Anachronistic Castle - Spy Plane Shootout

[hewkii9]

The Crownies are attacking! In their super-secret wooden triplane, the Crownies sail in the skies of Skellie airspace...unbeknownst to all but the Skellie Anti-Aircraft Tank! Look! Drawn by horses and powered by one of those shooty launcher things, this is the height of shooting things technology! The plane doesn't stand a chance! Sure, it has a cockpit and a couple o'crossbows, but it's a tank we're dealing with! It's super detailed! The plane must rely on its speed!

Gallery here.

[tin7_creations]

i love these, mixing medieval with modernism. The plane looks quite steampunk.

[I Scream Clone]

Well theres something you dont see everyday! I really like the look of the war chariot with all its guns etc.

Half the battle would be just keeping the plane in the air for the crownies! Well done on a steampunkish creation.

Cheers

ISC :skull:

[hewkii9]

Well theres something you dont see everyday! I really like the look of the war chariot with all its guns etc.

Half the battle would be just keeping the plane in the air for the crownies! Well done on a steampunkish creation.

Cheers

ISC :skull:

Well it's less steampunk and more silly anachronism, I think it could become a little fan theme of itself.

And that is the problem for the crownies, if you want to know more I've created a little story for their ship.

The Crownie Spy Triplane was designed about four months after an Exo-Force set appeared in Skellie airspace and crashed, the event that scholars theorize led to the skellie's sudden increase in technology. The plane was designed to fly into the smog and enter their territory, than swoop down out of cloud cover for observation and return. Every part of the plane is designed for safety - there as little Crownie coloring on it as possible [it still needs some blue and gold for faction identification], and the plane is left brown and black to blend in with the smog. Viewers may notice how the propeller is a bit overlarge, and there appears to be no landing gear. This is not an oversight on the part of the designers. There are very few bodies of water in Skellie territory [really only the one inland sea that is on the border], and many more in Crownie land. The plane is designed to be launched via horses pulling on land nearby, and the propellor pushing the plane forward. This means that if the plane is ever captured, it would be considerably harder for the skellies to load it with bombs and launch it at the castle. The light construction of the ship is another deterrent to this - it would more likely crash than land on ground, and the design also gives it speed.

As a sidenote, this is possibly the most advanced piece of Crownie technology today - the Exo-Force set crashed deep in Skellie territory, and thus no Crownie scholars have had a chance to analyze it.

[Inertia]

Interesting Concept, I like the crossbows in place of machine guns and such.

The AA tank looks really cool as well, the only gripe I have with it is the firing part, thy're big and annoying

Great job!

[hewkii9]

I think I'm actually one of the few people who likes those pieces - coming from a Bionicle background it's nice to get a shooty thing that actually shoots. [squid Launchers, Kanoka, I'm looking at you!]