Waaagh! fellow barbarians. Saturday was spent praying on bended knees to the porcelain god, but Sunday shall be devoted to ministrations to Gork, and Mork.

Project 2: killa kans!

This project actually started in March of 2008, when I had just bought my first battle force of the new orks from phantom. Immediately I was struck by the idea that I could make my own killa kans. Excuse the fuzzy photos, from fuzzy memories. The kan is literaly a 54 cent piece of copper tubing pre-cut and a penny glued atop, bringing the grand total to 55 cents. I added the hatch lock using the piece that connects four bases from a boyz set, armor plates using the plastic holders on a loaf of bread, the guns were two shootas, and the arm was plastic from the sprue, wire and more bread holders.


Fast forward (so that your tape gets all warped and everyone knows you've been looking at the same sex scene from Trainspotting again and again) to two weeks ago. I have started another kan with bicycle chain links as legs. These took a long time to design so I'll go into detail.

Bicycle chain link legs:
Pop out two links exactly using the chain tool,

then repeat. Take one ball point pen that "clicks". Cut a small section off the end of the tube, the one not containing ink, and also cut the spring to match the size of that piece, and repeat, there should be enough spring to match the two tube pieces if you cut them small enough. Now take part of the sprue that has an extra little nub where the plastic is injected; I used the fluorescent green plastic from the AOBR weapons template. You now need something that looks like an ork would use it for feet. Originally I tried to make three toed feet from sprue, but they looked hideous. Inspiration struck when I meditated on classic Transformers models and used the tires of yet another 25 cent hotwheels for both the feet, and the hip joints. Now, glue/green-stuff the chain, and the ball point shaft/spring together so that they form a triangle. Glue the sprue piece to the tire, then glue these to the bottom of the pen shaft.


Now your in business, and you've just made a vaguely sexual pen-shaft pun.


For engines, I used an engine from one of my famous 25 cent hotwheels, and some more pieces from that PT cruiser model from project one. For weapons I parted a AOBR big shoota from its boy and glued it to more cheap wheels, the rokkits are from an AOBR deff kopta that I was converting to big shoota duty anyway and some random space junk. The close combat arms are as described above and also from the IG-88 model mentioned in project one. Sorry to abandon grammar here nobz, but are we not orks?




The second kan's armor is a door from the new store bought ork trukk, with a funny shoota from an OOP, or out of print, model. The legs from the second kan are small pieces of copper tubing that the hardware guy cut from a longer length (2.00) with screws and hex nuts (~1.00) to make it look like it could actually walk. After that, buddy sit back and enjoy the fireworks!

Semi-final Analysis:
kans 1 kan 2
body 55 c 55c
armor 0.0 0.0
legs 3.00 25c (hours and hours of design)
c.c. arm 0.0 25c
weapon arm 1.00 1.00
engines 25c 25c

total 4.80 2.30

time: Hours and hours, most likely 10 were spent on designing, and re-designing these models. If you value your time at anything above 5$/hour it would not be worth it to make these. Kan 1 looks exactly like the store bough model only less detailed (shittier). Kan 2 is more original, but still looks like a rip-off of the imperial guard walker which is itself a rip-off of the AT-ST. If you allow me to be your guide, dear readers, and build Kan 2 you will have an inexpensive goofy-yet-original looking kan. Be Ye warned! It was a time goblin for me and if you want to make it worth your while build two or better yet save your energies for a Deff Dred.