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I'm building a Painboy on a Bike. However, because the Ork Warbikers kit is so expensive ($14 per bike), and the Warbike becomes a major modeling element making it slightly harder to spot the painboy at a glance, I wanted to put the painboy on some other mode of transportation.

I was wondering if anyone had tried this or if anyone had some recommendation of where to find the substitute warbikes.

If I like it, I'll put a Big Mek with a KFF on something similar

I'd love to see a painboy on a Segway.

Gigantic roller skates!
Grot-driven ambulance?

Sadly google does not reveal either. :(

Some kind of suborned Tyranid monstrosity? A Ravener perhaps? Its a painboy after all, what use is mekanikal gubbinz to such as he!

Have you considered a cyboar?
Half beast, half machine, all awesome.

Back in the olden days, GW did a huge choice of character 'legs' including a motor-unicycle, which with an ork torso on top seems a great way to represent a painboy who's replaced his own legs to go faster. Something like that would be pretty easy to scratch-build.

Or if you want to mimic the shape of a bike more, perhaps a single low section of track and say 3 roadwheels, like on the back of a snow-ski. (Especially if you can find GW's old IG tank wheels and tracks sprue bits.)

Or go organic: either him riding some odd creature which he's captured and tamed (perhaps surgically), or he's surgically attached his upper half to e.g. a boar or giant spider or wolf, creating a centaur-style chimera.

Take an attack bike, make the Painboy ride on it, and a Grot drives...

pop him on something crazy like.... riding a Bloodcrusher of Khorne, just liker i d


http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/510757-ork%20mad%20doc%20biker.html?m=2

Go nuts , have fun , after all that's what orks are all about..

A pain boy on a Mad Max style Fisher - Price Big Wheel

Use a wartrakk. The painboy drives, and the patient lies down in the back between the treads. The orderlies can fit in there too!

How about some monowheels?

http://bitsofwar.com/home/6-orc-monowheels.html


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Da Butcha wrote:
Use a wartrakk. The painboy drives, and the patient lies down in the back between the treads. The orderlies can fit in there too!

YES!!! DIS 'ERE!

Have you seen the Cambulance?
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/606998-Bad%20Moons%2C%20Cambulance%2C%20Nob%20Bike%2C%20Orks%2C%20Pain%20Boy%2C%20Warhammer%2040%2C000.html

 goblinzz wrote:
How about some monowheels?

http://bitsofwar.com/home/6-orc-monowheels.html

This is exactly what I was looking for. In fact, I like it so much I think I might make a whole squad of 15 mono-wheel warbikers if it is the correct size.

tag8833 wrote:

 goblinzz wrote:
How about some monowheels?

http://bitsofwar.com/home/6-orc-monowheels.html

This is exactly what I was looking for. In fact, I like it so much I think I might make a whole squad of 15 mono-wheel warbikers if it is the correct size.

Always happy to help!

PS Kromlech are super cool, I always get a little surprise free extra in my order, like a cool head or something!