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Hi all, I finished building my Kataphron Destroyers and was amazed by the amount of bits I still had left, I'd only used half the plastic on the sprues which explains why they were so expensive :-/

Deciding to try and make use of these extra parts I knocked up some claw-like legs and a central section out of random plastic parts from my work (electronics manufacture). From there I took some spare Ork torso's and cut back any protruding lumps then glued all the Breacher armour plates over it and with a little extra bit of sprue pushed in place got the heads sitting in the correct possition and looking like the real thing. From there I just glued the weapons on to the torso and used some leftover mech-looking bits to make the back mounted power plants.

Overall I'm pretty happy with them, the question is would you be happy playing against them? or have I modelled for advantage in some way that I've missed?

Thanks for looking, I've included a standard destroyer in the pic for comparison purposes.

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Very cool, I'd be more than happy to play against them and I applaud you for creatively getting the most from the kit.

 Paradigm wrote:
Very cool, I'd be more than happy to play against them and I applaud you for creatively getting the most from the kit.

All of this.

Looks very unique, inspired, and awesome!

Thanks for the nice comments guys, I was a little unsure of the legs until I got the martian red on them and am now really pleased, just have to finish the paintjob now ;-)

I was pretty shocked at the sheer amount of unused parts in the kit though, definitely the worse I've seen for having extra parts left over. I'm really pleased to have used them up but it's a real issue with these dual use kits.

My one question is how do they move? Those claws don't seem the most mobile.

That being said, they look cool, so I'd happily play against them.

Those are awesome! it gives me inspiration to do something with the piles of extra parts I have laying around. Good work

Definitely would be, they're cool! Although if you make another give him a little more speed somehow

As far as them actually walking..... well I like to think the the legs are hinged at the foot and are able to retract upward into the body cavity but I would agree they don't look particularly mobile ;-)

The problem was mounting them in a secure way using the parts I'd found for the legs led to them all being positioned in the same way. As with all GW kits the extra bits missing to make additional models are always the legs, it must be part of their master plan!