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Stupendously awesome! Like I said, the best part has to be that you took all these parts from different manufacturers and seemingly effortlessly turned them into something very much your own!

What's that model in front of the truck in the third picture from the top? Looks great! Can we get a closeup?

 KrautScientist wrote:
Stupendously awesome! Like I said, the best part has to be that you took all these parts from different manufacturers and seemingly effortlessly turned them into something very much your own!

What's that model in front of the truck in the third picture from the top? Looks great! Can we get a closeup?

Thanks. He's the road warrior mini from EM-4. I did modify his right arm to hold a las rifle. Great price at about $3.00. Check out the rest of their miniature line, most are pretty good.
http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/REBELS.html

Thanks a lot for both the image and link, Brushfire! That is indeed a lovely model!

Fifth Ash Waste Biker Raider completed. Renee Grenade and Boomstick McGee.



The Necromunda Biker Raider gang to date

Great conversions they could come straight from Dark Future Tabletop game or Mad max!

You credited the one bike as being made from the Tamiya kit. With the exception of the one that is obviously made from the Space Marine bike pieces, are the others all made from Tamiya models? I really like the thin wheels and frames on these, and might use them myself for a project in the future.

 Jimsolo wrote:
You credited the one bike as being made from the Tamiya kit. With the exception of the one that is obviously made from the Space Marine bike pieces, are the others all made from Tamiya models? I really like the thin wheels and frames on these, and might use them myself for a project in the future.

Yes. Both the single rider and the side car BMW are Tamiya kits. Besides the bikes, there is some nice bits in the kits, especially in the BMW sidecar one. Saddle bags, blanket/tarp rolls, and the 1/35 scale hands from the soldiers are close fit for GW figs if you need some different hands styles for kit bashing.

If you don't find a good price on eBay or elsewhere, try Jimnohio.com. He deals in model kits and has a Tamiya BMW sidecar kit for $10.50 plus shipping.
If you don't need the sidecar, the bike is still the same as the other single riders ones, if you leave it off.
http://www.jimnohio.com/tanks.html


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 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Great conversions they could come straight from Dark Future Tabletop game or Mad max!

Thanks. Hows the 40K hobby in Japan? Is it popular?

I envy all the neat models you have over there. A modeler's and kit basher's dream.

Meet Biker Big Head Ted, brother of Big Head Red.

Crikey this gang look fantastic.

I agree with Peter! Maybe Gorkamorka would be worth another look, with a different focus -- less Orcs, more mutants, crazy cultists and Mad Max-style warbands like yours

Pure awesomeness!
Love every bit of the bikers and vehicles!
Subbed.

Meet Bullit McQueen

Terrain explosion made from polyester batting, a flickering tea light, and a flashing red light with exploding sound effect removed from a electronic toy tank.

Push the button and it goes Ker-BASSH!!!![

The Big Head Clan is a hitherto unknown race recently discovered in the Necromunda Underhive. Speculation by Imperial anthropologists suggest the Bigheads, with their stooped posture and large heads, are an evolutionary throwback to the Cro-Magnon period of Ancient Terra. Big Heads are deceptively intelligent, cunning, and obsessed of all things archotech. However, unlike the Van Saar gang , they rarely utilize hi-tech they find, preferring to store it in safe keeping for viewing only. Big Heads are known for their ill-temper, greediness, vindictiveness when crossed, and being extremely stingy. Their few virtues include incredible stamina, keeping oaths, and extreme loyalty to the Clan and what few friends they occasionally make outside the Clan.



Big Head Patriarch Zed, Big Head Fred, and Big Head Red.

Ash Waste Biker #8



Necromunda Guild Convoy Truck #2

Ridiculously cool, no idea how you churn this stuff out so quickly. I really like your 80s action movie take on things. I'd really like to see these vehicles in a convoy on some cool scenery. Oh and the guilder caravan would work great for the necromunda caravan raid (remade version) scenario - it drives slowly across the board and a gang springs an ambush on it.

By the way flamers in the Ash Wastes fire in a random direction (due to extreme winds) making them a pretty hilarious weapon to try and kill stuff with.

 Bruticus wrote:
Ridiculously cool, no idea how you churn this stuff out so quickly. I really like your 80s action movie take on things. I'd really like to see these vehicles in a convoy on some cool scenery. Oh and the guilder caravan would work great for the necromunda caravan raid (remade version) scenario - it drives slowly across the board and a gang springs an ambush on it.

