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Hi guys,

This conversion has been created due to pure stupidity.
Today I went to my local GW store to buy a Baal Predator, but it has been out of stock.
So I decided to buy something else. Decision was made because so many people talked about their melta bikes recently. Grabbed a box of Dark Angel bikers because they were cheaper than three normal space marine bikers. Further I was thinking about converting the emblems and such into BA-Bling.

At home I realized that all those people have been talking about ATTACK bikes.... *facepalm*

So I was sitting at my desk... wondering about how stupid I am.
Reading the codex I realized that 2 Attack Bikes would be sufficient for my force... So I decided to slaughter one of the bikers and convert the other to into attack bikes.

Well... Long story cut short.
Here they are. At least the first one.

This was a rediculous amount of work. For me it was the most time consuming conversion since I started the hobby.
It was also my first use of green stuff. Mainly for filling all the gaps.

If anyone is interested I will take pictures building the second one, for a little tutorial.
Just tell me.

Critics and comments are highly appreciated... as allways.

ad.: Foot panel, shoulder pads, backpack and bling will be added before painting. But I ran out of time.










Edit: Fixed the links

Pics aren't showing up for me :[

Shiny...

Ah, there we go! That turned out looking pretty darn awesome, actually. The sidecar looks nice and cozy. Pig Iron heads, right? They work really well!

A tutorial would be pretty awesome.

That is seriously a very reasonable attack bike! what a good job you did! it looks very natural and doesn't appear that it would be out of place in any army! great stuff!

Yap... The heads are from Pig Iron. I really like them. I will use them on my Landspeeder too. And on my Scouts if i ever own some of them. ^^

I love it when I can get extra models out of bits from the same box. This is an especially good example.

I agree... It's great to play around with the stuff and improvise. Although it was not planned this time. ^^

Well still. going from sitting at your desk feeling stupid to having some cool bikes no one else has and feeling like one frugal dude?
BTW, cannot reccommend enough getting some 320 grit sandpaper to smooth away the GS patches. it will take a while to sand, but the end product will be flush with the plastic, and not tear it up at all while you sand the GS down.

yep, I still have to smoothen it out with the sandpaper as you mentioned. But I'm really happy about how simple it is to use green stuff for easy tasks as filling the gaps. Not so sure about how it will be concerning some sculpting. ^^

It's like chewing gum. Before wasting gs try sculpting in gum you've chewed the flavor out of.

Sound bit of converting that. looks whayyyy better than the original kit. well done.

That is a work of awesomeness. You should be well proud of yourself

I think it turned out pretty sweet. Can’t wait to see it all finished up.
I was thinking of doing a squad of quads for my army but haven’t gotten all the bike bits yet. I bought the scout bikes because I like the front fender look better but the marine bike turns out to be a better foundation for my idea.

Keep it up, sometimes a “bad idea” turns out to be the best.

Doomthumbs wrote:It's like chewing gum. Before wasting gs try sculpting in gum you've chewed the flavor out of.

For real?
Because I really don't wanna waste some of my precious GS (although I bought it cheaper from other companies).
If that works it would be great for training purposes.

Btw.: I appreciate your creativity. Although I'm not so into this pr0n stuff. But hey... who am I too judge your flavour.
; )

I created a tutorial if anyone is interested:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/375214.page#2921324

Thanks for the tutorial... if I ever get an attack bike I will remember to look this up again.