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I like the awesome (though expensive looking) Carnosaur creations.


Kendoka's Riders

always a classic....

http://www.dakkadakka.com/Default.aspx?tabid=93&forumid=8&postid=79960&view=topic

The Cadian ones look better with some Kislev legs a la the GW France website tutorial. They clipped the boots off and attached boots cut from plastic Cadian legs. Looks great and avoids all that pesky fur.

I don't suppose anyone has any info on good non-Space Marine bikes that would be suitable for Elysian Rough Riders?

That's a VOID bike. Not sure if they're still in production or what have you.

I've often toyed with the idea of trying to use the robot dog that comes with the Inquisitor model "Security Enforcer Barbaretta" as a rough rider mount.  I haven't seen the model in person, but since its scaled for Inquisitor it might be big enough for a 40k model to ride...

why not try to use ork bikes?
Its imperial enough with the tracks and not ramshackle like ork rides.
Just undo the shootaz and replace them with the pikes.

At the end of the documentary "Trinity and Beyond" there is a really cool scene with chinese cavalry riding towards a rising mushroom cloud. It has a very strong "Death Korps of Krieg" feeling to it. Some blurry screen shots: , Bretonia horses could look the part, with custom build gas masks and their caparisons painted in camouflage patterns.

Westwind makes some nice bikes for Roadkill and they're cheap too.

http://oldglory25s.com/store/index.php?cat_id=502&catname='Road%20Kill'&PHPSESSID=ee4079b45b53bccf55a063008d63923c

 

10 bikers for $30

& some others:

 

I believe that's a GW Lizardman Carnosaur mount with Adeptus Arbites on top.

http://uk.games-workshop.com/convershunklinic/40k-cadianroughriders/

One of my favorite conversions.

"One of my favorite conversions."

i agree, that biker looks nice.

but did you see the parts list?

that would be 1 pricey roughrider!

wow kid kyoto i wish i knew about those west wind models before i bought everything i am useing for my rough rider models . i saw that the one store by me was discounting the old IG heavey weapon blisters . so i bought what they had left . some were tallarn , catachan ,& cadian . i am taking the frames sawing off the axles , using the legs & tires . i make a lower frame out of a piece of plastic I beam for the back tire . i take small aluminum tubing to make the front forks& steel wire for handlebars . the aluminum tubing & plastic I beam you can get from model railroad type hobby stores . so to some up buying those west wind models would save me alot of work . i only have one 75% built . but thats my rough rider conversion idea for what its worth . also for a more futuristic feel i am using parts from crisis suit guns to make the engines.

I saw once in a Necromunda Magazine that use to come out years ago, that this one guy used:

1:35 scale BMW motorcycles for his gang, Im sure you could use 'em for IG

What about something like the Green Goblin? Like his sky sled thing? Drop troops on that would be kinda
cool. You could always use the Dark Eldar things?

-MR.B

Ogre Sabertusks are sized right and only $5 each. 

http://tamiya.com/english/products/list/35dinosaur_world/kit60101.htm 

The Velociraptor set is scaled right, I've seen it done, and not too bad on price.  $14.00 for six of them.

The perfect bikes for IG are the old lead bikes for the space marines. I wish I had more than just 1 left! They are much smaller and have a more gothic feel to them as well. Availability is a problem of course. Same pros and cons with the old Jet bikes.

Another thing you could do is to make your rough riders completely mechanical. I recently created some gun servitors that are completely robotic spider-like things. You could do the same type of simple conversion except that instead of a heavy bolter, you could use a hunting lance. Or, you could actually model them up as just explosive packing robots like the cyclops since they are pretty much one hit wonders anyways. I know you don't want horses, but I used the WHFB Gryphon riders and just attached some IG goodies like lasguns, backpacks, and such to them. I think they turned out allright. The servitors and rough riders are at the beginning of this album.

http://ghostpics.spaces.msn.com/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_photoalbum=showdefault&_c=photoalbum

For the lance itself I figure anything can be made explosive, but I have seen people use grenades glued to the end just below the tip. Or, the more traditional method is to simply make the thing look like a power weapon at the tip like the GW models.

Actually, for rough riders, Griffen and Augustus used some kind of beast in their
Afriel Strain army. I don't remember which model it was.

Here you can see all 3 units of Rough Riders in my IG Army ...

@zubor
i like your army.

and i like the ork-bike RRs, alot.

but the other 2 don't give that warm fuzzy feeling

Posted" by="" alarmingrick="" on="" 07/20/2006="" 4:48="" pm="">
@zubor
i like your army.

and i like the ork-bike RRs, alot.

but the other 2 don't give that warm fuzzy feeling

To be honest i don't like RR on Hellions. At one moment i tought that it was a good idea and i went for it ... but

Here's another picture of RR on Ork Bikes:



And link to whole army (as it was 2 months ago) http://www.tttours.co.yu/WH40K/svi.jpg

Those guys are sweet zubor!  I'm sweeping all of my stupid Gryphon legion riders into the trash right now since the ork player in our club has long since given up on his bikes.  I should be able to get ahold of those...mwahahaha!

those are awesome!

check out this, it would make a cool conversion with not too much work I think on the ork bikes...

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/5fa21e6759a4c010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

sorry no link, im not cool.

I'm looking at doing some converted rough riders of my own as well, based on Space Marine bikes. But I'm probably going to do some narrowed front wheels, and a number of other changes to make it seem less SM and more IG.

-Hans

what about Cold ones? i know they are more suited to Kroot, but they are cheaper than FW Carnosaurs.

Oh, and thank you all VERY much for this thread, I hate you ALL!

I have two boxes of space marine bikes on the way, just for this conversion, and I have a feeling they will be pretty involved conversions.

The big question now, what to use in place of the explosive tipped lance?

-Hans

Those Ork bikes are pretty frickin' wicked man. I didn't realise that they had the ork rider's legs on there too. That might just sway me from purchasing the space marine bikes.

One of my wacky ideas I'll likely never do is to make IG Rough Rider mounts out of spare Tyranid parts and some shells so as to look like they're riding giant hermit crabs...