Jet Bikes; SotonShades vs Machinator

[Meph]

Great builds so far, mate. And cheers for the lengthy and thorough review, that's very insightful stuff.

[DrLove42]

I suspect it would be very hard to read that book while travelling at high speeds

[SotonShades]

Cheers guys. Also found my camera, so picture time!




Apothecary 'Kick your *** then sew it back together'. May need to think of a catchier name!

As you can see, simple bit swaps, couple of subtle additions. Not much I can say after what I've all ready said.



Company Champion. No his name is not Bane. Well, not yet...

Dunno why I didn't notice this before but this angle does make his right arm look really wierd. I swear it looks better in the flesh. Again, no earth shattering conversions, but I think it works.



Group shot. You might spot that I've added a few pennants and purity seals to the Chaplain's bike. Because why wouldn't you?

[Cpt Codpiece]

they all look sweet the apothecray looks really bad donkey.

the champions power sword... im not sure if i see more phantasy star or more final fantasy, neither are a detrimental to the look though as i love both HAHAHA

its definatly phantasy star
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[SotonShades]

Can you tell what it is yet?




P.s. Photo is purposefully dark and moody.

[Cpt Codpiece]

oh no its jimmy saville in a dark alley

im guessing captains engine block with personal haralry eagle?

[SotonShades]

Good guess, but I have a more firey thing in mind for him! Anyone else? I'm just adding some finishing touches at the moment, so might get some pics up later

[SotonShades]

Ok, not going to wait for anyone else to guess :P



Not exactly your standard standard bearer, but I think quite a sensible approach rather than needing one hand to fight, one hand to hold the standard and one to control the bike!



I've given the pilot a Stormshield, mostly because I found this arm when rummaging through my bits box, but also because it gives me a decent chance of keeping the company banner in the game for longer but will still be able to use him to take some nasty Look Out Sir saves confortably.



I just had to use this head, with the DA symbol removed, somewhere in the squad. I think it possibly my favourite techmarine head I've seen but in this case I think it works quite nicely as a veteran's helmet with the extra lenses for added surroundings awareness.



Speaking of which, I also added this comms/radar equipment to the chin of the bike. If anyone is going to be aware of ambushes or lead the hunt for hidden enemies, it's this guy!

[SotonShades]

so onto the most important part of any banner bearer... the Banner!



I made this out of a triangle made of plasticard that I cut to shape to fit the banner poles from the DA kits (after trimming away the feathers), back scraped the edges to give more of an illusion of the banner being thin and then used our toaster set on the highest setting to soften it to give it some flutter.



Ok quite a lot of flutter! It did take me several heating and cooling cycles do get the kind of shap I wanted. Be careful kids, that plastic gets more than hot enough to burn you. I used metal tongues and held the plastic above the toaster, very aware that if I dropped it in, it would be lost. I pushed the plastic against a wooden chopping board and the metal spokes of our gas hob to bend the plastic, rather than using my fingers. It was tricky to get the curves I was looking for, but better than having to go to A&E with burnt fingers!



Last but not least, obligatory gratuitous group shot, just incase you'd forgotten what they other three looked like and couldn't be bothered to scroll up!

[Cpt Codpiece]

OMG!!!

plasticard and a toaster genius! looks great the unity in the style is really great.