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One hand for the bike, one hand for the gun. Although some of them are the old metal torsos from the depths of time.

Parts are from my bits box, probably a tac squad. Magnetized at the wrist.

 Vash108 wrote:
Just to clarify the bolters on the bikes themselves never get replaced. It is always the Marine holding the weapon, correct?

While there might be some debate, yes. The marine is the one that swaps out his gear for the special.

At least for vanilla codex marines. I’m pretty sure Chaos does it different, and am not sure about the DA ravenwing. (Although that’s a little redundant. )

 Marmatag wrote:
A C:SM special weapon biker doesn't lose his boltguns, he gets the special in addition to it.

So if you removed them from your model and placed the special in that spot, RAW he would still have the boltguns.

There's 2 sides to it I suppose. WYSIWYG you should be fine from a tournament standpoint as long as the special weapon is physically on the model, right? So gluing it to his back would be permissible? And, the other side, is that even if the boltguns are removed, from a tournament standpoint he still has the boltgun. Like if i don't put frag/krak grenades on a marine, it isn't an option, he has them, no matter what.

Generally WYSWYG does not apply to stock gear. So you don’t need to put all the grenades, bolt pistols, etc on every member of the squad. But if I look at a bike squad on the table, I should be able to match the minis with the “3 man bike squad, 2 meltaguns, c-melta on the sarge” that’s written down on your army roster.

If you wanted to remove one of the bolters and replace it with a melta, I’d still get the point. Although from a strictly WYSWYG POV, it would be slightly off, as the TL bolters on the bike are no longer present. You could just stick a spare bolter on the back of the bike I guess. I suspect that most TOs/players would be fine with it though. He’s obviously a SM biker, with the stock gear, plus a melta.

The safest WYSWYG option is to leave the bike intact, and add the spare special gun somewhere on the model. Either in hand, or attached somewhere to the bike. But frankly it’s such a minor point, most options fall under the Rule of Cool and wound be fine on the table.