Legos: Crimson Skies |
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| Crimson Skies - some sort of fantasy aircraft dogfighting game, a meme popped up on Lugnet with over a dozen aircraft being built, so I had to join the fun. Creating these fantasy warbirds is a real gas :) |
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The
Kestrel was built consecutively with the Coranado, but
the Coranado received a major rebuild afterwards. Originally I wanted
a twin engine craft and had a lot of red curvy slopes... When finished,
the front reminded me of the P-38 which is why the original
version wound up with a snoot
full of guns. I liked the idea of having a female pilot all dressed
in black for it as well. I'm sure she
has an interesting backstory... The revision of the craft requited a rebild of the nose to accomodate a second set of click hinges to get rid of a bad case of wing droop. The rudders also received a makeover going from a strange "V" type to a more traditional model. Other small change resulted as well. All in all it's a tad beefier and can now be picked up and wooshed about with out the wings flopping down. |
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The
Coronado Bar One is a rebuild of my first Crimson Skies
aircraft - the Coranado.
After some extreemly useful
critique on Lugnet I wound
up with a much beefier craft, and honestly it's still my favorite.
It sits perched on my computer monitor reday to launch off and defend
it's domain at a moments notice. 6 Guns, 6 rockets and some underwing
pods give it some serious attitude. It even wound up with a little bit of a history :) |
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The
Nighthawk XF12A ranks as my outcast ship... when I introduced
it to Lugnet as the XF12
I wondered if it wasn't just plain too futuristic for Crimson Skies...
After some more good criticism
I wound up doing a rebuild.
Unfortunately despite what I felt were some pretty stiff changes like
re-arming, altering the landing gear, removing the rudders and adding
new wingflaps, the pictures I took don't show much of a difference. It
is truly a wierd little bugger, but definitely swooshable. It will probably
be the first sacraficed to the parts gods. |
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The
Tomahawk fi/08a wound up as a summer weekend project
started by ripping apart some stock sets and thinking maybe I should get
back to building. Wound up with a fun little ship with some nice features.
The rotating
canard and the oddly folding landing gear are my favorites. Actually
the tail of the craft took several re-builds before I was satisfied, and
after thinking over yet
more Lugnet criticism I changed up the
rudders to a more conventional
design. Also changed the color of the underwing cannons to make them
show up a tad better in pictures. |
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Comparison Pictures I thought it would be cool to takes some pictures that compare the planes to one another. Hopefully more will follow. |
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My
Crimson Skies Brickshelf Directory where you can view
all of the above and more floatsom... |
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Following are Links gleaned from Lugnet and Brickshelf that provided the inspiration for my attempts. Crimson Skies the game also has it's own site... Check it Out! |
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And here's a search I did on lugnet with what peeps
are saying about these crazy contraptions Black & Stylish twin boom A twin boom trimotor Another twin boom A bomber with twin pusher props.. yeah... A pretty large one This one is a little... truncated, but it has folding
landing gear |
the Tornado was the one that really made me want to
build one of these things... Bobcat -actually hadn't seen this one before, love the
engine. These are neat too Another twin pusher - with canards! This one is a bit futuristic for me, but it's a nice
piece of work And this one is goofy, but no one else tried a water-plane And here's one from 2001 that I just noticed, a pusher
biplane no less! |