Biker Warboss

[jamsessionein]

So!

I\'ve been working on this for a while now, but I haven\'t been posting it because I\'ve also been busy with school.

Figure I might share now.

To begin with, I sketched out the rough plan of what I wanted from my boss bike.

With that done, I had an approximate idea of what I wanted out of the bike. Excessive amounts of exhaust pipes, and loads of dakka up front.

First thing to do was to start making the general frame of the bike from the rear forward.

The gas tank is made from some spare resin I had lying around while I was making molds - I just sculpted a negative relief into some clay and used that to make a mold for the shape of the gas tank, which I then sanded down. You could probably do the same thing just by gluing a couple sheets of styrene together and carving.

After this, front forks were made and added:

I obviously had to build the bike downward and fill in an engine, and I did not like the intake I had made. After a bit of head-scratching, I came across Trukk Engine parts in my bitz bins that I put to use...

After this, I went ahead and worked on getting a proper drive chain in place for the rear wheel.

Next was to fill in a little bit more around the engine and add foot platforms for the boss\'s feet to rest on.

Which brings us nearly up to speed. I spent the past day or two just making absolutely ridiculous exhaust pipes for the thing, which I have attached firmly to the side of the vehicle now.

Probably going to do the front wheel guard next, and I need to put a sleeping roll behind the backrest..

And then, of course, there\'s the guns...

Anyway, that\'s all I\'ve got so far. It\'s coming along.

 

[freakinacage]

looking good

 

[Sukigod]

Sweet, sweet stuff there! Keep it up!

 

[Micha]

Wow, those are some serious exhaust pipes! Te whole thing really makes me think of \'ghost rider\', I assume you already thought of that as well.
I´m really looking forward to seing the happy boss who´s going to ride that thing.

 

[DaN]

Get to daa choppaaah

DAMN YOU!!! :cussing:
I wanted to do some choppers for some IG - but this is damn nice

Where\'s Mikey?

 

[mattsterbenz]

This is awesome! Can\'t wait to see progress.

You\'ve got the rusty Ork gears going round in my head now.

*Goes back to plotting evil Orky things*

-Matt

 

[Jericho]

Whoa, that\'s one helluva chopper. I might have to steal some of these ideas if I do Orks, the new starter set is making Bad Moons look tempting

 

[Aliengod3]

This reminds me a conversion I did a while back. I gave my bikes ape hangers, which are really big handle bars. Great work on this conversion it is coming along very well.

Quick question. To make the exhaust pipes did you just heat the tubular plasticard and then bend it into the shape you wanted?

 

[jamsessionein]

Alien: Yeah, I just use my stove and carefully bend it while it\'s soft. Easy to burn yourself, though.

So now that I\'ve finished off my Big Boss project, I wanted to come back and work on this bike a bit more. First thing I decided to do was ditch the front wheel, as it looked too weedy compared to the back, and all of the new plastic ork bikers seem to have a larger front wheel than rear. I assume this is for crashing into enemies with. I grabbed a trukk tire, and with a bit of fiddling, remade the front end. The wider tire gave me more room between the forks to work with, and I discovered I could fit a pair of dakkaguns betwen the front forks, over the wheel. I didn\'t like how they looked at their original length, so I copied the design my big boss had on his fist-gunz and shortened them down. I figure four stubby barrels like that, with a bit of work, can easily represent Wazdakka\'s fancy 4-shot gun.

Obviously, any mold lines will be taken care of. The guns need a fair bit of work on them to be properly integrated into the bike. I think I\'m going to cut off the vents where the spent shells are ejected from the side, and move them to the underneath, so that it would spit the shells down behind the front tire. It also needs an ammo feed, though I am not sure how or where I\'m going to put that yet. I may want to put two ammo drums further up the forks with a belt of bullets feeding into either side.

They look a bit clunky so far because they\'ve not been properly integrated - that\'s the next step. Hopefully, after the addition of extra bitz up on the forks and handlebars, it\'ll look reasonably placed.

Lastly, a very rough draft of what I think the rider will be, with some of the bitz I\'ll be using labelled:

 

[freakinacage]

mouldlines on the guns!!!

also how do you make the exhausts?

 

[sg2009]

i loe your project logs truly inspirational stuff can\'t wait to see this one finished !!


sam

 

[Recoil889]

Read the previous posts.

posted by Aliengod3: \"Quick question. To make the exhaust pipes did you just heat the tubular plasticard and then bend it into the shape you wanted?\"

posted by Jamsessionein:\" Alien: Yeah, I just use my stove and carefully bend it while it\'s soft. Easy to burn yourself, though. \"

posted by Jamsessionein: \"Obviously, any mold lines will be taken care of. The guns need a fair bit of work...\"



Looking good though ein. Have you thought about maybe making the \"saddle bag\" place to put the ammo drums?

 

[jamsessionein]

I\'m not sure where there\'s room, honestly. If I put a saddleback on the back of the bike, it\'s going to be ridiculously wide.

This probably looks strange, but bear with me for a little while and I think I can integrate it a bit better.

I saw a Black Orc drum from fantasy that looked like this and I figured it looked good, so maybe I\'d try and cover the worky bitz up with something similar and not worry about the gun\'s mechanism at all. I will admit it looks a bit strange, but combined with a front wheel guard and enough gubbins (dials, gauges, etc) up by the handlebar area, it\'ll look okay. The tops of the forks are going to be extended for some long-ish handlebars. Maybe not apehangers, but somewhere in between.

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by Recoil889
Read the previous posts.

posted by Aliengod3: \"Quick question. To make the exhaust pipes did you just heat the tubular plasticard and then bend it into the shape you wanted?\"

posted by Jamsessionein:\" Alien: Yeah, I just use my stove and carefully bend it while it\'s soft. Easy to burn yourself, though. \"

posted by Jamsessionein: \"Obviously, any mold lines will be taken care of. The guns need a fair bit of work...\"



Looking good though ein. Have you thought about maybe making the \"saddle bag\" place to put the ammo drums?

rofl thanks. please bear in mind that i posted at 0930 on a sunday morning!! my head was in the shed as i had woken up at 0700 and couldnt get back to sleep. sadly the same thing happened today! ack

 

[Recoil889]

Haha, no biggie, i just thought id summarize for ya :beer:

 

[jamsessionein]

Originally posted by Recoil889
Haha, no biggie, i just thought id summarize for ya :beer:

Thanks as well.

After a couple failed attempts, I ended up with a wheel guard I\'m reasonably happy with that helps make a \'face\' with the styrene around the gun barrels. The whole front end was basically modified from my original concept, but I think it\'s alright. Until a few days ago, the bike was looking far too \'clean\' and smooth to be an ork bike. All the stuff up front helps break that up, though I will have to do some retooling arond the back area to make sure it\'s proper orky.

I still need to flesh out the handlebar area so that the gun looks better - by building up behind it with all sorts of worky dials and stuff for the driver to see, I should be able to make it look okay.