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Some ideas for the canopy on the 'bikes. The ones based on the Phoenix (Jean Grey) and Nightwing logos make me chuckle ; )

Well not to be a band wagoner but I would love that link aswell.

They'll look dyno, bud!

Finn, PM me and I will ship you out one of those old rangers. I have a box full!

Also, send me the link to those jetbikes. Although, I don't see why you don't post it in-thread. They are not re-casts.

I like the bird cover a lot!

Just a little update really - I've been working on the jetbikes and the Farseer today. I got pretty much all of the first red highlight done on him, but seeing the shots I took of him, it didn't show too well, so I'll post photos when more progress is visible. Onto the second (and third) highlights of red for him tomorrow.

Jetbikes: I undercoated them and drew on the designs, using some masking tape for the straight lines and the angles. A different approach for them to my usual technique of an orange basecoat and then highlighting up to yellow. Because of the large flat areas, doing it that way around would take AN AGE, so I decided to flip it, and do a yellow basecoat and then do some lowlighting with the orange. It seems to be working so far, but I still want to beef it up a bit more. Seeing the shots though are misleading - the yellow is much brighter in the flesh, it's pure Golden Yellow, and the shots are much, much darker. As with the Farseer, I'll try and get better shots tomorrow in some natural light.

I also undercoated the Spear and drew on some linework. I'm thinking bright red and grey for this bad boy.

Those look sweet. Difficult to tell on colours, but they look great in the shots.

Oh wow! I really like that second bike, finnan. Fid you post that before? I think I missed it. Great use of bits.

Yeah, I posed a wip of the greenstuffing on the Spear bike 'beard, not a whole lot to see yet though

More accurate pictures - these are MUCH better colour representations.

That farseer is incredible and I can't wait to see what you do with the bikes!

Really nice work Fin. The bikes will look awesome in a group.

Masterful, fin. This army is going to look the business.

I may be pointing out the obvious here but you drew a phallus on your jetbike.

I guess you're really good at...

*sunglasses*

cockfighting

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

But no really don't drew a penis shape on your jetbike please.

No, you're not pointing out the obvious, and while I guess I can see, at a push, that it might look vaguely penis-like, if you think that's what a penis looks like, you need to go and see a doctor fairly quickly.
What do sunglasses have to do with anything?
If you see a penis there, that's your problem, not mine. If you're genuinely trying to make a comment and suggestion, thanks, but I don't get the impression that you were. If you were trying to make a joke, it fell flat.

I'm not a one for eldar usually, but these are very nice! I really love the bold color scheme of black and orange, similar to my Tyranid scheme of red and black. Lovely colours, and nice freehand on the farseers cloak. Also, well said in reply to FireKnights comment

Those bikes are going to have me drolling finnan. Better place a protective layer. Are you going to do an engine flame color?

thanks Big Mek, much appreciated.

I hadn't really thought beyond the canopy 'panda! I want a couple of yellow highlights just to balance things out, but haven't got there yet. My initial thoughts are to either have the engine a metallic gold, or to keep it dark grey and have the recessed lines yellow (Tron-like). As for flame colour... I don't know, the same white/blue that I do for my sword blades seems like an obvious choice...?
The riders are going to be a slightly adapted version of my Guardian scheme - they don't have chest armour to do yellow, but they do have a jacket, so I need to decide whether that's going to be yellow or grey... Decisions decisions!

Lovely orange you've got going on.Great freehands too!
Those jetbikes are so much pretttier ... Mind sharing your dealer with a poor dude?

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thanks Big Mek, much appreciated.

I hadn't really thought beyond the canopy 'panda! I want a couple of yellow highlights just to balance things out, but haven't got there yet. My initial thoughts are to either have the engine a metallic gold, or to keep it dark grey and have the recessed lines yellow (Tron-like). As for flame colour... I don't know, the same white/blue that I do for my sword blades seems like an obvious choice...?
The riders are going to be a slightly adapted version of my Guardian scheme - they don't have chest armor to do yellow, but they do have a jacket, so I need to decide whether that's going to be yellow or grey... Decisions decisions!

a blue white always works well. Hmmm... I am going to leave you up to pick out the yellow and grey areas. I would have to leave the engines grey to avoid an over flamboyant color spree. It could work you have the skill for sure, but its about if it would be nice to have a dark and neutral middle to anchor the eye to.

having a look at the engines today, I think the recesses might be a bit too thin to pick out in yellow, so I might give the metallic gold a go... if it looks a bit rubbish, I can always go over it with the grey

Thanks for the link. Those look awesome cant wait to see your freehand on them.

Alright....I got owned.

Sorry for that finnan really I like you ._. please don't hurt me.

I used some of the ideas from your jetbike plans, for my own 3 jetbikes, I used the second one from the top, third from the left. That's my favourite one out of the lot.


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PS: Did you consider the third one from the left on the bottom line? That one looks epic too.

Wait, so you say that you think there's a penis on some of my work, and then admit to taking some of the other ideas for your own - that's pretty poor form there. While I'm always happy for people to use and adapt my ideas, it's also polite to ask first, especially if you've disparaged some of them.

How can you 'really like' me - you don't know me, only what I put up on here, which is my work and some of my opinions, not me.

If you'd taken the time to actually look at the initial ideas, you will see which five ideas I'm using.

some progress on the jetbikes - all the canopies are yellowed up, and the engine blocks done. I think I like the engine blocks, but I'm not convinced yet.

I couldn't resist blocking in the grey on one of them yesterday, and, as you know, I'm generally fairly cautious about my work, but even I think that this looks fairly bad@$$ Just basecoated and then washed with black, so I've got the red highlights to do. There's also some tidying up I need to do on some of the yellow areas - I already had to correct some mistakes yesterday, so I need to put the shading and highlighting back in on the canopy.

Thats looking really nice finn. Did you do the black wash straight over the white undercoat as it looks really nice, never thought of trying that I wouldnt have thought it would cover as well as it has.

no, I did a basecoat of Charadon Granite, and then the wash of black

Very nice, loving the eagle on the front.

Absolutely gorgeous! Love your style, mate.

Bad to the bone finn! that really does look excellent so far! very sinister and fast.... real fast!

Really cool Fin. Good work. I like how you kept the colour on the seat as well.