Red really does make things go faster! Blood Angels Red that is. Check out this awesome Blood Angel Captain on a Scimitar Jetbike!
Let me first say, yes I know these are for 30k and that he is wearing Mk VII Aquilla Pattern Armour. However, this Jetbike is not intended to be used in 30k per se. Well not a Heresy Era army at least. My Blood Angels do double duty, and I have way to many models to just reset and get all earlier Mks. As well, a friendly game of 40k, when fun or narrative driven, isn’t “broken” by the occasional inclusion of 30k stuff, so HAVE FUN. And either way, he makes a great center piece.
Plus, if first founding Chapters manage to keep all sorts of precious super heavies and tactical dreadnought armour stored away from the time of the great crusade, I would like to think they could also manage to keep a few Jetbikes in working order, seeing as they are really just single man landspeeders.
So I use this as my Blood Angels 8th Company Captain Zedrenael, Lord of Skyfall. Seemed the most appropriate.
So the model really is just a FW Scimitar Jetbike with some minor additions. First of all, I used a Sanguinary Guard torso, head, and shoulder pads. Next I used a standard SM arm and plasma pistol, and put a FW power fist on the end of another arm for the left arm. The purity seals are from a Baal Predator if I remember correctly. The banner is a FW MKIII command upgrade Vexilla. Finally the Wings on the Jetbike are Sanguinary Guard Wings. As well, I gave him much more dynamic basing than you usually see Jetbike. I really don’t like the flying level a foot off the ground most people go for, especially when compared to Eldar Jetbikes. SO I jacked this guy up on some steel rod and dremmeled out a hole for the rod at an angle to mount him in a way that seemed like he was banking in his direction of fire.
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