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Description Here is my three birds with one stone project

I play a game called Deathrace. It's a fun version of 40K where you use a single racer, and try to finish alive.
and I race a lot. He recently made a truly awesome tau monowheel, and It inspired me to build a new bike of my own.

This mini is my new IG deathrace bike. It's ridden by Sgt. Richard Wigglebottom. He is from my 40K IG army. He orders members of his squad to come watch him race (and take shots at the other racers from the sidelines.) Hence the two Cadian models in the photo. During the game, it's likely your rider will end up on foot, so you need a suitable mini to represent the dismounted racer. That's why there is such a striking similarity between the biker, and the guy in the hat.

The three birds were: 1) Getting my prototype biker built (I'm thinking of making a unit of rough riders.) 2) Testing the color scheme for the regulars in my IG army. 3) Building a new Sargent with plasma/power weapon for the 40K army.

Enjoy,
-Fisher
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Comments: 41

Instabula92 [2012-07-18 16:29:36 +0000 UTC]

Did you sculp that awesome Trenchcoat? It's looking quite good as the whole biker-concept does.

Would you mind if I'd take this pictures in the "Codex: Imperial Cavalry" which I'm currently writing. Of course you would be credited and shown the final codex!

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cbomb13 In reply to Instabula92 [2012-07-23 09:12:08 +0000 UTC]

The trench-coat was from an Empire militia box. Feel free to use the credited image. Thanks for checking.

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Layllowggann [2010-11-06 15:29:40 +0000 UTC]

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE IT !
For sure, you've got real good ideas for moral and good-looking things !

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Kukow [2010-05-09 17:23:26 +0000 UTC]

Wow looks awesome! Great paintjob!

Which models are the bikes? I tried this with 1:32 BMW WWII Bikes and thought they were too big...

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cbomb13 In reply to Kukow [2010-05-10 02:27:00 +0000 UTC]

1/35 Tamiya BMW. Great minds think alike I guess

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Kukow In reply to cbomb13 [2010-05-10 03:34:17 +0000 UTC]

XD OK - thanks! Did you shorten the Bike?

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cbomb13 In reply to Kukow [2010-05-10 15:10:08 +0000 UTC]

no, it's just the stock kit.

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Suturinj4l [2010-01-29 22:53:16 +0000 UTC]

Amazing! The whole Model! hmm very interesting this Deathrace ... I've to do alsow a model but a car like in the movie

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cbomb13 In reply to Suturinj4l [2010-01-30 06:40:49 +0000 UTC]

We're in the process of making rules for an all vehicle death race now. It will be fun, I plan to loot a monolith

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Suturinj4l In reply to cbomb13 [2010-01-30 13:37:56 +0000 UTC]

Nice, so it will be the sum of Death Race the Movie (cool cars, sweet girls and some Dakka-Dakka-Guns) and Motorstorm 40'000 (pacific Rift) where you have everything from Motorcycle to quad, buggy, rally, car, monstertruck, tanks, blabla

I've something in mind like KΓΌbelwagen and Death Korps of Krieg

I'm looking forward to see the new rules

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cbomb13 In reply to Suturinj4l [2010-01-30 14:56:39 +0000 UTC]

You've got the idea. Once they're done, I'll post a link to them

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Suturinj4l In reply to cbomb13 [2010-01-30 15:27:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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SawStudios [2010-01-22 04:32:24 +0000 UTC]

nice conversion!

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cbomb13 In reply to SawStudios [2010-01-22 17:43:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Alexei-Yaruk [2010-01-20 21:47:31 +0000 UTC]

You know I always wondered why the IG didn't have bikes, never made sense to me. Glad to see that they in fact DO, they have just all been tricked out for raceing by the officers. And you just know how much that must piss off the Ad Mech... Which is why they wont give them any more!

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cbomb13 In reply to Alexei-Yaruk [2010-01-21 15:47:15 +0000 UTC]

Lol, Thanks for the Fave!
Yeah he risks court marshal, and likely execution every time he takes it off base. That's the real reason he brings a few squaddies to every race. Never leave home without the fall guys.

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RogueofAsgard [2009-12-13 02:19:39 +0000 UTC]

yyeah deathrace!! dripdrop and squidge would find your ig man tasty tasty. omnomnomnomnom! nicely done, fish.

