Ring Raiders

[Taiidantomcat]

Loved these toys when I was younger!  Much like GI Joe, the bad guys seem to have the cooler look. Hope you enjoy these, and we need an "Animal Theme GB" 

The evil Skull Squadron (they are just misunderstood)
















The Good Guys (like flying McDonalds ads  )

[Cobra]

i had a Few of them too!!!!!! Very Cool Aircraft, Think some of them Could be Recreated as Models???

[puddingwrestler]

THere was a cartoon as well, right? I seem to remember it...

[Radish]

The thread title could well...you know.....sorry!

Nice ideas for models though.

[sideshowbob9]

That brings back some memories! I used to have Bandit & Valour Wings meself. Wish I knew what happened to them.

I still have a lil F4D Skyray but I'm not sure if it was Ring Raiders or something else.

[ChernayaAkula]

Thanks for sharing those pics! Had quite a few of those when i was a kid. I thought Wraither was the coolest, being a ghost and all that. His aircraft was the Galloping Ghost, IIRC, a P-51 Mustang.

Does anybody have the comic were Yuri Kirkov flew Skyraiders in Vietnam? After a dogfight with Wraithers squadron he tells a story how a Loach piloted by Joe Bannon guided him back to base after he got lost over Vietnam. After returning to base he finds out that Joe Bannon crashed and died in his Loach months earlier. All very much like Forsyth's "The Shepherd".

Revell did a couple of 1/144 kits in those markings in the 1990s. Off the top of my head there were Victor Vector's F-19, Yuri Kirkov's F-4, some F-16 with a bird's beak (looks like from Thundercloud's wing) for the good guys and Scorch's Sk-37  Viggen, Chiller's F-104 and Mako's MiG-29.

[NARSES2]

The thread title could well...you know.....sorry!

Nice ideas for models though.

Now I resisted that comment - obviously stronger then you are  Were they sold under this name in the UK ?

[Taiidantomcat]

LOL I think it was the same name in the UK

[pyro-manic]

I have a vague memory of seeing adverts for these when I was a pre-teen...

[Damian2]

Wow what memories this brings back!!

The planes aren't half bad either

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ps. Seriously we need a RR GB!

[Dork the kit slayer]

I thought this was a "gay" thread.......oops...................................coat ,get door ,out...I know.

[NARSES2]

I knew the sailor in you would come out sooner or latter 

Why is it just the old ones like you, me and Rad are we just naturally less pc or just silly ? 

[jcf]

I knew the sailor in you would come out sooner or latter 

Why is it just the old ones like you, me and Rad are we just naturally less pc or just silly ? 

Schatzi, I starred in Ring Raiders.

[Dork the kit slayer]

I knew the sailor in you would come out sooner or latter 

Why is it just the old ones like you, me and Rad are we just naturally less pc or just silly ? 

Because we have had years of practice........................ducky