Keeping Up With The Tanks: Iron Hands Techmarine on Bike

So in order to keep up with tanks in an Armored Task Force, I decided I needed to make a more mechanized version of a Techmarine. I also dig the idea of a Conversion Beamer, blasting things from afar and staying in the backline with a mobile kiting unit, making the techmarine a dual-purpose unit.

So, here is the finished product, after much kitbashing and converting. I'm pretty happy with the result, and look forward to using it in the future.

Kitbash Corner: Techmarine Bike with Conversion Beamer

I am in the very early stages of kitbashing a Techmarine on a Bike with a Conversion Beamer (duh, I said that in the title, huh?).

This is why it's good to save your extra bits. With enough bits knocking around in my box, I was able to piece together a fairly convincing servo arm and Conversion Beamer. Basically all I did was cut the fins off a rocket and the tip of a Lascannon, and put the rocket shaft in line with the Lascannon barrel. Looks fairly convincing. A few bobs and bits and he was ready to go! I just need to get a good solid coat of primer on it and it'll all look fine.

Here's a few other angles:

I am making up a custom front shield (since the old one is MIA) and filing off the rest of the Ravenwing iconography. After that, it should be pretty much wrapped up!

What's On My Table: 4/16/2016

So I haven't been getting as much done as I would have liked lately. Such is life. But for what I have been getting done, it's coming out pretty well! The devastators above are coming along nicely. I tried to replicate the glowing effect in the grav amps, it's a bit hard to see at a distance but up close it looks pretty nice!

I also kit-bashed a tech marine using mostly parts from the devastator box. It came out fairly well. I also have an apothecary on the way, as well as the rest of a command squad I plan to fill up with grav weapons...

I don't have a picture, as I am still going through it all and cleaning/stripping/organizing, but I got a good deal of Dark Angel bits and ends from a local player that wasn't using them anymore. Included was 2 finecast Belials. One was magnetized, but it looks like only the Lightning claw pair go with it. The other is the sculpt with the sword, but the finecast sword looks like total gak so I will have to find a way to replace it. Probably will pin a plastic powersword blade in it's place. I'd like to make a TH/SS combo variant of Belial, but I don't have any Storm Shields lying around. Also included were a couple snap fit marines missing their bolters (fine by me, I needed some guys to hold grav guns) and a single bike model with a plasmagun. I'll be chopping him up and making a Libarian out of him, most likely.

All in all, I have a good deal of work to do left on my table. I should probably get to it!