Under the Black Flag. Pirates, Buccaneers and Smugglers - Inspiration

[Caveman]

The link below is to the rule book for the original Crimson Skies board game included in the back are 3 views for the aircraft! Diesel punk sky pirates anyone?

https://www.scribd.com/document/386951761/Crimson-Skies-Core-Rules-pdf

Eg:

[scooter]

Today's The History Guy Episode: Rumrunners and the USCG
Rather apropos

[zenrat]

I was listening to Copperhead Road today thinking "hmmmm, there's a build here."

[zenrat]

Sky Pirates of the Nullarbor Coast - Builds so far.

Handley Page Henfield 003 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Kawanishi Type 97 H6K5 8 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Kawanishi N1K1 012 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Fw 190 Puffin 4 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Wessex - Sky Pirates 10 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Sky Pirate's Flying Dinghy - 12 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Before the Handley Page Captain Fat Hamster's flagship was an airship, and after the Kawanishi came an ekranoplan...

[Old Wombat]

 

[scooter]

Before the Handley Page Captain Fat Hamster's flagship was an airship, and after the Kawanishi came an ekranoplan...

Which I'm sure we'll see this go-around.

[loupgarou]

Before the Handley Page Captain Fat Hamster's flagship was an airship, and after the Kawanishi came an ekranoplan...

Which I'm sure we'll see this go-around.

As I suppose Captain Fat Hamster pirates around Australia, would an Ekranoplan fly/skim high enough to evade the notorious australian giant jumping sharks? 

[zenrat]

The airship is too large a build for this GB.  I need to get the Sea Witch finished so as to have room.  Think of it as freeing up a dry dock.   
I do have all the major parts though and I promise it will get built one day.  Maybe if we had a Steampunk GB?

Ekranoplan on the other hand is a possibility as I have a Lun and an Orlyonok in 1/144 and a 1/72 Bartini Beriev...

[Nick]

Tomorrow Never Dies. Use the Revell Sea Shadow ship and unleash your inner Elliot Carver to steal satellites and sink Royal Navy ships!
Bonus points for adding a tiny James Bond to the diorama 

[scooter]

Bonus points for adding a tiny James Bond to the diorama 

2x bonus points for adding a tiny Michelle Yeoh.

[Mossie]

Stealth pirates???

[Nick]

I need to re-read Target Lock by James Cobb. It features a modern piracy operation in the Indonesian region and the theft of a satellite leads to the US Navy getting involved.

The disappearance of an industrial research satellite puts Commander Amanda Lee Garrett and her Navy task force on the hunt for a high-tech pirate-a criminal genius whose own sea force turns the mission into an international crisis.

[PR19_Kit]

Oh yes, the Cdr. Lee Garrett books are great reading and full of Whiffery. 

I'm surprised no-one has done a kit of the USS Cunningham yet.

[Weaver]

Think I read Choosers OF The Slain from that series once (the one where they go up against the Argentine Navy in a re-run of the Falklands). I thought it was absolute rubbish to be honest: full of technical howlers by the ton. The one I remember is that the Cunningham 'tops up' with Standard SM-2 missiles from a Perry-class frigate that's departing the theatre: an operation that completely ignores the fact that the Cunningham has a Mk.41 VLS system, whose SM-2s therefore need launch boosters, while the Perry has a Mk.13 GMLS, whose SM-2s don't have boosters...

[PR19_Kit]

Like I said '...full of Whiffery...'