More Bikers.

Sorry for the lack of posts recently but I have managed to get a bit of painting done. 

The photos below are of the last three bikers, brining the total to six. I haven't done the pennants for them yet, or any freehand on the bike armour but other than that they're finished.

Loads more pictures and a few extra bits after the jump...

WIP: Astral Knights Attack Bike nearly Finished.

Here are the pictures of how far my Astral Knights Attack Bike has got.  It's at the same stage as the rest of my bikers as the aim is to try and do banners/freehand all at the same time.  Loads more pictures after the jump...

Magnetizing the heavy weapons on an Attack Bike.

I decided to try and magnetise the heavy weapon load out on my Attack Bike.  Heavy Bolter for infantry or Multi Melta for armour.  All the details after the jump...

WIP: Astral Knights Attack Bike.

Having pretty much finished painting the first batch of Astral Knight Bikers I decided to try a little bit of variety so I've built an Attack Bike to give them a bit of support. 

WIP: Astral Knight Bikers.

As promised I've tried to refocus on my Astral Knights Chapter and I've had a bit of a surge. I've very nearly finished three of the Bikers. Loads more pictures after the break.

Showcase: Lamenters scout bike.

Here are the finished pictures of my Lamenters scout biker. Loads more  after the jump...

Painting competition: Scout biker WIP

Here are the promised images of the biker for my space marine scout bike.  This is my first attempt at painting yellow power armour.  More pictures and details after the jump...

Painting Competition: Scout biker base.

The completed base for my scout biker. Loads more after the jump...

Painting competition: Scout biker WIP.

                                                        

The next model for my local GW painting competition is the space marine scout biker.  Now bikes are awkward, either they are very boringly posed or rather unconvincingly mid wheelie.  So after some web based research I found the above image and the following conversion (by maelstrom on Dakka Dakka). I was inspired by this unusual take on a biker, like he's just skidded to a halt and is taking aim at some incoming enemy. After the jump I'll show you how I tried to represent this idea.

WIP: Biker bases and Witch Hunter.

First up a photo of the bases for the Biker Marines, I've kept them similar to the rest of the force but I tried to give the impression of the bikes leaving tracks in the dirt. 

WIP: Astral Knights bikers built.

Here are the pictures of the first three Astral Knights Bikers.  Loads more pictures after the break....

1st mock up of an Astral Knights Biker.

This is the first mock up of an astral knight biker that I have done.  Currently it is held together with blue tac...  I thought I would post it up to get feedback or any ideas before I finalise the set up and start the squad.  Lots more images and details after the break.

Ideas for Astral Knights Bikers

As I've said before I want to give the Astral Knights the look of 41st millennium knights riding into battle with lances, shields and fluttering banners.  Here are some of the ideas I've been mulling over to try and achieve this look.

Firstly the armour of the marines.  There aren't many options for the basic biker marine legs so I'm going to try and get as many Ravenwing cloaked legs in as possible.  Hopefully these will give the look of the robes that knights used to wear.

Lances on space marine bikes.

Having said I couldn't find any examples of space marines bikes with lances I've just come across this

They are by a company called puppetswar.  I know these look a bit more like scout bikes than full space marine but it was interesting to see Sci-fi bikes with lances.  These lances are bike mounted rather than carried in the hand which I would prefer but they do look quite cool!

I also found these more full marine bikes on their site.



These look really interesting and might make nice alternatives to spice up a bike heavy army, especially the heavy weapon one.