Bikes!
Bikes are (or at least were when I played) commonly used in minimum-sized sized units as mobile special-weapons delivery systems, meant to rush in and shoot (whatever the weapons they were given specialized in killing) a few times and then... die, escape, it didn't matter, as long as they kill more points worth of stuff than the relatively small amount they cost you to include in your army.
Bikes are not really considered that Nurgle-y. In fact, under whatever edition Codex: Chaos Space Marines I used to have, either a Death Guard army couldn't include them or they couldn't receive the Mark of Nurgle or something. This is pretty stupid because rules-wise because Bikes and the Mark of Nurgle synergize very well. Riding a bike makes you harder to kill and so does Nurgle. Games-workshop's rules tend to reward commitment to a single strategy; whatever your strategy, you just need to go all-out with it.
No restriction currently exists on Nurgle Bikers. However, I must point out that, strictly speaking (by the rules these guys aren't Plague Marines, rather they are simply Chaos Space Marine Bikers bearing the Mark of Nurgle. All Chaos Space Marine units may purchase Marks of the Chaos Gods for a number of points per model. Nurgle's mark dudes harder to kill. True Plague Marines (one specific unit, the guys on foot) are a single distinct kind of unit available in the army list, who have the Mark of Nurgle, PLUS additional rules making them even harder to kill, PLUS unique equipment (Blight Grenades and Plague Knives).
Aside from the rules, difference between an ordinary Chaos Marine with MoN is admittedly kind of indistinct. To reflect that these guys were are Chaos Marines bikers with MoN, not Plague Marines on bikes, I chose to not give them gut-plates since the majority of my Plague Marines had them.
I did however use the very same feature (bolted-on, bulging, cracking gut-plates) to identify other units in this very same army as XXXXX-with-the-Mark-of-Nurgle, not Plague-version-XXXXX. It's Chaos, what can you do. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Nurgle-Marked-Marines-Who-Aren't-Plague-Marines receive less embellishment unless they are big or important models. Yeah.
These guys share the same peg-and-hole weapon swap system as the Plague Marines. They were given the same rust, grime, greenstuf growths, and battle damage treatment as the rest of the figures in this project. The bikes were given plasticard plates near the handlebars, where the Ravenwing embellishments were removed. The Ravenwing banner poles were left on and given little Nurgle Icons, made by sawing disks off of the injection plugs from old plastic sprues, and drilling shallow holes into them
*Left-hand-weapons-specialist with twin-linked-bike-boltguns, bolt pistol, and first a flamer then a meltgun, featuring helmet-crest-spike, slits carve aside jaw to give helmet fish-like appearance, membranous greenstuff growth creeping up at base of banner pole, and windshield/plate above handlebar made for old plastic Chaos Warrior shield*
*Right-hand-weapons-specialist with twin-linked-bike-boltguns, bolt pistol, and first a flamer, then a meltagun, featuring curved horn growing from cracked helmet, horns growing from bike above handlebar, advanced creeping greenstuff growth sprouting organic tubes on back of bike, and battle damage on front wheel-well covered with a makeshift plate which was subsequently damged and lost screws*
*Aspiring Champion with twin-linked-bike-boltguns, bolt pistol, giant bell (close-combat weapon) and "generic" combi-weapon in with spiky drum mag (tip of Ogre Kindoms club) and adjustable/removable pistol grip in (greenstuff) holster on port side of bike, featuring various organic looking parts of bike (Tyranid legs and ribcage + underside of Orc standard skull), Nurgle medalion around neck, studded greave, monster skull supported by double banner poles, plasticard arrow embellishments on plates next to handlebar, and human hand nailed to pauldron*
As they started:
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