Space Marine Scout Bikes Assembled

So I picked up the new Space Marine Spearhead which included 3 of the new Space Marine Scout Bikes.

So I collected by two boxes of old space Marine Scouts and combined these with the 3 new bikes along with one of my Chaos Bikes and several Ravenwing Parts from my growing Dark Angels bits.

Now, yes I know that Dark Angels do not use Scout bikers but that doesn’t mean that I cannot build a divergent branch (Successor chapter) of the Dark Angels that is built more along the lines of the Standard Codex, plus I’ve always dreamed of an all Scout army, which in Apocalypse is always a possibility!

Here are photos of the WIP, assembed and based:

More Photos of the Bikes

New Scout bikes

Well, I picked up a pack of the new Space Marine Scout Bikes with the Space Marine Spearhead.

Space Marine Scout Bike with twin bolters

The major differences between these and the older scout bike are that

1. the front wheels are open, ie less bike faring enclosing the tires,
2. the mufflers, the new bike only has a single pipe on both sides and not two like normal bikes
3. the scouts are multi piece plastic rather than three piece metal
4. the foot plate is smaller, with no foot guards on the side to protect the marines foot and now place to rest your foot besides the primary foot pad
5. the front faring which hold the weapons is much smaller also than the original bike faring.
6. the seat of the new Scout bike also has no back support pad
7. the back fender behind the seat is also slightly shorter than previous

I went ahead and modded some of my older scout bikes to be similar to  the new scout bikes, this involved cutting and shaving the foot rests to be closer to the new scout footrests.