, grotzookas and flamers. The guns are all magnetized though so I can change them out if I ever get to actually use them as real grot tanks.

As rokkit buggies... in the current rule set at least... and with the most recent builds I've been experimenting with... I love them! Small, fast, re-rollable rokkit launchers. I combine them with a squad of bikes and maybe some deff koptas in addition to some battlewagons full of boys and I have a fast, flexible force that can really deliver a whallop! Best of all, all of those units will (soon) be fully proxied by grots or models that look like grots in comparison (i.e. RT era war bikes, grot bombs modified to represent deff koptas & the grot tanks of course).

I really really love the last tank Git!

Thanks Selv! I am inordinately proud of it I must admit. The little things that I did that weren't modeled in... like making the dozer blade, painting the checkers, adding the spotter... stuff like that just gets me smiling. It's also the second "full weathering" job I've ever done, which is a bit nerve-wracking and very tedious... but in the end very satisfying.

You must explain a biyt about the weathering part... 'cause I'm very intrested in IT

Tell you what Selv... I was going to do a full weathering job on the Killa Kan I'm about to start. I'll do a step-by-step with the weathering on that. It'll be much more straight forward that trying to explain the weathering on the tanks as the kan is more-or-less made of a single material with a consistent theme rather than being piles of scrap like the grot tank (which complicates things immensely).

Will that work for ya?

That would be the cherry on the cake mate!

Decided that since this was made from an old dreadnought... that it would be a "boss" kan, so I've decorated it accordingly and dressed up the base. Also paid a little homage to the squats who were "disappeared" so many years ago...

Man.... Its crazy to think that once upon a time that was considered a Dread. Makes me wonder whats gonna happen in another decade- Dreads the size of Stompas?


Really really cool work. Boss Kan is looking great!
Is that Grotzooka the resin kit from uh.... shoot I cant think of the name xD Same guy who made the Mr. Potatohead stompa?
I also gotta say Im looking forward to the weathering tutorial!!

Irondog Studios The link will take you directly to the "scap cannon".
I actually prefer the double-barreled scrap cannon I found earlier (same guy who made the scrap missile launcher), however I can't find him any more... must be long gone. I'm still kicking around ideas as to how I'm going to paint this one... I think I have a plan now. Might get started tonight, kind of depends on whether my studio is inhabitable or not (even with AC the studio accumulates heat... so we'll see.

That's some great stuff there, do you have any of their other bits?

Just an extra PK which I may use on the last kan (still debating). You know folks are always tossing old stuff at me because they know I'm interested. I think this one actually came from SL though. Believe it or not, this isn't the earliest ork dread... the first ones had PK's that looked like crab claws (very chaotic) and and a removable middle section that you could add or take out in order to alter the height of the dread and the number of weapon mounts.

Wait... come to think of it I have several of the guns that came with it as well!

I'm loving the Kans Gitz! Btw I belive squats are comming back too for 6th ed! But once aginn this is a roumor...

Thanks Haz!


Some progress... airbrushed yellow. Gradient isn't very visible. The a dilute sepia wash. Next... metallics!

Grots ROCK !!


Had a 1500 point league game tonight vs. a Guard player with a really tough, fully mechanized, anti-ork army. He had 2 Vendettas, 2 main battle tanks including some gun that got 20 shots each time it fired, and several Chimeras with infantry including meltas and a special command squad with Straken inside. (fearless, FNP, awesome in assault, etc). I had my grots... which I brought because I didn't want to be burdened with the chore of trying to win... I just wanted to have a good time.

The grots however... had other ideas. If the game had ended on T5... I would have won! Had chance to still win on T6 and in T7 I still had a very good chance for a tie... unfortunately my dice totally abandoned me beginning T5, both in shooting and assault. With one exception..... I had a small (10-man) grot squad KILL Straken in assault after being charged by him. GO Gretchin!!

