Brainstorming a techmarine biker counts as conversion

[Canadian_F_H]

So I want to build a more mobile mechanized tech marine. Probably on a tracked platform.

 

Counts as tech marine biker.

 

I saw a really cool conversion that had the tech marine standing on/in a tracked vehicle that could bebuilt from something like the lower tracked section of the admech kataphrons or maybe even the tunderfire cannon.

 

Quick question before I get ahead of myself. The techmarine with servo harness and the one with retinue of servitors. They both look quite similar. Are they different models? Or is it the same model with a variety of alternative bits?

[Bung]

They are different, the one wthout servitors doesnt have a helmet and armour is slightly different.

[NovemberIX]

May I recommend Kromlech (I've got one on the way for the same use) to you https://bitsofwar.com/home/734-legionary-engineer-on-breacher-bike.html

 

The three techmarines (single, servitors, thunderfire) are each distinct and separate finecast models that only come with the parts that are pictured with their respective models.

[Canadian_F_H]

I'm looking for something closer to this guy's conversion actually...

 

http://gravengames.co.uk/iron-guard-master-forge-techmarine-conversion-update/

 

You'll have to scroll down a bit.

 

 

Also considered some of the trike and quad bike conversions I've scene... But I love tank tracks... So I don't know. Heh.

 

Not sure how big the kromlech tracked gun platform is either...

 

https://bitsofwar.com/home/613-heavy-weapon-tracked-platform.html

 

This one he'd end up probably just standing on it like a tread head version of a disk of tzench rider. Lol. Might be cool...

[Bung]

Well, if you look at the Kromlech description you get exactly how big it is: 53 mm long, 44 mm wide and 24 mm height.

[Canadian_F_H]

Well, if you look at the Kromlech description you get exactly how big it is: 53 mm long, 44 mm wide and 24 mm height.

 

 

yeah i saw that after.  i would need to settle in next to the techmarine with a ruler, but just going by bases.  a 32mm base is most of the width.  so i'm going to pre-emptively say they probably wont suit my needs.

 

anybody have any Admech kataphrons and some tech marine models handy?  some side by sides would be sweet.  my current brainstorm involves taking 2 kataphrons lower sections and put them end to end some how (like a quad bike but with tracks instead of wheels) and then either build an old SM bike into that as the frame, or build a platfrom to stand a techmarine on instead, so the model can come off and on as needed (id magnetize the model to the base or the vehicle, so i dont have to make room for an entire 32mm base...

[Guest Triszin]

ever though of using the sarcraft scv or a mule as inspiration?

 

 

SCV

 

Mule

 

I think going merging a Mule and a Techmarine biker would be rad

[Canadian_F_H]

Now I have... Uuugh... Well I'm already committed to my current plan. But the SCV and MULE might show up for civilian stuff on a battlefield some day...

 

The SCV is very like the CAT loader from alien aswell which is another good one.

[Lord Raven 19]

Or make a giant floating tagmahta omnisiah (cog skull) and stick him on that

[treadhead]

Hmm looking at that pic of the scv i immediately thought techmarine leviathan dreadnought (i suspect it's the rock grinder combined with the general broad chested, small legged shape) but back on topic

 

I don't have my cam with me currently but i do have a kataphron to hand given the size of it maybe go with a trike arrangement possibly even reversed ?

 

Costly but could look cool

[Canadian_F_H]

I did pick up a box of 3 kataphrons cheap.

 

They are pretty damn big. Much bigger than a bike. So using all 3 to built a trike. Well... I may as well use a tank of some sort... Lol.

 

I think building a bike out of them with a 1 in front of the other arrangement is the best bet. The mode will still be quite a bit bigger than a normal bike...

[Xenith]

Why not have the techies torso on top of the kataphron and have an over the shoulder conversion beamer/other?

[Canadian_F_H]

I had considered that. But I wasn't feeling a double amputee techmarine with tank tracks. Definitely a viable option. I feel it would be really well suited to the "the flesh is weak" crowd. :D

[Aramis K]

With the extra movement, wound and toughness a biker techmarine has similar stats to a techmarine in Inceptor Gravis armour.