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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: Sangennaru on April 24, 2009, 12:32:54 PM
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Do you remember Crimson Skies? It was an old videogame, where you have to pilot really strange planes, making dogfights in rainy skies, whith zeppelins and much more...
here are the planes! I think that in a Gear Krieg army should suit splendidely!
https://www.connectstores.com/ralpartha/sp_16722.html
cheers,
Sangennaru
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Before it was a video game, it was a FASA paper-and-chit wargame, and Ral Partha produced that whole line of nifty miniatures for it.
Glad to see RP Europe is still producing them - with both FASA and RP defunct, I'd assumed they'd gone to the great spincaster in the sky like so much of the cool stuff RP produced.
I think they're 6mm (1/300 or 1/285 scale) miniatures, but haven't ever bought any myself.
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Don't forget the collectible planes done by Wizkids as well. :-)
Grimm
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they seem to be the same price they were when they 1st came out in the late 90's
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they seem to be the same price they were when they 1st came out in the late 90's
I think they're more expensive to be honest. I have some (would like lots more) and I doubt I'd have paid ?8-9 per pack, for two rather small planes.
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they seem to be the same price they were when they 1st came out in the late 90's
I think they're more expensive to be honest. I have some (would like lots more) and I doubt I'd have paid ?8-9 per pack, for two rather small planes.
8-9 what? dollars?
in the uk they were i think £4 and £4-50 when they 1st came out. Just looked in my lead mountain ,and found a blister packed Raven priced at £3-95. So they seem to be the same price here.
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8-9 what? dollars?
Pound Sterling all the £ symbols seem to have been replaced with ? in the rebuild.
found a blister packed Raven priced at £3-95. So they seem to be the same price here.
Yes, but the Raven came in a pack of two. The price on the store is for a single plane.
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8-9 what? dollars?
Pound Sterling all the £ symbols seem to have been replaced with ? in the rebuild.
found a blister packed Raven priced at £3-95. So they seem to be the same price here.
Yes, but the Raven came in a pack of two. The price on the store is for a single plane.
I bought my Crimson Skies aircraft as soon as they became available and all the initial aircaft were in single packs so far ive found the following
( 20-100 MK210 Raven)which has a £3-95 price tag as does the
(20-101 Curtis-Wright J2 Fury ) at £3-95 the
(20-111 Hughes Firebrand) is a bigger aircraft at £4-50
From what i recall the only twin packs were for the autogyros and they were tiny
Some of the later plastic aircraft , for the whizkids game came in two or four packs and i think were around the £10 mark but i didnt buy any of these while they were 'new' only when they were discounted so cant be sure
Anyway thats probably enough chat about prices of figures from ten years ago
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I too bought them when they came out. All of mine are in pairs..... it's possible I bought two of each and just thought they came as a pair. As you say, it was quite some time ago :)
Speaking of the whizkids ones, are they comparable in size? I've seen them on offer occasionaly but never picked them up. If they're essentially the same, I might get some. It's about time I played again.
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I too bought them when they came out. All of mine are in pairs..... it's possible I bought two of each and just thought they came as a pair. As you say, it was quite some time ago :)
Speaking of the whizkids ones, are they comparable in size? I've seen them on offer occasionaly but never picked them up. If they're essentially the same, I might get some. It's about time I played again.
I bought some plastic duplicates of the metal Grumman E-1C Avenger and the Hughes Firebrand. They are exactly the same size and have the same detail, and they have the advantage of being nicely painted even for a mass produced model.
The original model aircraft in general did vary in scale a lot. They had the problem that no matter how big the planes were they all had to fit in the same size blister pack. So the Vampire which was a huge plane in the game is slimmer and smaller in scale than some of the single seat light fighters such as the defender.
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Excellent, I want to grab a few Bloodhawks and they look pretty good. Thanks.
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Excellent, I want to grab a few Bloodhawks and they look pretty good. Thanks.
They are and in the original game they are an excellent aircraft
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I first played the Wiz Kids version. I fell in love with the franchise. I proceeded to print out all the old CS-Universe site articles and fiction, bought every book that came out in english(in USA anyway) and have the 2nd and 3rd Wings of vengence books in German and am translating them. I got all the WK pieces, have converted several of the Aces figs into different ones (Turned a Maria Sanchez into a Black Swan another into a Betty Charles" , a Charlie Steel into a "Tex", A Kahn into "Big John" A Louis Theubideaux into a Justine Battleaxe Perot, and turned a Red Skulls squad of Peacemakers and Kesterals into a Medusa's squad and a couple of others I cant call to mind right now.
Glad to see there are still others in the skies of the fractured United States of 1937
BTW, I scanned in the cardstock planes from the FASA set, printed them out ands glued them to plastic card stock, like credit cards, and assembled them in a more rewalistic fashion, Great for the durability, the staco cardstock ones in the boxed game wear out FAST.
