Dark Vengeance bike army

I am hoping to build a 1500 point all-bike army for 40k this year, using the cheap bikes that have flooded out from the new Dark Vengeance starter set.

The list:

• Captain on bike (artificer armour, relic blade, storm shield)
• Librarian on bike
• Bike squad (sergeant with power fist, three bikes with two meltas, assault bike with multimelta)
• Bike squad (sergeant with power sword, three bikes with two plasma, assault bike with heavy bolter)
• Bike squad (sergeant with power sword, three bikes with two meltas, assault bike with multimelta)
• Bike squad (sergeant with power axe, three bikes with two plasma, assault bike with heavy bolter)
• Bike squad (sergeant with power axe, three bikes with two meltas, assault bike with multimelta)
• Assault Bike squadron (three multimeltas)

Attack bikes are going to be built onto DV bikes; I have a couple of spare sidecars, and it doesn't look terribly hard to scratchbuild a half-dozen more from plastic card and the bits box.

And now, a couple of pictures of the construction to date...

Librarian on bike

Sergeant with power fist

Squad with melta and attack bike

Dark Angel Deathwing

I have built up the terminators from the second starter set now; just a few cut-and-shut changes this time. One of the stormbolter/fist guys was given a heavy flamer from the spares box; the other had both arms replaced with lightning claws. One of those stormbolters was transplanted onto the assault cannon body - see the pictures below.

The sergeant and the chainfist figure were left pretty much alone, apart from the wings on the sergeant; easy to remove, and it makes the two figures look slightly different.

Finally, I raided the bits box and put together two more terminators using the left-over arms; one of the bodies is a 'real' terminator, the other one was from Black Reach. I will have to add a bit of iconography with green stuff to blend them in, but the ornate arms help to get it started. I have given the cannon guy a greensuff hood already; more to come.

Dark Angel plasma-nator

I felt that since I bought the set, I probably ought to put the figures together.

The terminators are a nice small squad, so they are first...

Of course, I can't just make them as they are intended; I have replaced the assault cannon with a plasma cannon from the Imperial Guard Sentinel...

Maybe a bit bulky, but it'll look nice enough under a coat of paint.