Wednesday 27 December 2017

From AnthonyO: Vrooooooom! (120 points)

Well I am back from holiday and in the challenge again. This time around it is some 40k Eldar Samm-Hain Jet bikes with a walker and some heavy weapon platforms.


I obtained a very large Eldar force as a trade a few months back and they will be a recurring theme for me throughout the challenge. Due to the amount of jet bikes and vehicles I felt that it was an obvious option to go Samm-Hain and I do like painting red. For scoring I have considered the jetbikes the same as a horse mounted 28mm so they are worth 90 points, the walker is 15 and the heavy weapons I only gave 5 points each for a total of 120.


I use blister pack foam after a basecoat to do all the shading on vehicles, while not as efficient as an airbrush it has a somewhat similar effect and I can do it in my lounge room while watching tv.





Not sure what is next up but I intend to have a very wide selection of different miniatures as the challenge progresses.

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Welcome back to the Challenge Anthony!

Wow, what a great passel of jetbikes you have for us! You know, I've never heard of using blister pack foam for paint sponging, but the effect is very convincing. I learn something new every day. The red looks very good and I like your addition of the black stripes and rider armour to add a bit of contrast and break-up the colours a bit. While the bikes are very cool, I must say my favourite is that walker.

120 points for you, sir!


24 comments:

  1. Wow these look great really nice work mate

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  2. Nice work. I have used sponge from blister packs to do chipping and edgeing work before but never complete painting or base coating. Seems like a viable option though from your results. Nice work

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  3. Great work Anthony! Blister foam for painting and bringing some variation is quite a nice idea. Never really thought to use them outside of chipping, but might have to give it a try after seeing your results.

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  4. Oh these are lovely. Good choice of colour.

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  5. Very impressive. Really liking the paint scheme.

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  6. Lovely looking jet bikes!
    Best Iain

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  7. Nice work. Love the look of these I could see them in many a science fiction battle.

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  8. Not a SciFi games aficionado but must reckon the quality of your work

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  9. Great work Patch! The red really rocks and you've got a really effective colour palette going.

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  10. Great stuff Anthony! Always my favourite Eldar colour scheme and you've done as really nice job of these.

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  11. Inspired idea on the blister pack foam, very effective indeed. And the red "go faster" stripe on the helmets works very nicely too.

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  12. And the red ones really DO go faster - ask any Ork.

    Excellent work on these intrepid aces, Anthony!

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  13. Really nice work, Anthony! The red is really vibrant and shaded very well, I like the black uniforms for the riders which really helps set the bikes off more! ;)

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  14. Great painting on these mate, I really can get nostalgic over these! I shot some of those out of the sky with my DA Plasma cannons, but these are far better painted then the ones I encountered. Thanks for a trip down memory lane!

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