Night Lords Bikes

(I posted up these bad boys in another page but am changing things around so that people can see the end results of my models in a dedicated page to the army that I am collecting.)

I bought the Dark Vengeance box set a while back as I loved the look of the chaos models and I wanted to be able to use most of the models for an army. I wanted chaos bikers for my army and had to come up with a nifty way to convert the Ravenwing bikes into a Chaos Space Marine Biker. So first off I removed all the stinking Dark Angel heraldry from the bikes, the heads and shoulder pads with my trusty knife. At no point did the knife slip and went into my finger. Honest.

Then to cover up the scratch marks on the fuel tanker on the bike I sculpted a rib cage onto it (make it more chaosy) along with spikes/ body parts/ mini face to the front of the wheel. To get rid of the wings from the front of the bike I decided to cover them up with green stuff and then extending the front with plasticard, reinforcing it with green stuff. After that I began making the bat wings staring with the ridges for the wings, making a base outline first and, after drying, added more to any crevices that were missed. Green stuff was then added in between the wings, using the sculpting tool to gently scratch it to give it an organic look.

Here are the final results below:

If Huron Blackheart was a Night Lord...

Its been a while since I've added anything. I'm a lazy painter so it takes a while to get things done. That and real life stuff hasn't helped so yeah I apologise to all you diehard fans who have been waiting in anticipation.

For 6th edition Chaos Space Marines Codex there aren't many options for a fluffy list dedicated to a specific legion especially for a Night Lords player like me. Not going to debate about the whole thing because its all been said before on various message boards as people bitch about GW's questionable decisions. Anyway I digress. In order to try and simulate the feel of an army that employs swift terror tactics and ambushes its prey, I decided to take Huron Blackheart as a HQ choice to lead my band of traitors. I haven't done so because he's got some funky equipment and special rules (power claw, power axe, heavy flamer, psyker, etc), that was a plus side. I took him because of what he brings to the army and that is the Warlord trait: Infiltration. I could have D3 units infiltrate and flank my opponent so that I can pick important targets to fuck with. The only downside is that Huron does have to infiltrate special rule and counts as a unit... :/ so I have to hope that I roll at least 3+ on the die in order to get him and a unit to get their sneak on. Anyway I have the model painted and converted to Night Lords standards which was very simple to do, I simply had to replace the head.  Here he is in all his unholy splendour!

I am chuffed about the way the armour came out on him. The only real problem I have noticed is the wings and eyes. I think I will need to highlight them a brighter colour to bring them out a bit as they seem too dark for my liking.