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Jet Bike Conversion
This is another of my "gritty-realism grungy sci-fi" style space marines. I had to mess with the contrast and brightness settings to get the detail to show up, so the color is slightly off. My Crimson Fist marines are actually blue, though a very military grey shade of it. I never liked the "Judge Dredd" style tires of the plastic space marine bikes, so I took inspriration from the "Mark XIV Bullock" jet bikes that came out around the time of the original Rogue Trader. Plus I think jet bikes are cooler than big wheels anyway. The conversion is pretty simple. The rear wheel has been replaced with an engine made from a piece of plastic tube and the searchlight front from the imperial accessories sprue - it makes a nice engine nozzle. All the tailpipes had nozzles added that I cut from heavy flamer nozzles. The front has a cruel blade fashioned from thick plasticard, and I relocated the bolters from the handlebars to the side of the former wheel housing. I filled the hole where the tire used to be with a piece of plasticard with ridges on it to look like an intake. Airbrushed in the same manner as my Space Marine (described under that entry), and suitably weathered, my jetbike is ready to sit on the shelf and wait for me to get around to building the rest of the squad.
Posted: 30 Apr 2002
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