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Not really a painting or a modelling question but I didn't know where else to put it.

How do you build nob bikers? Is it one box of warbiker mob and a box of nobs?

And do they require bases?

Thanks in advance guys.

Just buy the warbiker kit and use some space PK's from the boyz sprues or something. And they prolly don't need bases, seeing as how my bikers didn't come with any.

There's a Nob biker in each box of three bikes. Of course, you could get the Black Reach Nobs or boxed set of Nobs and just adapt them to the bikes... the bikes themselves aren't any different. You'll want to make them more imposing than other bikers with horns and gubbinz and such but in the end the bikes are all the same.

Forge World also do some really Nice looking ones as well.

Expensive but they are delicious to look at, as well as being at least 50% bigger than a GW Warbiker.

I'd reccomend the bases, otherwise you'll have to make sure the model is well balanced or it will lean to once side. Also, with the bases you can do more dynamic poses (wheelies and such.)

This is the most important advice you'll ever get when it comes to conversions.

Even if you add Nob bodies to normal Biker, they will still look like.....normal Bikers. Been there, done that.

Either make sure you paint them in a very distinctive colourscheme or add something really unique to the Nobs, like big back-banners or something.
When making any kind of conversion, you absolutly positivly have to make sure your opponent can clearly tell what the models represents.
Remember; your opponent, not you, have to be able to tell what the model is supposed to be.

When making any kind of conversion, you absolutly positivly have to make sure your opponent can clearly tell what the models represents.
Remember; your opponent, not you, have to be able to tell what the model is supposed to be.

I guess in a way you have a point, but really? Why don't you just marry the opponent already if you love them so much?

I'd say yeah, it's something you should keep in mind, but some people are so stupid that they probably wouldn't be able to tell without the unit's name written on the base rim anyway, and more people still are just dicks. What if your conversion doesn't match your opponents view of the fluff or he just flat out refuses to accept it because he doesn't like nob bikers at all, or he thinks you should shell out for the "official" FW model?

I say you should keep your opponents in mind, but don't bend over for them, and if they aren't hardcore jackasses then I doubt there'll ever be a problem with it anyway. What reasonable person refuses to play with conversions? And I don't mean proxies or bs like cardboard cutouts either.

Oh, I forgot..."Make sure you do them my way or else, this is the most important thing anyone on the internet will ever tell you." Personally I don't think that's very good advice. Painting them distinctly or putting hilariously huge banners on the back will certainly help convince people that they're nobs, but there's no rule saying it HAS to be that way, not every nob rides around with a 30 foot pole or flag on the back of their bike, and I'm not even sure what "distinctive colorscheme" means anyway...wouldn't they still be wearing red if they were Evil Sunz nobs? You can paint their armor up nicer, yellow flames or checker patterns maybe, but you can't go too crazy or else they look like they don't even belong in the same army (and you'll take a hit for that if you ever get your army judged in a tournament). And I don't really see what's wrong with putting nobs on regular bikes anyway...they still look like nobs (and there are two bodies in the nob kit that fit pretty decently on regular bikes I've found, if you're going to do that). I mean they work perfectly for a nobs unit when they aren't on bikes, why don't they when they are on them?

You might have a hard time converting their arms to hold on to the handlebars, though.

I used old space marine bikes and put orks on them! I gave them some cool orky weapons too...job done!

I reckon that if a group of boyz killed some space marines on bikes, then they deserve to be given those bikes and become nobz!

Well To be Honest, since regular Warbikers (boyz) cant have big dirty PowerKlaws, its hard to confuse the 2 up

I agree there. I also agree its mostly what YOU like. If your opponent cant comprehend that THIS is a nob biker squad, then kick him/her in the nuts. Make them look nice and proppa.