Mech Rough Riders Complete

Please excuse my over indulgence with the photos but I couldn't help myself.  I will probably make another 3-5 of these but that will be further down the road.  I must admit that these bike tested my patience while painting them.  I will consider assembling & painting them in sub-assemblies next time so I can get to some parts easier.

Thanks for looking and feel free to leave comments & criticisms.

Next up on the painting block...Heli Sentinels

The war goes on,

Hessler

Ragnarok & Rough Riders

I refined my design on the armor skirts for the Ragnarok and I'm pleased with how they came out...

And, in case I get tired of the battle damage look, they are magnetized...

I have completed 3 of my mechanized rough riders. As I indicated in a previous post, the hunting lance is represented here by a high-powered spear gun. A fellow blogger suggested this idea and I forgot who...so thanks, whoever you are.

This is my biker version of Mogul Kahn...

Received two more riders today in the mail so they will be armed with meltas and my squad will be complete.

Has anyone ever fielded a full 10-rider squad of these? How do they fare on the battlefield?

C & C is always appreciated.

The war goes on,
Col. Hessler

Ogryn Chimera, Rough Riders, & more

Work has progressed quite well on the Ogryn Chimera, adding a top component to house the turreted multilaser. I also added some crude armor plating and rivets, crude because I suck at working with plasticard. Oh well, practice makes perfect...

My motorized rough riders have received some attention, as well. I have overcome my aversion to the hand held hunting lance with a speargun-style launcher that is mounted on the handlebars. This as easy as drilling out the GL and sticking the end of a lance into it. Simple but effective.

Last but certainly not least, my latest hobby toy arrived in the mail today...

This weekend will be filled with airbrushy goodness, assuming it's not too humid (thank you very much Lake Michigan).


The war goes on,
Hessler

Works In Progress

As I try to strike a balance between building models and painting them, I find it easier to go back and forth between the two. The logic is to feed both sides of the addiction at the same time, therefore keeping them both in check. I have been tempted to adopt the painting points system that many of my fellow bloggers use but I'm not quite there yet.

Rough Riders
I have wanted to do some rough riders on scout bikes for a while but was never quite liking the marriage of motorcycle and hunting lance; at least not the idea of the medieval style lance that is held under the shoulder. What I have come up with seems to be a satisfactory answer but I really would like some feedback. Please let me know what you think of the design. As the title says, it's a work in progress...

Veteran Squad
I have also started another squad of veterans, this time based on the Forge World Veterans upgrade kit. I managed to assemble everyone except the special weapons.




Thanks for looking, any C&C is appreciated.

The war goes on,
Hessler

Rough Riders (1)

Finally got some pics up of my first rough riders. Up first is the RR Sgt:

Bits Breakdown:

• Horse - WHF Empire Pistoliers
• Legs - WHF Empire Pistoliers
• Torso - Cadian
• Lance/Arms - WHF Bretonnian Knightly Order
• Heads - Mixture of Cadian & WHF Empire Pistoliers
• Misc. Bits - Cadian sprues
  

The biggest challenge of the conversion has been filing down the right shoulder of all that armor plating. I still don't have it down to where I really want it. I think a better option might be found with a regular IG arm and swapping out the hand/lance. That would probably give less of a "knightly" look.

Although I have gotten all my misc. bits attached, I still need to scrounge a flamer and a meltagun for two of my riders, as well as some melta-bombs for the sergeant.

Although I really like the horse RR, I recently saw some very cool conversions done using the SM Scout bikes. I might take a stab at some of those.

I will be painting these with standard Vallejo German Uniform on the pants and the smock/helmet will be done in an Autumn Oak Leaf camo pattern. I will go with various shades of brown for the horses. If anyone has ever seen a reasonable tutorial on painting horses please send it my way.


The war goes on,
Hessler