Later Pb heads
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Ral Partha emerged as Iron Wind Metals and you can still get all of the Crimson Skies planes:
http://www.ironwindmetals.com/store/index.php?cPath=14
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As for the USA, the cost is about the same as they were 10 years ago.
A few of my old bilsters say $7.99, and its $9.99 now...
And NONE of my blisters came in two planes in a pack... Maybe you over the pond got a better deal? lol
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the cost in the UK isnt much more than they were 10years or more ago. The 1st wave of aircraft were all single packs here too ,i have a feeling that in the later waves one of the autogyro packs had two small aircraft in it. But it was a long time ago so i could be wrong
When people used to play this game did any of you build your own unique aircraft models?
dex
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When people used to play this game did any of you build your own unique aircraft models?
dex
As they were quite expensive over in Germany, especially on my budget back then, compounded by the fact that you were looking at 40-50 Marks (has it really been that long) for just two pairs of planes, I built my first set of planes out of cardboard layers (sanded down and lacquered). Were quite nice and effective, and got a lot of use.
Those were mainly the original dozen designs, although I started to use the construction rules quite quickly, and did a handful of my own designs. I'm sure they are in the box with my metal planes, but unfortunately, I never took pictures.
Later on, though, I usually stuck to the provided designs, as they usually were better rounded, rules-wise. Loved the Valiant in particular - could fly rings around the enemy with that one.
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I'm with vesty there! I can't afford the metal ones, so the ones that WK didn't get arround to making, I sculpt out of Sculpy Clay (Like Fimo). So far all I have made is one Warhawk and 1 Valient, but I'm getting better, and will make more soon. I painted the Warhawk like Paladin Blake's first plane, and the Valient is in Dixie colours(of course!)
Later fellow Pb heads!
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the game did come with with cardboard 3D planes which i seem to recall were pretty good
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Anyone get a link to a scratchbuilt one for 28mm scale by chance?
Grimm
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Anyone get a link to a scratchbuilt one for 28mm scale by chance?
Grimm
Not scratch built........http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=24199.0
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Not scratch built........http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=24199.0
Nope, not it. The one in question i am asking about is a scratchbuilt one.
It is a scratch of the poster child of Crimson Skies. I cant think of the model off the top of my head.
Grimm
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the game did come with with cardboard 3D planes which i seem to recall were pretty good
Yeah, but they wore out fast if used a lot.
I scanned the sheets of the planes provided(Limited paint jobs tho) and glued them to credit card stock and assembled them with crazy glue, and in a much more realistic looking way.. MUCH more durable, but can not disassemble them to store.
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Nope, not it. The one in question i am asking about is a scratchbuilt one.
It is a scratch of the poster child of Crimson Skies. I cant think of the model off the top of my head.
Grimm
I saw someone who made a devastator out of a 1/76 plane, can't remember what he started with. I'll look for it again.
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http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=3190.0
Not the one I meant, but I found this one first. ;) lol
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http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=14058.30
Page 3 the ones you are looking for?
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http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=14058.30
Page 3 the ones you are looking for?
No. Now if this keeps up i will have to go insane. Gonna have to find the one i am thinking of for my own good. :-)
Grimm
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Can you remember which plane it is?
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Anyone get a link to a scratchbuilt one for 28mm scale by chance?
Grimm
Neither scratchbuilt, nor necessarily 28mm, but did you ever see the toys from Xyber 9? There were a couple of aircraft that MIGHT have worked for true 25.
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/xyber9/xyber9.html
Scroll down to "Airstriker and Skyfighter."
The first is awesome.
Doug
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Neither scratchbuilt, nor necessarily 28mm, but did you ever see the toys from Xyber 9? There were a couple of aircraft that MIGHT have worked for true 25.
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/xyber9/xyber9.html
Scroll down to "Airstriker and Skyfighter."
The first is awesome.
Doug
Did that run on Fox? I think I saw parts of an episode or two, the week before it got cancelled. It got replaced by more Digimons, Power Rangers or Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (shudder...)
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Did that run on Fox? I think I saw parts of an episode or two, the week before it got cancelled. It got replaced by more Digimons, Power Rangers or Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (shudder...)
Sorry, Jakar, for taking so long.
Right, an animated sort of postapocalyptic thingie. Least that's the way foggily I remember; at the time, Sat Morn Fox seemed to be running through many shows each season.
Just checked IMDB, and they don't list episodes, though Wiki sez '10', so it does look like it was only one season. Wow, I remember Tony Jay's voice, but Rene Auberjonois? Tim Curry? ;->=
I'd be upset you reminded me of the Mystic Knights, except I'm STILL seeing the toys pop up in thrift stores. *shudder-right-back-at-you*
Doug
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Sorry, Jakar, for taking so long.
Wasn't that long, or that big a deal. :)