Might sound odd, but bear with me here. A while back I had a skaven clan skryre army with a ton of steampunk-esque conversions (steam powered A-Bomb, mechanical plague furnace etc) one of which was a steam motorbike of sorts. It was basically a chaos marine bike with a platicard platform built on top for the driver and an array of blades on the front.
I wondered if something similar could work for a Bull Centaur conversion, a unit of Chaos dwarfs on motorbikes? Obviously the bikes would need to be “downgraded” to steam power (maybe a big boiler and exhaust on the back of each?) and the Dwarf riders would need to be more or less scratch built from the waist down.
Anyway, what are your thoughts on this? Does it have potential as a slightly comical unit or would it just look out of place?
That’s pure genius!!! That’s a very good idea, and I think it’d even look fairly good. If you’re going for the comical look why don’t you try an Harley Davidson and a rocker CD on top (like Clam’s GH entry)???
It’ll probably be a long time coming as I’m currently working on the rank and file and I also want to see for definite whether the warhammer forge book has BCs on 40mm bases or not (I hope so personally as it allows for much more dynamic poses).
As soon as I start it though I’ll be sure to let people know whether it works or not and try to get some pics up (I’m useless at uploading pics, I never seem to get round to it).
I’m with Tjub on the not really fantasy angle. but maybe a “bike frame” riden by your erstwhile biker being pushed really hard by a couple of slave orcs or something
You get those squat bikers and dammage them by converting them and you will be setting yourself up for a epic fail. They can go for anything up too £35 a peice I’m not saying don’t use them I am saying that their are many alternatives to the squat bike/trike.
You get those squat bikers and dammage them by converting them and you will be setting yourself up for a epic fail. They can go for anything up too £35 a peice I'm not saying don't use them I am saying that their are many alternatives to the squat bike/trike.
Thorne
Yeah the bikers are nice but I wouldn't want to convert them. If I got hold of some they'd be there for nostalgia purposes.
At the minute I'm thinking avatars of war slayers and either Chaos or Ork bikes with a ton of greenstuff. I understand the concern some people have that it will look too 40k and I share that trepidation. If they end up looking out of place I'll just keep them as a fun piece and they'll join my ogre war ostrich as a comedy unit... yeah I made a war ostrich, what of it? :cheers
