Gaunts as bikes?

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**Kodama**

I was thinking of a cheap alternative to purchasing 10 to 20 chaos bikers.

While I was messing around with my bits box instead of doing homework, I came to the realization that if I slimmed down the inner wall of the legs on a space marine, they fit directly onto a tyranid gaunt.
I was wondering if anyone has any pictures of this done before? or are there any other good affordable alternatives that you know of? thanks in advance.

**Zuul**

Apparently there was a limited release riding lizard for space marines at some point.

**Darth Bob**

Fluff nazis will have your heads.

Frankly, not taking a fluff standpoint, I think it looks quite silly.

**Happygrunt**

Have them ride the close combat ones. That might make it look better.

**Ordo Dakka**

Happygrunt wrote:Have them ride the close combat ones. That might make it look better.

With a bolter in each fist he rides into battle astride he trusty... hormagaunt.

**Absolutionis**

Hold the rest of the Space Marine model over the Gaunt and you'll realize how comedic the whole model may turn out. Any mounts that are noticeably smaller than their riders tends to be goofy.

There's a difference between being realistic and being believable, and Heavy Armored Marines on Termagants is neither of the two.

**JaxnFury**

Don't.

**Flinty**

Just don't forget the huge chopper-like handlebars and the chrome exhaust... or alternatively, avoid

**helgrenze**

Paladin riding a chicken comes to mind.......

**Kubik**

Better gest some wfb horses (chaois knights/marauders) and call them "demon steed" or something. Space Marine on a gaunt looks... well... They already told you

**HamHamLunchbox**

this would be a good option.

i may steal this for my thunderwolf-cav

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/316358.page#1917995

**Clang**

Marine riding a standard gaunt - terrible idea.

Marine riding a weird alien steed made from gaunt bits but not looking like a gaunt - great idea.

**NakedBatBoy**

Flinty wrote:Just don't forget the huge chopper-like handlebars and the chrome exhaust... or alternatively, avoid

LOL, I think you should do it, but ONLY if you include the exhaust and handlebars coming out of the 'Nid.

Otherwise, as Darth Bob said,

Darth Bob wrote:it looks quite silly.

Maybe you could put them on some some toothpicks with short hairs tied to one end to make it look like they were riding witch brooms?

**Leigen_Zero**

I'm sorry but all I can say is some sort of pimp my ride xzibit style comment. e.g. 'yo dawg we put a marine on yo gaunt so you can fight marines against gaunts while yo marine rides a gaunt!'

But alas, I say go for it as a one-off, I mean you've started there is no point not finishing, make it a buckin' bronco objective piece, with a bare headed marine is waving a cowboy hat while holding the reins, but I wouldn't reccommend a squad of them.

**Gitzbitah**

When you're doing conversions, you should always strive to keep the footprint similar. With that in mind, you'll either need to change your base, or possibly mount the marine on a small chariot pulled by gaunts.

Some other options are to convert the Space Marine into a gaunttaur by attaching his torso directly to a gaunt, or picking up some cheap bikes and mounting the marines on them. The cheapest are the party favor bikes. Walmart has 4 packs of these for 3 dollars, or you can use the oriental trading catalog and get 50 or so for 20 dollars. Either way, it will likely look more like a marine biker than the gaunt rider conversion.

On the other hand, if you put a gargoyle on the back of a marine, you'd probably get a mighty fine raptor stand in.