I really need to get back in the habit of posting on here once a week.

On the bright side I have been continuing the work! Firstly I’ll focus on the Kans Dreadnought CC weapons...
Here’s a close up of one of them. Because the new Kans (as well as the old Kans for that matter) have monkey arms that are simply too long I shortened it, as well as cut the back end of the sawblade off, creating a unique CC weapon, that needs only minor GS or Plasticard detailing.

My first leg set is... well done. It isn’t great. They match the dimensions of the original Kan, but without any detailing or complication of the lines it looks, well pretty naff.

My last pic for the day, is the second completed kan

The picture is awful I admit. With this guy I tried a different type of riveting that is far more conventional, the mass application of small cut roundbar. I usually do rivet detailing in painting, but these 3dimentional ones are pretty nice, just real annoying to try and put together.

Kans part 1

Been a long time, work at the college as unfortunately taken quite a toll on my free time, which sadly doesn't feel quite so free.

Anyway to congratulate myself for getting an B+ on a midterm (where there was only 1 A and 12 F's) I managed to pick up the 'new' box of Killa Kans (new being a relative term as it did come out earlier this year).

Being used to the old style Ork kits like the Warbuggy and Trukk from the GorkaMorka days I was frankly shocked at the high level of detail inside the kits.

Of course I am never content with building any kit straight, and with this kit I have an extra incentive. When the kit was first released a challenge was made to make at least 5 Kans out of a single box. And I'm gonna meet that challenge.

The first part of the challenge was to find something to build a new main body from.
I think I did quite nicely in that. About a month ago while walking I discovered a discarded piece of PVC pipe just outside a construction site, one end a shattered mess. Planning to find a use for it, I picked it up, and low and behold when cut to size it is the exact dimensions of the new Kan models.

Another early problem would be the 'Worky Bitz' and Exhaust functionality of the Kans located in their backs. The kit supplies 3 of these, each consisting of 2 parts. The obvious solution (as usual) turns out to be the best solution.
These, admittedly aren't the greatest pics in the world, however they show the crucial extension and flippage of the Worky Bitz to get more use out of them while keeping both the mostly kit built and the mostly scratchbuilt at the proper gaming dimensions.

As a last part of today's post I'll show the new backing with this Worky bit power plant on what is quite possibly the least converted mini I've done in a long time. (Although I doubt that this kan will remain as such for long.)