DEI GRECI: Steampunk Motorcycles?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Steampunk Motorcycles?

I've previously mentioned here that I was looking into some scout units or rough riders, and that I was tinkering about mounting them on "steampunk motorcycles".
So I spent some time over the last view days looking for steampunk cycles.
There is some really great artwork out there, some brilliant ideas too. And there are some that I could imagine for my Dencarians.
So here are some rough sketches of what I could see as rough rider SP-motorcycles. Please remember they must blend in with the ZEUS, the walkers, and the infantry...so no real modern Sci-Fi anime bikes.....

Currently I favor "E" as this could easily mount weapons, and I think I can get a good design for scratchbuilding 4 or 5 of them. "A" would probably fit the Kinder-egg theme, but would definately require casting. "B", "F", and "G" would be hard to balance, so they'd always need a base...
So, any ideas?
Thanks
Klaus

DEI GRECI?

(not) Santas Workshop?

Hello and welcome to my litte workshop.
Initially I started this blog to show some of my ideas and scratchbuilding adventures. I started off with a familiy of airborne vehicles for the Imperial Guard in 2007. Since they were all named after Greek Gods (Godesses), I called the blog "Dei Greci" - Greek Gods.

My favourite Forum is always the WORK IN PROGRESS forum, but you can also find me on Dakka Dakka, Warseer and occasionally on Ammobunker.
But my real home is WIP...well and this little workshop :)

In the meantime the DG family grew and now contains a super-super heavy tank, the ZEUS - a project that made it even into the CMON Annual 2009.

Together with the ZEUS I slightly moved the focus of my IG from airborne to steampunk. With this change came the need for special, steampunk infantry and a diorama.

So you can now also see some of my crazy ideas like steampunk motorcycles and some special infantry like Little Lenin and his bodyguard Hektor - a huge Ogryn.

Another (seemingly never ending) project is the ATHENA - a steampunk airship, initially concepted as an aircraft carrier, but now a bit more of a destroyer.

I also worked on several dioramas, featuring Orks and walking tanks, or Deathwatch Space Marines, a duell style dio, an Inquisitor, as well as a helicopter style assault carrier, the CHARON, or a VTOL attack aircraft, the STRIX.

Currently I'm a bit jumpy in my projects and I have several unfinished projects, but whenever there's a competition I'm drawn to it :)

So welcome to my small workshop of little Warhammer 40K wonders.

Cheers
Klaus

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Steampunk Motorcycles?

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