Eldar Jetbike Conversion

[mickc22]

After a long while of not doing very much I'm just now getting back into a bit of everything, painting, sculpting and gaming, 40K, Dystopian Wars
I've put together 1500pts of a Wild Rider army and while looking for some inspiration for my jetbikes I came across this in the Google images from GD 2007 apparently ???


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Suitably inspired I came up with this, so far

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I've been playing around with it some more tonight, so some things have changed but the overall concept remains the same

 

[Durandal]

Looks pretty good!
Damn, has that sculpt really been in storage for 5 years? We need a new eldar dex. Hopefully with guardians that can take haywires again (the box still has the bits that I thought were totally a helmet com relay!) and a decent sgt. option.

 

[mickc22]

thanks

It would seem so, I know they work a few years in front in the studio but I thought if I start making it they'll release it before I'm finished, well that's what happened when I started to make a Vyper LOL

Had a bit more of a play with the canopy last night, I'm using this as a "test bed" so to speak. Refining ideas on a second chassis, I was looking at merging the Reaver and Eldar canopies, thus making the attachment to the chassis easier along with weapon attachment too. I'm toying with widening the Eldar canopy a few mm, and maybe lengthening it too

 

[Siper]

Nice. I always wanted to have this model. I believe Eldar codex is coming up next year including jetbikes. So if you wait a while you may not have to do all this converting. http://natfka.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-eldar-boxes-sitting-in-warehouses.html

 

[marjedi]

Yeah Jes Goodwin did the eldar bike at the same time as he did the dark eldar one. Same as he did the Void Raven as he did the Razorwing, and a pair og eldar flyers and other stuff.

Damm GW top brass.

 

[mickc22]

Made a start on the canopy, lengthened and widened. Smoothing it off with a mix of A&B + greenstuff, think the A&B might have been sitting around for a bit, got some fresh stuff in the freezer tho

 

[mickc22]

It would seem I'm wasting my time with this

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Sanguinius Prime on the Warhammer 40K group (F/book)

[h=5]heres a list of stuff of new models that should be released 2013 most likely with new codex, not seen any sign of codex yet but is supposedly in the making Warpspiders/Everguard

Skycharriots/Shining Spears

Phantomwaechter - these might be the shadow spectres?

Jetbikes

Wraithguard/Cataphracts

flyer combi-kit - The flyer is pretty large and has a crossbow shape, two canopies, one fin. The main variant on the cover has some lances and a large dorsal distort cannon. The other variant has extra downward/sideway thrusters, but I don’t remember if it has a different weapon loadout.
phoenix lord niadhau - For Shining Spears, appears to be on a Vyper jetbike.

plastic webway gate

resin box Avatar

resin Black Warden - The Black Warden looks like an female Autarch. She has a shurikencatapult and a feathered guardian helm with an eye on it.

resin Dire Avenger Xentarch - Appears to be a new English name for Exarch?

resin Howling Banshee Xentarch

resin Fire Dragon Xentarch

resin Striking Scorpion Xentarch

resin box Dragon Riders

resin box Eldritch Raiders - They look like guardians but have no helms and wear scarfs around the lower head and swashbuckle belts. They are very individually equipped, have all sorts blades, pistols and/or rifles. (potentially Storm Guardians?)

resin box Halcones Cazadores

resin Warlock
[/h]I may finish this one then, but I doubt I'll do a whole squad now