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This is my first Turorial, and the conversion is based on the ATV/Quadbike by Irondog. I couldn't find a step by step guide, so here is mine



I have an extensive collection of miniatures, many of them have been gifted to me, or been acquired from ebay. While some of them have proven useful. many (more than half my bikes) have ended up in a bike graveyeard of sorts as being too badly damaged to be any use in my army. I decided therefore to make use of them. After some browsing on the interwebs, i had a few ideas of what i would be doing, and set about giving the bikes in the graveyard a second chance as useful models, rather than as ending their days as battlefield detritus (where some will probably still end up).

I decided to use a bike chassis where the black paint had quite literally melted into the plastic


Here is what you will need for this conversion:
1x Space Marine Bike
2x extra wheels (4 total)
2x Tau Burst Cannon
2x Tau Fusion Blaster
2x Tau Flamers
1x Tau Plasma Rifle
Multi Melta
Some other bits

Step 1
Assemble the body

Remove the front mudguards from the bike, then trim out the rear exhausts, Glue the 2 halves together and add the footrest.



Use the ends of the fusion blasters cut off during step 2 (below) as exhausts located just behind the foot rest



Step 2
Rear Suspension.
Take the Fusion Blasters and Burst cannon and cut off the barrels.



Glue them as shown,



repeat for each side to give you a left and right rear wheel mounting.



Take the plasma rifle and cut off the barrel. Glue the wheel mountings to the side as shown.



Step 3
Front suspension.

Trim out the front wheel mountings from the previously removed mudguards



Take the flamers and trim the parts you don’t need. Glue them together as shown



Step 4
Assembly

Pin the front wheel mounts to the miniature. I use paperclips for this, and you can get a box of around 200 very cheaply from the supermarket.




Then take the rear assembly and glue it to the rear, just behind the driver seat, along the centreline.



Step 5
Finishing the Chassis

Add the handlebars, and then you will need to cut up, and then trim parts out of the front fairing before reassembling them to make a much smaller fairing than mounted on normal bikes. I think the untrimmed fairing looks a bit silly on the ATV.



Add a burst cannon barrel to each side to act as rear shocks



I decided against adding any bolters as I couldn’t decide where exactly they should go.

Add the 4 tyres and the base chassis is complete



Step 6
Multi Melta + Rider

For this you will need;

1x Plastic multi melta
1x Tau Burst cannon
1x SM hunter killer missile launcher
1x Sm search light

Cut the ammo hopper and gun barrels off the burst cannon. and glue onto rear of the bike. Glue the missile launcher section of the HK onto the top of it as shown to act as a gun mount



Glue the ammo hopper and back of the search light to the Multi Melta



Once dry, glue this to the gun mount, and attach the targeter to the opposite side, use one of the burst cannon barrels to act as a supporting strut




Add a rider of your choice, and put the whole thing on a suitably sized base




Step 7
Painting

WIP

Coments, tips, critiques, please

I am very impressed. Is there maybe a way to bulk it up a bit? It just doesn't seem..Amoured enough? For space marines.

I like it,

If I played space marines, I would try to use these as bikes, because I think they look better.

Maybe let the rider be carrying a bolter, but thats just a guess

two wrist mounted bolters XD

This is great.

Finally got round to adding a MM to the bike. I'm not entirely happy with it but it will do for a first effort

The bike as a whole could probably benefit from mud guards to bulk it out a bit, but overall i'm happy with the finished model, now just have to paint it