Artist Ken Christiansen has shared his Sketches of Combiner Wars Sky Dive and Alpha Bravo Packaging Art.
The images were shared via Ken Christiansen’s Facebook account and we can appreciate the full and complete body of Sky Dive and Alpha Bravo, in the same way Ken had shared his Optimus Prime and Silverbolt sketches previously.
You can check out the mirrored images of this amazing after the jump and then sound off your impressions at the 2005 Boards!
samisham
Alpha Bravo: Superior.
Slingshot: Inferior.
UltraMagnus3786
Excellent/proper use of whom.
G1 Evac
I'm here to show Alpha Bravo some love, the Aerialbot whom nobody wanted but was loved in the end.
AnnoyedRobot
Shapeways. That's what I'm eventually going to do with my Blades.
MengHao
When I see aerialbots I hit like
Edwardmus Prime
My bot Alpha Bravo is looking good here. Probably better than if he were colored, even. Although I would like to see what these would look like colored in a more animation style coloring. These are the poses from their boxes and cards, right?
Autoboty
I don't think skis go beneath the pontoons, either, but I'm okay with no skis only if we got missile-less forearms like the Victorion bots.
AutobotAvalanche
Blades has been a psycho daredevil since 1986. Missiles are perfectly warranted there.
AnnoyedRobot
At the very least Blades should have gotten some landing skis that attached underneath his helicopter mode. I don't think helicopters are supposed to have the landing skids on the side pontoon thingies. If anyone can provide a pic of an actual helicopter that does this, I/we would know for sure.
jaws
Odd that Sky Dive has Air Raid's aircraft forward fuselage and cockpit canopy
Autoboty
This. I'm actually surprised Perfect Effect haven't tried making replacement forearms for Blades.
CodeXCDM
This. Kind of wished they had remolded the arms of all the Copter bots, at least… it'd go a long way. Vortex is the only one where the Missile arms is warranted. Blades and/or Alpha Bravo having normal skis would work. (Blades being fitting as they practically looked weaponize in some artistic depictions, too.) Least the Victorion twins had the missiles removed.
Autoboty
Wellllll, they do look exactly the same… I just thought Vortex in AB's pose might look cool, that's all.
scrapmetaru
Why in the hell would anyone do that? This is Alpha Bravo, Aerialbot and limb of Superion. Coloring him as Vortex would be dumb and irrelevant.
Why didn't Hasbro do any remolding on Vortex?
Autoboty
Can someone please color that Alpha Bravo art in Vortex's colors?
Nemisispath
The front page listing might want to be fixed. It keeps saying Air Raid instead of Sky Dive.
Black Convoy
Artist Ken Christiansen On Facebook has shared his Sketches of Combiner Wars Sky Dive and Alph Bravo Packaging Art.
We get the full body pencils of this impressive art, like the Optimus Prime and Silverbolt he shared previously.
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