So I lost the game 2 objectives to 1 with 1 other being contested (just could not kill that damn Chimera), but it was close going the whole way, for seven long turns. Really surprising... I thought I'd be tabled by turn 3. My Big Mek was out of his mind with the repair rolls. The truck got immobilized... he fixed it, the truck got immobilized again... he fixed it again... a grot tank lost it's weapon... he fixed that too!

Fun game.... just really surprised at how versatile and resilient my grot army is. If I paint just a couple more figs I can take it up to 1750... which is about as high as I think I want to go with it.


OH, and got some painting done on the Boss Kan... the whitish areas will eventually be all checkerboards.

Sounds like you kicked bottom regardless. Punisher cannons are terrifying beasts. What was your list in the end?

HQ: Big mek w/ KFF, PK, eavy armor
EL: 5 meganobs in trukk
Tp: 10 grots + herder
Tp: 10 grots + herder
Tp: 10 grots + herder
FA: 3 rokkit buggies
FA: 7 warbikers + nob w/ PK
FA: 4 deff koptas w/ TL RL & 2 buzzsaws
Hvy: 2 Killa Kans w/ RL
HVY: 3 Killa Kans w/ grotzookas
HVY: 3 Zap Guns + herder & 3 ammo runts

And pretty much every unit contributed in some meaningful way.

Kan is looking sweet. I'm gona have to try some checkers on my Deff dread conversion!

Wow. Two battlewagon killers (Vendettas), two horde killers (Punishers) and a Straken build. GO TEAM GROT.

Very cool man, looking sweet. Do you use yellow spray paint for the kans? Ive been trying to find some but so far Im striking out

Thanks for that Brian... Straken... that was his name. Fixed the post. Actually there was only 1 Punisher... still... plenty for a rag-tag group of gretchin to worry about.

As far as 6th goes for orks it's a pretty mixed bag. Problem is that the things that negatively affect the orks are amy-wide for the most part... changes in Waaagh, shortening of the distance vehicles can travel & disembark, casualty removing from shooting, etc. I also think orks will be less effective in assault in general. Deffkoptas & Kommandos have been significantly harmed by the inability to assault when arriving from the flank. KFF got worse. New sniper rules make it far easier to snipe nobs out of mobs, or have a PK Nob called out in combat by an opposing character with a higher initiative weapon.

Tankbusta's, storm boys, lootas & bikes got better. Squadron rules improved which helps kans and warbuggies.

So, I'd say at first glance... a net negative for the orks... but not a complete disaster. Definitely second-tier lists at best now though. But on the bright side... at least I'm not Tyranids! They seem (at first glance) to have gotten screwed-over big time. I guess time will tell... and I'm not the best assessor of Tyranid tactics to begin with. We'll have to see what wyomingfox says when he gets back from his holiday.



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I'm starting the process of laying down the grid for the checker-board pattern. Easily accomplished with a micron pen. I've eyeballed most of this though with the longer lines I measure guide points (as I will with the main plate).

Looks nice, Gits. From there, you just paint in alternating black squares? Are you going to highlight the black again?

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Heh.

Gits, I think that Orks are going to GAIN some viability, I'm not sure it is a net loss. The 'Look out, Sir!' rules nerf Snipers killing characters, and the Nobs are covered. It just changes how to move your boyz around. Your BLAST weapon problem has been fairly taken care of. Now, the loss of the +1 Init on Furious charge sucks, but we'll see what happens.

I agree, however, that Buggies and Bikes are back in the game, baby! YEAH!

Not to mention the buff that Flash Gits got.

Well, I never suggested that there weren't buffs to specific units... just that the negatives seemed to hit the entire army rather than just a unit here and a unit there. Thus the balance seemed to be on the negative side. Time and play testing will tell of course.

I think the biggest across-army issue is the Furious Charge nerf. The loss of +1 Init hurts Orks more than anyone else.

Then again, no Fearless wounds...

But Fearless can't go to ground.

Finally made some progress to show off...

As always, beautiful checkerboard pattern.