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Title: Hawkaaaaa!
Post by: Tom Reed on October 28, 2008, 02:46:31 PM

Does anyonew know of any suitable figures that I could use for the Blackhawks?
They are a WWII (and beyond) multinational flying squadron. I'm unable to post an image to help. There were Blackhawk and several others, including Stan, Olaf, Hendrickson, Chop Chop, and at one time, Lady Blackhawk.

Title: Re: Hawkaaaaa!
Post by: Cory on October 28, 2008, 03:16:13 PM

Weren't there a couple in the DC Heroclix line?

Title: Re: Hawkaaaaa!
Post by: archangel1 on October 28, 2008, 03:17:53 PM

Don't know about figures but here's a site with plenty of reference - 'The Unofficial Blackhawk Comics Website'.

http://ourworlds.topcities.com/blackhawk/index.html

For any interested modelers, Minicraft made a 1/48 Skyrocket which could easily be painted in Blackhawk colours.

Title: Re: Hawkaaaaa!
Post by: Tom Reed on October 28, 2008, 03:31:40 PM

Wow, I don't know how I missed that site!
There is a lot of useful information there.
Yeah, I have a couple of the Heroclix figures but I was hoping to find something in metal that would be closer in scale to the stuff I have now, mostly Pulp and Copplestone.

Title: Re: Hawkaaaaa!
Post by: flooglestreet on October 28, 2008, 03:33:35 PM

I've never seen Blackhawk figures but I tried to convert cops into Blackhawks. The cops I used are no longer available but you could try Bub Murch cops if you are willing to do a lot of work. He might have a suitable Chop Chop in one of his oriental packs.

Title: Re: Hawkaaaaa!
Post by: Cory on October 28, 2008, 04:23:46 PM

flooglestreet, were those the Grenadier cops? EM4 has them here http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/COPS.html

I always thought the double breasted uniform gave them a retro 30's feel.

Title: Re: Hawkaaaaa!
Post by: Tom Reed on October 28, 2008, 07:01:23 PM

Hmm, I might have to take a closer look at the EM-4 stuff. I did find a suitable Chop Chop figure in Murch's Yangtzee stuff, and a pretty nice lady blackhawk in the personalities.

Title: Re: Hawkaaaaa!
Post by: flooglestreet on October 29, 2008, 04:25:18 PM

Yes Cory, I believe thats them. I lost mine when I moved :'( and I seem to remember a series of zombies went with them, but I could easily be mistaken,  o_o somebody might have been running a game with these cops and somebody elses Zombies, the hobby shop had a very active basement game room.