I hadn’t really paid much attention to the fact that you got the 6 bikers until the box arrived. Seeing the box of 30 Chaos Space Marines was enough for me to go ‘well that’s the start of an army I guess’. I got back into 40k with the release of Apocalypse in 8th edition. Chaos BikersĪh, the models that started this whole project off. They aren’t the most poseable of models, but GW has raised the bar when it comes to how dynamic models look these days so it’s not that much of an issue really.

I absolutely love the new sculpt of the Chaos Marines, they really have upped the game and made the models look amazing. I’d got spares kicking around from an Apocalypse detachment and a couple of copies of Shadowspear so it didn’t bother me too much.

So, the models I’ve made aren’t really the cheapest and it’s quite wasteful due to how the new Chaos Marine models go together. I guess if you were working on a bigger model, you could probably go for less links for a chunkier chain. This keeps it a fine chain which looks the right scale for the models we’ll be working on. When ordering I went for 2x 1 metre packs, with 15 links per inch. Joe just has a natural talent for it, he’s used chain in the past on conversions and he linked me to this when I asked what I should get. Chain:Ī friend of mine, who some of you might know Massive Joe is the king of conversions in my mind. I’ve done 6 bikes and used like 4 of them with some wastage. I used 2.4mm OD (Outside Diameter) Pipe – comes in packs of 15 for like £12 but it’s more than you’ll ever need for this project.

I figured with a bit of extra pipe I could extend the forks, I thought about adding a trophy rack, and then using left over CSM parts to update the riders themselves. I don’t know what made me decide to do it, maybe it’s playing against a friend Rich’s Genestealer Cult with the Jackals, and they’re amazing looking bikes but the idea was born. So, I started looking through my codex for options I’d considered getting some Raptors or Warp Talons. Having played a fair few games with my Chaos Marines since I started getting back into 40k I’ve been beginning to feel like my army is lacking some mobility. He shared these into a Facebook group we are part of and was nice enough to write up a guide to it. This week we have a conversion guide for Chaos Space Marines Bikers from Bodybag.

Chaos space marine conversion