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So, I decided to do a new warboss on a bike... I want it to be a looted bike, and tournament legal so it has to be a larger bike and GW models onlt. I plan on chopping up an AoBR warboss to put on it. I did this already before, but on a regular ork bike and he looks like he's riding a little grot's training moped... he needs something bigger, was thinking about an eldar vyper jetbike... or would that be to large? I've never seen one so don't know the size. I'd be open for suggestions on any other bikes that you think would work for an ork warboss as well

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note it will likely also stand in as wazzdakka

Have a look at the wartrakk model - yes it's ancient and underdetailed, but it's relatively easy to:
- throw away the horrible driver and gunner - not even useful as bits
- put most of the rear section in your bits box
- keep and superdetail the bikey front
- stick the back tracks together and build a new seat, mudguard etc to go on top - or replace the tracks with a spare trukk/BW wheel (in which the whole original back section including tracks makes a fabulous conversion base for grot tanks etc)

Or simpler and cheaper - just loot a Chaos bike

I converted Deffkopta into a bike for the AOBR boss and it looks pretty good imo.

The Vyper might be hard to make look good as it is kind of big

I think your best bet would be to A) either do what Clang said. or B) go with the AOBR deffkopta.

I liek the wartraxx idea actually i like it alot... not looted but i guess a warboss would commission a custom bike! thanks clang

OK, so I bought the wartraxx and I like it. however I need some thought on modeling it.

I have 3 options 2 I mocked up, the 3rd is pretty easy to imagine.

first I added a grot driver ... a little Chaucer for the warboss, I wanted the warboss behind him on the bike... but it came out a little rape-ey .

there are 3 options 1st is warboss on the back behind the dakkagun ready to pk stuff

2nd is warboss behind the grot on the bike despite the little bit rape-ey vibe

3rd is a warboss on the back liek the first but put the origional rider behind the grot which is far enough away since the regular ork boy is small enough that he sits lower and looks like the gretchin is just standing on the tanks

option 1



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options 2

I did a very similar conversion to this awhile back:

I liek the rollbar ya did.. I might could so that with actual metal . thoguh if I do that pose I'll keep the origional gun mount for the dakkagun

Id say if your going with the idea your kicking around, keep the boss standing on the back. The 2nd idea, he is riding bitch, which no self respecting boss would do
So staying with that idea, you need to do some reposing to make the boss seem a bit more dynamic. Look at CT's boss, notice how he is sideways, and his head is crooked and all that, those are very simple, yet very effective ways to make the boss seem more dynamic. The way yours is right now, he is static. Not to mention if youve ever road in the back of a truck, youll know that you simply cannot stand that way, or youll just fall over. That and surfers are cool looking

Some ideas to help your boss some more. Something Ive done more then a few times is cut OFF the TL shoota the boss has, glue a "handle" to it, and sling it around his back with some wire. It looks pretty cool, frees up his hand for either another weapon or just something else, and its still WYSIWYG because the weapon is still on the model somewhere. It also allows you to repose the arm if you wish. That helps make the model not static, OR allows you to d what I did when I made my biker boss (though I took him apart and remodeled him differently off the bike) you can cut off the fist, reposition it to hold the handle bars, and presto, hes actually driving the bike. All those you can do with no GS (because I never use the stuff as I suck at it ) If you repose the arm for it to be cooler looking, any shoulder work you do you can hide under some cool shoulder pad.

Heres some picks/help on how I made my bike, incase you want to go back with that idea

Firstly the size


As you can see its a good fit, I find its alot easier to get the size down right if you use a bunch of scrap parts and kindda build it to fit the boss. This biker boss was huge and would dwarf a normal biker boy.


What I did was cut a Chaos bike (A SM bike would work as well, dunno about Eldar stuff, but again, if you hack em up and use your imagination you can tailor it to fit) up, chopped off the rear fenders, and everything infront of the gas tank. Then split it down the middle and added some plasticard in the middle to make it wider. This is one of those steps you actually stick the parts under the bosses legs and use your eye to see how wide it needs to get. The rest is obvious Orkifying, building out the rest of the bike.

What ever step you use, Ill keep an eye on your thread, as I love seeing what people come up with for biker bosses. The chance to make a really cool mini are pretty good. Good luck, cant wait to see where you progress

yea, it is a mock up, I has planned to hack saw the warboss in half an try to have him in the bed of the wartraxx. having grown up in the south I know exactly what happens when you try and ride in a truck bed that way... you end up having a bad day and in the mud instead of on top of it.

also agreed on the grot thing, the warboss should not be riding bitch... the idea wwas the grot is supposedly handling the gun because the warboss is smart enough to know he's better at it than most his boyz (with a whopping BS of 3!... obviously fluff purposes only though as the model will have bs2 per the profile) but the model is for when in close combat when the warboss barks driving orders at the grot and gets in the back for clobbering time .

I liek your bike though, I can see a warboss riding a big hoss with a V8 rediculously oversize exhaust for loudness and the deffkopta blades look great as extenders for that big ole red engine.

finally finished and got around to taking pics

thanks for the help guys

I know it's kind of thread necromancy, but I promised g00fy to post my biker warboss once I'm done painting. As you can probably tell, I'm not exactly a fast painter

As my camera sucks I only managed to get one half-decent photo out of about thirty (I guess bloodaxe camouflage works against the camera software), so here you go:

Warboss Dakkan Laughs-All-Da-Time and his trusty gang "Da Hyenas" (click for larger image)



He is riding a chaos bike, improved with bits from an ork bike and stretched by about 1/8 inch with greenstuff so he could fit on in the first place.