Crimson Skies - Fiesler 105T "TUBA"

This is the Fiesler 105T "TUBA" for the game Crimson Skies (inspired by Cutangus Designs)
When the skies turned lawless and the trade lanes became battlegrounds, Fiesler answered with a roar that could rattle hangars from Chicago to Casablanca. The 105T “TUBA” wasn’t designed to whisper through clouds — it was built to announce itself.
Named for its thunderous ducted lift system — a vertical takeoff assembly that howls like a brass section warming up before a barroom brawl — the TUBA doesn’t need a runway, permission, or patience. It rises straight up on a column of fury, pivots on a dime, and drops back into the fight like a hammer from the heavens.
Its broad mid-mounted wings house reinforced lift vanes for low-speed dominance, while the oversized intake nacelle feeds a supercharged radial heart that growls at idle and screams at full burn. Stub cannons jut from the nose like a prizefighter’s knuckles, and the reinforced cockpit canopy sits forward and proud — giving its pilot the kind of visibility you need when enemies are coming from every dirty angle the underworld can muster.
But what makes the TUBA feared isn’t just its VTOL capability — it’s its attitude.
In tight urban canyons, over drifting zeppelin docks, or hovering menacingly beside a cargo freighter that suddenly “forgot” its escort contract, the TUBA thrives. It can lift off from rooftops, ship decks, or improvised jungle clearings and still bring the kind of firepower that makes sky gangs reconsider their life choices.
Pilots say flying the 105T feels like riding a bar fight with wings — heavy in the punch, steady in the hover, and meaner than a dockside debt collector.
It doesn’t glide.
It doesn’t retreat.
It just arrives.
And when you hear that rising, brassy howl echoing between the clouds…
You’ll know the TUBA is about to play its solo.

Remember you can leave a tip for the zeppelin crew here: Beer for the crew

Creating Crimson Skies planes for 3D printing is something that no-one has done previously. And it is a shame as the planes are pretty iconic and after many years from it discreet publishing, FASA's Crimson Skies still has a lot of fans who play or are willing to play from time to time.

For this new model I moved from VR modelling tool Gravity Sketch to Plasticity, Which uses a more classic non-vr approach but has a really fast workflow!

It is not designed to be printer friendly, but it is coming out perfect with resin printers and pretty good in FDM (I suggest to print them vertically with supports growing from the tail).

Honk if you're a Crimson Skies fan!!