Heresy Era Thousand Sons - (Counts-as) Skyhunter Jetbikes in progress

Did a little kitbashing over the weekend - One of my favorite aspects of the Tzeenchian lore are the (admittedly somewhat downplayed in recent editions) Disc Riders, and I loved the mention of the single-man anti-grav chariots the Thousand Sons rode around on Prospero - thought it was a nice bit of foreshadowing. I've done some disc riders for an old Tzeentch Renegades force back in the day, and thought it could be fun to try and put something together to represent them for the Heresy-era Thousand Sons as well! Still very much a work in progress but thought I'd show what's been done so far...

The basic idea came from the description in A Thousand Sons which described the skimmer as an open-backed chariot-looking sort of conveyance, so the basis of the conversion is a high-elf chariot from the fantasy range which I felt carried a little bit of the Egyptian look. I clipped off the axles for the wheels and trimmed and re-positioned the yokes(?) as sort of anti-grav vanes on the sides.

The Skyhunter Jetbikes that I'm intending these to stand in for are each armed with a Heavy Bolter, and while I'd originally thought I'd just have the marine rider carrying the weapon, some test fitting proved that the heavy weapon is slung too low to fire over the frame of the chariot. In order to help the skimmer more closely resemble the jetbike it's intended to proxy, I instead went with the centerline-underslung weapon instead, trimming down a few leftover Heavy Bolters from the Betrayal at Calth set.

Still more work to be done on the underside, I started off with half a wheel to act as a mounting point for the flying stand which will be painted as the repulsor generator. I still need to find some decent looking thrusters and other gribblies to add to tart up the undersides a bit, but so far so good!

Haven't built out the actual riders for them yet, but set a couple baseline tac marines in place to get a sense of scale. Overall I'm pretty happy with how they're turning out!