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cbomb13 In reply to RogueofAsgard [2009-12-15 15:22:58 +0000 UTC]

He might be tasty, but that plasma will require a whole heap of antacid
Thanks

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RogueofAsgard In reply to cbomb13 [2009-12-15 17:08:56 +0000 UTC]

i too, has a plasma. ....ooooh, scared now? a grot and a gaunt with plasma guns? i can see that you're terrified...

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Durnstaros [2009-12-12 15:49:43 +0000 UTC]

Nice, been wondering how you'd make a good IG biker. The only thing sticking out is the ammo boxes on the front wheel, looks a tad too clumsy

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cbomb13 In reply to Durnstaros [2009-12-15 15:21:47 +0000 UTC]

This guy's middle name is clumsy
Thanks for the comment
I actually tried a few different load outs for the bike. They all looked too much like a space marine bike. This one is a bit awkward, but I wanted it to look like he just welded some bolters on and took off.

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Dible [2009-11-18 15:12:41 +0000 UTC]

nice 1. their is the art of a hobbyist.

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paelkeizah [2009-11-17 15:56:29 +0000 UTC]

they used to have a guide where you could make a model similar to this outta GW bitz then they removed it got job finding a suitable replacement fits guard very well

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cbomb13 In reply to paelkeizah [2009-11-17 16:08:43 +0000 UTC]

I would've loved to see that. Thanks

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Acrux85 [2009-11-17 12:11:22 +0000 UTC]

That came out great. Some empire militia bits in there too I see. Everything works really well together.

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cbomb13 In reply to Acrux85 [2009-11-17 14:49:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Jim One of these days you need to build a bike. We raced like four times Saturday night, it was a riot! FTR-This guy blew himself up with the plasma every race lol.

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Lauinav [2009-11-17 11:01:17 +0000 UTC]

Nice job mate.

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cbomb13 In reply to Lauinav [2009-11-17 14:50:41 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Irabrai [2009-11-17 10:24:44 +0000 UTC]

I'm gonna get me one of those bikes. Where can i get one

Love it, absolutely love it.

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cbomb13 In reply to Irabrai [2009-11-17 14:52:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!
It's a Tamiya kit. I threw out the box, but any 1/35th scale motorcycle should work

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Irabrai In reply to cbomb13 [2009-11-17 15:44:24 +0000 UTC]

Love it. gonna look into it.

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willy238 [2009-11-17 04:18:05 +0000 UTC]

Ha! That is so cool! I've seen a couple other IG biker conversions that just use SM bikes, but this is much more fitting.

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cbomb13 In reply to willy238 [2009-11-17 14:54:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks bud!
I thought about using the scout bike model, but it still looked a bit to "beefy" for IG. I wanted something with dainty little spoked wheels lol.

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thalon-mercrow [2009-11-17 03:48:06 +0000 UTC]

nice!

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cbomb13 In reply to thalon-mercrow [2009-11-17 14:54:31 +0000 UTC]

Thanks you

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thalon-mercrow In reply to cbomb13 [2009-11-17 17:06:31 +0000 UTC]

velcome!

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Fantasyartrocks21 [2009-11-17 01:38:00 +0000 UTC]

What did you use for the wheels on the bike??

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cbomb13 In reply to Fantasyartrocks21 [2009-11-17 01:40:26 +0000 UTC]

The whole bike is a 1/35th Tamiya WW2 german motorcycle, with some warhammer bits added to it.

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Fantasyartrocks21 In reply to cbomb13 [2009-11-17 01:42:59 +0000 UTC]

Aaaah i c awesome....and hmmm how does Death Race work this looks like something me and friends could get into when playing normal warhammer gets boring and it sounds fun XD

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cbomb13 In reply to Fantasyartrocks21 [2009-11-17 01:56:05 +0000 UTC]

It's awesome! Your bike moves 4x its gear in inches (gear is marked by a d6 1-6) To perform an action like: Turn 45 degrees, Shoot a weapon, or come off a ramp, you must roll one die, and make a skill check (roll your current gear or higher.) if you pass you perform the action, if you fail you loose control, and roll on the loss of control chart. There is a packet of rules you can download here [link] but you'll have to join the forum (it's a local club forum. It's free and they're good guys.) Too many rules to type out You should try it though I bet you'll like it.

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Fantasyartrocks21 In reply to cbomb13 [2009-11-17 01:58:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanx man sounds awesome!!

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