Stormtalon progress and things

Slow but steady progress on the Storm Talon.  I told myself that I wasn't going to start working on it till all my bikes were painted, but I have will power of a 5 year old in a candy store.  That lasted all of about a day.. day and half tops.

I convinced myself that if I got it assembled and primed at least, I'd be able to field it sooner..

  So here's what's on the agenda for my Space Marines.  I have a Ravenwing Battalion Box coming from Miniwargaming(ordered it when it was their sale item of the day), and there is also a Techmarine and an Apothacary coming from GW.  

  The plan is to take 5 of the bikes from the battalion box and make a command squad (that's what the Apothacary is for.)  The 6th bike in the box will just be a regular marine biker to even out the number of bikes I have in the 2 troop choice squads.

  That leaves us with the Landspeeder(no funny plans with that) and the attack bike from the battalion box.  Having a single attack bike would be useless especially since I now have 3 fast attack choices (Landspeeder, Landspeeder Storm, Storm Talon.)  So what I've come up with is that I'm going to put the Techmarine on attack bike and instead of putting an additional marine in the passenger seat, I'll put some sort of crazy gun and field it as a Thunderfire Cannon (putting it on a bike will actually serve the dual purpose of making it more thematic with my army) OR I can field it as a Techmarine on bike with Conversion Beamer.( Much like the one pictured here.)  I have a Tau Ion Cannon that I think might pass pretty well for the conversion beamer, and if I magentize it I'll use something like a Helblaster Volley gun to make the Thuderfire Cannon.

 That'll bring my Marine army up to a respectable 1850 points...