By the way flamers in the Ash Wastes fire in a random direction (due to extreme winds) making them a pretty hilarious weapon to try and kill stuff with.

Thanks. That's why the flamer biker is outfitted with IG Sentinel body armor, to deal with "blowback"

Mamzel Helen Wheels:

This is something special!

I always wonder whether you'll be able to surpass the last piece you posted, and you always do. Fantastic work!

Reminds me of a certain cutscene in Metal Gear Solid 3, btw

 KrautScientist wrote:
I always wonder whether you'll be able to surpass the last piece you posted, and you always do. Fantastic work!

Reminds me of a certain cutscene in Metal Gear Solid 3, btw

Thanks! I looked it up, and what do you know, Eva drives a BMW too!

This was my original inspiration for the Helen Wheels pose:

Introducing Mamzel Mayhem and her Bedlam Buggy of wretched scum and villainy.

Haha, that's a full gang on there. You should just not count them as gangers and only use them as ablative armour.

The model is great by the way, I love how you are just having a lot of fun with your gang. Can I see another angle, that guy on the back with the pistol looks like a cool conversion.

Do you have any scenery? It'd be cool to see them in some photoshoots.

 Bruticus wrote:
Haha, that's a full gang on there. You should just not count them as gangers and only use them as ablative armour.

The model is great by the way, I love how you are just having a lot of fun with your gang. Can I see another angle, that guy on the back with the pistol looks like a cool conversion.

Do you have any scenery? It'd be cool to see them in some photoshoots.

Thanks! Yeah, I went a bit overboard piling on the bodies. Kinda like a clown car at a circus.
The fellow you refer to is a Kings of War Ghoul with an IG carbine, as well as the one in the back with the goggles and chainsaw, but with a GW ghoul head instead.

Check out my Gallery page--I have some terrain photos you might like.

Here's a simple trick to use tea light parts for special effects on miniature bases. The smallest base for this to work must be at least 40mm.

We start with your basic tea light:



Remove the battery.



Pop the bottom of the tea light from the top part. It's not hard to do.



Remove the bulb from the base. It should have two wires. For the blub to glow, one wire must come in contact with the
top of the battery, and the other must make contact with the edge of the battery. Mess around a bit, you'll see how it works.
The wires on mine bend easy and are pretty strong. But don't over-do bending them.



Cut/Drill a hole in at least a 40mm size base. The blub should just pop right in.



Here's where it gets tricky. On the bottom side of the base, you must cut a slot for the one wire to come in contact with the battery top.
If you don't, the wire thickness will make the battery stick out beneath the base, making the base lopsided. Remove any hole rings to
make room for the battery. Put some fun tack so the battery will stick to bottom of base. You don't want to glue the battery, because then you
cannot remove battery to turn the light off, or replace the battery when it wears out. If some one can find a way to fit an on/off switch in a 40mm base, let me know!



Here's what it should look like--This is my prototype, so it's kinda messy, but hey, it works.



And here's one example of what you can do with adding tea lights to your miniatures.






The barrel comes from a Tamiya 1/35 German WW2 accessories set. Which is way better and cheaper than the GW barrels. These barrels allow you to have an open top.
I painted the inside of the barrel yellow to increase the brightness, and added a wisp of polyester batting for smoke.

NOTE: If the light does not come on when you first put the battery in the base, it usually will once the base is put down on the table and the
weight of the base pushes down on the battery to make a connection. Wonky, I know. I sure somebody can come up with a more elegant version
of this than me, but all in all, its a cheap trick that works.

Rambling thoughts......

Now I'm sure one could use a smaller battery, but for the price of a cheap tea light that comes with a battery already, this is a trick anyone can afford.

Other ideas I have thought about include a light source under a mesh floor. Or a burning fire from a smashed Dreadnought.

 Brushfire wrote:
Meet Bullit McQueen

Terrain explosion made from polyester batting, a flickering tea light, and a flashing red light with exploding sound effect removed from a electronic toy tank.

Push the button and it goes Ker-BASSH!!!![

Bullit McQueen - outstanding!



The rest of your bikey gang are great too, and the tea light idea is a great concept.

Added another member to my Necromunda Big Head gang. This is Ked, with his flamer. Beside him is a Grem, a halfing underhive denizen