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Here's a nearly complete prototype Eldar Windrider jetbike that I've assembled. It's bashed from four different kits.

It needs some greenstuff in his knee but is otherwise ready for paint. The rider is magnetized so that I can swap him out for a far seer/warlock as needed.

What do you think?

Looks pretty cool, and certainly fixes the problem with the GW Jetbikes. All I would say is that you need something balancing at the back, maybe a fin or some cowling?

Well the thing with eldar jetbikes is that current models suck and kitbashing skyrockets the cost of the model. I am looking at third party jetbikes from Russia and I have found some pretty amazing models .

Love the kit bash got a lovely long sleek feel to it. You used a normal guardian as the rider?

im currently trying to workout a way to model Winged units as jet bikes, the largest problem im having is trying to cover the difference in size. I have them in a horizontal prone position but still rather small.

I started off going for a more horizontal rider similar to the DE position but didn't want to use DE parts for the rider. I also figured that since the are guardian he bikes that the rider should at least have the guardian head to maintain the guardian feel. Legs ended up being an issue so I found a way to mold in the eldar handlebars after I saw that the wind rider legs fit perfectly on the DE seat. Windrider arms match the handlebars so they stayed but the rest of the ghastly wind rider body is gone. guardian head obviously but the torso is actually from a dire avenger. Similar enough to still look guardianish but a lot cheaper to get than guardian torsos. It also gibes it a lighter feel which made sense to me since they are basically the air force version of guardians. finally the whole thing is GW plastic so use able outside of friendly games which is nice. It was also a challenge to puzzle the whole thing together which was a lot of fun! But yeah, at what amounts toa $30+ model it did get pricey. But I think the end result is worth it. I'll post pics again when the army is done. There'll be 12 as least =-)

I personally like the existing jetbike asa chassis, just not the horribly aging model. For my conversions I just used the cheapest Guardian torsos and heads I could get and used the original legs and arms. I just dremeled a depression into the wait connection of the legs to accept the ball of the torso, and then greenstuffed in the shoulder sockets of the torso to be flat to mate with the existing arms- except for where I wanted to use the modern Dire Avengers Exarch sword/spear arms for a Warlock/Farseer with Singing Spear or Witchblade.

About all you have to do then is remove a tiny bit of material from either the seat back or the back of the guardian armor, because the assembled figure is too "long" to fit the seat after assembling.