Crimson Skies model

[Gunbird]

...in 1/300  ::

As I really want to have a Zep, the regular miniatures I have quite a few of but they don't mix with my 1/300 stuff....so why not combine my skills and my leadpile to make something useful?

Slow progress on this one, but hey, not unusual for me.

Took a Heroics and Ross Mig 3 as the base model (could have used the Scotia one as it's better but it's lacking the exhaust system that I need for this model), then looked at the artwork I had.


This and a few more pics I had to work with. Not much, but I have the game on my X-Box so did some studying



Shortened the wings and made winglets from plasticcard to slot over the stubs I left, and cut off and shortened the tail.



Looks close enough to me (and ignore the prop, I ditched that)

And now she is almost done, and she has a snazzy paintjob.....





Hopefully she's done by the end of the weekend......

Johan

[Justin Buck]

That is awsome.  I have about 20 metal Crimson Skies planes that I've been meaning to paint.  This just might jumpstart me, keep the pictures commin.

Justin

[Modhail]

Wow, nice work Johan, very nice!

So, when will you starting on those 1/2500 ones I can use for my Zeppelin battle rules?  ::  (I really should finish those rules someday...)

Bye, Erik

[Operator5]

The original Crimson Skies is one of my all-time favorite games. It was a little clunky with all the damage charts, but there were about 6 of us who had the rules down and could play a dogfight game easily in about 2 hours.

You did a great job on the conversion of the figure.

[Westfalia Chris]

The original Crimson Skies is one of my all-time favorite games. It was a little clunky with all the damage charts, but there were about 6 of us who had the rules down and could play a dogfight game easily in about 2 hours.

You did a great job on the conversion of the figure.

Two hours?!? We usually managed to crash and burn within 45 minutes...

Loved it. Even built a Zeppelin to go with the little planies. Too bad it got "shot down" in my last move some four years ago.

Nice little plane.

[Parriah]

Well, it seems all the posts I'm finding that I want to respond to are Years old, Hmmmmm.
Anyway,. That was a fantastic conversion!

[Gunbird]

It was a fun conversion. Coincidentally, I did sell my entire collection last week though.

[Parriah]

 
Too bad