{"id":3711,"date":"2025-09-16T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:17:06","slug":"colony-87-rides-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2025\/09\/colony-87-rides-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Colony 87 Rides Along"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In case you thought this website wasn’t still active, don’t worry, it is! I’ve just been very busy working on various projects; particularly on illustrations for Colony 87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that subject I noticed on Facebook a couple of my concepts for jet-bikes have made it into miniature form. Here are the original concept drawings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span>\"Colony<\/a><\/span><\/span>
Colony 87 Bounty Hunter 1 on Jetbike.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span>\"Colony<\/a><\/span><\/span>
Colony 87 Bounty Hunter 1 on Jetbike – side and top views<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span>\"Colony<\/a><\/span><\/span>
Colony 87 Bounty Hunter 2 on Jetbike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They were for a homage to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza but in a science fiction setting and these were the jet bike versions of Rocinante and Sancho’s mule (which I think in the story didn’t have a name).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bounty Hunters you may have seen on their jet-bikes on these sketchbook pages: https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2021\/03\/colony-87-rides-again\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the jet bikes on Crooked Dice Games site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colony 87 range – Jet Bike 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colony 87 range – Jet Bike 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though if you wanted to re-create my concepts in miniature form then you’d have to do a bit of converting! Here are links to those as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colony 87 range – Bounty Hunter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colony 87 range – Squire Sanchos<\/a><\/p>\n

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In case you thought this website wasn’t still active, don’t worry, it is! I’ve just been very busy working on various projects; particularly on illustrations for Colony 87. On that subject I noticed on Facebook a couple of my concepts for jet-bikes have made it into miniature form. Here are the original concept drawings: They … Continue reading Colony 87 Rides Along<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[366,534,292,18],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-art","tag-colony-87","tag-jet-bike","tag-miniatures-concepts","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}