I never liked the standard Eldar jetbike and its Harley Davidson look. Searching on-line for some alternative designs I found this nice
tutorial: using some bits from the old Dark Eldar jetbike you could came up with this pretty cool bike:
I have around a dozen of this bikes build and I will use them for my Guardians jetbikes.
When the new Dark Eldar jetbikes came out I begin to worry if I could use the new bits to make my bikes so I bought a box to experiment with. As I suspected there is no way to use the new kit in place of the old one.
The Seers Council jetbikesI always wanted to give a different look to the bikes for my Seers Council so I took the new DE kit along with some of the old Harlequins jetbike canopies and mixed the bits around until I came up with a prototype for my new bike:
I assembled the DE jetbike body and steering controls and cut the wing off the footrest bit:
Next, I made two separate boosters from the Eldar jetbike lower body and I've attached them to the DE footrest:
The Harlequins canopy is made of metal, so some pinning is required to attach it to the bike body. I will also have to keep this in mind when I'll design the flying stands (like the ones I make for my tanks) for this bike.
On the "production" models I'll use green stuff to fill the round joint before drilling the hole for the pin to increase the "pinned" volume. The front section of the bike body will be also filled with GS for the same reason.
With the canopy in place the bike turned out too long for my liking so I cut out roughly half of the bike front section:
I also tried to tilt the canopy down to get a better overall look.
This is the bike with a WIP Farseer on board:
At the moment I'm quite pleased with the prototype but I still have some stuffs to work out:
- with the canopy tilted down I can put the shuriken catapults under it. I'm thinking about cutting them in two and placing them on either side of the canopy but I'm not so sure about it
- I need something to fill the void in the upper section of the engine. I could use the same heavy weapon bits I used for the old bike or something completely different but it could not be too height because it would get in the way of the Seers robes ... Any ideas guys?
As always, c&c greatly appreciated!
G